Papal Visit Masks Apostasy in War-Torn Lebanon
The EWTN News portal (November 21, 2025) reports on antipope Leo XIV’s planned visit to Lebanon, framing it as a “sign of peace” amid Israeli-Hezbollah hostilities. Quoting two post-conciliar clerics—”Fr.” Tony Elias and “Fr.” Raffaele Zgheib—the article describes Lebanon as a “wounded country” suffering from economic collapse and border bombings. The text promotes the false narrative that antipope Leo XIV’s presence will foster “dialogue instead of escalation,” ignoring the conciliar sect’s complicity in the spiritual collapse of the Middle East.
Naturalistic Reduction of the Church’s Mission
The article reduces the Church’s purpose to geopolitical conflict resolution, quoting Zgheib’s claim that the antipope’s visit gives “a voice back to Christians and the Lebanese people, whose reality is often blurred or manipulated by politics.” This echoes Vatican II’s Gaudium et Spes (n. 3), which subordinated the Church to “the joys and hopes” of the world. Contrast this with Pius XI’s encyclical Quas Primas (1925): “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.” The conciliar sect replaces the regnum Christi with humanitarian slogans devoid of the mandate to convert all nations.
Omission of Christ’s Social Kingship
Nowhere does the article mention the Social Reign of Christ the King—the sole foundation for lasting peace. Instead, it celebrates Lebanon as “a link between East and West, and as a place… of religious coexistence.” This syncretistic vision directly contradicts Pius IX’s Syllabus of Errors (1864), which condemned the proposition that “the Church ought to be separated from the State, and the State from the Church” (Error 55). The silence on the duty of states to profess the Catholic Faith exposes the conciliar sect’s betrayal of Immortale Dei (Leo XIII, 1885), which taught: “States cannot… conduct their government according to their will.”
False Ecumenism Over Conversion
“Fr.” Elias boasts that Rmeich villagers “never evacuated” despite bombings, framing their presence as mere cultural preservation: “If we did [leave], there would be no one to rebuild, no one to protect our village.” This reduces Catholics to ethnic custodians rather than heralds of salvation. Pius XI’s Mortalium Animos (1928) condemned such indifferentism: “The union of Christians can only be promoted by promoting the return to the one true Church of Christ.” The article’s praise for “religious coexistence” aligns with the apostate Assisi gatherings, which Pius XI would have denounced as “a betrayal of the Cross of Christ” (Caritate Christi, 1932).
Exploiting Suffering to Promote Modernist Agenda
Zgheib laments Lebanon’s “terrible” past six years—bank failures, COVID-19, the Beirut port explosion—yet reduces the antipope’s visit to socio-political therapy: “All Lebanese people want it to be the beginning of a lasting and just peace.” This ignores the supernatural purpose of suffering as reparation for sin, a truth proclaimed by Our Lady of Fatima (1917) but suppressed by the conciliar sect. St. Pius X’s Lamentabili Sane (1907) condemned the modernist error that “Revelation was merely man’s self-awareness of his relationship to God” (Error 20). By omitting calls for repentance, the article perpetuates the conciliar lie that man—not God—is the measure of justice.
Conclusion: A Pilgrimage of Perdition
The planned visit to St. Charbel’s tomb is particularly grotesque, as this pre-1958 saint would weep at the conciliar apostasy performed in his name. True Catholics recall Pius IX’s warning: “The Roman Pontiff can, and ought to, reconcile himself, and come to terms with progress, liberalism and modern civilization” is an error (Syllabus, Error 80). Until Lebanon kneels before Christ the King—not the UN or interfaith committees—no “peace” will follow. Let the faithful echo Archbishop Lefebvre’s 1987 prophecy: “The Church is not the chaplain of the Revolution; she is the Bride of Christ.”
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‘The pope is traveling to a wounded country,’ Lebanese priest says (ewtnnews.com)
Date: 21.11.2025