Venezuelan Regime’s Persecution Exposes Conciliar Sect’s Diplomatic Impotence
The EWTN portal reports that Venezuelan immigration police confiscated the passport of “Cardinal” Baltazar Porras on December 10, 2025, preventing his travel to Colombia and Spain. Authorities allegedly subjected the Caracas archbishop emeritus to “humiliating treatment” including luggage searches with drug-sniffing dogs, while falsely declaring him deceased in state databases. The Military and Hospitaller Order of St. Lazarus denounced this as a “flagrant violation” of the Vienna Convention, filing protests with the Vatican Secretariat of State. Porras framed his persecution through Nativity imagery: “Strength lies in the weakness of the manger.” This incident follows months of attacks from Venezuelan socialist officials, including President Nicolás Maduro, after Porras criticized the regime’s human rights abuses during October 2025 canonization ceremonies.
Diplomatic Farce of Conciliar “Princes”
The spectacle of a conciliar “cardinal” appealing to international law (Vienna Convention) rather than divine sanction epitomizes the neo-church’s surrender to naturalism. When Porras presented his “Vatican City State passport” expecting diplomatic immunity, he embodied the conciliar sect’s fundamental error: equating the eternal Church with a temporal nation-state. Pius XI’s Quas Primas (1925) condemned this inversion, declaring: “The Kingdom of Christ is not of this world (John 18:36)… It would be a grave error to neglect this authority [of Christ the King] and consider it as pertaining only to forms of government extinct or of lesser importance.”
The “Order of St. Lazarus” compounds this error by begging the Vatican Secretariat of State – an administrative body of the counterfeit Bergoglian church – to intervene. This reveals their blind allegiance to apostate structures. As St. Pius X warned in Pascendi Dominici Gregis (1907): “Modernists substitute for the divine authority of the Church an artificial conscience formed by purely human agencies.”
Omission of Supernatural Reality
Porras’ statement that “strength lies in the weakness of the manger” perverts Christological truth by suggesting political martyrdom parallels Bethlehem’s humility. Not once does he:
- Invoke Christ’s Kingship over nations (Ps. 2:10-12)
- Condemn Venezuela’s socialist regime for violating God’s law
- Call for repentance or mention eternal judgement
His Nativity reference reduces the Incarnation to a humanistic metaphor – precisely the “cult of man” denounced in Pius IX’s Syllabus of Errors (1864): “The Church ought to be separated from the State, and the State from the Church. – Condemned.” (Proposition 55).
Canonization Ceremonies as Revolutionary Theater
The article mentions Porras’ criticism of Venezuela’s “political persecution” during October 2025 “canonization” events. Here we confront the conciliar sect’s heretical inversion of sainthood. Pius XI’s Quas Primas established that true saints “gave proof of their love for Him [Christ] and will persevere in that love” through doctrinal fidelity. Modern “canonizations” like those of John Paul II or the Ulma family represent revolutionary propaganda.
Maduro’s regime correctly identifies these ceremonies as political tools, though both sides operate within the same naturalistic framework. When socialists and conciliarists clash over “human rights,” they merely debate which faction will control the machinery of apostasy.
The True Church’s Invisible Suffering
While neo-church officials complain about passport confiscations, Venezuela’s faithful Catholics endure actual persecution for resisting the conciliar revolution. The article’s silence about:
- Priests imprisoned for celebrating the Traditional Latin Mass
- Laity denied sacraments for rejecting Novus Ordo innovations
- Government destruction of Catholic schools and hospitals
…exposes its conciliar bias. Pius XII’s Mystici Corporis Christi (1943) reminds us: “The Church’s true children must stand ready to suffer persecution for Justice’s sake (Matt. 5:10), not diplomatic inconveniences.”
Conclusion: Judgment Upon Apostate Structures
This incident proves Vatican II’s Dignitatis Humanae – which declared religious freedom “based on the dignity of the human person” (¶2) – produces only impotence. When conciliar “diplomats” beg tyrants for rights, they reap what they sowed: the total secularization they dogmatically endorsed. Let authentic Catholics recall Pius IX’s warning: “The Roman Pontiff can, and ought to, reconcile himself, and come to terms with progress, liberalism and modern civilization. – Condemned.” (Syllabus of Errors, Proposition 80).
Venezuela’s crisis ultimately stems from rejecting Christ’s Social Kingship. As Leo XIII decreed in Annum Sacrum (1899): “The empire of Christ the King extends not only over Catholic nations… but encompasses all non-Christians.” Until nations consecrate themselves to the Sacred Heart through the Immaculate Mediatrix – not through Masonic-tainted “divine mercy” devotions – such persecutions will intensify.
Source:
Venezuelan authorities prevent Cardinal Porras from traveling, cancel passport (ewtnnews.com)
Date: 10.12.2025