Visa Crisis Reveals Post-Conciliar Church’s Abandonment of Supernatural Mission
EWTN News reports (January 17, 2026) on Bangladeshi Catholics denied Indian medical visas amid political tensions, framing their plight through purely humanitarian concerns while omitting essential Catholic principles. The article laments visa restrictions preventing access to Indian hospitals, detailing financial burdens and broken family ties, yet remains silent on the eternal truths of redemptive suffering and the primacy of spiritual remedies over earthly medicine. This myopic focus epitomizes the neo-church’s reduction of Catholicism to social work.
Naturalism Masquerading as Charity
The cited article reduces the Church’s mission to medical access advocacy, stating patients “only want treatment, dignity, and the chance to live” – a formulation echoing the modernist heresy condemned by Pius X in Pascendi Dominici Gregis (1907): “They deny the Church’s right to intervene in social matters, restricting her to moral and religious questions” (§24). Nowhere does the report mention sacramental healing through Extreme Unction or the duty to seek God’s will in suffering.
This mirrors the conciliar sect’s abandonment of Quas Primas (1925), where Pius XI declared: “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” (§19). By fixating on cross-border healthcare access rather than demanding nations submit to Christ’s reign, the article implicitly endorses the separation of Church and State – condemned as “insanity” in Pius IX’s Syllabus of Errors (1864, §55).
Omission of Divine Providence and Final Ends
The report’s clinical description of visa denials and trade disputes commits the grave error of practical atheism. It cites a Catholic physician noting Indian hospitals’ “patient-centered approach” and lower costs, yet ignores the Catholic teaching that all healing originates from God. The Council of Trent infallibly defined: “If anyone says that grace is not given through the sacraments… let him be anathema” (Session VII, Canon 6).
Nowhere does EWTN’s account reference:
- Suffering’s redemptive value (Colossians 1:24)
- Miraculous healing through sacramentals like relics or pilgrimages
- The duty to prioritize spiritual health over bodily survival (Matthew 10:28)
This silence confirms the neo-church’s adoption of Enlightenment materialism, which Pius IX condemned: “Human reason, without any reference whatsoever to God, is the sole arbiter of truth and falsehood” (Syllabus, §3).
False Ecumenism in Secular Alliances
By lamenting strained India-Bangladesh relations without denouncing both nations’ apostasy from Christ the King, the article perpetuates Vatican II’s false ecumenism. The report praises “Christian hospitals” in India while ignoring that most belong to Protestant sects condemned by Pius IX: “Protestantism is nothing more than another form of the same true Christian religion… is condemned” (Syllabus, §18).
True Catholics must recall Pius XI’s warning against religious indifferentism: “That false opinion which considers all religions to be more or less good and praiseworthy… is altogether contrary to the Catholic faith” (Mortalium Animos, 1928). The article’s plea for political dialogue while omitting calls for national conversion constitutes implicit acceptance of religious pluralism – a heresy anathematized at the Council of Florence (1442).
Symptomatic of Conciliar Apostasy
This humanitarian narrative flows directly from Vatican II’s Gaudium et Spes, which prioritized earthly welfare over eternal salvation. Contrast this with Pius XII’s teaching: “The Church is in history, but at the same time she transcends it. It is only ‘with the eyes of faith’ that one can see her in her visible reality and at the same time in her spiritual essence” (Mystici Corporis, 1943).
The report’s exclusive focus on medical visas and trade disputes demonstrates how the conciliar sect:
- Reduces the Church to a NGO, abandoning her role as Ark of Salvation
- Elevates bodily health above soul’s salvation
- Seeks solutions through political negotiation rather than consecration of nations to Christ the King
As true Catholics endure persecution worldwide, this neo-church preoccupation with transnational healthcare access reveals its fundamental bankruptcy. The only remedy remains that proclaimed in Quas Primas: “When once men recognize… that Christ is King, society will at last receive the great blessings of real liberty” (§19). Until nations kneel before their true Sovereign, no visa policy or trade agreement will alleviate mankind’s suffering.
Source:
‘We only want treatment’: Catholics caught in Bangladesh-India visa crisis (ewtnnews.com)
Date: 17.01.2026