The Strait of Hormuz: Where Apostasy Meets Geopolitical Chaos
The cited article from Vatican News reports on escalating maritime attacks in the Gulf, Iranian threats to block the Strait of Hormuz, and the ongoing U.S.-Israeli conflict with Iran, quoting Iran’s new supreme leader, Mojtaba Khamenei. It presents these events as secular geopolitical developments, devoid of any supernatural or moral framework. This silence is not neutral; it is the very embodiment of the secularism condemned by Pope Pius XI in Quas Primas and the errors listed in Pope Pius IX’s Syllabus of Errors. The article’s naturalistic analysis, treating war and economic disruption as mere political phenomena, exposes the theological and spiritual bankruptcy of the post-conciliar “Church,” which has systematically removed Christ the King from public life, thereby surrendering the world to chaos and the “prince of this world.”
The Secularist Framework: A Direct Fruit of Modernist Apostasy
The article operates on the implicit assumption that states and conflicts exist in a neutral, God-less sphere. This is the precise error Pius XI identified in Quas Primas: “When God and Jesus Christ… were removed from laws and states… the foundations of that authority were destroyed.” The report discusses “human rights,” “international gatherings,” and “public apostasy” without ever referencing the absolute primacy of God’s law or the Social Kingship of Christ. This omission is a formal heresy, rejecting the doctrine defined by Leo XIII and Pius XI that Christ’s reign extends to all nations and all aspects of life. Pius XI declared that the feast of Christ the King was instituted “to provide a special remedy against the plague that poisons human society,” namely secularism. The conciliar sect, by promoting religious liberty and the separation of Church and State (cf. Dignitatis Humanae), has become the primary propagator of this plague. The wars in the Gulf are the bitter fruit of a world that has officially rejected Christ’s law.
Silence on the Supernatural: The Modernist Hallmark
The most damning aspect of the article is its complete silence on the supernatural order: the state of souls, the necessity of grace, the sacrilege of modern wars waged without reference to the Just War theory (which presupposes a Catholic social order), and the final judgment. This silence is not journalistic neutrality; it is the practical atheism of Modernism condemned by St. Pius X in Pascendi Dominici Gregis and Lamentabili Sane Exitu. Proposition 59 of Lamentabili states: “Truth changes with man, because it develops with him, in him, and through him.” The article’s worldview assumes a relativistic “truth” where geopolitical facts are the only reality, precisely because the “Church” of the New Advent has accepted this evolving, naturalistic truth. The true Catholic, however, sees in these events the consequences of the collective sin of apostasy foretold by St. Pius X: “the enemies of the Church… have… drawn… the very sons of the Church into their ranks.”
The “New Supreme Leader” and the Failure of the Conciliar Sect’s Ecumenism
The article quotes Mojtaba Khamenei’s vow to block the Strait and “avenge the blood of Iranians.” The conciliar sect, with its false ecumenism and interreligious dialogue, has for decades courted Islamic leaders, speaking of “common values” while remaining silent on the absolute divinity of Christ and the necessity of His social reign. This is the “ecumenism project” exposed in the Fatima file, applied to Islam: the imprecise dialogue that legitimizes non-Catholic powers while undermining the exclusive claims of the Incarnate Word. The true Church, following Pius IX’s Syllabus (Error 18), condemns the notion that “Protestantism… is another form of the same true Christian religion” – and by logical extension, any non-Catholic religion. The conciliar sect’s refusal to proclaim Christ’s kingship over Muslims has rendered it impotent before Islamic aggression, fulfilling Pius XI’s warning: “when all willingly accept the reign of Christ… swords and weapons will fall from hands.”
The Economic Cost: Modernism’s Cult of Man
The article notes U.S. officials’ estimate of the war’s cost: $11.3 billion. This focus on material and economic consequences, without a single reference to the spiritual cost—the loss of souls, the offense against God’s law, the violation of the Fifth Commandment—epitomizes the Modernist reduction of all reality to the natural order. This is the “cult of man” denounced by Pius XI in Quadragesimo Anno. The conciliar sect, by adopting the language of “human rights” and “development,” has traded the doctrine of the Social Kingship of Christ for the secular metrics of finance and power. The true Catholic understands, with St. Robert Bellarmine (from the Defense of Sedevacantism file), that a society not ordered to God is a society under the tyranny of Satan. The $11.3 billion is the price of a world that has chosen Barabbas over Christ.
The Usurper’s Silence: A Manifest Heresy
The article originates from Vatican News, the official mouthpiece of the “Pope” Leo XIV (Robert Prevost) and the conciliar sect. Its complete absence of any call to conversion, any mention of the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass, any invocation of the Blessed Virgin Mary (the true Queen, not the false Fatima apparition), and any assertion of Christ’s exclusive sovereignty is not an oversight. It is a manifest profession of apostasy. From the perspective of integral Catholic faith, which holds the doctrine before 1958 as immutable, the current occupant of the Vatican is a manifest heretic, having promoted religious liberty, ecumenism, and the falsehood that the Church must “listen” to the world. As St. Robert Bellarmine taught (quoted in the Defense of Sedevacantism file): “a manifest heretic… ceases to be Pope and head, just as he ceases to be a Christian.” The silence of this “papal” news service on the Social Kingship of Christ is a public act of heresy, confirming the sede vacante. The article thus serves as a testament to the sect’s total alignment with the world, “which lies in the power of the evil one” (1 John 5:19).
Conclusion: The Only Remedy – Christ the King or Chaos
The events reported—maritime warfare, geopolitical brinkmanship, economic calculation—are the inevitable outcome of a world that has expelled Christ from its councils. The conciliar sect, having embraced the errors condemned in the Syllabus (especially Errors 39-44 on the state’s supremacy over the Church) and the Modernist errors of Lamentabili (especially the evolution of dogma and the rejection of the Church’s authority), has no remedy to offer. It cannot call nations to repentance, for it denies the objective moral law. It cannot promote the Social Kingship of Christ, for it has exchanged it for the “dialogue” of the abomination of desolation. The only hope, as Pius XI proclaimed, is the public and solemn recognition of “Our Lord Jesus Christ as King of all mankind.” This feast, and the doctrine it embodies, was a direct rebuke to the secularism now engulfing the globe. The true Catholic, faithful to the pre-1958 Magisterium, must reject the conciliar sect and its naturalistic news, and work for the restoration of the Social Reign of Christ the King through the true papacy and the unadulterated Faith. Until then, the Strait of Hormuz will be a symbol of the strait in which a godless world finds itself: narrow, perilous, and devoid of the peace that only Christ can give.
Source:
Attacks on Gulf shipping intensify as Iran vows to block Strait (vaticannews.va)
Date: 12.03.2026