Neo-Church’s False Peace: Naturalism Masquerading as Gospel
VaticanNews portal (December 27, 2025) reports on Sister Adele Howard’s analysis of antipope Leo XIV’s 59th World Day of Peace message, framed around a terrorist attack in Sydney, Australia. The article promotes interfaith unity, quoting the antipope’s call to “defuse hostility through dialogue” and his concept of “unarmed peace,” while celebrating a Jewish-led vigil and a Catholic politician’s appeal to “seek peace” through human compassion. The piece culminates in a syncretistic vision where “Abrahamic faiths” jointly propagate a peace detached from the Kingship of Christ.
Reduction of Peace to Naturalistic Humanism
The message reduces peace to a humanitarian project, declaring that “peace doesn’t happen by accident” but must be “actively pursued through compassion [and] kindness.” This contradicts the immutable teaching that pax Christi in regno Christi (“the peace of Christ in the kingdom of Christ”) is the only foundation of societal order (Pius XI, Quas Primas, §1). By omitting the necessity of conversion to the Catholic Faith and the social reign of Christ the King, the antipope’s rhetoric echoes the condemned errors of the Syllabus: “The Roman Pontiff can, and ought to, reconcile himself, and come to terms with progress, liberalism and modern civilization” (Pius IX, Syllabus, Error 80).
The article’s focus on interfaith solidarity—exemplified by the Hanukkah vigil and the invocation of “Abrahamic faiths”—denies the exclusivity of Christ’s mediation. Extra Ecclesiam nulla salus (“Outside the Church there is no salvation”) is replaced with a Masonic-inspired universalism, directly condemned by Pius XI: “False and dangerous… is the error which would have men join together in one profession of faith though discordantly believing” (Mortalium Animos, §2).
Theological Bankruptcy of “Unarmed Peace”
Antipope Leo XIV’s notion of “unarmed peace” distorts Our Lord’s command to Peter (“Put your sword back into its sheath”—John 18:11) into a pacifist ideology. This ignores the Church’s teaching on just war (Augustine, City of God, XIX.7) and the duty of states to defend citizens against aggression (Pius XII, Summi Pontificatus, §35). Worse, it implies that Christ’s Passion was merely a “struggle” within “political and social circumstances,” reducing the Redemption to a sociological event. Such Modernism was anathematized by St. Pius X: “Christ’s death is not… a sacrifice rigorously so called, but… a mere event… arising from human malice” (Lamentabili, Error 38).
The article’s portrayal of the Sydney attack as a mere “polarizing” tragedy ignores the supernatural reality of evil. No call for prayer, penance, or the sacraments appears—only appeals to “donate blood” and “moral courage.” This naturalism embodies the modernist heresy that “faith… is based… on a sum of probabilities” (St. Pius X, Lamentabili, Error 25).
Ecumenism as Apostasy
By equating Christ’s “Peace be with you” with Islamic “As-salamu alaykum” and Jewish “Shalom Aleichem,” the antipope commits the heresy of religious indifferentism. Pius XI condemned this: “To favor such opinions… is tantamount to abandoning the religion revealed by God” (Mortalium Animos, §2). The article’s celebration of a Jewish-led vigil further betrays the Church’s mission to “make disciples of all nations” (Matthew 28:19), instead promoting the false ideal that “light cannot be extinguished by darkness” apart from grace.
Omission of the Supernatural
Silence permeates the article on the only means to true peace: the Sacraments, prayer, and submission to Christ’s social reign. The politician’s appeal to Psalm 34 (“Seek peace and pursue it”) is stripped of its Christological meaning—“Taste and see that the Lord is good” (v.9)—and reduced to secular activism. This omission reflects the neo-church’s abandonment of lex orandi, lex credendi (“the law of prayer is the law of belief”). As Pius XII warned: “The first duty of charity does not lie in the toleration of false ideas… but in the prudence of adapting remedies to the disease” (Humani Generis, §45).
Conclusion: A Sect of Humanists
The conciliar sect’s “peace” is a counterfeit, replacing the Cross with dialogue and the Kingship of Christ with pluralism. As the Syllabus declares: “The Church is an enemy of… progress” (Error 57)—not of true human flourishing, but of the modernist revolt against Divine Order. Australia’s tragedy is exploited to advance a godless utopia, confirming that the Vatican occupiers are, in Pius X’s words, “the most pernicious enemies of the Church” (Pascendi, §39). True Catholics must reject this masquerade and cling to the depositum fidei (“deposit of faith”) until Christ restores His Church.
Source:
Receiving the 59th World Day of Peace Message in the current Australian context (vaticannews.va)
Date: 27.12.2025