Documentary Whitewashes Lebanon’s Apostasy Under Antipope Leo XIV

EWTN News, in collaboration with ACI MENA, has released a documentary titled “Christianity in Lebanon: Rock of Faith,” which presents a narrative of Lebanon’s Christian heritage and resilience during the historic visit of the antipope “Leo XIV.” The film emphasizes the country’s religious diversity, the veneration of St. Charbel, and the hope inspired by the visit, while largely omitting the fundamental crisis of apostasy that has consumed the “Catholic” structures in Lebanon and throughout the world since the death of Pope Pius XII. It portrays interreligious coexistence as a positive message and the presence of the modern antipope as a source of consolation, thereby whitewashing the catastrophic reality of the post-conciliar schism and the abandonment of Christ’s reign over society. This analysis exposes the documentary’s theological and spiritual bankruptcy, revealing it as a propaganda piece for the conciliar sect’s naturalistic humanism.