The Abomination of Desolation Speaks: “Human Rights” as the New Gospel
[VaticanNews portal] reports on the fourth anniversary of the Ukraine-Russia war, highlighting a joint statement from the “All-Ukrainian Council of Churches and Religious Organizations.” This body, operating within the post-conciliar structures, decries a “war of disruption” and “systematic violations of human rights,” calling for a “just and lasting peace.” The article presents this as a moral witness, yet it is a perfect symptom of the theological and spiritual bankruptcy of the neo-church—a sterile, naturalistic humanitarianism utterly divorced from the supernatural mission of the one, holy, catholic, and apostolic Church.
1. Factual Deconstruction: The False Unity of Apostates
The article celebrates a “united voice” of Churches. This is a lie. The “All-Ukrainian Council” is a classic post-Vatican II ecumenical chimera, a “parademonic structure” (to use a term from the true theological lexicon) that places the Catholic “hierarchs” in communion with schismatic Orthodox, heterodox Protestants, and likely even pagan or secular humanist groups. This is the exact “ecumenism project” condemned by St. Pius X in Lamentabili sane exitu (Proposition 65: “The doctrine that Christ has raised marriage to the dignity of a sacrament cannot be at all tolerated”—a principle extendable to all doctrine) and by Pius IX in the Syllabus of Errors (Error 18: “Protestantism is nothing more than another form of the same true Christian religion”). There is no “unity” here, only a pact of apostasy that drowns the unique, salvific truth of Catholicity in a sea of religious relativism. The statement’s focus on “human rights” and “international norms” is the language of the UN, not of the City of God. It implicitly accepts the modernist error condemned by Pius IX (Error 77): “In the present day it is no longer expedient that the Catholic religion should be held as the only religion of the State.”
2. Linguistic Analysis: The Vocabulary of Apostasy
The tone is bureaucratic, emotional, and utterly vague. Phrases like “crisis of humanity,” “war of disruption,” and “just and lasting peace” are the bloodless jargon of NGOs and political summits. There is a deafening silence on the supernatural: no mention of sin, no call to repentance, no reference to the Sacred Heart of Jesus, no invocation of the Blessed Virgin Mary, no appeal to the grace of God. The “strength of spirit” is attributed to Ukrainian soldiers and society, not to God. This is pure Pelagianism, the exaltation of human will over divine grace, a hallmark of Modernism (condemned in Pascendi Dominici gregis). The language reduces the Gospel to a social work project, precisely the “dogmaless Christianity” Pius X warned of (Lamentabili, Prop. 65: “Contemporary Catholicism cannot be reconciled with true knowledge without transforming it into a certain dogmaless Christianity”).
3. Theological Confrontation: The Omission of Christ the King
The most damning evidence of apostasy is what is not said. In 1925, Pope Pius XI issued Quas primas to combat precisely the secularism on display here. He wrote: “When God and Jesus Christ were removed from laws and states… the foundations of that authority were destroyed” (Quas primas, 31). He established the feast of Christ the King to remind rulers that “Christ’s royal dignity demands that all relations in the state be ordered on the basis of God’s commandments and Christian principles” (Quas primas). The Churches’ statement contains not a whisper of this fundamental dogma. It does not proclaim that Jesus Christ is King of Ukraine, King of Russia, King of all nations, and that His law must govern international relations. Instead, it pleads for “human rights” and “international norms”—the idols of the modern world. Pius XI explicitly stated that the feast was instituted “to provide a special remedy against the plague that poisons human society… secularism” (Quas primas). The neo-church has not only ignored this remedy; it has joined the plague, speaking the language of the secularists it was meant to condemn.
The Syllabus of Errors is a direct refutation of the article’s presuppositions:
- Error 39: “The State, as being the origin and source of all rights, is endowed with a certain right not circumscribed by any limits.” The statement’s appeal to state-centric “human rights” accepts this error.
- Error 55: “The Church ought to be separated from the State, and the State from the Church.” The Churches’ statement makes no claim for the Social Kingship of Christ, thereby conceding this error in practice.
- Error 80: “The Roman Pontiff can, and ought to, reconcile himself, and come to terms with progress, liberalism and modern civilization.” This is the exact spirit of the article—appeasing the world rather than condemning it.
4. Symptomatic Level: The Fruit of the Conciliar Revolution
This article is not an anomaly; it is the logical culmination of the “abomination of desolation” (cf. Matt. 24:15) standing in the holy place. The “ Churches” referenced are those that accepted the “reform” of Vatican II, which enshrined the errors Pius X condemned. Vatican II’s Dignitatis humanae proclaimed religious freedom—a direct contradiction of Pius IX’s Syllabus (Error 15: “Every man is free to embrace and profess that religion which… he shall consider true”). The “united voice” is the fruit of Unitatis redintegratio, which demoted the Catholic Church from the “sole ark of salvation” to one “element of salvation” among many. The result is a purely naturalistic, humanitarian discourse that could be issued by any philanthropic organization. It is a “synthesis of all errors” (Pius X, Pascendi), where the supernatural end of man—eternal salvation—is replaced by the temporal goal of “human rights” and “peace.”
The article’s silence on the sacraments, on the state of grace, on the final judgment, and on the absolute necessity of membership in the Catholic Church for salvation (Extra Ecclesiam nulla salus) is absolute. This is not an oversight; it is the core of the modernist project: to empty the Church of its supernatural content and repurpose it as a vehicle for worldly “humanization.” As Pius X wrote in Lamentabili (Prop. 57): “The Church is an enemy of the progress of natural and theological sciences.” The neo-church has surrendered this “enemy” status and now marches in lockstep with the “progress” of secular humanism.
5. The Sedevacantist Imperative: Reject the Usurpers, Return to Tradition
From the perspective of integral Catholic faith (pre-1958), the entire apparatus producing this article is schismatic and apostate. The “Pope” “Leo XIV” and his “cardinals” and “bishops” are manifest heretics. As St. Robert Bellarmine taught, a “manifest heretic, by that very fact ceases to be Pope and head” (De Romano Pontifice). Canon 188.4 of the 1917 Code of Canon Law states that an office is vacant if one “Publicly defects from the Catholic faith.” The post-concilar “Magisterium” has publicly defected by embracing religious liberty, ecumenism, and the human rights ideology condemned by Pius IX. Therefore, the See is vacant. The “All-Ukrainian Council” is a gathering of Modernist “clerics” and lay apostates, speaking with the authority of the “abomination of desolation.”
The only legitimate response for a Catholic is to reject this entire system and its propaganda. True peace is only possible in the Kingdom of Christ. As Pius XI declared: “Then at last… so many wounds can be healed, then there will be hope that the law will regain its former authority, sweet peace will return again… when all willingly accept the reign of Christ and obey Him” (Quas primas). The article’s call for peace without Christ is a demonic illusion. The true Church, enduring in those who hold the integral faith and are in communion with valid, non-Modernist bishops (the few who remain), must pray and work for the conversion of Ukraine and Russia—not to a vague “human rights” ideal, but to the sweet yoke of Christ the King, as He is presented in the unchanging doctrine of the pre-1958 Magisterium.
The “ Churches” of the post-conciliar world have become the mouthpiece of the Antichrist, preaching a gospel of man instead of the Gospel of Jesus Christ. Their united voice is the chorus of apostasy. Their “human rights” are the rights of Satan to keep souls in darkness. Their “peace” is the false peace of the Antichrist. Catholics must flee this neo-church and its abominable doctrines, and cling solely to the faith of their fathers, as defined before the revolution of John XXIII.
Source:
Ukraine: A dark anniversary amid the rubble of a decade-long conflict (vaticannews.va)
Date: 24.02.2026