Secular Militarism Masks Failure to Uphold Christ’s Kingship
Portal Catholic News Agency reports: “U.S. President Donald Trump threatened military action against Nigeria if it fails to end Christian persecution” (November 3, 2025), framing religious violence as a geopolitical issue solvable through warfare. The article details threats to halt aid and deploy U.S. forces against “Islamic Terrorists,” quoting “President” Trump’s social media post: “If we attack, it will be fast, vicious, and sweet.” Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth echoed this, vowing to “kill the Islamic Terrorists” unless Nigeria’s government acts.
Naturalism Replaces Divine Justice
The article’s premise reduces the slaughter of Christians to a criminal matter requiring secular military intervention, ignoring the lex divina (divine law) that binds nations to recognize Christ’s sovereignty. Quas Primas (Pius XI, 1925) condemns such naturalism: “Rulers of nations must publicly honor and obey Christ […] to maintain authority inviolate and secure national happiness” (§19). By treating Nigeria’s apostasy as a mere policy failure, the report implicitly endorses the heresy condemned in the Syllabus of Errors: “The State must be separated from the Church” (Pius IX, Proposition 55). Nowhere does it demand Nigeria’s conversion to the Catholic Faith—the sole remedy for persecution.
False Equivalence and Syncretistic Silence
Trump’s designation of Nigeria as a “Country of Particular Concern” under the International Religious Freedom Act presumes all religions merit equal protection—a dogma of Vatican II’s Dignitatis Humanae anathematized by pre-1958 teaching. Pius IX’s Quanta Cura (1864) rebukes this: “They are in error who claim […] liberty of conscience and worship is each man’s personal right” (§3). The article’s praise for Trump’s policy accepts the modernist lie that “Christianity” and Islam possess comparable legitimacy, rather than affirming Catholicism as the unica vera religio (only true religion).
Masonic Roots of “Religious Freedom” Rhetoric
The report’s focus on “religious persecution” as a humanitarian crisis—not a spiritual crime against God—exposes its alignment with Masonic secularism. Pius VIII’s Traditi Humilitati (1829) identified such language as “fraudulent respect for all cults” promoting “indifferentism.” By applauding U.S. interventionism, the article ignores St. Pius X’s warning that “modern states are built on the ruin of Catholic order” (Notre Charge Apostolique, 1910). True defense of Christians requires restoring Nigeria to Christ the King, not propping up secular regimes.
Omission of the Church’s Prophetic Voice
Nowhere does the article cite Catholic bishops or demand sacramental means to end violence—a silence reflecting the conciliar sect’s apostasy. Lamentabili Sane (1907) condemned the error that “Revelation could not terminate with the Apostles” (Proposition 21), yet the report treats the U.S. military, not the Church, as Christianity’s defender. True Catholics know, as Leo XIII taught, “No one can be saved outside the Church” (Satis Cognitum, 1896). Until Nigeria submits to Rome, no “guns-a-blazing” will secure peace.
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Trump threatens military action if Nigeria fails to end religious persecution of Christians (catholicnewsagency.com)
Article date: 03.11.2025