The EWTN News portal reports on a panel at the Rimini Meeting — the annual gathering of the Communion and Liberation movement — where representatives of the conciliar sect, including the Nigerian “bishop” Matthew Hassan Kukah and EU “special envoy” Mairead McGuinness, instrumentalized the genuine suffering of Christians in Nigeria and Lebanon to propagate the condemned heresy of religious liberty. The article, framed as a defense of “freedom of belief,” explicitly invokes the Second Vatican Council’s *Dignitatis Humanae* and celebrates the recent “Pact among Religions” signed in Rome, confirming that the conciliar sect’s response to persecution is not the Social Kingship of Christ but the Masonic dogma of indifferentism.
The Rimini Meeting: A Laboratory of Conciliar Apostasy
The “Meeting for Friendship Among Peoples” in Rimini has long served as a showcase for the conciliar sect’s adaptation to the world. Founded by the modernist Don Luigi Giussani, Communion and Liberation epitomizes the aggiornamento mentality: a Catholicism emptied of its militant character, reduced to cultural phenomenology and political relevance. That this venue hosts a panel on “religious freedom” with the European Union’s “special envoy” — a functionary of the Masonic European project — reveals the symbiosis between the conciliar hierarchy and the anti-Christian world order. The panel’s title, “The Freedom to Believe: A Human Right at the Center of Geopolitical Challenges,” announces its naturalistic premise: religion as a human right derived from “human dignity” rather than a divine right derived from the Kingship of Christ.
Religious Liberty: The Synthesis of All Heresies
The article’s central thesis — that “religious freedom is the mother of all freedoms” — is a direct contradiction of the infallible Magisterium. Pope Pius IX in Quanta Cura (1864) and the Syllabus Errorum condemned as error the proposition that “every man is free to embrace and profess that religion which, guided by the light of reason, he shall consider true” (Error 15) and that “the Church ought to be separated from the State, and the State from the Church” (Error 55). Pope Leo XIII in Libertas Praestantissimum (1888) declared: “Libertas conscientiae, quam nunc homines ita defendunt, non est nisi licentia erroris” (liberty of conscience, which men now so defend, is nothing but license of error). Pope St. Pius X in Pascendi Dominici Gregis (1907) identified religious liberty as the principal dogma of Modernism, the “synthesis of all heresies.”
The article’s spokesman, Andrea Avveduto, explicitly cites Dignitatis Humanae: “Truth imposes itself solely by virtue of its own truth, never through coercion. Faith, to be authentic, must be free; an imposed faith is not faith.” This is the Modernist substitution of subjective sincerity for objective truth. The Catholic Church teaches Extra Ecclesiam nulla salus and that the State has the duty to profess the true religion, protect the Church, and repress public blasphemy and false worship. The conciliar sect’s embrace of religious liberty is not a development but a rupture — a formal adhesion to the Masonic program of liberté, égalité, fraternité.
Indifferentism Enshrined: The “Pact Among Religions”
The article celebrates the June 25 “Pact among Religions” at the Ara Pacis in Rome, where “15 religious confessions, from the Catholic Church to Muslim, Jewish, Orthodox, Protestant, Buddhist, Hindu, and Baháʼí communities” signed a commitment to “educating communities in dialogue, working together for the common good, and promoting a culture of peace.” This is the practical application of the condemned error of indifferentism. Pope Pius IX condemned the proposition: “Protestantism is nothing more than another form of the same true Christian religion, in which form it is given to please God equally as in the Catholic Church” (Error 18). Pope Gregory XVI in Mirari Vos (1832) denounced “that most pernicious error… that liberty of conscience and worship is each man’s personal right.”
The “Pact” is not a “first step toward cooperation”; it is a public apostasy. By placing the Catholic Church on equal footing with Islam, Judaism, Buddhism, Hinduism, and the Baháʼí faith, the conciliar sect denies the unique mediation of Christ: “Non est aliud nomen sub caelo datum hominibus, in quo oporteat nos salvari” (Acts 4:12). The claim that “religions are not the problem but part of the solution” inverts the Gospel: false religions are the problem, as they lead souls to hell. The Maronite Patriarch’s platitude — “Lebanon is more than a territory; it is a message of freedom, dignity, pluralism, and coexistence” — is pure Masonic rhetoric, devoid of the Cross.
The Nigerian “Bishop” Kukah: Agent of Confusion
The article features “Bishop Matthew Hassan Kukah of the Diocese of Sokoto” as a moral authority. Kukah is a creature of the conciliar sect, ordained in the invalid Novus Ordo rite, formed in the Modernist seminary system. His analysis of Nigeria’s crisis is deliberately obscurantist: “They do not kill on a confessional basis, so it is inaccurate to say that today they persecute only Christians.” This relativization serves the conciliar narrative that persecution is not religious but socio-economic (“I am hungry”), thereby obscuring the odium fidei that defines martyrdom. Kukah’s description of Nigeria as a “corrupt state” where elections are bought serves to deflect from the theological reality: the persecution of Christians in Nigeria is a jihad waged by Islam against the Church, facilitated by a government that is at best complicit, at worst actively hostile. The conciliar “bishop” refuses to name the enemy — Islam — because the conciliar sect’s doctrine of Nostra Aetate demands esteem for Muslims as “adorers of the one God.”
Instrumentalization of Suffering for a False Peace
The article’s most cynical maneuver is using the blood of persecuted Christians to legitimize the very heresy that disarms the Church. Avveduto states: “The first persecution is silence. Then through concrete closeness: supporting the local Churches, schools, clinics, and projects that allow communities to remain in their own land rather than flee. There is also the level of political and diplomatic pressure… And finally prayer.” Notice the order: material aid, political lobbying, and only lastly prayer — and even prayer is reduced to a “sign that they belong to a larger body.” There is no call for conversion of the persecutors, no invocation of the Social Kingship of Christ, no demand that the State confess Christ the King. The “peace” sought is the pax Masonica of religious indifferentism, not the Pax Christi in Regno Christi.
Pope Pius XI in Quas Primas (1925), provided in the context files, teaches unequivocally: “Pax Christi in Regno Christi” — the peace of Christ in the Kingdom of Christ. He writes: “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.” The Rimini panel’s solution — EU diplomacy, interreligious pacts, “pluralism” — is precisely the removal of Christ from the public order that Pius XI condemns.
The Statistics of Persecution: A Weapon Against the Truth
The article cites “Open Doors’ World Watch List 2026”: “388 million Christians exposed to persecution… One Christian in 7 globally suffers persecution.” These figures, even if accurate, are deployed to argue for “religious freedom for everyone” — i.e., the Masonic framework. The conciliar sect counts “Christians” broadly, including heretics and schismatics, to inflate numbers and justify its ecumenical agenda. True martyrdom is in odium fidei catholicae, not merely suffering for a generic “Christian” identity. By refusing to distinguish between Catholic martyrs and Protestant victims, the article furthers the ecumenism of blood that blurs the marks of the Church.
The Theological Vacuum: No Christ the King, No Salvation
The article’s most damning feature is its total silence on the supernatural order. Not once does it mention:
– The Social Kingship of Christ over nations
– The duty of the State to profess the Catholic Faith
– The necessity of the Catholic Church for salvation
– The reality of hell for those who die in false religions
– The propitiatory Sacrifice of the Mass as the source of all grace
– The rosary as a weapon against heresy, not merely “sustenance under bombardment”
The priests in Rmeich, Debel, and Ain Ebel who say “daily Mass and the rosary prayed together are what sustain the people” are presented as offering spiritual comfort, not as exercising the Church’s power to bind and loose, to offer the Unbloody Sacrifice that alone appeases divine justice. The article reduces the Mass to a communal coping mechanism.
EWTN and the Conciliar Media Apparatus
The article originates from ACI Stampa / EWTN News, the media arm of the conciliar sect. EWTN, founded by the modernist “Mother Angelica,” has consistently promoted the “New Evangelization” — which is neither new nor evangelization, but the accommodation of the Church to the world. Its reporting on the Rimini Meeting serves to normalize the conciliar sect’s apostasy among conservative Novus Ordo Catholics, providing a “traditional” veneer for the propagation of religious liberty, ecumenism, and political quietism.
Conclusion: The Only Answer Is the Integral Faith
The persecution of Christians in Nigeria, Lebanon, Sudan, and elsewhere is real and horrific. The conciliar sect’s response — religious liberty, interreligious dialogue, EU diplomacy, humanitarian aid — is a betrayal. The only true answer is the integral Catholic Faith: the proclamation of Christ the King, the conversion of nations, the restoration of the Catholic confessional State, the rejection of religious liberty as a satanic dogma, and the recognition that the current hierarchy occupying the Vatican has defected from the Faith. As St. Robert Bellarmine teaches, a manifest heretic loses his office ipso facto. The “bishops” and “popes” of the conciliar sect are not the Church; they are its persecutors from within. The true Church endures in the catacombs, keeping the Faith of the Fathers, offering the True Mass, awaiting the restoration of all things in Christ.
Regnum Christi adveniat. Fiat voluntas Tua, sicut in caelo et in terra.
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Religious freedom under growing threat worldwide, experts warn at Catholic gathering in Italy (ewtnnews.com)
Date: 31.08.2026