The article from EWTN News reports that amid violent cartel retaliation following the death of a drug lord, Catholic authorities in Mexico—including self-styled “Cardinals” Aguiar Retes and Robles Ortega—organized prayers and displayed Marian images (Our Lady of Zapopan and Guadalupe), urging calm while collaborating with secular government statements. Parishes suspended Masses, and priests used social media. The response centered on Marian intercession and vague appeals to “social peace,” utterly omitting Christ’s Social Kingship, the duty of Catholic states to enforce divine law, and the sacramental life as the true source of peace. This naturalistic, pastoral strategy epitomizes the post-conciliar Church’s apostasy: replacing the reign of Christ with sentimental devotions and collaboration with godless powers, while remaining silent on the Modernist errors that have destroyed Mexican society.
The Naturalistic Panacea of a Post-Conciliar Hierarchy
The cited article presents a scene of chaos—burning vehicles, roadblocks, murdered officials—and the institutional response of the “Church in Mexico.” This response, however, is not Catholic. It is a study in naturalistic humanism and spiritual impotence, a perfect microcosm of the conciliar sect’s abandonment of supernatural means for temporal problems. The “cardinals,” “archbishop,” and “society of Jesus” all act not as pastors of souls but as social workers of a para-Masonic humanitarian NGO. Their invocation of “Our Lady” is divorced from her essential message: “Do whatever He tells you” (John 2:5), which points unconditionally to the law of Christ the King. By omitting this, they reduce Mary to a supernaturalized social worker, a “peacemaker” in the natural order only, thereby committing the sin of presumption and the error of separating devotion from doctrine.
1. Theological Level: The Omission of Christ the King
The most damning silence is the complete absence of Christus Rex. Pope Pius XI, in his encyclical Quas Primas (1925), which the conciliar sect has effectively nullified, declared:
“When God and Jesus Christ… were removed from laws and states… the foundations of that authority were destroyed, because the main reason why some have the right to command and others have the duty to obey was removed. For this reason, the entire human society had to be shaken.”
The violence in Mexico is the direct, predicted fruit of this removal. Yet the “cardinals” speak only of “social peace” and “common good” in the language of modern sociology, not of the reign of Christ over individuals, families, and states. Pius XI continues:
“Let rulers of states therefore not refuse public veneration and obedience to the reigning Christ, but let them fulfill this duty themselves and with their people, if they wish to maintain their authority inviolate and contribute to the increase of their homeland’s happiness.”
The article quotes President Claudia Sheinbaum’s secular statement about “peace, security, and normalcy” without a single word of Catholic critique. This is the syllabus of errors in action: the state acting as if it has no duty to Christ. The “Church” responds by accepting the state’s framework, thereby endorsing Error #40 of the Syllabus Errorum (condemned by Pius IX): “The teaching of the Catholic Church is hostile to the well-being and interests of society.” In practice, they prove the opposite: their teaching is now hostile to the social reign of Christ, and thus destructive of society.
2. Doctrinal Level: The Error of Indifferentism and the Absence of the Sacramental Life
The response is purely devotional and external. There is no mention of:
– The Holy Sacrifice of the Mass as the true propitiatory sacrifice for the sins of the nation.
– The Sacrament of Penance as the necessary means to restore grace and order.
– The duty of Catholics to publicly profess the Faith, even against the state.
This silence is heretical. It promotes the indifferentist spirit condemned in the Syllabus (Errors #15-18). By focusing on a “day of prayer” with images and vague supplications, they treat religion as a private, optional resource for crises, not as the public, obligatory law of God. The “priest” on the roof with the Blessed Sacrament performs a theatrical gesture devoid of theological content: the Eucharist is presented as a talisman, not as the sacrifice of Calvary which alone can atone for the collective sins of a nation. This is the “sacramentalism” of the Modernists—a superstition of signs without the reality of grace and dogmatic faith.
3. Symptomatic Level: The Fruit of the Conciliar Apostasy
The article’s entire premise—that the “Church” can collaborate with a secular, Masonic-influenced state (Mexico’s government is notoriously anti-Catholic in its laws) while offering only Marian devotion—is the logical outcome of Vatican II’s “hermeneutic of continuity” and “religious freedom.” St. Pius X, in Lamentabili sane exitu (1907), condemned:
“The Church is incapable of effectively defending evangelical ethics, because it steadfastly adheres to its views, which cannot be reconciled with modern progress.” (Proposition 63)
The conciliar sect has embraced this “progress” by abandoning defense of Catholic ethics. The Mexican hierarchy’s statement from “Cardinal” Aguiar Retes speaks of “building social peace” through “justice” in the modern, naturalistic sense—not the justice of Christ’s law which demands the repression of heresy, blasphemy, and public immorality. This is the “evolution of dogma” in action: the Social Kingship of Christ, defined by Pius XI, has been quietly discarded as “unpastoral.”
4. The False Security of Marian Devotion Without Doctrine
The article praises the “Virgin of Zapopan” as “Peacemaker” and “La Morenita” of Guadalupe as symbolizing “peaceful unity.” This is sentimentalism. True Marian devotion always leads to Christ and His law. The authentic message of Guadalupe, as understood by the pre-1958 Church, was the call to conversion from Aztec idolatry and the establishment of Catholic Mexico. Today, the image is used to promote a vague “unity” that includes all religions and the secular state—a direct violation of the Syllabus (Error #18: “Protestantism is nothing more than another form of the same true Christian religion”). The “peace” sought is not the peace of Christ’s reign (Luke 19:42), but the false peace of the Antichrist (1 Thess. 5:3).
5. The Collaboration with Secular Powers as Apostasy
The article notes that the “federal government” and military, with U.S. intelligence support, conducted the operation. The “Church” responds by urging calm and accepting the state’s narrative of “peace and normalcy.” This is the exact opposite of the Catholic Church’s duty. Pope Pius IX, in Quanta Cura (1864), condemned the idea that the state can act independently of the Church. The Mexican bishops’ failure to demand that the state enforce Catholic social order—i.e., suppress cartels as public sinners and restore the rights of the Church—is a betrayal of their office. They act as functionaries of a “national church” subservient to the state, a model condemned by the Syllabus (Errors #19-24).
6. The Sedevacantist Reality: No True Hierarchy, No True Sacraments
All actors here—the “cardinals,” “archbishop,” “Jesuits”—are part of the conciliar sect, which has embraced Modernism. As shown in the file on sedevacantism, a manifest heretic loses office ipso facto (Canon 188.4; Bellarmine). The post-1958 “popes” and bishops have promulgated the errors of Vatican II (e.g., Dignitatis humanae on religious freedom, which contradicts the Syllabus). Therefore, they have no jurisdiction. The “Masses” offered, the “sacraments” administered, are invalid or illicit. The “priest” on the roof has no valid priesthood if he was ordained in the post-1968 rite or in communion with the Modernist hierarchy. The entire operation is a theatrical display of a false church.
Conclusion: The Only True Remedy
The violence in Mexico is a divine chastisement for the apostasy of the nation and the hierarchy. The true Catholic response, according to Quas Primas, is:
1. Public confession that Jesus Christ is King of individuals, families, and states.
2. Demand that the Mexican state recognize Catholic faith as the sole religion, suppress heresy and idolatry, and govern by the Ten Commandments and Canon Law.
3. Restoration of the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass in its pure, unadulterated form (the Traditional Latin Mass).
4. Preaching of the Social Kingship of Christ and the duty of Catholic rulers to defend the Faith, even by force of arms.
5. Penance, fasting, and rosary in reparation for sins—but always in union with the doctrine of Christ’s reign.
The article’s solution is a demonic illusion: a “peace” that rejects Christ, a “unity” that includes error, and a “devotion” that is superstition without dogma. The conciliar sect has no answer to Modernism because it is Modernism. The only hope is the restoration of the true papacy and the episcopacy, the preaching of the unchanging Faith, and the formation of Catholic states that recognize no sovereignty but that of Christ the King.
Source:
Church in Mexico invokes Our Lady’s protection amid wave of drug cartel violence (ewtnnews.com)
Date: 25.02.2026