The Delusion of Godless Peace Negotiations
VaticanNews portal (December 21, 2025) reports on proposed trilateral peace talks between Ukraine, Russia, and the United States, quoting Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s skepticism about negotiations with Russia amid ongoing violence. The article details a Russian missile strike killing eight in Odesa, Ukrainian drone retaliations, and Vladimir Putin’s demand for Ukrainian elections under Moscow’s influence. This reporting exemplifies the modern world’s descent into cyclical violence through its willful rejection of the Social Reign of Christ the King.
Naturalism as the Foundation of Failed Diplomacy
The entire diplomatic framework described operates on the modernist heresy condemned by Pope Pius IX in the Syllabus of Errors: “The State, as being the origin and source of all rights, is endowed with a certain right not circumscribed by any limits” (Proposition 39). Nowhere does the analysis acknowledge that pax Christi in regno Christi (“the peace of Christ in the kingdom of Christ” – Pius XI, Quas Primas) remains the only solution to human conflicts. The portal’s silence about the necessity of nations submitting to Divine Law constitutes what Pius X called “the suppression of the supernatural order” (Lamentabili Sane, Proposition 65).
“Officials say a Kremlin envoy is expected to travel to Florida for talks on a U.S.-proposed plan aimed at ending the nearly four-year war in Ukraine.”
This secular bargaining between murderous regimes (Russia’s open persecution of Christians and Ukraine’s state-sanctioned neo-paganism) ignores St. Augustine’s doctrine that civitas terrena (“earthly city”) without submission to civitas Dei (“City of God”) inevitably produces “a robber band multiplied” (De Civitate Dei, IV.4). The very notion that Putin – who massacres Ukrainian Catholics while posing as defender of Orthodoxy – could arbitrate peace reveals the bankruptcy of naturalistic diplomacy.
Theological Vacuum in Reporting Human Suffering
When describing “a Russian missile strike on port infrastructure in Odesa in southern Ukraine killed at least eight people and wounded twenty-seven,” the report reduces human tragedy to statistics. Contrast this with Catholic teaching that each death constitutes a soul facing Particular Judgment (Council of Lyons II, 1274). The absence of any call for prayer, repentance, or recognition of God’s justice mirrors the modernist error that “the Church is incapable of effectively defending evangelical ethics” (Lamentabili Sane, Proposition 63).
Zelenskyy’s declaration that “These are exclusively Ukrainian elections” embodies the condemned proposition that “The State is the origin and source of all rights” (Syllabus of Errors, 39). True legitimacy flows from conformity to Christ’s reign, as Pius XI taught: “Rulers and princes are bound to give public honor and obedience to Christ” (Quas Primas). Neither Ukraine’s secular nationalism nor Russia’s caesaropapist Orthodoxy acknowledge this fundamental truth.
War as Punishment for Collective Apostasy
The escalating violence stems directly from what Pope Pius IX identified as societies where “very many have removed Jesus Christ and His most holy law from their customs, from private, family, and public life” (Quas Primas). Both warring nations have institutionalized rebellion against Catholic truth:
- Ukraine’s 2019 law granting autocephaly to schismatic Orthodox groups
- Russia’s 2023 ban on the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church
- Both nations’ embrace of demographic suicide through abortion (Russia: 517,000 annually, Ukraine: 112,000 in 2023)
The article’s focus on “maritime drone production agreements” between Ukraine and Portugal highlights the modernist obsession with technological solutions to spiritual crises – a violation of Pope Leo XIII’s warning that “the abolition of the Christian religion would mean the destruction of all good” (Immortale Dei).
The False Hope of American Mediation
The report’s credence given to U.S. diplomatic efforts ignores America’s status as the world’s foremost promoter of abortion, gender ideology, and anti-Catholic persecution. Pius XII’s condemnation resonates: “States which are governed by the caprice of changing majorities… necessarily sink into degradation” (Address to Roman Patriciate, 1946). That the VaticanNews portal would treat U.S. Secretary of State Blinken – architect of global transgender policies – as a peacemaker reveals the conciliar sect’s complete inversion of values.
Eschatological Dimensions of Conflict
This war constitutes one theater in the universal rebellion against Christ’s Kingship foretold in Psalm 2: “The kings of the earth rise up and the rulers band together against the Lord and against his anointed.” The false peace process parallels the “Masonic operation Fatima” described in the theological files, where earthly powers manipulate religious sentiment to advance globalist agendas. Just as the false “miracle of the sun” created illusory unity, these negotiations aim to establish messianic humanitarianism without the True Messiah.
Conclusion: Only Christ Brings Peace
VaticanNews‘s naturalistic reporting exemplifies why Pius XI instituted the Feast of 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” (Quas Primas). Until Ukraine, Russia, and America kneel before the Eucharistic King, their treaties remain what St. Augustine called “pacts between criminals” (De Civitate Dei, IV.4). The bloodshed will cease only when nations fulfill their munus regale (“royal duty”) to consecrate themselves to the Sacred Heart as mandated by Leo XIII in Annum Sacrum (1899).
Source:
Ukraine President sceptical over trilateral peace talks amid deadly clashes (vaticannews.va)
Date: 21.12.2025