VaticanNews portal reports on June 17, 2026, that Iran and the United States are set to sign a peace memorandum in Switzerland on Friday, following weeks of negotiations mediated by Pakistan. Iranian Foreign Minister Seyed Abbas Araghchi announced the agreement during a briefing for foreign diplomats in Tehran. The conflict, which began on February 28 with joint Israeli-US strikes on Tehran, has seen waves of missile and drone attacks targeting Israel and US bases. Despite the agreement, violence continues in southern Lebanon, where Israeli forces carried out new strikes, killing at least five people since the deal was made public.
The entire framework of this so-called “peace” process — negotiated without any reference to divine law, mediated by a Muslim-majority state, and celebrated by the conciliar sect’s own news organ — epitomizes the modernist apostasy that has stripped the world of any supernatural foundation for true peace.
The Illusion of Peace Without Christ the King
The article presents what it calls a “peace agreement” between the United States and Iran, mediated by Switzerland and Pakistan. Let us be clear about what this represents from the perspective of integral Catholic teaching: **this is a peace built on the exclusion of Our Lord Jesus Christ from the affairs of nations** — precisely the error condemned by Pope Pius XI in Quas Primas.
Pius XI taught with the full weight of his Apostolic authority: “the hope of lasting peace will not yet shine upon nations as long as individuals and states renounce and do not wish to recognize the reign of our Savior.” (Encyclical Quas Primas, 11 December 1925). The encyclical further states: “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.”
Nowhere in this VaticanNews report — a mouthpiece of the conciliar sect — is there any mention that true peace requires the recognition of Christ’s royal authority over all nations. The “peace” being negotiated between Washington, Tehran, Islamabad, and Bern is a purely naturalistic arrangement, a temporal accommodation between warring factions, devoid of any supernatural foundation. It is, in the language of Pope Pius IX’s Syllabus of Errors, the very error condemned in proposition 80: the belief that the Roman Pontiff should “reconcile himself, and come to terms with progress, liberalism and modern civilization.” The conciliar structures occupying the Vatican have done precisely this — reconciled themselves with a world order that has expelled God from public life.
The Continuation of Violence Exposes the Fraud of Secular Peace
The article itself inadvertently undermines its own narrative. Even as the “peace memorandum” is announced, Israeli forces continue to strike southern Lebanon, killing at least five people since the deal was made public. Smoke billows from Nabatieh. This is the fruit of diplomacy without divine law: **agreements signed on paper while blood continues to flow**.
The prophets of Israel understood what modern diplomats refuse to acknowledge. Isaiah foretold: “And he shall judge the world with justice, and the people with his truth” (Isaiah 11:4). The Psalmist proclaimed: “In his days justice shall spring forth, and abundance of peace… And he shall rule from sea to sea: and from the river unto the ends of the earth” (Psalm 71:7-8). Peace is not the product of memoranda of understanding; it is the fruit of justice, and justice is the fruit of obedience to God’s law.
Pope Pius XI stated it with crystalline clarity: “if men were ever to recognize Christ’s royal authority over themselves, both privately and publicly, then unheard-of blessings would flow upon the whole society, such as due freedom, order, and tranquility, and concord and peace.” (Quas Primas). The absence of this recognition is not merely an omission — it is the root cause of the very wars and conflicts that secular diplomacy futilely attempts to manage.
The Role of the Conciliar Sect: Silence on Supernatural Truth
What is most damning about this VaticanNews report is not what it says, but what it refuses to say. The article functions as a mere wire service, relaying diplomatic developments without any supernatural commentary, without any reference to the Church’s social teaching, without any reminder that nations owe obedience to Christ the King.
This is the hallmark of the post-conciliar apostasy. The conciliar sect has abandoned its divine mission to teach, govern, and lead nations to eternal happiness. Instead, it functions as a press agency for secular geopolitics. The article treats war and peace as purely temporal matters, as if the Church had nothing to say about the moral order that governs international relations.
Pope Pius IX, in the Syllabus of Errors, condemned the proposition that “the teaching of the Catholic Church is hostile to the well-being and interests of society” (Proposition 40). Yet the conciliar structures have effectively embraced this error by silence — by refusing to apply Catholic doctrine to the concrete political situations of the world. When the Church’s voice is reduced to reporting on memoranda of understanding between Iran and the United States, it has ceased to be the Church in any meaningful supernatural sense.
The Strait of Hormuz and the Primacy of Material Interests
The article notes, citing the Financial Times, that shipping through the Strait of Hormuz is unlikely to return to normal immediately despite the agreement. This detail reveals the true nature of the “peace” being negotiated: it is fundamentally about material interests — oil, trade routes, economic stability. The language of the report is the language of geopolitics and commerce, not of justice and charity.
Pope Pius XI warned: “the civil government, even when in the hands of an infidel sovereign, has no right to an indirect negative power over religious affairs” — and conversely, the Church has every right and duty to speak to the moral dimensions of political affairs. The conciliar sect’s failure to do so is not neutrality; it is abdication.
Mediation by Pakistan: The Absence of the Church’s Role
It is a damning indictment of the modern world — and of the conciliar sect’s irrelevance — that the mediation between the United States and Iran was conducted by Pakistan, a Muslim-majority nation, rather than by the Church. Before the conciliar revolution, the Holy See served as a mediator between nations precisely because the Church claimed a moral authority that transcended temporal power. Pope Leo XIII arbitrated disputes between Germany and Spain over the Caroline Islands. The papacy was recognized as possessing a unique moral authority in international affairs.
Today, the conciliar structures occupying the Vatican have surrendered this role entirely. They do not mediate; they report. They do not teach; they observe. They do not condemn injustice; they narrate it. This is the logical fruit of the modernist errors condemned by Saint Pius X in Lamentabili Sane Exitu and Pascendi Dominici Gregis — the reduction of the Church from a divine institution with authority over all nations to a humanitarian NGO commenting on world events.
The Strikes on Lebanon: A Case Study in the Failure of Secular Peace
The article reports that Israeli forces struck Nabatieh al-Fawqa and the outskirts of Kfar Tebnit, killing civilians. The violence in southern Lebanon continues despite the “peace” agreement. This is the inevitable result of a world order built on the exclusion of God’s law.
Saint Augustine taught: “Peace is the tranquility of order” (De Civitate Dei, XIX, 13). And order requires justice. Without justice — which is only possible when nations submit to the law of Christ the King — there can be no true peace, only temporary cessations of hostilities. The memorandum between the United States and Iran is such a temporary cessation, not a true peace.
Conclusion: The World’s Peace Is Not Christ’s Peace
The “peace memorandum” between the United States and Iran, as reported by the conciliar sect’s own news organ, is a monument to the modernist apostasy that has stripped the world of any supernatural foundation for peace. It is negotiated without reference to divine law, mediated by a Muslim state, reported without any application of Catholic social teaching, and already failing to prevent continued violence in Lebanon.
Pope Pius XI prophesied: “Then at last… 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.” (Quas Primas, quoting Leo XIII).
Until that day, the world will continue to sign memoranda while bombs continue to fall. The conciliar sect will continue to report on these memoranda while remaining silent about the only source of true peace: Our Lord Jesus Christ, King of kings and Lord of lords. Non est pax impiis — “There is no peace for the wicked” (Isaiah 48:22). And the greatest wickedness of our age is the refusal of nations — and of the conciliar structures occupying the Vatican — to recognize the royal dignity of Christ the King.
Source:
Iran and U.S. to open final talks after peace memorandum (vaticannews.va)
Date: 17.06.2026