Sacrilege in Argentina: Divine Judgment or Modernist Blindness?

Portal Catholic News Agency reports the destruction of an image of Our Lady of Luján and the burning of Holy Family Chapel in Argentina. A “priest” from St. Cajetan Shrine, Lucas Arguimbau, described how vandals destroyed the Marian statue, with neighbors finding only its hands intact. In Pehuén-Co, a chapel fire revealed graffiti including “666,” while a “priest” Adán Caraballo speculated it might be a “prank.” Both incidents occurred around Halloween, with authorities investigating but no perpetrators identified yet.

Naturalism Masquerading as Piety

The response to these sacrileges exposes the theological bankruptcy of post-conciliar structures. When Fr. Arguimbau states “we pray especially for those who broke the image of the Virgin” without calling for their public repentance and reparation, he embodies the Church of Nice condemned by Pius X in Pascendi Dominici Gregis. True Catholic discipline demands “odium peccati” (hatred of sin) before misguided compassion for sinners. The perfunctory Hail Mary and holy water blessing substitute authentic exorcism and act of reparation prescribed in the Roman Ritual.

The Silence That Condemns

Nowhere do these “clerics” identify the root cause: Argentina’s systemic apostasy. The nation legalized abortion (2020) and same-sex “marriage” (2010) while Bergoglio’s “pontificate” originating from Buenos Aires normalized communion for adulterers. Where is the recognition that “Unless you do penance, you shall all likewise perish” (Luke 13:3)? Pius XI’s Quas Primas explicitly taught that “the rebellion of individuals and states against the authority of Christ has produced disunity, envy, and fratricidal warfare”. The burnt chapel with Satanic graffiti is God’s answer to a hierarchy that abandoned Eucharistic reverence – evidenced by Caraballo’s grotesque focus on the “intact tabernacle” rather than demanding forty hours’ reparation for the desecration.

Halloween Syncretism and the Occult

The article’s reference to these attacks coinciding with Halloween exposes deeper rot. Modernists tolerate this pagan festival despite Leo XIII’s condemnation in Ab Apostolici of “those impious festivals in which the memory of Satan is celebrated”. That “priests” like Caraballo dismiss “666” graffiti as potential pranks reveals their dogmatic indifferentism – a violation of Canon 1258 forbidding participation in non-Catholic rites. True shepherds would institute public processions of the Blessed Sacrament to combat diabolical infiltration, not whimper about “trivializing something that should never be trivialized.”

Theological Vacuum in Crisis Response

Notice the complete absence of:

Calls to restore Christ’s Social Kingship through Argentina’s constitutional recognition of the Catholic Faith (removed in 1994)
Demands for the state to prosecute sacrilege as required by Quas Primas (“rulers must…defend religion by the holiness of their lives”)
Recognition that valid sacraments alone can exorcise cultural demons – not interfaith “dialogue” or secular policing

This modernist reduction of sacrilege to “vandalism” and “church crime” (terms used throughout the article) betrays the conciliar sect’s materialist worldview. Contrast this with St. Pius V’s Quo Primum calling the Mass “the great weapon of God’s justice to strike the enemies of religion.” Where are the processions of barefoot penitents? Where the thunderous denunciations from pulpits? Only silence – confirming these “shepherds” are hirelings (John 10:12).

Conclusion: Abomination Standing Where It Ought Not

The charred chapel ruins symbolize the post-conciliar devastation: Ubi vacantia, ibi daemonia (Where there is emptiness, there are demons). Until Argentina’s hierarchy demands:

Public abjuration of abortion laws
Repeal of blasphemy-permissive “religious freedom” statutes
Restoration of the Tridentine Mass as the ultimate exorcism

such atrocities will multiply. Let the faithful recall Pius IX’s warning: “When the commandments of God are set aside…the gates are thrown open to all the errors which lead the mind of man into wrong directions” (Syllabus of Errors, Proposition 77). Only the integral Catholic Faith – not conciliar equivocation – can rebuild what Satan has burned.

Source:
Image of Argentina’s patroness destroyed, chapel burned down (catholicnewsagency.com)
Article date: 04.11.2025