The EWTN News portal (January 29, 2026) reports on a Luxembourg conference co-organized by the Commission of the Bishops’ Conferences of the European Union (COMECE), featuring Cardinal Jean-Claude Hollerich’s claims that peace in Ukraine and Europe requires “personal conversion” alongside political solutions. The article quotes “Pope” Leo XIV’s message urging “shared moral foundations” for peacebuilding, while Ukrainian MP Halyna Yanchenko warns against territorial compromises with Russia. The conference frames Catholic social teaching as a tool for technocratic crisis management, omitting the necessity of Christ’s Kingship over nations.
Naturalism Disguised as Spirituality
Cardinal Hollerich’s assertion that “peace is not only something we work for in the world” but requires “personal conversion” constitutes a demonic inversion of Catholic doctrine. By reducing conversion to a subjective, interior process detached from the Social Reign of Christ the King, he echoes the modernist heresy condemned by Pope St. Pius X in Pascendi Dominici Gregis: “Religious sentiment… is the germ of all religion” (§7). True conversion demands submission to the de Fide truth that “Our Lord Jesus Christ has been given by God to men as Redeemer… and Lawgiver, to whom obedience is due” (Pius XI, Quas Primas, §12).
The article’s repeated emphasis on “human dignity,” “solidarity,” and “common good” without reference to extra Ecclesiam nulla salus or the Unbloody Sacrifice of Calvary exposes its theological bankruptcy. When “Pope” Leo XIV claims peace requires “shared moral foundations,” he promotes the indifferentism condemned in the Syllabus of Errors: “Every man is free to embrace and profess that religion which… he shall consider true” (Pius IX, §15).
Omission of Christ’s Kingship as Apostasy
Nowhere does the conference or article acknowledge the immutable dogma defined in Quas Primas: “The rebellion of individuals and states against the authority of Christ has produced deplorable consequences” (§18). This silence confirms the conciliar sect’s apostasy. Pius XI warned that nations rejecting Christ’s reign become “a shaky foundation… leading to destruction” (§18), yet Hollerich and COMECE reduce the Church to a NGO promoting EU policy goals.
Roberta Metsola’s claim that Catholic principles “shape European policymaking” is blasphemous when the EU enforces abortion rights and LGBT ideology. The Syllabus explicitly condemns the notion that “The Church ought to be separated from the State” (§55), yet the conference organizers—COMECE and the Luxembourg School of Religion and Society—operate as vassals of secular regimes.
War as Consequence of Collective Repudiation of Divine Law
Halyna Yanchenko’s plea to avoid peace “at any cost” ignores Ukraine’s own embrace of schism (via its Orthodox autocephaly) and neo-Banderite nationalism—both condemned by Pius XII’s Orientales Omnes (1945). Russia’s aggression stems from the same Orthodox heresy and Soviet-rooted statism. True peace requires public consecration of both nations to the Immaculate Heart of Mary—not the modernist “dialogue” peddled by Hollerich.
Archbishop Crociata’s warning about Europe’s “lack of unity” deliberately obscures the cause: systemic repudiation of the Catholic Faith. Pius IX’s Quanta Cura anathematized those who say “the best condition of civil society demands that human society be conducted without any reference to religion” (§3). By hosting EU officials while ignoring their anti-Christian legislation, COMECE becomes complicit in what Pius X called “the conspiracy of evil forces” against the Church (Editae Saepe, 1910).
Technocratic Idolatry and the Pseudo-Sacraments of the New Church
The article’s focus on “humanitarian aid” and “diplomatic efforts” as peacebuilding tools replaces sacramental grace with naturalistic activism. When “Pope” Leo XIV claims Catholic social teaching “goes beyond borders,” he denies the Syllabus’ condemnation of religious indifferentism (§§16-18). True peace flows solely from the Most Holy Sacrifice of the Mass—abolished in the conciliar sect’s Novus Ordo—and the Sacrament of Penance, which Hollerich’s sect has gutted via general absolution abuses.
Cardinal Hollerich’s call for “men and women of peace” parrots the Masonic ideal of “fraternity without Christ” condemned in Leo XIII’s Humanum Genus (§10). Authentic Catholic peacebuilding requires:
1. Public recognition of Christ’s Kingship over all nations (Quas Primas, §19).
2. Eradication of heresy through the Index and Inquisition (Pius IV, Dominici Gregis).
3. Restoration of Catholic monarchies under the Church’s indirect power (Leo XIII, Immortale Dei).
The conciliar sect’s refusal to demand these proves its illegitimacy.
Source:
Cardinal: Peace requires personal conversion, not just political solutions (ewtnnews.com)
Date: 29.01.2026