(LifeSiteNews) — After Tuesday’s announcement that Pope Leo XIV had appointed current President and COO of EWTN News Maria Montserrat “Montse” Alvarado to be the Vatican’s Prefect of the Dicastery for Communication, a video clip surfaced from 2022 of her stating it “obviously is wrong” to believe “that all Jews should become Christians.”

Alvarado, who has a strong background in the field of communications, was addressing sensitive theological issues on the Endow series “In Our Time (Nostra Aetate)” with Simone Rizkallah of the Philos Project before assuming her current leadership role at EWTN in 2023.

The Philos Project has been criticized as an organization serving to advance neoconservative ideological objectives among Catholics. It’s “core funder” was revealed to be Jewish Zionist billionaire Paul Singer, who has funded many organizations committed to an aggressive military posture in the Middle East on behalf of Israel. He has also been a board member of Commentary magazine, a publication known for promoting hardline neoconservative ideology, for decades.

Having herself served on the Philos Project’s Hispanic Affairs Advisory Board, Alvarado addressed the concept of “supersessionism,” which she defined as “basically” the idea that “Christianity nullifies the Jewish faith.”

“Rather than them being our brothers and sisters and, us being hand-in-hand walking towards salvation, and them being the chosen people, there’s this idea that all Jews should become Christians, which obviously is wrong,” she claimed at the time.

Here is the newly appointed “conservative, orthodox” head of the dicastery for communications at the Vatican explaining her involvement in a Christian Zionist organization (Philos) and why it’s wrong to want all Jews to know Christ.

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— El Reconqristador ابو شربل 🇲🇽 (@crawlings13) June 3, 2026

However, with regard to “walking towards salvation,” the Catechism of the Catholic Church (CCC) affirms that faith in Jesus Christ “is necessary for salvation,” quoting the words of Christ Himself: “He who believes and is baptized will be saved; but he who does not believe will be condemned” (Mk 16:16).

“If we go back to the beginnings of the Church, we find a clear affirmation that Christ is the one Savior of all, the only one able to reveal God and lead to God,” Pope St. John Paul II proclaimed in Redemptoris Missio. As verification, the late pope cited Acts 4:12, which affirms “there is salvation in no one else, for there is no other name under heaven given among men by which we must be saved.”

“Salvation can only come from Jesus Christ,” St. John Paul II continued. “No one, therefore, can enter into communion with God except through Christ, by the working of the Holy Spirit. Christ’s one, universal mediation, far from being an obstacle on the journey toward God, is the way established by God himself, a fact of which Christ is fully aware.”

‘Supersessionism’ a straw man fallacy

Regarding Alvarado’s use of the term “supersessionism,” Dr. Matthew Tsakanikas of Christendom College has explained in many places how this term is misleading and is often deployed as a pejorative to caricature traditional Catholic doctrine.

It wrongly implies a crude “replacement” or revocation of God’s covenants, as if the New Covenant simply discards the Old Testament rather than fulfilling and perfecting it, which has always been the Church’s teaching.

Tsakanikas, who earned his doctorate in Sacred Theology from the Pontifical John Paul II Institute at the Pontifical University of the Lateran in Rome, explains why holding “dual-covenant” theology can equate to committing apostasy and how simplistic “replacement” language serves as a straw man when instead the proper concepts are fulfillment, reconstitution, and recapitulation in Christ and His Church.

He shows how the label “supersessionism” distorts patristic, scriptural, and magisterial teaching into a false opposition, obscuring how the Church is the fulfillment — not the negation — of Israel’s vocation.

Jewish convert Mother Miriam affirms Jews must accept Christ or ‘be lost forever’

Addressing this seamless, smooth transition within just one religion — God’s — from promise to fulfillment, Jewish convert Mother Miriam has routinely proclaimed that “the most Jewish a Jew can be is to be Catholic.”

With characteristic candor, she has also stated that “the greatest form of anti-Semitism ever is to deny the Jewish people the knowledge of Christ, who they gave to the world through God.”

“You are damning them if you deny them and if you say they can come to God in any other way,” she affirmed, “they cannot.”

Bishop Athanasius Schneider emphatically agreed with her at the time: “It is true, Mother Miriam, you spoke very precisely. We will commit a grave sin against the love of neighbor if we do not preach with love and conviction to the Jews of today, Jesus Christ as their only savior.”

In a more recent statement in late March, a clearly anguished Mother Miriam condemned Israel’s genocide against the people of Gaza and Lebanon. She directly warned Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu “unless you and all the Jews, who don’t yet know Christ, humble yourself, and repent before the Lamb of God, who is the Messiah, who is God himself, there’s no hope for you and there’s no eternity for you.”

“Unless you submit to him, you will be lost forever,” she continued, and “that goes for every single Jew who has not yet recognized their Messiah.”

“We pray for you, not to win the war but to be converted and turned to the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, who sent his Son to die for the sins that separated you from God and who rose from the dead to give life to whoever will humble himself and believe,” she pledged.

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