National Catholic Register portal reports that on April 13, 2026, the U.S. Helsinki Commission held a hearing examining the diplomatic activities of the so-called “Holy See,” during which policy fellow Alexander John Paul Lutz praised the conciliar sect’s foreign policy as “unique” and morally superior to that of all other states. The hearing occurred on the same day that President Donald Trump criticized the antipope Leo XIV on social media. Lutz cited Leo’s January address to the diplomatic corps, emphasizing that “the protection of the principle of the inviolability of human dignity and the sanctity of life always counts for more than any mere national interest.” Senior correspondent Victor Gaetan further elaborated that Vatican diplomacy operates through four dimensions—representation, mediation, preservation, and evangelization—and claimed that the conciliar sect’s willingness to engage even with dictators reflects pastoral discretion rooted in the belief that “no one is beyond salvation.” Gaetan also asserted that Leo’s calls for peace are grounded in “just war theory” developed by St. Augustine and referenced the Catechism of the Catholic Church’s conditions for a justified war.
The Diplomacy of the Abomination of Desolation: A Modernist Facade Masking Apostasy
What unfolds before the eyes of the faithful who still possess the Catholic sense is not a defense of the Church’s mission but rather a carefully orchestrated propaganda campaign on behalf of the conciliar sect—the very structure that has systematically dismantled the integral Catholic faith since the death of Pope Pius XII in 1958. The hearing before the U.S. Helsinki Commission, far from being an objective examination of diplomacy, served as a platform to legitimize the usurpers occupying the Vatican and to present their modernist agenda as a moral beacon for the world. That this occurred on the same day President Trump denounced the antipope Leo XIV only underscores the political entanglement of the conciliar sect with secular powers—precisely the error that true Catholic teaching condemns.
The Omission of Christ the King: The Foundational Heresy
The most glaring and damning omission in the entire testimony is the complete silence about the social reign of Our Lord Jesus Christ over all nations, governments, and international relations. When Lutz declares that “the protection of the principle of the inviolability of human dignity and the sanctity of life always counts for more than any mere national interest,” he speaks the language of the 1965 conciliar declaration Dignitatis Humanae—the very document that enshrined religious liberty as a natural right, directly contradicting the perennial teaching of the Church. Pope Pius XI, in his encyclical Quas Primas (1925), established with absolute clarity that Christ’s kingdom “encompasses all men” and that “men united in societies are no less subject to the authority of Christ than individuals.” He further stated: “The state is happy not by one means, and man by another; for the state is nothing else than a harmonious association of men.” The conciliar sect’s diplomacy, grounded in “human dignity” detached from the obligation of every state to publicly recognize Christ the King, is not Catholic diplomacy—it is naturalistic humanism dressed in ecclesiastical vestments.
Pope Pius IX, in the Syllabus of Errors (1864), condemned under pain of anathema the proposition that “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” (Proposition 77). The entire diplomatic framework described by Lutz and Gaetan—engaging all parties, never fully endorsing any state’s political platform, subjecting every policy to “intellectual and moral rigor”—is precisely the indifferentism and latitudinarianism that Pius IX condemned as errors. The conciliar sect does not demand that nations submit to Christ the King; it merely offers “moral rigor” as if the natural law, divorced from the supernatural order and the Church’s infallible Magisterium, were sufficient to guide international relations.
The Myth of “Just War” in the Mouth of Apostates
Victor Gaetan’s invocation of “just war theory” as the basis for Leo XIV’s calls for peace is a masterclass in modernist deception. While it is true that St. Augustine and St. Thomas Aquinas developed the principles of just war, the application of these principles belongs exclusively to the authority of the true Church and the legitimate successor of Peter—not to an antipope who has never held valid office. The Catechism referenced by Gaetan is the 1992 conciliar catechism, a document riddled with ambiguities and modernist reinterpretations that dilute Catholic doctrine. The conditions for a just war enumerated by the Angelic Doctor—legitimate authority, just cause, and right intention—presuppose a properly constituted Catholic authority capable of judging these matters. The conciliar sect, having abandoned the integral faith, possesses neither the authority nor the doctrinal clarity to invoke just war theory with any legitimacy.
Moreover, the conciliar sect’s calls for peace are not grounded in the supernatural order at all. When Leo XIV cries “Enough of war!” he does not call nations to repentance, to the sacraments, to the Social Reign of Christ the King. He does not warn of eternal damnation for those who wage unjust war. He does not invoke the Most Holy Sacrifice of the Mass as the supreme means of obtaining peace from God. Instead, he offers the same bland humanitarianism that every secular institution offers—a peace without the Cross, a reconciliation without the Redemption, a brotherhood without the Fatherhood of God. This is the peace of the Novus Ordo: a horizontal, naturalistic, man-centered peace that leaves the gates of Hell unassailed.
The Four Dimensions of Diplomacy: Evangelization Betrayed
Gaetan’s enumeration of the four dimensions of Vatican diplomacy—representation, mediation, preservation, and evangelization—deserves particular scrutiny. Of these, he identifies mediation as “the most important element.” This is a devastating admission. The true Church’s primary mission is not mediation between warring states but the salvation of souls through preaching the Gospel, administering the sacraments, and bringing all nations into submission to Christ the King. Pope Pius XI declared in Quas Primas: “The Church, established by Christ as a perfect society, demands for itself by a right belonging to it, which it cannot renounce, full freedom and independence from secular authority.” The conciliar sect’s diplomacy, by contrast, is entirely directed toward temporal ends—resolving conflicts between nations, preserving humanitarian conditions, representing the “Holy See” as one state among many. Evangelization, the very reason for the Church’s existence, is reduced to a mere dimension of diplomacy, subordinate to the political goals of mediation and representation.
Gaetan’s claim that “the diplomats are priests who take vows of silence regarding what they know” and “approach tasks as pastors” is a grotesque parody of the priestly office. The true priest is ordained to offer the Holy Sacrifice, to preach the Gospel without compromise, to administer the sacraments, and to govern the faithful with the authority of Christ. The conciliar “diplomat-priest” is a functionary of a paramasonic structure, discreetly meeting with dictators not to convert them to the Catholic faith but to maintain the political relevance of the Vatican apparatus. The statement that “no one is beyond salvation” is used not as a call to evangelization but as a justification for diplomatic engagement with every regime, however hostile to the faith. This is the logic of Unitatis Redintegratio and Nostra Aetate—the conciliar documents that opened the doors to false ecumenism and religious indifferentism.
The Conciliar Sect’s “Uniqueness” Is Its Condemnation
Lutz’s assertion that “no other state on earth is even attempting to do what the Holy See is trying to do” is, in a perverse sense, accurate. No other state claims to speak with spiritual authority while systematically undermining the faith it purports to defend. No other state maintains diplomatic relations with 184 nations while having abandoned the mission entrusted to it by Christ. No other state presents itself as a moral authority while promoting religious liberty, false ecumenism, and the democratization of the Church. The conciliar sect’s “uniqueness” is not a mark of holiness but of apostasy—it is the abomination of desolation standing in the holy place, speaking great things and blasphemies while the faithful remnant clings to the unchanging Tradition.
The testimony before the Helsinki Commission reveals the true nature of the concilar sect’s diplomacy: it is not the diplomacy of the Mystical Body of Christ but the diplomacy of a human institution that has exchanged the supernatural mission of the Church for temporal relevance in the eyes of the world. Pope Pius IX warned in the Syllabus of Errors that “The Roman Pontiff can, and ought to, reconcile himself, and come to terms with progress, liberalism and modern civilization” (Proposition 80)—and this is precisely what the conciliar sect has done. Its diplomacy is the diplomacy of reconciliation with the world, of coming to terms with modernity, of surrendering the rights of Christ the King in exchange for a seat at the table of international relations.
The Primacy of God’s Laws Over Human Conventions
The entire framework of the Helsinki Commission hearing—examining the “Holy See” as one diplomatic actor among many, evaluating its policies according to secular criteria of effectiveness—presupposes the very error that Catholic teaching condemns: the subordination of the spiritual power to the temporal. Pope Pius XI was unequivocal: “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.” The conciliar sect’s willingness to be evaluated by the U.S. Helsinki Commission, to have its diplomacy assessed alongside that of secular states, is itself a confession that it no longer believes in the supremacy of the spiritual order.
The true Church does not seek to “improve” the policies of the United States or any other nation through “intellectual and moral rigor” in the abstract. She demands that every nation publicly profess the Catholic faith, recognize the Social Reign of Christ the King, submit its laws to the judgment of the Magisterium, and govern according to the principles of the Gospel. This is not “transactionalism” or “bellicosity”—it is the duty of every Catholic, and especially of the successor of Peter, to preach without compromise. The conciliar sect’s refusal to make such demands, its insistence on engaging all parties without endorsing any state’s political platform, is not prudence but cowardice—not diplomacy but apostasy.
Conclusion: The Call to Reject the Conciliar Sect and Return to Tradition
The hearing before the U.S. Helsinki Commission is a microcosm of the conciliar sect’s entire project: to present itself as a moral authority while having abandoned the very foundations of Catholic morality; to engage with the world while having surrendered the Church’s supernatural mission; to speak of peace while having rejected the Prince of Peace’s social kingship. The faithful who still possess the Catholic sense must see through this facade and recognize the conciliar sect for what it is—not the Church of Christ but a paramasonic structure serving the interests of the enemies of the faith.
The path forward is not to reform the conciliar sect or to hope for a return to orthodoxy from within its structures. The path forward is to reject the entire post-1958 revolution, to cling to the unchanging Tradition of the Church, and to profess with Pope Pius XI that “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.” Until nations acknowledge this truth, no diplomacy—however “unique” or “morally rigorous”—can bring true peace to the world. Ad maiorem Dei gloriam.
Source:
Holy See’s Diplomacy Stands Apart From All Other States, Witness Tells Helsinki Commission (ncregister.com)
Date: 15.04.2026