The cited article from EWTN News reports that “Pope” Leo XIV (the current occupant of the Vatican, whose line of successors began with the apostate Angelo Roncalli/”John XXIII”) sent a message to Sarah Mullally upon her installation as the first female “Archbishop of Canterbury.” The message praises the historic “progress” of ecumenical dialogue with the Anglican Communion, calls for continued “dialogue in truth and love,” and frames Christian unity as oriented toward a shared evangelistic mission. This act represents a profound betrayal of the Catholic Faith, a sacrilegious endorsement of heresy and schism, and a direct violation of the immutable doctrine of the exclusive reign of Our Lord Jesus Christ over all nations and His unique Church.
The Scandal of Recognizing a Female “Archbishop” and a Heretical Communion
The article presents as normal the installation of Sarah Mullally as “Archbishop of Canterbury.” From the perspective of integral Catholic faith, this is a double scandal. First, the Catholic Church has always taught, with the unanimous consent of the Fathers and the perpetual Magisterium, that the sacred ordination of women is intrinsically impossible. The ordination of women to the priesthood or episcopate is not a matter of disciplinary development but a fundamental impossibility, as the priest acts in persona Christi, and Christ, the sole High Priest, was a man. Any purported “ordination” of a woman is a null and sacrilegious ceremony, and any “bishop” or “archbishop” so “ordained” possesses no sacramental or jurisdictional authority whatsoever. Second, the Anglican Communion, from its origin in the political and marital apostasy of Henry VIII, is a heretical and schismatic sect. Its very foundation repudiates the papal primacy and the Catholic Faith as defined by the Council of Trent. The 1896 bull Apostolicae Curae of Leo XIII definitively declared Anglican orders “absolutely null and utterly void” due to defects in form, intention, and the heretical context of the Edwardine Ordinals. To address the head of this heretical communion with the title “Archbishop” and to speak of her “mission” is to lend credence to a structure that is, in the eyes of God and His Church, a false religion.
“Dialogue in Truth and Love”: The Modernist Mantra for Apostasy
The article repeatedly quotes the “pope’s” call to “continue to dialogue in truth and love.” This phrase is a quintessential modernist slogan, designed to mask the abandonment of truth in the name of a sentimental and naturalistic “love.” True Catholic dialogue, as taught by the pre-conciliar Magisterium, is always ad maiorem Dei gloriam—for the conversion of heretics and schismatics to the one true Church. It is not a peer-to-peer conversation between equals. Pius IX, in the Syllabus of Errors, condemned the notion that “it is no longer expedient that the Catholic religion should be held as the only religion of the State, to the exclusion of all other forms of worship” (Error 77). He also condemned the idea that “the Church ought to be separated from the State, and the State from the Church” (Error 55). The modern ecumenical movement, however, treats all religions as legitimate paths to God and all “churches” as valid Christian communions, thereby directly contradicting the exclusive salvific claim of the Catholic Church: Extra Ecclesiam nulla salus. The call to “dialogue” with a heretical communion that ordains women, rejects the Real Presence in the Eucharist as defined by Trent, and denies the sacrifice of Calvary is not an act of charity but of spiritual complicity. It suggests that the truths of the Faith are negotiable and that the divisions caused by centuries of heresy can be bridged by human goodwill rather than by the humble submission of the erroneous to the one true Faith.
The Omission of Christ the King and the Primacy of God’s Law
The article is utterly silent on the most fundamental principle of Catholic social and ecclesial order: the exclusive and universal reign of Our Lord Jesus Christ. Pius XI, in his encyclical Quas Primas, which established the feast of Christ the King, declared that the “plague” of his time was the secularism that “began with the denial of Christ the Lord’s reign over all nations.” He wrote: “When God and Jesus Christ were removed from laws and states… the foundations of that authority were destroyed.” The “dialogue” promoted by Leo XIV operates entirely within the framework of this secularist “plague.” It acknowledges no public or social reign of Christ the King. It treats the “Anglican Communion” as a legitimate partner in international religious discourse, as if Christ’s law did not demand that all human laws and societies be conformed to His. The article’s focus on “proclaiming the Gospel” and “witnessing together” is a naturalistic, human-centered mission, utterly divorced from the Catholic truth that the Church alone is the “dispenser of salvation” and that true evangelization is the incorporation of souls into the one true Church, outside of which there is no salvation. The “unity” sought is a purely external, organizational fellowship that deliberately lowers or ignores the doctrinal barriers that separate Catholicism from heresy. This is the very “indifferentism” condemned by Pius IX.
The Heresy of “Progress” and the Rejection of Immutable Doctrine
The article’s language is saturated with the modernist concept of “progress.” It speaks of the “historic meeting” of 1966 beginning “a new stage,” the “fruits of theological dialogue,” and moving forward. This is the language of evolution and development, which Pius X condemned in Pascendi Dominici Gregis and Lamentabili Sane Exitu. The modernist, as defined by Pius X, believes that “truth is not immutable” and that “dogmas must be held according to their practical function” (Proposition 26 of Lamentabili). The entire ecumenical project, as presented here, is predicated on the idea that the doctrines that divided Catholics and Anglicans in the 16th century are either not essential or can be “re-interpreted” into a new, synthetic “agreement.” This is the heresy of the “evolution of dogma.” The Catholic Faith, however, is a deposit of revealed truth guarded by the Church, which is “the pillar and ground of the truth” (1 Tim. 3:15). It does not “progress” by contradicting itself. The “new disagreements” mentioned are not new but are the perennial disagreements between truth and error. To “dialogue” as if these disagreements are merely “new circumstances” is to accept the modernist premise that doctrine can change with the times.
The Symptomatic Silence: No Mention of Sin, Sacraments, or Salvation
The most damning evidence of the article’s theological bankruptcy is its complete silence on the supernatural realities that define the Catholic Faith. There is no mention of:
- The Most Holy Sacrifice of the Mass, the true worship due to God and the source of all grace.
- The state of grace and the necessity of sanctifying grace for salvation.
- The sacramental system instituted by Christ, which the Anglican Communion fundamentally rejects (e.g., the Real Presence, the sacrificial nature of the Eucharist, the sacrament of Penance).
- The Final Judgment and the eternal consequences of dying in heresy or schism.
- The primacy of the Pope as the visible foundation of unity (a doctrine the Anglicans explicitly reject).
Instead, the discourse is entirely about “service,” “witness,” “proclamation,” and “mission” in a natural, sociological sense. This is the “cult of man” replacing the worship of God. It is a religion of human activity devoid of the supernatural means of salvation. This silence is not accidental; it is the logical outcome of the conciliar revolution, which replaced the supernatural ends of the Church with a worldly focus on “building a better world” through interreligious and ecumenical collaboration.
Contrast with Catholic Teaching Before the Apostasy
The pre-1958 Magisterium provides the starkest contrast. Pius XI in Quas Primas insisted that the Kingdom of Christ “encompasses all men” and that “the state is happy not by one means, and man by another; for the state is nothing else than a harmonious association of men.” Therefore, rulers must publicly honor Christ and obey Him. The modern “dialogue” treats the state as a neutral arena where all “faiths” compete for influence, denying the social reign of Christ. Pius IX, in the Syllabus, condemned the idea that “the Church has not the power of defining dogmatically that the religion of the Catholic Church is the only true religion” (Error 21). Yet the very premise of dialogue with Anglicanism implies that their religion is, in some sense, true and salvific. The article thus embodies the “errors concerning the Church and her rights” and “errors having reference to modern liberalism” so thoroughly condemned by Pius IX.
Conclusion: The message of “Pope” Leo XIV to the female “Archbishop” of the heretical Anglican Communion is not an act of Christian charity or ecumenical hope. It is a public act of apostasy. It denies the exclusive salvific mission of the Catholic Church, mocks the dogma of the papal primacy, legitimizes a schismatic and heretical sect, and promotes the modernist heresy of the evolution of dogma. It operates on the naturalistic, humanistic plane of “dialogue” and “witness,” utterly devoid of the supernatural imperative for conversion and submission to the one true Faith. From the perspective of integral Catholic faith, this event is a stark confirmation that the structures occupying the Vatican since the death of Pius XII are the “abomination of desolation” standing in the holy place, actively leading souls to perdition by obscuring the absolute necessity of membership in the one true Church for salvation.
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Pope invites continued dialogue in message to new Archbishop of Canterbury Sarah Mullally (ewtnnews.com)
Date: 26.03.2026