Venezuelan Bishops’ Modernist Betrayal of Christ’s Social Kingship
The Vatican News portal (February 10, 2026) reports on a statement from the Venezuelan Bishops’ Conference calling for “national reconciliation,” “respect for popular sovereignty,” and “urgent attention to the humanitarian crisis.” While invoking Isaiah’s prophecy of light dawning, these conciliar sect administrators reduce the Church’s mission to naturalistic humanism and political activism.
Subversion of Christ’s Reign by Naturalistic Democracy
The bishops’ demand to “rebuild the country’s institutions” and ensure “free and fair elections” constitutes theological treason against the immutable doctrine of Christ’s social reign. Pius XI definitively taught in Quas Primas (1925): “Nations will be happy only when they accept the reign of Christ with willing hearts” (n. 19). The document’s fixation on “popular sovereignty” while omitting the duty of civil leaders to submit to the Church’s authority reveals its revolutionary roots. The Syllabus of Errors explicitly condemns this error: “The State, as being the origin and source of all rights, is endowed with a certain right not circumscribed by any limits” (Syllabus, Error 39).
False Mercy Over Divine Justice
When the bishops call for “the complete release of all political prisoners” and “general amnesty,” they pervert Catholic justice. The Church has always upheld the state’s duty to punish criminals for the common good (Romans 13:4). St. Augustine teaches in The City of God that temporal peace requires restraining evildoers through “fear of punishment.” Their selective mercy for political dissidents while ignoring the eternal consequences of sin proves this is worldly partisanship, not supernatural charity.
Conciliar Sect’s Illegitimate Authority
The bishops’ reference to antipope Leo XIV’s January 4 Angelus message compounds their apostasy. St. Robert Bellarmine’s De Romano Pontifice establishes that manifest heretics automatically lose office: “A Pope who is a manifest heretic, by that very fact ceases to be Pope and head” (II.30). By submitting to Vatican II’s heresies (religious liberty, collegiality), these antipopes have forfeited all jurisdiction. The Venezuelan administrators act as functionaries of the counter-church occupying the Vatican, not successors of the Apostles.
Naturalism Disguised as Pastoral Care
Their laundry list of social grievances—”unpaid work,” “emigration,” “lack of medicine”—omits the only necessary thing (Luke 10:42): the salvation of souls. Nowhere do they mention:
- The necessity of the Catholic Faith for salvation (Extra Ecclesiam nulla salus)
- The duty to restore Venezuela to the Catholic State model
- Condemnation of communism still infecting the nation
This reduction of religion to humanitarianism was condemned in Pius IX’s Syllabus: “The Church is an enemy of the progress of natural and theological sciences” (Error 57)—meaning precisely this inversion of spiritual priorities.
Counterfeit Spirituality for Apostate Ends
The concluding appeal to “Eucharistic adoration” and “Stations of the Cross” within the Novus Ordo sect is spiritually poisonous. The New Mass—as documented in the Lamentabili sane exitu (1907)—destroys the theology of propitiatory sacrifice: “The natural sense of the Gospel texts cannot be reconciled with the teaching of Catholic theologians about the consciousness and infallible knowledge of Jesus Christ” (Error 32). Their “Our Lady of Coromoto” devotion serves revolutionary liberation theology, not true Marian piety.
Omission of the Antichurch’s Venezuelan Complicity
The statement ignores how conciliar “bishops” actively betrayed Venezuela for decades:
- Collaboration with Chávez’s communist regime through “dialogue”
- Silence during persecution of faithful priests who resisted modernism
- Promotion of Protestant-style “base communities” undermining parish life
True shepherds would demand Venezuela’s consecration to Christ the King—not UN-mediated “negotiations” treating Holy Mother Church as an NGO.
Source:
Church in Venezuela calls for restoration of democracy (vaticannews.va)
Date: 10.02.2026