Nigeria’s Bloodshed Exposes Conciliar Church’s Abdication of Christ’s Social Reign
The VaticanNews portal (November 20, 2025) reports on three attacks in Nigeria within 72 hours: kidnapping of schoolgirls in Kebbi, hostage-taking of a “priest” in Kaduna, and a Pentecostal church massacre in Eruku where gunmen killed worshippers and abducted 35. The article frames these events through secular security concerns, describing perpetrators as generic “bandits” while ignoring the Islamist ideology driving Nigeria’s persecution of Christians—a deliberate omission exposing the conciliar sect’s surrender to naturalist analysis.
Theological Vacuum Conceals Islamist Jihad
The article’s clinical detachment (“an armed group entered a Pentecostal church… killing two people”) obscures the religious war against Nigeria’s Christian population. By reducing the Eruku massacre to criminal “banditry,” VaticanNews perpetuates the conciliar heresy of religious indifferentism condemned in Quas Primas (Pius XI, 1925): “Kings and princes… are bound to give public honor and obedience to Christ”. The attackers’ systematic targeting of Christian worship—documented in security footage showing desecration of sacred space—manifests Syllabus of Errors #77’s condemned proposition that “the Catholic religion should no longer be held as the only religion of the State”.
Silence on Sacramental Realities Betrays Apostasy
Nowhere does the article mention the eternal consequences for souls murdered during worship or the sacrilege committed against the Eucharistic Lord (assuming the Pentecostals had valid sacraments, which they do not). This reflects the conciliar sect’s abandonment of Lamentabili’s condemnation of Modernist reductionism (Proposition 41): “The sacraments merely serve to remind man of the presence of the ever-benevolent Creator”. Authentic Catholic response would demand:
Public consecration of Nigeria to Christ the King, imposition of anti-blasphemy laws, and expulsion of Sharia-adherent Muslims from Christian territories—as practiced by Catholic monarchs who understood “the whole human race is subject to the authority of Jesus Christ” (Quas Primas).
Nigerian “Clergy” Complicit Through False Ecumenism
The kidnapping of a Kaduna “priest”—likely a conciliar collaborator given Nigeria’s hierarchy—reveals the fruit of post-1958 ecumenism. When Pius XII’s Mystici Corporis (1943) declared non-Catholics “outside the fold of the Church,” it precluded the interfaith dialogue that emboldened Islamists. The article’s vague reference to “reinforcing security measures” ignores the true solution: revocation of Vatican II’s Dignitatis Humanae, which enabled Islam’s expansion by betraying the Church’s mission to “make disciples of all nations” (Matthew 28:19).
Naturalistic Governance Replaces Divine Law
President Tinubu’s postponed trip symbolizes secular rulers’ impotence when rejecting Christ’s social reign. Quas Primas foretold this: “When… states renounce the reign of our Savior… the entire human society had to be shaken”. By not demanding Nigeria’s conversion to Catholicism, VaticanNews implicitly endorses the condemned error that “human reason… suffices to secure the welfare of men” (Syllabus #3)—a heresy enabling the bloodshed.
Conclusion: Martyrdom Without Merit
The murdered Pentecostals died without sacraments due to the conciliar sect’s failure to evangelize Nigeria. Their deaths—while tragic—lack the merit of true martyrdom, which requires “persecution for the faith” (St. Augustine) within the Church’s bosom. Until Nigeria’s remaining Catholics reject the conciliar pseudo-hierarchy and restore the Social Reign of Christ the King, such atrocities will escalate—proof of God’s justice against nations abandoning His Law.
Source:
Nigeria faces its third attack in three days (vaticannews.va)
Date: 20.11.2025