EWTN News portal reports (April 13, 2026) that former U.S. President Donald Trump launched a scathing verbal assault on the occupant of the Vatican, denouncing “Pope” Leo XIV as “weak on crime,” “terrible for foreign policy,” and “a very liberal person” — all because the latter dared to invoke the Gospel’s call for peace during the Iran conflict. The article catalogs a chorus of international condemnation from politicians, bishops, and even Iranian leaders, all rallying to defend the “Holy Father’s” appeals for dialogue. Yet beneath this spectacle of worldly outrage lies a far more damning indictment: not of Trump, but of the conciliar sect itself, whose very existence as a “spiritual authority” is a monstrous fraud, and whose calls for “peace” are but echoes of the naturalist utopianism condemned by every Pope up to Pius XII.
The World Rises to Defend an Empty Throne
The article opens with Trump’s outburst: “There’s nothing to apologize for. He’s wrong.” Wrong about what? About demanding that nations “sit at tables of dialogue and mediation, not at tables where rearmament is planned” — words that sound pious but are, in the mouth of a usurper antipope, nothing less than the perennial Modernist heresy of irenicism: the reduction of the Church’s supernatural mission to mere humanitarian pacifism. The “pontiff” presides over a “vigil for peace” in St. Peter’s Basilica — now the abomination of desolation standing in the holy place (Matt. 24:15) — and cries “Enough of war!” while remaining utterly silent on the only war that matters: the war against Satan, heresy, and the corruption of souls.
What does Leo XIV say about the intrinsic evil of abortion, which claims millions of innocent lives annually? What does he say about the sacrilegious “Communion” distributed by apostate “priests” to manifest public sinners? What does he say about the duty of Catholic states to suppress heresy and uphold the social reign of Christ the King? Nothing. His “peace” is the peace of the world — the peace that Christ Himself warned would be false: “Think not that I am come to send peace on earth: I came not to send peace, but a sword” (Matt. 10:34). The conciliar sect has inverted this divine truth, offering a counterfeit peace that flatters tyrants and silences prophets.
Iranian Shi’ites Defend the Antipope — A Sign of the Times
Perhaps the most grotesque detail in this entire farce is the reaction of Iranian leadership. President Masoud Pezeshkian “condemns the insult” to Leo XIV on behalf of the “great nation of Iran,” while the late Ayatollah Khamenei’s social media account invokes Jesus — whom Muslims regard as a mere prophet — to condemn “corrupt and tyrannical powers.” A Shi’ite theocracy defends a Modernist antipope against a secular politician. Is this not the fulfillment of Pius IX’s Syllabus of Errors, which condemned the proposition that “the Roman Pontiff can, and ought to, reconcile himself, and come to terms with progress, liberalism, and modern civilization” (Proposition 80)?
The alliance between the Vatican usurpers and the enemies of Christendom is no accident. It is the logical fruit of the conciliar revolution, which replaced the Church’s mission of converting souls to the worship of the true God with a program of “dialogue” — that is, capitulation — to every false religion and ideology. When Pius XI declared in Quas Primas that “the reign of Christ encompasses all men… so that most truly the entire human race is subject to the authority of Jesus Christ,” he spoke of a kingship that demands submission, not negotiation. Leo XIV’s “dialogue” is not the preaching of the Gospel; it is the diplomacy of a false church that has abandoned its divine mandate.
Rome’s Mayor and the Benedictine Abbot: Servants of the New World Order
Rome’s mayor, Roberto Gualtieri, declares that Trump’s attacks “wound sensitivities and consciences” and reaffirms “the values of respect, dialogue, and peace.” These are the platitudes of secular humanism, not the language of Catholic faith. Where is the mention of sin? Where is the call to repentance? Where is the acknowledgment that true peace is only possible through the Immaculate Heart of Mary and the consecration of Russia — not to some vague “conversion,” but to the Catholic Faith alone?
Even more revealing is the statement of Father Nikodemus Schnabel, abbot of the Benedictine Abbey of the Dormition in Jerusalem, who denounces Trump as “morally bankrupt” while defending Leo XIV. This is the same abbey that has hosted interfaith “prayer” services with Jews and Muslims — a blasphemy against the First Commandment. The abbot’s outrage is not moral; it is ideological. He defends the conciliar project of religious indifferentism, which Pius IX condemned in Qui pluribus: “Every man is free to embrace and profess that religion which, guided by the light of reason, he shall consider true” (Proposition 15). The abbot is not a shepherd of souls but a chaplain to the New World Order.
Bishops Who Follow the Antipope Are Not Shepherds but Wolves
Archbishop John Wilson of Southwark calls on Catholics to “be as courageous as our Holy Father in proclaiming the truth that God demands peace.” But what “truth” does Leo XIV proclaim? He proclaims the lie that peace can be achieved without the conversion of nations to Catholicism. He proclaims the heresy that the Church’s mission is not to save souls but to broker ceasefires. He proclaims the apostasy that the social reign of Christ the King — the very foundation of Catholic civilization — is an outdated concept.
Cardinal Fernando Chomali of Santiago praises Leo XIV as “a good man, forged by years of prayer, study, and closeness to the poor.” But sanctity is not measured by proximity to the poor; it is measured by fidelity to the deposit of faith. Judas Iscariot was “close to the poor” too — he carried the purse. The true measure of a bishop is whether he defends the Faith against all enemies, within and without. Chomali does not defend the Faith; he defends a usurper who has never once condemned the errors of Vatican II: religious liberty, ecumenism, collegiality, and the democratization of the Church.
The Silence About the Real War
The article is saturated with concern for geopolitical peace — the Iran conflict, nuclear programs, diplomatic collapses — but there is not a single word about the spiritual war being waged against the Church. There is no mention of the millions of souls led astray by the conciliar sect’s false sacraments, its apostate catechism, its denial of the necessity of baptism for salvation. There is no mention of the duty of Catholic rulers to uphold the social kingship of Christ, as Pius XI commanded in Quas Primas: “Rulers of states… 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 “international community” — that Masonic phrase beloved of the United Nations and the conciliar sect — rallies to defend a false pope because it recognizes in him a kindred spirit. Both serve the same master: the world. The true Church, the Church of all ages, does not seek the approval of presidents, ayatollahs, or mayors. It seeks only the glory of God and the salvation of souls. And it knows that the peace of Christ is not the peace of this world, but the peace that comes from the triumph of the Immaculate Heart and the establishment of Christ’s social reign over all nations.
Conclusion: Trump vs. Leo — A Battle of Two Apostasies
In the end, this episode reveals the utter bankruptcy of the post-conciliar order. Trump, for all his bluster, is at least honest in his rejection of the conciliar sect’s false universalism. He sees Leo XIV for what he is: a “liberal” — that is, a Modernist — who undermines national sovereignty and traditional morality. The “international community,” by contrast, defends the usurper because it needs the conciliar sect to legitimize its globalist agenda.
But neither Trump nor Leo XIV serves the true Church. The true Church endures — not in the marble halls of the Vatican, but in the hearts of the faithful who profess the integral Catholic Faith, who reject the apostasy of Vatican II, and who await the day when the social reign of Christ the King will be restored, not by human diplomacy, but by divine intervention. Until then, let the world rage. Non praevalebunt — the gates of hell shall not prevail.
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President Trump’s criticism of Pope Leo XIV sparks global reaction (ewtnnews.com)
Date: 13.04.2026