Syria’s Secular Trial Exposes Void of Divine Justice and Natural Law
Syria’s Secular Trial Exposes Void of Divine Justice and Natural Law
Vatican News portal reports on Syria’s first public trial concerning March clashes between pro-government forces and Alawite minorities, framing it as a test of President Ahmed al-Sharaa’s “accountability” promises. The article states that “14 defendants appeared at the Palace of Justice in Aleppo” charged with “fomenting civil war, secession, premeditated murder and looting,” following violence that killed approximately 1,500 Alawites and 200 security personnel. While emphasizing secular notions of “ending a dark phase of secretive authoritarian rule,” the report utterly ignores the regnum sociale Christi (social kingship of Christ) and reduces justice to mere human political calculations.
Naturalism Replaces Divine Justice
The article’s exclusive focus on temporal accountability constitutes a direct rejection of Quas Primas, where Pius XI condemned societies that “renounce and do not wish to recognize the reign of our Savior.” By celebrating trials where “members of the security forces” face earthly judgment while omitting the eternal judgment awaiting all souls, the narrative embodies the condemned error that “the State, as being the origin and source of all rights, is endowed with a certain right not circumscribed by any limits” (Syllabus of Errors, §39). This secular framework ignores the Church’s teaching that “the entire human race is subject to the authority of Jesus Christ” (Pius XI, Quas Primas), reducing justice to a political tool rather than a reflection of God’s immutable law.
Omission of Supernatural Reality
Nowhere does the analysis mention the spiritual consequences of mass bloodshed – the eternal fate of unrepentant souls, the sacrilege of murder (which destroys imago Dei in man), or the necessity of sacramental confession for perpetrators. This silence mirrors the modernist heresy denounced in Lamentabili Sane (§58), which holds that “truth changes with man, because it develops with him.” The report’s clinical description of killings (“nearly 1,500 Syrian Alawites killed between 7 and 9 March”) treats deaths as statistical casualties, rejecting the Catholic view of every life as a soul destined for Heaven or Hell. Such desacralization flows from Vatican II’s disastrous embrace of religious indifferentism, which falsely claims that “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” (condemned in Syllabus of Errors, §17).
False “Reconciliation” Without Penance
President Sharaa’s hollow promise to “unite Syria” through secular trials constitutes a demonic parody of true peace, which can only come through pax Christi in regno Christi (the peace of Christ in the kingdom of Christ). The trial’s charges (“fomenting civil war, secession”) expose the state’s usurpation of the Church’s exclusive right to define morality, violating the principle that “the Church has the power of defining dogmatically that the religion of the Catholic Church is the only true religion” (Syllabus of Errors, §21). Authentic justice requires not courtroom theatrics but public acts of reparation, such as consecrating Syria to the Sacred Heart and imposing penances on perpetrators – measures unthinkable in the neo-pagan worldview promoted by the conciliar sect.
Historical Amnesia and Masonic Tactics
The article’s celebration of trials against “former officers loyal to Assad” follows the Masonic playbook documented in Pius IX’s condemnation of secret societies that “contaminate its splendid qualities… to overthrow [the Church], and, if possible, to make it disappear completely from the earth” (Syllabus of Errors). This “accountability” farce ignores Syria’s systematic persecution of Catholics under Ba’athist rule, instead presenting the Alawite minority (a heterodox Islamic sect) as innocent victims. Such selective outrage embodies the naturalist error that “the injustice of an act when successful inflicts no injury on the sanctity of right” (Syllabus of Errors, §61), prioritizing political expediency over objective morality.
Source:
Syria begins first public trial over deadly coastal violence (vaticannews.va)
Date: 18.11.2025