The EWTN News portal (August 18, 2026) reports that the Mexican Episcopal Conference (CEM), the governing body of the conciliar sect in Mexico, has issued a statement questioning a government proposal to regulate radio and television audiences. While the pseudo-bishops acknowledge “positive aspects” of the secular state’s regulatory framework — such as the prohibition of prior censorship and non-discrimination based on religion — they warn that the proposal could make freedom of expression contingent on the government’s criteria of “truth,” compromise “religious freedom,” and undermine “editorial independence.” The statement distinguishes between journalistic veracity and “the truth of convictions,” which it claims admits “neither administrative verification nor sanction.” The CEM encourages participation in the public consultation and offers its “educational and pastoral network” for “media education and literacy programs.” This capitulation to the secularist paradigm, cloaked in the language of “democratic order” and “pluralism,” constitutes a formal abandonment of the Social Kingship of Christ and the Church’s divine mandate to govern souls.
The Conciliar Hierarchy as Agents of the Secularist Revolution
The so-called “bishops” of the CEM are not successors of the Apostles in the Catholic sense, but functionaries of the conciliar sect erected upon the ruins of the Church by the usurpers beginning with John XXIII. Their ordinations, derived from the novus ordo rite of 1968, are at best doubtful and at worst invalid, depriving them of the sacramental character and jurisdiction necessary to teach authoritatively. Even if validly ordained, their adhesion to the antipope Leo XIV (Robert Prevost) and the Second Vatican Council places them in the camp of the abomination of desolation spoken of by Daniel (Dan. 9:27). As St. Robert Bellarmine teaches, a manifest heretic ipso facto loses all jurisdiction and membership in the Church (De Romano Pontifice, lib. 2, cap. 30). The CEM’s statement is not the voice of the Church, but the voice of the neo-church legitimizing the very secular power that Our Lord came to dethrone.
Relativization of Truth: The Modernist Heresy Enshrined as Principle
The opening declaration — “Truth is not decreed; rather, it is sought and recognized through free and pluralistic debate” — is a textbook formulation of the Modernist error condemned by St. Pius X in Lamentabili sane exitu (1907) and Pascendi Dominici Gregis (1907). Proposition 58 of Lamentabili condemns the idea that “Truth changes with man, because it develops with him, in him, and through him.” Proposition 25 condemns the notion that “Faith, as assent of the mind, is ultimately based on a sum of probabilities.” The CEM’s phrase reduces Truth — which is God Himself (John 14:6) — to a human construct emerging from dialectic, a purely naturalistic and democratic process. This is the hermeneutic of continuity with the Enlightenment, not with Catholic Tradition. The Church does not “seek” truth through debate; She possesses it by divine revelation and imposes it by divine authority. Veritas non quaeritur, sed traditur (Truth is not sought, but handed down).
The Idolatry of “Freedom of Expression” and the “Democratic Order”
The CEM proclaims that “freedom of expression is a fundamental pillar of the democratic order” and that “no administrative authority can set itself up as an arbiter of truth.” This is a direct contradiction of the Syllabus of Errors (1864), where Pope Pius IX condemns as errors:
- Proposition 77: “In the present day it is no longer expedient that the Catholic religion should be held as the only religion of the State, to the exclusion of all other forms of worship.”
- Proposition 78: “Hence it has been wisely decided by law, in some Catholic countries, that persons coming to reside therein shall enjoy the public exercise of their own peculiar worship.”
- Proposition 55: “The Church ought to be separated from the State, and the State from the Church.”
- Proposition 39: “The State, as being the origin and source of all rights, is endowed with a certain right not circumscribed by any limits.”
The “democratic order” is a Masonic construct designed to dethrone Christ the King. Pius XI in Quas Primas (1925) teaches unequivocally: “His reign extends not only to Catholic nations… but His reign encompasses also all non-Christians, so that most truly the entire human race is subject to the authority of Jesus Christ.” The state has not the right to be neutral toward truth; it has the duty to profess the Catholic faith and conform its laws to the divine law. By invoking “freedom of expression” as a pillar, the CEM sanctifies the very liberty that Pius IX called “a pestilence… more deadly than any other” (Quanta Cura, 1864). The true arbiter of truth is the Church, columna et firmamentum veritatis (1 Tim. 3:15), not the state, not the market of ideas, and not the “pluralistic debate” of the Modernists.
Religious Liberty and Pluralism: The Condemned Indifferentism
The CEM demands that the regulation’s pluralism “include the pluralism of religious convictions and beliefs” benefiting “all faiths as well as those who profess no religion.” This is the heresy of indifferentism, condemned in the Syllabus (Prop. 15, 16, 17, 18) and by Gregory XVI in Mirari Vos (1832): “This shameful font of indifferentism gives rise to that absurd and erroneous proposition which claims that liberty of conscience must be maintained for everyone… death to the soul.” The Church has never taught that error has rights. Error non habet ius (Error has no rights). The state may tolerate evil for the sake of a greater good, but it can never grant a right to propagate false religion. By demanding “pluralism of religious convictions” as a legal right, the CEM betrays the First Commandment and the Social Kingship of Christ. It places the true religion on the same level as idolatry, Protestantism, Islam, and atheism. This is not episcopal courage; it is apostasy disguised as advocacy.
The Naturalistic Conception of Conscience and “Self-Regulation”
The statement distinguishes between journalistic veracity and “the truth of convictions, which admits of neither administrative verification nor sanction.” It concludes: “The primary defense of the truth is not a regulation; it is a well-formed conscience.” This is the Protestant and Modernist privatization of truth. In Catholic doctrine, conscience is not an autonomous faculty creating its own norms; it is the practical judgment of reason applying the objective moral law revealed by God and taught infallibly by the Church. A “well-formed conscience” is one formed by the Magisterium, not by “media literacy programs” or “critical thinking” divorced from the depositum fidei. The call for “ethical self-regulation” that “flourishes in freedom” and ceases to be self-regulation when “permanently subject to governmental validation” reveals a purely naturalistic ethics. The only true regulation of media is the law of God and the canonical legislation of the Church. The CEM’s offer to collaborate on “media education” with the secular state is communicatio in sacris with the enemies of Christ, a prostitution of the Church’s maternal office.
Symptomatic Analysis: The Conciliar Church as the Whore of Babylon
This episode is not an isolated tactical error; it is the necessary fruit of the Second Vatican Council‘s Dignitatis Humanae and Gaudium et Spes. The conciliar sect has internalized the principles of the French Revolution: Liberté, Égalité, Fraternité. It no longer seeks the conversion of nations to the Catholic faith, but a seat at the table of the Masonic world order. The Mexican “bishops” do not denounce the regulation as an offense to God; they negotiate its terms. They do not call the government to recognize Christ the King; they ask it to respect “pluralism.” They do not threaten excommunication for Catholic legislators who vote for anti-Christian laws; they offer “frank and constructive dialogue.”
This is the paramasonic structure foretold by Leo XIII in Humanum Genus (1884): “They strive to bring about a condition of things in which the Church would be subject to the State… They desire to banish the Church from the administration of public affairs.” The CEM’s statement is a white flag surrendered to the secularist state. It confirms that the conciliar hierarchy has no supernatural mission, no divine authority, and no faith in the promises of Christ. They are cani muti non valentes latrare (Is. 56:10) — dumb dogs that cannot bark.
The Only Remedy: The Integral Restoration of Christendom
The solution to the Mexican government’s totalitarian temptation is not a better regulation, nor “media literacy,” nor “dialogue.” The solution is the Reign of Christ the King over Mexico — the explicit recognition in the Constitution that the Catholic Religion is the only religion of the State, the subordination of all media law to the moral law of God, the suppression of public blasphemy and heresy, and the restoration of the Church’s canonical jurisdiction over marriage, education, and public morals. As Pius XI commands in Quas Primas: “Let 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.”
The true bishops of Mexico — if any remain in the catacombs, preserving the Traditional Latin Mass and the unadulterated faith — must denounce this CEM statement as a scandal and a betrayal. The faithful must withdraw all recognition from the conciliar sect, recognizing it for what it is: the Church of the New Advent, the great apostasy foretold by St. Paul (2 Thess. 2:3). Non est aliud nomen sub caelo datum hominibus, in quo oporteat nos salvari (Acts 4:12). There is no salvation in “pluralism,” no truth in “dialogue,” no freedom apart from the Sweet Yoke of Christ the King.
Source:
Mexican bishops question proposed government regulation of media (ewtnnews.com)
Date: 18.08.2026