ACI Prensa portal reports on Félix Maradiaga, newly elected president of the World Liberty Congress, analyzing the “silence” of Nicaraguan ecclesiastical structures under Daniel Ortega’s dictatorship. The article frames this silence as a “dilemma” between pastoral activity and prophetic witness, while celebrating Maradiaga’s meeting with “pope” Leo XIV and exiled “bishop” Rolando Álvarez as signs of hope.
Naturalistic Reduction of Ecclesial Mission
The article’s central error lies in reducing the Church’s mission to a choice between maintaining pastoral presence or engaging in political resistance. This false dichotomy ignores the regal office of Christ (Pius XI, Quas Primas) which demands that ecclesiastical authorities “instruct rulers and nations… that public laws must conform to divine law” (Syllabus of Errors, §39). By framing silence as an understandable “dilemma” rather than apostolic cowardice, the report tacitly endorses the conciliar sect’s abandonment of militantis Ecclesiae (Church Militant) principles.
When Maradiaga states “the Church faces a dilemma. It has to continue exercising its pastoral role within Nicaragua”, he echoes the modernist heresy condemned in Pius X’s Lamentabili: “The Church is incapable of effectively defending evangelical ethics because it steadfastly adheres to views which cannot be reconciled with modern progress” (Proposition 63). True shepherds would echo Pius IX’s uncompromising stance: “The obligation by which Catholic teachers and authors are strictly bound is confined to those things only which are proposed to universal belief as dogmas of faith by the infallible judgment of the Church” (Syllabus, §22).
Illegitimate Recognition of Conciliar Authorities
The article’s celebration of Álvarez’s meeting with “pope” Leo XIV constitutes implicit recognition of conciliar sect authority. True Catholic ecclesiology recognizes no communion with manifest heretics: “A manifest heretic cannot be Pope… he who is not a Christian is not a member of the Church, and a manifest heretic is not a Christian” (Bellarmine, De Romano Pontifice via Defense of Sedevacantism file). The report’s reference to “His Holiness” regarding Leo XIV constitutes blasphemous approbation of the antipapal claimant.
Moreover, Álvarez’s acceptance of exile under Bergoglian authority exposes his conciliarist alignment. As Pius IX taught: “Favors granted by the Roman pontiff ought to be considered null, unless they have been sought for through the civil government” (Syllabus, §29) – a condemnation applicable to Álvarez’s negotiated exile. True confessors follow the example of Athanasius, who resisted imperial banishment rather than compromise with Arian persecutors.
Omission of Supernatural Remedies
The article’s exclusive focus on geopolitical solutions (“striking a blow against Nicolás Maduro’s dictatorship”) ignores the arma Ecclesiae (weapons of the Church): public excommunication of tyrants, consecration of nations to Christ the King, and mobilization of the faithful through Eucharistic reparation. This naturalistic approach contradicts Pius XI’s teaching that “the peace of Christ can only be achieved in the kingdom of Christ” (Quas Primas).
Nowhere does the report mention:
– The Nicaraguan hierarchy’s failure to promulgate the Social Reign of Christ
– The absence of calls for national consecration to the Sacred Heart
– The abandonment of Thomistic just war principles in resisting tyranny
Instead, it promotes the Masonic concept of “human rights” condemned by Leo XIII: “The equality of all citizens… is a dream… in which all men are equal, each one is his own master” (Humanum Genus). True liberation comes not through global congresses but through restaurare omnia in Christo (restoring all things in Christ).
Silence as Apostolic Complicity
The report’s description of ecclesiastical silence as inevitable censorship ignores the martyrological imperative. When Martha Patricia Molina notes priests are “prohibited from making any complaints”, she inadvertently condemns the conciliar hierarchy’s failure to follow St. John the Baptist’s example of confronting Herod. True pastors would echo Pius X’s condemnation of modernist silence: “They make no open attack on the faith… but rather act by guile” (Pascendi §3).
The article’s sympathetic portrayal of this silence constitutes material cooperation with tyranny. As the Syllabus declares: “The Church has not the power of using force… nor has she any temporal power” (§24) is condemned error – ecclesiastical authorities possess not merely the right but duty to resist persecutors through spiritual arms.
Conclusion: Ecclesial Cowardice as Modernist Fruit
This report exemplifies the conciliar sect’s theological bankruptcy. Its reduction of the Church to a humanitarian NGO, recognition of antipapal authorities, and naturalization of grace all stem from Vatican II’s abandonment of extra Ecclesiam nulla salus. Until Nicaraguan Catholics reject the conciliar counterfeit and return to true sacraments administered by priests preserving the integral faith, no liberation – spiritual or temporal – can occur. Pax Christi in regno Christi remains the only solution to tyranny, a truth the conciliar sect has abandoned through its pact with modernity.
Source:
New World Liberty Congress president analyzes ‘silence’ of Church in Nicaragua (catholicnewsagency.com)
Date: 25.11.2025