Zambian Bishops’ Neutrality Exposes Conciliar Apostasy
The Vatican News portal (February 3, 2026) reports that Zambia’s “Catholic bishops” issued a pastoral letter ahead of the August 2026 elections, urging clergy and faithful to “steer clear of partisan politics,” forbid political use of church premises, and avoid accepting political donations. The “bishops” claim the Church must “remain non-partisan,” serve as a “mouthpiece for no political party,” and merely “form consciences” while promoting the “common good.” This directive epitomizes the conciliar sect’s surrender of Christ’s social kingship.
Neutrality as Apostasy Against Christ the King
The “bishops’” insistence on political neutrality constitutes a direct rebellion against the immutable teaching that Christus vincit, Christus regnat, Christus imperat (“Christ conquers, Christ reigns, Christ commands”). Pope Pius XI’s encyclical Quas Primas (1925) dogmatically declares:
“Rulers of nations… must fulfill this duty [to Christ’s reign] themselves and with their people if they wish to maintain their authority inviolate and contribute to their homeland’s happiness” (¶ 17).
By reducing the Church’s role to a facilitator of “civil electoral environments,” the Zambian “bishops” erase the raison d’être of Catholic political action: the subjugation of all states to the Social Reign of Christ. Their silence on Zambia’s duty to enshrine Catholicism as the state religion—as demanded by Pope Pius IX’s Syllabus of Errors (Condemned Error #77)—proves their complicity in the conciliar revolution’s greatest crime: the denial of Regnum Christi.
The Abdication of the Church’s Mission
These “bishops” betray their office by declaring the Church must never be a “mouthpiece for any political party.” Such false neutrality ignores St. Robert Bellarmine’s teaching that ecclesia est coetus hominum ejusdem christianae fidei professione, et eorumdem sacramentorum communione colligatus, sub regimine legitimorum pastorum, ac praecipue unius Christi in terris vicarii Romani Pontificis (“the Church is an assembly of men united by the profession of the same Christian faith and communion in the same sacraments, under the governance of legitimate pastors, and in particular the one vicar of Christ on earth, the Roman Pontiff”; De Ecclesia Militante, 3.2). The true Church judges all political systems by divine law, as Pope Leo XIII taught in Immortale Dei:
“The Church cannot approve of… various forms of government which are guided by principles contrary to the Gospel” (¶ 24).
The directive to avoid “partisan campaigns” is a modernist trick to conceal the conciliar sect’s surrender to secularism. When the “bishops” state churches must be “houses of prayer, reflection, and reconciliation,” they omit the primary duty of churches: to be fortresses of doctrinal militancy against error. St. Pius X’s Lamentabili Sane condemns this exact error:
“The Church is an enemy… of theological sciences” (Proposition #57)—a heresy embedded in the Zambian directive’s reduction of clergy to passive observers.
Naturalism Masquerading as “Common Good”
The pastoral letter’s repeated appeals to the “common good” are stripped of supernatural finality. This mirrors Vatican II’s Gaudium et Spes—a document condemned by Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre as “the charter of the new naturalist and liberal humanism.” True Catholic teaching defines the common good as Pius XI did in Divini Redemptoris:
“A society… which refuses to recognize the divine Redeemer… denies the very basis of its own existence” (¶ 29).
By urging politicians to respect election results without first demanding their submission to Catholic morality, the “bishops” endorse the revolutionary lie condemned in Pius IX’s Syllabus (Error #63): that “obedience to legitimate princes” is optional. Nowhere do they warn Zambians that voting for anti-Catholic candidates is a mortal sin—a silence that damns souls.
Conclusion: The Conciliar Sect’s Final Apostasy
This pastoral letter exposes the conciliar hierarchy’s complete absorption into the globalist project. When the Zambian “bishops” forbid clergy from political engagement, they enact Paul VI’s 1971 directive that priests must not “intervene in party politics”—a decree designed to neuter the Church’s prophetic voice. The true Church, as St. Ambrose taught, non horret gladios (“does not fear swords”). By contrast, these hirelings (John 10:12-13) fear temporal power more than divine judgment. Their letter is not Catholicism but the “silent apostasy” foretold by John Paul II—a figure these “bishops” implicitly venerate as they replicate his betrayal of Regnum Christi.
Source:
Zambia’s Catholic Bishops urge priests and faithful to steer clear of partisan politics (vaticannews.va)
Date: 03.02.2026