The Desde la Fe weekly, organ of the Primatial Archdiocese of Mexico, publishes an editorial titled Before taking away their cellphones, let’s look at our own [use], in which it opines that banning mobile devices in schools constitutes a mistake if not accompanied by parental regulation at home. The piece, reproduced by the modernist propaganda outlet ACI Prensa/EWTN News, frames the crisis of screen addiction as a pedagogical challenge requiring tools to set boundaries and digital discernment, wholly devoid of any reference to the supernatural end of man, the Kingship of Christ, or the duty of the Church to combat the world, the flesh, and the devil.
The Usurpation of Pastoral Authority by Sociological Technocrats
The so-called Archdiocese of Mexico — a jurisdictional entity of the conciliar sect occupying the Vatican since 1958 — speaks not as Mater et Magistra but as a social services agency. Its editorial cites statistics: 19 states in the country (about 60%) already regulate or prohibit students’ use of such devices in schools. This reliance on civil legislation (lex civilis) as the benchmark for ecclesiastical action manifests the heresy of Americanism and Liberalism condemned by Leo XIII in Testem Benevolentiae (1899) and by St. Pius X in Pascendi Dominici Gregis (1907). The Church does not take her cues from the status quaestionis of secular governments; she imposes the lex divina and lex canonica upon them. As Pius XI teaches in Quas Primas: Peace is only possible in the kingdom of Christ; His reign encompasses not only Catholic nations… but all non-Christians, so that most truly the entire human race is subject to the authority of Jesus Christ (Denz. 2199). The Mexican neo-hierarchy inverts this order: it begs the state for regulation and offers parents tips.
Naturalism Masquerading as Pedagogy: The Silence of the Supernatural
Read the editorial closely. Nowhere does it mention: Original Sin, concupiscence, the devil, hell, the state of grace, the Sacraments, the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass, Our Lady, the commandments of God. The crisis of the screen is treated as a problem of attention management, stimuli overload, and digital discernment — the vocabulary of Silicon Valley therapists, not Catholic bishops. This is the practical atheism condemned by the Syllabus of Pius IX (Error 3: Human reason, without any reference whatsoever to God, is the sole arbiter of truth and falsehood, and of good and evil). The child is not a soul to be saved for eternity, but a user to be trained in responsible engagement with vast amounts of information. The editorial asks: How often do we ask [our children] to get off their phones while we look at ours? — reducing the divine mandate of parental authority (potestas paterna) to a matter of modeling behavior. St. Paul teaches the contrary: You were bought with a price; do not become slaves of men (1 Cor 7:23), cited by Pius XI in Quas Primas to show that the royal dignity of our Lord surrounds the earthly authority of princes and rulers with a certain religious reverence. Parents command in loco Dei, not as role models.
The Conciliar Anthropology: Man as Consumer, Not as Imago Dei
The editorial’s anthropology is pure Gaudium et Spes modernism: man is a being of communication, connection, learning, work. Digital tools allow us to learn, work, communicate, and connect with others, it says, but the challenge lies in keeping them at the service of the person and not the person at the service of the screen. This is the cult of man denounced by Cardinal Ottaviani and Cardinal Bacci in their Short Critical Study (1969) on the Novus Ordo Missae. The person here is the autonomous, secularized subject of the UN Declaration of Human Rights, not the homo viator called to deificare through grace. The true Catholic educator knows that the screen is not a neutral tool but a instrumentum diaboli — a portal for pornography, blasphemy, heresy, and the destruction of innocence. The Council of Trent (Sess. XXIV, De Ref. c. 1) commands bishops to banish from the faithful’s sight all things that excite lust. The Mexican neo-archdiocese instead proposes sitting down with their children to get to know what they are viewing — a recipe for scandal and complicity.
Usurpers Without Jurisdiction: The Canonical Nullity of the Conciliar Hierarchy
The men issuing this editorial — the Archbishop of Mexico and his curia — are manifest heretics who have ipso facto lost all jurisdiction. St. Robert Bellarmine (De Romano Pontifice, lib. 2, cap. 30) teaches: A manifest heretic cannot be Pope… he cannot be the head of something of which he is not a member. Wernz-Vidal (Ius Canonicum, n. 391) confirm: By notorious and publicly manifested heresy, the Roman Pontiff… is deprived ipso facto of his personal jurisdiction even before any declaratory sentence by the Church. The same principle applies to all bishops adhering to the Vatican II sect. Their Canon 188 §4 (1917 Code) declares vacant any office by tacit resignation recognized by the law itself if the cleric publicly defects from the Catholic faith. The conciliar hierarchy’s public profession of religious liberty (Dignitatis Humanae), false ecumenism (Unitatis Redintegratio), collegiality subverting papal primacy, and the New Mass expressing a Protestantized ecclesiology, constitutes notorious defection. Therefore, the Archdiocese of Mexico is a juridical nullity; its editorials have the weight of a Masonic lodge circular.
The Masonic Blueprint: Secularization of Education
The editorial’s insistence that regulating cellphones in schools may be a good start but let’s not make banning them a way to ease our consciences reveals the Masonic strategy: never suppress evil, only manage it. The Syllabus of Pius IX (Error 45) condemns: The entire government of public schools… may and ought to appertain to the civil power… freed from all ecclesiastical authority. The Mexican Revolution (1910) and its anti-clerical Constitution (1917) were Masonic projects to secularize education. The conciliar sect, far from resisting, collaborates. Gravissimum Educationis (Vatican II) surrenders Catholic schools to dialogue with the world. The result: the Archdiocese now debates screen time like a PTA committee. Pius XI in Quas Primas warned: When God and Jesus Christ were removed from laws and states… the foundations of that authority were destroyed. The screen is the new ara of the Masonic Novus Ordo Saeculorum; the neo-hierarchy burns incense before it.
The Only Remedy: Integral Catholic Restoration
The solution to the screen crisis is not digital discernment but the Social Kingship of Christ exercised through Catholic schools teaching the Catechism of Trent, the Baltimore Catechism, the Summa Theologiae — schools where the Unbloody Sacrifice of Calvary is the center, where the Breviarium Romanum sanctifies the hours, where children learn Latin, Gregorian chant, Thomistic philosophy, and the lives of the Saints. Parents must withdraw their children from the schools of the conciliar sect (which are scholae perditionis) and from the public schools (which are scholae diaboli), and entrust them to validly ordained priests (pre-1968 rite) and traditional religious who keep the Rule of St. Benedict or St. Ignatius uncorrupted. The father, as sacerdos domesticus, must impose absolute prohibition of the smartphone — not regulation — as St. John Bosco would: Flee bad companions; the smartphone is the worst companion. Qui non colligit mecum, dispergit (Mt 12:30). There is no third way.
Conclusion: The Editorial as Symptom of the Great Apostasy
The Desde la Fe editorial is not a pastoral failure; it is a theological impossibility from a Catholic see. It proves that the structures occupying the churches in Mexico are the abomination of desolation (Mt 24:15) foretold by Our Lord. They speak the language of the City of Man because they belong to it. Let the faithful flee them (fugite ex medio eius, Jer 51:6) and cleave to the Ecclesia Militans in the catacombs, where the Mass of All Time is offered, where the Rosary is the weapon, and where Christ the King reigns in mente, in voluntate, in corde — and the smartphone is smashed as the idol it is.
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It’s ‘a mistake’ to only ban cellphones in schools, Archdiocese of Mexico says (ewtnnews.com)
Date: 08.09.2026