The cited article from Vatican News (23 March 2026) reports that the antipope calling himself “Pope Leo XIV” received a delegation from ITA Airways and Lufthansa Group, thanking them for providing “serene atmosphere” and “family atmosphere” on papal flights. He declared that papal routes should be “bridges of dialogue, encounter, and fraternity,” while lamenting that aircraft are used in war. The entire statement is a naturalistic, humanistic discourse utterly devoid of supernatural Catholic content, reducing the papacy to a mere instrument of worldly peace and ignoring the exclusive reign of Christus Rex over all nations.
The “Serene Atmosphere” of Apostasy
The antipope’s focus on the “qualified and experienced professionals” who create a “serene atmosphere” for papal travel reveals the Modernist preoccupation with natural comfort and human respect rather than the salvation of souls. There is not a single mention of the Most Holy Sacrifice of the Mass offered during these journeys, the necessity of sacramental grace, or the state of grace required for the Pope and his entourage. This silence is damning. In the pre-Conciliar Church, the Pope’s journeys were first and foremost apostolic missions to confirm the faithful in doctrine and denounce error, not to foster “family atmosphere.” The true Pope, Pius XI, in his encyclical Quas Primas (1925), established the feast of Christ the King precisely to combat the secularism that removes “Jesus Christ and His most holy law from… public life.” The antipope’s words, by contrast, echo the naturalism condemned by Pius IX in the Syllabus of Errors (1864), especially propositions 15 and 16 on religious indifferentism, and 39 on the State as origin of all rights.
“Bridges of Dialogue” – The Language of Apostasy
“His routes are what they always should be, namely bridges of dialogue, encounter, and fraternity.”
The phrase “bridges of dialogue” is pure Modernist code for ecumenical indifferentism. The pre-Conciliar Church never spoke of “dialogue” as an end in itself; it spoke of conversion and the extreme unction of Catholic truth upon all nations. The antipope’s language directly contradicts Pius XI’s teaching in Quas Primas that the Kingdom of Christ “encompasses all men” and that “there is no other name under heaven given to men by which we must be saved” (Acts 4:12). The “fraternity” promoted here is the false, naturalistic fraternity of the Syllabus’s proposition 18, which equates Protestantism with Catholicism. The true Catholic mission is not “encounter” but the authoritative proclamation of the Credo and the condemnation of error, as defined by the Council of Trent and Pope Pius X in Pascendi Dominici gregis (1907).
Omission of Christ the King: The Heresy of Silence
The most glaring omission is the complete absence of any reference to the social reign of Christ the King. The antipope speaks of “peace” as a generic human good, detached from its sole source: the obedience of individuals, families, and states to the divina lex. Pius XI, in Quas Primas, explicitly ties peace to the public recognition of Christ’s kingship:
“Therefore, if men were ever to recognize Christ’s royal authority over themselves, both privately and publicly, then unheard-of blessings would flow upon the whole society, such as due freedom, order, and tranquility, and concord and peace.”
By contrast, the antipope’s “peace” is the peace of the abomination of desolation—a peace that excludes the duty of the State to profess Catholicism as the sole religion (Syllabus, prop. 77) and the obligation to repress false religions. This omission is not accidental; it is the systematic silencing of Catholic doctrine that defines the post-Conciliar sect. The antipope’s “peace” is the peace of the synagogue of Satan (Apoc. 2:9), which Pius IX identified as the goal of Masonic sects in the Syllabus’s concluding admonition.
War and the Naturalistic Conscience
The antipope laments that “airplanes should always be carriers of peace, never of war!” and calls aerial bombings “regression.” While the destruction of war is indeed tragic, his moralizing is naturalistic and Pelagian. He appeals to “technological development” and “progress,” concepts anathematized by Pius X in Lamentabili sane exitu (1907), proposition 57: “The Church is an enemy of the progress of natural and theological sciences.” The true Catholic stance is that war, while sometimes just, is a consequence of original sin and can only be ordered to the glory of God and the defense of the Church. The antipope’s focus on “fear” and “destruction” from the sky is a purely humanitarian concern, devoid of any reference to just war doctrine or the supreme penalty of excommunication for those who persecute the Church. His words could be spoken by any UN official; they have no Catholic content.
The Symbolism of Papal Flight in the Apostate Church
The very fact that the antipope travels on a commercial airline, thanking its staff, symbolizes the complete secularization of the papacy. The pre-Conciliar Pope traveled as Vicar of Christ, with the powers of the keys to bind and loose, not as a “messenger of peace” in the vague sense of a diplomat. The “family atmosphere” he praises is the camaraderie of the world, not the hierarchical reverence due to the Successor of Peter. This is the “spirit of the world” (1 John 2:15) that Pius X condemned in Pascendi as the essence of Modernism. The papal flight, in this context, becomes a symbol of the Church of the New Advent—a structure that uses Catholic symbols (the Pope, the Vatican) to propagate a naturalistic, humanistic religion.
Contrast with Catholic Teaching on Authority and Peace
The antipope’s statement is a direct negation of the Syllabus of Errors, which condemns:
- Prop. 40: “The teaching of the Catholic Church is hostile to the well-being and interests of society.” (He implies the opposite by reducing the Church to a peace-promoting NGO.)
- Prop. 77: “In the present day it is no longer expedient that the Catholic religion should be held as the only religion of the State…” (His “bridges of dialogue” presuppose religious equality.)
- Prop. 24: “The Church has not the power of using force, nor has she any temporal power…” (He ignores the Church’s right to demand civil recognition of its primacy, as taught by Pius IX in Quanta Cura and Pius XI in Quas Primas.)
The true Catholic doctrine, as expressed by Pius XI, is that peace is impossible without the reign of Christ:
“The state is happy not by one means, and man by another; for the state is nothing else than a harmonious association of men… Let rulers of states therefore not refuse public veneration and obedience to the reigning Christ.”
The antipope’s message is the exact opposite: peace without Christ, peace without the Church, peace without the social kingship of Our Lord. This is the peace of Antichrist, foretold by St. Pius X as the “peace of the world” that leads to perdition.
Conclusion: The Apostate “Pope” and the Abomination of Desolation
The meeting with ITA Airways is a microcosm of the post-Conciliar apostasy. The antipope, “Pope Leo XIV,” speaks the language of naturalism, humanitarianism, and ecumenical dialogue—all condemned by the pre-Conciliar Magisterium. His gratitude for a “serene atmosphere” is a mockery of the martyrdom and conflict inherent in the true Catholic mission. The “peace” he promotes is the peace of the abomination of desolation standing in the holy place (Matt. 24:15)—the peace of a world that has formally rejected Christus Rex and replaced Him with the “god of this world” (2 Cor. 4:4). The true Catholic must reject this impostor and his naturalistic gospel, returning to the immutable doctrine of the Church before the revolution of John XXIII. The only peace that can come from the skies is the peace of the Last Judgment, when Christ the King will separate the sheep from the goats—a reality the antipope dares not mention.
Source:
Pope Leo XIV: Planes should bring peace, not war and destruction (vaticannews.va)
Date: 23.03.2026