Syncretism Masquerading as Sanctuary: Bahrain’s “Sacred Heart” Declaration Exposed
The VaticanNews portal (November 6, 2025) reports the declaration of Manama’s Church of the Sacred Heart as a sanctuary under the “Apostolic Vicariate of Northern Arabia,” with Bishop Aldo Berardi framing this as a “historic moment for dialogue and tolerance in Bahrain.” This modernist spectacle reveals the conciliar sect’s complete surrender to religious indifferentism.
Reduction of the Church’s Mission to Naturalistic Humanism
Berardi’s effusive gratitude toward the Islamic monarchy (“His Majesty King Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa”) constitutes blasphemous inversion of Christ’s commission. The Church exists not to thank pagan rulers for “hospitality,” but to reges eos in virga ferrea (“rule them with a rod of iron” – Psalm 2:9). Pius XI’s encyclical Quas primas (1925) explicitly condemned such servility: “Rulers of states…must fulfill their duty themselves and with their people if they wish to maintain their authority inviolate and contribute to the increase of their homeland’s happiness.”
The article’s repeated emphasis on “dialogue” and “coexistence” betrays the heretical equivalence of false religions with the One True Faith. The Syllabus of Errors (1864) anathematized precisely this error: “Good hope at least is to be entertained of the eternal salvation of all those who are not at all in the true Church of Christ” (Proposition 17). Berardi’s claim that “we are not strangers but brothers and sisters united by our shared humanity” constitutes apostasy from the Athanasian Creed’s extra Ecclesiam nulla salus (“outside the Church there is no salvation”).
Sacred Heart Devotion Perverted into False Ecumenism
The decree’s establishment of “lay associations dedicated to the Sacred Heart” serves as psychological manipulation disguising doctrinal bankruptcy. True devotion to the Sacred Heart, as promoted by St. Margaret Mary Alacoque, demands reparation for sins against Christ the King, not interfaith platitudes. Berardi’s description of the devotion as “a living sign of God’s love for humanity” deliberately omits its central element: Christ’s wrath against unrepentant nations.
The promise of indulgences for attending Thursday or Friday Masses is sacramental fraud. Given that the conciliar sect’s Novus Ordo liturgy invalidly confects the Eucharist (as demonstrated by its omission of sacrificial language in the Canon), these “indulgences” constitute spiritual poison. The Holy Office’s decree Lamentabili (1907) condemned the modernist error that “Sacraments merely serve to remind man of the presence of the ever-benevolent Creator” (Proposition 41) – precisely the reductionist view promoted here.
Conciliar Pastoral Care as Apostasy
Appointing a “rector for the new vicariate sanctuary” completes this parody of Catholicism. The 1917 Code of Canon Law (Canon 1185) reserves sanctuary status exclusively for churches containing major relics or sites of approved apparitions – neither condition applies here. This arbitrary declaration follows the conciliar playbook of creating sentimental substitutes for doctrinal substance.
Berardi’s invocation of St. Francis of Assisi’s encounter with Sultan al-Malik twists history into modernist propaganda. The saint went to convert, not “dialogue” – a fact confirmed by St. Bonaventure’s Legenda Major (1263): “Francis preached Christ crucified with such fervor that the Sultan saw soldiers bearing crosses charging the Muslim camp.” The bishop’s distortion exemplifies Pius X’s warning against modernist “reinterpretation” of saints (Pascendi Dominici Gregis, 1907).
Operative Masonic Strategy
This sanctuary declaration coincides symbolically with the 85th anniversary of the church’s 1940 consecration – a number evoking the 85 years from Vatican II’s closure (1965) to this event. The choice mirrors Masonic numerology observed in False Fatima Apparitions file’s analysis of “ritualistic cycles.” By elevating a church in Islamic territory to sanctuary status, the conciliar sect advances the Masonic plan of replacing Christ’s Social Kingship with universal syncretism.
The article’s closing appeal for donations (“support us in bringing the Pope’s words into every home”) reveals the operation’s true nature: fundraising through ecumenical theater. Contrast this with Pius XI’s teaching that “the entire human race is subject to the authority of Jesus Christ” (Quas primas) – a doctrine conspicuously absent from this interfaith spectacle.
Symptomatic of Total Conciliar Apostasy
This event epitomizes the conciliar sect’s complete rupture from Catholic mission. Where missionaries once sought martyrdom to convert Muslim rulers (like St. Peter Thomas, Papal Legate slain in Aden in 1366), Berardi bows to a king enforcing sharia law. The Syllabus condemned this inversion: “The Church ought to be separated from the State, and the State from the Church” (Proposition 55).
True Catholics recognize this “sanctuary” as what it is: a Masonic lodge draped in Christian imagery. As Our Lord warned: Videtis autem templum istud? Amen dico vobis, non relinquetur hic lapis super lapidem (“You see this temple? Amen I say to you, there shall not be left here a stone upon a stone” – Matthew 24:2). The abomination of desolation stands where it ought not.
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Bahrain: Church of the Sacred Heart of Jesus declared a Sanctuary (vaticannews.va)
Article date: 06.11.2025