Jimmy Lai’s Sentence Exposes Conciliar Sect’s Complicity with Communist Persecution
EWTN News (February 8, 2026) reports the sentencing of Hong Kong “pro-democracy activist” Jimmy Lai to 20 years imprisonment under China’s national security law. The article frames Lai as a “Catholic” martyr persecuted for his political dissent while emphasizing international support from U.S. politicians and conciliar “prelates.” Absent is any condemnation of the Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP) systematic destruction of the Social Reign of Christ the King, or the conciliar sect’s silent complicity with Beijing’s tyranny.
Naturalism Masquerading as Religious Solidarity
The article reduces Lai’s plight to a conflict between “human rights” and state power, stating his case exemplifies “severe violations of religious freedom” by the CCP. This language reflects Vatican II’s heresy of Dignitatis Humanae, which falsely claims man possesses inherent rights against God’s law. Pius IX’s Syllabus of Errors condemned such naturalism: “Every man is free to embrace and profess that religion which, guided by the light of reason, he shall consider true” (Error #15). True Catholics recognize the CCP’s crimes stem from rejecting Regnum Christi (Christ’s Kingship), not abstract “freedoms.”
Conciliar “Faith” as Apostate Spectacle
Lai’s “Catholic faith” is celebrated through modernist tropes: reading “the Gospel” while denied access to sacraments, drawing “the Crucifixion” under guard, and receiving praise from conciliar figures like “Fr.” Robert Sirico. Yet the article omits critical facts:
Lai’s imprisonment prevents him from attending the true Mass (Traditional Latin Mass) and receiving valid sacraments. The ‘Eucharist’ offered in Hong Kong’s diocesan structures follows the invalid Novus Ordo Missae, making Lai’s deprivation spiritually meaningless.
St. Pius X’s Lamentabili Sane condemned the reduction of faith to subjective experience (Error #20: “Revelation was merely man’s self-awareness of his relationship to God“). Lai’s “spiritual resilience” absent sacramental validity aligns with this modernist heresy.
False Shepherds and Ecumenical Betrayal
The article cites a November 2023 statement by 10 “Catholic bishops and archbishops” demanding Lai’s release. These men—undoubtedly post-conciliar usurpers—echo the UN’s human rights rhetoric rather than Christ’s mandate to “teach all nations” (Matthew 28:19). Their silence on the CCP’s eradication of Catholicism exposes their apostasy. Pius XI’s Quas Primas mandates:
Rulers of states must fulfill their duty to Christ the King, “contributing to the increase of their homeland’s happiness” by submitting to His law.
Instead, Hong Kong’s “bishops” collaborate with Beijing, forbidding priests like “Fr.” Vincent Woo from denouncing CCP persecution.
EWTN’s Democratization of Martyrdom
By celebrating Lai’s “pro-democracy activism,” EWTN—a mouthpiece of the conciliar sect—advocates the condemned error that “the best theory of civil society requires…public institutes…freed from all ecclesiastical authority” (Pius IX, Syllabus Error #47). Lai’s “Bradley Prize” for “ideals of the Western tradition” confirms his alignment with Masonic liberalism, which Quas Primas identifies as the root of societal collapse:
“When God and Jesus Christ were removed from laws and states…the entire human society had to be shaken, because it lacked a stable and strong foundation.”
The True Catholic Response
Genuine solidarity with Lai would demand:
1. His access to traditional sacraments administered by valid priests.
2. A renunciation of his democratic activism in favor of Christ’s Social Kingship.
3. Condemnation of the conciliar sect’s cowardice in appeasing Beijing.
Instead, EWTN perpetuates the myth that Lai’s suffering stems from “political” rather than theological rebellion against God’s order. Until Hong Kong’s faithful reject both CCP tyranny and the Vatican II antipopes, their persecution remains a natural consequence of apostasy.
Source:
Catholic activist Jimmy Lai sentenced to 20 years in prison in Hong Kong national security trial (ewtnnews.com)
Date: 09.02.2026