The Catholic News Agency (CNA) reported on November 21, 2025 about armed militants kidnapping children from St. Mary’s Catholic School in Nigeria’s Kontagora Diocese, quoting statements from diocesan officials and the antipope Leo XIV. The report frames the violence as stemming from economic factors and generalized terrorism rather than religious persecution, with the conciliar sect’s representatives advocating interreligious cooperation instead of Catholic solutions.
Naturalistic Framing of Supernatural Battle
The report reduces the attack to mere criminality, ignoring its nature as spiritual warfare against Christ’s Kingdom. Bishop Bulus Yohana Dauwa’s statement that “people sleep in the bush because they have nowhere else to run” reveals a materialistic worldview utterly foreign to the martyric spirit of the Church Militant. The true Catholic response would follow St. Paul’s exhortation: “For our wrestling is not against flesh and blood; but against principalities and powers, against the rulers of the world of this darkness, against the spirits of wickedness in the high places” (Ephesians 6:12).
“Christians and Muslims have been slaughtered. There’s a question of terrorism, a question tied to economics and control of land.” – Antipope Leo XIV
This statement from the antipope exemplifies the conciliar sect’s heretical indifferentism, equating the murder of Christians with Muslim deaths while ignoring the Islamists’ explicit goal to eliminate Christianity. Compare this to Pope Pius XI’s teaching: “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” (Quas Primas, 19).
Omission of Christocentric Solutions
Nowhere does the report mention:
- The necessity of Nigeria’s consecration to Christ the King
- Call for the attackers’ conversion through missionary work
- Demand for Catholic monarchical restoration as the only lasting solution
The diocesan statement’s vague request for prayers contrasts sharply with the Church’s historical approach to Islamic persecution. When Pope St. Pius V faced the Ottoman threat, he didn’t organize interfaith dialogues but blessed the flags of Lepanto’s fleet, resulting in the miraculous victory through the Rosary. Today’s conciliar bureaucrats have abandoned these weapons of spiritual warfare, opting instead for secular “security cooperation.”
Diabolical Disorientation in Leadership
The report reveals three fatal errors in the conciliar sect’s response:
| Error | Contrast With Catholic Doctrine |
|---|---|
| Treating Islam as equal to Catholicism | “Extra Ecclesiam nulla salus” – Council of Florence (Session 11, 1442) |
| Reducing persecution to economic factors | Pope Pius XI condemned this naturalism: “Whoever exalts race, or the people, or the State… above their standard value and raises them to an object of idolatry, distorts and perverts an order of the world planned and created by God” (Mit Brennender Sorge, 8) |
| Seeking earthly security over martyrdom | St. Ignatius of Antioch: “I am God’s wheat, and I shall be ground by the teeth of beasts, that I may become the pure bread of Christ” (Letter to Romans, Ch 4) |
The conciliar diocese’s collaboration with “community leaders and government authorities” constitutes spiritual adultery, violating the First Commandment. True shepherds would demand Nigeria’s leaders implement Syllabus of Errors Point 77: That “the Catholic religion should be held as the only religion of the State, to the exclusion of all other forms of worship.”
Structural Apostasy Revealed
This incident proves the conciliar sect has become what St. Pius X warned against: “A Church without combat, a Church without the blood of martyrs, would be a Church without Jesus Christ”. By refusing to name Islam as the persecutor and avoiding calls for Nigeria’s conversion, the conciliar bureaucracy:
- Betrays the martyred seminarians and murdered faithful
- Denies the social kingship of Christ
- Participates in the Islamization agenda through silence
The report’s focus on U.S. military intervention (quoting President Trump) instead of sacramental solutions confirms the conciliar sect’s transformation into a geopolitical NGO. Contrast this with Pope Pius IX’s teaching: “The Church is a divine institution, whose rights and laws must be respected by all nations” (Quanta Cura, 6).
Until Nigeria’s leaders enthrone Christ as King and expel the Islamist invaders, no “security cooperation” or ransom payments will stop the persecution. The blood of martyrs cries out not for earthly compromise but for the triumph of the Immaculate Heart through true Catholic restoration.
Source:
Armed attackers kidnap children from Catholic elementary school in Nigeria (catholicnewsagency.com)
Date: 21.11.2025