VaticanNews portal reports on an ecumenical vespers service presided over by antipope Leo XIV at St. Paul Outside the Walls Basilica on January 25, 2026. The article describes this event as the culmination of the Week of Prayer for Christian Unity, featuring representatives from schismatic Eastern communities and Protestant sects. The antipope declared: “We are one! We already are! Let us recognize it, experience it and make it visible!” while invoking the Second Vatican Council’s Lumen Gentium and promoting synodal ecumenism ahead of the 2033 anniversary of Christ’s resurrection.
The Undermining of Christ’s Kingship
The antipope’s assertion that “We are one” constitutes blasphemous disregard for Our Lord’s unicam sanctam doctrine. Pius XI’s Quas Primas (1925) explicitly condemned this false ecumenism:
“The Church of Christ is the kingdom of Christ on earth… There is only one Church in which men find salvation, just as there was only one ark of Noah.”
By equating the Catholic Church with schismatic bodies, the Vatican usurpers commit the heresy of indifferentism condemned in Pope Pius IX’s Syllabus of Errors (Proposition 16): “Man may, in the observance of any religion whatever, find the way of eternal salvation.”
The article’s reference to sharing “the same faith in God, Jesus Christ and the Holy Spirit” with heretics violates the Professio Fidei Tridentina: “I acknowledge the Holy, Catholic, Apostolic, Roman Church as the mother and teacher of all churches.” The 1917 Code of Canon Law (Canon 1325 §2) mandated: “Catholics are to avoid all religious assembly of non-Catholics.” Yet these apostates gathered before St. Paul’s tomb – the very Apostle who anathematized false gospels (Gal 1:8-9) – to promote the heresy of multiple paths to salvation.
Subversion of Nicaea’s Legacy
The blasphemous commemoration of the Council of Nicaea’s 1700th anniversary in Iznik, Türkiye, constitutes historical revisionism. The original Council defined Christ’s homoousios nature against the Arian heresy, while today’s ecumenists embrace the Arians’ spiritual descendants. St. Athanasius, Nicaea’s chief defender, declared:
“Even if Catholics faithful to tradition are reduced to a handful, they are the ones who are the true Church of Jesus Christ.”
The article’s praise for Armenian “martyrs” ignores that the Armenian Apostolic Church has been in schism since 506 AD. Pius XII’s Mystici Corporis (1943) affirmed: “Only those are to be included as members of the Church who have been baptized and profess the true faith.” The Armenian Church rejects Chalcedonian Christology and Catholic ecclesiology, making their “ecumenical materials” spiritually poisonous.
Religious Indifferentism Disguised as Mission
Antipope Leo’s exhortation to “proclaim Christ” while maintaining denominational divisions constitutes the heresy of religious liberty condemned in Mirari Vos (Gregory XVI) and Quanta Cura (Pius IX). The article promotes the modernist lie that divided Christian communities can jointly fulfill the Great Commission, despite Pope Pius XI’s condemnation:
“It is clear that the Apostolic See can by no means take part in these assemblies, nor is it in any way lawful for Catholics to give to such enterprises their encouragement or support.” (Mortalium Animos, 1928)
The invocation of Bergoglio’s synodal heresy (“developing ecumenical synodal practices”) completes this diabolical inversion. True synodality – as demonstrated at Ephesus and Chalcedon – condemns errors, whereas the antipope’s “synodality” seeks compromise with heresy. The “fraternal delegates” from Protestant sects at Vatican II-style assemblies embody St. Pius X’s warning: “The enemies of the Church disguise their efforts as a desire for harmony.” (Pascendi Dominici Gregis, 1907)
The False Ecumenism of Apostate “Saints”
The article’s reference to John Paul II as “venerable predecessor” confirms its apostate character. This heretical antipope promulgated the Assisi abominations (1986, 2002) where Catholics worshipped with pagans – an outrage Pius XI forbade:
“Any communication in sacred things with non-Catholics is forbidden… especially when there is danger of perversion.” (Ecclesiam Dei, 1923)
The praise for Armenian Catholicos Nerses Šnorhali exposes the ecumenical movement’s true aim: not unity through conversion to Catholicism, but the creation of a universal syncretistic religion. As Pope Leo XIII warned:
“To favor this opinion and movement is to do injury to the religion of Christ, to reject gently and suavely all that is divine in the Church’s constitution.” (Praeclara Gratulationis, 1894)
The absence of any call for non-Catholics to convert reveals this ceremony’s diabolical nature. Pius XII’s Mystici Corporis remains the only path to unity: “They who do not belong to the visible bonds of the Catholic Church… we ask them to yield their free consent to the inner stirrings of God’s grace.” True Christian unity exists solely within the Mystical Body of Christ – the One, Holy, Catholic, and Apostolic Church outside which there is no salvation.
Source:
Pope at Ecumenical Vespers: We are one, let's make it visible (vaticannews.va)
Date: 25.01.2026