Vatican News portal reports that the Latin Patriarchate of Jerusalem has denounced Israeli settler encroachments on Church-owned land in the Tayasir and Hamam Il-Maleh areas of the Tubas Governorate, in the northern Jordan Valley of the occupied West Bank. According to the article, dated 24 April 2026, representatives from the so-called Patriarchate’s Endowment Department met with Israeli military authorities and Civil Administration officials following a formal complaint documenting damage to Church property and impact on local residents. The Patriarchate described the encroachments as “a clear violation of Church properties,” called for “the immediate removal of all damage caused,” and reaffirmed its support for local residents to “remain steadfast, protect their dignity, and live in safety and stability.” Authorities reportedly committed to pursuing those responsible and seizing heavy machinery used for land destruction. The article frames the incident within broader concerns over settlement expansion, describing such developments as contributing to “de facto annexation” contrary to international law and an obstacle to a “negotiated two-state solution.” This report, however, is a masterclass in the conciliar sect’s characteristic diversion: it weaponizes a legitimate grievance about property violations to launder the credibility of the post-conciliar structures while remaining utterly silent on the far greater spiritual devastation wrought by the same “Church” apparatus against the souls entrusted to its care.
The “Latin Patriarchate of Jerusalem”: A Post-Conciliar Entity Without Apostolic Authority
Before addressing the substance of this report, it is necessary to establish the nature of the entity speaking. The “Latin Patriarchate of Jerusalem” referenced in this article is not the Catholic institution established by the Crusaders and maintained through centuries of persecution under the authority of the Roman Pontiff. It is a post-conciliar structure operating under the authority of the conciliar sect headquartered in the Vatican — an apparatus that has, since the death of Pope Pius XII in 1958, systematically dismantled Catholic doctrine, liturgy, and ecclesiology. The title “Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem” is held by a figure recognized not by the true Church but by the neo-church of the Antichrist, the same structure that promulgated the heretical declarations of Vatican II, including Nostra Aetate (which revolutionized the Church’s relationship with non-Catholic religions), Dignitatis Humanae (which proclaimed the heresy of religious liberty), and Unitatis Redintegratio (which institutionalized false ecumenism).
The “bishops” and “officials” of this entity are, in the language of the pre-conciliar Church, either formal heretics who have lost jurisdiction ipso facto by virtue of their public adhesion to condemned errors, or at minimum, individuals operating within a structure that has abandoned the Catholic faith. As St. Robert Bellarmine teaches in De Romano Pontifice (Book II, Chapter 30): “A Pope who is a manifest heretic, by that very fact ceases to be Pope and head, just as he ceases to be a Christian and member of the body of the Church.” This principle, confirmed by Wernz and Vidal in Ius Canonicum, applies with equal force to bishops and prelates who publicly profess heresy. The officials of the “Latin Patriarchate of Jerusalem” who have accepted and promoted the doctrinal revolution of Vatican II are, by that very fact, outside the true Church and possess no authority to govern, teach, or administer in her name.
The Property Grievance: Legitimate in Itself, Cynically Instrumentalized
The encroachment on Church-owned land by Israeli settlers is, in itself, a violation of property rights and an injustice deserving of condemnation. The Catholic Church has always taught the inviolability of justly acquired property. Pope Leo XIII, in Rerum Novarum (1891), affirmed: “The right to possess private property is derived from nature, not from man; and the State has only the right to regulate its use in the interests of the public good, but by no means to absorb it altogether.” The Church’s endowment properties, acquired through centuries of faithful stewardship, are held in trust for the service of God and the care of souls. Their destruction or usurpation is a sin against justice.
However, the manner in which this grievance is presented by Vatican News — the official mouthpiece of the conciliar sect — reveals the true nature of the operation. The article is carefully constructed to achieve several objectives simultaneously: (1) to present the post-conciliar structures as legitimate defenders of Catholic interests; (2) to garner sympathy for the “Church” by portraying it as a victim of geopolitical forces; and most critically, (3) to divert attention from the fact that the same “Church” has, for over six decades, been engaged in a far more systematic and devastating destruction of Catholic property, doctrine, and souls than any settler could accomplish with a bulldozer.
The Omission of Supernatural Reality: A Telltale Sign of Modernist Apostasy
The most glaring deficiency in this article — and one that immediately identifies it as a product of the conciliar mentality — is its complete silence on the supernatural dimension of the Church’s mission. The “Latin Patriarchate” expresses concern for the “dignity” and “safety and stability” of local residents. It calls for “legal protection” and “removal of damage.” It invokes “international law” and the “two-state solution.” But there is not a single word about the state of souls, the necessity of the sacraments, the reality of sin, the danger of eternal damnation, or the obligation of the Church to lead all men to the one true Faith.
This is the hallmark of Modernism, condemned by St. Pius X in Pascendi Dominici Gregis (1907) as “the synthesis of all heresies.” The Modernist, as St. Pius X explained, reduces religion to a matter of sentiment and social concern, stripping it of all supernatural content. The conciliar sect has perfected this reduction: its “pastoral” pronouncements are indistinguishable from those of any secular humanitarian organization. The “Church” of Vatican News does not baptize, does not absolve, does not offer the Most Holy Sacrifice of the Mass in its true form — it issues press releases, negotiates with civil authorities, and advocates for “peace” and “stability” in purely temporal terms.
Pope Pius XI, in Quas Primas (1925), taught with unmistakable clarity: “The Kingdom of our Redeemer encompasses all men… His reign extends not only to Catholic nations or to those who, by receiving baptism according to law, belong to the Church, even though their erroneous opinions have led them astray or discord has separated them from love, but His reign encompasses also all non-Christians, so that most truly the entire human race is subject to the authority of Jesus Christ.” The Kingdom of Christ is not a matter of land titles and international law; it is the spiritual dominion of the Incarnate God over every soul, every nation, and every aspect of human life. The conciliar sect’s silence on this reality is not an oversight — it is a deliberate suppression, a damnatio tacitae that reveals its fundamental apostasy.
The “Two-State Solution” and the Heresy of Religious Liberty
The article’s reference to the “negotiated two-state solution” is not merely a political observation — it is an implicit endorsement of the conciliar doctrine of religious liberty and the modernist conception of the relationship between Church and State. The “two-state solution” is a secular political framework that presupposes the legitimacy of a Jewish state in the Holy Land — a territory that, by divine right, belongs to Christ the King and to His Church. The Catholic position, as articulated by Pope Pius XI in Quas Primas, is that “the State must leave the same freedom to the members of Orders and Congregations, both male and female, who are indeed the most valiant helpers of the Pastors of the Church and contribute most to the expansion and establishment of Christ’s Kingdom.” The State exists to serve the Church, not the reverse.
The conciliar sect’s embrace of the “two-state solution” framework is a direct consequence of its adoption of the heretical declaration Dignitatis Humanae (1965), which proclaimed that every human being has a right to religious freedom — a proposition condemned by Pope Gregory XVI in Mirari Vos (1832) as “an absurd and erroneous proposition,” and by Pope Pius IX in the Syllabus of Errors (1864), which explicitly condemned the proposition that “every man is free to embrace and profess that religion which, guided by the light of reason, he shall consider true” (Proposition 15) and that “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” (Proposition 77).
By framing the conflict in terms of “international law” and political negotiation rather than the divine rights of Christ the King, the conciliar sect reveals that it has abandoned the Catholic faith in favor of the liberal, Masonic conception of Church-State relations. This is precisely the error condemned by Pope Leo XIII in Immortale Dei (1885): “The Almighty, therefore, has given the charge of the human race to two powers, the ecclesiastical and the civil, the one being set over divine, and the other over human, each the highest in its own kind, each fixed within certain limits, defined by its own nature and special object.” The conciliar sect has collapsed this divinely ordained distinction, subordinating the Church to the State and reducing her mission to that of a non-governmental organization advocating for “human rights.”
The “Humanitarian Mission” as a Substitute for the Apostolic Mission
The article states that the Patriarchate’s support for local residents is “in line with its humanitarian mission.” This phrase is a telltale marker of the conciliar revolution. The true mission of the Church is not “humanitarian” — it is supernatural. The Church exists to sanctify souls through the preaching of the Gospel, the administration of the sacraments, and the governance of the faithful under the authority of the Roman Pontiff. As Pope Pius XI declared in Quas Primas: “The Church, established by Christ as a perfect society, demands for itself by a right belonging to it, which it cannot renounce, full freedom and independence from secular authority, and that in fulfilling the mission entrusted to it by God — to teach, govern, and lead all to eternal happiness, those who belong to the Kingdom of Christ — it cannot depend on anyone’s will.”
The reduction of the Church’s mission to “humanitarian” concerns is a direct consequence of the Modernist heresy identified by St. Pius X in Lamentabili Sane Exitu (1907), which condemned the proposition that “the progress of sciences requires a reform of the concept of Christian doctrine concerning God, creation, Revelation, the Person of the Incarnate Word, and Redemption” (Proposition 64). The conciliar sect has, in effect, reformed Christian doctrine to conform to the demands of modern secular humanitarianism, stripping the Faith of its supernatural content and reducing the Church to a charitable NGO.
The Silence on the True State of the Church in the Holy Land
Perhaps the most damning omission in this article is its failure to address the true spiritual condition of the so-called “Church” in the Holy Land. The post-conciliar structures in Jerusalem — like their counterparts worldwide — have abandoned the Traditional Latin Mass, the true sacramental rites, and the integral Catholic faith. The “Mass” celebrated in the conciliar sect’s churches is the Novus Ordo Missae, a Protestantized rite promulgated by the apostate Paul VI in 1969, which even Cardinal Ottaviani and Cardinal Bacci acknowledged in their famous Brief Critical Study represented “a striking departure from the Catholic theology of the Mass as it was formulated in Session XXII of the Council of Trent.” The sacraments administered by the conciliar sect’s “priests” — including those in the “Latin Patriarchate of Jerusalem” — are of doubtful validity at best, and certainly lack the certainty required for the salvation of souls.
The faithful Catholics in the Holy Land — and indeed throughout the world — are not served by the conciliar structures. They are spiritually abandoned, left without the true Mass, the true sacraments, and the true doctrine. The “Latin Patriarchate of Jerusalem” does not warn them that receiving “Communion” in the conciliar sect’s churches — where the Mass has been reduced to a communal meal and the rubrics violate the theology of the propitiatory sacrifice — constitutes sacrilege. It does not teach them that the Novus Ordo Missae is a vehicle of Modernist heresy. It does not call them to the integral Catholic faith. Instead, it issues press releases about land encroachments and “humanitarian missions,” confirming the words of Our Lord: “They bind heavy burdens and grievous to be borne, and lay them on men’s shoulders; but they themselves will not move them with one of their fingers” (Matthew 23:4).
The Broader Context: Conciliar Complicity in the Apostasy of Nations
The article’s concern about “de facto annexation” and “settlement expansion” must be understood within the broader context of the conciliar sect’s systematic dismantling of the social reign of Christ the King. The same “Church” that now decries the violation of its property rights in the West Bank spent the decades following Vatican II surrendering its rights, properties, and doctrinal integrity on a global scale. The conciliar sect has:
- Concordatized with communist regimes (the infamous Ostpolitik of Paul VI and his successors), betraying the faithful behind the Iron Curtain;
- Embraced the United Nations and its secular human rights framework, thereby acknowledging the legitimacy of the international order built on the ruins of Christendom;
- Promoted false ecumenism with Jews, Muslims, and heretical Christians, thereby denying the exclusive salvific mission of the Catholic Church;
- Abandoned the missionary mandate to convert all nations, replacing it with “dialogue” and “mutual understanding”;
- Destroyed the liturgical, doctrinal, and disciplinary patrimony of the Church through the reforms of Vatican II and its aftermath.
In this light, the conciliar sect’s complaint about settler encroachments is not merely hypocritical — it is a calculated operation to present itself as a victim and a defender of justice, thereby laundering its credibility and obscuring its own far greater crimes against God and souls. The true Catholic position on the Holy Land is not that of the conciliar sect’s “two-state solution” but the position articulated by Pope Pius XI: “Christ the Lord… is the Lawgiver, to whom men owe obedience… all power in heaven and on earth is given to Christ the Lord… His reign encompasses all human nature.” The Holy Land belongs to Christ, and it is the duty of the true Church — not the conciliar sect — to work for its restoration to the social and spiritual reign of Christ the King.
Conclusion: The Call to Reject the Conciliar Sect and Return to Tradition
The Vatican News article on settler encroachments in the West Bank is a textbook example of the conciliar sect’s modus operandi: it seizes upon a legitimate temporal grievance to present itself as a credible and compassionate institution, while remaining utterly silent on the supernatural mission of the Church and the true spiritual condition of the faithful. The “Latin Patriarchate of Jerusalem” is not the Catholic Church — it is a post-conciliar structure operating under the authority of the neo-church of the Antichrist, an entity that has abandoned the Catholic faith and replaced it with a naturalistic humanitarianism indistinguishable from secular liberalism.
The faithful are called to reject this counterfeit Church and to adhere to the integral Catholic faith as taught by the pre-conciliar Magisterium. As Pope Pius IX declared in the Syllabus of Errors: “The Roman Pontiff can, and ought to, reconcile himself, and come to terms with progress, liberalism and modern civilization” — this proposition, condemned as error number 80, is precisely the program that the conciliar sect has implemented. The faithful must return to the unchanging Tradition of the Church, to the true Mass, to the true sacraments, and to the true doctrine of the social reign of Christ the King. Only in this way can the wounds inflicted by the conciliar apostasy be healed, and the Church’s true mission — the salvation of souls and the glory of God — be restored.
Source:
Latin Patriarchate of Jerusalem denounces settler encroachments (vaticannews.va)
Date: 24.04.2026