Europe’s Anti-Christian Violence: Divine Chastisement for Apostasy Revealed
EWTN News reports a dramatic surge in anti-Christian violence across Europe, documenting 2,211 hate crimes in 2024 including 94 church arson attacks – nearly double 2023’s figures. The Vienna-based Observatory on Intolerance and Discrimination Against Christians in Europe (OIDAC Europe) recorded these incidents primarily in France, the United Kingdom, Germany, Spain, and Austria, with notable cases including the murder of a Spanish monk and the near-destruction of Saint-Omer’s historic Church of the Immaculate Conception. OIDAC Executive Director Anja Tang admits official statistics underreport the crisis, citing surveys showing nearly half of Polish and Spanish priests experience unreported aggression. The report concludes with calls for European Union intervention through hate crime coordinators and improved data collection, framing the issue as primarily concerning “religious freedom” and “human rights.”
Naturalistic Presuppositions Mask Supernatural Reality
The report’s exclusively sociological analysis deliberately obscures the theological causality (causalitas theologica) underlying this persecution. Pius XI’s encyclical Quas Primas (1925) teaches: “Nations will be happy and peaceful only when they recognize the reign of our Savior.” The violent rejection of Christian symbols constitutes divine chastisement for Europe’s systematic apostasy from Catholic truth. Rather than acknowledging this supernatural dimension, the article reduces sacrilege against churches to mere “hate crimes” – a modernist category divorced from the lex divina (divine law).
OIDAC’s proposed solutions – EU bureaucrats and better statistics – constitute a satanic parody of true remedy. The Council of Trent (Session XXV) ordered civil authorities to punish sacrilege with “due penalties,” while Pius IX’s Syllabus of Errors (1864) condemned the proposition that “the Church ought to be separated from the State” (Error 55). The report’s silence about restoring Catholicism as state religion reveals its revolutionary foundations.
False Ecumenism’s Poisonous Fruits
The conciliar sect’s decades of religious indifferentism bear bloody harvest in these attacks. When “Pope” John XXIII embraced the Masonic motto “human brotherhood” at Vatican II and Paul VI kissed the feet of Orthodox schismatic Athenagoras, they dismantled Europe’s sacral ordering. St. Pius X’s Lamentabili Sane (1907) had already condemned the modernist error that “Revelation cannot be something exterior to man and imposed on his faith” (Proposition 20). Now Europe reaps what these apostates sowed.
The report’s inclusion of Spain – historically the sword of Catholic Counter-Reformation – as a persecution hotspot proves particularly damning. Spain’s 1978 constitution abandoning Catholicism as state religion under “Pope” John Paul I’s tacit approval directly enabled this desecration. As the Syllabus warned: “The Roman Pontiff can, and ought to, reconcile himself with progress, liberalism, and modern civilization” constitutes heresy (Error 80).
Heretical Framing of “Religious Freedom”
The article’s repeated references to “religious freedom” and “human rights” expose its conciliar captivity. Quas Primas declares Christ’s kingship over all nations, while Gregory XVI’s Mirari Vos (1832) condemns “this false and absurd maxim, or rather madness, that everyone should be given and guaranteed freedom of conscience.” The report’s celebration of Kristie Higgs’ court victory reduces Christianity to a “legally protected belief” – reducing the One True Faith to private opinion.
When OIDAC laments restrictions on protesting abortion facilities, it ignores how the conciliar sect’s own 1965 Dignitatis Humanae laid groundwork for these “buffer zones” by endorsing false religious liberty. True Catholics follow St. Paul’s injunction: “Non est nobis colluctatio adversus carnem et sanguinem, sed adversus principes et potestates” (Our struggle is not against flesh and blood, but against principalities and powers – Eph 6:12).
Satanic Subversion of Protection Mechanisms
The demand for an EU “coordinator against anti-Christian hatred” parallels perfectly the Masonic strategy exposed in the “False Fatima Apparitions” file: “Stage 3 (1958-2000): Takeover of the narrative by modernists.” These bureaucratic “solutions” intentionally avoid the only effective remedy – Europe’s return to Catholic social order under Christ the King.
The report’s methodology itself constitutes heresy by prioritizing OSCE guidelines over Quas Primas‘ mandate: “Rulers and princes are bound to give public honor and obedience to Christ.” Its data-collection fetishism reduces Eucharistic churches to crime statistics while ignoring how conciliar churchmen abandoned these very buildings through vernacular desacralization. When neo-modernist “bishops” like those in Germany promote pagan climate rituals in cathedrals, why should secular society respect these structures?
Omitted Apocalyptic Dimension
Most damningly, the article ignores the eschatological significance of Europe’s anti-Christian violence. Our Lord warned: “Si mundus vos odit, scitote quia me priorem vobis odio habuit” (If the world hates you, know that it hated me first – John 15:18). The report’s naturalistic framework cannot comprehend that these attacks manifest the mysterium iniquitatis (mystery of iniquity – 2 Thes 2:7) accelerating as conciliar churchmen betray their sacred duty.
True Catholics recall Pius XI’s prophecy: “When God and Jesus Christ are removed from laws and states, the foundations of authority crumble.” Europe’s burning churches testify not merely to criminal acts, but to divine justice striking nations that elevated man above God. Until Europe kneels again before the Social Kingship of Christ – not through EU bureaucrats but through sacramental regeneration – this chastisement will intensify.
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Violence against Christians rises sharply across Europe, report warns (catholicnewsagency.com)
Date: 17.11.2025