The “EWTN News” portal reports that “Bp.” Stanislav Přibyl of Litoměřice has declared a “Year of Reconciliation” commemorating the 1945-1946 expulsion of ethnic Germans from Czechoslovakia. The article emphasizes “confronting collective guilt” through ecumenical events, interfaith prayers, and pilgrimages to sites like the Filipov shrine – where a dubious 1866 “healing” occurred. While acknowledging historical atrocities, the initiative promotes a human-centered reconciliation divorced from the Church’s divine mission to convert nations to Christ the King. This syncretistic endeavor epitomizes the conciliar sect’s abandonment of Catholic integralism in favor of modernist sentimentalism.
Naturalistic Substitution of Divine Order
The initiative’s entire framework operates within the condemned modernist paradigm that reduces religion to sociological therapy. Nowhere does Přibyl invoke the Social Kingship of Christ – the foundational truth that “the whole human race is subject to the authority of Jesus Christ” (Pius XI, Quas Primas §18). Instead, he peddles the heresy of religious indifferentism by inviting “Christians, Jews, and Heimatsleute” to equally participate in “reconciliation” events. This directly violates the dogmatic teaching that “outside the Church there is no salvation” (Extra Ecclesiam nulla salus) and the Syllabus condemnation of those claiming “men may find the way of eternal salvation in any religion whatever” (Error 16).
The article’s description of Filipov as “the Czech Lourdes” exemplifies the conciliar sect’s promotion of false apparitions. Unlike authentic Marian sites, Filipov’s 1866 “miracle” lacks rigorous ecclesiastical approval – its recognition by a liberal 19th-century bishop contradicts the meticulous investigation process mandated by Pope Benedict XIV in De Servorum Dei Beatificatione. The shrine’s neo-Romanesque architecture and Redemptorist custodians cannot sanctify what is likely pious fraud – a pattern seen in other conciliar-approved hoaxes like the “Fatima apparitions.”
Omission of Repentance and Conversion
Přibyl’s pastoral letter commits the grave error of discussing reconciliation while omitting its necessary precondition: repentance. Nowhere does he demand that Germans acknowledge their ancestors’ embrace of Nazi ideology or that Czechs confess their post-war brutalities. The vague reference to the Lord’s Prayer (“forgive us our trespasses”) is stripped of its sacramental context – the bishop fails to urge Confession, the only means to restore sanctifying grace after sin. This echoes the Modernist heresy condemned in Lamentabili that “faith is ultimately based on a sum of probabilities” (Error 25).
The article celebrates the Ackermann-Gemeinde’s “reconciliation work,” ignoring its roots in theological liberalism. Founded by expelled Sudeten Germans who rejected the Church’s right to temporal property (Error 26 of the Syllabus), this organization exemplifies the naturalistic “dialogue” industry that replaces conversion with coexistence. Their “human rights” activism directly contradicts Pope Gregory XVI’s condemnation of religious liberty in Mirari Vos as “insanity” fostering “indifferentism.”
Theological Contradictions in Historical Analysis
Přibyl’s assertion that “the question of whether the expulsions were justified remains a matter for historical debate” constitutes moral relativism. Catholic teaching holds that collective punishment violates distributive justice (St. Thomas Aquinas, Summa Theologica II-II q64 a2). The post-war expulsions – involving mass rape, theft, and murder – were intrinsically evil acts that can never be justified, regardless of German collaboration with Nazism. The bishop’s equivocation reveals the conciliar sect’s abandonment of objective morality.
The article’s focus on “demolished houses” and “abandoned churches” ironically highlights the conciliar sect’s own architectural vandalism. While weeping over ruined Sudetenland churches, these modernists simultaneously desecrate intact churches worldwide through wreckovations that destroy altars and introduce Protestant tables. This hypocrisy mirrors their selective outrage over historical crimes while ignoring current sacrileges like lay “Eucharistic ministers” and altar girls.
Ecumenism as Apostasy
The planned “Christian-Jewish prayer services” constitute explicit interreligious syncretism condemned by Pope Pius XI in Mortalium Animos: “This apostolic see has never allowed its subjects to take part in the assemblies of non-Catholics.” True reconciliation requires Jews and Protestants to convert to the Catholic Faith – not pretend equality before God. The article’s praise for Polish-German episcopal “reconciliation” efforts similarly whitewashes the conciliar sect’s betrayal of doctrine, as when antipope Francis declared Luther’s heresies “a work of the Holy Spirit.”
Přibyl’s Redemptorist affiliation further exposes the initiative’s theological bankruptcy. This once-faithful order now propagates the heresy of universal salvation through its “Marian” apostates like Fr. Tadeusz Rydzyk. That a Redemptorist “bishop” promotes interfaith events proves the complete collapse of religious orders under conciliarism – a fulfillment of St. Pius X’s warning in Pascendi that Modernism would create “a new Catholicism… a new theology… a new philosophy.”
Conclusion: The Anti-Kingdom’s False Peace
This “Year of Reconciliation” epitomizes the conciliar sect’s replacement of Christ’s Kingship with humanitarian platitudes. By reducing the Church’s mission to sociological healing, Přibyl denies the Regnum Christi that requires nations to “obey the commands of the Divine King” (Pius XI, Quas Primas §33). Authentic reconciliation demands:
1. Public abolition of Vatican II’s heresies on religious liberty and ecumenism
2. Collective consecration of Czechia and Germany to Christ the King
3. Reparation for sacrileges through Eucharistic adoration and penitential processions
4. Conversion of all non-Catholics to the one true Church
Until these conditions are met, such initiatives merely dress apostasy in sentimental garb – fulfilling Pius IX’s warning in Quanta Cura that modern errors seek “to separate the Church from the State, and to break the mutual concord between temporal authority and the priesthood.”
Source:
Czech bishop declares Year of Reconciliation 80 years after World War II expulsions (ewtnnews.com)
Date: 13.01.2026