The EWTN News portal reports on a shooting at the Jesuit-run Ateneo de Zamboanga University in the Philippines, where a ninth-grade student murdered a classmate and then committed suicide, livestreaming the crime on Facebook. This marks the second school shooting in the country in two months. The university president, “Fr.” Guillrey Anthony Andal, SJ, declared a day of mourning and prayer, while the Catholic Educational Association of the Philippines urged the public not to circulate images. Civil authorities ordered investigations and safety reviews. The weapon used was traced to the shooter’s father, a customs officer. The entire response — from the “Jesuit” administration to the episcopal conference structures — reveals a purely naturalistic, humanitarian management of tragedy, utterly devoid of the supernatural vision of the Social Kingship of Christ (Regnum Christi) and the reality of eternal judgment.
Conciliar “Catholic Education” Bears Its Rotten Fruit
The Ateneo de Zamboanga, founded by the Society of Jesus in 1912, stands as a monument to the post-conciliar deformation of Catholic education. For decades, the “Jesuits” have been the vanguard of Modernism, replacing scholastic theology with “liberation theology,” “inculturation,” and secular humanism. The shooter was a product of this system — a minor formed in an institution that long ago abandoned the Catechism of the Council of Trent for “values education” and “critical thinking.” The article notes the university educates “from grade school through postgraduate level.” One must ask: what faith is taught there? The Syllabus of Errors condemns the proposition that “Catholics may approve of the system of educating youth unconnected with Catholic faith and the power of the Church” (Error 48). The fruit is now manifest: a baptized Catholic youth, educated in a “Catholic” university, commits murder and suicide, broadcasting it to the world. This is not a failure of “security measures”; it is the harvest of apostasy.
Linguistic Sanitization: The Erasure of Sin and Judgment
The rhetoric of the conciliar officials is telling. “Fr.” Andal says, “We do not want any of these things to happen,” and prioritizes “the safety of students.” The Catholic Educational Association speaks of “profound grief and shock.” President Marcos demands schools “must also be among the safest places in our country.” Nowhere — nowhere — is there mention of mortal sin, eternal damnation, the state of grace, the necessity of Last Rites, or the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass for the repose of the souls. The vocabulary is entirely therapeutic, bureaucratic, immanent. This is the language of the City of Man, not the City of God. As Pius XI teaches in Quas Primas: “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 conciliar “Church” has removed Christ from its own discourse.
The “Day of Mourning” — A Liturgical Farce
The declaration of a “day of mourning and prayer” by a “Jesuit” “priest” is a liturgical innovation unknown to the Roman Rite. True Catholic mourning is the Requiem Mass, the Office of the Dead, the absolution at the catafalque, the offering of the Unbloody Sacrifice of Calvary for the Poor Souls. But the “New Mass” of Paul VI, celebrated in these structures, is a memorial meal stripped of propitiatory theology. What “prayer” is offered? Not the De profundis, not the Libera me, but likely a “liturgy of the word” with “sharing” and “candles.” The article mentions “prayer” generically — the Protestantized, ecumenical “prayer” of the neo-church. This is not Catholic mourning; it is secular grief management with religious veneer.
The Silence on the Shooter’s Soul: Complicity in Damnation
The article states the attacker “took his own life.” Suicide is a grave sin against the Fifth Commandment, a sin against the Holy Ghost (despair), traditionally depriving the victim of ecclesiastical burial. The Code of Canon Law (1917), Canon 1240, denies Christian burial to “those who have killed themselves.” Yet the conciliar “pastoral” approach — evident in the silence of the “Jesuit” president and the “bishops” — effectively canonizes the suicide by treating his death as a “tragedy” equal to the victim’s. No call for prayers for his conversion in the final moments. No warning to the faithful about the horror of dying in mortal sin. No affirmation of the reality of Hell. This silence is the loudest heresy: it denies the four last things (novissima) and the necessity of the Church for salvation (extra Ecclesiam nulla salus).
Facebook Livestream: The Demonic Theater of the Digital Age
The shooter “livestreamed the attack on Facebook.” This detail, reported as a mere fact, reveals the theatrical narcissism fostered by a godless culture. The conciliar “Church” has embraced “social media” as a tool for “evangelization,” legitimizing the very platforms that become stages for murder. The Syllabus condemns the idea that “the civil government… has a right to an indirect negative power over religious affairs” (Error 41), but here the “Church” surrenders to the technocratic order, using its tools, adopting its language. The livestream is a Black Mass of the digital age — and the “Catholic” response is to ask people not to share the video. Where is the exorcism of the digital realm? Where is the condemnation of the instrumentum diaboli that these structures bless daily?
Civil Authority Usurps the Church’s Role
President Marcos orders investigations; Education Secretary Angara travels to Zamboanga; the Bureau of Customs suspends the father. The state assumes total responsibility for “safety,” “justice,” “prevention.” The “Church” officials — “Fr.” Andal, the “Catholic Educational Association” — meekly cooperate, issuing statements about “grief” and “unverified information.” This is the laicism condemned by Pius XI in Quas Primas: “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… subordinated to secular power.” The “Jesuit” university president acts as a school administrator, not a shepherd of souls. He cancels classes; he does not order Forty Hours’ Adoration, public reparation, processions of the Blessed Sacrament. The Kingship of Christ is publicly denied by His own purported ministers.
The Weapon from the State: Failure of Paternal Authority
The weapon was “issued by the agency to the attacker’s father, a customs enforcement officer.” The father is placed under “preventive suspension” — an administrative penalty. The natural law and Canon Law demand that the father answer for the culpa in educando and the scandal given. But in the conciliar order, the family is dissolved, the father is a “functionary,” the son a “minor” with “rights.” The Syllabus condemns the error that “the civil power may prevent the prelates of the Church and the faithful from communicating freely… with the Roman pontiff” (Error 49), yet here the civil power has entirely displaced the ecclesiastical forum. There is no ecclesiastical court, no penitential discipline, no excommunication for the public scandal. Only HR suspensions.
Systemic Apostasy: The “Jesuit” Charism as Destroyer
The Society of Jesus, once the shock troops of the Counter-Reformation, has been the primary engine of the Conciliar Revolution. From the General Congregation 32 (1974-75) onward, they embraced the “service of faith and promotion of justice” — a Marxist inversion of the Great Commission. Their schools became laboratories for liberation theology, feminism, gender ideology, religious indifferentism. The Ateneo de Zamboanga is no exception. The shooter was formed in this milieu. The “Fr.” Andal is a product of this formation. The “Catholic Educational Association” is a conciliar cartel accrediting this apostasy. The blood of these children cries to heaven not only against the shooter, but against the “Jesuits” and “bishops” who gave them stones for bread.
No Supernatural Remedy Proposed: The Ultimate Indictment
Read the article again. Search for: Mass, Confession, Rosary, Scapular, Indulgence, Purgatory, Hell, Conversion, Repentance, Grace, Sacraments. They are absent. The only “spiritual” act is a generic “day of mourning and prayer.” This is the abomination of desolation standing in the holy place: a “Catholic” institution, led by a “Jesuit” “priest,” responding to a double homicide-suicide with the tools of the Red Cross and the Department of Education. Pius X in Lamentabili sane exitu condemned 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” (Error 26). Here, even the “practical function” is reduced to crisis management. The principle of belief — the Kingship of Christ, the reality of sin, the necessity of grace — is entirely extinguished.
Conclusion: The Conciliar Sect Offers Only Death
This shooting is not an “anomaly.” It is the logical consequence of sixty years of Conciliarism: a “Church” that has abdicated its divine mandate to teach, govern, and sanctify, retreating into humanitarian NGO status. The “Jesuit” university, the “Catholic Educational Association,” the “bishops’ conference” — they are whitewashed sepulchres (Matt. 23:27), offering the dead the consolation of the world, while denying them the Life that is Christ. The true Church, the Ecclesia militans, endures in the catacombs of Tradition, where the Mass of the Ages is offered, where the Catechism is taught, where sin is named, where souls are saved. The Philippines, once the Catholic bulwark of Asia, is now a mission territory for the true Faith — because the official structures have become the synagogue of Satan (Apoc. 2:9). Christus vincit, Christus regnat, Christus imperat — but not in the halls of Ateneo, not in the statements of EWTN, not in the “mourning” of the neo-church. Only in the integral Catholic Faith, entire and inviolate, is there peace. Pax Christi in Regno Christi.
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Second Philippine school shooting in 2 months hits Jesuit university (ewtnnews.com)
Date: 19.08.2026