EWTN’s Humanist Narrative on Lai Reveals Conciliar Apostasy
The Catholic News Agency (EWTN News) portal (December 9, 2025) publishes an emotional account of Claire Lai pleading for her father Jimmy Lai’s release from Chinese imprisonment. While detailing his alleged Catholic devotion and prison sufferings, the narrative operates entirely within the post-conciliar paradigm of naturalized faith and worldly activism.
Subordination of Supernatural Order to Human Rights Heresy
The report centers on Lai’s “yearning for freedom” and “human rights activism” while reducing his Catholicism to psychological comfort. No mention is made of Lai’s obligation to convert his persecutors or China’s duty to submit to Christ the King – the only solution to tyranny according to Pius XI: “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). By framing the conflict through UN-style “human rights” discourse, EWTN perpetuates the conciliar heresy of religious freedom condemned in Quanta Cura: “liberty of conscience and worship is each man’s personal right” (Syllabus of Errors, 77).
Conciliar Church’s Impotence Against Communism
Claire Lai expresses gratitude toward “Pope Leo XIV” for prayers – a blasphemous attribution given the antipope’s refusal to condemn China’s persecution of Catholics. Contrast this with Pius XI’s Divini Redemptoris commanding “all-encompassing warfare against communism.” The conciliar sect’s “dialogue” with Beijing proves its apostasy, having abandoned 2,000 years of extra Ecclesiam nulla salus dogma. Meanwhile, Lai’s imprisonment underlines the failure of Vatican II’s Ostpolitik, which betrayed underground Chinese Catholics to communist butchers.
False Ecumenism Masks Martyrdom Betrayal
The article sanitizes Lai’s faith by omitting whether he attends the invalid Novus Ordo or true Catholic Mass. His reported Eucharistic deprivation (“denied holy Communion for over two years”) becomes tragicomedy when considering the conciliar sect’s own desacralization of the Sacrament. Recall Pius XII’s warning: “The worship of God… is relegated to secondary place” (Mediator Dei, 58). Claire’s meeting with antipope Leo XIV exemplifies the false communio enabling communist persecution – precisely the “diabolical disorientation” Sr. Lucia condemned before her manipulation by modernists.
Naturalization of Suffering Reveals Modernist Anthropology
While detailing Lai’s prison hardships, the narrative reduces his endurance to humanist courage rather than imitatio Christi. Where are the references to St. Paul’s “I fill up those things that are wanting of the sufferings of Christ” (Col 1:24)? The miraculous preservation of Lai’s Bible (“the one thing that remained dry”) is sentimentalized rather than recognized as divine confirmation of unbloody martyrdom – a concept annihilated by Vatican II’s Gaudium et Spes optimism.
Conclusion: The Silence of the Shepherds
Nowhere does EWTN demand China’s conversion to Catholicism or restoration of Christ’s social reign. This omission proves the conciliar sect’s complicity in global apostasy. As St. Pius X warned in Pascendi, modernist clergy “lay the axe not to the branches… but to the very root” of Faith. Authentic Catholic resistance would follow Archbishop Thục’s example – consecrating bishops without communist approval – not begging secular powers for mercy. Until the conciliar sect is recognized as the “abomination of desolation” (Dan 9:27), such suffering will only increase.
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Daughter of political prisoner Jimmy Lai speaks out for the first time (catholicnewsagency.com)
Date: 09.12.2025