Bondi Beach Attack Reveals Australian Bishops’ Doctrinal Deficit
Bondi Beach Attack Reveals Australian Bishops’ Doctrinal Deficit
EWTN News (via Catholic News Agency) reports on the responses of Australian “bishops” to a terrorist attack at a Hanukkah celebration in Bondi Beach, Sydney, which killed 12 people. “Archbishop” Anthony Fisher of Sydney called for prayers to “Our Lady, Queen of Peace,” while “Archbishop” Timothy Costelloe SDB condemned “the scourge of antisemitism” and urged Australians to reject hatred. Both praised police and bystanders, with Costelloe calling the violence a “dark and destructive stain” threatening society. Prime Minister Anthony Albanese labeled the attack a “targeted act on Jewish Australians” and an “act of evil.”
Theological Abdication in the Face of Apostasy
The statements from the Australian “bishops” exemplify the systematic evacuation of supernatural faith from the conciliar sect’s discourse. Not once do these figures mention Jesus Christ as King (Pius XI, Quas Primas), the necessity of conversion to the Una Vera Fides for salvation (Pius IX, Quanto conficiamur), or the divine mandate to “make disciples of all nations” (Matthew 28:19). Instead, they reduce the Church’s mission to a NGO-like plea for social harmony, mirroring the naturalist heresy condemned by St. Pius X in Lamentabili Sane (Proposition 65).
Fisher’s invocation of “Our Lady, Queen of Peace” rings hollow when divorced from her Fiat Voluntas Tua—the very essence of her queenship being regnum Christi. The Virgin Mary is not a generic peace symbol but the Mediatrix who crushes heresy (Genesis 3:15). By omitting this, Fisher perpetuates the sentimentalist distortion of Mariology rampant in the neo-church.
Silence on the Divine Law of Nations
Costelloe’s condemnation of “antisemitism” conspicuously avoids the Church’s perennial teaching on Judaism. The Council of Florence (1442) infallibly declared:
“[The Holy Roman Church] firmly believes, professes, and teaches that no one remaining outside the Catholic Church… can become partakers of eternal life; but they will go into the eternal fire… unless before the end of life they are joined to Her.”
To speak of “Jewish brothers and sisters” without calling for their conversion constitutes apostasy from Catholic ecclesiology. Pius IX’s Syllabus of Errors explicitly condemned the idea that “the Church ought to be separated from the State, and the State from the Church” (Proposition 55)—a separation Costelloe tacitly endorses by framing the attack as a societal rather than theological crisis.
Sacralizing the Profane: The Cult of the State
Albanese’s statement that “an attack on Jewish Australians is an attack on every Australian” epitomizes the idolatry of secular citizenship. Contrast this with Pius XI’s encyclical:
“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).
The “bishops” amplify this error by lauding “individual acts of bravery” and police heroism without referencing the suprema lex—the salvation of souls. Nowhere do they warn that dying in unbelief (Hebrews 10:26-27) or adhering to false religions (John 14:6) constitutes the gravest peril.
The Masonic Roots of False Ecumenism
The event’s interfaith context—a Hanukkah celebration—goes unchallenged, despite the Church’s condemnation of religious indifferentism. Leo XIII’s Humanum Genus (1884) exposed Freemasonry’s goal to “destroy the whole religious and social order based on Christian institutions.” By participating in this pluralist paradigm, the “bishops” advance the Masonic project condemned in the Syllabus (Proposition 77-80).
Their call for Australians to “recommit ourselves to being peacemakers” echoes the false irenicism of Vatican II’s Nostra Aetate, which Pius IX’s Syllabus had already anathematized: “Every man is free to embrace and profess that religion which, guided by the light of reason, he shall consider true” (Proposition 15).
Conclusion: The Silence Screams Apostasy
The Australian “bishops” have abdicated their duty to proclaim Christus Vincit, Christus Regnat, Christus Imperat. Their statements—devoid of the Cross, the Four Last Things, or the Social Reign of Christ—confirm the conciliar sect’s total capitulation to secular humanism. As St. Pius X warned: “The great movement of apostasy being organized in every country for the establishment of a One-World Church which shall have neither dogmas, nor hierarchy…” (Our Apostolic Mandate, 1910). Until true shepherds return to the depositum fidei, such saccharine platitudes will only hasten the ruin of souls.
Source:
'Scourge of antisemitism:' Australian bishops call for prayer after 12 killed in Bondi Beach terrorist attack (catholicnewsagency.com)
Date: 14.12.2025