Vatican Official’s Bangladesh Visit Exposes Conciliar Sect’s Naturalistic Apostasy

The EWTN portal reports on the December 2025 visit of “Sister” Tiziana Merletti, secretary of the Dicastery for Institutes of Consecrated Life and Societies of Apostolic Life, to Bangladesh. The article celebrates her five-day program with religious communities, emphasizing inter-congregational cooperation and social outreach while omitting all supernatural elements of consecrated life. “Merletti told CNA she was impressed by the vitality of Bangladesh’s small Catholic community,” framing the Church’s mission through a sociological lens rather than as the societas perfecta (perfect society) established by Christ. Security concerns about “three recent explosions near Catholic facilities” are cited without connecting them to the abandonment of Christus Rex‘s social reign (Pius XI, Quas Primas).

Sacred Mission Reduced to Social Engineering

The report highlights how “the Church in Bangladesh operates schools, hospitals, and social programs that serve people of all religions,” with Father Apu Rozario listing “education, health care, addiction treatment, prison outreach, and interreligious dialogue” as primary activities. This reduction of the Church’s divine mandate to naturalistic humanitarianism directly contradicts Pius IX’s condemnation in the Syllabus of Errors: “The teaching of the Catholic Church is hostile to the well-being and interests of society” (Error 40). Nowhere does the article mention the primacy of converting souls or administering sacraments – the very raison d’être of religious life according to pre-conciliar canon law.

“Her arrival has awakened us… She appreciated our ministries and guided us on improving formation in our houses.”

Sister Mary Shubhra’s statement exposes the bankruptcy of formation under conciliarism. True religious formation requires immunis a fermento mundano (immunity from worldly leaven – St. Pius X, Sacra Tridentina Synodus), yet here it’s reduced to bureaucratic “improvement” discussions with a Vatican official whose office didn’t exist before Paul VI’s creation of the modern curial apparatus.

Synodality as Cover for Doctrinal Deviancy

Merletti praises Bangladeshi religious for “mingl[ing] together, support[ing] each other,” calling this “concrete expression of synodality.” This echoes Bergoglio’s Synod on Synodality heresies condemned by traditional theologians as “the death knell of hierarchical constitution” (Fr. Rama Coomaraswamy). The article’s constant emphasis on “walking together” ignores St. Pius X’s warning: “The Church has no greater enemies than those clergymen who… embrace all errors” (Pascendi, 39). When Merletti states religious should see “the face of God in the most vulnerable,” she replaces adorationem in spiritu et veritate (worship in spirit and truth – John 4:23) with social worker sentimentalism.

Omission of Supernatural Finality

Nowhere does the article mention:

The necessity of the votum religionis (religious vows) for personal sanctification
The duty to pray the Divine Office
The essential role of contemplative orders
The finis ultimus (ultimate end) of saving souls through conversion

Instead, we read of “projects for Catholic schools and universities — especially for women” as Merletti’s inspiration. Pius XI’s Divini Illius Magistri explicitly condemns such gender-focused naturalism: “Coeducation… is founded upon naturalism and the denial of original sin.” The article’s silence on Bangladesh’s 99.97% non-Catholic population reveals the conciliar sect’s apostasy from Extra Ecclesiam Nulla Salus (No Salvation Outside the Church – Council of Florence).

False Assurance of Apostate Structures

Merletti’s parting words – “We don’t do miracles, but we can assure our advice and prayers” – unwittingly confess the conciliar sect’s spiritual impotence. Contrast this with the promise of true sacramental power: “Signa autem eos qui crediderint haec sequentur… (Mark 16:17). The Dicastery’s “continued interest” replaces the munus sanctificandi (sanctifying office) with bureaucratic management, fulfilling St. Pius X’s prophecy: “The Modernist… is at the same time a philosopher, believer, theologian, historian, critic, apologist, reformer” (Pascendi, 33).

When the report mentions security concerns before “upcoming national elections,” it ignores the Church’s perennial teaching that political stability flows from Regnum Christi (Christ’s Kingship) over nations (Quas Primas, 18). By reducing the Church’s mission to creating “good citizens” rather than saints, this visit embodies the conciliar inversion condemned by Pius IX: “The Church ought to be separated from the State, and the State from the Church” (Syllabus of Errors, 55).

Source:
Amid security concerns, Vatican sister meets Bangladesh religious (ewtnnews.com)
Date: 23.12.2025