Bangladesh Threats Expose Conciliar Church’s Surrender of Mission
Catholic News Agency reports threats against Notre Dame College and Holy Cross College in Bangladesh from a group calling itself “Tawhidee Muslim Janata.” The anonymous letter accuses Catholic institutions of proselytism through education, threatening churches and missionary institutions if conversion activities continue. Archbishop Bejoy D’Cruze of Dhaka denies conversion efforts, emphasizing that most students and teachers are Muslim while highlighting the Church’s educational contributions. The threats follow recent attacks on Dhaka’s St. Mary’s Cathedral, St. Joseph’s School, and Holy Rosary Church. The conciliar hierarchy responds with pleas for security rather than doctrinal clarity, epitomizing the post-Vatican II abandonment of regnum sociale Christi (the social kingship of Christ).
Naturalistic Reduction of the Church’s Mission
The conciliar hierarchy’s response exposes its capitulation to Enlightenment-era secularism. Archbishop D’Cruze boasts that “the Church operates at least one university, 18 colleges, 76 high schools, and over 1,000 primary schools” while stressing their openness to “people of all faiths.” This reduces the Church’s divine mandate to a NGO providing social services, directly contradicting Pius XI’s encyclical Quas Primas (1925):
“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.”
The modernists omit that Catholic education exists to form souls for eternal salvation, not merely impart secular knowledge. The 1917 Code of Canon Law (Canon 1375) mandated Catholic schools to teach doctrina catholica integra (complete Catholic doctrine) and remove students manifestly opposed to Church teaching. Today’s “Catholic” institutions instead practice indifferentism, confirming St. Pius X’s warning in Pascendi Dominici Gregis (1907) that Modernism converts the Church into “a mere office for the exchange of ideas.”
Betrayal of Evangelization Mandate
The conciliar prelates’ denial of proselytism constitutes apostasy from Christ’s final command: “Going therefore, teach ye all nations; baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost” (Matthew 28:19). D’Cruze’s claim that “the Catholic Church is not involved in proselytization” directly contradicts the entire missionary history of the Church, from St. Paul’s evangelization of gentiles to the martyrdoms of St. Francis Xavier in Asia. Pius XI’s Mortalium Animos (1928) condemned such ecumenical cowardice:
“The Apostolic See cannot on any terms take part in their assemblies, nor is it anyway lawful for Catholics to give to such enterprises their encouragement or support.”
The threats emerge precisely because post-conciliar leaders abandoned the Church’s militant identity. Traditional Catholic missions – like St. Louis de Montfort’s confrontations with Huguenot heretics or the Cristero martyrs’ defiance of Mexican Freemasons – understood persecution as the inevitable consequence of proclaiming Christ’s exclusive kingship. Today’s conciliar church instead begs protection from secular authorities while surrendering its divine mission.
Spiritual Consequences of Conciliar Apostasy
The attacks on Dhaka’s churches reveal the bitter fruits of Vatican II’s Dignitatis Humanae, which falsely declared religious freedom as inherent to human dignity. The 19th-century Syllabus of Errors (1864) explicitly condemned the notion that “every man is free to embrace and profess that religion which, guided by the light of reason, he shall consider true” (Proposition 15). This doctrinal inversion emboldens Islamist radicals while paralyzing the Church’s defense mechanisms.
Where St. Pius V mobilized Catholic princes to crush the Ottoman threat at Lepanto (1571), today’s conciliar bureaucrats issue press statements. The threats against educational institutions particularly mock the conciliar church’s feminist deviations – girls’ schools like Holy Cross College would be unthinkable under authentic Catholic missions, which always maintained strict gender separation and prioritized sacramental life over secular accreditation.
The Bangladeshi hierarchy’s plea to “stand by us” rings hollow while they refuse to stand by Christ the King. True shepherds would demand government protection of Catholic rights as demanded by Leo XIII’s Immortale Dei (1885), which taught that states must “favor religion, to protect it, to shield it under the credit and sanction of the laws.” Instead, these hirelings (John 10:12) sacrifice the flock’s spiritual safety to maintain dialogue with persecutors.
Source:
Catholic colleges in Bangladesh threatened over conversion claims (catholicnewsagency.com)
Date: 10.12.2025