The EWTN News portal (December 17, 2025) reports on Bangladeshi Catholics celebrating Christmas under military protection following bomb attacks against St. Mary’s Cathedral and Catholic schools in Dhaka. Bishop Sebastian Tudu admits “a sense of fear” permeates the community, while “interim government” officials promise increased security measures like CCTV cameras and metal detectors. The article frames the crisis through the naturalistic lens of “religious minorities” seeking state protection, omitting any reference to the supernatural armor of faith or the duty of nations to recognize Christ the King.
Naturalistic Reduction of Persecution to Mere Security Issue
The conciliar sect’s representatives reduce the martyrium (witness) of Bangladeshi Catholics to a police matter, with Bishop Tudu obsessing over practical instructions: “not to hold Christmas programs until late at night” and Father Albert Thomas Rozario begging secular authorities for protection. This echoes the modernist heresy condemned in Pius IX’s Syllabus of Errors (1864), which rejects the Church’s right to govern herself independently of state interference (Proposition 19). The article’s focus on “law enforcement agencies” as primary defenders exposes the conciliar sect’s abdication of supernatural faith, forgetting Tertullian’s maxim: “Sanguis martyrum semen christianorum” (The blood of martyrs is the seed of Christians).
Silence on Islamist Heresy as Root Cause
While detailing threats from “Tawhidee Muslim Janata,” the report never identifies Islamic supremacism as the theological engine driving persecution. This omission reflects the conciliar sect’s false ecumenism violating Pius XI’s condemnation in Mortalium Animos (1928): “The Catholic Church alone is keeping the true worship…This is the fount of truth, this the house of faith…outside of which none can be saved.” The article’s cowardly avoidance of doctrinal confrontation with Islam exemplifies how Vatican II’s Nostra Aetate has spiritually disarmed Catholics facing annihilation.
Blasphemous Equivalence Between Divine Liturgy and “Christmas Programs”
The reduction of Christmas – the commemoration of God’s Incarnation – to mere “Christmas programs” underscores the conciliar sect’s desacralization of worship. Contrast this with Pius XI’s encyclical Quas Primas (1925): “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.” Bangladeshi Catholics are denied this royal vision, instead being offered the table scraps of police patrols while their shepherds avoid proclaiming the Kingship of Christ over Muslim persecutors.
False Narrative of Political Instability Masking Apostasy
Repeated references to Bangladesh’s “political situation” and “interim government” constitute a strategic diversion from the conciliar sect’s complicity in its own persecution. As St. Pius X warned in Lamentabili Sane (1907), Modernists “deny the immutable sense of dogmas” (Proposition 22), which inevitably leads to the Church’s temporal weakness. The Bangladeshi hierarchy’s refusal to demand the nation’s conversion to Catholicism as the only solution – instead negotiating with godless authorities – fulfills Paul IV’s bull Cum Ex Apostolatus Officio: heretic clergy lose jurisdiction automatically by failing to defend the Faith.
Conclusion: Conciliar Cowardice Begets Persecution
This Christmas, Bangladeshi Catholics aren’t merely facing Islamic bombs – they’re choking on the spiritual poison of conciliar indifferentism. As military guards patrol their desecrated churches, their leaders should recall St. Augustine’s warning: “He who is without the Church is without Christ.” Until the counterfeit hierarchy repudiates Vatican II and demands Bangladesh’s submission to Christ the King, no amount of “CCTV cameras” will stop the bloodshed. The true solution lies not in police meetings, but in the lex orandi of the Traditional Latin Mass and the lex credendi of pre-conciliar doctrine – both systematically destroyed by the same conciliar sect now begging protection from its destroyers.
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Bangladesh Catholics face Christmas under military guard after church attacks (ewtnnews.com)
Date: 17.12.2025