The National Catholic Reporter portal reports on the aftermath of twin earthquakes that struck northern Venezuela on June 24, 2026, detailing a massive humanitarian response led by Protestant sects and the conciliar sect’s “Catholic Relief Services” in partnership with “Caritas Venezuela.” The article, penned by Aleja Hertzler-McCain and published July 6, 2026, presents a tableau of “faith leaders” — Presbyterian pastors, evangelical “bishops,” and conciliar functionaries — coordinating temporal aid while the supernatural mission of the Church is entirely absent. This reportage manifests the total substitution of the Kingship of Christ for naturalistic humanitarianism, the ecumenical betrayal of the First Commandment, and the operative apostasy of the structures occupying the Vatican.
Reduction of the Church’s Mission to Naturalistic Philanthropy
The cited article relates how “faith leaders who are themselves impacted by the disaster have become its first responders.” Presbyterian Pastor Ricardo Corzo Moreno calms his family and launches a “24-hour prayer and collection center.” “Bishop” Keison Carrillo of the “Emanuel federation” — 300 evangelical assemblies — boasts of “impressive internal solidarity.” “Bishop” Angel Marcial of the “Church of God” envisions “three phases of recovery.” The Presbyterian “moderator” Rev. Berla Andrade de Vargas inspects houses with engineers to “tell the people that they weren’t alone.”
Nowhere — not once — does the article mention the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass, the administration of Extreme Unction, the salvation of souls, or the Social Reign of Christ the King. The “Church” here is reduced to an NGO distributing diapers, water filtration units, and “psychological aid.” This is the laicism condemned by Pius XI in Quas Primas: “the secularism of our times, so-called laicism, its errors and wicked endeavors… the Church’s authority to teach men, to issue laws, to govern nations… was denied.” The conciliar sect’s “Catholic Relief Services” partners with Caritas Venezuela to provide “food, water and sanitation, essential household items, emergency shelter, health care and trauma support” — a purely naturalistic corpus of works that any secular Red Cross could perform. The supernatural end — salus animarum suprema lex — has been excised.
Ecumenical Indifferentism: Protestant Sects Elevated as “Churches” and “Faith Leaders”
The article treats Presbyterian, evangelical, and “Church of God” sects as legitimate “churches” with valid “bishops,” “pastors,” and “moderators.” It quotes “Bishop” Carrillo, “Bishop” Marcial, Rev. Andrade de Vargas, and Pastor Luis Ascanio as authoritative “Christian leaders” coordinating in “unity.” This is the heresy of indifferentism anathematized by Pius IX in the Syllabus of Errors (Prop. 16, 17, 18): “Man may, in the observance of any religion whatever, find the way of eternal salvation… Protestantism is nothing more than another form of the same true Christian religion.”
The conciliar sect’s “Catholic Relief Services” collaborates with Samaritan’s Purse (Franklin Graham’s evangelical enterprise), World Vision, and the “National Latino Evangelical Coalition.” This is not “cooperation”; it is apostasy. As Pius XI teaches in Quas Primas: “His reign encompasses also all non-Christians, so that most truly the entire human race is subject to the authority of Jesus Christ.” The duty of the true Church is to convert these sectarians, not to collaborate with them as equals in a naturalistic enterprise. The article’s language — “Christian leaders from Latin America, North America and Spain to pray together” — constitutes communicatio in sacris with heretics, forbidden by divine and canon law (Canon 1258, 1917 Code).
The “Priest” in the Rubble: Invalid Orders and Sacrilegious Simulation
The article’s lead photograph caption reads: “A priest prays with rescue workers and volunteers as they try to rescue a person trapped beneath the rubble.” In the conciliar sect, the “priesthood” conferred by the invalid Novus Ordo rite of Paul VI (1968) and the episcopal consecrations of the same rite are doubtful at best, null at worst, given the defect of form and intention. Even if validly ordained before 1968, a “priest” functioning within the conciliar structures, offering the Protestantized “Mass” of the assembly, cooperates in the abomination of desolation. His “prayer” with rescue workers is a naturalistic gesture, devoid of sacramental efficacy. The true priest, in periculo mortis, administers Extreme Unction and Viaticum; he does not pose for AP photographers amid “interfaith” solidarity.
Catholic Relief Services and Caritas: Arms of the Neo-Church’s Naturalistic Counter-Church
“Catholic Relief Services also said that it is partnering with Caritas Venezuela, the humanitarian organization of the Catholic Church in Venezuela.” There is no “Catholic Church in Venezuela” in the conciliar sect — only a paramasonic structure occupying ecclesiastical buildings. CRS and Caritas are the primary engines of the conciliar revolution’s “human development” heresy, substituting Caritas in veritate for Veritas in Caritate. They distribute “food, water and sanitation” while the Quas Primas mandate — “Let rulers of states therefore not refuse public veneration and obedience to the reigning Christ” — is ignored. The article notes “Catholic parishes are opening their doors to displaced families for shelter.” Shelter for the body without the Truth for the soul is the charity of the Antichrist.
Theology of Suffering Replaced by Psychology: “Why Does God Punish Me?”
Pastor Ascanio reports survivors asking: “What did I do wrong to deserve all this harm?” and “Why does God punish me?” His response: “respond first with empathy and only discuss the theology behind those questions when asked directly.” This is the therapeutic deformation of the Gospel. The Catholic answer is Deus castigat quos diligit (Heb 12:6); suffering is meritorious when united to the Cross. The conciliar and Protestant “pastors” offer psychological palliatives, not supernatural consolation. Ascanio’s admission — “Here there are no words… what there is is a hug, being beside the person, crying with those who cry” — is the total bankruptcy of the Protestant ministry: no sacraments, no sacrifice, no authority, only sentiment.
Sedevacantist Verdict: The Conciliar Sect is the “Abomination of Desolation” in Action
From the perspective of integral Catholic faith, this article documents the operative reality of the Great Apostasy (2 Thess 2:3). The “Church” presented is a syncretistic humanitarian consortium where:
- Protestant heretics are “bishops” and “faith leaders” on par with the conciliar hierarchy.
- The “Catholic” agency (CRS) functions as a secular NGO, indistinguishable from Samaritan’s Purse or World Vision.
- The Social Kingship of Christ (Quas Primas) is replaced by the “sovereignty… of God reveals itself today through the hands of God’s local church” — a Protestant ecclesiology of the “local church” denying the visible, hierarchical, universal Church.
- No mention of Extra Ecclesiam Nulla Salus, the necessity of baptism, the reality of Hell, or the Final Judgment.
Pius X in Lamentabili Sane Exitu condemned the Modernist proposition: “The Church is incapable of effectively defending evangelical ethics, because it steadfastly adheres to its views, which cannot be reconciled with modern progress” (Prop. 63). The conciliar sect has capitulated to modern progress — humanitarianism, ecumenism, religious liberty — and abandoned evangelical ethics entirely. The Venezuela earthquake response is not the Church in action; it is the Church of the New Advent — the counter-church of the Antichrist — performing its diabolical parody of charity.
True Catholic charity would have true bishops and priests (validly ordained, holding the integral faith) administering the Sacraments, preaching repentance, and demanding the public recognition of Christ the King by the Venezuelan state. What we see is the “paramasonic structure” distributing blankets while souls perish. Quas Primas declares: “When God and Jesus Christ… were removed from laws and states… the foundations of that authority were destroyed.” Venezuela’s suffering is the fruit of its apostasy; the conciliar sect’s response ensures it remains so.
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Reeling from Venezuela's earthquakes, churches rush to inspect buildings, distribute supplies (ncronline.org)
Date: 06.07.2026