Vatican News portal (January 6, 2026) reports that the Latin American Episcopal Council (CELAM) issued a message expressing “closeness” to Venezuela while invoking “peace, justice, and reconciliation.” The statement references “Pope” Leo XIV’s Angelus remarks and canonizations of José Gregorio Hernández and Carmen Rendiles (October 2025), framing the Church’s mission as social activism under the guise of “accompanying the people.”
Naturalistic Humanism Replacing Supernatural Faith
The conciliar sect’s Venezuelan declaration reduces the Church to a humanitarian NGO by emphasizing “building a future of dignity” while omitting the necessity of converting Venezuela to the Catholic Faith. This contradicts Pope Pius XI’s encyclical Quas Primas (1925), which declares: “Nations will be reminded by the annual celebration of this feast that not only private individuals but also rulers and princes are bound to give public honor and obedience to Christ” (§19). CELAM’s focus on “social justice” and “human dignity” employs code words for the modernist heresy condemned in St. Pius X’s Lamentabili Sane (1907), which rejected the notion that “Revelation could not be other than the consciousness man acquired of his relation to God” (Proposition 21).
False Ecumenism and Apostate “Canonizations”
By invoking two figures “canonized” by Bergoglio’s antipapal regime, CELAM legitimizes the conciliar sect’s invalid sacrament of canonization. The 1917 Code of Canon Law (Canon 1999 §1) requires miracles verified by the Sacred Congregation of Rites – an institution abolished by Paul VI. As the Syllabus of Errors (1864) declares, “Good hope at least is to be entertained of the eternal salvation of all those who are not at all in the true Church of Christ” (Proposition 17) is condemned. The statement’s reference to “popular devotion” to Our Lady of Coromoto constitutes blasphemous exploitation, given the conciliar sect’s systematic destruction of authentic Marian piety through ecumenism.
Erasure of Christ’s Social Kingship
CELAM’s call for “peace and reconciliation” deliberately avoids demanding Venezuela’s submission to the reign of Christ the King, thereby fulfilling the modernist program described in Pius IX’s Syllabus: “The Roman Pontiff can, and ought to, reconcile himself, and come to terms with progress, liberalism and modern civilization” (Proposition 80). The document’s repeated invocations of “walking together” ape Bergoglio’s synodal heresies, directly opposing Pius VI’s condemnation in Auctorem Fidei (1794) of those who “prefer the taste of the novel to the constancy of what is certain” (Proposition 6).
Betrayal of the Church’s Militant Nature
The statement’s claim that “the Church is called to be an open home” constitutes a denial of the Church’s exclusive salvific role. As the Council of Florence (1442) decreed: “No one remaining outside the Catholic Church, not just pagans, but also Jews, heretics, or schismatics, can become partakers of eternal life” (Session 11). CELAM’s silence on Venezuela’s mandatory conversion to Catholicism exposes its adherence to the heresy of religious liberty condemned in Pius IX’s Quanta Cura (1864): “Every man is free to embrace and profess that religion which, guided by the light of reason, he shall consider true” (Proposition 15).
Theological Vacuum in Venezuelan “Crisis”
CELAM’s assertion that “God is manifested anew wherever there is “truth, justice, mercy” reduces the Incarnation to a naturalistic process, denying the necessity of sacramental grace. This echoes the modernist error condemned in St. Pius X’s Pascendi Dominici Gregis (§6): “For them, the religious sense is enclosed within the limits of consciousness… This sense is the germ of all religion.” The document’s avoidance of terms like “sacrifice,” “penance,” or “conversion” proves its authors worship the false god of human solidarity rather than the Triune God.
Source:
CELAM expresses solidarity with the Church in Venezuela (vaticannews.va)
Date: 06.01.2026