Pakistan’s Catholic bishops, operating within the structures of the post-conciliar conciliar sect, have extended a formal invitation to the usurper antipope Robert Prevost (“Pope Leo XIV”) to visit the country, citing concerns over minority rights and interfaith harmony. The invitation was made during the so-called “ad limina” visit to the Vatican on May 15, 2026, with Bishop Samson Shukardin of Hyderabad, president of the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of Pakistan, leading the delegation. The bishops hope that such a visit would bring attention to issues such as blasphemy cases and forced conversions affecting Christians in Pakistan. The usurper reportedly responded positively to the invitation, expressing a desire to visit Pakistan in the future.
The Ad Limina Farce: Pilgrimage to the Abomination of Desolation
Let us begin with the very term “ad limina Apostolorum” — a visit to the thresholds of the Apostles. This term, in its original Catholic sense, referred to the obligation of bishops to visit the tombs of Saints Peter and Paul in Rome and to report to the Roman Pontiff on the state of their dioceses. It was an act of hierarchical communion with the vera Ecclesia, the true Church, under the authority of the Vicar of Christ. Today, however, this term has been emptied of its Catholic substance and repurposed as a diplomatic ritual within the conciliar sect — a sect that has, since the death of Pope Pius XII in 1958, systematically dismantled the Catholic faith and replaced it with a naturalistic, anthropocentric counterfeit.
When Bishop Samson Shukardin and his colleagues journeyed to the Vatican, they did not visit the threshold of Saint Peter, the Prince of the Apostles, who received the keys of the Kingdom of Heaven from Christ Himself. They visited the headquarters of the abomination of desolation standing in the holy place (Matt. 24:15) — the occupied Vatican, now serving as the administrative center of a paramasonic structure that promotes religious liberty, false ecumenism, and the cult of man. To call this a “pilgrimage” is to profane the very concept of pilgrimage. It is, in reality, an act of diplomatic submission to a regime that has betrayed Christ the King.
Let us be clear: the Catholic Church, the true Church founded by Our Lord Jesus Christ, endures in the faithful who profess the integral Catholic faith and are led by bishops with valid sacramental orders and validly ordained priests. The structures occupying the Vatican are not the Catholic Church. They are the conciliar sect, a neo-religious organization that simulates Catholic externals while promoting doctrines condemned by the perpetual Magisterium. The “bishops” who made this journey are, at best, men laboring under the delusion that the structures they serve are legitimate. At worst, they are willing collaborators in the systematic destruction of the faith.
The Invitation to a Usurper: Legitimizing the Illegitimate
The act of inviting “Pope Leo XIV” — the name assumed by Robert Prevost upon his usurpation of the papal throne — to visit Pakistan is not a neutral diplomatic gesture. It is an act of recognition and legitimation of a regime that has no authority whatsoever over the true Catholic Church. By extending this invitation, the Pakistani “bishops” implicitly acknowledged the usurper as the legitimate successor of Saint Peter, thereby participating in the ongoing fraud that has plagued the Catholic world since 1958.
The usurper line begins with Angelo Roncalli (John XXIII), who convened the Second Vatican Council — the single greatest act of sabotage against the Catholic Church in its two-thousand-year history. Every “pope” who followed — Montini, Wojtyła, Ratzinger, Bergoglio, and now Prevost — has continued the work of dismantling Catholic doctrine, replacing the Most Holy Sacrifice of the Mass with a Protestantized “assembly table,” and promoting the very errors condemned by Pope Saint Pius X in Pascendi Dominici gregis and Lamentabili sane exitu (1907), by Pope Pius IX in the Syllabus of Errors (1864), and by every true pope from Saint Peter to Pope Pius XII.
When the usurper “responded positively to the invitation and expressed a desire to visit Pakistan,” he did so not as the Vicar of Christ but as the figurehead of the conciliar revolution. His visit, should it materialize, would not be a pastoral act of the true Church. It would be a public relations exercise designed to bolster the credibility of the conciliar sect and to further the agenda of false ecumenism and religious indifferentism — the very errors condemned by Pope Pius XI in Quas primas (1925) and by Pope Leo XIII in Immortale Dei (1885).
The Omission of Christ the King: The Gravest Silence
Read carefully the statements attributed to Bishop Shukardin: “The challenges we have in Pakistan are first how to evangelize the Church and also reach other people. A big challenge is that our people are still illiterate but strong in faith; they are poor but very hardworking. Many of our people are not receiving equal rights… We have a big problem regarding blasphemy cases and forced conversions.”
Notice what is entirely absent from this discourse: any mention of Our Lord Jesus Christ as King of nations, any mention of the duty of the state to recognize His royal authority, any mention of the Most Holy Sacrifice of the Mass, any mention of the sacraments as the true source of grace and salvation, any mention of the necessity of conversion to the Catholic Church for eternal salvation. The bishop’s language is entirely naturalistic, framed in the vocabulary of secular human rights discourse — “equal rights,” “interfaith harmony,” “minority concerns.”
This is not Catholic language. This is the language of Modernism, the synthesis of all heresies condemned by Pope Saint Pius X. The bishop speaks of “evangelization” without defining what the Gospel is. He speaks of “reaching other people” without specifying that the Catholic Church is the only ark of salvation, outside which there is no salvation (Extra Ecclesiam nulla salus). He speaks of “interfaith harmony” — a phrase that, in the mouth of a true Catholic bishop, would be an oxymoron, since there can be no “harmony” between truth and error, between the true faith and false religions.
Pope Pius XI, in Quas primas, taught with absolute clarity: “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.” And further: “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.”
Where is this teaching in the bishop’s discourse? It is conspicuously absent. Instead, we hear the language of secular liberalism — the very liberalism condemned by Pope Pius IX in the Syllabus of Errors, proposition 80: “The Roman Pontiff can, and ought to, reconcile himself, and come to terms with progress, liberalism and modern civilization.” This proposition was condemned. It is a condemned error. And yet it is the operating principle of every “bishop” in the conciliar sect today.
The Myth of “Interfaith Harmony”
The article states that the bishops hope a papal visit will “boost interfaith harmony.” Let us examine this phrase with the rigor it deserves. The Catholic Church has always taught that there is one true faith, one true Church, and one true God. The Church has never taught “interfaith harmony” as a goal. What the Church has taught is that all men are called to enter the Catholic Church, and that the state has a duty to recognize the Catholic religion as the one true religion.
Pope Pius IX, in the Syllabus of Errors, condemned proposition 77: “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.” And proposition 78: “Hence it has been wisely decided by law, in some Catholic countries, that persons coming to reside therein shall enjoy the public exercise of their own peculiar worship.”
The entire concept of “interfaith harmony” as promoted by the conciliar sect is a direct contradiction of these condemned propositions. It is, in fact, the implementation of the very errors that Pope Pius IX identified as destructive to both Church and state. When Bishop Shukardin speaks of “interfaith harmony,” he is not speaking as a Catholic bishop. He is speaking as an agent of the conciliar revolution, promoting the religious indifferentism that the true Church has always condemned.
Furthermore, the article mentions that “Pakistan as a state gives weight and respect to Vatican recommendations.” This is a chilling admission. It reveals that the conciliar sect functions as a diplomatic actor on the world stage, not as the Mystical Body of Christ. The true Church does not seek “recommendations” from states. The true Church teaches, governs, and commands, by the authority of Christ Himself: “Going therefore, teach ye all nations; baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost” (Matt. 28:19). The conciliar sect, by contrast, seeks “dialogue,” “recommendations,” and “moral influence” — the language of a non-governmental organization, not the language of the Bride of Christ.
The Naturalization of Persecution: Where is the Supernatural?
The article discusses the persecution of Christians in Pakistan — blasphemy cases, forced conversions, social and economic marginalization. These are real sufferings, and the true Church has always had compassion for those who suffer for the faith. But notice how the conciliar sect frames these sufferings: entirely in naturalistic, sociological terms.
Mary James Gill, a Christian politician, is quoted as saying: “Eighty percent of Christians in Pakistan live below the poverty line. The reasons are linked more to caste-based structures than religion itself.” This statement, while perhaps factually accurate in a sociological sense, reveals the profound naturalism that pervades the conciliar approach to persecution. The true Church has always taught that persecution is, first and foremost, a supernatural reality — a consequence of the conflict between the City of God and the City of Man, between Christ and Satan.
Pope Leo XIII, in Immortale Dei (1885), taught: “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 own kind, each fixed within certain limits, defined by its own nature and special object.” The persecution of Christians in Pakistan is not merely a failure of “caste-based structures” or “human rights.” It is a consequence of the rejection of Christ the King by the Pakistani state — a state that has not recognized the social reign of Our Lord Jesus Christ and has instead established Islam as its official religion.
The true remedy for this situation is not “interfaith harmony” or “Vatican recommendations.” The true remedy is the conversion of Pakistan to the Catholic faith and the recognition of Christ the King as the sovereign of the nation. This is what the true Church has always taught. This is what the conciliar sect has abandoned.
The Poverty of the Conciliar Approach
Bishop Shukardin states: “Our people are still illiterate but strong in faith; they are poor but very hardworking.” This is a poignant observation, but it reveals the bankruptcy of the conciliar approach to the spiritual welfare of the faithful. The bishop identifies the problems — illiteracy, poverty, lack of rights — but offers no supernatural solution. He does not call for the establishment of Catholic schools to teach the true faith. He does not call for the celebration of the true Mass — the Most Holy Sacrifice of Calvary — as the source of grace for his people. He does not call for the sacraments — Baptism, Confession, Holy Eucharist, Confirmation — as the means by which his people can attain eternal salvation.
Instead, he places his hope in a visit from the usurper antipope — a man who, by the very fact of his acceptance of the conciliar revolution, has manifested his rejection of the true faith. What spiritual benefit can such a visit confer? The usurper cannot absolve. He cannot consecrate the true Eucharist (assuming he even uses the valid form, which is doubtful given the widespread adoption of the Protestantized “Novus Ordo” rite). He cannot teach the true faith, for he is himself a proponent of the very errors that the true Church has condemned.
The true Church has always taught that the spiritual welfare of the faithful depends not on diplomatic visits or political recommendations, but on the sacraments, the true Mass, and the integral Catholic faith. Pope Pius X, in Pascendi Dominici gregi, warned against the Modernist error of reducing religion to a mere “feeling” or “experience.” The conciliar sect has done precisely this — reducing the Catholic faith to a set of social and political concerns, stripped of its supernatural content.
The Duty of the Faithful: Reject the Conciliar Sect
The faithful in Pakistan — and everywhere else — must understand that the conciliar sect is not the Catholic Church. The structures occupying the Vatican are not the true Church. The usurper “Leo XIV” is not the Vicar of Christ. The “bishops” who serve the conciliar sect are not true bishops in the Catholic sense, for they have abandoned the true faith and embraced the errors of Modernism.
The duty of the faithful is clear: reject the conciliar sect, return to the true faith, and seek out valid priests who celebrate the true Mass and administer the true sacraments. This is not schism. This is fidelity. This is the path that the true Church has always taught — the path of Saint Athanasius against the Arians, of Saint Pius V against the Protestants, of Saint Pius X against the Modernists.
As Pope Saint Pius X taught in Pascendi Dominici gregis: “The office committed to the Sacred Office by the Sovereign Pontiff is to guard with the greatest vigilance the deposit of faith and to prosecute and condemn any error that may arise.” The conciliar sect has done the opposite — it has abandoned the deposit of faith and embraced every error. The faithful must not follow it into apostasy.
Let the faithful in Pakistan — and everywhere else — take as their model the early Christians, who refused to worship the emperor and chose martyrdom over apostasy. Let them reject the false “interfaith harmony” of the conciliar sect and proclaim with Saint Peter: “There is no other name under heaven given to men by which we must be saved” (Acts 4:12). Let them reject the usurper “Leo XIV” and place their hope not in diplomatic visits but in the infinite merits of Our Lord Jesus Christ, the true King of all nations, whose kingdom shall have no end.
Ad maiorem Dei gloriam.
Source:
Pakistani bishops invite Pope Leo XIV to visit, citing minority concerns (ewtnnews.com)
Date: 21.05.2026