Vatican’s Ukraine Diplomacy: Naturalism Masquerading as Peacemaking
The Catholic News Agency portal (December 9, 2025) reports on a meeting between the Vatican antipope Leo XIV and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy at Castel Gandolfo. The article describes a “cordial” discussion focused on “the situation of the war in Ukraine and the prospects for the diplomatic initiatives currently underway,” with emphasis on humanitarian issues and the return of deported children. Zelenskyy reportedly thanked the antipope for “his constant prayers for Ukraine” and renewed an invitation for him to visit the country. The entire narrative frames the Vatican’s role as a neutral diplomatic actor pursuing “a just and lasting peace” through dialogue with warring parties. The article exemplifies the conciliar sect’s complete abandonment of the Church’s divine mission in favor of naturalistic conflict resolution.
Betrayal of the Kingship of Christ in Favor of Secular Diplomacy
Nowhere does the article mention Quas Primas (Pius XI, 1925), which established that true peace flows solely from societal submission to Christ the King: “When once men recognize, both in private and in public life, that Christ is King, society will at last receive the great blessings of real liberty, well-ordered discipline, peace and harmony.” The antipope’s call for “continued dialogue” constitutes a direct repudiation of the Church’s duty to proclaim to all nations – including Russia and Ukraine – that their salvation lies in embracing the Social Reign of Christ. Pius XI condemned such secularized diplomacy as spiritual treason:
“When once men recognize, both in private and in public life, that Christ is King, society will at last receive the great blessings of real liberty, well-ordered discipline, peace and harmony” (Quas Primas, §19).
The Vatican statement’s exclusive focus on temporal concerns – prisoner exchanges and child deportations – reduces the Church to a humanitarian NGO. This violates the Syllabus of Errors’ condemnation of proposition #40: “The teaching of the Catholic Church is hostile to the well-being and interests of society.” By omitting any call for the conversion of Russia or Ukraine to the Catholic Faith, the conciliar sect confirms its adherence to this condemned error.
Theological Bankruptcy of “Cordial Dialogue” With Error
The article’s repeated use of the term “cordial” to describe discussions with Zelenskyy – whose government promotes LGBTQ ideology and restricts the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church – exposes the conciliar sect’s embrace of religious indifferentism. Pius IX’s Syllabus explicitly condemned the notion that “the Roman Pontiff can, and ought to, reconcile himself, and come to terms with progress, liberalism and modern civilization” (Proposition #80). True popes never sought “cordial” relations with regimes opposing Catholic moral teaching. St. Pius X’s Lamentabili condemned the modernist distortion that “Revelation was merely man’s self-awareness of his relationship to God” (Proposition #20) – precisely the anthropocentric theology underlying this false “dialogue.”
Sacrilegious Invitation to a False Shepherd
Zelenskyy’s invitation for the antipope to visit Ukraine constitutes a spiritual danger the article utterly ignores. The true Church warns that receiving sacraments from invalidly ordained ministers constitutes sacrilege (Council of Trent, Session VII). By encouraging the Ukrainian people to view this antipope as a legitimate spiritual leader, the conciliar sect facilitates their eternal ruin. The article’s omission of this danger confirms its complicity in what Pius XII called “communicatio in sacris” – forbidden participation in false worship.
Omission of Heaven’s Mandate: Convert Russia to Catholicism
The report’s focus on “humanitarian issues” deliberately obscures Russia’s century-old persecution of Catholics and the Orthodox schism’s continued rejection of papal authority. Pius IX’s Syllabus condemned the error that “Protestantism is nothing more than another form of the same true Christian religion” (Proposition #18). Yet the article never mentions the Vatican’s duty to demand Russia’s submission to the Roman Pontiff. This silence exposes the conciliar sect’s adherence to the modernist heresy that “Christian doctrine was initially Jewish, but through gradual development, it became first Pauline, then Johannine, and finally Greek and universal” (Lamentabili, Proposition #60) – implying Catholicism need not be Russia’s salvation.
Diplomatic Fraud Against the Ukrainian Martyrs
By framing the conflict in purely geopolitical terms, the conciliar sect betrays the Ukrainian Greek Catholic martyrs who died for the Faith under Soviet persecution. The article’s reference to Zelenskyy’s discussions with “Trump’s special envoy, Steve Witkoff” reveals the Vatican’s alignment with American geopolitical interests rather than Catholic truth. This confirms Pius IX’s condemnation of those who “conceive that the divine religion should be replaced by a natural religion, a natural inner impulse” (Syllabus, Introduction). Authentic Catholic diplomacy would demand Russia’s return to communion with Rome – not brokering territorial compromises.
Conclusion: False Peace From a False Shepherd
The article’s portrayal of antipope Leo XIV as a peacemaker follows the “evolution of dogmas” condemned in Lamentabili (Proposition #54). True popes never sought peace through dialogue with error but through submission to Christ the King. As Pius XI declared: “When all men, at last, shall yield obedience to Him… there will be a reign less of justice than of grace” (Quas Primas, §20). By omitting this truth, the conciliar sect confirms its status as what St. Paul called “synagoga Satanae” – the synagogue of Satan (Revelation 2:9).
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The pope urges ‘continued dialogue’ after receiving Zelenskyy in Castel Gandolfo (catholicnewsagency.com)
Date: 09.12.2025