The Vatican News portal (December 9, 2025) reports that Haiti’s “Episcopal Conference” issued a Christmas message invoking “The light of Christ shines in our darkness” while calling for “peacemakers,” democratic elections, and “new leadership” amid gang violence displacing 1.4 million people. Their statement claims Christ’s birth offers hope not as “superficial optimism” but through “responsible action,” praising Haiti’s World Cup qualification as evidence of national potential. The “bishops” urge authorities to create security for 2026 elections under Haiti’s 1987 Constitution, which they dub the “law of laws,” while entrusting the nation to the “Prince of Peace” and Virgin Mary.
Reduction of the Church’s Mission to Humanitarian Activism
The document exemplifies the naturalization of grace (condemned in Pius X’s Pascendi §26), framing the Incarnation as mere inspiration for sociological improvement rather than the sole remedy for original sin. By reducing Christian hope to “responsible and resolute action” against violence and hunger, these “bishops” commit the Modernist error of vital immanence – treating religion as an emotional response to human needs rather than submission to revealed truth. Pius XI’s Quas Primas (§18) explicitly condemns such secularization: “When once men recognize… that Christ has been given all power in heaven and on earth… it will not be lawful to exclude the Church from the activity of public life.” Yet the Haitian statement never demands the public reign of Christ the King as Haiti’s only path to peace.
Omission of the Church’s Supernatural Weapons
Nowhere do these “pastors” prescribe the actual means of grace to combat evil: prayer, penance, Eucharistic adoration, or the Rosary. Their silence on the Mass – the Unbloody Sacrifice of Calvary – proves their allegiance to the conciliar sect’s abolition of propitiatory worship. Compare this negligence with Pope Pius IX’s teaching: “All… must be governed by the law and authority of Jesus Christ; for He is… our Redeemer… whose office it is to make all men… partakers of eternal happiness” (Qui pluribus §15). Instead, they peddle the condemned error that “the principal articles of the Apostles’ Creed did not have the same meaning for the first Christians as they do for contemporary Christians” (Lamentabili §62).
Subordination of Supernatural Hope to Earthly Politics
The document’s obsession with the 1987 Constitution and electoral processes exposes its revolutionary core. By calling Haiti’s post-Duvalier charter the “law of laws,” these men invert the Catholic hierarchy of values, rejecting Pius IX’s condemnation: “The State, as being the origin and source of all rights, is endowed with a certain right not circumscribed by any limits” (Syllabus §39). Their demand for “democratic, inclusive, and transparent” elections echoes the Masonic ideal of popular sovereignty, condemned in Leo XIII’s Humanum Genus (§17) as “a great perversion… democracy.” Authentic Catholic teaching requires nations to submit to Christus Rex, not procedural democracy – as proven by the Church’s 60-year condemnation of Haiti’s Freemasonic constitution.
False Ecumenism in “Peacemaker” Rhetoric
The call for all Haitians to be “peacemakers” regardless of vocation constitutes the heresy of indifferentism, violating Pius IX’s decree that “It is not lawful to adopt that… opinion which considers all religions alike… as they lead by different ways to the port of salvation” (Syllabus §16). True peace comes solely through conversion to the Catholic Faith, not interreligious cooperation – a truth Haiti’s “bishops” suppress to appease Voodoo practitioners and Protestants comprising half the population. Their silence on Haiti’s formal consecration to Christ the King (performed by Archbishop François-Wolff Ligondé in 1987) confirms their apostasy from Haiti’s Catholic heritage.
Theological Contradictions in Marian Devotion
The concluding entrustment to Mary exposes the document’s incoherence. How can men who deny her Mediatrix of All Graces role (suppressed since Vatican II) invoke her protection? Their perfunctory Marian piety imitates the condemned Modernist tactic of “preserving certain ancient formulas… while cunningly distorting their meaning” (St. Pius X, Pascendi §27). Authentic Marian devotion requires condemning false religions and promulgating her Fatima message – which these “bishops” avoid, knowing its call for Russia’s consecration indicts their ecumenical complicity with Orthodox schismatics.
A Call to Haitian Catholics
Genuine shepherds would echo Pius XI’s remedy: “When once men recognize… that Christ has been given all power in heaven and on earth… the result will be that the Church… will have… that due freedom… by which alone she can minister effectually the salvation of mankind” (Quas Primas §19). Haiti’s faithful must reject these hirelings and seek priests preserving the true Mass and integral doctrine, recognizing that no electoral process can replace the Social Kingship of Jesus Christ. Only through the Rosary and public penance will Haiti’s “darkness” be dispelled – not by the false hope of conciliar revolutionaries.
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Haitian bishops call for hope and change in a Christmas message (vaticannews.va)
Date: 09.12.2025