Iran’s Christian Martyrs Exploited for Post-Conciliar Agenda
The EWTN News portal (January 20, 2026) reports on ongoing protests in Iran since December 2025, noting casualties and arrests among Christian participants. The article emphasizes humanitarian efforts by Christians—including food distribution and medical aid—and mentions the killing of Ejmin Masihi and others of Armenian origin. It frames the conflict through secular human rights discourse, lamenting internet blackouts and “arbitrary arrests” while avoiding any substantive theological analysis of the Islamic regime’s hostility to Christ the King. This silence perpetuates the conciliar sect’s betrayal of extra Ecclesiam nulla salus (no salvation outside the Church) by reducing Christian witness to social activism.
Naturalism Masquerading as Religious Solidarity
The article states: “Large numbers of Iranians from diverse social and religious backgrounds have taken part, including Christian citizens”. Such phrasing implies religious indifferentism by placing Christianity on equal footing with other faiths—a direct contradiction of Pope Pius IX’s Syllabus of Errors, which condemned the notion that “every man is free to embrace and profess that religion which… he shall consider true” (Condemned Proposition 15). By omitting the duty of states to suppress false religions (Pius IX, Quanta Cura), the report implicitly endorses Tehran’s Islamic framework as morally legitimate.
“Christians have played a notable humanitarian role during the protests… a demonstrator later converted to Christianity after learning that the nurse who stopped his bleeding was a Christian.”
This passage reduces conversion to emotional pragmatism rather than supernatural grace. The Catechism of the Council of Trent teaches that faith arises not from human benevolence but from “hearing the word of God” (Romans 10:17). Silence on the necessity of sacramental baptism (Decretum pro Armenis, Council of Florence) and the Church’s missionary mandate (Matthew 28:19) exposes the article’s modernist subtext: Christianity as a social service provider rather than the ark of salvation.
Omission of Christ’s Social Kingship
Nowhere does the article invoke Pope Pius XI’s encyclical Quas Primas, which established that “nations will be happy… only when… they obey [Christ’s] laws and reverence His authority”. The Islamic Republic’s foundational rejection of Christ’s divinity makes its overthrow a moral imperative for Catholics—yet the report frames protests solely through economic grievances and vague “anti-government slogans.” This aligns with the conciliar sect’s abandonment of instaurare omnia in Christo (restoring all things in Christ), instead prioritizing earthly comfort over the glory due to God.
Sacrilegious Equivalence in Martyrdom
Armenian Christians killed in Tehran are described without distinction between Catholic, Orthodox, or schismatic communities. Canon 1258 of the 1917 Code forbids active participation in non-Catholic worship, yet the article’s ecumenical tone (“spiritual ties outside the country”) suggests all Christian traditions share equal validity. This echoes the heresy of indifferentism condemned by Pope Gregory XVI in Mirari Vos: “the absurd and erroneous doctrine that liberty of conscience must be maintained for everyone”.
Silence on the Hierarchy’s Duty to Condemn Islam
The report laments “allegations of foreign interference” potentially endangering Christians but fails to demand Iran’s conversion to Catholicism. Pope Leo XIII’s Immortale Dei mandates that rulers “serve the interests of God… [and] favor the Church”. By not explicitly condemning Islam’s denial of Christ’s divinity—a truth central to the Council of Nicaea commemorated in Pius XI’s Quas Primas—the article tacitly accepts Sharia’s legitimacy. This mirrors the conciliar sect’s 2019 Abu Dhabi Declaration, which blasphemously declared pluralism “willed by God.”
Conclusion: The Scandal of Selective Outrage
While decrying internet blackouts and arrests, EWTN neglects to condemn Iran’s systemic persecution of converts from Islam—a capital offense under Sharia law. This selective emphasis on political freedoms over doctrinal fidelity exposes the conciliar mindset: a Church ashamed of the Cross, reducing herself to a non-governmental organization. As St. Augustine warned, “Charity requires that we tolerate false brethren, but truth compels us to denounce them” (Contra Litteras Petiliani, II.83.184). Until Rome’s occupiers demand Iran’s submission to Christ the King, such reports will remain complicit in the Islamic regime’s war against God.
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Reports of Christian casualties and arrests are emerging as mass protests continue in Iran (ewtnnews.com)
Date: 20.01.2026