Leo XIV Proclaims He’s “Already One” With Anglicans, “Orthodox”, Etc.

Jan 29, 2026

On Jan. 25, 2026, Antipope Leo XIV held another mortally sinful ecumenical prayer event. It was an ecumenical vespers service in the Basilica of St. Paul Outside the Walls. It included Anglicans, various Protestants, and Eastern “Orthodox”. Our video Vatican II Is A New Religion shows that to participate in such a joint prayer service with notorious heretics and the representatives of non-Catholic sects has always been forbidden by Catholic teaching. Such activity is mortally sinful and a manifestation of heresy. It’s worth noting that the Anglicans involved accept female “priests”, contraception, divorce and “remarriage”, same-sex “unions”, and more.

If his joint prayer service weren’t bad enough, during the event Antipope Leo XIV gave a homily in which he perverted St. Paul’s teaching in Ephesians 4. He applied the teaching about the unity of the Church of Christ to the heretics and the schismatics. He proclaimed that they share the same faith. He also stated: “We are one! We already are!”

Leo XIV, Homily During Ecumenical Vespers Service, Basilica of St Paul Outside the Walls, Sunday, 25 January 2026, with Anglicans, “Orthodox” and Other Protestants: “In the passage from the Letter to the Ephesians chosen as the theme for this year’s Week of Prayer, we repeatedly hear the adjective one’: one body, one Spirit, one hope, one Lord, one faith, one baptism, one God (cf. Eph 4:4-6). Dear brothers and sisters, how can these inspired words not touch us deeply? How can our hearts not burn within us when we hear them?

Yes, ‘we share the same faith in the one and only God, the Father of all people; we confess together the one Lord and true Son of God, Jesus Christ, and the one Holy Spirit, who inspires us and impels us towards full unity and the common witness to the Gospel’ (Apostolic Letter In Unitate Fidei, 23 November 2025, 12). We are one! We already are! Let us recognize it, experience it and make it visible!” (https://www.vatican.va/content/leo-xiv/en/homilies/2026/documents/20260125-vespri-unita-cristiani.html)

This of course is manifestly heretical. Protestants, Eastern “Orthodox” and others who dissent from the Papacy or any Catholic dogma have no faith. They are also alien to the Church of Christ, and we don’t hold communion with them. For more on this matter, see the quotes below and this video/article.

Pope Leo XIII, Satis Cognitum (# 9), June 29, 1896: “But he who dissents in one point of divinely revealed truth absolutely rejects all faith, since he thereby refuses to honor God as the supreme truth and the formal motive of faith.”

Pope Eugene IV, Council of Florence, Bull Cantate Domino, 1441: “It [the Holy Roman Church] condemns, rejects and anathematizes all who think opposed and contrary things, and declares them to be aliens from the Body of Christ, which is the Church.”

Pope Pius XI, Mortalium Animos (# 11), Jan. 6, 1928: “Furthermore, in this one Church of Christ no man can be or remain who does not accept, recognize and obey the authority and supremacy of Peter and his legitimate successors.”

Pope Leo XIII, Satis Cognitum (# 9), June 29, 1896: “The practice of the Church has always been the same, and that with the consenting judgment [i.e. consensus] of the holy fathers who certainly were accustomed to hold as having no part of Catholic communion and as banished from the Church whoever had departed in even the least way from the doctrine proposed by the authentic Magisterium.”

Leo XIV is a manifestly heretical antipope. Those who ignore all of these facts and continue to regard him as the pope will be condemned. In his homily, Leo XIV also referred to his recent “Apostolic Letter” In Unitate Fidei (dated to Nov. 23, 2025). We have a post about that letter: Leo XIV’s New “Apostolic Letter” In Unitate Fidei: An Ecumenical Abomination. We show that his document In Unitate Fidei teaches the same heresy that he manifested in his ecumenical vespers service. That heresy is the Vatican II position that Protestants, “Orthodox” and others who reject Catholic teaching belong to the true Church of Christ – a false position condemned by the Catholic Church.