West Bank Settlements Expose Global Apostasy from Christ’s Social Reign
VaticanNews portal (December 22, 2025) reports Israel’s security cabinet approved 19 new settlements in the occupied West Bank, citing Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich’s claim this prevents a Palestinian state. Palestinian officials, the Arab League, and UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres condemned the move as illegal under international law. The article frames the conflict through secular geopolitics, omitting the lex divina (divine law) governing all nations. This silence exposes the apostate naturalism gripping both the post-conciliar structures and worldly powers.
The Secularization of the Holy Land
The article reduces the Holy Land—sanctified by Christ’s earthly life—to a territorial dispute between “political violence” actors. Nowhere does it acknowledge the land’s theological significance as the birthplace of the Church and locus of redemption. Pius XI’s encyclical Quas Primas (1925) declares:
“Nations will be reminded by the annual celebration of this feast [of Christ the King] that not only private individuals but also rulers and princes are bound to give public honor and obedience to Christ.”
By treating Israel’s actions as mere policy violations, VaticanNews implicitly denies Christ’s sovereignty over Jerusalem, fulfilling Zechariah’s prophecy: “They will strike the shepherd, and the sheep will be scattered” (Zechariah 13:7).
Omission of the Church’s Social Doctrine
The report parrots UN objections to settlements based on “international law,” a man-made construct divorced from Catholic truth. The Syllabus of Errors (1864) condemns such naturalism:
- Proposition 39: “The State, as being the origin and source of all rights, is endowed with a certain right not circumscribed by any limits.”
- Proposition 55: “The Church ought to be separated from the State, and the State from the Church.”
True peace requires submission to Christ’s reign, not “two-state solutions.” Pius XI warns: “When men have scorned the reign of the Redeemer, they have become exiles from His Kingdom” (Quas Primas). The article’s focus on territorial compromise ignores the only remedy: conversion of Jews and Muslims to the One True Faith.
Modernist Collusion in the Vatican
VaticanNews’ secular framing aligns with the conciliar sect’s betrayal of Catholic mission. By lamenting settlements while ignoring Christ’s Kingship, the portal practices the heresy of Americanism condemned by Leo XIII—elevating temporal peace above eternal salvation. Worse, it echoes the modernist error exposed in Lamentabili Sane (1907):
Proposition 64: “The progress of sciences requires a reform of the concept of Christian doctrine concerning God, creation, Revelation, the Person of the Incarnate Word, and Redemption.”
The UN’s Guterres—a globalist promoting pagan sustainability goals—is cited as moral authority, while Scripture is absent. This inversion proves the Vatican II sect’s complicity in building the Kingdom of Man against the Regnum Christi.
The Judaizing of Catholic Discourse
Smotrich’s Zionist agenda receives uncritical coverage, despite Catholicism’s rejection of Jewish entitlement to Palestine. The article never challenges Israel’s foundational heresy: that ethnic Jews remain God’s chosen people post-Calvary. St. Pius X’s Our Apostolic Mandate (1910) demolishes this:
“The Jews await a Messiah who will be a political conqueror… but this Messiah has come, and His Name is Jesus Christ.”
By treating Zionist claims as legitimate, VaticanNews commits religious indifferentism—condemned as “insanity” by Gregory XVI (Mirari Vos, 1832). True peace demands Israel’s conversion, not land swaps.
Symptomatic Silence on Islamic Persecution
The article weeps for Palestinian farmland but ignores the genocide of Middle Eastern Christians by Islamic regimes. Where is VaticanNews’ outrage when Copts are beheaded in Egypt or Assyrians enslaved in Iraq? This selective indignation exposes the conciliar sect’s ecumenism of apostasy—favoring Muslims while betraying persecuted brethren. Pius IX’s Syllabus condemns such hypocrisy:
- Proposition 77: “In the present day it is no longer expedient that the Catholic religion should be held as the only religion of the State, to the exclusion of all other forms of worship.”
Conclusion: Only Christ the King Brings Peace
The West Bank conflict proves the world’s collective rebellion against the Social Reign of Christ. Until nations kneel before the Rex Regum, bloodshed will escalate. As Pius XI teaches:
“When all men… shall not only acknowledge the empire of Christ but actively honor it, then at last will peace be seen to smile”
(Ubi Arcano, 1922). The modernist Vatican’s silence on this truth damns it as a collaborator in global desolation.
Source:
Israel allows 19 new settlements in occupied West Bank (vaticannews.va)
Date: 22.12.2025