The Theatrics of Ecumenical Deception: Leo XIV’s Welcome of Sarah Mullally Exposes the Bankruptcy of Conciliar “Reconciliation”
The Catholic Register portal reports on a commentary by Gavin Ashenden regarding the April 27, 2026, visit of Sarah Mullally, the Anglican Archbishop of Canterbury, to the Vatican. Ashenden, a former Anglican bishop now converted to Catholicism, critiques the effusive welcome extended by “Pope” Leo XIV to Mullally, highlighting the theological and ethical contradictions inherent in such ecumenical gestures. He notes that Mullally, once a conservative evangelical, has journeyed into “progressive, fashionable liberalism,” promoting abortion and supporting the blessing of homosexual marriages—positions antithetical to Catholic teaching. Ashenden argues that the Vatican’s courtesies, including a private audience and the unprecedented opportunity for Mullally to bless the faithful in the Clementine Chapel (the site of St. Peter’s martyrdom), obscure the fundamental reality: Anglican orders remain null and void, and the Church of England continues to repudiate essential Catholic doctrines. He concludes that true ecumenism requires honesty about historical and doctrinal divisions, not a “theater of sentiment” that leaves the “deeper wounds of history unhealed.” This spectacle at the Vatican is not merely a diplomatic misstep; it is a profound scandal that mocks the very concept of truth, exposes the conciliar sect’s relentless drive towards apostasy, and betrays the memory of martyrs who shed their blood for the integrity of the Faith.









