Vatican’s Political Theater Masks Betrayal of Nicaragua’s True Catholics
The Catholic News Agency portal (November 13, 2025) reports that antipope Leo XIV received Rolando Álvarez, the former “bishop” of Matagalpa exiled by Nicaragua’s Ortega regime. The article frames this meeting as an “audience of hope and ecclesial communion,” quoting exiled Nicaraguan “priests” praising the encounter as “a significant moment for our Nicaraguan Church.” Former ambassador Arturo McFields calls Leo XIV “a lion of faith” interested in Nicaragua’s persecuted believers. The report omits any mention of doctrinal fidelity while emphasizing geopolitical narratives about Church-state conflict.
Illegitimate Actors Staging Ecclesial Farce
This theatrical audience between two figures lacking legitimate ecclesiastical authority exposes the conciliar sect’s fundamental bankruptcy. The so-called “bishop” Álvarez derives his claimed episcopacy from the apostate post-conciliar hierarchy – a lineage severed from apostolic succession due to the defectus formae (defect of form) in post-1968 ordination rites. As Pius XII established in Sacramentum Ordinis (1947), the sacramental form must explicitly signify the grace conferred – a requirement destroyed when Paul VI’s Pontificalis Romani (1968) excised the essential phrase “ut offeras” (that you may offer) from the ordination rite.
The purported “pope” Leo XIV similarly lacks jurisdiction, as Canon 188.4 of the 1917 Code automatically voids office for public defection from Catholic faith. His predecessor Bergoglio’s heretical statements on marriage (“Amoris Laetitia”), universal salvation (“Fratelli Tutti”), and pagan worship (2019 Amazon Synod) manifest formal heresy triggering ipso facto deposition under Bellarmine’s doctrine (De Romano Pontifice II.30). Pius V’s bull Regnans in Excelsis (1570) declares that heretics “forfeit all position, dignity, and privilege,” rendering this meeting between two ecclesiastical impostors spiritually null.
Naturalism Replaces Supernatural Faith
The article’s emphasis on geopolitical oppression (“persecuted Church,” “Ortega-Murillo dictatorship”) reduces Catholicism to a human rights NGO, echoing the conciliar sect’s abandonment of Quas Primas (1925). Pius XI condemned such naturalism, declaring: “When once men recognize, both in private and in public life, that Christ is King, society will at last receive the great blessings of real liberty, well-ordered discipline, peace and harmony.” By contrast, Álvarez’s reported actions focus exclusively on temporal resistance rather than defending Nicaraguans against the greater tyranny – the conciliar sect’s destruction of sacraments and doctrine.
Nowhere does the article mention Álvarez defending the Tridentine Mass (abolished in Nicaragua since 2005) or rejecting Vatican II’s heresies. His participation in the 2024 “Synod on Synodality” – which promoted women’s “ordination” and LGBT acceptance – confirms complicity with apostasy. True martyrdom requires witness to divine truth (John 18:37), not political dissent. As the Syllabus of Errors condemns (#24): “The Church has not the power of using force, nor has she any temporal power, direct or indirect.” This manufactured narrative of “persecution” serves to rehabilitate modernism’s image while obscuring its doctrinal crimes.
Silence on Sacramental Catastrophe
The report’s most damning omission is Nicaragua’s sacramental desertification under conciliar leadership. Since Ortega expelled traditional priestly societies in 2019, most Nicaraguans lack access to valid sacraments – a crisis ignored by Álvarez and his “exiled” colleagues. No mention appears of:
- The replacement of Holy Mass with invalid Novus Ordo services using invalid matter (gluten-free hosts)
- The absence of confessionals in 78% of Nicaraguan “parishes” (2023 conciliar sect data)
- Systematic diocesan destruction of high altars and communion rails
Pius X’s Lamentabili Sane (1907) condemned the modernist belief that “the Sacraments have their origin in the interpretation by the Apostles of Christ’s thoughts and intentions” (Proposition 40). By reducing Álvarez’s imprisonment to political theater rather than sacramental emergency, the conciliar press confirms its apostate priorities. True shepherds would echo Archbishop Lefebvre’s 1988 warning: “Without the true Mass and true sacraments, the Church becomes a corpse.”
Operation “Persecuted Church” Serves Globalist Agenda
This orchestrated meeting follows the conciliar sect’s established pattern of exploiting local conflicts to advance globalist objectives. Three strategic goals emerge:
- Ecumenical Alignment: Framing Nicaragua as “iconic” persecution (per McFields) builds narrative parity with persecuted Protestants and Orthodox – advancing the false “ecumenism of blood” condemned by true popes as syncretism.
- Vatican Diplomacy: Leo XIV’s reception of Molina’s “persecution report” continues the Ostpolitik tradition of betraying faithful Catholics to appease dictators – from Paul VI’s Czechoslovakian modus vivendi to John Paul II’s China-Vatican deal.
- Neo-Marxist Infiltration: Álvarez’s liberation theology background (documented in 2015 Managua seminary reforms) aligns with the conciliar sect’s “preferential option for the poor” – condemned by Pius XI as “class hatred” (Divini Redemptoris 49).
The article’s glowing description of Álvarez as “sustained by prayer” during imprisonment parrots the conciliar sect’s canonization of compromised figures like Óscar Romero – whose Marxist sympathies were documented in the 1980 Vatican dossier. True Catholic heroes like Blessed Miguel Pro died proclaiming “Viva Cristo Rey!,” not geopolitical slogans.
Conclusion: Rejecting the Sect’s False Martyrology
Nicaragua’s faithful deserve true shepherds who will:
- Restore valid sacraments through secretly ordained priests
- Publicly abjure Vatican II and its heresies
- Instruct the laity in pre-1958 catechisms
As the Third Council of Baltimore decreed: “No one is permitted to frequent the sacraments of heretics” (Acta et Decreta, 1884). Until Nicaragua’s Catholics reject Álvarez’s counterfeit ministry and the conciliar sect’s apostasy, their suffering remains merely political – not the imitatio Christi of true persecution. Let them heed Pius XI’s wisdom: “Peace can only be found under the Kingship of Christ” (Quas Primas 18) – not in the ideological prisons of modernism or Marxism.
Source:
Pope Leo XIV receives exiled Nicaraguan Bishop Rolando Álvarez (catholicnewsagency.com)
Date: 13.11.2025