EWTN News reports that on June 25, 2026, representatives of Catholic, Jewish, Muslim, Buddhist, Hindu, Bahaʼi, Orthodox, and evangelical sects signed a pact in Rome titled “The Italian Path of Dialogue: Religions in the Public Sphere and for Social Cohesion.” Cardinal Matteo Zuppi, president of the Italian Bishops’ Conference, emphasized reflecting on “shared values” to build a “more just, welcoming, and inclusive society.” The document promotes equality of all religions before the state, interfaith dialogue, and peace based on “justice and compassion” — a synthesis of every heresy condemned by the pre-conciliar Magisterium, now institutionalized as official policy by the conciliar sect.
Equality of Religions: The Heresy of Indifferentalism Enshrined in a Pact
The Italian interfaith pact explicitly proposes “the promotion of the equality of all religions before the state through constructive dialogue.” This single sentence constitutes a comprehensive rejection of the entire social reign of Christ the King and the binding teaching of the pre-conciliar Magisterium. The document does not merely suggest tolerance in the civil sphere — a concept the Church has always distinguished from dogmatic equality — but elevates all religions to the same plane of truth and salvific efficacy.
Pope Pius IX, in the Syllabus of Errors (1864), condemned proposition 15: “Every man is free to embrace and profess that religion which, guided by the light of reason, he shall consider true.” He further condemned proposition 16: “Man may, in the observance of any religion whatever, find the way of eternal salvation.” Proposition 17 was likewise anathematized: “Good hope at least is to be entertained of the eternal salvation of all those who are not at all in the true Church of Christ.” The Italian pact, by promoting equality of all religions, enshrines precisely these condemned propositions as programmatic policy.
Pope Pius XI, in Quas Primas (1925), taught with irrefutable 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.” The pontiff further declared: “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.” The Italian pact does the exact opposite — it strips Christ the King of His public rights and places His Church on equal footing with Judaism, Islam, Buddhism, Hinduism, and Bahaʼi syncretism.
The document’s stated aim to recognize “the value and complexity of being believers and practitioners of different faiths” is not merely diplomatic language — it is a direct repudiation of the dogma Extra Ecclesiam Nulla Salus (Outside the Church there is no salvation). Pope Eugene IV, at the Council of Florence (1439), defined: “The Holy Roman Church firmly believes, professes, and preaches that none of those existing outside the Catholic Church, not only pagans, but also Jews and heretics and schismatics, can have a share in life eternal.” The Italian pact, signed by representatives of the conciliar sect, treats this dogmatic definition as an obstacle to “social cohesion” rather than the supreme truth of faith.
Shared Values Without Truth: The Modernist Subversion of Doctrine
Cardinal Zuppi’s statement that he wishes to “reflect openly on shared values in order to build a civil community that, even amid diversity, recognizes the sense of a shared commitment” reveals the quintessential modernist method: the reduction of supernatural religion to naturalistic humanitarianism. There is no mention of the conversion of souls to the Catholic Faith, no mention of the necessity of baptism, no mention of the Real Presence, no mention of the supernatural end of man. The “shared values” are justice, compassion, peace, and inclusivity — values that any secular humanist organization would endorse without reservation.
Pope St. Pius X, in Lamentabili Sane Exitu (1907), condemned proposition 59: “Christ did not proclaim any specific, all-encompassing doctrine suitable for all times and peoples, but rather initiated a certain religious movement, applied or applicable to different times and places.” The Italian pact operationalizes this condemned proposition by treating the Catholic Faith as one religious movement among many, all equally valid paths to “social cohesion.”
The encyclical Pascendi Dominici Gregis (1907) diagnosed Modernism as the synthesis of all errors, rooted in the denial that religion is based on objective supernatural truth rather than subjective human experience. When Zuppi speaks of “shared commitment to a more just, welcoming, and inclusive society,” he speaks the language of naturalistic humanism, not of the Catholic Church. The conciliar sect has so thoroughly absorbed the modernist creed that its representatives no longer even attempt to disguise their apostasy behind Catholic terminology.
The Omission of Christ the King: Silence as Apostasy
The most damning feature of the Italian pact is not what it says but what it omits entirely. The document contains no mention of Our Lord Jesus Christ as King of nations, no mention of the duty of states to profess the Catholic Faith, no mention of the social reign of the Sacred Heart, no mention of the necessity of subjecting all human laws to divine law. This silence is not accidental — it is the systematic erasure of the Church’s public claims that has characterized the conciliar revolution since 1958.
Pope Leo XIII, in Immortale Dei (1885), taught: “The Almighty, therefore, has given the charge of the human family to two powers, the civil and the ecclesiastical, the one being set over divine, and the other over human, things. Each in its kind is supreme, each has fixed limits within which it is contained.” The Italian pact destroys this distinction by placing the conciliar sect on the same level as non-Catholic religions and treating all as equally valid contributors to “social cohesion.”
Pope Pius XI warned in Quas Primas: “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. For this reason, the entire human society had to be shaken, because it lacked a stable and strong foundation.” The Italian pact is the practical implementation of this removal — Christ is excluded, and in His place stands “interfaith dialogue.”
Religious Freedom as Dogma: The Conciliar Counter-Magisterium
The pact’s promotion of “religious freedom” as a shared value reflects the conciliar sect’s total inversion of Catholic teaching. Pope Gregory XVI, in Mirari Vos (1832), condemned the “absurd and erroneous proposition” that “liberty of conscience must be maintained for everyone.” Pope Pius IX, in the Syllabus, 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.” Proposition 78 was likewise condemned: “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 Italian pact, signed by the conciliar “cardinal” and the Italian Bishops’ Conference, treats these condemned propositions as self-evident truths. The conciliar sect has erected a counter-magisterium in which every heresy condemned by the pre-conciliar popes is now taught as doctrine. This is not reform — it is revolution. It is not development — it is corruption. Pope St. Pius X, in Lamentabili, condemned proposition 64: “The progress of sciences requires a reform of the concept of Christian doctrine concerning God, creation, Revelation, the Person of the Incarnate Word, and Redemption.” The Italian pact is the fruit of precisely this condemned principle.
The Quirinal Palace: Paying Homage to the Secular State
The fact that representatives of the various religions were received at the Quirinal Palace by the President of the Italian Republic, Sergio Mattarella, and presented a copy of the pact to him, reveals the true nature of this initiative. The conciliar sect does not seek the reign of Christ the King — it seeks the approval of secular authority. It does not proclaim the rights of God — it negotiates the terms of its submission to the state.
Pope Pius XI declared in Quas Primas: “The annual celebration of this solemnity will also remind states that not only private individuals, but also rulers and governments have the duty to publicly honor Christ and obey Him: for it will remind them of the final judgment, in which Christ, whom not only was cast out of the state, but was also forgotten and ignored through contempt, will very severely avenge these insults.” The Italian pact does not remind the Italian Republic of this duty — it collaborates with the state in the systematic exclusion of Christ from public life.
The Italian Bishops’ Conference: An Institution of Apostasy
The Italian Bishops’ Conference, as an institution, has been one of the most active agents of the conciliar revolution in Europe. Its participation in this pact is not an aberration — it is the logical conclusion of its decades-long program of dialogue, compromise, and apostasy. The “bishops” who signed this document are not successors of the Apostles — they are functionaries of the conciliar sect, which Pope St. Pius X, in Lamentabili, would have recognized as the realization of the modernist program.
Proposition 52 of Lamentabili condemned the notion that “Christ did not intend to establish the Church as a community lasting for centuries on earth.” Proposition 53 condemned the idea that “the organic structure of the Church is subject to change, and the Christian community, like the human community, is subject to continuous evolution.” Proposition 54 condemned the claim that “dogmas, sacraments, and hierarchy, both in concept and in reality, are merely modes of explanation and stages in the evolution of Christian consciousness.” The Italian Bishops’ Conference, by signing this pact, demonstrates that it has fully embraced all three condemned propositions.
The Instrumentalization of “Peace” and “Common Good”
The pact’s invocation of “peace” and the “common good” is a masterclass in modernist rhetoric. These terms, which in Catholic theology have precise supernatural meanings, are emptied of their divine content and refilled with secular humanistic meaning. True peace is “the tranquility of order” (St. Augustine), and the order of society requires the public recognition of Christ the King. The common good, properly understood, is the good of souls destined for eternal beatitude — not the temporal coexistence of conflicting religions.
Pope Pius XI taught: “Peace is only possible in the Kingdom of Christ.” The Italian pact seeks peace outside His Kingdom — a peace that is not peace but the preparation for the reign of the Antichrist. Pax hominum (peace of men) without Pax Christi (peace of Christ) is not peace but the silence of the grave.
Conclusion: The Abomination of Desolation in the Italian Church
The Italian interfaith pact is not merely a diplomatic gesture — it is a formal act of apostasy by the conciar sect in Italy. It enshrines religious indifferentism, naturalistic humanism, and the rejection of Christ’s social kingship as official policy. It is the fruit of the conciliar revolution, which has transformed the Catholic Church into a “paramasonic structure” dedicated to the destruction of the Faith it was instituted to preserve.
The faithful must recognize that this pact is not an aberration but the logical conclusion of the entire post-conciliar program. As Pope St. Pius X warned: “The progress of sciences requires a reform of the concept of Christian doctrine” — and this “reform” is nothing other than the total annihilation of the Catholic Faith. The only response is to reject the conciliar sect entirely, to cling to the integral Catholic Faith as taught before 1958, and to pray for the restoration of the true Church and the social reign of Our Lord Jesus Christ the King.
Ad maiorem Dei gloriam.
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Religious leaders in Italy sign pact to promote dialogue and coexistence (ewtnnews.com)
Date: 29.06.2026