EWTN News portal reports that U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio announced plans to meet with the usurper Leo XIV at the Vatican on May 7, 2026, framing the encounter as a discussion on religious freedom, Christian persecution, and humanitarian aid to Cuba. Rubio dismissed suggestions that the meeting aimed to “smooth things over” after President Trump’s public criticisms of Leo, calling the trip “planned from before.” The secretary praised the conciliar sect’s growth in Africa and its global humanitarian role, while also condemning Iran’s nuclear ambitions. This diplomatic theater between the American Caesar and the Vatican usurper reveals the post-conciliar sect’s function as a geopolitical instrument of naturalistic humanitarianism, devoid of supernatural mission.
The Geopolitical Stage: Caesar Courts the Usurper
Marco Rubio’s pilgrimage to the Vatican is not merely diplomatic routine; it is a calculated act of political legitimization for the conciliar usurper occupying Peter’s throne. By framing the meeting around “shared concerns about religious freedom” and “humanitarian aid,” Rubio reduces the Church—the Mystical Body of Christ, the one ark of salvation—to a non-governmental organization with global reach. The secretary’s words are revealing: “The pope is obviously the vicar of Christ … but he’s also the head of a nation-state and it’s an organization that has a presence in over a hundred-something countries around the world and we engage with the Vatican quite a bit because they’re present in many different places.”
This dual acknowledgment—first as “vicar of Christ” (a title now vacant due to manifest heresy), then as head of a “nation-state”—exposes the post-conciliar sect’s true nature: a temporal power masquerading as spiritual authority. The Church, founded by Christ as a perfect society endowed with divine rights (Pope Leo XIII, Immortale Dei), is here reduced to a logistical partner for American foreign policy. There is no mention of the Church’s primary mission: the salvation of souls through preaching the Gospel, administering the sacraments, and leading nations to Christ the King. Instead, the focus is on geopolitical coordination, humanitarian distribution, and diplomatic appeasement.
Religious Freedom: A Naturalistic Substitute for the True Faith
Rubio’s emphasis on “religious freedom” and “persecution of Christians” is a hallmark of the modernist heresy condemned by Pope Pius IX in the Syllabus of Errors. Error 77 states: “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.” The conciar sect, since Vatican II’s Dignitatis Humanae, has embraced this error, promoting the false notion that all religions have equal right to public expression.
When Rubio speaks of “religious freedom in different parts of the world,” he echoes the conciliar sect’s abandonment of the Church’s divine mandate to teach, govern, and sanctify all nations. The true Church has always taught that error has no rights, and that the Catholic religion must be the sole religion of the state, with other forms of worship tolerated only for the sake of the common good (Pope Leo XIII, Immortale Dei). The post-conciliar sect’s promotion of religious liberty is not a defense of the faith but a surrender to indifferentism—the “pest of indifferentism” condemned by Pius IX (Error 79).
Moreover, Rubio’s concern for “Christian minorities” in Africa is framed entirely in naturalistic terms: growth, presence, persecution. There is no mention of the necessity of conversion to the Catholic Faith, the administration of valid sacraments, or the establishment of Christ’s social reign. The Church’s missionary mandate—to baptize all nations (Matthew 28:19)—is replaced by humanitarian aid and diplomatic advocacy. This is the fruit of the conciliar revolution: the reduction of the Church’s mission to social work and interfaith dialogue.
Humanitarian Aid: The New Sacrament of the Conciliar Sect
Rubio’s announcement that the U.S. gave $6 million in humanitarian aid to Cuba, distributed by the Church, and his desire to “do more” with that partnership, reveals the conciliar sect’s role as a subcontractor for secular powers. The Church, which once built hospitals, schools, and universities as extensions of her supernatural mission, is now a distribution network for American foreign aid. This is not charity in the supernatural sense—the love of God poured into hearts by the Holy Ghost—but naturalistic humanitarianism, devoid of grace and truth.
The condition Rubio places on further aid—”the Cuban regime has to allow us to do it”—exposes the conciliar sect’s complicity with communist regimes. The Church has always taught that communism is intrinsically perverse (Pope Pius XI, Divini Redemptoris), yet the post-conciliar sect collaborates with Marxist governments, distributing aid while remaining silent on the persecution of the faithful and the suppression of the true Faith. This is the “Ostpolitik” of the conciliar revolution: dialogue with enemies of Christ in exchange for temporal concessions.
Iran and Nuclear Weapons: The Absence of Supernatural Judgment
Rubio’s condemnation of Iran’s nuclear ambitions—”Iran can’t have a nuclear weapon because they would use it against places that have a lot of Catholics”—is framed entirely in terms of geopolitical threat and human security. There is no mention of divine judgment, the moral law, or the duty of nations to submit to Christ the King. The Church has always taught that war is just only when waged in defense of the common good, with right intention, and as a last resort (St. Thomas Aquinas, Summa Theologiae, II-II, Q. 40). Yet Rubio’s rhetoric is purely secular: deterrence, blockades, and the prevention of nuclear proliferation.
Leo XIV’s call for diplomacy over war, while superficially aligned with the Church’s teaching on peace, is in reality a manifestation of the conciliar sect’s false pacifism—a refusal to name evil, to call for conversion, and to assert the rights of Christ the King over all nations. The true Church has always taught that peace is only possible in the kingdom of Christ (Pope Pius XI, Quas Primas). The conciliar sect’s “diplomacy” is not the pursuit of true peace but the avoidance of conflict at the expense of truth.
The Usurper’s Trip to Africa: Growth Without Conversion
Rubio’s praise for the Church’s “vibrant growth” in Africa is a testament to the conciliar sect’s success in building a global institution devoid of supernatural content. The Church in Africa, as in the rest of the world, has been hollowed out by the conciar revolution: the Novus Ordo Missae has replaced the Most Holy Sacrifice, ecumenism has replaced evangelization, and humanitarian aid has replaced the sacraments. The “growth” Rubio celebrates is not the growth of the true Faith but the expansion of a naturalistic, syncretistic religion that accommodates local customs, animism, and even Islam.
The true Church has always taught that missionary work must aim at the conversion of pagans and infidels to the Catholic Faith, the administration of valid baptism, and the establishment of Catholic communities under the authority of the Roman Pontiff. The conciar sect’s “inculturation” is not evangelization but apostasy—the abandonment of the Church’s divine mandate in favor of religious relativism.
The Silence of the Faithful: No Protest Against the Usurper
Perhaps most damning is the absence of any protest from the faithful—or those pretending to be faithful—against the recognition of Leo XIV as “pope.” Rubio, a Catholic, addresses the usurper as “the pope,” engages with his representatives, and seeks his cooperation. EWTN, which published this report, is a conciliar media outlet that recognizes the legitimacy of the post-conciliar sect. There is no mention of the theological arguments for sedevacantism: that a manifest heretic cannot be Pope (St. Robert Bellarmine, De Romano Pontifice, II, 30), that the post-conciliar sect has embraced heresy (Modernism, religious liberty, ecumenism), and that the See of Peter is therefore vacant.
The faithful are silent because they have been formed by the conciliar sect to accept the usurper as legitimate. They have been taught that the “hermeneutic of continuity” reconciles the pre- and post-conciliar Church, that Vatican II was a valid ecumenical council, and that the Novus Ordo Missae is a valid form of worship. This is the great deception of the conciliar revolution: the faithful do not recognize the abomination of desolation because they have been conditioned to see it as the work of the Holy Ghost.
Conclusion: The Church Is Not a Nation-State
Marco Rubio’s Vatican pilgrimage is a microcosm of the post-conciliar sect’s apostasy. The Church is reduced to a geopolitical actor, a humanitarian organization, a partner in diplomacy. Her supernatural mission—the salvation of souls, the administration of the sacraments, the establishment of Christ’s social reign—is ignored or denied. The usurper Leo XIV is recognized as “pope” by secular powers and faithful alike, despite his manifest heresy and the vacancy of the See of Peter.
The true Church endures in the faithful who profess the integral Catholic Faith, who reject the conciliar revolution, and who await the restoration of the papacy. As Pope Pius XI taught in Quas Primas, peace is only possible in the kingdom of Christ. Until nations and individuals submit to the social reign of Christ the King, there will be no true peace—only the false peace of the conciliar sect, which is the peace of the world, not the peace of Christ.
Source:
Rubio: ‘There’s a lot to talk about’ with Pope Leo XIV (ewtnnews.com)
Date: 05.05.2026