The EWTN News portal reports that the “apostolic administrator” of the conciliar diocese of Cádiz and Ceuta, “Bishop” Ramón Valdivia, delivered a statement following the mass illegal entry of approximately 70,000 individuals across the Tarajal border. Valdivia characterizes Ceuta as a “bastion of faith” proclaiming “the value of the faith in the building of a country,” invokes Our Lady of Africa for “comfort, peace, and security,” and expresses gratitude to the usurper “Pope” Leo XIV for his Angelus address calling for “solutions of peace, stability, and justice.” The entire discourse is framed in naturalistic, sociological, and humanitarian categories, utterly devoid of the supernatural mission of the Church, the Social Kingship of Christ, or the necessity of conversion for eternal salvation.
The Conciliar Sect’s “Bastion of Faith” is a Bastion of Naturalism
Valdivia’s declaration — “we are a bastion of faith that loudly proclaims the value of the faith in the building of a country” — exposes the fundamental inversion of the post-conciliar religion. The “faith” proclaimed is not the fides quae creditur, the deposit of Revelation entrusted to the Church for the salvation of souls, but a vague religious sentiment instrumentalized for social cohesion and “nation-building.” This is the very essence of the laicism condemned by Pius XI in Quas Primas: “It began with the denial of Christ the Lord’s reign over all nations; 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.” Valdivia’s “faith” serves the city of man, not the City of God.
The Syllabus of Pius IX anathematizes the proposition that “The Church is not a true and perfect society, entirely free… but it appertains to the civil power to define what are the rights of the Church” (Error 19). Yet here a “bishop” of the neo-church reduces the Church to a chaplaincy for the Spanish state, a moral support for “building a country” — a country, moreover, that has apostatized from the Catholic Faith through abortion, divorce, “gay marriage,” and religious liberty. The Quas Primas encyclical declares: “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.” Valdivia’s rhetoric ignores this destruction, offering pious platitudes instead of the prophetic denunciation required by the Gospel.
Our Lady of Africa Instrumentalized for False Peace
The reference to St. Mary of Africa — “centered around St. Mary of Africa, one can understand the faith of a people who have endured centuries of hardship” — is a masterpiece of Modernist subversion. The Blessed Virgin is not a talisman for “comfort, peace, and security in God” amid geopolitical crisis; she is the Regina Prophetarum, the Terror Demonum, the Mother of the Church Militant who crushes heresies. Pius XI, instituting the Feast of Christ the King, taught that the Church’s liturgical feasts exist “to instruct men in the truths of faith and elevating them through them to the joy of inner life… far more effective than even the most serious proofs of the teaching Church.” Valdivia’s Marian rhetoric serves not the glorificatio Dei and the salus animarum, but a humanitarian “rebuilding of trust” and “encouraging those who have suffered fear and anxiety.”
The Lamentabili Sane Exitu condemns the Modernist proposition that “The dogmas of faith should be understood according to their practical function, i.e., as binding in action, rather than as principles of belief” (Prop. 26). Valdivia’s Mariology is purely functional: Mary exists to foster “compassion” and “peace.” There is no mention of her role as Co-Redemptrix, Mediatrix of All Graces, or the necessity of the Rosary for the conversion of sinners and the defeat of Islam — the very reason for her patronage in Ceuta historically. This is the sentimentalism of the neo-church, which St. Pius X identified as the “synthesis of all errors.”
Submission to the Usurper Antipope Leo XIV
Valdivia’s gratitude to “Pope Leo XIV” — “a balm of comfort, knowing that we are close to the pope’s heart” — is the definitive proof of his apostasy. Robert Prevost, elected in 2025, is a manifest heretic who professes the conciliar errors of religious liberty, ecumenism, and collegiality. According to the unanimous teaching of the Fathers and Doctors, “A manifest heretic cannot be Pope… he cannot be the head of something of which he is not a member; now, he who is not a Christian is not a member of the Church, and a manifest heretic is not a Christian” (St. Robert Bellarmine, De Romano Pontifice 2:30). Canon 188.4 of the 1917 Code declares that an office becomes vacant ipso facto “if the cleric… publicly defects from the Catholic faith.” Paul IV’s Bull Cum ex Apostolatus Officio confirms that the elevation of a heretic is “null, void, and of no effect.”
By recognizing Leo XIV as “pope,” Valdivia adheres to the secta conciliaris, the “abomination of desolation” occupying the Vatican. The Defense of Sedevacantism demonstrates that “heretics are already outside the Church before excommunication and deprived of all jurisdiction… condemned by their own judgment.” Valdivia’s “obedience” to the antipope is not Catholic unity but schism from the true Church, which subsists in those bishops and priests who retain valid orders and the integral Faith. His citation of the antipope’s Angelus as guiding “our public mission” reveals that the neo-church’s “mission” is dictated by a false magisterium.
Humanitarianism Replaces the Kingship of Christ
The entire statement is a exercise in humanitarian Pelagianism. Valdivia speaks of “rebuilding trust,” “encouraging those who have suffered fear and anxiety,” “working toward a dignified solution for those who entered illegally,” and balancing “the need to care for others while simultaneously protecting the shared space.” Not a single word on the Social Kingship of Christ, the duty of the State to profess the Catholic Faith, the necessity of baptism for salvation (Extra Ecclesiam nulla salus), or the spiritual danger posed by a massive influx of non-Christians into a formerly Catholic land.
Pius XI teaches: “His reign encompasses also all non-Christians, so that most truly the entire human race is subject to the authority of Jesus Christ… Let rulers of states therefore not refuse public veneration and obedience to the reigning Christ.” The Syllabus condemns the proposition that “The Church ought to be separated from the State, and the State from the Church” (Error 55) and that “In the present day it is no longer expedient that the Catholic religion should be held as the only religion of the State” (Error 77). Valdivia’s silence on these truths — his replacement of them with “peace, stability, and justice” — is the crimen laesae majestatis Divinae. The “justice” he seeks is not the iustitia Dei but the iustitia saecularis of the Masonic Republic.
The “Maturity” of the Neo-Church is the Maturity of Apostasy
Valdivia claims: “The Church has demonstrated its maturity amid an unprecedented crisis.” This “maturity” is the ripened fruit of the conciliar revolution: a Church that no longer condemns error, no longer converts nations, no longer excommunicates heretics, but “accompanies,” “dialogues,” and “builds bridges.” It is the Church of Gaudium et Spes, of Dignitatis Humanae, of Nostra Aetate — the Church that has “removed Jesus Christ and His most holy law from their customs, from private, family, and public life” (Quas Primas).
The “crisis” in Ceuta is not merely a border crisis; it is a chastisement for Spain’s apostasy. The true shepherd would cry out with the Prophet: “Who is the wise man, that may understand this? and who is he to whom the mouth of the Lord hath spoken, that he may declare this, for what the land perisheth, and is burnt up like a wilderness, which none passeth through? And the Lord said: Because they have forsaken my law, which I gave them, and have not obeyed my voice, neither have they walked therein” (Jer 9:12-13). Valdivia offers not the law of God but the “balm” of the antipope.
Conclusion: A Bastion of the Antichurch
Valdivia’s statement is a manifesto of the counter-church. It uses Catholic vocabulary — “faith,” “Virgin Mary,” “St. Paul,” “pope” — to propagate a naturalistic, humanitarian, Masonic agenda. The “bastion of faith” is a bastion of infidelitas. The “value of faith in building a country” is the value of religion as social cement, condemned by Pius IX and Pius XI. The gratitude to Leo XIV is adhesion to the Antichristus in the Vatican. The true Church, the Ecclesia Militans, remains in the catacombs of Tradition, preserving the Mass of all ages, the unchanging dogma, and the hope of the Restauratio. “In the end, my Immaculate Heart will triumph” — not the heart of the neo-church, not the heart of the antipope, but the Heart of the Mother of God, who will crush the serpent’s head and restore the Kingdom of her Divine Son. Viva Cristo Rey!
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Bishop Valdivia: Ceuta represents ‘historic mission’ for Spain (ewtnnews.com)
Date: 06.08.2026