Conciliar Sect’s Bangladesh Pilgrimage Exposes Reliance on Fallen World
EWTN News reports on “security fears” for Catholics attending Bangladesh’s annual St. Anthony pilgrimage in Gazipur near Dhaka, scheduled days before February 12 national elections. The article cites recent attacks on Catholic institutions—November 2025 bombings at Dhaka’s St. Mary’s Cathedral and St. Joseph’s School, plus December threats against two Catholic colleges—as causes for concern. A “senior priest” anonymously admits requesting government security while claiming the event has “nothing to do with politics.” The report notes divisions among the faithful about attendance, with Protestant participant Avinash Soren insisting “it is the responsibility of the government to provide security.” Gazipur police officer Zakir Hossain confirms receiving Church requests but states no security decision has been made. This groveling before secular powers betrays the conciliar sect’s abandonment of Regnum Christi (the Kingdom of Christ).
Subordination of Divine Authority to Godless State
The spectacle of churchmen begging protection from a regime presiding over Christian persecution violates the immutable principle that “Christus vincit, Christus regnat, Christus imperat” (Christ conquers, Christ reigns, Christ commands). Pius XI’s encyclical Quas primas (1925) anathematized the very notion that civil authorities hold supremacy over religious affairs: “Rulers of nations… must preserve for religion that good order which we see to have been established by God.” By contrast, the conciliar sect’s Gazipur committee operates as a NGO—filing bureaucratic requests to police while hiding behind spokesman anonymity. Their silence on Bangladesh’s Islamist violence against Christians exposes moral cowardice, for as St. Ambrose taught: “Non in dialectica complacuit Deo salvum facere populum suum” (God did not choose to save His people through dialectical arguments).
Naturalism Replaces Sacramental Economy
Nowhere does the article mention confession, Eucharistic adoration, or prayers for divine protection—the very weapons that sustained martyrs under Roman persecution. Instead, Mintu Biswas’ fear-driven absence and Soren’s naïve trust in state forces reveal a post-conciliar collapse into naturalism. Compare this to the 1908 Editae saepe where Pius X praised St. Charles Borromeo’s defiance of secular interference: “He knew that the Church… cannot be subject to any external power.” The “volunteers” mentioned by the anonymous priest constitute a pathetic substitute for the Church Militant, reduced to event staff rather than soldiers of Christ. This echoes Modernist rejection of supernatural grace, condemned in Pius X’s Pascendi Dominici gregis as reducing religion to “a kind of intuition born of need.”
False Ecumenism and Syncretism
EWTN’s inclusion of Protestant pilgrim Avinash Soren—who thanks the “Catholic Church” for organizing the event—highlights the conciliar sect’s apostasy. Leo XIII’s Satis cognitum (1896) forbade such interfaith mingling: “Unity can only be found where the Faith is entire and uncorrupted.” The pilgrimage’s syncretic nature—drawing 50,000 Catholics and Protestants—mocks the Council of Trent’s decree against communicatio in sacris (sharing in false worship). True Catholics would echo St. Cyprian: “Salus extra Ecclesiam non est” (No salvation outside the Church), rejecting joint observances with heretics.
Omission of Martyrdom Theology
The article’s anxiety over physical safety betrays the conciliar sect’s abandonment of redemptive suffering. No mention is made of Bangladesh’s 350,000 Catholics preparing for martyrdom through penance—the only proper response to persecution. Contrast this with St. Ignatius of Antioch’s letter to Romans: “Let me be food for the wild beasts, through whom I can reach God.” The silence on spiritual weapons (rosary, scapulars, fasting) proves Benedict XV’s warning in Ad beatissimi Apostolorum (1914) had come true: “The great scandal of the modern world is the elimination of the supernatural.”
Conclusion: Apostate Structures Breed Servility
From Pius IX’s Syllabus of Errors condemning state control of religion (Proposition 19) to Pius XI’s rebuke of secularism in Quas primas, the Church consistently taught that “the peace of Christ is only possible in the Kingdom of Christ.” The Gazipur pilgrimage’s reliance on police permits—while ignoring Bangladesh’s blasphemy laws enabling anti-Christian violence—proves the conciliar sect operates as a captive NGO. As true Catholics endure global persecution, they heed Pius XII’s 1951 radio message: “The Church does not need legions… she desires only liberty.” Until the conciliar sect dies, its members will keep begging crumbs from Satan’s table.
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Bangladesh Catholics face security fears at major pilgrimage amid tense elections (ewtnnews.com)
Date: 28.01.2026