EWTN News reports that the usurper Robert Prevost, calling himself “Pope Leo XIV,” exploited the tragic deaths of children in a military strike on a girls’ school in Minab, Iran, to advance his characteristic modernist agenda of “dialogue” and “peace” without reference to justice, legitimate authority, or the moral law. While expressing perfunctory grief, the antipope reduced a complex moral situation involving aggression and innocent suffering to a call for negotiation devoid of doctrinal content, thereby revealing the theological bankruptcy of the conciliar sect’s approach to war, peace, and the reign of Christ the King.
The Antipope’s Selective Compassion and the Erasure of Moral Clarity
The statement attributed to Leo XIV—”The issue is not whether there is regime change or not; the issue is how to promote the values we believe in without the death of so many innocent people”—epitomizes the moral relativism that has infected the conciliar sect since its inception. By refusing to address the legitimacy of the regimes involved or the justice of the actions taken, the antipope reduces the deaths of innocents to a mere talking point in favor of endless dialogue. This is not the language of a shepherd defending his flock but of a diplomat seeking compromise with evil.
Pius XI, in his encyclical Quas Primas, unequivocally declared: “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 Kingdom of Christ demands that all nations—including Iran and the United States—be ordered according to divine law. Yet Leo XIV’s statement contains no mention of Christ the King, no call for conversion, no demand for justice rooted in natural law or revelation. Instead, he speaks vaguely of “values we believe in,” a phrase as empty as it is modernist, echoing the very errors condemned by St. Pius X in Lamentabili sane exitu: “The dogmas of faith should be understood according to their practical function, i.e., as binding in action, rather than as principles of belief” (Proposition 26).
The Myth of Neutrality and the Duty of Moral Judgment
Leo XIV’s assertion that “it is not even clear what regime currently exists after the first days of attacks by Israel and the United States on Iran” is a masterful evasion of moral responsibility. The Catholic Church has always taught that rulers are bound by the moral law and that unjust aggression is a sin crying out to Heaven for vengeance. Yet the antipope refuses to condemn the aggressors, instead framing the situation as a “complex” stalemate requiring more dialogue. This is precisely the error condemned by Pope Pius IX in the Syllabus of Errors: “The injustice of an act when successful inflicts no injury on the sanctity of right” (Proposition 61).
The parents’ letter, published by Iranian state media Press TV, accuses the United States and Israel of fueling atrocities—a claim that may or may not be true, but which the antipope does not engage with substantively. Instead, he uses their grief as a prop for his own narrative of pacifism without justice. This is not pastoral care; it is exploitation. As Our Lord said: “Let the little children come to me, and do not hinder them, for the kingdom of heaven belongs to such as these” (Matt. 19:14). Yet Leo XIV does not point these grieving parents toward the hope of eternal life or the justice of God. He offers only the hollow comfort of “dialogue.”
The Silence on Supernatural Realities and the Reduction of Faith to Social Activism
Most damning is what Leo XIV omits. There is no mention of prayer for the souls of the deceased children, no call for repentance from the aggressors, no invocation of the Blessed Virgin Mary as Queen of Peace, no reference to the necessity of baptism for salvation. The entire statement is framed in purely naturalistic terms—economic chaos, political instability, human suffering—as if the Church’s mission were merely humanitarian rather than supernatural.
This reduction of the faith to social activism is the hallmark of Modernism, which St. Pius X defined as “the synthesis of all errors” in Pascendi Dominici Gregis. The antipope’s language—”promote the values we believe in,” “respect international law,” “remove the threat of war”—could have been uttered by any secular diplomat. It is entirely devoid of the supernatural faith that once animated the Church’s teaching on peace and justice.
Pius XI reminded rulers in Quas Primas: “Let 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.” Yet Leo XIV calls for dialogue with regimes that reject Christ’s kingship, offering no challenge to their errors, no demand for conversion. This is not the Church of Christ; it is the abomination of desolation, a paramasonic structure masquerading as the Bride of Christ.
The Conciliar Sect’s Complicity in Global Disorder
The antipope’s warning about “chaotic, critical situation for the global economy” reveals the conciliar sect’s true priorities. While innocent children burn, the concern is for economic stability—not the salvation of souls, not the vindication of divine justice. This is the logical fruit of Vatican II’s Gaudium et Spes, which reduced the Church’s mission to “reading the signs of the times” and collaborating with the world on its own terms.
The true Church has always taught that peace is only possible in the kingdom of Christ. As Leo XIII wrote in his encyclical Immortale Dei: “The Almighty, therefore, has given the charge of the human race to two powers, the ecclesiastical and the civil, the one being set over divine, and the other over human, each the highest in its kind, and each fixed within certain limits, defined by its own nature and special object.” The conciliar sect has abandoned this teaching, seeking instead a false peace built on compromise with evil.
Leo XIV’s statement on Iran is not an anomaly but the inevitable result of five decades of apostasy. Until the structures occupying the Vatican are swept away and the social reign of Christ the King is restored, such empty, naturalistic platitudes will continue to issue from the antipope’s mouth—while souls perish and the world rushes toward destruction.
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Pope Leo XIV responds to letter from victims of Minab girls’ school strike in Iran (ewtnnews.com)
Date: 01.05.2026