Vatican News portal reports on the ad limina visit of Vietnamese bishops to the Vatican, where they met with the antipope Leo XIV. Bishop Dominic Nguyen Tuan Anh described the audience as “fraternal” and “heartfelt,” emphasizing the “familial” atmosphere and unity with the “Successor of Peter.” The bishop highlighted the “strong faith” of the Vietnamese Church, mentioning its 7 million Catholics and the challenges posed by modern technology, AI, and mass media. He stressed the need for unity among bishops, priests, laity, and religious to face these challenges “in the way of faith, in the way of hope.” This meeting, framed as a moment of ecclesial communion, is a stark illustration of the conciliar sect’s relentless pursuit of global unity in apostasy, where the blood of true martyrs is invoked to legitimize a church that has betrayed their sacrifice.
The Illusion of Communion: A Family Built on Sand
The narrative presented by Vatican News is a masterclass in conciliar rhetoric, designed to project an image of global Catholic unity under the “Successor of Peter.” Bishop Nguyen Tuan Anh’s description of the meeting as “fraternal” and “familial” is a direct echo of the conciliar obsession with horizontal, humanistic bonds, replacing the supernatural communion of the true Church with a sentimentalized, worldly “family.” This is not the communion of saints, bound by the unchanging doctrines of faith and morals, but a communion of error, united by a shared rejection of Tradition and embrace of Modernism.
The very concept of an “ad limina visit” – a pilgrimage to the tombs of Sts. Peter and Paul – is grotesquely perverted when undertaken by bishops who profess the errors of Vatican II and submit to an antipope. These bishops, far from being “successors of the Apostles” in the true sense, are successors to the architects of the conciliar revolution. Their “hierarchical communion” is not with the Vicar of Christ, but with the “abomination of desolation” (Mt 24:15) that has taken hold of the Vatican. As Pope Pius IX declared in the Syllabus of Errors, “The Church has not the power of defining dogmatically that the religion of the Catholic Church is the only true religion” (Proposition 21) is a condemned error, yet this is precisely the foundation upon which the conciliar “ecclesial communion” is built.
The Blood of Martyrs: Invoked to Sanctify Apostasy
The mention of the Vietnamese Church being “blessed by God’s grace and by the blood of our martyrs” is perhaps the most cynical element of this report. True martyrs shed their blood for the integral Catholic faith, for the divinity of Christ, for the Kingship of Christ, for the unchanging doctrines of the Church. Their sacrifice is a testament to the truth of the faith they professed. To invoke their blood in the context of a church that has systematically dismantled the very truths for which they died is a blasphemous appropriation of their sacrifice.
The conciliar sect, in its relentless pursuit of “dialogue” and “ecumenism,” has consistently downplayed the exclusive truth claims of Catholicism, thereby rendering the concept of martyrdom meaningless. If, as Vatican II’s Dignitatis Humanae implies, all religions can lead to salvation, then dying for the faith is not a unique witness to truth, but merely a tragic consequence of religious fanaticism. The Vietnamese martyrs did not die for a “Church” that embraces religious liberty or ecumenism; they died for the One, Holy, Catholic, and Apostolic Church, which the conciliar sect has effectively replaced with a “paramasonic structure.” As Pope St. Pius X warned in Pascendi Dominici Gregis, “The Church is an enemy of the progress of natural and theological sciences” (Proposition 58) is a Modernist error, yet the conciliar church eagerly embraces every scientific and philosophical novelty, including the very “evolution of dogmas” (Prop. 54) that St. Pius X condemned.
Modern Challenges, Modernist Solutions: The Cult of Technology and Human Effort
Bishop Nguyen Tuan Anh’s emphasis on “AI and mass media” as challenges to be faced “in the way of faith, in the way of hope” reveals the conciliar church’s fundamental naturalism. The true challenges facing the faithful are not technological, but spiritual: the loss of faith, the corruption of morals, the dilution of doctrine, and the systematic destruction of the sacramental life. The conciliar obsession with “modern-day challenges” is a direct consequence of its anthropocentric shift, where the focus is on adapting the Church to the world rather than converting the world to Christ.
The call for “unity” among “bishops, priests, the lay people, and religious” to face these challenges is a call for collective human effort, devoid of any mention of the supernatural means of grace: prayer, penance, the Most Holy Sacrifice of the Mass, and devotion to the Blessed Virgin Mary. This is the “cult of man” condemned by Pope Pius IX, where human activity replaces divine agency. As Pope Leo XIII wrote in Immortale Dei, “The best theory of civil society requires that popular schools open to children of every class of the people… should be freed from all ecclesiastical authority, control and interference” (Proposition 47) is a condemned error, yet the conciliar church readily submits its educational institutions to secular dictates, and now, even its pastoral strategy is dictated by the whims of technological progress.
The “Successor of Peter” and the Successors of Apostles: A Charade of Authority
The entire premise of the ad limina visit – bishops “in communion with the Apostolic See” meeting with the “Successor of Peter” – is built upon the foundational error of recognizing Leo XIV as the legitimate Pope. From a sedevacantist perspective, Leo XIV is an antipope, a usurper of Peter’s throne, and therefore, any “communion” with him is communion with error, not truth. The bishops who participate in such visits are not “successors of the Apostles” in the true sense, as they have abandoned the apostolic faith and submitted to a modernist hierarchy.
As St. Robert Bellarmine taught, “A Pope who is a manifest heretic, by that very fact ceases to be Pope and head, just as he ceases to be a Christian and member of the body of the Church” (De Romano Pontifice). The conciliar popes, by their public and manifest heresies – religious liberty, ecumenism, the evolution of dogmas – have ipso facto lost their authority. Therefore, the “hierarchical communion” celebrated by Bishop Nguyen Tuan Anh is a communion of apostates, a “family” united not by the bonds of supernatural charity and truth, but by a shared commitment to the destruction of the Catholic Church. As Pope Pius XI warned in Quas Primas, “The state must leave the same freedom to the members of Orders and Congregations… who are indeed the most valiant helpers of the Pastors of the Church and contribute most to the expansion and establishment of Christ’s Kingdom.” Yet, the conciliar church has systematically suppressed true religious orders and replaced them with modernist communities that serve the agenda of the world.
Conclusion: A Church of the World, Not of Christ
The meeting between the Vietnamese bishops and Leo XIV is not a cause for joy, but a further confirmation of the depth of the apostasy that has consumed the conciliar sect. It is a “family” united not by the blood of Christ, but by the spirit of the world; not by the unchanging doctrines of faith, but by the ever-shifting sands of modernist theology. The Vietnamese Church, like the entire conciliar structure, is a church that has traded its supernatural mission for a naturalistic humanism, its divine authority for secular relevance, and its eternal truths for temporal expediency.
The true Church endures, not in the halls of the Vatican, but in the hearts of the faithful who profess the integral Catholic faith, who reject the errors of Vatican II, and who await the restoration of the Kingdom of Christ on earth. As Pope Pius IX declared, “The Roman Pontiff can, and ought to, reconcile himself, and come to terms with progress, liberalism and modern civilization” (Proposition 80) is a condemned error. Leo XIV and his bishops have fully embraced this condemnation, demonstrating that they are not the family of Christ, but the synagogue of Satan. Let us pray for the conversion of those ensnared in this deception, and for the triumph of the Immaculate Heart of Mary, which will ultimately prevail against the forces of apostasy, not through “dialogue” or “unity” with error, but through the uncompromising proclamation of the full truth of the Catholic faith.
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Vietnamese bishops tell Pope Leo that their Church is a family (vaticannews.va)
Date: 24.04.2026