VaticanNews portal reports on a message sent by the conciliar “Cardinal” Ignace Dogbo Bessi, “Archbishop” of Abidjan, to the Muslim community of Côte d’Ivoire on the occasion of Eid al-Adha (Tabaski), in which he called upon the “Christian” and Muslim communities to be “forces of peace, reconciliation, and social cohesion,” invoking the meeting between Saint Francis of Assisi and Sultan Malik Al-Kamil as a model, and declaring that “diversity is not a threat but a divine will.” The “cardinal” urged the rejection of “hate speech” and the promotion of a society founded on “justice, fraternity, solidarity, and mutual respect,” while a conciliar “priest” physically attended the Mohammed VI Great Mosque in Treichville to demonstrate the “closeness” of the Catholic Church to Islam. This entire spectacle constitutes yet another brazen act of apostasy from the true Catholic Faith, a public denial of the Social Kingship of Christ, and a capitulation before the religion of the Antichrist.
The Apostate “Cardinal” and the Worship of Religious Relativism
The message of the so-called “Cardinal” Ignace Dogbo Bessi is not merely a diplomatic courtesy or a cultural gesture. It is a formal act of apostasy from the Catholic Faith, a public denial of the dogma that the Catholic Church is the one true religion of Jesus Christ, and a capitulation before the religion of Mahomet, which has been condemned by the Church for centuries. When the “cardinal” declares that “diversity is not a threat but a divine will,” he is not merely expressing a vague humanitarian sentiment; he is denying the dogma extra Ecclesiam nulla salus — outside the Church there is no salvation — and proclaiming the very heresy that Pope Pius IX condemned in the Syllabus of Errors:
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.
This is error 77 of the Syllabus, condemned by Pius IX in the allocution Nemo vestrum of July 26, 1855. The “cardinal” does not merely tolerate the public exercise of false worship — he actively celebrates it, participates in it, and calls it a “sign of faith.” This is not charity; it is betrayal of the First Commandment: “I am the Lord thy God: thou shalt not have strange gods before me” (Exodus 20:3-5).
The conciliar “priest” Gilles César Dogoua Dapéa, who physically entered the Mohammed VI Great Mosque in Treichville, did not go there to convert Muslims to the Catholic Faith — which is the sole reason the Church has ever engaged with non-Christians. He went there to demonstrate “closeness” and to affirm that “together we form one family.” This is the very definition of the false ecumenism condemned by Pope Pius XI in Mortalium Animos (1928):
The union of Christians can only be promoted by promoting the return to the one true Church of Christ of those who are separated from it, for in the past they have unhappily left it.
There is no “family” between truth and error, between Christ and Belial (2 Corinthians 6:15). The “priest” who enters a mosque to demonstrate “closeness” to Islam is not a minister of Christ — he is a minister of the Synagogue of Satan (Apocalypse 2:9), which the Syllabus of Errors identifies as the Masonic and sectarian forces working for the destruction of the Church.
The Social Kingship of Christ Denied
The most damning aspect of this spectacle is the complete silence about the Social Kingship of Jesus Christ. Pope Pius XI, in the encyclical Quas Primas (1925), established the Feast of Christ the King precisely to combat the secularism and laicism that deny Christ’s authority over all nations, all societies, and all aspects of human life. Pius XI declared:
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.
The “cardinal” of Abidjan does not merely fail to proclaim this truth — he actively contradicts it by treating Islam as an equal partner in the construction of a “society founded on justice, fraternity, solidarity, and mutual respect.” But there is no justice without Christ the King. There is no true fraternity without the Catholic Faith. There is no social cohesion without the sacraments and the authority of the true Church. Pius XI warned:
When God and Jesus Christ — as we lamented — were removed from laws and states and when authority was derived not from God but from men, the foundations of that authority were destroyed, because the main reason why some have the right to command and others have the duty to obey was removed.
The “cardinal” and his “priest” are not building peace — they are demolishing the only foundation upon which true peace can rest: the acknowledgment of Jesus Christ as King of kings and Lord of lords (Apocalypse 19:16). Their “peace” is the peace of the world, which Christ Himself warned is not His peace: “Peace I leave with you, my peace I give unto you: not as the world giveth, do I give unto you” (John 14:27).
The Heresy of “Diversity as Divine Will”
The declaration that “diversity is not a threat but a divine will” is not a Catholic statement. It is a Modernist heresy that inverts the very order of creation. God did not will religious diversity — He willed one Faith, one Baptism, one Church (Ephesians 4:5). The diversity of religions is the consequence of sin, of rebellion against God, of the pride of Lucifer who said “I will not serve” (Jeremiah 2:20, cf. Isaiah 14:13-14). To call this diversity “divine will” is to attribute to God the work of Satan.
Pope Leo XIII, in the encyclical 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, and each fixed within limits which are defined by its own nature and special object.
There is no “divine will” for the public profession of Islam, for the building of mosques, for the celebration of Eid al-Adha — these are acts of idolatry that the Church has always condemned. The “cardinal” who celebrates them is not a shepherd — he is a wolf in sheep’s clothing (Matthew 7:15), leading the faithful into the abyss of indifferentism.
The Francis-Al-Kamil Myth: A Masonic Fable
The invocation of the meeting between Saint Francis of Assisi and Sultan Malik Al-Kamil in 1219 is a favorite trope of the conciliar sect, used to legitimize the very interreligious worship that took place at Assisi in 1986 under the “pope” John Paul II — an event that constituted a public act of idolatry and a repudiation of the First Commandment. The historical meeting between Francis and the Sultan was not an act of “interreligious dialogue” — it was an attempt at evangelization, as even the most basic hagiography confirms. Francis went to convert the Sultan, not to affirm him in his error.
But the conciliar sect has no interest in evangelization. Its entire program is the democratization of the Church, the reduction of the Faith to a vague humanitarianism, and the erasure of the distinction between truth and error, between the true God and idols. The “spiritual legacy” invoked by the “cardinal” is not the legacy of Saint Francis — it is the legacy of Masonic universalism, which seeks to unite all religions under the banner of naturalism and the worship of man.
Pope Pius IX, in the Syllabus of Errors, condemned the proposition that:
Human reason, without any reference whatsoever to God, is the sole arbiter of truth and falsehood, and of good and evil; it is law to itself, and suffices, by its natural force, to secure the welfare of men and of nations.
This is error 3 of the Syllabus, and it is precisely the philosophy that underlies the “cardinal’s” message. He does not appeal to divine revelation, to the authority of the Church, to the commandments of God. He appeals to “fraternity,” to “social cohesion,” to “mutual respect” — the triple idol of the French Revolution: liberty, equality, fraternity — which is the triple idol of Freemasonry and the Synagogue of Satan.
The Abomination of the Mosque Visit
The presence of the conciliar “priest” Gilles César Dogoua Dapéa at the Mohammed VI Great Mosque in Treichville is an act of sacrilege that would have been unthinkable before the conciliar revolution. A Catholic priest entering a mosque — a place dedicated to the denial of the Divinity of Christ, to the denial of the Holy Trinity, to the denial of the Redemption — is not an act of “dialogue.” It is an act of betrayal.
The Syllabus of Errors condemns the proposition that:
Man may, in the observance of any religion whatever, find the way of eternal salvation, and arrive at eternal salvation.
This is error 16. The “priest” who enters a mosque to demonstrate “closeness” to Islam is implicitly affirming that Islam is a valid path to God — which is a formal heresy. There is no “closeness” between the religion of Christ and the religion of Mahomet. There is only irreconcilable opposition. Christ is God; Mahomet denied that Christ is God. Christ died on the Cross for our salvation; Mahomet denied the Crucifixion. Christ founded one Church; Mahomet founded a false religion that has caused untold suffering and destruction for over 1,400 years.
The Silence of the Faithful and the Duty of Resistance
What is most scandalous about this spectacle is that it is presented as normal, as praiseworthy, as an expression of the “Catholic Church’s closeness” to the Muslim community. The faithful are expected to applaud this apostasy, to celebrate this betrayal, to call it “progress.” But the faithful who still profess the integral Catholic Faith — the Faith of all time, the Faith defined by the Council of Trent, the Faith proclaimed by the Saints and the Fathers — must reject this abomination with all the strength of their souls.
Pope Saint Pius X, in the encyclical Pascendi Dominici Gregis (1907), warned that the Modernists — the very architects of this conciliar revolution — are the “synthesis of all heresies” because they deny the very nature of divine revelation and reduce religion to a mere human sentiment. The “cardinal” of Abidjan and his “priest” are not Catholics. They are Modernists, apostates, enemies of Christ operating within the structures of the Church to destroy Her from within.
The faithful must pray for the conversion of Muslims — not celebrate their festivals. The faithful must work for the social reign of Christ the King — not for “social cohesion” with the enemies of Christ. The faithful must reject the false ecumenism of the conciliar sect — which is the ecumenism of the Antichrist — and return to the unchanging Tradition of the Catholic Church, which has always and everywhere proclaimed: “There is no other name under heaven given to men by which we must be saved” (Acts 4:12).
Let the “cardinal” of Abidjan and his “priest” know this: their “fraternity” with Islam is not fraternity — it is apostasy. Their “peace” is not peace — it is surrender to the enemies of Christ. Their “diversity” is not divine will — it is the will of the devil, who seeks the destruction of souls and the annihilation of the true Faith. The Catholic Church will endure — not in the structures of the conciliar sect, but in the hearts of the faithful who remain loyal to Christ the King, to His Vicar (the true Pope, not the usurpers), and to the immutable deposit of Faith handed down from the Apostles.
Ad maiorem Dei gloriam.
Source:
Côte d’Ivoire: Encouraging religions to be a force for peace and social cohesion (vaticannews.va)
Date: 05.06.2026