The cited EWTN News article reports that the antipope known as “Pope Leo XIV” held separate telephone conversations with Israeli President Isaac Herzog and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy on April 3, 2026. The discussions, occurring on Good Friday, exchanged Passover and Easter greetings and focused on the ongoing wars in the Middle East and Ukraine, with a stated emphasis on the need for continued humanitarian aid. The article notes the discussions followed the antipope’s public plea for an unconditional ceasefire and an Easter truce, and came after an incident where the Latin “Patriarch” Pierbattista Pizzaballa was temporarily denied access to the Holy Sepulchre by Israeli police.
**Thesis:** This incident is not merely diplomatic chatter but a profound manifestation of the post-conciliar apostasy, reducing the Vicar of Christ to a mere humanitarian NGO director who engages with Zionist and political leaders on purely naturalistic terms, utterly silent on the supernatural reign of Christ the King, the conversion of nations, and the defense of the rights of the true Church against the forces of modernism and Judaism.
The Naturalistic Reduction of the Papal Office
The very act of a self-styled “pope” engaging in state-level diplomacy about geopolitical conflicts, without a single word on the necessity of the public and social reign of Our Lord Jesus Christ, exposes the complete bankruptcy of the conciliar sect’s understanding of the papacy. Pope Pius XI, in Quas Primas, dogmatically defined the duty of rulers and governments to publicly honor and obey Christ the King: “Let rulers of states therefore not refuse public veneration and obedience to the reigning Christ, but let them fulfill this duty themselves and with their people, if they wish to maintain their authority inviolate and contribute to the increase of their homeland’s happiness.” The antipope’s silence on this non-negotiable Catholic principle is a damning omission. His focus on “humanitarian aid” and ceasefires aligns perfectly with the naturalistic, secular humanism condemned by Pope Pius IX in the Syllabus of Errors (Propositions 39, 40, 56-58), which rejects the divine origin of law and the subordination of the state to the Church and God’s law. The “papal” plea is framed not in terms of justice according to God’s law, but in the vague, emotional terms of “decreasing violence,” a language fit for a UN ambassador, not the Vicar of Christ.
Ecumenical Apostasy and the Silence on Conversion
The exchange of “Passover and Easter greetings” with the president of a state that persecutes the Church and promotes a religion explicitly superseded by the New Law is a stark act of ecumenical betrayal. This religious indifferentism was solemnly condemned by Pius IX (Syllabus, Props. 15-18). The antipope’s failure to use this privileged communication to urge the conversion of the Jewish people to the One, Holy, Catholic, and Apostolic Church—the very mission of the Church—is an abject denial of his supposed office. St. Paul’s words are clear: “For I would not have you ignorant, brethren, that I have many times purposed to come unto you…For I am not ashamed of the gospel. For it is the power of God unto salvation to every one that believeth, to the Jew first, and to the Greek” (Romans 1:13, 16). The conciliar sect’s policy of “dialogue” over proclamation, inherited from the “enemies within” warned of by St. Pius X in Pascendi Dominici gregis, has now reached its logical conclusion: a “pope” who fraternizes with the enemies of Christ without a whisper of the duty to submit to Christ’s kingship.
The Symptom of the “Abomination of Desolation” in Jerusalem
The article’s mention of the incident involving the Latin “Patriarch” Pizzaballa is profoundly symptomatic. The fact that a representative of the conciliar structure was denied access by Israeli authorities to the Holy Sepulchre—a site rightfully belonging to the true Church—and that a subsequent “agreement” was reached, demonstrates the utter powerlessness and subservience of the neo-church. It is a living image of the “abomination of desolation” standing in the holy place (Matthew 24:15). The true Church, built upon the rock of Peter, would have excommunicated the Israeli state for its anti-Catholic actions and defended its rights with the spiritual authority granted by Christ. Instead, the conciliar officials negotiate like a subordinate NGO. This weakness is the direct fruit of the “errors of the Syllabus” (Props. 19-55) regarding the rights of the Church, which the Vatican II sect has embraced inverting the proper order, making the Church subservient to the state.
Omission of the Supernatural: The Mark of Modernism
The entire article is a study in naturalistic, modernist rhetoric. There is not a single mention of sin, grace, the state of souls, the Sacrifice of the Mass, the necessity of the Catholic Faith for salvation, or the ultimate judgment of Christ. The focus is solely on “conflicts,” “humanitarian aid,” “ceasefires,” and “greetings.” This is the precise “reduction of the Church’s mission to naturalistic humanism” condemned by St. Pius X in Lamentabili sane exitu (Props. 53-55, 59-61). The “Church” of the post-conciliar period has become a “humanitarian organization,” its supernatural purpose—the salvation of souls—obscured and denied. The antipope’s statements are a practical application of Modernist proposition 59: “Truth changes with man, because it develops with him, in him, and through him.” Here, the “truth” of the papacy’s role has “developed” from teaching all nations to observe all things Christ commanded (Matthew 28:20) to making polite phone calls about war casualties.
Legitimizing the Zionist Occupation
By engaging with the Israeli president without a word of condemnation for the Zionist state’s systematic oppression of Catholics and Christians in the Holy Land, its desecration of holy sites, and its promotion of a religion that denies the Divinity of Christ, the antipope becomes a legitimizing instrument. He treats the Israeli government as a normal, respectable partner. This is a direct violation of the teaching of the Syllabus (Prop. 77) which condemns the error that “it is no longer expedient that the Catholic religion should be held as the only religion of the State.” The true Catholic position, as defined by Pope Pius IX, is that states have the duty to recognize the Catholic religion as the sole true religion and to govern according to its principles. The antipope’s neutral, diplomatic language is a capitulation to the “secularism” and “laicism” that Pius XI said in Quas Primas “began with the denial of Christ the Lord’s reign over all nations.”
Conclusion: The Antipope as a Functionary of the New World Order
The actions described are not those of a Catholic pope. They are the actions of a functionary of the post-conciliar, modernist, naturalistic world order. He speaks the language of the UN, not of the Church Fathers. He concerns himself with the temporal peace of the world, not the eternal peace of souls in the Kingdom of Christ. He honors the Passover of the Jews who denied Christ, while his own “Easter” is a vague, empty greeting devoid of the triumphant reality of the Resurrection. This is the logical outcome of the “hermeneutic of continuity” and the “evolution of dogma” condemned by St. Pius X. The “papacy” has been reduced to a figurehead for a globalist, ecumenical, humanitarian project that is antithetical to the Catholic Faith. The faithful must reject this man and the entire conciliar sect, and cling solely to the immutable Faith taught by the Church before the revolution of 1958.
Source:
Pope speaks with Israeli and Ukrainian presidents amid conflicts in Holy Land, Ukraine (ewtnnews.com)
Date: 03.04.2026