Paul VI’s Foot-Kissing Scandal: Ecumenical Apostasy Masquerading as Piety
Vatican News portal (December 21, 2025) commemorates the 50th anniversary of antipope Paul VI’s 1975 prostration before Orthodox Metropolitan Meliton of Chalcedon, hailing it as a “powerful gesture” of ecumenical reconciliation. The article nostalgically recounts how the usurper of the Apostolic See “unexpectedly bent to the ground” during a Sistine Chapel ceremony, kissing the feet of a schismatic cleric while invoking Christ’s washing of feet. Patriarch Dimitrios I reportedly praised this act as demonstrating what “the first bishop of Christianity is called to be,” with Vatican News explicitly connecting this spectacle to current ecumenical efforts under antipope Leo XIV.
Betrayal of Papal Office Under Guise of Humility
The grotesque theater of a Roman pontiff – or rather, the individual occupying that office illegitimately – prostrating himself before a schismatic hierarch constitutes doctrinal sabotage. This was not humility but sacrilegious self-abasement (cf. Pius XI, Mortalium Animos), directly violating the Church’s immutable teaching that “outside the Church there is no salvation” (Fourth Lateran Council, Canon 1). The 1439 Council of Florence explicitly condemned Orthodox errors, making Paul VI’s inversion of Eugene IV’s stance a repudiation of dogma under theatrical pretext.
“Only a saint could do such a thing,”
spouted Metropolitan Meliton, revealing the diabolical inversion at work: true sanctity consists in defending the Faith, not in mocking the honor due to Christ’s Vicar. The Syllabus of Errors condemns the notion that “the Roman Pontiff can, and ought to, reconcile himself, and come to terms with progress, liberalism and modern civilization” (Error 80). This 1975 spectacle operationalized that condemned error by treating schismatics as equals rather than souls to be reclaimed.
Systemic Apostasy Rooted in Conciliar Revolution
Paul VI’s foot-kissing epitomizes the auto-demolition of the Church through counterfeit ecumenism. Vatican News celebrates this as anticipating “the Jubilee of 2033,” confirming the conciliar sect’s trajectory toward complete apostasy. The article’s reference to Jerusalem as a place of “return to the origins of our faith” constitutes naturalism – true Catholic faith originates not in earthly geography but in divine revelation guarded by the Magisterium.
Pius XI’s Quas primas explicitly taught that Christ’s kingship demands public submission of all nations and religions:
“Rulers of states therefore not refuse public veneration and obedience to the reigning Christ… if they wish to maintain their authority inviolate” (Quas primas §18).
By contrast, Paul VI’s obeisance to schismatics enacted the heresy of religious indifferentism condemned in the Syllabus (Errors 15-18).
Ecumenism as Masonic Psychological Operation
The 1975 event occurred precisely 200 years after Masonry’s alleged 1775 “Illuminati” founding – a numeric signature suggesting orchestration. The False Fatima Apparitions file exposes how ecumenism serves the “Masonic operation” to replace Catholic exclusivity with syncretism. Vatican News unwittingly confirms this by framing the gesture as part of ongoing efforts with Patriarch Bartholomew – a figure immersed in Freemasonic circles.
Lamentabili sane exitu condemned the Modernist tenet that “Revelation was merely man’s self-awareness of his relationship to God” (Proposition 20). Paul VI’s theatrical kneeling operationalized this heresy by reducing the papacy to a human institution seeking validation from heretics rather than a divine office commanding submission to revealed truth.
Omission of Supernatural Consequences
Vatican News extols the foot-kissing as emotional theater while suppressing its metaphysical treason. No mention is made of how this act:
1. Scandalized faithful by equating the true Church with schismatics
2. Implicitly denied the necessity of submission to Roman Pontiff for salvation
3. Violated the oath against Modernism requiring popes to “condemn, reject, and anathematize all errors”
The article’s silence on these aspects proves its authors embrace the hermeneutic of rupture condemned by pre-conciliar popes. As Lamentabili warned, such omissions signal apostasy:
“Silence about supernatural matters… is the gravest accusation” (Implementation Guidelines).
Conclusion: Gesture of Surrender, Not Unity
Fifty years later, this sacrilegious pantomime stands exposed as a decisive step in the conciliar sect’s auto-demolition. Vatican News celebrates it as a model for Leo XIV’s planned 2033 apostasy in Jerusalem – a fitting capstone to the abomination of desolation occupying holy places. True Catholics recognize this event not as “reconciliation” but as ratification of Orthodoxy’s schism and explicit rejection of Florence’s decrees. As St. Pius X thunderously proclaimed:
“The Church is intolerant by essence because she believes; she is tolerant by strategy because she loves. The enemies of the Church are tolerant by indifference” (Allocution, December 27, 1907).
Paul VI’s kneeling constituted indifference to divine truth – the ultimate betrayal of the Petrine office.
Source:
50 years on, Paul VI’s gesture of reconciliation with the Orthodox Church (vaticannews.va)
Date: 21.12.2025