Vatican’s Modernist Diplomacy Denounces Defense Against Iran, Undermines Liturgical Integrity

Summary: The EWTN News article from March 26, 2026, reports statements by Cardinal Pietro Parolin, secretary of state of the post-conciliar Vatican, regarding the U.S.-Israeli military action against Iran and the situation of the Traditional Latin Mass in France. Parolin, speaking for “Pope Leo XIV,” asserts that the war fails the Church’s just war criteria, echoing Cardinal McElroy’s naturalistic calculus of “benefits” versus “harm.” Simultaneously, he addresses the “divisive” issue of the Traditional Latin Mass, urging French bishops to be “inclusive” toward communities attached to it, while implicitly condemning the Society of St. Pius X (SSPX) for its planned episcopal consecrations without papal mandate. The article reveals a profound apostasy: a “Vatican” that prioritizes a relativistic, humanistic “peace” over the duty of Christian rulers to defend their people from Islamic aggression, and that treats the sacred liturgy—the very heart of Catholic worship—as a negotiable “battlefield” to be managed by bureaucratic “formulas.” This is the logical fruit of the conciliar revolution’s abandonment of the Social Kingship of Christ and its embrace of the errors condemned by Pius IX in the Syllabus of Errors.