Bangladesh Attacks Expose Post-Conciliar Church’s Inability to Defend the Faith
EWTN News reports on bomb attacks targeting St. Mary’s Cathedral and St. Joseph School in Dhaka, Bangladesh, between November 7-8, 2025. Authorities arrested a 28-year-old suspect linked to the banned student wing of the ousted Prime Minister’s party. The interim government pledged to protect religious minorities, while Fr. Bulbul Rebeiro, secretary of communications for the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of Bangladesh, expressed community fears and demanded security assurances. These attacks follow an October 8 explosion at Holy Rosary Church. No group claimed responsibility, but the Bangladesh Christian Association called the timing “coordinated.” The article frames the violence as political instability fallout under the new Nobel laureate-led government.
Naturalistic Reduction of Persecution to Mere Political Conflict
The report reduces anti-Catholic violence to partisan strife, stating the suspect belongs to the “banned student wing of the Awami League.” This ignores the religious hatred intrinsic to attacks on sacred sites. The Cathedral and school were targeted precisely during preparations for a national jubilee honoring Christ’s birth—a detail downplayed as incidental rather than revelatory of odium fidei (hatred of the faith). Pius XI’s encyclical Quas Primas condemns such silence: “When God and Jesus Christ…are removed from laws and states…the foundations of authority are destroyed” (§18). By blaming “political instability,” the article participates in the modernist heresy of separating faith from public life.
Sacrilegious Violence Met With Humanistic Platitudes
Fr. Rebeiro’s response—
“We Christians are very few in number, we are peace-loving people. But these incidents are frightening us”
—exposes the spiritual bankruptcy of post-conciliar leadership. Instead of invoking Christ’s kingship over Bangladesh or calling for public reparation, he begs secular authorities for protection. Contrast this with Pope Pius IX’s Syllabus of Errors, condemning the idea that “The Church ought to be separated from the State, and the State from the Church” (§55). True shepherds would denounce Bangladesh’s Islamic constitution prohibiting Christ’s social reign, not plead for “safe religious festivals” like marginalized petitioners.
Omission of the Church’s Divine Mission to Convert Nations
Nowhere does the article or quoted clergy mention Bangladesh’s duty to recognize Christ as King. The bishops’ jubilee celebration becomes a hollow gathering, stripped of its missionary imperative to “make disciples of all nations” (Matthew 28:19). Pius XI’s Quas Primas declares: “The Empire of our Redeemer embraces all men…His kingly dignity demands that the State should take account of the commandments of God” (§32-33). The attacks’ timing—before a Christ-centered event—should have provoked demands for Bangladesh’s conversion, not mere police patrols.
Satanic Silence on Sacramental Reality
The report ignores the sacrilegious nature of bombing a Cathedral where the Most Holy Sacrifice is offered. St. Mary’s houses the Real Presence—an eternal truth erased by the post-conciliar church’s focus on “interreligious harmony.” When Pius X condemned Modernists in Lamentabili Sane, he targeted their denial that “Divine revelation…ceased with the Apostles” (§21). Similarly, this article’s naturalistic framing rejects the supernatural reality: attacks on churches are assaults against Christ Himself.
Conclusion: Apostate Structures Incapable of Defense
These bombings reveal the spiritual paralysis of a counterfeit church. While Bangladeshi Catholics suffer, the conciliar sect seeks protection from a regime that constitutionally rejects Christ. As St. Pius X warned: “The enemies of the Church…are no longer confined to her outskirts; they have installed themselves in her very bosom” (Pascendi Dominici Gregis, §2). Until Bangladesh’s conversion to the Catholic monarchy demanded by Tradition, no “interim government”—whether led by Nobelists or tyrants—can guarantee true peace.
Source:
Bangladesh police arrest suspect in bomb attacks on Catholic sites (ewtnnews.com)
Date: 10.11.2025