International Reactions to Maduro’s Capture Expose Global Apostasy from Christ’s Social Kingship
The EWTN News portal (January 4, 2026) reports on divergent international responses to the U.S. military capture of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro, noting antipope Leo XIV’s anticipated comments during his Sunday Angelus. The article details:
European leaders calling for restraint ahead of an emergency U.N. Security Council meeting… China’s Foreign Ministry expressed “deep shock” at the “blatant use of force”… Venezuelan bishops called for prayer and national unity.
This coverage typifies the modernist reduction of geopolitical crises to purely naturalistic terms, utterly divorced from Catholic social doctrine.
Naturalistic Framing Ignores Divine Law
The entire discourse operates within the Freemasonic paradigm of “international law” while suppressing the immutable truth that “He shall rule from sea to sea, and from the river unto the ends of the earth” (Psalm 71:8). Not a single quoted figure – whether the EU’s Kaja Kallas or Russia’s representatives – acknowledges the fundamental crisis: Venezuela’s decades-long rejection of Quas Primas‘ mandate that “nations must submit to the rule of Christ the King or perish.”
Pius XI’s encyclical explicitly condemned such secularist myopia:
When once men recognize, both in private and in public life, that Christ is King, society will at last receive the great blessings of real liberty, well-ordered discipline, peace and harmony.
Yet the article’s focus on “legitimacy” debates and “transition processes” perpetuates the very error denounced in the Syllabus of Errors: “The State, as being the origin and source of all rights, is endowed with a certain right not circumscribed by any limits” (Condemned Proposition 39).
Conciliar Sect’s Complicit Silence
The so-called “Vatican newspaper” L’Osservatore Romano exemplifies the conciliar sect’s betrayal by describing events as a “sudden escalation” rather than diagnosing Venezuela’s root pathology: national apostasy. This follows antipope Leo XIV’s December warning against U.S. intervention – a stance contradicting traditional Catholic principles of just war when tyrannical regimes persecute the Church.
St. Robert Bellarmine’s De Laicis clarifies:
…a people can depose a king who becomes a tyrant, for he who acts contrary to the end for which he was appointed forfeits his right.
Maduro’s documented persecution of Venezuelan Catholics (closure of churches, imprisonment of priests) warranted military intervention as an act of charity – yet the antipope’s Vatican instead parrots UN talking points.
Bishops’ Spiritual Bankruptcy
The Venezuelan “bishops'” anemic call for “prayer and national unity” without demanding the nation’s consecration to Christ the King reveals their conciliar formation. Contrast this with Pius XI’s uncompromising standard:
The annual celebration of the feast [of Christ the King]… will remind men that the Church… demands liberty and independence from secular power.
These modernist clerics embody the warning in Pius X’s Lamentabili:
The progress of sciences requires a reform of the concept of Christian doctrine concerning… the Person of the Incarnate Word and Redemption (Condemned Proposition 64).
Their silence on Venezuela’s abortion laws, homosexual “rights,” and persecution of faithful Catholics confirms their apostasy.
Global Rebellion Against Divine Order
The article’s catalog of international reactions constitutes a global confession of adherence to the Syllabus of Errors‘ condemned proposition: “The Roman Pontiff can, and ought to, reconcile himself, and come to terms with progress, liberalism and modern civilization” (Proposition 80).
Macron’s celebration of dictatorship’s end ignores France’s own apostasy since 1905. China’s feigned outrage cannot conceal its genocide against Uyghur Catholics. Russia’s posturing as defender of sovereignty mocks its persecution of the Russian Orthodox Church Outside Russia.
As the true Church teaches through Leo XIII’s Immortale Dei:
There is no power but from God: and those that are ordained of God. Therefore, whosoever resisteth the power resisteth the ordinance of God (Romans 13:1-2).
But this presupposes rulers governing according to Christ’s laws – which Maduro and his global critics uniformly reject.
The Only Path to Peace
Until nations heed Pius XI’s remedy in Quas Primas – “the restoration of the empire of Our Lord” – such conflicts will multiply. The capture of one dictator changes nothing while the dictatorship of relativism (to borrow Benedict XVI’s accurate phrase) governs the UN, EU, and conciliar sect alike.
Let Venezuela’s crisis spur faithful Catholics to redouble efforts for the Social Reign of Christ the King – the sole solution ignored by all parties in this sordid affair.
Source:
Ahead of UN Venezuela meeting, world powers respond to Maduro extraction (ewtnnews.com)
Date: 04.01.2026