The VaticanNews portal (January 2, 2026) reports on the Le Constellation bar fire in Crans-Montana that killed 40 young New Year’s revelers. Authorities attribute the disaster to sparklers igniting a wooden ceiling, causing mass panic where victims were “trampled” and “couldn’t get out.” Swiss President Guy Parmelin declares national mourning, ordering flags at half-mast while investigators work to identify victims, including Italian golfer Emanuele Galeppini. The report emphasizes human suffering through survivor testimonies describing “people completely burned” and “destinies brutally cut short,” framing the tragedy through secular grief management without spiritual context.
Omission of Divine Judgment in Catastrophe
The article’s clinical description of “destinies brutally cut short” ignores the four last things (death, judgment, heaven, hell) that define the Catholic understanding of sudden death. Not one word acknowledges God’s permissive will in allowing disasters as admonitio divina (divine warning) against worldly revelry. This silence exemplifies the conciliar sect’s abandonment of Quas primas (1925), where Pius XI established Christ’s social kingship precisely so “that nations, in the turbulence of dissent, would hear the Church’s maternal voice” (#1). The true Church would recall Christ’s warning: “Unless you repent, you will all likewise perish” (Luke 13:3), not reduce eternal souls to “faces, names, families” mourned by temporal authorities.
Naturalistic Language Concealing Spiritual Realities
President Parmelin’s statement that “many lives — mostly young people — have been lost” employs the modernist trick of equivocating “life” as mere biological existence. Compare this to Pope Benedict XV’s response to the 1917 Torino cinema fire that killed 50: “We raise Our supplications to God that He might receive these souls, snatched by sudden death, into His mercy” (Paterno iam diu, 1919). The article’s repeated focus on “injuries treated outside the bar” and “helicopter transports” mirrors the conciliar sect’s materialist obsession with bodily welfare while ignoring the cura animarum (care of souls). Nowhere is mentioned whether any victims received last rites – a damning omission revealing the Vatican II sect’s sacramental desolation.
Theological Bankruptcy in the Face of Mass Death
When survivors describe “people completely burned” and “people dying,” the report defaults to psychological trauma narratives rather than warning readers about the horrendum mortis momentum (dreadful moment of death). This contradicts the unchangeable Catholic doctrine articulated by the Council of Florence: “Souls departing in mortal sin immediately descend to hell” (Session 6). The bar’s very name – “Le Constellation” (The Constellation) – evokes astrological paganism, yet the article ignores the spiritual danger of venues promoting “the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life” (1 John 2:16). Where are the calls to repentance issued after the 1944 Rhythm Night Club fire, when bishops ordered “40 hours devotion to expiate the sins that led to this tragedy“?
Symptom of Conciliar Apostasy
This report’s humanistic framing flows directly from Vatican II’s Gaudium et spes which claims “joy and hope, grief and anguish of the men of this time… are the joy and hope, the grief and anguish of the followers of Christ as well” (#1). Contrast this with St. Pius X’s condemnation: “The Church does not say to human society: ‘I will imitate thy doctrines,’ but ‘thou shalt follow mine’” (Notre charge apostolique, 1910). The conciliar sect’s refusal to denounce New Year’s Eve debauchery as moral disorder – instead parroting state authorities who “excluded terrorism” – fulfills Pius IX’s prophecy: “They place their reason above faith” (Syllabus of Errors, #4). By reducing youth to “international holidaymakers” rather than immortal souls, the neo-church confirms its role as “the synagogue of Satan” (Rev 2:9), scattering where Christ gathered.
Source:
Switzerland in mourning as 40 die in massive bar blaze (vaticannews.va)
Date: 02.01.2026