EWTN News Vatican Bureau reports that Pope Leo XIV will meet with U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio on May 7, 2026, following a period of public tension with U.S. President Donald Trump. The article describes how Trump called Leo “weak on crime and terrible for foreign policy” after the pontiff appealed for peace amid the U.S.-Israel war on Iran, and how Leo responded that he had “no fear of the Trump administration.” The piece also notes that Rubio will discuss “mutual interests in the Western Hemisphere” and that Leo will meet Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk the same morning. This article, dressed in the veneer of diplomatic reporting, reveals the utter spiritual bankruptcy of the conciliar sect’s engagement with temporal powers — a neo-church incapable of proclaiming the Social Kingship of Christ the King, reduced instead to the role of a supplicant NGO negotiating “mutual interests” with governments that openly scorn the Catholic faith.
The Neo-Church Has No Authority to Speak for Christ — Yet Claims to Represent Him Before Nations
The article presents, without a shred of critical examination, the premise that Robert Prevost — referred to here by his usurped title “Pope Leo XIV” — possesses any standing whatsoever to engage in diplomatic negotiations with the United States or any other nation. This is the foundational lie upon which the entire post-conciliar edifice rests. The conciliar sect, born from the modernist revolution inaugurated by John XXIII and formalized at Vatican II, has no mandate from Jesus Christ to represent His Church before the world. Extra Ecclesiam nulla salus — outside the Church there is no salvation — is not merely a soteriological principle but an ecclesiological reality: the Church that Christ founded is the societas perfecta, the perfect society, and any structure that departs from her immutable constitution ceases to be that Church.
Pius XI, in the encyclical Quas Primas (December 11, 1925), established with crystalline clarity the doctrine of the Social Kingship of Christ: “His reign extends not only to Catholic nations but encompasses also all non-Christians, so that most truly the entire human race is subject to the authority of Jesus Christ.” This is not a pious wish — it is a dogmatic declaration. Christ the King reigns over all nations, and it is the duty of rulers and states to publicly recognize and obey Him. Yet what do we see in this article? Not a word about Christ the King. Not a syllable about the obligation of Donald Trump, Marco Rubio, or Donald Tusk to submit their nations to the reign of the Redeemer. Instead, we see the conciliar sect’s “pope” meeting with a U.S. Secretary of State to discuss “mutual interests in the Western Hemisphere” — language indistinguishable from that of the United Nations or any secular diplomatic body.
The Diplomacy of Abandonment: From Christ the King to “Mutual Interests”
The U.S. State Department spokesman Thomas “Tommy” Pigott stated that Rubio “will meet with Holy See leadership to discuss the situation in the Middle East and mutual interests in the Western Hemisphere.” The phrase “mutual interests” is a telltale marker of the conciliar sect’s complete capitulation to the liberal order. Pius IX, in the Syllabus of Errors (1864), 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). This is precisely what the neo-church has done — not as a temporary tactical retreat, but as a permanent structural orientation.
The article describes how Leo XIV “called repeatedly for a peaceful resolution to the armed conflict in the Middle East” and described Trump’s threats against Iran as “not acceptable.” Let us examine this carefully. The Church, when she possessed her authentic voice, did not content herself with vague appeals for “peace” — a word that in modern usage means nothing more than the absence of armed conflict. The Church proclaimed that peace is only possible in the kingdom of Christ (Pius XI, Quas Primas). True peace requires the submission of nations to God’s law, the administration of justice according to Christian principles, and the education of youth in sound doctrine. Without these, any “peace” is merely the calm before the storm — a temporary truce between forces equally opposed to the reign of Christ.
When Leo XIV says Trump’s threats are “not acceptable,” he speaks not with the authority of the Vicar of Christ but with the impotent moralism of a NGO director. He does not tell Trump that the United States, as a nation, is subject to Christ the King and that its foreign policy must conform to divine law. He does not remind Rubio that the Western Hemisphere was evangelized at the cost of martyrs’ blood and that its nations owe allegiance to the Catholic Church. Instead, he issues diplomatic rebukes that carry no supernatural weight and no threat of divine judgment. This is the language of laicismo — the very secularism that Pius XI identified as “the plague that poisons human society.”
The Silence About the Supernatural: The Gravest Accusation
What is most striking about this article — and about the entire genre of conciliar diplomatic reporting — is not what it says but what it omits. There is no mention of the sacraments, no mention of the state of grace, no mention of the final judgment, no mention of the obligation of nations to embrace the Catholic faith as the sole means of salvation. The article treats the “Holy See” as a geopolitical actor on par with any secular state, concerned with “security interests and strategic alignment” — phrases lifted directly from the lexicon of the U.S. State Department.
Pius IX, in Etsi Multa (1873), warned that the enemies of the Church seek “to submit the Church of God to the most cruel servitude, to undermine the foundations on which it rests, to contaminate its splendid qualities; and, moreover, to strike it with frequent blows, to shake it, to overthrow it, and, if possible, to make it disappear completely from the earth.” The conciliar sect has accomplished what the enemies of the Church could not: it has voluntarily dismantled its own supernatural mission and replaced it with a naturalistic program of “dialogue,” “mutual interests,” and “peaceful resolution” of conflicts — all without any reference to the Cross, the sacraments, or the eternal destiny of souls.
The article mentions that Trump criticized Leo, stating he did not “want a pope who thinks it’s OK for Iran to have a nuclear weapon.” Leo responded that he had “no fear of the Trump administration” but later said he had “no interest in debating the president.” This exchange is revealing on multiple levels. First, it demonstrates that the conciliar sect’s “pope” engages with temporal rulers not as a spiritual father exercising the authority of Christ the King but as a peer — or rather, an inferior — in a political debate. Second, the fact that Leo retreats from engagement (“no interest in debating”) exposes the fundamental impotence of the neo-church’s approach: it has no supernatural weapons, no authority to bind and loose, no power to threaten with excommunication or interdict. It can only issue statements and then retreat when challenged.
The Rubio Meeting as a Symbol of Substitution: The Church Replaced by a Parody
The article notes that this will be the second meeting between Leo XIV and Rubio, following their previous encounter after the “Mass of installation” on May 18, 2025, which was also attended by U.S. Vice President JD Vance. The very fact that the conciliar sect’s “installation” ceremony was attended by the vice president of a Protestant nation — a nation whose founding principles are rooted in the very religious indifferentism condemned by Pius IX — is itself a scandal of the highest order.
Pius IX condemned 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, Syllabus of Errors). Yet the conciliar sect not only tolerates this state of affairs but actively celebrates it, inviting the representatives of a government that enshrines religious indifferentism in its founding documents to participate in its most solemn ceremonies.
The meeting with Rubio is framed as a routine diplomatic encounter — the kind of meeting that any head of state might have with any foreign minister. But this is precisely the problem. The Pope of the Catholic Church is not a head of state. The Church is not a geopolitical entity. The Pope’s mission is not to negotiate “mutual interests” but to teach, govern, and sanctify — to lead souls to eternal salvation through the preaching of the Gospel, the administration of the sacraments, and the defense of the faith. When the conciliar sect’s “pope” meets with the U.S. Secretary of State to discuss “security interests and strategic alignment,” he has abandoned his sacred office and reduced himself to the level of a secular diplomat.
The Polish Connection: Donald Tusk and the Betrayal of Catholic Nations
The article also mentions that Leo XIV will meet with Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk on the same morning. This detail deserves particular attention. Poland was once a Catholic nation — a nation that, despite decades of communist persecution, maintained its Catholic identity and produced saints and martyrs. Today, under leaders like Tusk, Poland has embraced the very liberalism, secularism, and globalism that the conciliar sect promotes.
The meeting between Leo XIV and Tusk is not a meeting between the Vicar of Christ and a Catholic head of state seeking guidance on how to govern according to Christian principles. It is a meeting between two representatives of the post-Christian order — one wearing the vestments of the Church, the other the suit of a liberal politician — both equally committed to the dismantling of Christendom. There is no indication in the article that Leo XIV will remind Tusk of Poland’s baptismal vows, of its obligation to govern according to Catholic social teaching, or of the warnings of St. Pius X against the modernist enemies within the Church. Instead, we can expect the same empty diplomatic language — appeals for “dialogue,” expressions of “concern,” and negotiations over “mutual interests.”
The EWTN Apparatus: Complicity in the Deception
It is necessary to note that this article originates from the EWTN News Vatican Bureau. EWTN, while presenting itself as a Catholic media organization, operates within the framework of the conciar sect and treats its “popes,” “bishops,” and “councils” as legitimate. The article does not question the authority of Leo XIV, does not examine the theological implications of the conciliar sect’s diplomatic activities, and does not invoke the Social Kingship of Christ the King as the standard by which all such engagements must be judged.
The article’s author, Ishmael Adibuah, is described as “interning as a staff writer” with a background in “scientific research, teaching, and congressional service.” The fact that the Vatican Bureau of a purportedly Catholic news organization employs someone whose background is entirely in secular disciplines — with no mention of theological training — is symptomatic of the conciliar sect’s preference for worldly competence over supernatural wisdom. The neo-church does not need theologians; it needs diplomats, communicators, and public relations specialists.
Conclusion: The Abomination of Desolation Continues Its Work
This article, read in light of the integral Catholic faith, is not a piece of diplomatic journalism but a snapshot of the abomination of desolation standing in the holy place (Matt. 24:15). The conciliar sect, having abandoned the Social Kingship of Christ, having denied the Church’s authority to teach and govern nations, having embraced religious indifferentism and false ecumenism, now presents itself to the world as a harmless diplomatic actor — a “Holy See” concerned with “peaceful resolutions” and “mutual interests.”
The true Church — the Church of all ages, the Church that produced the Syllabus of Errors and Quas Primas, the Church that excommunicated heretics and placed interdicts on rebellious nations — endures in the faithful who profess the integral Catholic faith and who recognize that the structures occupying the Vatican since 1958 are not the Church of Christ but a paramasonic structure designed to destroy her from within.
Let the faithful remember the words of Pius IX: “The Church has never disobeyed this divine command, the Church which always and everywhere instructs the faithful to show the respect which they should inviolably have for the supreme authority and its secular rights.” But this respect for secular authority is always subordinate to the absolute primacy of God’s law and the Social Kingship of Christ. When secular authority contradicts divine law, the duty of the faithful is not “dialogue” but resistance — not “mutual interests” but the uncompromising proclamation that Jesus Christ is King of kings and Lord of lords, and that every nation, every government, and every ruler must bow before Him or face the eternal consequences.
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Pope Leo to meet Rubio following tensions with Trump (ewtnnews.com)
Date: 04.05.2026