The EWTN News portal reports that the High Court of Chhattisgarh dismissed a challenge to a government order mandating Hindu prayers — including the Gayatri Mantra, Saraswati Vandana, and Bhojan Mantra — in state schools, ruling the petition “premature.” The “Archbishop” of Raipur, Victor Henry Thakur, expressed “shock” and appealed to the Indian Constitution’s “fundamental rights of religious minorities,” while Protestant groups decried the “coercive atmosphere” for non-Hindu students. The “Catholic Church” in the state reportedly runs over 250 schools. This episode lays bare the total capitulation of the conciliar sect to the Masonic principles of religious liberty and the secular state, abandoning the Social Kingship of Christ for a place at the table of the very anti-Christian order that persecutes it.
The Conciliar “Hierarchy” as Supplicants of the Secular State
The conduct of “Archbishop” Thakur is emblematic of the post-conciliar “episcopate”: faced with the imposition of false worship in public institutions, he does not invoke the rights of Christ the King, nor the duty of the state to profess the true religion, but whines about “fundamental rights” under a Masonic constitution. He tells EWTN: “In a secular democratic country, young children or their families should not be forced to wage legal battle against the system to uphold their fundamental rights.” This is the language of Dignitatis Humanae, not of Quas Primas. Pius XI taught unequivocally: “The state must leave the same freedom to the members of Orders and Congregations… but let rulers of states therefore not refuse public veneration and obedience to the reigning Christ… for it will remind them of the final judgment, in which Christ… will very severely avenge these insults, because His royal dignity demands that all relations in the state be ordered on the basis of God’s commandments and Christian principles” (Encyclical Quas Primas). The “Archbishop” knows nothing of this. He appeals to Article 30 of the Indian Constitution — a document born of the same liberal revolution condemned by Pius IX in the Syllabus (Error 55: “The Church ought to be separated from the State, and the State from the Church”; Error 77: “In the present day it is no longer expedient that the Catholic religion should be held as the only religion of the State”). By what right does a putative successor of the Apostles invoke a constitution that enshrines libertas perditionis as its first principle?
False Ecumenism in the Service of Naturalism
The article reveals the scandalous collaboration between the conciliar “Church” and Protestant sects under the banner of the “Progressive Christian Alliance” (PCA). “Rev.” Akhilesh Edgar of the “Evangelical Churches in India” and Pastor Simon Digbal Tandi are quoted as allies in the defense of “religious freedom.” This is the fruit of Unitatis Redintegratio and the Balamand declaration: the true Church of Christ reduced to one “faith stream” among others, pleading for “pluralism” alongside heretics and schismatics. Pius XI warned: “The Church of God… gives birth to and raises up ever new ranks of holy men and women, and Christ does not cease to call to happiness in the heavenly Kingdom those who were faithful and obedient subjects to Him in the earthly Kingdom” (Quas Primas). There is no “heavenly Kingdom” in the PCA’s statement, only the “fundamental rights of students of religious minorities and other faith streams.” The conciliar “Archbishop” stands shoulder-to-shoulder with those who deny the necessity of the Church for salvation (extra Ecclesiam nulla salus), united only by a common commitment to the Masonic ideal of the neutral state.
The Idolatry of “Secular Democracy” as the Supreme Value
The entire discourse of the conciliar “hierarchy” and its Protestant partners is saturated with the vocabulary of the Revolution: “secular democratic country,” “constitutional rights,” “majoritarian show,” “communal battlefields,” “Hindutva agenda.” Not a single reference to the Kingship of Christ, the duty of public worship of the true God, or the eternal salvation of souls. This is the practical application of the heresy of religious liberty condemned by Gregory XVI (Mirari Vos), Pius IX (Quanta Cura, Syllabus), Leo XIII (Immortale Dei, Libertas), and St. Pius X (Pascendi, Lamentabili). The “Archbishop” Thakur implicitly accepts the Hindu nationalist premise that the state is a purely natural entity, differing only on which cult it should impose. He does not challenge the right of the state to mandate prayer; he only objects to the content of the prayer. This is the theology of the Civiltà Cattolica of the Bergoglian era: the state as arbiter of religious exercise, the Church as a mere “stakeholder” in civil society.
The “Catholic Schools” of the Conciliar Sect: Instruments of Naturalist Formation
The article notes that the “Catholic Church runs over 250 schools” in Chhattisgarh. What is taught in these schools? Not the integral Catholic faith, but the conciliar counterfeit: religious liberty, interreligious dialogue, the “seeds of the Word” in false religions, the legitimacy of the secular state. These schools are not scholae Domini but scholae saeculi, forming children to be “good citizens” of the Masonic republic rather than soldiers of Christ the King. Pius XI instituted the Feast of Christ the King precisely “to address the needs of the present times and provide a special remedy against the plague that poisons human society. And this plague is the secularism of our times, so-called laicism” (Quas Primas). The conciliar “Church” in India has not only failed to apply this remedy; it has become a carrier of the plague.
The Sedevacantist Reality: No True Hierarchy to Defend the Faith
The impotence of “Archbishop” Thakur is not accidental. He holds no jurisdiction in the Church of Christ. As the theological arguments demonstrate, a manifest heretic loses his office ipso facto (St. Robert Bellarmine, De Romano Pontifice; Canon 188.4, 1917 Code; Pope Paul IV, Cum ex Apostolatus Officio). The line of usurpers beginning with John XXIII has produced a “hierarchy” that cannot teach, govern, or sanctify in the name of Christ. The “Archbishop” of Raipur is a functionary of the “paramasonic structure” occupying the Vatican, ordained in the invalid Novus Ordo rite, professing the heresies of Vatican II. His appeal to the Indian Constitution is the only “authority” he recognizes — because he has none from Christ. The true Catholic response to the Chhattisgarh order would be the proclamation of the Social Kingship of Christ, the condemnation of idolatry in public schools, and the call for the conversion of the Hindu nation to the one true Faith — not a petition for “minority rights” under a godless charter.
Symptomatic Level: The Conciliar Church as the Handmaid of Antichrist
This episode is a microcosm of the global strategy of the “Church of the New Advent”: accommodation with every anti-Christian power, provided “religious freedom” is granted for its own survival. In the West, it collaborates with the LGBT agenda and the culture of death; in India, it pleads for “secularism” against Hindu nationalism; in China, it signs secret accords with the Communist Party. Everywhere, the same principle: the rights of man above the rights of God. The Syllabus condemns the proposition: “The Roman Pontiff can, and ought to, reconcile himself, and come to terms with progress, liberalism and modern civilization” (Error 80). The conciliar “popes” have done exactly this for sixty years. The result is the spectacle of an “Archbishop” begging a Hindu nationalist court for permission to exist, while the true Church — the Ecclesia militans of sedevacantist bishops and priests — remains the only voice proclaiming Non est aliud nomen sub caelo datum hominibus, in quo oporteat nos salvari (Acts 4:12).
The Chhattisgarh High Court’s ruling is not a defeat for “religious freedom”; it is the logical consequence of a “Church” that has proclaimed religious freedom as a dogma. When the salt loses its savor, it is good for nothing but to be cast out and trodden underfoot (Matt. 5:13). The conciliar sect is being trodden underfoot by the very powers it sought to appease. Deus non irridetur.
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Indian court upholds Hindu prayers in state schools, calls them ‘moral instruction’ (ewtnnews.com)
Date: 13.07.2026