The EWTN News portal reports on a June 1, 2026, exchange in which U.S. President Donald Trump attacked the usurper Robert Prevost, known as “Pope” Leo XIV, claiming—without evidence—that the latter supports Iranian nuclear armament. This followed a meeting between the so-called pope and Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson, during which they discussed immigration and the Iran conflict. Trump posted on Truth Social: “Someone should explain to the Pope that the Mayor of Chicago is useless, and that Iran cannot have a Nuclear Weapon.” The article notes that the conciliar structures have repeatedly called for nuclear disarmament, with Leo XIV stating on May 5 that the Church “has spoken for years against all nuclear weapons,” and Cardinal Pietro Parolin affirming the Holy See’s ongoing work for disarmament. Trump had previously called Leo “weak on crime” and “terrible for foreign policy.” The so-called pope responded that he is “not afraid of the Trump administration or of speaking out loudly about the message of the Gospel.” This entire spectacle is a grotesque theater of shadows, in which a secular politician and a usurper on Peter’s throne exchange barbs over geopolitical strategy, while both remain silent on the only true foundation of peace: the Social Kingship of Our Lord Jesus Christ and the integral reign of God’s law over all nations.
The Social Kingship of Christ the King: The Only Foundation of True Peace
The entire exchange between Trump and the Leo XIV usurper is built upon a foundation of sand—or rather, upon the rubble of the 1789 French Revolution and the 1864 Syllabus of Errors which condemned it. Both men, in their own ways, operate within the framework of laicism—the very “plague” Pius XI identified in his encyclical Quas Primas (December 11, 1925). Pius XI wrote: “We therefore have strong hope that the feast of Christ the King, which we shall henceforth celebrate annually, will bring society back to our most beloved Savior. It would, of course, be the task of Catholics to prepare and hasten this return through their work and activity; however, many of them do not hold the position in so-called social life, nor do they have the significance that those who carry the torch of truth should have.” This “unfavorable situation” is attributed to the “laziness and timidity of the good, who do not want to oppose or resist too gently, as a result of which the enemies of the Church act with greater audacity and hardness.”
The true peace of Christ—the Pax Christi—is not some vague humanitarian aspiration to be negotiated between secular powers and conciliar bureaucrats. Pius XI declared: “The state is happy not by one means, and man by another; for the state is nothing else than a harmonious association of men. 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.” The “peace” that Leo XIV and his conciliar apparatus advocate is the peace of the world—the peace of the massa damnata left to its own devices, the peace of naturalism condemned in proposition 1 of the Syllabus: “There exists no Supreme, all-wise, all-provident Divine Being, distinct from the universe, and God is identical with the nature of things, and is, therefore, subject to changes.”
The Usurper’s “Gospel” Message: A Hollow Shell of Naturalism
When Leo XIV declares he is “not afraid of the Trump administration or of speaking out loudly about the message of the Gospel,” one must ask: which Gospel? The post-conciliar neo-church has systematically emptied the Gospel of its supernatural content, reducing it to a program of social justice, interfaith dialogue, and humanitarian activism—precisely the “broad and liberal Protestantism” condemned in proposition 65 of Lamentabili sane exitu (July 3, 1907): “Contemporary Catholicism cannot be reconciled with true knowledge without transforming it into a certain dogmaless Christianity, that is, into a broad and liberal Protestantism.”
The so-called pope’s call for “peace” in the Iran conflict is not grounded in the supernatural order—in the recognition that war is a punishment for sin (St. Augustine, De Civitate Dei), that true peace requires the submission of nations to Christ the King, and that the Church’s mission is to lead souls to eternal salvation through the sacraments. Instead, it is a purely naturalistic plea for the absence of armed conflict, indistinguishable from the rhetoric of any secular humanist organization. This is the fruit of the conciliar revolution: a “Church” that speaks of peace but never of the trials of the Faith; that calls for disarmament but never for the armour of God (Ephesians 6:11); that addresses geopolitical conflicts but remains silent on the abomination of desolation standing in the holy place (Matthew 24:15).
Trump’s Attack: A Secular Ruler Exposing the Conciliar Sect’s Irrelevance
Donald Trump’s attack on Leo XIV, while coming from a secular perspective and therefore incapable of grasping the true nature of the conciliar apostasy, inadvertently exposes the utter irrelevance of the post-conciliar structures. When Trump calls the so-called pope “weak on crime” and “terrible for foreign policy,” he is applying the criteria of this world—and by those criteria, the conciliar sect fails spectacularly. The neo-church has no authority to teach, govern, or sanctify; its “bishops” are not true bishops; its “sacraments” are of dubious validity; its “popes” are usurpers. Pius IX, in the Syllabus, condemned proposition 19: “The Church is not a true and perfect society, entirely free—nor is she endowed with proper and perpetual rights of her own, conferred upon her by her Divine Founder; but it appertains to the civil power to define what are the rights of the Church, and the limits within which she may exercise those rights.” Trump’s dismissal of Leo XIV is a practical application of this condemned proposition: the civil ruler assigns himself the authority to judge the “usefulness” of the Roman Pontiff.
Yet Trump himself operates within the same laicist framework. His concern is not that nations submit to Christ the King, but that Iran not acquire nuclear weapons—a purely temporal, strategic concern. He does not call for the conversion of Iran to the Catholic Faith, the only true religion (proposition 21 of the Syllabus: “The Church has not the power of defining dogmatically that the religion of the Catholic Church is the only true religion”—condemned). He does not invoke the Social Kingship of Christ. He operates as a man of the world, dealing with the symptoms of a civilization that has rejected God, while leaving the disease untouched.
The Silence on the Supernatural: The Gravest Accusation
What is most striking in this entire exchange—between Trump, Leo XIV, Cardinal Parolin, and the EWTN News report—is the absolute silence on the supernatural order. There is no mention of the Most Holy Sacrifice of the Mass as the source of grace and peace. There is no mention of the sacraments—Baptism, Confession, the Holy Eucharist—as the means by which souls are saved and societies are sanctified. There is no mention of the necessity of the state of grace, of final judgment, of the eternal destiny of souls. There is no mention of the Social Reign of Christ the King over all nations and every aspect of public life.
Pius XI, in Quas Primas, taught: “It is therefore necessary that Christ reign in the mind of man, whose duty it is to accept revealed truths with complete submission to the divine will and to believe firmly and constantly in the teaching of Christ; let Christ reign in the will, which should obey God’s laws and commandments; let Him reign in the heart, which, having despised desires, must love God above all and belong only to Him; let Him reign in the body and its members, which, as instruments, or—to use the words of St. Paul the Apostle—as weapons of justice for God, should contribute to the inner sanctification of souls.”
The conciliar sect’s “peace” is the peace of the cult of man—the conciliar religion that worships humanity instead of God, that places man at the center instead of Christ. It is the “peace” of Vatican II’s Dignitatis Humanae, which proclaimed the right to religious freedom—a direct contradiction of the perennial magisterium. It is the “peace” of ecumenism, which treats all religions as equally valid paths to God. It is the “peace” of the Church of the New Advent, which has transformed the Mystical Body of Christ into a humanitarian NGO.
The Conciliar Sect’s “Disarmament” Rhetoric: A Tool of the Revolution
The conciliar structures’ calls for nuclear disarmament must be understood within the broader context of the modernist revolution. St. Pius X, in Pascendi Dominici gregis (September 8, 1907), identified the modernist agenda as one of immanentism—the reduction of all religious truth to subjective human experience. The post-conciliar “peace” rhetoric is an expression of this immanentism: it addresses only the material, temporal dimension of human existence, while systematically ignoring the supernatural.
When Leo IV and Cardinal Parolin speak of “nuclear disarmament,” they do so without any reference to the spiritual disarmament that must precede it—the disarmament of pride, of rebellion against God, of the libido dominandi that is the root of all war. They do not call for the consecration of Russia to the Immaculate Heart of Mary—a demand that, even if the Fatima apparitions were authentic (which is gravely doubtful, given the evidence of Masonic manipulation outlined in the file on False Fatima Apparitions), would require the full restoration of the traditional teaching authority of the Church. They do not call for the solemn reassertion of the Social Kingship of Christ over all nations, as demanded by Pius XI in Quas Primas.
Instead, their “disarmament” rhetoric serves the agenda of the globalist revolution: the weakening of national sovereignty (proposition 62 of the Syllabus: “The principle of non-intervention, as it is called, ought to be proclaimed and observed”—condemned), the promotion of a one-world order that is fundamentally hostile to the Catholic Church, and the diversion of attention from the true enemies of peace: sin, heresy, and apostasy within the conciliar structures themselves.
The “Two Lucias” of the Conciliar Sect: A Parallel in Apostasy
Just as the file on False Fatima Apparitions raises the “Two Lucias” theory—the suspicion that the visionary was replaced after 1958, coinciding with the modernist takeover of the narrative—so too does the conciliar sect present a “two faces” phenomenon. The post-1958 structures claim to be the Catholic Church, yet they profess a different religion: the religion of Vatican II, the religion of man, the religion of the Antichrist. Leo XIV is not the successor of Peter; he is the culmination of a process of apostasy that began with John XXIII and the convocation of the false council.
The conciliar “popes” are not true popes because they do not hold the office of Peter in its fullness. As St. Robert Bellarmine taught in De Romano Pontifice (Book II, Chapter 30): “A manifest heretic cannot be Pope… The reason for this is that he cannot be the head of something of which he is not a member; now, he who is not a Christian is not a member of the Church, and a manifest heretic is not a Christian… therefore, a manifest heretic cannot be Pope.” The post-conciliar “popes” have professed heresies condemned by the ordinary and universal magisterium—religious freedom, ecumenism, the evolution of dogmas—and have thereby ceased to be members of the Church and, ipso facto, ceased to hold any office within her.
Conclusion: The Only True Peace
The exchange between Trump and Leo XIV is a grotesque parody of the relationship between the two powers—spiritual and temporal—as defined by the perennial magisterium. Pius IX, in the Syllabus, taught: “The faith teaches us and human reason demonstrates that a double order of things exists, and that we must therefore distinguish between the two earthly powers, the one of natural origin which provides for secular affairs and the tranquillity of human society, the other of supernatural origin, which presides over the City of God, that is to say the Church of Christ, which has been divinely instituted for the sake of souls and of eternal salvation… The duties of this twofold power are most wisely ordered in such a way that to God is given what is God’s (Matt. 22:21), and because of God to Caesar what is Caesar’s, who is great because he is smaller than heaven.”
The conciliar sect has abandoned this teaching. It no longer presides over the City of God; it has become a servant of the City of Man. Its “peace” is not the Pax Christi but the Pax Mundi. Its “Gospel” is not the Gospel of Jesus Christ but the gospel of humanitarianism, globalism, and the cult of man.
The only true peace—for individuals, families, and nations—is found in the Social Kingship of Our Lord Jesus Christ. As Pius XI declared: “Then at last, to use the words which our predecessor Leo XIII addressed to all bishops 25 years ago, so many wounds can be healed, then there will be hope that the law will regain its former authority, sweet peace will return again, swords and weapons will fall from hands, when all willingly accept the reign of Christ and obey Him, and every tongue will confess that our Lord Jesus Christ is in the glory of God the Father.”
Let the faithful reject the false peace of the conciliar sect and return to the immutable Tradition of the Catholic Church—the only Ark of Salvation in these times of apostasy and desolation.
Source:
Trump Suggests Pope Unaware of Iran Nuclear Stance Despite Leo’s Repeated Calls for Disarmament (ncregister.com)
Date: 01.06.2026