The Catholic leaders in Nepal, operating within the post-conciliar structures, have publicly welcomed the landslide electoral victory of the Rastriya Swatantra Party (RSP), a secularist youth-backed movement, framing it as a mandate against political corruption and a promise of better governance. Father Silas Bogati, apostolic administrator of the Apostolic Vicariate of Nepal, and lay activist Gyan Rai expressed optimism that the new government will bring an end to corruption, employment opportunities, and crucially, “freedom of religion.” This reaction exposes the profound apostasy of the conciliar church, which has exchanged the supernatural goal of the Catholic faith—the establishment of the Social Reign of Christ the King—for a naturalistic, humanist optimism focused solely on temporal well-being and religious indifferentism.
The Silence of Supernatural Goals: A Church Without a Mission
The article is deafening in its omission of any reference to the primary mission of the Catholic Church: the salvation of souls and the conversion of nations to the one true faith. Father Bogati’s comments are confined to “end of corruption, employment opportunities and better governance,” while Gyan Rai hopes for “freedom of religion.” This is a complete abdication of the Church’s divine mandate. Pope Pius XI, in his encyclical Quas Primas, instituted the feast of Christ the King precisely to combat the “secularism of our times, so-called laicism,” declaring that the Kingdom of Christ “encompasses all men” and that “the state is happy not by one means, and man by another; for the state is nothing else than a harmonious association of men.” The article’s focus on temporal prosperity, without a single mention of the necessity for individuals, families, and states to publicly recognize and obey the divine law of Christ, reveals a church that has become a mere NGO, a “conciliar sect” preaching a gospel of material comfort. This is the very “naturalistic humanism” condemned by St. Pius X in Lamentabili sane exitu (Proposition 58: “Truth changes with man, because it develops with him, in him, and through him”).
Endorsement of Religious Indifferentism: “Freedom of Religion” as Heresy
The stated hope for “freedom of religion” is not a Catholic principle but a direct embrace of the indifferentism condemned by Pope Pius IX in the Syllabus of Errors. Error #15 states: “Every man is free to embrace and profess that religion which, guided by the light of reason, he shall consider true.” Error #16 adds: “Man may, in the observance of any religion whatever, find the way of eternal salvation, and arrive at eternal salvation.” The Catholic Church, before the revolution, never sought a “freedom” that places the true religion on equal footing with false cults. It sought the “freedom” to be the sole religion of the state, as per the social doctrine of the Popes. The article’s celebration of a secular state where evangelical Protestants (over 1 million) vastly outnumber Catholics (fewer than 10,000) is presented as a positive development, not as a catastrophic failure of mission and a sign of divine chastisement. This aligns with the “ecumenism project” described in the Fatima file, where imprecise formulations open the way to religious relativism. The conciliar church’s embrace of “religious freedom” (Dignitatis Humanae) is a repudiation of the Syllabus and a betrayal of the exclusive rights of the one true Church.
The Modernist Optimism of “Overwhelming Change”
Father Bogati’s statement, “This overwhelming change was expected as people were fed up with the leaders playing musical chairs,” and Chirendra Satyal’s comment about “tremendous enthusiasm… over the youth leadership taking over the reign of the country,” pulsate with the modernist optimism of progress and the “hermeneutics of discontinuity.” This is the “false striving for novelty” condemned by St. Pius X (Lamentabili, Prologue). The article treats a political upheaval—itself born from violence and anarchy, including the torching of Parliament—as an unalloyed good, a “mandate against misconduct.” There is no analysis from a Catholic perspective of the duty of rulers to publicly honor Christ and obey Him (cf. Quas Primas: “Let rulers of states therefore not refuse public veneration and obedience to the reigning Christ”). The article’s tone is that of a secular news report, not a Catholic commentary. It reflects the modernist principle that “the Church is an enemy of the progress of natural and theological sciences” (Lamentabili, Prop. 57) and must therefore “reconcile herself with progress, liberalism and modern civilization,” as Pius IX condemned in Syllabus Error #80.
Betrayal of Catholic Social Doctrine: The Reign of Christ vs. the Reign of Man
The entire premise of the article is that a change in secular political leadership is the solution to Nepal’s problems. This is a repudiation of the Catholic doctrine that true peace and order flow only from the recognition of Christ’s kingship. Pius XI in Quas Primas is explicit: “When God and Jesus Christ… were removed from laws and states… the foundations of that authority were destroyed.” He warns that without Christ’s reign, society is shaken and heads toward destruction. The article instead places hope in a “rapper turned politician” and a party with a “two-thirds majority.” This is the “cult of man” in its purest political form. Where is the demand that the new government enact laws conformable to the divine law? Where is the reminder that all authority comes from God (Romans 13:1) and that the state’s primary duty is to be a “perfect society” subordinate to the Church? The silence is a damning confession of apostasy. The conciliar church, following Vatican II’s Gaudium et Spes, has internalized the world’s agenda, believing the “kingdom of man” can be built without the “Kingdom of Christ.”
Symptomatic of the Conciliar Apostasy: The “Church” as a Political Lobby
The behavior of these “Catholic leaders” is not an anomaly but the logical fruit of the conciliar revolution. They operate as a special interest group seeking favorable policies (“freedom of religion,” better governance) from a secular power they no longer deem subject to Christ. This is the exact inversion of the Church’s social teaching. The Syllabus of Errors (Error #19) condemns the idea that “the Church is not a true and perfect society… but it appertains to the civil power to define what are the rights of the Church.” Yet here, the “Church” looks to the civil power (the RSP government) to grant it “freedom,” as if its rights derive from the state. This is the “abomination of desolation” standing in the holy place: a body occupying the Vatican and Catholic structures that has ceased to teach the necessity of the Social Reign of Christ and now functions as a lobby for secular liberal democracy. The file on sedevacantism demonstrates that a manifest heretic loses office ipso facto. The current occupant of the Vatican, “Pope” Leo XIV, and his prelates are manifest heretics who have abandoned the Faith. Their “church” is a paramasonic structure, and its “leaders” in Nepal are merely local functionaries of this global apostasy, celebrating a political event that the true Catholic Church would view with profound suspicion, calling the new rulers toConversion and submission to the divine law, not merely to better economic management.
Conclusion: A Church Without Christ, A Hope Without Heaven
The article in EWTN News is a stark revelation. It presents a “Catholic Church” that has no words for sin, grace, the sacraments, the final judgment, or the absolute necessity of belonging to the one true Church for salvation. Its hope is placed in the “youth” and a “landslide victory.” Its mission is reduced to seeking temporal benefits and a pluralistic “freedom” that the Syllabus anathematized. This is not the Catholic faith. It is the religion of the Antichrist, which is the religion of man. The true Catholic, clinging to the immutable faith of all time, must reject this article and the conciliar church it represents as a work of apostasy. The only “landslide victory” that matters is the triumph of the Immaculate Heart of Mary, which will be followed by the public reign of Christ the King—a reign these modernists have willfully abandoned in favor of the fleeting, godless triumphs of men.
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Church welcomes Nepal election landslide as new party sweeps out old guard (ewtnnews.com)
Date: 10.03.2026