EWTN News portal reports on the April 10, 2026 meeting between the usurper Leo XIV (Robert Prevost) and French President Emmanuel Macron at the Vatican. The two leaders expressed their “common conviction” that “action for peace is a duty and a requirement” in the face of “the world’s divisions.” Macron stated that “France will always work toward dialogue, justice, and fraternity among peoples,” while the Élysée Palace emphasized “the essential role of the Holy See and the Holy Father’s personal commitment to peace, dialogue, and solidarity among peoples.” The Vatican confirmed that “both Macron and Vatican officials expressed the hope that peaceful coexistence might be restored through dialogue and negotiation.” Notably, Macron visited the Sant’Egidio Community the day before — an organization “characterized by its promotion of international ecumenical prayer gatherings for peace.” The exchange of gifts included a basketball jersey, a book on Notre Dame’s reconstruction, and a map of the Mississippi region from 1617. This entire spectacle is a textbook exhibition of the post-conciliar neo-church’s substitution of the supernatural mission of the Catholic Church with naturalistic humanitarianism, false ecumenism, and the worship of a peace divorced from the Social Kingship of Christ.
The Reduction of the Church’s Mission to Secular Pacifism
The meeting between Leo XIV and Macron, as reported by EWTN News, is saturated with language that would be entirely at home in any United Nations assembly or Masonic lodge, but which is grotesquely alien to the mission Christ entrusted to His Church. The central claim — that “action for peace is a duty and a requirement” — is presented as though the Church’s primary function were to serve as an international mediator between warring factions, a diplomatic NGO with a spiritual veneer. This is not Catholic teaching; it is the quintessential fruit of the conciliar revolution, which has systematically dismantled the Church’s supernatural identity and replaced it with a naturalistic humanitarianism indistinguishable from the programs of secular internationalism.
Pius XI, in his encyclical Quas Primas (1925), defined with crystalline clarity the only source of true peace: “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.” The encyclical further states: “When God and Jesus Christ — as we lamented — were removed from laws and states and when authority was derived not from God but from men, the foundations of that authority were destroyed.” Peace, in Catholic doctrine, is not the product of “dialogue and negotiation” between men — it is the consequence of submission to the Kingship of Christ. “Then at last,” Leo XIII declared, quoted by Pius XI, “so many wounds can be healed, then there will be hope that the law will regain its former authority, sweet peace will return again, swords and weapons will fall from hands, when all willingly accept the reign of Christ and obey Him, and every tongue will confess that our Lord Jesus Christ is in the glory of God the Father.”
The meeting between Leo XIV and Macron contains not a single reference to Christ the King, not a single mention of the necessity of conversion to the Catholic faith, not a single acknowledgment that “there is no other name under heaven given to men by which we must be saved” (Acts 4:12). Instead, we are offered the bland, content-free aspiration of “peaceful coexistence” achieved through “dialogue and negotiation.” This is precisely the error condemned by Pius IX in the Syllabus of Errors (1864), Proposition 80: “The Roman Pontiff can, and ought to, reconcile himself, and come to terms with progress, liberalism and modern civilization.” The neo-church has done exactly this — it has reconciled itself with the world, and in doing so, it has abandoned its divine mandate.
The Omission of the Supernatural: Silence as Apostasy
The most damning feature of this report is not what it says, but what it omits. The entire narrative operates on a purely naturalistic plane. There is no mention of the sacraments, no mention of the state of grace, no mention of the necessity of faith for salvation, no mention of the final judgment, no mention of sin, no mention of repentance. The Church is presented as a facilitator of “solidarity among peoples” — a phrase that could have been uttered by any secular human rights organization without alteration.
This silence is not accidental; it is the defining characteristic of the post-conciliar apostasy. The Syllabus of Errors condemned Proposition 40: “The teaching of the Catholic Church is hostile to the well-being and interests of society.” The neo-church has internalized this condemned proposition so thoroughly that it has become indistinguishable from the secular powers it once reproved. When Macron speaks of “dialogue, justice, and fraternity,” and Leo XIV nods in agreement, we witness the complete capitulation of the structures occupying the Vatican to the very forces that the pre-conciliar Church identified as enemies of Christendom.
St. Pius X, in Lamentabili Sane Exitu (1907), condemned Proposition 57: “The Church is an enemy of the progress of natural and theological sciences,” and Proposition 65: “Contemporary Catholicism cannot be reconciled with true knowledge without transforming it into a certain dogmaless Christianity, that is, into a broad and liberal Protestantism.” What we see in the Leo XIV-Macron meeting is precisely this “dogmaless Christianity” — a Christianity so broad and so liberal that it has emptied itself of all dogmatic content and become mere humanitarian sentiment.
Sant’Egidio: The Ecumenical Trojan Horse
The report notes that Macron, the day before meeting Leo XIV, visited the Sant’Egidio Community in Rome, “an organization characterized by its promotion of international ecumenical prayer gatherings for peace.” This detail is far from incidental. The Sant’Egidio Community has been one of the primary instruments of the post-conciliar ecumenical revolution, organizing interreligious prayer gatherings in Assisi and elsewhere that treat all religions as equally valid paths to God — a direct violation of the Catholic dogma extra ecclesiam nulla salus (outside the Church there is no salvation).
Pius XI in Quas Primas explicitly stated: “His reign, namely, extends not only to Catholic nations or to those who, by receiving baptism according to law, belong to the Church, even though their erroneous opinions have led them astray or discord has separated them from love, but His reign encompasses also all non-Christians, so that most truly the entire human race is subject to the authority of Jesus Christ.” The Sant’Egidio Community’s ecumenical gatherings, by contrast, operate on the implicit premise that the Catholic Church is merely one among many religious communities, all equally capable of contributing to “peace.” This is the religious indifferentism condemned by Pius IX in the Syllabus, Proposition 15: “Every man is free to embrace and profess that religion which, guided by the light of reason, he shall consider true,” and Proposition 17: “Good hope at least is to be entertained of the eternal salvation of all those who are not at all in the true Church of Christ.”
The fact that Macron’s visit to Sant’Egidio is presented in the report as a natural and unremarkable prelude to his meeting with the antipope demonstrates how thoroughly the conciliar sect has normalized the ecumenical abomination. There is no critical distance, no acknowledgment that Sant’Egidio’s activities represent a fundamental betrayal of Catholic doctrine.
The Exchange of Gifts: Symbols of a Profane Church
The exchange of gifts between Leo XIV and Macron is laden with revealing symbolism. Macron presented “a French national basketball team jersey signed by the players, a book on the reconstruction of Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris following the 2019 fire, and a map of the Mississippi region created by French missionaries in 1617.” The antipope responded with “a decorative ceramic tile symbolizing abundance, along with his message for this year’s World Day of Peace.”
The basketball jersey is perhaps the most emblematic item — a symbol of secular popular culture, of the cult of athletic entertainment, presented as a diplomatic gift to the supposed Vicar of Christ. This is the humanum cultus (cult of man) that the pre-conciliar Church would have recognized as a symptom of the most advanced stage of modernist decay. The book on Notre Dame’s reconstruction is a monument to the restoration of a building — a worthy civic endeavor, perhaps, but one that stands in tragic contrast to the destruction of the Faith that once animated that cathedral. The map of the Mississippi region by French missionaries is a nostalgic reminder of an era when France sent missionaries to convert souls to Christ — an era that the modern French Republic, with its militant laïcité, has utterly repudiated.
Leo XIV’s gift of a “decorative ceramic tile symbolizing abundance” and a “World Day of Peace” message is equally revealing. The World Day of Peace, as observed by the conciliar sect, is a thoroughly modernist invention — a day devoted not to the propagation of the Faith or the recognition of Christ’s Kingship, but to the secular aspiration of “peace” understood as the absence of armed conflict. Pius XI instituted the Feast of Christ the King precisely to combat the error that peace can be achieved without the recognition of Christ’s sovereign authority. The ceramic tile “symbolizing abundance” is a fitting symbol of the conciliar church’s materialism — a church more concerned with earthly prosperity than with the salvation of souls.
Macron’s France: The Eldest Daughter in Apostasy
The choice of Emmanuel Macron as Leo XIV’s interlocutor is itself deeply significant. France, the aînée fille de l’Église (eldest daughter of the Church), has been in a state of formal apostasy since the French Revolution and the imposition of laïcité. The French Republic’s founding principles are directly condemned by the Syllabus of Errors: Proposition 39 declares “The State, as being the origin and source of all rights, is endowed with a certain right not circumscribed by any limits,” and Proposition 55 states “The Church ought to be separated from the State, and the State from the Church.”
Macron’s France is the embodiment of the liberal Catholic error condemned by Pius IX — a state that claims a Catholic heritage while systematically excluding God from public life. When Macron speaks of “dialogue, justice, and fraternity,” he echoes the motto of the French Republic — Liberté, Égalité, Fraternité — a motto born of the Masonic revolution that sought to destroy Christendom. That the structures occupying the Vatican should embrace this motto as compatible with Catholic teaching is proof of the depth of the apostasy that has consumed them.
Pius XI warned in Quas Primas: “This plague is the secularism of our times, so-called laicism, its errors and wicked endeavors… It began with the denial of Christ the Lord’s reign over all nations; the Church’s authority to teach men, to issue laws, to govern nations, which authority she received from Christ the Lord to lead men to eternal happiness, was denied.” The meeting between Leo XIV and Macron is a living illustration of this plague — a meeting in which the Social Kingship of Christ is not merely ignored but effectively denied by the very fact that it is never mentioned.
The Duty of True Peace: Submission to Christ the King
The Catholic Church, before the conciliar revolution, taught with absolute clarity that true peace is impossible without the recognition of Christ’s Kingship over individuals, families, and states. Pius XI declared: “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.” He further stated: “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 duty of the Church is not to facilitate “dialogue and negotiation” between warring parties — it is to proclaim the Gospel, to administer the sacraments, and to demand that all nations submit to the Kingship of Christ. The Syllabus of Errors condemned Proposition 77: “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 conciliar sect has gone far beyond this condemned proposition — it now treats the Catholic religion as merely one voice among many in a pluralistic conversation about “peace.”
The meeting between Leo XIV and Macron is not a diplomatic event of any genuine Catholic significance. It is a meeting between a secularist politician and a figurehead of a paramasonic structure that has abandoned its divine mission. The “peace” they discuss is the peace of the world — “My peace I give to you, not as the world gives do I give to you” (John 14:27). The peace of the world is the peace of compromise with error, the peace of silence about sin, the peace of the grave. The true peace of Christ is the peace that comes only through the submission of every soul and every nation to His sovereign authority — an authority that neither Leo XIV nor Macron has any intention of recognizing.
The faithful who remain attached to the integral Catholic faith must see in this spectacle not a cause for hope, but a confirmation of the depths to which the structures occupying the Vatican have sunk. The abomination of desolation continues its work, and the only response worthy of a Catholic is to reject the false peace of the world and to cling to the immutable truth 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” — and that harmony is found only in Christ the King.
Source:
Leo XIV and Macron meet: Peace is both a ‘duty and a requirement’ (ewtnnews.com)
Date: 10.04.2026