The Neo-Church’s Peace Charade: Empathy Over Truth in Ukraine
[X] portal reports an interview conducted by Vatican News with Fr. Kirill Gorbunov, Vicar General of the Archdiocese of the Mother of God in Moscow, on the fourth anniversary of Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine. The article presents the perspective of a cleric operating within the post-conciliar structures occupying the Vatican, discussing the conflict, the Russian populace’s attitude, the narrative within Russia, and the situation of the tiny Catholic community there. The interview is characterized by a consistent tone of vague humanism, moral equivalence, and a profound silence on the non-negotiable demands of Catholic doctrine regarding the Social Kingship of Christ, the nature of true peace, and the duty of the Church to proclaim the truth unambiguously. This analysis will deconstruct the article from the perspective of integral Catholic faith, exposing its theological bankruptcy as a fruit of the conciliar apostasy.
A Summary of Naturalistic Humanism
The article relays Fr. Gorbunov’s statements that the conflict “must end,” that countless lives lost “speak for themselves,” and that the desired conclusion is a “just and lasting peace.” He describes Russian attitudes ranging from denial to despair, noting that some question God’s goodness in the face of suffering. He criticizes the “narrative” on all sides that paints the “other” as inherently bad, and praises Ukrainian women for saying they “cannot blame Russian people.” He states the Catholic community in Russia continues with sacraments and liturgy, but faces divisions, urging acceptance of others and praying together “despite differences in worldview.” The underlying thesis of the interview is that peace emerges from empathetic understanding and a vague, universal hope, not from the application of Catholic moral truth or the public recognition of Christ’s reign.
Factual Level: The Source and Its Implications
The source is Vatican News, the official news portal of the post-conciliar “papal” court. The interviewee, Fr. Kirill Gorbunov, is a high-ranking official in the “Archdiocese of the Mother of God in Moscow.” This jurisdiction is a creation of the post-conciliar “Church,” operating in a nation whose official ideology is fundamentally hostile to the Social Kingship of Christ as defined by Quas Primas. The interview’s publication on the official Vatican platform grants it the implicit approval of the current usurper, “Pope” Leo XIV (Robert Prevost), and his “dicastery” for communication. The very act of seeking a “Vicar General” to speak for the “Catholic” community in a schismatic and often persecuting state like modern Russia is a symptom of the neo-church’s prioritization of diplomatic presence over doctrinal clarity. This “Catholic” community is less than 1% of the population, a figure that underscores the complete failure of the conciliar “new evangelization” in a historically Orthodox land, yet the article presents this minuscule remnant as a normative pastoral concern, diverting attention from the catastrophic apostasy of the Russian people as a whole.
Linguistic Level: The Vocabulary of Apostasy
The language is consistently vague, psychological, and naturalistic. Key terms are emptied of their Catholic content:
- “Just and lasting peace”: This phrase, devoid of any reference to the peace of Christ (Pius XI, Quas Primas), becomes a generic humanitarian goal. It omits that true peace is solely the effect of societies ordering themselves according to the lex divina.
- “Empathising with the ‘other'”: This modern psychological concept replaces the Catholic duty of fraternal correction and the call to conversion. It suggests a relativistic equality between victim and aggressor, between truth and error.
- “Narrative”: This post-modern term treats competing claims about the war as equally constructed stories, undermining the possibility of an objective moral truth known through the lumen naturale and lumen supernaturalis.
- “Differences in worldview”: This phrase, used to describe divisions within the Catholic community, is a direct import from liberal ecumenism. It treats fundamental disagreements on faith and morals (e.g., liturgical practice, moral teachings) as mere “differences” to be tolerated, rather than heresies and schisms to be condemned.
- “God is greater than what divides us”: This is a sentimental, pantheistic distortion. It suggests God’s essence dissolves objective divisions between truth and falsehood, Catholic and heretic. Catholic doctrine holds God’s truth is greater than our divisions, and He commands us to separate from error (2 Cor. 6:14-18).
The tone is one of pastoral softness, therapeutic counseling, and political correctness, utterly alien to the prophetic sternness of pre-1958 papal encyclicals.
Theological Level: Confrontation with Unchanging Doctrine
1. The Omission of the Social Kingship of Christ
The most glaring omission is any mention of the doctrine so clearly defined in Quas Primas. Pope Pius XI taught that the “plague” of society is the removal of Jesus Christ and His law from public life, and that “the hope of lasting peace will not yet shine upon nations as long as individuals and states renounce and do not wish to recognize the reign of our Savior.” He declared Christ’s kingdom “encompasses all
Source:
Moscow Vicar General: Ukraine war ‘must end’ (vaticannews.va)
Date: 27.02.2026