Slovak Prelates Defend Apostate Pact with Vatican Usurpers
Slovak Prelates Defend Apostate Pact with Vatican Usurpers
The EWTN portal reports (February 4, 2026) that Slovak bishops defend a 25-year-old agreement with the Vatican against criticism from Progressive Slovakia, which seeks to dismantle religious education funding and equalize all sects. Archbishop Paul Gallagher’s visit underscores the conciliar sect’s relentless pursuit of diplomatic legitimacy while betraying Catholic exclusivity. This charade exposes the neo-church’s surrender to pluralism and its rejection of Christus Rex’s social reign.
Conciliar Sect’s False “Common Good” Versus Catholic Order
The Slovak bishops’ conference claims the 2000 agreement ensures “clear rules for cooperation between the state and the Church” to serve the “common good of not only believers, but all citizens.” This language parrots Vatican II’s Gaudium et Spes, which reduced the Church to a NGO peddling social services. Contrast this with Pius XI’s encyclical Quas Primas: “Nations will be reminded by the annual celebration of this feast that not only private individuals but also rulers and princes are bound to give public honor and obedience to Christ” (§32). True Catholic doctrine demands states recognize the unicam societatis—the one Church of Christ—as sole arbiter of truth, not a pluralistic “contributor” among equals.
Progressive Slovakia’s demand to extend funding to “many different groups of believers” reveals the rotten fruit of conciliar ecumenism. When the Vatican II sect elevates heresy through “dialogue,” it emboldens secularists to treat the Bride of Christ as one sect among many. As Pope Pius IX condemned in the Syllabus of Errors: “Every man is free to embrace and profess that religion which, guided by the light of reason, he shall consider true” (Proposition 15). The Slovak bishops’ failure to denounce this heresy confirms their apostasy.
Gallagher’s Diplomatic Theater and the Betrayal of Conscience
Archbishop Gallagher’s praise of “very positive” relations with Slovakia ignores the agreement’s fatal flaw: its tacit endorsement of religious indifferentism. The Greek Catholic Archbishop Cyril Vasił’s complaint about unimplemented “conscientious objection” provisions rings hollow. His own Byzantine Catholic Church has been a willing collaborator in the Vatican II revolution, abandoning the Oath Against Modernism’s mandate to “reject the heretical misrepresentation that dogmas evolve and change.” True Catholic resistance requires outright rejection of regimes enforcing moral depravity—not negotiating “exceptions.”
The bishops’ emphasis on “social cohesion” and “culture of trust” exposes their naturalistic worldview. Nowhere do they mention the salvation of souls, the enforcement of Catholic morality in law, or the subordination of civil power to the Church. Compare this to Pope Leo XIII’s Immortale Dei: “Civil society must acknowledge God as its Founder and Parent, and must obey and worship His power and authority” (§6). Silence on these truths constitutes apostasy.
Education as a Battleground for Apostasy
The dispute over state-funded Catholic religious instruction epitomizes the conciliar betrayal. Progressive Slovakia attacks it as unfair privilege, while the bishops defend it as a “service.” Both sides ignore the Church’s divine right to teach nations. Pope Pius XI’s Divini Illius Magistri mandates: “Education belongs preeminently to the Church, by reason of a double title… the mission to teach all nations” (§12). By accepting state funding with secular strings attached, the Slovak bishops reduce catechesis to a subsidized hobby—not the formation of soldiers for Christ the King.
The “solution” proposed by Progressive Slovakia—equal funding for all sects—would institutionalize the heresy of indifferentism condemned by Gregory XVI in Mirari Vos: “This perverse opinion is spread everywhere by the fraud of the wicked who claim that it is possible to obtain the eternal salvation of the soul by the profession of any kind of religion” (§13). True Catholics must reject all state treaties that legitimize false religions.
Conclusion: A Pact with the Enemy of Christ
The 2000 agreement exemplifies the conciliar sect’s strategy: preserve a façade of Catholic identity while gutting its substance. As the counterfeit “Holy See” negotiates with modernist states, it betrays the Syllabus of Errors’ condemnation: “The Church ought to be separated from the State, and the State from the Church” (Proposition 55). Slovak traditionalists must resist both Progressive Slovakia’s secularism and their bishops’ conciliar complicity. Only uncompromising fidelity to the eternal Church—not the Vatican occupiers—can restore Christ’s reign.
Source:
Why Slovak bishops are defending 25-year-old agreement with Holy See (ewtnnews.com)
Date: 04.02.2026