Catholic News Agency (January 18, 2026) reports that “Archbishop” Dabula Mpako of Pretoria issued a decree threatening excommunication against 42 parishioners who protested his removal of a local priest. The conciliar prelate accused protesters of violating 11 canons of the 1983 Code during December 2025 demonstrations at Sacred Heart Cathedral, demanding they undergo “rehabilitative processes” including public apologies, ideological re-education, and removal of social media content. This spectacle of conciliar authority attempting to enforce discipline reveals the inherent contradictions of a counterfeit church structure.
False Notion of “Ecclesial Communion” as Tool of Tyranny
The decree’s repeated references to protesters having “harmed ecclesial communion” exposes the conciliar sect’s corruption of authentic Catholic ecclesiology. Whereas true communion requires unity in professing the same faith (Pius XII, Mystici Corporis Christi 22), Mpako reduces it to blind obedience to modernist prelates. His accusation that protesters violated Canon 209 §1 (“the Christian faithful are bound to preserve communion with the Church“) proves particularly grotesque given that the “Archdiocese of Pretoria” itself operates under the apostate structures established by the 1983 Code – a document nullified by its rejection of the Church’s divine constitution.
The prescribed “rehabilitative process” confirms the conciliar sect’s transformation into ideological enforcement apparatus:
Mandatory participation in sessions on ecclesiology, the theology of episcopal authority, the nature of obedience and communion
This echoes the Soviet-era “re-education camps,” substituting Marxist dialectics with Vatican II’s communio heresies. The demand that protesters “issue an apology in a manner determined by the diocesan authority” reveals the totalitarian impulse beneath the conciliar rhetoric of dialogue, demonstrating how Novus Ordo prelates wield pseudo-theological concepts as bludgeons against the faithful.
The Canonical Farce of Conciliar “Discipline”
Mpako’s invocation of Canons 1373 (“illegitimate and harmful expression of opinions contrary to reverence toward pastors“) and 1369 (“gravely injuring good reputation“) constitutes supreme hypocrisy. The 1983 Code’s creation of thought crimes (delicta contra fidem) stands condemned by Pius VI’s Auctorem Fidei (1794), which anathematized those who “establish discipline as if emanating from the Church… when it openly favors the errors of innovators” (Proposition 30). The conciliar sect’s pretense at canonical order collapses under its own contradictions: how can those professing heresy (religious liberty, collegiality, ecuмenism) demand obedience under penalty of law?
The threat of excommunication rings particularly hollow coming from a prelate whose holy orders derive from Paul VI’s invalid rites. As the Holy Office decreed under Pius XII (1947), no jurisdiction exists without valid sacraments (Sacramentum Ordinis). This “penalty” constitutes spiritual theater – a barking dog without teeth, since the true ferendae sententiae excommunication requires sacramental and jurisdictional validity absent in the conciliar sect.
Sacrilege Against Divine Worship Enabled by Conciliar Revolution
While correctly identifying protesters’ disruption of Mass as sacrilege, Mpako neglects to mention that the Novus Ordo itself constitutes continuous sacrilege against the Most Holy Sacrifice. Pius XII warned that liturgical innovators “fabricate… a new order of rites… tending to the ire of God rather than His glory” (Mediator Dei 61). The protesters’ actions merely extend the desacralization initiated by the conciliar revolutionaries who turned altars into tables and priests into moderators.
The decree’s focus on “the sacredness of the liturgy” becomes laughable when issued by a prelate permitting liturgical abuses condemned by St. Pius X as “deplorable aberrations” (Tra le Sollecitudini 1). Where traditional canon law mandated automatic excommunication for profaning the Eucharist (1917 CIC 2320), Mpako offers “spiritual rehabilitation” workshops – confirming the conciliar sect’s abandonment of true disciplinary measures.
The False Shepherd’s Contempt for Catholic Justice
Mpako’s decree embodies the conciliar inversion of justice through its demand for “acts of penance and prayers for ecclesial unity” while omitting requirements for doctrural orthodoxy. Compare this to true Catholic discipline exemplified by St. Pius V’s Regnans in Excelsis (1570), which excommunicated Elizabeth I for heresy while specifying the doctrinal errors requiring recantation. The Pretoria decree contains no profession of faith, no abjuration of modernism – only demands for submission to personages lacking legitimate authority.
The “Archbishop’s” accusation that protesters “instrumentalized the celebration of Mass” for political ends ignores how the conciliar sect itself turned liturgy into ideological weapon. As Michael Davies documented in Pope Paul’s New Mass, the Novus Ordo was engineered to facilitate Protestantization – making the cathedral protesters unwitting imitators of Bugnini’s liturgical revolution.
Symptomatic Crisis of Conciliar Governance
This South African debacle exposes the conciliar sect’s governing paralysis. Having rejected the Church’s divine constitution (Pius IX, Syllabus of Errors Propositions 19-24), Novus Ordo prelates can only rule through bureaucratic fiat and psychological manipulation. The decree’s threat of penalties “including suspension, interdict, and excommunication” mirrors the actions of corrupt Renaissance prelates condemned by the Council of Trent – a far cry from the paternal severity of true shepherds like St. Charles Borromeo.
The protesters’ erroneous belief that appealing to higher conciliar authorities (“wrote and sent letters of appeal to certain Church authorities“) might yield justice demonstrates how Vatican II’s collegiality myth perpetuates protestantized ecclesiology. As Leo XIII taught, “the Church is not a republic” where factions lobby hierarchs (Satis Cognitum 15), but Christ’s monarchy where obedience flows from supernatural faith.
This pathetic spectacle of a pseudo-archbishop threatening pseudo-excommunications reveals the conciliar sect’s terminal crisis. As the true Church endures in catacombs with valid sacraments and uncorrupted doctrine, the Vatican II structure collapses under the weight of its contradictions – demanding obedience it cannot theologically require, enforcing discipline it sacramentally cannot sustain, and pretending to spiritual authority it jurisdictionally does not possess. Let the faithful heed Pius XI’s warning: “Not peace, but the sword” (Matthew 10:34) must be wielded against modernist infiltrators who’ve erected this abomination of desolation in holy places.
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Over 40 parishioners in South Africa archdiocese face excommunication after disruptive protests (catholicnewsagency.com)
Date: 18.01.2026