Mexican Bishops’ Peace Appeal: Apostasy in the Face of Chaos

The Empty Peace of the Conciliar Sect: Mexico’s Bishops Preach Naturalism Amidst Apostasy

The cited article from VaticanNews reports on a statement from the Mexican Episcopal Conference, signed by Bishop Ramón Castro Castro and Bishop Héctor M. Pérez Villarreal, following the reported death of drug lord “El Mencho” and ensuing cartel violence. The bishops call for “prudence and prayer,” intensified prayers for peace, entrustment to Our Lady of Guadalupe as “Queen of Peace,” and adherence to civil authorities. This appeal, framed by a quote from John 14:27, presents a superficial pastoral response that is, in reality, a profound theological failure and a symptom of the systematic apostasy of the post-conciliar hierarchy.

I. Factual Deconstruction: A Pastoral Response That Omits the Supernatural

The article details the bishops’ actions: they released a letter, cited Scripture (Jn 14:27), urged “prudence” (staying home, avoiding travel), called for intensified prayers “within families, in parishes, at Sunday Eucharist,” and invoked Our Lady of Guadalupe. They express “concern” and “fraternal spirit.” These are the observable facts. The interpretation they offer is one of a Church seeking natural order and calm. The deconstruction reveals what is not said, which is far more significant.

First, the bishops address the symptom (violence) but are utterly silent on the sin that cries to Heaven for vengeance. Catholic teaching, especially in social encyclicals like Quas Primas of Pope Pius XI, insists that peace is impossible without the explicit and public reign of Christ the King over individuals, families, and states. Pius XI declared that when “God and Jesus Christ… were removed from laws and states… the foundations of that authority were destroyed.” The Mexican bishops, operating within the conciliar sect’s framework of “dialogue” and “accompaniment,” never mention the necessity of a social order based on the Sovereignty of Christ. Their peace is a naturalistic, sociological peace, not the peace of Christ’s reign. They call for prayer but do not call for the public confession of Christ’s kingship as the sole remedy, as Pius XI mandated when instituting the feast of Christ the King precisely to combat secularism.

Second, their invocation of Our Lady of Guadalupe as “Queen of Peace” is a hollow relic stripped of its militant Catholic context. In the pre-conciliar Church, titles like “Queen of Peace” were understood through the lens of Our Lady’s role in crushing the serpent’s head (Gen 3:15) and her correspondence with the propagation of Christ’s kingdom. The bishops use the title sentimentally, as a generic maternal figure, not as the Theotokos who intercedes for the triumph of her Son’s rights over a nation that has officially embraced secularism and Masonic principles in its constitution. There is no call for the consecration of Mexico to the Sacred Heart of Jesus, a practice Pius X ordered renewed annually, nor any reference to the demands of the Immaculate Heart for the communion of reparation on First Saturdays. The Guadalupe event itself is reduced to a cultural symbol, not the miraculous imprint of the Virgin’s own mantle, a sign of her maternal care for a Christian civilization.

II. Linguistic and Rhetorical Analysis: The Language of Apostasy

The language of the bishops’ statement is carefully crafted to sound pastoral yet evasive. Key phrases betray the modernist, naturalistic mentality condemned by St. Pius X in Pascendi Dominici gregis and Lamentabili sane exitu.

  • “Prudence and prayer”: This is the language of management and personal piety, not of prophetic denunciation. It contrasts sharply with the language of Pius XI in Quas Primas: “the hope of lasting peace will not yet shine upon nations as long as individuals and states renounce and do not wish to recognize the reign of our Savior.” The bishops’ “prudence” is the prudence of the world, fearing scandal or political backlash, not the prudence of the Holy Spirit that demands the confession of truth.
  • “Fraternal spirit”: This is the jargon of post-conciliar “collegiality” and “synodality.” It implies a horizontal, fraternal relationship among bishops and with the world, subordinating the vertical authority of Christ and His hierarchical Church. It is the language of “walking together” in ambiguity, not of teaching with authority.
  • “Following the instructions of the civil authorities”: This is a stark admission of the bishops’ acceptance of the secular, liberal order. The Syllabus of Errors of Pope Pius IX explicitly condemned the notion that civil authority has a right to interfere in religious matters (Error 44) and that the Church must submit to civil power (Errors 20, 41, 42). By placing civil instructions on par with, or even above, their own pastoral duty to command in the name of Christ, they manifest the error of “render[ing] to Caesar the things that are God’s.” They have inverted the proper order.
  • “Sowers of reconciliation and fraternity”: This is pure Modernist rhetoric. “Reconciliation” without prior conversion and reparation is a mockery. “Fraternity” without the shared life of grace in the one true Church is a naturalistic, Masonic concept. Pius IX condemned the idea that “it is lawful to refuse obedience to legitimate princes, and even to rebel against them” (Error 63), but he also condemned the idea that the state can be neutral toward the true religion (Errors 15, 16, 77). The bishops offer a “fraternity” that is indifferentist, allowing all to coexist under a false peace while Christ is dethroned.

III. Theological Confrontation: The Missing Christ the King

The central, damning omission is the complete absence of any reference to the Social Kingship of Jesus Christ. This is not a minor oversight; it is the defining characteristic of the conciliar sect’s apostasy. Pope Pius XI, in Quas Primas, established the feast of Christ the King as a direct remedy against the “secularism of our times, so-called laicism, its errors and wicked endeavors.” He wrote:

“When God and Jesus Christ – as we lamented – were removed from laws and states and when authority was derived not from God but from men, the foundations of that authority were destroyed… Therefore, if men were ever to recognize Christ’s royal authority over themselves, both privately and publicly, then unheard-of blessings would flow upon the whole society.”

The Mexican bishops, by not demanding the public recognition of Christ’s kingship in the Constitution, in the laws, in the educational system, and in the very governance of the nation, are complicit in the very evil Pius XI identified. Their peace is the peace of the Antichrist, a temporary, carnal stability that precedes final damnation. They quote John 14:27, but they ignore the context: Christ gives His peace as the world does not give. The world’s peace is based on force, treaties, and temporary truces. Christ’s peace is based on justice, which is based on His law. The bishops offer the world’s peace.

Furthermore, their call to “intensify prayers” at the “Sunday Eucharist” is a cruel mockery. In the conciliar sect, the “Eucharist” is often a polemical sign of unity rather than a propitiatory sacrifice. The rubrics of the new mass (from 1969) deliberately obscure the sacrificial nature of the Mass, reducing it to a “table of the word” and a “memorial.” The bishops invite prayer at an event that, in its typical post-conciliar form, is at best a valid but illicit sacrifice (if celebrated by a validly ordained priest in good standing—a rarity) and at worst an invalid, Lutheran-style communion service. To build a call for peace on such a compromised foundation is sacrilegious.

IV. Symptomatic Analysis: The Fruit of the Conciliar Revolution

This statement is not an anomaly; it is the logical fruit of the “abomination of desolation” standing in the holy place (Mt 24:15). The symptoms are clear:

  1. Silence on Public Sins: The bishops do not condemn the intrinsic evil of the drug trade—the murder, the slavery, the corruption, the blasphemy. They do not call for public penance. This silence is a hallmark of the post-conciliar Church, which fears “alienating” rather than condemning. Compare this to Pope Pius IX’s Syllabus, which condemned the errors that lead to such societal collapse: “All the truths of religion proceed from the innate strength of human reason” (Error 4), “the faith of Christ is in opposition to human reason” (Error 6), and the separation of Church and State (Error 55). The Mexican crisis is the direct result of these errors being enshrined in law and custom for over a century.
  2. Acceptance of the Liberal, Secular State: The bishops operate entirely within the framework of the modern Mexican state, which is fundamentally liberal and secular. They do not challenge its legitimacy or its laws that are contrary to the rights of God. They appeal to “civil authorities” as if they have legitimate authority in the order of grace. This is the error of the “Wall of Separation” condemned implicitly by the Syllabus (Errors 19, 20, 24, 25, 27, 44, 45, 46, 49, 50, 51, 52, 53). The true Catholic position, held by all the Popes before Vatican II, is that the state has the duty to recognize the Catholic Church as the sole true religion and to enact laws in conformity with its teaching.
  3. Ecclesiastical Parallelism with the World: The bishops’ structure—a conference, a president, a secretary general—mirrors the bureaucratic, democratic structures of the world. This is the “collegiality” and “synodality” of Vatican II, which destroys the monarchical, hierarchical nature of the Church willed by Christ. Their statement is a corporate press release, not a pastoral letter from a bishop with ordinary jurisdiction teaching with the authority of Christ.
  4. The “Guadalupe” Symbolism: The use of Our Lady of Guadalupe is particularly insidious. In the conciliar sect, Guadalupe has been transformed from a sign of Mary’s role in the conversion of a continent to Christ, into a symbol of “inculturation” and pan-American religious indifferentism. The bishops invoke her as “Queen of Peace” while their very “church” promotes the errors of religious liberty (Dignitatis Humanae) and ecumenism, which are the direct causes of the moral anarchy in Mexico. They use her mantle to cover their apostasy.

V. The Only Catholic Response: Christ the King or Chaos

The unchanging, integral Catholic faith, as taught before the apostasy of the conciliar revolution, provides the only coherent response. It is threefold:

1. Doctrinal: The state must publicly recognize Jesus Christ as its King and lawgiver. As Pius XI taught, “the State must leave the same freedom to the members of Orders and Congregations… it cannot depend on anyone’s will.” The Mexican state, by its secular constitution, is in a state of formal rebellion against Christ. The bishops’ first duty would be to demand the amendment of the constitution to recognize the Catholic Church as the religion of the state and the exclusive moral legislator. Their failure to do this is a betrayal of their office.

2. Sacramental: The bishops must restore the Most Holy Sacrifice of the Mass in its pure, traditional form, the Roman Rite codified by St. Pius V. The current “mass” in most Mexican parishes is an invalid or at best illicit abomination that starves the people of grace. No amount of prayer at such a “mass” can obtain the peace of Christ. They must also restore the sacraments to their proper efficacy by returning to pre-conciliar canonical forms and discipline, ending the sacrilege of communions for the divorced and “remarried,” and enforcing clerical celibacy.

3. Disciplinary: They must break communion with the antipope “Leo XIV” (Robert Prevost) and the entire conciliar hierarchy. They must govern their dioceses as true bishops, ordaining only worthy, orthodox priests, and establishing traditional religious orders. They must excommunicate and depose any cleric under their jurisdiction who promotes Modernism, religious liberty, or ecumenism. They must lead a crusade of public penance, processions, and solemn consecration of Mexico to the Sacred Heart of Jesus, as Pope Leo XIII commanded.

Instead, the bishops offer a “peace” that is the peace of the tomb. They speak of “prudence” while the souls of millions are lost to drug addiction, violence, and heresy. They invoke the “Queen of Peace” while their own “church” is the primary agent of the apostasy that has unleashed this chaos. Their statement is not a pastoral letter; it is a death warrant for the Catholic soul of Mexico.

The conclusion is inescapable: The bishops of the Mexican Episcopal Conference are not pastors of the Catholic Church. They are functionaries of the conciliar sect, a paramasonic structure occupying the Vatican. Their call for peace, devoid of the only foundation for true peace—the public and exclusive reign of Jesus Christ—is a satanic deception. The blood of the martyrs of Mexico, from the Cristeros to the present, cries out against this betrayal. The only peace possible is the peace of Christ’s kingdom, which these men have explicitly rejected by their participation in the modernist revolution. Until Mexico is consecrated to the Sacred Heart and its laws are rewritten in accordance with the Decretum of the Council of Trent and the encyclicals of the true Popes, there will be no peace, only the gradual descent into the hellish chaos that always follows the rejection of God.

Source:
Mexican Bishops call for peace amid violence in their country   (vaticannews.va)
Date: 23.02.2026