The EWTN News portal reports the release of Protestant pastor Ezra Jin Mingri by Chinese communist authorities after diplomatic pressure from President Donald Trump, presenting the event as a “miracle” and a triumph for “religious freedom”. The article cites Republican politicians — including self-identified “Catholic” Rep. Chris Smith and former Vice President Mike Pence — praising Trump’s intervention, while noting the continued imprisonment of Catholic media figure Jimmy Lai. This celebration of a heretic’s liberation by a modernist media apparatus constitutes a supreme betrayal of the Social Kingship of Christ and the dogma Extra Ecclesiam Nulla Salus.
The Naturalistic Reduction of Supernatural Reality
The cited article frames the pastor’s release through purely political and humanitarian categories: “diplomatic pressure,” “bipartisan advocacy,” “human rights,” “freedom of religion.” Nowhere does it mention the rights of God, the Kingship of Christ over nations (Quas Primas, Pius XI), or the necessity of the Catholic Faith for salvation. The Syllabus of Errors (Pope Pius IX, 1864) explicitly condemns the proposition: “The Church ought to be separated from the State, and the State from the Church” (Error 55) and “In the present day it is no longer expedient that the Catholic religion should be held as the only religion of the State” (Error 77). EWTN’s narrative — echoed by the “Catholic” congressman Smith — operates entirely within the condemned framework of laicism, treating the Church as one interest group among many petitioning secular power for “tolerance.”
Ecumenism of Blood: The Heresy of Indifferentism
The article’s central figure, Ezra Jin Mingri, is a Protestant pastor, founder of the “underground Zion Church” — a sectarian body severed from the Una, Sancta, Catholica et Apostolica Ecclesia. Yet EWTN, the flagship media of the conciliar sect, hails his release as a “miracle” and a “treasure in heaven” (per Mike Pence). This is the ecumenism of the anti-church: the implicit affirmation that all religions are equal paths to God, directly contradicting Mortalium Animos (Pius XI) and the Syllabus (Error 16: “Man may, in the observance of any religion whatever, find the way of eternal salvation”). The “miracle” language applied to a political concession by an atheist regime to a heretical sect profanes the supernatural order. True miracles confirm the Catholic Faith (Vatican I, Dei Filius, Can. 4); they do not ratify the liberty of error.
The “Catholic” Collaborators in the Conciliar Sect
Rep. Chris Smith is identified as “a Catholic” who thanks Trump for “personally raising Pastor Jin’s case.” This is the face of the post-conciliar laity: formed by the Dignitatis Humanae heresy, they conceive the Church’s mission as lobbying for religious liberty rather than proclaiming the Kingship of Christ. The article also mentions Jimmy Lai as a “jailed Catholic media tycoon and democracy advocate” — reducing the Faith to a political ideology of “democracy”. The Syllabus condemns the error that “The civil liberty of every form of worship… conduce more easily to corrupt the morals and minds of the people” is false (Error 79); the conciliar sect inverts this condemnation into dogma. These “Catholic” politicians are functionaries of the Masonic order, not soldiers of Christ the King.
Trump as the Secular Messiah of the Neo-Church
The article’s rhetoric — “President Trump has demonstrated his ability to stand up for persecuted Christians worldwide” (Sen. Risch); “Truly treasure in heaven to see this godly man of faith set free” (Mike Pence) — elevates a modernist politician to the role of defender of the Faith. This is the cult of man condemned by St. Pius X in Pascendi and Lamentabili Sane Exitu (Prop. 58: “Truth changes with man”). The conciliar sect, having abandoned the Social Reign of Christ the King (Quas Primas), inevitably seeks a temporal savior. Trump’s “advocacy” for a Protestant pastor while ignoring the true underground Catholic Church in China (faithful to Tradition, persecuted by both the Communist Party and the “patriotic” schismatic church) exposes the fraud of “religious freedom” advocacy: it protects error, not Truth.
Silence on the True Persecution: The Sedevacantist Reality in China
The article’s total silence regarding the remnant faithful in China — those adhering to the Tridentine Mass, the pre-1958 Magisterium, and the Sedevacantist position (the only canonical stance given the manifest heresy of the conciliar “popes” from John XXIII onward) — is the gravest indictment. The “underground Church” celebrated by the neo-church is the Patriotic Association’s controlled opposition or the Vatican II-sect underground (which accepts the false “pope” and the new rites). The true confessors in China are those who reject the conciliar antichurch entirely, recognizing the vacancy of the Holy See since 1958 (Cum ex Apostolatus Officio, Paul IV; Canon 188.4, 1917 Code; Bellarmine, De Romano Pontifice). Their persecution — by the Communist State and by the false “Catholic” hierarchy — is ignored by EWTN because it exposes the apostasy of the neo-church.
The “Miracle” of the Antichrist’s Peace
The family’s statement — “We truly witnessed a miracle… We hope this is a signal of a positive turn for people of faith in China and relations between our two nations” — encapsulates the eschatology of the Antichrist: a false peace between the City of Man (USA/China) and the syncretistic “faith” of the conciliar sect. Quas Primas warns: “When God and Jesus Christ… were removed from laws and states… the foundations of that authority were destroyed… the entire human society had to be shaken”. The “miracle” of a Protestant pastor freed by Trump’s deal with Xi Jinping is not the triumph of Christ the King, but the consolidation of the Masonic world order where all religions serve the State. The Syllabus (Error 55) condemns the separation of Church and State; the conciliar sect implements it and calls the result a “miracle.”
Conclusion: The Neo-Church as the Whore of Babylon
EWTN’s reportage is not journalism; it is liturgy of the false church. It worships religious liberty, serves secular power, honors heretics, and silences the Truth. The release of Ezra Jin Mingri is a political transaction, not a supernatural grace. The true miracle would be the conversion of China to the Catholic Faith — the Social Kingship of Christ established over that nation — not the toleration of a Protestant sect by a Communist tyrant at the behest of a liberal president. Non est aliud nomen sub caelo datum hominibus, in quo oporteat nos salvari (Acts 4:12). The conciliar sect, by celebrating this event, anathematizes itself.
Source:
China releases detained Christian pastor Ezra Jin Mingri (ewtnnews.com)
Date: 06.07.2026