The National Catholic Register reports that Pakistan’s Catholic bishops, concluding their “ad limina” visit to the Vatican, formally invited the usurper Leo XIV to visit Pakistan. Bishop Samson Shukardin of Hyderabad extended the invitation during a papal audience on May 15, 2026, citing concerns about blasphemy laws, forced conversions, and the socio-economic marginalization of Christians. Leo XIV responded positively, expressing a desire to visit. Christian activists and politicians, such as Mary James Gill, expressed hope that a papal visit would bring international attention to these issues and leverage the Vatican’s “moral and diplomatic influence.” This entire episode is a masterclass in the bankruptcy of the post-conciliar “Church,” revealing its substitution of supernatural mission for secular diplomacy, its embrace of interfaith syncretism, and its fundamental betrayal of the Kingship of Christ.
The “Ad Limina” Farce: Reporting to the Abomination of Desolation
The very concept of an “ad limina” visit is, in the current context, a grotesque parody. Historically, bishops traveled to the tombs of the Apostles Peter and Paul to report on the state of their dioceses to the Vicarius Christi, the true successor of St. Peter. Today, the “bishops” of the conciliar sect travel to Rome to report to a usurper who occupies the See of Peter, an antipode of the papacy. They genuflect before a man who presides over the “abomination of desolation in the holy place” (Mt. 24:15), a structure that has systematically dismantled the Catholic faith. This act of obedience to the conciar authorities is not a sign of unity with the true Church but a public manifestation of submission to the modernist revolution. As Pope Pius IX warned in the Syllabus of Errors, “The Roman Pontiff can, and ought to, reconcile himself, and come to terms with progress, liberalism and modern civilization” (Proposition 80), a proposition condemned as an error, yet one that perfectly describes the modus operandi of every antipope since John XXIII. The “ad limina” visit is not a pilgrimage of faith but a diplomatic ritual of a paramasonic structure, reinforcing the authority of the very men who are leading souls to perdition.
The Usurper Leo XIV: A Diplomat, Not a Father
The response of Leo XIV to the invitation is telling. He “expressed a desire to visit Pakistan in the future.” This is not the language of a shepherd willing to lay down his life for his sheep; it is the language of a diplomat, a head of state considering a state visit. Where is the urgency? Where is the paternal anguish for the persecuted faithful? Where is the thunderous condemnation of heresy and the demand for the conversion of nations? Pope St. Pius X, in his encyclical Lamentabili sane exitu, condemned the modernist error that “the Church is an enemy of the progress of natural and theological sciences” (Proposition 57) and that “truth changes with man, because it develops with him, in him, and through him” (Proposition 58). The conciar “popes” have fully embraced this modernist evolution, transforming the papacy from a divine institution for the salvation of souls into a platform for international relations and “human rights” advocacy. Leo XIV’s “desire” is a lukewarm response that betrays the conciliar obsession with dialogue over truth, diplomacy over doctrine.
Interfaith Harmony: The Goal of Apostasy
The stated hope of the Pakistani “bishops” and activists is that a papal visit will “boost interfaith harmony.” This phrase is a hallmark of the post-conciliar apostasy. The true Church has always taught that there is no salvation outside the Church (extra ecclesiam nulla salus) and that the only true path to God is through Jesus Christ: “And there is no other name under heaven given to men by which we must be saved” (Acts 4:12). Pope Pius XI, in his encyclical Quas Primas, unequivocally declared that Christ’s kingdom “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 goal is not “harmony” with false religions but their conversion. As the Syllabus of Errors condemned: “Protestantism is nothing more than another form of the same true Christian religion, in which form it is given to please God equally as in the Catholic Church” (Proposition 18). The pursuit of “interfaith harmony” is a direct repudiation of the Church’s divine mandate to teach all nations (Mt. 28:19) and a capitulation to the modernist heresy of religious indifferentism.
Minority Concerns: The Language of Secularism, Not Faith
The concerns raised by Bishop Shukardin and Mary James Gill are framed entirely in secular, sociological terms: “equal rights,” “poverty line,” “caste-based structures,” “social and economic marginalization.” While the suffering of Pakistani Christians is real and lamentable, the conciar response is not to call for their spiritual strengthening and the conversion of their persecutors but to seek “visibility” and “diplomatic influence.” This is the language of a non-governmental organization, not the Church of Christ. Pope Leo XIII, in his encyclical Immortale Dei, taught that “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, and each fixed within definite limits, defined by its own nature and special object.” The conciar sect has abandoned the spiritual power, reducing itself to lobbying the civil power for “rights.” This is the “secularism of our times, so-called laicism” that Pius XI warned against in Quas Primas, a plague that “began with the denial of Christ the Lord’s reign over all nations.”
The Silence on Conversion: The Gravest Omission
Perhaps the most damning aspect of this entire report is the complete absence of any call for the conversion of Pakistan to Catholicism. The goal is “interfaith harmony,” not the triumph of the Faith. This is a direct betrayal of Our Lord’s command: “Going therefore, teach ye all nations; baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost” (Mt. 28:19). Pope Pius XI, in Quas Primas, stated unequivocally that “the Church, established by Christ as a perfect society, demands for itself by a right belonging to it, which it cannot renounce, full freedom and independence from secular authority.” The conciar “Church” does not demand this freedom to preach the Gospel but to participate in the secular game of diplomacy and human rights. The Pakistani “bishops” are not asking Leo XIV to come and convert their country; they are asking him to come and give them better “visibility.” This is the ultimate betrayal, the substitution of the supernatural mission of the Church for the naturalistic goals of a humanitarian NGO.
The “Moral Influence” of the Vatican: A Hollow Shell
Mary James Gill’s statement that “the Vatican holds moral and diplomatic influence” is a tragic admission of the current reality. The Vatican, as occupied by the conciar sect, holds no moral authority in the eyes of God, for it has betrayed the faith. Its “influence” is purely diplomatic, a relic of its former temporal power, now wielded in service of a modernist agenda. Pope Pius IX, in his Syllabus of Errors, condemned the proposition that “the abolition of the temporal power of which the Apostolic See is possessed would contribute in the greatest degree to the liberty and prosperity of the Church” (Proposition 76). The loss of temporal power was a punishment for the Church’s fidelity; the conciar sect has embraced this loss as a liberation, but in doing so, it has lost its spiritual authority as well. The “moral influence” it claims is an illusion, a fig leaf covering the nakedness of its apostasy.
Conclusion: A Call to Reject the Conciliar Sect and Return to Tradition
The invitation of Leo XIV to Pakistan is not a sign of hope but a symptom of the profound spiritual crisis of the conciar sect. It reveals a “Church” that has abandoned its divine mission, substituting diplomacy for evangelization, interfaith dialogue for the proclamation of Christ the King, and secular human rights for the supernatural virtues of faith, hope, and charity. The Pakistani “bishops” and activists are looking to a false shepherd for help, a man who is himself a prisoner of the modernist revolution. True hope for Pakistani Christians, and for all persecuted faithful, lies not in the diplomatic maneuvers of the Vatican but in unwavering fidelity to the integral Catholic faith, the true Mass, and the unchanging Magisterium of the pre-conciliar Church. As Pope St. Pius X declared in Pascendi Dominici Gregis, “We admonish, therefore, all Catholics who are concerned for the glory of God and the salvation of souls to separate themselves from all connection with Modernism, in whatever form it may appear.” The conciar sect, in all its forms, is the embodiment of Modernism. To follow it is to follow the path of apostasy. The only path to salvation is through the true Church, outside of which there is no hope.
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Pakistani Bishops Invite Pope Leo XIV to Visit, Citing Minority Concerns (ncregister.com)
Date: 21.05.2026