The EWTN News portal, the English-language arm of the “neo-church” propaganda machine ACI Prensa, reports that the conciliar hierarchy in Argentina—specifically the “Cardinal” Ángel Rossi and the “Bishop” Dante Braida—has issued warnings about online gambling among children during the FIFA World Cup. These “prelates” of the occupying structures lament the accessibility of betting apps, cite Red Cross statistics, and invoke the “encyclical” Magnifica Humanitas of the usurper “Pope” Leo XIV (Robert Prevost) to frame technological progress as a servant of human dignity. The article functions as a press release for a secular NGO masquerading as the Church, reducing the divine mission of souls to a campaign for digital hygiene.
The Usurper’s Phantom Encyclical and the Idolatry of “Human Dignity”
The cited article references an encyclical Magnifica Humanitas attributed to the antipope Leo XIV. No such document exists in the treasury of the Catholic Magisterium. It is a fabrication of the conciliar sect, a pseudo-magisterial text manufactured to baptize the religion of man. The true Magisterium teaches that human dignity is not an autonomous principle but derives exclusively from the supernatural order: man is dignified insofar as he participates in the life of God through sanctifying grace and submits to the Kingship of Christ. Pope Pius XI, in Quas Primas, declares unequivocally: “Peace is only possible in the kingdom of Christ” 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” under God’s law. The “neo-church” inverts this: it makes “human dignity” the measure of technology, severing progress from its only true end—the glory of God and the salvation of souls. This is the essence of the Modernist heresy condemned by St. Pius X in Pascendi Dominici Gregis: the divinization of the immanent, the replacement of Deus revelatus with homo progredivus.
The Conciliar “Episcopate”: Functionaries of the Secular Order
The individuals presented as “Cardinal” Rossi and “Bishop” Braida are not successors of the Apostles but functionaries of the paramasonic structure occupying the Vatican. Their “ordinary consistory” convened by the antipope is a synodal farce, a parliament of apostasy. They speak not as doctores fidei but as social workers. Rossi’s phrase—”listen to the cries of the world”—is a direct inversion of the pastoral office. The true shepherd listens to the cry of the Holy Ghost through Scripture and Tradition (“He that hath ears to hear, let him hear”, Mt 11:15), not to the clamor of a godless world. Braida’s warning that “any mobile phone can turn into a casino” is a sociological observation, not a theological judgment. He cites the Red Cross—a secular humanitarian body—as his authority, not the Council of Trent, not the Catechism of the Council of Trent, not the Syllabus Errorum of Pius IX which condemns the error that “the civil government… has a right to an indirect negative power over religious affairs” (Error 41). By appealing to “authorities,” “parents,” “educators,” and “catechists” to “foster environments of dialogue,” Braida reduces the Church’s hierarchical, supernatural authority to a horizontal network of “stakeholders.” This is the collegiality of Vatican II in action: the dissolution of the potestas iurisdictionis into democratic consensus.
Gambling as Vice, Not Sin: The Evaporation of the Supernatural
The article treats gambling addiction as a public health crisis, a “danger” for “families,” a statistical anomaly (83% of adolescents using digital wallets). Nowhere is gambling named as a sin against the Seventh Commandment, a violation of justice and temperance, a peril to the immortal soul. The true Church condemns gambling (alea) not because it ruins family budgets but because it perverts the virtue of justice, tempts God, and enslaves the will to chance—“The lot is cast into the lap, but the whole disposing thereof is of the Lord” (Prov 16:33). St. Thomas Aquinas teaches that games of chance are sinful when they risk necessary goods or become an occupation (ST II-II, q. 61, a. 2). The conciliar “bishops” are silent on this. They do not threaten the eternal damnation of the unrepentant gambler or the bookmaker; they do not call for the confession of sins, the restoration of the Sunday rest, the suppression of vice by the Catholic State. They beg FIFA for “clean venues” and the state for “boundaries.” This is the laicism Pius XI anathematized in Quas Primas: “When God and Jesus Christ… were removed from laws and states… the foundations of that authority were destroyed.” The “neo-church” has internalized this removal; it no longer demands the Kingship of Christ over Uruguay or Argentina—it negotiates with Caesar for “safer” gambling.
The World Cup as Idol: Bread and Circuses for the Damned
The World Cup itself is a pagan spectacle, a global liturgy of nationalism and mammon. The article notes the tournament runs June 11–July 19, 2026, and that “only 16 of the 48 national teams… remain in contention.” The conciliar hierarchy does not condemn the idolatry of sport, the profanation of the Lord’s Day (matches on Sundays), the corruption of FIFA, the exploitation of the poor by global capital. It merely worries about a side effect: children betting on corner kicks. This is the “pastoral care” of the Novus Ordo: manage the symptoms of a Christless society while preserving the society itself. Pius XI warned: “The state is happy not by one means, and man by another… He is the author of prosperity and true happiness for individual citizens as well as for the state.” True prosperity is impossible without the public confession of Christ the King. The “bishops” of the conciliar sect, by their silence on the Kingship of Christ, confess that they serve another king—the “prince of this world” (Jn 12:31).
EWTN/ACI Prensa: The Propaganda Arm of the Abomination
The source, EWTN News / ACI Prensa, is not a Catholic news agency but the media ministry of the “neo-church.” It translates and adapts the Spanish original, sanitizing the Modernist jargon for an English-speaking audience. The byline—Julieta Villar, “degree in social communication,” “editor at AICA”—signals the professionalization of the lie: journalists, not theologians, craft the narrative. The article ends with a subscription prompt: “I agree to receive communications from EWTN.” Commerce replaces evangelization. The “Privacy Policy” replaces the Professio Fidei. This is the civitas terrena masquerading as the civitas Dei, precisely the “abomination of desolation standing in the holy place” (Mt 24:15) foretold by Our Lord.
The Theological Vacuum: No Grace, No Sacraments, No Eschaton
The gravest accusation is what the article omits entirely. There is no mention of:
- The necessity of baptism for salvation (“Unless a man be born again of water and the Holy Ghost, he cannot enter into the kingdom of God”, Jn 3:5).
- The Holy Sacrifice of the Mass as the sole propitiation for sin.
- The reality of Hell and the particular judgment.
- The Social Kingship of Christ over all nations (Quas Primas).
- The duty of the Catholic State to suppress public vice (Syllabus, Error 55: “The Church ought to be separated from the State”—condemned).
- The intercession of the Blessed Virgin Mary, the true Auxilium Christianorum, not the Masonic “Fatima” construct.
This silence is not accidental; it is the definition of the “Church of the New Advent”: a humanitarian NGO with sacramental veneer. The “bishops” Rossi and Braida are blind guides leading the blind into the pit (Mt 15:14). Their “concern” for children is a cloak for their indifference to the salus animarum.
Canon 188.4 and the Automatic Vacancy of the Conciliar Sees
The “bishops” cited occupy sees that are canonically vacant. Canon 188.4 of the 1917 Code states: “Every office becomes vacant by the mere fact and without any declaration by reason of tacit resignation… if the cleric: … 4. Publicly defects from the Catholic faith.” By adhering to the Modernist Vatican II sect, by recognizing the antipopes from John XXIII to Leo XIV, by implementing the Novus Ordo Missae (a Protestantized rite), by promoting religious liberty and ecumenism—condemned by Pius IX, Pius X, Pius XI—they have publicly defected. Fr. McDevitt confirms: “Joining… a non-Catholic sect is not required to establish the publicity which the canon demands.” The conciliar sect is a non-Catholic sect. Therefore, Rossi and Braida hold no jurisdiction, no authority to teach, no power to bind. Their “warnings” are the private opinions of laymen in clerical costume.
Conclusion: The Only Remedy Is the Restoration of All Things in Christ
The article is a symptom of the total apostasy of the structures occupying the Vatican. It offers the world placebos—dialogue, boundaries, digital literacy—while withholding the panacea: the Catholic Faith, the Traditional Latin Mass, the Social Kingship of Christ, the necessity of the Church for salvation (Extra Ecclesiam nulla salus). The “World Cup” will end; the souls of those children will not. The “bishops” of the conciliar sect will answer to God for every soul they failed to warn of eternal fire. True Catholics—those adhering to the immutable Tradition, the valid Sacraments, the true episcopate—must reject this theater of the absurd. “You are Christ the King of glory!” sang the faithful at the institution of the Feast of Christ the King (Quas Primas). That cry, not the whimper of the “neo-church” about betting apps, is the only hope for Argentina and the world.
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During World Cup, Argentina’s bishops warn of increased online betting by children and young people (ewtnnews.com)
Date: 07.07.2026