“Bishop” Trille’s Christmas Message: Sacramental Vacuum Disguised as Solidarity
ACI Africa reports on December 26, 2025, that “Bishop” Yunan Tombe Trille Kuku Andali of Sudan’s El-Obeid “Diocese” issued a Christmas message amid civil war. He parallels Christ’s manger with Sudan’s displaced, stating: “Seeing the baby Jesus in the manger describes the situation of all those of us in our country who remain without shelter and in fear.” The “bishop” laments that “no priests celebrate sacred sacraments for the faithful” in Kordofan’s desecrated parishes but reduces the Church’s mission to social solidarity, quoting Mt. 25:40: “Whatever you did for one of these least brothers of mine, you did for me.” The article frames Sudan’s crisis as a humanitarian tragedy while omitting any supernatural remedy.
Naturalism Masquerading as Pastoral Care
Trille’s message epitomizes the conciliar sect’s abandonment of extra Ecclesiam nulla salus (no salvation outside the Church). By equating Christ’s Nativity with mere material deprivation—“the situation of all those… without shelter”—he reduces the Incarnation to sociological commentary. Pius XI’s Quas Primas condemns this, teaching that Christ’s Kingship demands “the entire human race is subject to the authority of Jesus Christ” (n. 18). Nowhere does the “bishop” invoke the Regnum Christi as the solution to Sudan’s war, instead promoting a horizontal “solidarity” detached from the sacramental order.
Sacramental Desert: Fruit of Conciliar Apostasy
The admission that “no priests celebrate sacred sacraments” exposes the conciliar sect’s self-inflicted crisis. Canon 1382 of the 1917 Code mandates excommunication for bishops who neglect sacramental provision. Yet instead of publicly demanding valid priests, Trille sentimentalizes the vacuum: “Let us make our hearts the manger where the baby Jesus can live.” This gnostic substitution—replacing sacraments with interior sentiment—directly violates Trent’s decree on the necessity of priesthood (Session XXIII, Ch. 1). The article’s silence on this apostasy is deafening; ACI Africa praises Trille’s “pastoral appeal” while ignoring his failure to condemn the invalid “ordinations” that caused Sudan’s sacramental famine.
Omission of the Supernatural: A Modernist Heresy
Pius IX’s Syllabus of Errors condemns the proposition that “the Church ought to be separated from the State” (Error 55), yet Trille’s message never calls for Sudan’s conversion to Christ the King. The article cites 30.4 million needing “humanitarian aid” but ignores their need for baptism and penance. When Trille quotes Christ’s words on serving the poor, he surgically excises the precondition: “Teach all nations… to observe all things whatsoever I have commanded you” (Mt. 28:20). This selective citation aligns with Modernism’s evolution of dogma, condemned in St. Pius X’s Lamentabili (Error 22: “Dogmas… are interpretations of religious facts”).
The False Mercy of Humanitarian Religion
By urging solidarity with mourners while withholding the only remedy—the Sacrifice of Calvary—Trille’s message embodies Bergoglian “accompaniment.” The article applauds his call to “weep with parents” yet never questions why the “bishop” omits prayers for the dead, Masses for the slain, or exhortations to repentance. True Catholic shepherds, like St. Augustine, would have thundered: “Unless you believe, you shall not understand” (Sermon 43). Instead, the conciliar sect offers a desacralized Christmas—a weeping void where the Gloria in excelsis Deo should resound.
Source:
Sudanese bishop delivers Christmas message in midst of war (catholicnewsagency.com)
Date: 26.12.2025