Europe’s Conciliar Sect Promotes Syncretism Under Guise of Unity
The Catholic News Agency (January 17, 2026) reports that Archbishop Gintaras Grušas of Vilnius, president of the Council of European Bishops’ Conferences (CCEE), has issued an appeal for prayer during the Week of Prayer for Christian Unity (January 18-25). The Lithuanian prelate links this initiative to the revised Charta Oecumenica signed in Rome on November 5, 2025 – a document jointly prepared by the CCEE and the Conference of European Churches (CEC), which includes Orthodox, Protestant, and Anglican communities. The article quotes Grušas claiming that “unity among the baptized in Christ is a powerful instrument of peace,” while referencing antipope Leo XIV’s call for greater fraternity amid Europe’s “clamor of violence and war.”
Naturalistic Reduction of Prayer to Political Tool
The article reveals the conciliar sect’s complete inversion of prayer’s supernatural purpose. Archbishop Grušas reduces the sacred act to a geopolitical instrument, stating it should foster peace “among all parties in conflict.” This contradicts the Church’s immutable teaching that prayer’s primary end is the glorification of God (John 14:13), with temporal benefits being secondary effects. The Catechism of the Council of Trent explicitly warns against treating prayer as “a means to obtain human favor or temporal advantage” (Part IV). By omitting any reference to prayer’s essential orientation toward divine worship and the salvation of souls, the CCEE demonstrates its surrender to naturalism.
“Christians today often feel increasingly like a minority in some contexts”
This statement attributed to antipope Leo XIV exposes the modernist tendency to measure spiritual reality by sociological metrics. The true Church has always been a “little flock” (Luke 12:32) opposed by the world – a truth celebrated by martyrs from St. Polycarp to St. Maximilian Kolbe. The lament over minority status betrays a democratic mentality diametrically opposed to Pope Pius XI’s teaching that “the Church of Christ is the true Kingdom of Christ on earth” (Quas Primas, 11).
Charta Oecumenica: Blueprint for Apostasy
The revised Charta Oecumenica constitutes formal heresy by implying parity between Catholic truth and Protestant errors. The document’s claim to “witness together the Gospel” with non-Catholic communities violates the dogmatic definition that “outside the Church there is no salvation” (Fourth Lateran Council, Canon 1). Pope Pius IX condemned precisely this error in the Syllabus of Errors: “Protestantism is nothing more than another form of the same true Christian religion” (Proposition 18). Archbishop Grušas compounds this heresy by invoking Our Lady and European patron saints – a blasphemous appropriation of Catholic devotion to legitimize syncretism.
Mercy Doctrine Distorted Into Humanitarian Activism
The article’s promotion of the World Apostolic Congress on Mercy (WACOM 6) exemplifies the neo-church’s corruption of divine mercy into secular sentimentalism. The congress theme – “Building a City of Mercy” – replaces the Civitas Dei with a utopian social project, ignoring St. Augustine’s distinction between the Heavenly and Earthly Cities (De Civitate Dei, XIV.28). True mercy requires conversion to Catholic truth, not the “culture of mercy” euphemism used to suspend judgment on sin. This distortion directly contradicts Pope Pius XII’s warning against “those who neglect the eternal in favor of the temporal” (Mystici Corporis Christi, 102).
Omission of Christ’s Social Kingship: Core Apostasy
The entire initiative deliberately ignores the only solution to Europe’s crises: the Social Reign of Christ the King. Pope Pius XI’s encyclical Quas Primas established this feast precisely because “nations will be happy and peaceful only when they recognize the Church as Queen” (n. 21). By treating non-Catholic sects as equal partners rather than souls to be converted, the CCEE and antipope Leo XIV betray their mandate to “make disciples of all nations” (Matthew 28:19). This apostasy fulfills Pope St. Pius X’s prophecy about Modernists who “put themselves on a level with the heterodox” (Pascendi, 39).
Ecumenism as Masonic Strategy Against the Church
The Charta Oecumenica revision process follows the three-stage Masonic infiltration strategy outlined in the False Fatima Apparitions file: globalizing the cult (Stage 2) and modernist narrative control (Stage 3). The document’s focus on “migration and secularization” while ignoring the primary danger of apostasy within the Church confirms its diversionary purpose. As Pope Pius IX warned in Quanta Cura, the real war is against “that absurd and erroneous doctrine which has been called Communism or Socialism” – ideologies now openly tolerated by ecumenical partners like the Anglican Communion.
This ecumenical initiative constitutes spiritual treason against the Mysterium Fidei. As Pope Leo XIII declared: “The Church alone offers to the human race that religion – that state of absolute perfection – which is necessary for attaining eternal salvation” (Praeclara Gratulationis, 10). Any “unity” achieved through prayer services with heretics mocks the blood of martyrs who died rather than compromise the Faith. True Catholics must reject these blasphemous innovations and adhere to the unchanging doctrine: Extra Ecclesiam nulla salus.
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As war and division spread, Europe’s churches renew call for prayer and unity (catholicnewsagency.com)
Date: 17.01.2026