Conciliar Bishops Betray Christ the King for Democratic Idolatry
EWTN News reports (January 12, 2026) that the “Catholic” bishops of Panama demanded a “new constitution” during their 224th ordinary assembly, invoking “democratic institutions” and “social justice” while expressing solidarity with socialist Venezuela. Their statement commemorated the 1964 flag protests against U.S. control of the Panama Canal as a model for “defending sovereignty with conviction,” lamented poverty as “dignity violated every day,” and condemned violence while calling for environmental protections. The conciliar sect’s Panamanian branch thus reduces the Church’s divine mission to revolutionary nationalism and naturalistic social engineering.
Subversion of Christ’s Social Reign Through Constitutional Idolatry
The bishops’ demand for “a new constitution that responds realistically…to the aspirations of the Panamanian people” constitutes open rebellion against the immutable teaching that Christus Dominus est omnium nationarum (“Christ the Lord is King of all nations”). Pius XI’s Quas Primas (1925) explicitly condemned such democratic materialism: “Rulers of states…must fulfill their duty themselves and with their people…if they wish to maintain their authority inviolate and contribute to the increase of their homeland’s happiness.” By elevating “democratic institutions” above the Social Kingship of Christ, these “prelates” commit the error condemned in proposition #39 of Pius IX’s Syllabus: “The State, as being the origin and source of all rights, is endowed with a certain right not circumscribed by any limits.”
Omission of Supernatural Charity in Favor of Socialist Agitation
Their reduction of poverty relief to socio-economic “social justice” negates the Church’s true mission: the salvation of souls through sanctifying grace. While decrying “people whose dignity is violated every day,” they omit all reference to the dignitas gratiae (“dignity of grace”) attained through the sacraments. Contrast this with Pope Leo XIII’s teaching in Rerum Novarum (1891): “When a society is perishing, the wholesome advice to give is to have recourse to the Christian institutions.” Their environmentalist posturing about “Río Indio” communities displaced by canal projects follows the Bergoglian “integral ecology” heresy, ignoring St. Pius X’s warning in Pascendi that Modernists “make experience and facts the only basis of faith.”
False Solidarity With Socialist Tyranny
The bishops’ “solidarity with the Church and the Venezuelan people” constitutes material cooperation with communism—a system condemned by 11 popes from Pius IX to Pius XII. Their call for “overcoming violence” in Venezuela while omitting mention of socialist persecution proves their adherence to the heresy of #80 in the Syllabus: “The Roman Pontiff can reconcile himself with progress, liberalism, and modern civilization.” True Catholic solidarity would demand Venezuela’s conversion to the Social Reign of Christ the King, not empty pleas for “stability and peace” devoid of doctrinal content.
“No form of violence is acceptable, because it denies the dignity of the human person, created in the image and likeness of God”
This statement—divorced from the Church’s teaching on just war, capital punishment, and defense of the innocent—reveals their pacifist Modernism. Pius XII in Ci Riesce (1953) upheld the state’s right to “repress by means of force…those who place themselves against the common good,” while the Catechism of Trent teaches capital punishment defends society “against the attacks of the wicked.” Their selective defense of “human dignity” ignores the greatest violence: sacrilegious communions and invalid sacraments in their own neo-liturgical gatherings.
Naturalism as the Fruit of Conciliar Apostasy
The Panama assembly exemplifies the conciliar sect’s wholesale adoption of Enlightenment errors condemned in Pius X’s Lamentabili (1907), particularly proposition #22: “The dogmas which the Church proposes as revealed are not truths from God but interpretations of religious facts by the human mind.” By reducing the Church’s mission to constitutional reform, poverty activism, and environmentalism, these “bishops” fulfill St. Pius X’s prophecy that Modernists would make religion “a mere appendage to the social fabric” (Pascendi, #39). Their silence on the necessity of the Catholic State, the rights of Christ the King, and the Four Last Things proves they serve the “synagogue of Satan” (Apocalypse 2:9) rather than the Church of the Eternal High Priest.
Source:
Catholic Church in Panama calls for new constitution (ewtnnews.com)
Date: 12.01.2026