Conciliar Hierarchy Reduces Colombian Earthquake to Humanitarian Photo-Op While Ignoring Divine Chastisement
The EWTN News portal reports on the 7.4-magnitude earthquake that struck Colombia on August 10, 2026, framing the disaster exclusively through the lens of naturalistic humanitarianism. The article cites “Bishop” John J. Gomez of Laredo, “Bishop” Robert Brennan of Brooklyn, and “Bishop” David O’Connell of Trenton issuing statements focused on rescue operations, material aid, and generic “prayer” stripped of any supernatural content. The antipope Leo XIV (Robert Prevost) dispatched a telegram of condolence via his Secretary of State, “Cardinal” Pietro Parolin, while Catholic Relief Services (CRS) and Caritas Colombia mobilize as mere NGOs. This report exposes the total evacuation of the Catholic doctrine of divine providence, chastisement, and the necessity of the Social Reign of Christ the King from the consciousness of the conciliar sect.
The Theological Vacuum: Silence on Sin, Chastisement, and the Kingship of Christ
The cited article contains not a single reference to the justice of God, the reality of divine chastisement for national apostasy, the necessity of public penance, or the Social Kingship of Christ over Colombia. The “bishops” speak only of “rescue processes,” “finding lives,” and “solidarity.” “Bishop” Brennan declares:
“At times like this, we must remember, even as a tower falls, the Church remains — one Body, holding her suffering members in prayer.”
This is ecclesiology without the Church. The falling tower of the Cathedral of Our Lady of the Rosary in Manizales is treated as a mere architectural tragedy, not as a terrifying sign of Ira Dei (the wrath of God) upon a nation that has embraced the conciliar revolution, religious liberty, and the secularist state condemned by Pius IX in the Syllabus Errorum (1864) and Pius XI in Quas Primas (1925).
Pius XI teaches with absolute clarity: “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… the entire human society had to be shaken, because it lacked a stable and strong foundation” (Quas Primas, cited in CONTEXT). The earthquake is not a “natural disaster” in the deistic sense; it is a flagellum Dei (scourge of God) calling a baptized nation to conversion. The conciliar “bishops” are traitors to their episcopal office (were they true bishops) for refusing to preach this truth. They function as chaplains to the Red Cross, not as successors of the Apostles commissioned to “preach the Gospel to every creature” (Mk 16:15) and to warn that “except you do penance, you shall all likewise perish” (Lk 13:3).
The Antipope and His Curia: Administrators of a Humanitarian NGO
The telegram from the usurper Leo XIV, signed by “Cardinal” Parolin, expresses being “deeply saddened” by “casualties,” “injuries,” and “serious material damage, including to many churches.” Not a word for the salvation of souls, the offense against God, or the duty of the Colombian state to publicly acknowledge Christ the King. This is the inevitable fruit of the false theology of Gaudium et Spes and Dignitatis Humanae: the “pope” becomes a global NGO director, the “Secretary of State” a diplomatic functionary. The Syllabus condemns the proposition: “The Church ought to be separated from the State, and the State from the Church” (Error 55). The conciliar sect has made this condemned error its operational constitution. Leo XIV’s telegram is the diplomatic note of a secular potentate, not the paternal voice of the Vicar of Christ warning a rebellious nation.
CRS and Caritas: The Secularized Arms of the Neo-Church
The article highlights Catholic Relief Services (CRS) partnering with Caritas Colombia to provide “shelter, clean water, food, medical care, and other essential support.” This is the corpus without the anima: corporal works of mercy severed from the supernatural motive of charity and the ultimate end of eternal salvation. The CRS statement reads like a UNICEF press release:
“With collapsed buildings, many families are left without shelter… Many families are in urgent need of shelter, clean water, food, medical care, and other essential support.”
There is no mention of the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass offered for the dead, of Extreme Unction for the dying, of the Brown Scapular, of the Rosary as a weapon against the powers of darkness. The “deputy director of programs” Camila Gomez speaks of “solidarity,” “school communities,” and “mobile health units.” This is the civitas terrena masquerading as the Civitas Dei. St. Pius X condemned the Modernist proposition: “The dogmas of faith should be understood according to their practical function, i.e., as binding in action, rather than as principles of belief” (Lamentabili Sane Exitu, Prop. 26, cited in CONTEXT). CRS and Caritas have made this condemned pragmatism their entire identity.
Linguistic Analysis: The Vocabulary of Apostasy
The article’s language reveals the naturalistic mindset of the conciliar sect. Terms employed: “rescue process,” “hardship,” “condolences,” “assessing the extent of the damage,” “ongoing programs,” “infrastructure,” “basic health services,” “mobile health units,” “solidarity,” “first-necessity items.” Absent terms: sin, penance, conversion, grace, sacraments, Mass, Purgatory, Hell, Heaven, Christ the King, Social Reign, divine justice, extra Ecclesiam nulla salus. The “bishops” do not speak in persona Christi; they speak in the persona of humanitarian coordinators. “Bishop” Gomez: “Pray for those who are out there in the rescue process… I’m praying that they will find those who are still there, trapped, so that we could save some lives.” This is a prayer to the god of this world for temporal prolongation of biological existence, not the prayer of the Church “ut salvam facias animas” (that Thou wouldst save souls).
The Symptomatic Level: The Conciliar Revolution’s Inevitable Fruit
This article is not an anomaly; it is the modus operandi of the Church of the New Advent since 1958. The Second Vatican Council’s Gaudium et Spes shifted the Church’s gaze from the finis ultimus (God) to the homo (man). The result is a structure that occupies the Vatican but possesses no supernatural mission. The “bishops” cited — Gomez, Brennan, O’Connell — are products of the invalid Pontificale Romanum of 1968, ordained in the new rite that defects in form and intention for the sacerdotal priesthood. They are not bishops; they are functionaries of a paramasonic structure that has usurped the visible patrimony of the Church.
The Syllabus condemns: “The civil government, even when in the hands of an infidel sovereign, has a right to an indirect negative power over religious affairs” (Error 41). The conciliar sect has inverted this: it has surrendered to the civil power the definition of its own mission, reducing it to “disaster relief” and “accompaniment.” The falling tower in Manizales is a visible judgment upon the nova theologia that turned cathedrals into meeting halls and the altar into a table.
The Only True Response: The Integral Catholic Faith
From the perspective of the integral Catholic faith, the only authentic response to the Colombian earthquake is the one the conciliar sect systematically suppresses: Public, solemn, liturgical penance ordered to the restoration of the Social Reign of Christ the King. The true bishops of Colombia (where they exist in the catacombs, preserving the Traditional Mass and the unchanging doctrine) would proclaim a fast, order the Litany of the Saints sung in processions, expose the Most Blessed Sacrament for public reparation, and declare from the pulpit: “This scourge comes from the hand of God because Colombia has legalized abortion, divorce, same-sex unions, and religious indifference; because it has expelled Christ the King from its laws and schools; because its hierarchy has embraced the conciliar apostasy. Convertimini ad me cum toto corde vestro (Return to me with your whole heart — Joel 2:12).”
The EWTN article, the “bishops'” statements, the antipope’s telegram, and the CRS/Caritas operation are spiritual anesthesia administered to a dying civilization. They are the opium of the people in the Marxist sense: a drug that dulls the pain of temporal loss while ensuring the eternal loss of souls. “For what shall it profit a man, if he gain the whole world, and suffer the loss of his soul?” (Mk 8:36). The conciliar sect profits the world its humanitarian brand; it loses the souls entrusted to its care. Vae pastoribus qui perdiderunt et disperserunt oves pascuae meae, dicit Dominus (Woe to the shepherds who have destroyed and scattered the sheep of my pasture, saith the Lord — Jer 23:1).
Source:
Colombia‑born U.S. bishop urges prayers after powerful earthquake (ewtnnews.com)
Date: 12.08.2026