The cited article from the EWTN News portal (April 17, 2026) reports on U.S. Ambassador to the Holy See Brian Burch’s efforts to find common ground between President Donald Trump and the usurper Leo XIV, following tensions over the Iran War. Burch stated his role is to “remind stakeholders of what unites us and what must never divide us,” emphasizing both leaders’ “unshakable belief in protecting the innocent.” The article also notes Leo XIV’s calls for peace, Trump’s criticism of Leo as “weak on crime,” and Bishop Michael Duca’s warning against treating the “pope” as a partisan figure. Additionally, the USCCB posted about just war doctrine after Vice President JD Vance challenged Leo’s statements. This entire narrative is a masterclass in modernist diplomacy, reducing the supernatural mission of the Church to secular political harmony and ignoring the only true foundation of peace: the Social Kingship of Christ.
The Diplomacy of the Abomination: When Ambassadors Speak for the Reign of Antichrist
The very premise of Ambassador Burch’s mission—to find common ground between a secular leader and the occupant of Peter’s throne—is a grotesque inversion of the divine order. As Pope Pius XI unequivocally declared in Quas Primas, “the reign of our Lord Jesus Christ” is not a matter of diplomatic negotiation but of absolute, public acknowledgment by all nations and their rulers. The ambassador’s focus on “what unites us” deliberately omits the only thing that truly unites: the submission of all earthly powers to the Kingship of Christ. Instead, we are presented with a naturalistic framework where “protecting the innocent” becomes the highest good, divorced from the supernatural end of man—the salvation of souls and the glory of God. This is not diplomacy; it is the diplomacy of the abomination, where the “abomination of desolation” sits in the temple of God, claiming to be God (2 Thess. 2:4), and the world’s ambassadors scramble to legitimize it.
The Usurper’s False Peace and the Silence on True Justice
The article highlights Leo XIV’s calls for peace, quoting his emphasis on “dialogue, encounter, and reconciliation.” Bishop Duca echoes this, urging Catholics to “choose peace over pride, conversation over condemnation, and unity over division.” But what is this peace? It is the false peace of modernism, which, as Pope St. Pius X warned in Pascendi Dominici Gregis, seeks to reconcile the Church with the world by sacrificing truth. The true peace, as taught by Our Lord Himself, is not the absence of conflict but the presence of justice: “Do not think that I came to send peace upon earth: I came not to send peace, but the sword” (Matt. 10:34). The sword of truth, which divides error from reality. The conciliar sect’s peace is the peace of the graveyard, where all doctrines are equal and all religions lead to God—a direct contradiction of the dogma Extra Ecclesiam Nulla Salus.
The article’s omission is deafening: there is no mention of the true source of peace—the Most Holy Sacrifice of the Mass, the sacraments, and the preaching of the Gospel. Instead, we are offered the barren language of secular humanism: “dialogue,” “encounter,” “reconciliation.” These are the buzzwords of the abomination of desolation, which has replaced the supernatural mission of the Church with the horizontal, naturalistic agenda of the United Nations.
The Partisan “Vicar” and the Betrayal of Episcopal Duty
Bishop Duca’s statement that Leo XIV is “not a politician” but the “vicar of Christ” is a breathtaking act of bad faith. The occupant of the Vatican is not the Vicar of Christ but the chief architect of the conciliar revolution, which has dismantled the Church from within. To claim he speaks “in the same tradition” as St. John Paul II—another heretic and apostate—is to perpetuate the lie. The true Vicar of Christ would never engage in the partisan politics of this world, nor would he be the subject of diplomatic negotiations between warring nations. The true Church, as Pope Leo XIII taught in Immortale Dei, “is not a true and perfect society, entirely free” only in the sense that she is subject to God, not that she is a player in the geopolitical arena.
Bishop Duca’s warning against “treating the Holy Father as a partisan figure” is itself partisan—it defends the usurper’s political interventions while condemning those who dare to question his authority. This is the epitome of the modernist clergy: they demand obedience to their errors while accusing others of division. The faithful are told to “pause” and “not take the bait of manufactured conflict,” but the only conflict is between truth and error, between the Church of Christ and the synagogue of Satan.
Just War Doctrine: A Smoke Screen for Apostasy
The USCCB’s post on just war doctrine, quoting the Catechism of the Catholic Church, is a textbook example of how the conciliar sect uses Catholic language to mask its apostasy. The conditions for a just war—just cause, last resort, proportionality, etc.—are indeed traditional, but their application by the modernist hierarchy is anything but. The article notes that “every condition of just war criteria must be met for a war to be justified,” yet there is no mention of the most fundamental condition: that war must be waged by a legitimate authority for the defense of the faith and the common good as defined by the Church, not by secular powers pursuing their own interests.
Moreover, the USCCB’s call to “pray for peace” is hollow when it comes from an organization that has abandoned the only true means of obtaining peace: the consecration of Russia to the Immaculate Heart of Mary (a request they have systematically ignored or reinterpreted) and the restoration of the Social Kingship of Christ. The modernist bishops are like the Pharisees of old, who strained at a gnat and swallowed a camel (Matt. 23:24)—obsessed with the minutiae of just war theory while ignoring the wholesale apostasy that has brought the world to the brink of annihilation.
The Cult of Man and the Worship of the “Innocent”
Ambassador Burch’s statement that both Trump and Leo are driven by an “unshakable belief in protecting the innocent” is a chilling revelation of the modernist mindset. The protection of the innocent is indeed a moral duty, but in the modernist framework, it is divorced from the supernatural. The “innocent” are not those who die in the state of grace, having received the sacraments, but simply those who are not combatants. This is the cult of man, where human life is valued not for its eternal destiny but for its temporal existence. The true Church teaches that the greatest act of charity is to save a soul, not merely to preserve a body. The modernist inversion—where the body is saved and the soul is damned—is the very essence of the abomination of desolation.
Conclusion: The Only True Peace
The article from EWTN News is a microcosm of the conciliar sect’s apostasy: it reduces the Church to a diplomatic actor, the “pope” to a political figure, and the faith to a set of negotiable principles. The only true peace, as Pope Pius XI taught, is the peace of Christ in the Kingdom of Christ. Until the nations acknowledge the Social Kingship of Christ, until the Most Holy Sacrifice is restored, and until the conciliar sect is exposed for what it is—a paramasonic structure serving the Antichrist—there will be no peace, only the false peace of the world, which is the peace of damnation. Let us reject the diplomacy of the abomination and return to the immutable Tradition of the Church, which alone can bring true peace to the world.
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U.S. Ambassador Burch pledges to focus on common ground between Trump and Pope Leo XIV (ewtnnews.com)
Date: 17.04.2026