Vatican News portal (January 20, 2026) reports on statements by “Archbishop” Jesús Andoni González de Zárate Salas, president of Venezuela’s “Episcopal Conference,” who claims the local church seeks to be a “place of encounter for everyone” amid political turmoil following the U.S.-backed capture of socialist dictator Nicolás Maduro. The article frames the “Church’s” role as promoting “peace and dialogue,” accompanying Venezuelans in their “struggle for the triumph of good, truth and justice” while lamenting economic collapse, prisoner releases, and invoking the Virgin of Divine Shepherdess as a “point of reference.”
### Naturalistic Reduction of the Church’s Mission
The article reduces the Church’s mission to a social agency obsessed with temporal instability, stating the hierarchy aims to “accompany the people constantly in their struggle for the triumph of good, truth and justice.” This phrasing deliberately omits the Church’s raison d’être: the salvation of souls through the depositum fidei (deposit of faith) and administration of sacraments. Nowhere does “Archbishop” González mention repentance, grace, or the Four Last Things—stark evidence of the conciliar sect’s abandonment of extra Ecclesiam nulla salus (no salvation outside the Church). Pius XI’s encyclical Quas Primas condemns this naturalism: “When once men recognize, both in private and in public life, that Christ is King, society will at last receive the great blessings of real liberty, well-ordered discipline, peace and harmony” (1925). By contrast, the Venezuelan pseudo-bishops parrot the Vatican II heresy of “dialogue” (Gaudium et Spes 3), reducing the Church to a NGO.
### Omission of Catholic Social Principles
González de Zárate speaks of “human dignity” and “Gospel values” while ignoring the foundational encyclicals of Catholic social teaching. He bemoans “precarious wages” and “lack of national production” yet fails to identify the root cause: decades of socialist tyranny condemned by Leo XIII as a “fatal plague” (Quod Apostolici Muneris, 1878). Pius XI’s Quadragesimo Anno (1931) explicitly rejects wealth redistribution: “The right to own private property has been given to man by nature… Socialism cannot be reconciled with the teachings of the Catholic Church.” The silence on Venezuela’s socialist origins exposes the “bishops’” complicity with Marxist errors—a hallmark of the conciliar sect’s “preferential option for the poor” heresy.
### Ambiguity on Justice and Liberation
The call for “truth and justice” is deliberately ambiguous. True Catholic justice requires submission to divine law, not revolutionary slogans. Gonzalez notes families await prisoners’ releases but omits the Church’s duty to demand objective justice—punishment of crimes and restitution for victims. Pius XII warned against false mercy: “A peace which did not spring from the sincere acceptance of justice… would be illusory and precarious” (1944 Christmas Message). The article’s vague “hope for improvement” echoes liberation theology’s Marxist struggle, condemned by Pius XI as “false mysticism” (Divini Redemptoris, 1937).
### Sentimentalized Mariology Replaces Doctrine
The portrayal of the Virgin of Divine Shepherdess as a “point of reference, comfort and strength” reduces Mariology to emotionalism. Authentic devotion—as defined by St. Louis de Montfort—requires total consecration leading to repentance and hatred of sin. The article’s focus on “spiritual reserve” ignores the Blessed Mother’s apocalyptic warnings at Fatima (1917)—an apparition exposed as Masonic disinformation in theological analyses (File: False Fatima Apparitions). True Marian piety demands rejection of modern errors, not ecumenical feel-good processions.
### Structural Omissions Confirm Apostasy
1. **Illegitimate Authority**: The article treats the U.S.-installed regime as legitimate without addressing Catholic principles of just authority (Leo XIII, Diuturnum, 1881).
2. **Sacramental Silence**: No mention of Mass attendance, confession, or Eucharistic reparation—the true weapons against chaos.
3. **False Ecumenism**: The “place of encounter for everyone” slogan implies indifferentism condemned by Pius IX: “The absurd and erroneous doctrine or rather delirium… that liberty of conscience and worship is each man’s personal right” (Quanta Cura, 1864).
The “Episcopal Conference’s” planned “new initiatives” will undoubtedly deepen apostasy, as all post-conciliar structures lack jurisdiction due to the See of Peter’s vacancy (File: Defense of Sedevacantism). St. Robert Bellarmine’s maxim applies: “A manifest heretic cannot be Pope” (De Romano Pontifice).
### Conclusion: A Church in Name Only
Vatican News’ portrayal of Venezuela’s pseudo-church exemplifies the conciliar sect’s total rupture with Tradition. By reducing the Faith to social work, ambiguous justice, and Marian sentimentalism, these “bishops” confirm Pius X’s warning: “The Modernist as theologian… represents the annihilation of all religion” (Pascendi, 1907). The article’s silence on Venezuela’s mandatory Sunday Mass attendance under 1960s Catholic constitutions proves the neo-church’s betrayal. Until Venezuela’s remnant clergy restore the Tridentine Mass and denounce Vatican II, their empty dialogue serves only the Prince of This World.
Source:
Church in Venezuela aims to be 'place of encounter for everyone' (vaticannews.va)
Date: 20.01.2026