The NC Register/CNA portal reports that the individual occupying the Vatican, “Pope Leo XIV,” issued a plea for a ceasefire in the Middle East during his March 15, 2026, Angelus address. While expressing sorrow for the suffering in the region, his appeal centered on the generic principles of “dialogue,” “justice,” and “peace,” framed within a naturalistic humanitarianism. He stated, “Violence will never lead to the justice, stability, or peace that peoples hope for,” and urged leaders to “let the fire cease and let paths of dialogue be reopened.” In a separate reflection, he emphasized that faith “is not a renunciation of reason” and helps believers “look from the point of view of Jesus,” quoting the post-conciliar encyclical *Lumen Fidei*. The core message presented a Christianity focused on worldly solidarity and “open eyes” to suffering, devoid of any call for the public and social reign of Christ the King or the conversion of nations to the Catholic Faith. This constitutes a complete surrender to the modernist errors condemned by the pre-conciliar Magisterium, reducing the Church’s mission to a mere agency for naturalistic humanism and interreligious dialogue, while silently apostatizing from the divine mandate to subject all human societies to the law of Christ.