Vatican News Whitewashes Marxist Tyranny in Nicaragua While Ignoring Christ the King
Vatican News portal reports on the announcement by Nicaraguan dictator Daniel Ortega, made during the 47th anniversary celebrations of the 1979 Sandinista Revolution, that there will be “no more elections that would allow his opponents to try to win control of the government.” The article details the constitutional reforms elevating his wife Rosario Murillo to “co-president,” the extension of the presidential term to six years, the disputed 2021 elections marked by the arrest of opposition figures, the detention of at least 46 political prisoners, the shutdown of over 5,000 organizations “most of them religious,” and the recent purge of the legal profession. The portal frames this as a human rights crisis and a democratic deficit, quoting UN experts and opposition figures like Juan Sebastián Chamorro. This report exposes the conciliar sect’s total capitulation to naturalistic political categories and its culpable silence on the supernatural rights of Christ the King violated by a Marxist regime that has persecuted the Church for decades.
The Conciliar Sect’s Organ Serves as Propaganda Arm for Secular Power
The source itself—Vatican News—is the official mouthpiece of the conciliar sect occupying the Vatican, the abomination of desolation foretold by Our Lord (Matt. 24:15). This outlet does not speak with the voice of the Catholic Church, which “cannot depend on anyone’s will” and demands “full freedom and independence from secular authority” (Pius XI, Quas Primas). Instead, it functions as a bureaucratic agency of the neo-church, reporting on geopolitical events with the detached tone of a secular wire service. The article bears all the hallmarks of the laicism condemned by Pius XI: “the Church’s authority to teach men, to issue laws, to govern nations… was denied. And then, slowly, the Christian religion began to be equated with other false religions and shamelessly placed in the same category; then it was subordinated to secular power.” Vatican News does not judge Ortega in the light of the Gospel or the Syllabus of Errors; it judges him by the standards of “human rights organizations,” “UN experts,” and the idol of “democracy.”
Reduction of the Church’s Mission to Naturalistic Humanism
The article’s entire framework is naturalistic. It speaks of “repression,” “political prisoners,” “dissent,” “legal profession purge,” and “opposition figures.” Nowhere does it mention the rights of God, the Social Kingship of Christ, or the duty of the State to profess the Catholic Faith. Pius XI taught that “rulers of states therefore not refuse public veneration and obedience to the reigning Christ… if they wish to maintain their authority inviolate and contribute to the increase of their homeland’s happiness” (Quas Primas). The Syllabus of Errors condemns the proposition that “The State, as being the origin and source of all rights, is endowed with a certain right not circumscribed by any limits” (Error 39) and that “The Church ought to be separated from the State, and the State from the Church” (Error 55). Ortega’s regime is the bitter fruit of these condemned errors: a State that recognizes no law above its own will. The conciliar sect’s reporters, however, cannot name this theological reality because they have accepted the liberalism condemned by Pius IX: “The Roman Pontiff can, and ought to, reconcile himself, and come to terms with progress, liberalism and modern civilization” (Error 80). They report on the collapse of “democratic space” while ignoring the collapse of the Catholic social order.
Silence on the Persecution of the True Church and the Compromise of the False
The article notes that “more than 5,000 organizations, most of them religious” have been shut down since 2018. It fails to distinguish between the true Church—the remnant faithful to Tradition, the Mass of Ages, and the integral Faith—and the conciliar structures that have long since accommodated themselves to the Sandinista revolution. The neo-church hierarchy in Nicaragua, like its counterparts in China and Vietnam, has pursued a policy of ostpolitik and dialogue with Marxist tyrants. The silence of Vatican News on the specific fate of Traditional priests, chapels, and faithful—those who refuse the Novus Ordo and the conciliar reforms—is deafening. It does not ask whether the “religious organizations” shut down were the Ecclesia Dei communities (already compromised by their recognition of the usurpers) or the few remaining outposts of the true Mass. This omission is deliberate: the conciliar sect cannot denounce the persecution of the true Church without indicting its own false ecumenism and religious liberty, which paved the way for the State to treat all “religious organizations” as mere NGOs subject to regulation.
The Sandinista Revolution: A Masonic-Marxist Operation Against Christ the King
The article celebrates the “47th anniversary of the 1979 Sandinista Revolution” as a legitimate historical milestone. From the perspective of integral Catholic faith, this revolution was a diabolical operation inspired by the same Masonic forces that the Syllabus condemns: “the frauds and machinations of these sects… the synagogue of Satan, which gathers its troops against the Church of Christ” (Pius IX, Syllabus, Introductory Text). The Sandinistas, steeped in Liberation Theology—a heresy condemned by the Holy Office under Pius XII and Paul VI—implemented a program of “national conversion without evangelization” (to use the phrase from the critique of False Fatima Apparitions), substituting the Gospel for Marxist class struggle. The constitutional reforms making Murillo “co-president” mimic the Masonic parody of hierarchy. The “Miracle of the Sun” at Fatima was dismissed in the provided document as “mass optical manipulation… and mass panic and autosuggestion”; similarly, the “miracles” of the Sandinista revolution—literacy campaigns, land reform—were naturalistic spectacles designed to usurp the Church’s role as the sole dispenser of salvation and social order. Vatican News, by reporting the anniversary without condemnation, legitimizes the Masonic cycle of revolution.
The Idol of Elections and the Rejection of Divine Law
The article’s central anxiety is the abolition of “elections.” It quotes Chamorro: “the move confirms a long-standing plan to concentrate power in the hands of the Sandinista party.” But the conciliar sect has no principled objection to the concentration of power per se; it only objects when that power is not subject to the procedural rituals of liberal democracy. Pius XI warned: “When God and Jesus Christ… were removed from laws and states and when authority was derived not from God but from men, the foundations of that authority were destroyed, because the main reason why some have the right to command and others have the duty to obey was removed.” (Quas Primas, quoting Ubi Arcano). Ortega’s dictatorship is the logical terminus of a system that derives authority from “the people” (Error 39, Syllabus) rather than from God. If the conciliar sect had not spent six decades preaching religious liberty, democracy, and the autonomy of the temporal order, it would have the doctrinal weapons to condemn Ortega not as a “dictator” but as a usurper of Christ’s Kingship. Instead, it whines about “democratic space” while the souls of Nicaraguans are lost to Marxist atheism and the conciliar sect’s own false gospel.
Canon 188.4 and the Vacancy of the Nicaraguan Hierarchy
The article mentions the revocation of licenses for lawyers—a purge of the legal profession. It ignores the far graver canonical reality: the automatic loss of office (ipso facto) of any cleric who “publicly defects from the Catholic faith” (Canon 188.4, 1917 Code). The Nicaraguan hierarchy, by embracing the conciliar reforms, the New Mass, religious liberty, and ecumenism, has publicly defected from the integral Faith. As the Defense of Sedevacantism file demonstrates, “Defection from the faith does not require joining another sect… public defection from the faith occurs through formal heresy or apostasy, regardless of affiliation with another religious community.” The bishops of the conciliar sect in Nicaragua are not “persecuted shepherds” but hirelings (John 10:12) who have abandoned the flock to the wolves of Marxism. Their “persecution” by Ortega is the just chastisement of God upon a hierarchy that refused to “fight bravely and always under the banner of Christ the King” (Quas Primas). The true persecution is that of the catacomb faithful who keep the Traditional Mass and doctrine without the hierarchy’s sanction.
Conclusion: The Conciliar Sect is Part of the Problem, Not the Solution
Vatican News’ report on Nicaragua is a masterclass in theological bankruptcy. It adopts the language of the enemy—“human rights,” “democracy,” “civil society,” “UN experts”—and applies it to a crisis that is fundamentally spiritual. The Sandinista tyranny is the fruit of the Revolution that the Syllabus condemns; the conciliar sect’s impotence is the fruit of its reconciliation with the Revolution (Error 80). Only the Social Kingship of Christ, proclaimed by Pius XI in Quas Primas and defended by the true Church in the catacombs, offers a remedy. The article’s final plug—“support us in bringing the Pope’s words into every home”—is the ultimate blasphemy: the words of the usurper antipope Leo XIV (Robert Prevost) are not the words of Christ, but the words of the abomination of desolation. Nicaragua does not need “elections”; it needs the Consecration of the Nation to the Sacred Heart, the restoration of the Traditional Latin Mass, and the Catholic State. The conciliar sect offers none of these. It offers only the carrion of liberal democracy to a people starving for the Bread of Life.
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President Ortega of Nicaragua announces there will be 'no more elections' (vaticannews.va)
Date: 21.07.2026