The article from EWTN News/Aci Prensa reports that the Cuban communist regime will release 51 prisoners following recent talks with Vatican officials, citing “smooth relations” and “spirit of goodwill.” The Holy See Press Office confirmed conversations occurred. This development is presented as a humanitarian success of Vatican diplomacy.
The “Dialogue” of Apostasy: Cuba, the Vatican, and the Abandonment of Christ the King
A Summary Framed by Apostasy
The conciliar structures occupying the Vatican, through their Secretary for Relations with States and Press Office, have engaged in diplomatic talks with the atheist, communist regime of Cuba. The result is a prisoner release, lauded as a fruit of “smooth relations.” The article’s very framing accepts the modernist paradigm of dialogue with error and the naturalistic prioritization of temporal “goodwill” over the supernatural reign of Christ. This is not Catholic diplomacy; it is the diplomacy of the apostasy foretold by St. Pius X and condemned by Pope Pius IX. The thesis is clear: the post-conciliar Vatican has fully embraced the errors of the Syllabus, trading the exclusive social reign of Christ the King for a seat at the table of secular powers.
Factual Deconstruction: The Omission of the Primary Evil
The article meticulously notes the number of prisoners, the “good conduct” cited by the regime, and the historical context of pardons since 2010. It details meetings between U.S. officials and Vatican Archbishop Gallagher, and Cardinal Parolin’s statement about “necessary steps” for a “solution through dialogue.” What is conspicuously absent, in a silence that is itself damning, is any mention of the regime’s persistent, violent persecution of the Catholic Church in Cuba. There is no reference to the imprisonment of actual Catholic prisoners of conscience, the suppression of Catholic schools and media, the harassment of clergy, or the systematic promotion of atheism. The “51 individuals” are presented as a generic group, their political or religious status unknown—a deliberate ambiguity that whitewashes the regime’s crimes. The Vatican’s statement speaks only of “processes for the review and release of persons deprived of liberty,” employing the sterile, bureaucratic language of international human rights discourse, utterly alien to the language of the Church which speaks of martyrs, confessors, and the duty of states to recognize the true religion.
Theological Confrontation: Christ’s Kingship vs. Modernist “Dialogue”
The foundational error is the rejection of the social kingship of Our Lord Jesus Christ. Pope Pius XI, in Quas Primas, decreed the feast of Christ the King precisely to combat the “secularism of our times, so-called laicism.” He taught that Christ’s reign “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 Pope demanded that rulers “not refuse public veneration and obedience to the reigning Christ,” for “when God and Jesus Christ were removed from laws and states… the foundations of that authority were destroyed.” The Vatican’s “smooth relations” with a regime that explicitly enshrines Marxist atheism in its constitution is the precise opposite of this teaching. It is a practical denial that Christ is “King of kings and Lord of lords” (Apoc. 19:16), treating the Cuban state as a legitimate equal partner in dialogue, rather than a power in rebellion against its Divine Sovereign to which it must be publicly admonished and corrected.
This is the error condemned by Pius IX in the Syllabus of Errors:
– Error #40: “The teaching of the Catholic Church is hostile to the well-being and interests of society.” (The Vatican’s actions imply the Church’s primary mission is temporal peace, not the salvation of souls through Christ’s reign).
– Error #77: “In the present day it is no longer expedient that the Catholic religion should be held as the only religion of the State, to the exclusion of all other forms of worship.” (By engaging the communist regime as a legitimate state without demanding the exclusive public honor of Christ, the Vatican affirms this condemned indifferentism).
– Error #80: “The Roman Pontiff can, and ought to, reconcile himself, and come to terms with progress, liberalism and modern civilization.” (The “spirit of goodwill” and “smooth relations” with a communist state is the quintessential “coming to terms” with the errors of modern civilization).
Symptomatic Analysis: The Fruit of the Conciliar Revolution
This incident is not an anomaly; it is the logical fruit of the conciliar sect’s adoption of the “hermeneutics of continuity” and its “dialogue” with the world. The Second Vatican Council’s Dignitatis Humanae on religious liberty and Gaudium et Spes‘s “reading of the signs of the times” provided the doctrinal cover for this apostasy. The “dialogue” is no longer, as Pope St. Pius X condemned in Pascendi Dominici Gregis, a means to convert the erring, but an end in itself—a collaboration between the “Church” and the world against the true, integral Catholic faith. The release of prisoners, a temporal good, is presented as the supreme achievement, while the eternal salvation of the Cuban people—requiring the public confession that “there is no salvation outside the Catholic Church” (Pius IX, Quanto conficiamur)—is utterly ignored. This is the “cult of man” replacing the cult of God.
Linguistic and Rhetorical Decay: The Language of Apostasy
The article’s language is that of the abomination of desolation. Phrases like “smooth relations,” “spirit of goodwill,” “processes for the review and release,” and “solution to the existing problems through dialogue” are the lexicon of modern diplomacy and human rights activism, not of the Catholic Church. They reflect a naturalistic, Pelagian optimism that human negotiation can solve problems rooted in original sin and the rejection of grace. Compare this to the unyielding, supernatural language of Pius XI: “the plague that poisons human society” is secularism; the remedy is “the public veneration of Christ the King.” The Vatican’s language speaks of “problems” and “processes”; Pius XI spoke of “apostasy,” “plague,” and the need for “condemnation” and “correction.” The difference is the difference between faith and apostasy.
Critique of the Conciliar Clergy: Guilty of Apostasy
The “director of the Holy See Press Office” and the “Cardinal Secretary of State” are not Catholic pastors; they are functionaries of the neo-church. Their confirmation of talks and their framing of the outcome as positive constitute a public act of apostasy. They collaborate with a regime that is, according to the consistent teaching of the pre-conciliar Magisterium, intrinsically evil and an enemy of Christ. By treating the Cuban state as a legitimate entity with which “smooth relations” can be maintained, they deny the Catholic doctrine that the state has the duty to publicly profess the Catholic faith and to enact laws in conformity with it (Pius IX, Syllabus, Errors #33, #34, #55). They are guilty of the sin of scandal, leading the faithful to believe that compromise with atheistic communism is a legitimate Catholic strategy, when in fact it is a betrayal of the Martyrs of Cuba and of Christ Himself.
The Primacy of God’s Law Over Human “Goodwill”
The entire event rests on the false premise that a “spirit of goodwill” between the Church and a persecuting state is a good in itself. Catholic theology, however, subordinates all temporal peace to the peace of Christ’s reign. There can be no true peace where Christ is not publicly acknowledged as King. The “goodwill” of a regime that imprisons priests and laity for their faith is a diabolical illusion. The Church’s sole mission is the salvation of souls, which requires the preaching of the full, uncompromised Gospel, including the denunciation of sin and error. The “dialogue” practiced by the conciliar sect is a dialogue of accommodation, not of conversion. It is a pact with the devil, exchanging the truth for a handful of temporal concessions, while the souls of the Cuban people are left in the darkness of atheism and error.
Conclusion: The Abomination of Desolation in Action
The release of 51 prisoners, while a temporal good for those individuals, is rendered spiritually null and a tool of apostasy because it is presented as the fruit of a “dialogue” that fundamentally rejects the social kingship of Christ. It is a classic modernist tactic: perform a visible, humanitarian act while silently cementing the rejection of dogma. The article, by reporting this without a single critical reference to the condemned doctrines of the Syllabus or the clear teaching of Quas Primas, functions as propaganda for the conciliar sect’s apostate project. The true Catholic response would be a public condemnation of the Cuban regime’s atheism and a demand for the free exercise of the Catholic faith, the restoration of Catholic education, and the public confession of Christ as King of Cuba. That the Vatican did none of these things, but instead celebrated “smooth relations,” proves that the structures occupying Rome are the “abomination of desolation” standing in the holy place (Matt. 24:15), trading the pearl of great price for the fleeting approval of the world.
Source:
Cuban Government to Release 51 Prisoners Following Vatican Talks (ncregister.com)
Date: 13.03.2026