Vatican News Promotes Naturalist Pacifism While Ignoring Christ’s Kingship
Vatican News (December 13, 2025) reports on renewed Cambodia-Thailand border clashes, emphasizing humanitarian efforts by Caritas Cambodia and quoting “Apostolic Prefect” Enrique Figaredo Alvargonzález, who attributes the conflict to “political dynamics” while praising antipope Leo XIV’s call for peace. The article frames Advent as a season to place “uncertain situations in God’s hands” and highlights youth-led peace appeals, omitting any reference to the Social Reign of Christ the King or the duty of nations to submit to divine law.
Reduction of Peace to Political Maneuvering
The article reduces the century-old territorial dispute to mere “political dynamics,” with Figaredo claiming Thailand’s military seeks “national glory” through war. This naturalistic analysis deliberately ignores the radical cause of all conflicts: rebellion against Christ’s sovereignty (Regnum Christi). Pius XI’s Quas Primas (1925) condemned such Godless nationalism: “When God and Jesus Christ are removed from laws and states… the foundations of authority are destroyed” (§18). By framing the conflict through secular geopolitics rather than divine justice, the conciliar sect perpetuates the modernist heresy denounced in Pius IX’s Syllabus of Errors: “The State, as the origin of all rights, is endowed with unlimited rights” (Proposition 39).
Sacrilegious Substitution of True Charity
Caritas Cambodia’s provision of “food, water, psychosocial support” exemplifies the conciliar sect’s materialist perversion of charity. True Catholic action, as defined by Pope Pius X in Il Fermo Proposito, demands “the restoration of all things in Christ” through sacramental life and doctrinal integrity. Instead, the article celebrates building “20 new camps” and “1,500 temporary shelters”—a demonic inversion of priorities that elevates bodily comfort over soul salvation. Nowhere does Figaredo mention Mass offerings for refugees or urge their repentance, reducing the Church’s mission to NGO activism condemned by St. Pius X: “The Church is not an institution of humanitarian charity but a divine society for salvation” (Encyclical Pascendi, §3).
Blasphemous Appeal to Antipope’s Authority
Figaredo’s claim that “Pope Leo’s call for peace has given us great comfort” constitutes public adherence to apostasy. The usurper Leo XIV possesses no spiritual authority, as Paul IV’s Bull Cum ex Apostolatus Officio declares: “Any Roman Pontiff… who deviates from the Catholic Faith… is deprived of his office ipso facto”. By invoking this antipope’s “precious appeal for peace,” the conciliar sect reinforces Vatican II’s heresy of religious indifferentism, rebuked by Gregory XVI in Mirari Vos: “This false idea of social equality gives rise to that absurd and erroneous maxim of separation of Church and State” (§14).
Advent Spirituality Devoid of Penitence
The article’s description of Cambodian Catholics using Advent to place their situation “in God’s hands” transforms a season of penitential preparation into empty sentimentality. Contrast this with the 1917 Code of Canon Law (Canon 1252), which mandated fasting and abstinence during Advent to atone for societal sins. True peace, as defined in the Roman Catechism, flows solely from submission to Christ’s reign: “The peace of Christ is the tranquility of order—the ordered harmony of willing subjection to God” (I.3.5). Nowhere does Vatican News call for nations to enthrone Christ as King—the only solution affirmed in Quas Primas: “Nations will find neither peace nor prosperity until they obey the Church’s teaching and authority” (§18).
Omission of Supernatural Warfare
Silence about the sacraments exposes the conciliar sect’s apostasy. While 700,000 people face mortal danger, Figaredo distributes food but withholds Last Rites—a damnable negligence echoing Modernism’s denial of grace, condemned in St. Pius X’s Lamentabili Sane: “The Sacraments merely serve to remind man of God’s presence” (Proposition 41). The article’s focus on “psychosocial support” replaces exorcisms and rosary processions with Freudian techniques, fulfilling Pius X’s warning that Modernists would reduce religion to “a kind of longing for the unknowable” (Pascendi, §6).
Source:
Cambodia: In the midst of conflict, the youth call for peace (vaticannews.va)
Date: 13.12.2025