Catholic News Agency reports on U.S. military strikes in Caracas culminating in the capture of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro on January 3, 2026. The article details President Trump’s announcement, opposition leader MarÃa Corina Machado’s celebratory statement calling this “the hour of freedom,” and Latin American leaders’ condemnation of U.S. actions. Venezuelan bishops are described as “praying” and in “constant communication” while the conciliar “Episcopal Conference” president Archbishop Jesús González de Zárate offers generic remarks about monitoring events. EWTN News shares a syncretistic prayer invoking Our Lady of Coromoto that omits reference to Christ’s social reign. The piece exemplifies the neo-church’s surrender to secular geopolitics while abdicating its duty to proclaim Pax Christi in Regno Christi (the Peace of Christ in the Kingdom of Christ).
Naturalistic Reduction of Ecclesial Mission to Humanistic Sentiment
The Venezuelan bishops’ response constitutes grave pastoral negligence. Rather than invoking Quas Primas (Pius XI, 1925) which commands Catholics to “fight courageously under the banner of Christ the King,” these conciliar prelates reduce their role to being mere social workers. Their statement about “monitoring” events and maintaining “communication” starkly contrasts with Pope Pius XI’s teaching that “the Church cannot be subject to any external power” (Encyclical Quas Primas, §31). The bishops’ silence on the duty of nations to submit to Christ’s authority constitutes implicit approval of the modernist heresy condemned in Pius IX’s Syllabus of Errors: “The Church ought to be separated from the State, and the State from the Church” (Error #55).
MarÃa Corina Machado’s declaration that “the hour of freedom has arrived” embodies the liberal delusion that political change can bring true liberation. Her tweet concluding “We go hand in hand with God” adopts the saccharine language of conciliar indifferentism, ignoring St. Augustine’s teaching that vera religio (true religion) requires submission to Christ’s Kingship. The article’s omission of any Catholic critique of her secular messianism reveals its complicity with the conciliar sect’s abandonment of extra Ecclesiam nulla salus.
EWTN’s Syncretistic Prayer as Sacrilegious Parody
The prayer disseminated by EWTN News constitutes spiritual malpractice:
“Grant us the wisdom of dialogue and encounter… Venezuela! Walks and lives with Jesus Christ, Lord of history!”
This modernist incantation reduces Our Lord to a passive observer rather than the Rex Regum (King of Kings) demanding societal submission. Contrast this with the Leonine Prayers after Low Mass which implored: “That all our enemies may be disarmed… and that the Christian kings and princes may unanimously resolve to honor the glorious name of Jesus, which is set above every name.” The EWTN prayer’s emphasis on “dialogue” echoes Vatican II’s Gaudium et Spes heresy that “the Church acknowledges the good to be found in the social dynamism of today” (§42) – a proposition condemned by St. Pius X as “the synthesis of all heresies” (Encyclical Pascendi, §39).
Illegitimacy of U.S. Intervention Without Christocentric Framework
President Trump’s military action – while removing a socialist tyrant – remains fundamentally disordered by its secularist premises. The U.S. Attorney General’s boast about bringing Maduro to face “American justice” exemplifies the naturalism condemned in Pius IX’s Syllabus: “Human reason is the sole arbiter of truth and falsehood” (Error #3). Without public recognition of Christ’s sovereignty over nations, such interventions merely replace one Godless regime with another.
Latin American leaders’ condemnations of U.S. “aggression” while ignoring Maduro’s decades of persecution against Catholics reveal their complicity with communist agendas. Brazilian President Lula’s hypocritical defense of Venezuelan “sovereignty” contrasts starkly with his own government’s persecution of pro-life demonstrators – a silence our article shamefully fails to note.
Omission of Catholic Solutions: Consecration to Christ the King
The article’s most glaring failure is its silence regarding the only Catholic solution to Venezuela’s crisis: national consecration to the Sacred Heart of Jesus and Immaculate Heart of Mary as demanded by Heaven at Fatima legitimate apparitions like those to St. Margaret Mary Alacoque. Pius XI’s establishment of Christ the King’s feast precisely addressed such geopolitical chaos: “When once men recognize… that Christ reigns… society will at last receive the great blessings of real liberty, well-ordered discipline, peace and harmony” (Quas Primas, §19).
Instead, the conciliar “bishops” offer empty platitudes while the neo-church’s media arm (EWTN) distributes syncretistic prayers. This fulfills Pius X’s warning about modernists who “reduce to a minimum the supernatural ministry of the Church” (Encyclical Pascendi, §39). The true Church alone possesses the solution: “There will be no peace on earth until He is recognized as King” (Cardinal Pie, Allocution to Pius IX, 1873).
Source:
LIVE UPDATES: U.S. strikes Venezuela, captures Maduro (catholicnewsagency.com)
Date: 03.01.2026