Ecumenical Apostasy in Nicaea: Antipope’s Betrayal of Catholic Truth
The Vatican News portal (November 28, 2025) reports on an ecumenical prayer service in Iznik, Turkey, where antipope Leo XIV joined 27 leaders of schismatic and heretical communities to commemorate the 1,700th anniversary of the First Council of Nicaea. The event, organized by Bartholomew I—the excommunicated patriarch of Constantinople—featured calls for “fraternal encounter” and “dialogue” between Christian groups. Leo XIV asserted that the Nicene Creed provides a “profound bond” uniting all Christians, urging cooperation to address global violence while denouncing religiously-motivated wars. This spectacle of apostasy reduces Christ’s Church to a humanitarian NGO, burying the extra Ecclesiam nulla salus (no salvation outside the Church) dogma beneath pagan pluralism.









