The Vatican News portal reports that the Zambian conference of conciliar “bishops” has issued a Pastoral Statement ahead of the 13 August general elections, urging “violence-free, peaceful and civil electoral campaigns.” The statement praises Zambia’s post-independence history of avoiding civil war and peaceful transfers of power, defines peace as “the fruit of justice, mutual respect, and solidarity among citizens,” condemns political violence and social media incitement, appeals to youth not to become “instruments of violence,” and concludes with the Prayer of Saint Francis. The incumbent President Hakainde Hichilema welcomed the statement as aligned with his own call for “peaceful, free, fair and credible elections.” This humanitarian communiqué, devoid of the Kingship of Christ and the supernatural end of man, exposes the conciliar sect’s complete substitution of the Gospel for secular pacifism.
The Illegitimacy of the Conciliar “Episcopate” in Zambia
The very authors of this statement — the “prelates of Zambia in active ministry” — possess no legitimate authority to teach or govern. Since the usurpation of the Holy See by the modernist clique of John XXIII in 1958, the novus ordo hierarchy has been constituted through the invalid sacramental rites of Paul VI (1968) and the heretical theological framework of Vatican II. As St. Robert Bellarmine teaches, “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” (De Romano Pontifice). The “bishops” of the conciliar sect, having adhered to the heresies of religious liberty, ecumenism, and collegiality, have ipso facto lost all jurisdiction by Canon 188.4 of the 1917 Code: “Every office becomes vacant by the mere fact and without any declaration… if the cleric publicly defects from the Catholic faith.” Their “Pastoral Statement” is therefore not an act of episcopal magisterium but the press release of a paramasonic structure occupying ecclesiastical buildings.
Naturalistic Peace: The Fruit of Secularism Condemned by Pius XI
The document’s definition of peace — “the fruit of justice, mutual respect, and solidarity among citizens” — is a textbook expression of the laicism anathematized by Pius XI in Quas Primas. The Pope of Christ the King declared: “This plague is the secularism of our times, so-called laicism, its errors and wicked endeavors… It began with the denial of Christ the Lord’s reign over all nations.” The Zambian conciliar “bishops” have perfectly internalized this plague. Their peace is purely horizontal, anthropocentric, and temporal. There is no mention of Pax Christi in Regno Christi — the peace of Christ in the Kingdom of Christ — which alone can order society to its supernatural end. By severing peace from the jus regendi of Christ the King, they reduce the Church’s mission to conflict resolution for the secular state.
Silence on the Social Kingship of Christ: Betrayal of Quas Primas
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” — that plague being secularism. He commanded that “rulers of states therefore not refuse public veneration and obedience to the reigning Christ” and that “the annual celebration of this solemnity will also remind states that not only private individuals, but also rulers and governments have the duty to publicly honor Christ and obey Him.” The Zambian statement does the exact opposite: it addresses the electoral contest as a purely civic procedure, legitimizing the liberal democratic framework which the Syllabus of Errors condemns (Prop. 77: “In the present day it is no longer expedient that the Catholic religion should be held as the only religion of the State”). Not a word is spoken of the duty of the Zambian state to profess the Catholic faith, to legislate according to divine law, or to suppress public vice and error. The “bishops” function as chaplains to the Masonic ideal of the neutral state.
Endorsement of Liberal Democracy: Anathema of the Syllabus
The statement’s praise for “peaceful transfers of power from one political party to another” and its appeal for “free, fair, transparent and credible elections” (echoed approvingly by President Hichilema) constitutes a practical profession of the condemned errors of modern liberalism. Pius IX anathematized the proposition that “The Roman Pontiff can, and ought to, reconcile himself, and come to terms with progress, liberalism and modern civilization” (Syllabus, Prop. 80). The conciliar “bishops” have not merely reconciled themselves; they have become the chief apologists for the liberal order. Their condemnation of violence is not rooted in the lex divina but in the preservation of the democratic process — the very “abomination of desolation” standing in the holy place where the Catholic confessional state once stood.
The Prayer of Saint Francis Stripped of Its Supernatural Soul
The conclusion with the Prayer of Saint Francis — “Lord, make me an instrument of your peace” — is a grotesque parody. In the mouth of a true son of the Seraphic Father, that prayer is a plea for the grace to bring souls to Christ Crucified, to convert the infidel, to extirpate heresy. In the mouth of the conciliar hierarchy, it becomes a mantra for dialogue, tolerance, and civic harmony. This is the hermeneutic of rupture in action: the saints are kidnapped and ventriloquized to bless the very errors they combated. St. Francis preached before the Sultan; these “bishops” preach before the ballot box.
Symptomatic Level: The Conciliar Sect as NGO for the Globalist Order
This statement reveals the systemic nature of the conciliar apostasy. The Zambian “bishops” do not act as successors of the Apostles commissioned to “teach all nations… baptizing them” (Matt. 28:19), but as functionaries of a globalist NGO. Their concerns — electoral violence, social media trolls, youth radicalization — are the exact agenda of the United Nations, the African Union, and the Masonic lodges directing the “democratic transitions” of the Global South. The President’s immediate endorsement — “fully aligned with the Head of State’s longstanding call” — confirms the symbiosis: the conciliar sect legitimizes the secular power; the secular power protects the conciliar sect’s temporal privileges. Qui non est mecum, contra me est (Matt. 12:30). By refusing to demand the public confession of Christ’s Kingship over Zambia, these “bishops” place themselves contra Christum.
The Only True Peace
There is no peace in Zambia, nor in any nation, until the Crown Rights of Christ the King are publicly acknowledged, the True Mass is restored on every altar, and the faithful are governed by valid bishops in communion with the true Roman Pontiff — not the usurper Leo XIV (Prevost) in the Vatican. The Zambian conciliar “bishops” offer the peace of the world, which “I give not as the world giveth” (John 14:27). Their statement is not a pastoral letter; it is a certificate of spiritual bankruptcy. Vade retro, Satana.
Source:
Zambia’s Bishops appeal to country’s history of peace ahead of elections (vaticannews.va)
Date: 17.07.2026