Summary: The Vatican News portal reports a telephone call between the antipope claiming the name “Pope Leo XIV” and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy on April 3, 2026. The Holy See Press Office statement emphasizes “closeness to the Ukrainian people,” discussion of the “humanitarian situation,” “urgent aid,” “release of prisoners,” and expresses “hope… that hostilities may cease as soon as possible and a just and lasting peace may be achieved” through the “commitment and cooperation of the international community.” The article reveals a complete absence of any supernatural, dogmatic, or ecclesiological framework, reducing the Vicar of Christ’s mission to that of a humanitarian NGO director and a secular diplomat. This is the logical culmination of the modernist, naturalistic, and apostate paradigm condemned by the pre-conciliar Magisterium.
The “Peace” of the Conciliar Sect: A Naturalistic Idol
The statement from the “Holy See Press Office” is a masterclass in the secularized language of the post-conciliar abomination. It speaks of “humanitarian emergency,” “international community,” “hostilities,” and “just and lasting peace” in the same lexicon used by the United Nations, the European Union, and globalist think tanks. This is not the language of the Pax Christi, which is supernaturalis and inseparable from the reign of Christ the King. Pope Pius XI, in his encyclical Quas Primas, established the feast of Christ the King precisely as a remedy against the “secularism of our times, so-called laicism,” which had removed “Jesus Christ and His most holy law from… public life.” The encyclical declares without ambiguity: “When God and Jesus Christ… were removed from laws and states… the foundations of that authority were destroyed.” It further states that the purpose of the feast is to remind “states that not only private individuals, but also rulers and governments have the duty to publicly honor Christ and obey Him.” The “peace” spoken of by Pius XI is one where “all relations in the state be ordered on the basis of God’s commandments and Christian principles.” The call from “Pope Leo XIV” contains not a single reference to God’s law, the moral order, the necessity of the Catholic faith for salvation, or the Social Reign of Christ. It is a complete surrender to the naturalistic and indifferentist errors solemnly condemned by Pope Pius IX in the Syllabus of Errors.
Silence on the Supernatural: The Mark of the Beast
The most damning “fact” of the article is what it omits. There is no mention of:
- The sinfulness of the conflict and the need for repentance and conversion.
- The duty of the Ukrainian state and people to publicly recognize and submit to the Catholic Church as the “sole dispenser of salvation” (Quas Primas).
- The violation of God’s law by either side (e.g., the intrinsic evil of communism/socialism, which the Syllabus condemns in Section IV).
- The Sacraments as the sole source of true peace and justice.
- The final judgment of Christ, the King, to whom all nations will be held accountable.
- The missionary mandate to convert all peoples, including the Ukrainian and Russian nations, to the Catholic faith.
This silence is not neutrality; it is apostasy. It reflects the modernist dogma that the Church’s mission is limited to “human promotion” and “dialogue,” a direct echo of the errors condemned in Lamentabili sane exitu and the Syllabus. Error #77 of the Syllabus states: “In the present day 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.” The “peace” pursued by “Leo XIV” is the peace of a secular, pluralistic world order where the Catholic faith is one option among many, precisely the “indifferentism” condemned in Syllabus Errors #15-18. The article’s framework is one of “humanitarian emergency diplomacy,” utterly devoid of the “kingdom of Christ” which Pius XI said must be the foundation of all true peace.
The “International Community” vs. the One, Holy, Catholic, and Apostolic Church
The phrase “commitment and cooperation of the international community” is a direct slap in the face of the entire Catholic social order. The Syllabus, in Error #39, condemns the notion that “The State, as being the origin and source of all rights, is endowed with a certain right not circumscribed by any limits.” The “international community” is a collection of such states, often operating on the principles of liberal democracy and religious indifferentism. To place one’s hope for peace in this entity, rather than in the exclusive authority of Christ the King and His Church, is to worship at the altar of the modern Leviathan. Pius XI in Quas Primas explicitly links the loss of peace to the removal of Christ from public life. He laments that “the entire human society had to be shaken, because it lacked a stable and strong foundation.” The foundation is not “cooperation” but obedience. The article’s language is that of a functionary of the United Nations, not of the Vicar of Christ. It promotes the “principle of non-intervention” (Syllabus Error #62) in spiritual matters, leaving the “international community” to decide the political fate of nations while the Church remains a “humanitarian” actor.
The Heresy of “Just Peace” Without Justice
The goal of a “just and lasting peace” is presented as a purely political and humanitarian objective. Catholic doctrine, however, defines true justice as ordo caritatis (the order of charity), which requires the submission of all human societies to the law of God as taught by the Church. A peace that is not founded on the public recognition of the Catholic faith and the Social Kingship of Christ is an unjust peace, a peace of Antichrist. Pius XI explains that Christ’s kingdom “encompasses all men” and that His royal dignity demands that “all relations in the state be ordered on the basis of God’s commandments.” The article’s “peace” is a peace that can exist with blasphemy, with the suppression of the Mass, with the triumph of naturalism. It is the peace of the “world” which Christ came to divide (Luke 12:51-53), not the peace He left (John 14:27). This is the peace of the “abomination of desolation” standing in the holy place (Matt 24:15), where the place of Christ the King is usurped by the idol of man and his “international community.”
The “Cordial Conversation” of Apostasy
The description of the call as “cordial” is particularly nauseating. “Cordiality” is the virtue of the Masonic lodge and the diplomatic salon, not of the confrontation between the City of God and the City of Man. The Prophets and Apostles did not engage in “cordial conversations” with the kings and powers that persecuted the Church; they thundered God’s judgments. The “closeness” expressed is the false “closeness” of ecumenism and humanism, the “closeness” of one who has abandoned the duty to proclaim the extra Ecclesiam nulla salus. It is the closeness of the false prophet who speaks smooth words to the powerful of the earth, rather than the boldness of St. John the Baptist who Herod Antipas to his face. This “cordiality” is the fruit of the “new theology” of Vatican II, which replaced the missionary, confrontational, and hierarchical nature of the Church with a “dialogue” based on shared human values—a direct repudiation of the Syllabus and the teaching of all pre-1958 Pontiffs.
Conclusion: The Bankruptcy of the Conciliar Sect’s “Peace”
The telephone call between “Pope Leo XIV” and President Zelenskyy is a perfect microcosm of the apostate “Church” of the New Advent. It is a ritual performance of naturalistic humanitarianism, a empty shell of Catholic language (“Holy Father,” “Easter holidays”) stripped of all Catholic content. It promotes the peace of the world, which is enmity with God (James 4:4), while ignoring the only true peace that comes from the “sweet yoke” of Christ the King. The “just and lasting peace” it seeks is a temporal, political arrangement that leaves souls in the darkness of schism, heresy, and paganism. This is the peace of the Antichrist, who will unite the world in a false harmony against the true Church. The only “hope” expressed is for a cessation of violence, not for the conversion of hearts and the public triumph of the Immaculate Heart and the Sacred Heart. It is a hope built on the shifting sands of human diplomacy, not on the rock of Peter’s confession (Matt 16:18). The true Catholic, clinging to the unchangeable faith of his fathers, must reject this “peace” with contempt and pray for the only peace that matters: the peace that comes from the reign of Christ the King over every nation, every law, and every heart.
Source:
Pope to Ukrainian President: May hostilities cease and a just and lasting peace be achieved (vaticannews.va)
Date: 03.04.2026