Bishop Kukah’s Genocide Denial Reveals Conciliar Sect’s Abdication of Divine Justice
Catholic News Agency reports on the defense of “Bishop” Matthew Hassan Kukah by The Kukah Centre after his denial of Christian genocide in Nigeria. Kukah claimed at a Vatican event and Knights of St. Mulumba gathering that violence against Christians lacks “intent” to qualify as genocide, dismissing reported church attacks as unverified. The Christian Association of Nigeria contradicts him, asserting systematic persecution. The Kukah Centre’s Fr. Atta Barkindo blamed media “mischaracterization,” insisting Kukah acknowledges suffering but rejects the term “genocide.” This analysis exposes the theological bankruptcy of conciliar sect leadership’s surrender to secular relativism.
Denial of Persecution: A Betrayal of Shepherds’ Duty
Kukah’s assertion that genocide requires “intent, a deliberate plan to eliminate a group” adopts secular legalism diametrically opposed to Quas Primas (1925), where Pius XI declared: “Rulers and princes are bound to give public honor and obedience to Christ… for his kingly dignity demands that the State should take account of the commandments of God”. By reducing martyrdom to a bureaucratic debate over statistics, Kukah ignores centuries of Catholic teaching. The Catechism of St. Pius X defines martyrdom as “the voluntary endurance of death for the faith of Christ” (Q. 107), irrespective of persecutors’ juridical “intent.”
The article’s admission that “many Christians feel vulnerable” despite Kukah’s sophistry underscores the conciliar sect’s failure to proclaim Regnum Christi—the Social Kingship of Christ—as the sole remedy for societal collapse. Pius IX’s Syllabus of Errors condemned the proposition that “the Church ought to be separated from the State, and the State from the Church” (Error 55). Kukah’s technocratic parsing of violence tacitly legitimizes Nigeria’s Islamist-enabling regime, violating Catholics’ duty to demand governments eradicate public blasphemy and punish desecrators.
Modernist Subversion of Martyrdom and Suffering
Kukah’s dismissal of martyrs’ witness—“some violence might be criminal or opportunistic rather than motivated by religious hatred”—echoes Modernist heresies condemned in Pius X’s Lamentabili (1907), which rejected the claim that “faith is ultimately based on probabilities” (Error 25). True shepherds weep with the afflicted (Rom. 12:15), not lecture them on semantic nuances while their churches burn.
The Kukah Centre’s defense—“at no point has His Lordship diminished the seriousness… of faith-based persecution”—is doublespeak. When Barkindo praises “solidarity with victims” without naming Islamist aggressors or demanding their suppression, he apes Vatican II’s false ecumenism. Compare this cowardice to Pius V’s Regnans in Excelsis (1570), which excommunicated Elizabeth I for persecuting Catholics and released subjects from allegiance to heretical rulers.
Structural Apostasy of the Conciliar Sect
Kukah’s Vatican-backed rhetoric reveals the conciliar sect’s essence: a naturalistic NGO posing as the Church. The article’s focus on “religious freedom”—a condemned Vatican II novelty—betrays allegiance to John XXIII’s Pacem in Terris (1963) rather than Gregory XVI’s Mirari Vos (1832), which denounced “the absurd and erroneous maxim which claims liberty of conscience must be maintained for everyone”.
Nigeria’s crisis stems directly from the conciliar sect’s refusal to enforce Unam Sanctam (1302), where Boniface VIII decreed: “It is necessary for salvation that all men be subject to the Roman Pontiff”. Instead of demanding Nigeria’s conversion, Kukah’s NGO-speak—“accountability for perpetrators”—reduces the Church to a human rights monitor. This is the rotten fruit of Paul VI’s Dignitatis Humanae, which repudiated the Syllabus by endorsing false religions’ freedom.
Omissions Expose Conciliar Collapse
Nowhere does the article mention Kukah urging Nigerian authorities to:
1. Publicly consecrate the nation to Christ the King (Pius XI, Quas Primas).
2. Outlaw blasphemy and desecration as capital crimes (Leo XIII, Immortale Dei).
3. Restore Catholic monarchy to enforce divine law.
Instead, Barkindo’s plea for “zero tolerance for religious persecution” treats Christianity as one sect among many—precisely the indifferentism Pius VII condemned in Post Tam Diuturnas (1814). The conciliar sect’s silence on the supernatural—grace, hell, judgment—proves it worships the Cult of Man denounced by true popes.
Conclusion: Only Christ the King Brings Peace
As Pius XI taught: “Nations will be happy when Christ is King”. Nigeria’s bloodshed will worsen until its rulers submit to Christus Vincit. The conciliar sect’s “bishops”—invalidly consecrated post-1968—cannot offer this solution, for they deny the Social Kingship themselves. Let faithful Catholics heed Pius IX’s warning: “The enemies of the Church cloak their errors in attractive words to more easily deceive souls” (Qui Pluribus, 1846). Only by returning to the true Mass and pre-1958 magisterium will Nigeria—and the Church—find salvation.
Source:
Nigerian foundation defends Catholic bishop after remarks about Christian genocide (catholicnewsagency.com)
Date: 03.12.2025