The EWTN News portal reports that the “bishop” of Magdeburg, Gerhard Feige, and the “chairman of the German Bishops’ Conference,” Heiner Wilmer, have expressed “great concern” over the electoral success of the Alternative for Germany (AfD) in Saxony-Anhalt, where the party secured 43.8% of the vote. The “cardinal” Gerhard Müller, former prefect of the conciliar “Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith,” countered that bishops must not throw their “spiritual authority onto the scales” for political parties. This spectacle of hirelings fighting over the management of a secular state while the souls entrusted to them perish for lack of the true Faith exposes the total bankruptcy of the conciliar sect.
The Conciliar Hierarchy: Functionaries of the Secular Order
The cited article reveals, with crystalline clarity, that the men occupying the episcopal sees in Germany are not successors of the Apostles sent to docere, sanctificare, regere (to teach, sanctify, govern) in the name of Christ the King, but mere functionaries of the secular liberal order. “Bishop” Feige, in a joint statement with Protestant heretics, calls on the election winners to “fully respect our state’s constitution as well as the Basic Law and to uphold the dignity of all people.” Not a word of Salus animarum suprema lex (the salvation of souls is the supreme law). Not a whisper of the Social Kingship of Christ, which Pius XI solemnly proclaimed in Quas Primas: “If rulers of states therefore not refuse public veneration and obedience to the reigning Christ… everyone will notice how religiously and wisely they will use their authority.” Instead, the “bishop” invokes the “Basic Law” — the constitution of a Masonic republic founded on the denial of Christ’s rights — as the supreme norm.
This is the reduction of the Church’s mission to naturalistic humanism. The “dignity of all people” cited by Feige is the vacuous slogan of the 1948 UN Declaration, not the Catholic truth that man’s dignity consists in his supernatural vocation to the Beatific Vision and his obligation to worship the true God in the true Church. By making the secular constitution the measure of political legitimacy, Feige implicitly denies Cum ex Apostolatus Officio and the Syllabus of Pius IX, which condemn the separation of Church and State (Error 55) and the idea that the State is the source of all rights (Error 39).
The “Worst Fears” of the Synodal Church
“Bishop” Wilmer declares: “Our worst fears have come true, but we must accept the result.” What are these “worst fears”? That a party critical of mass migration might govern a German state? The true “worst fear” for any Catholic bishop should be the loss of a single soul to hell, the profanation of the Holy Sacrifice, the silence of the pulpit on mortal sin. But Wilmer’s “worst fears” are purely political: the disruption of the comfortable modus vivendi between the German “Church” — swollen with Kirchensteuer (church tax) millions — and the liberal establishment.
The article notes that the “leaders said they would ‘closely monitor and critically assess the political actions of the future state government.'” This is the language of an NGO, not the Bride of Christ. Where is the monitoring of the “German Synodal Way,” which has officially approved blessings for sodomite unions, women’s “ordination,” and the demolition of priestly celibacy? Where is the “critical assessment” of the “bishops” themselves, who have presided over the evacuation of confessionals, the closure of seminaries, and the apostasy of millions? The silence is deafening and damning.
Müller: The Controlled Opposition
“Cardinal” Müller’s intervention on kath.net is hailed by some as a defense of ecclesiastical freedom. In reality, it is the theater of the opposition controlée. Müller warns bishops not to “throw their spiritual authority onto the scales” and to be “spiritual pastors rather than committing abuse of spiritual authority for political purposes.” But what “spiritual authority” does a “cardinal” of the conciliar sect possess? He holds office in a structure that has, for six decades, taught religious liberty (condemned by Gregory XVI, Pius IX, Leo XIII, Pius X, Pius XI, Pius XII), false ecumenism, and the collegiality that subverts the monarchical constitution of the Church.
Müller himself participated in the “Synod on Synodality,” the engine of the neo-church’s self-demolition. He recognizes “Pope” Francis (Bergoglio) and now “Pope” Leo XIV (Prevost) as legitimate vicars of Christ, despite their manifest heresies — a position refuted by St. Robert Bellarmine (De Romano Pontifice), who teaches that a manifest heretic ipso facto ceases to be Pope and head of the Church. Müller’s “critique” is merely a plea for the conciliar clergy to maintain a veneer of religious distinctiveness while fully participating in the democratic religion of humanity. He is the guardian of the conciliar synthesis, ensuring that the revolution does not proceed so crudely as to awaken the dormant Catholic instinct in the faithful.
The AfD Distraction: Bread and Circuses for the Faithful
The entire controversy serves as a masterful distraction. The faithful of the conciliar sect are directed to agonize over the electoral arithmetic of Saxony-Anhalt — coalition deadlocks, the “firewall” against the AfD, the classification by domestic intelligence — while the abomination of desolation stands in the holy place (Matt 24:15). The article mentions that the AfD is “critical of mass migration” and described by opponents as “far right,” “populist,” “extremist.” These are the only categories the neo-church understands: sociological, political, temporal.
The true Catholic perspective, articulated by Pius XI in Quas Primas, is that “the state is nothing else than a harmonious association of men” and that “the state is happy not by one means, and man by another.” The happiness of the state depends on its submission to Christ the King. The AfD, like every other party in the German spectrum, rejects the Social Kingship of Christ. It operates within the framework of the Basic Law, which enshrines religious indifference (Error 15 of the Syllabus: “Every man is free to embrace and profess that religion which… he shall consider true”). Whether the AfD governs or the CDU/SPD/Greens coalition holds, the result is the same: a state that does not confess Christ, does not base its laws on His commandments, and does not acknowledge His judgment.
EWTN: The Propaganda Arm of the Neo-Church
The source of this article, EWTN News, presents itself as a “Catholic” news agency. In reality, it is the media arm of the conciliar establishment, founded by the modernist “Mother” Angelica and fully integrated into the structures of the “Vatican” since 2011. Its reporting frame — “bishops voice concern,” “cardinal criticizes bishops” — reinforces the illusion that the conciliar hierarchy is the Catholic Church, and that its internal squabbles are matters of faith. The article’s closing boilerplate (“I agree to receive communications from EWTN… Privacy Policy”) underscores its commercial, corporate nature. It feeds the faithful a diet of ecclesiastical politics to starve them of the doctrina salutis.
The Theological Vacuum: No Christ, No Grace, No Eternity
Read the article again. Search for the words: Jesus Christ, grace, sin, salvation, hell, judgment, sacraments, Mass, Cross, Trinity, Immaculate Conception, Papal Infallibility. They are absent. The “bishops,” the “cardinal,” the “journalists” — none speak as those who must render an account for souls (Heb 13:17). They speak as politicians, sociologists, managers of a declining institution.
This is the symptom of the Great Apostasy foretold by St. Paul (2 Thess 2:3) and St. Pius X in Pascendi Dominici Gregis. The Modernist “does not so much relate that He established laws, as rather present Him establishing laws” (Pius XI, Quas Primas, citing the Modernist method). The conciliar “bishops” do not teach the immutable doctrine; they “monitor political actions.” They do not warn against the “synagogue of Satan” (Pius IX, Syllabus context); they warn against a political party that threatens their subsidies and social relevance.
The Only Remedy: The Integral Faith Outside the Conciliar Structures
The faithful Catholic, looking at this spectacle, must not choose between Feige and Müller, between the “left” and “right” wings of the neo-church. Both wings belong to the same bird of prey. The only path is the via antiqua: adherence to the immutable Magisterium before 1958, the Traditional Latin Mass (Missale Romanum of St. Pius V), the theology of St. Thomas Aquinas, and the recognition that the See of Peter has been vacant since the death of Pius XII (or at latest, since the manifest heresy of John XXIII). As Bellarmine teaches, a manifest heretic cannot be Pope (non potest esse Papa), for caput non potest esse qui non est membrum (the head cannot be he who is not a member).
The “great concern” of Feige and Wilmer is the concern of the hireling who sees the wolf coming and flees (John 10:12). The true shepherd lays down his life for the sheep — not for the Basic Law, not for “democracy,” not for “human dignity” abstracted from the Truth. The election in Saxony-Anhalt is a symptom of God’s chastisement upon a nation that has officially apostatized. The conciliar “bishops” are not the remedy; they are part of the punishment.
Regnavit a ligno Deus (God has reigned from the wood of the Cross). Let the nations rage (Ps 2:1). The King remains.
Source:
German bishop voices ‘great concern’ after historic AfD victory in state election (ewtnnews.com)
Date: 08.09.2026