Venezuelan Hierarchy Legitimizes Socialist Tyranny Through Masonic Dialogue
The EWTN News portal (ACI Prensa) reports on the second round of negotiations between the Venezuelan socialist regime and the opposition, a process orchestrated by the United States government. The conciliar hierarchy—”Cardinals” Baltazar Porras and Diego Padrón, together with “Bishop Emeritus” Ramón Ovidio Pérez Morales—has inserted itself as a self-appointed “guarantor” of this political theater. While lamenting “indeterminacy, confusion, and uncertainty,” these prelates explicitly endorse the framework of “limited scope and authority,” demand “transparency” in a corrupt oil deal brokered with a known money launderer, and invoke the Masonic triad of “peace, freedom, justice, and fraternity” under the banner of a “civilization of love.” The Venezuelan conciliar hierarchy, abandoning the Social Kingship of Christ, prostitutes itself as guarantor of a Masonic dialogue that legitimizes the socialist tyranny and betrays the rights of God.
Theological Level: Apostasy from the Social Kingship of Christ
The statement of the Venezuelan “cardinals” and “bishop” constitutes a formal, public repudiation of the encyclical Quas Primas of Pope Pius XI. That document, the Magna Carta of Christ’s temporal sovereignty, declares with unshakeable authority: “The state is happy not by one means, and man by another; for the state is nothing else than a harmonious association of men… Let rulers of states therefore not refuse public veneration and obedience to the reigning Christ.” Instead of demanding that the Venezuelan state publicly recognize the Kingship of Christ—as Pius XI commands—the conciliar prelates beg for “elections” and a “Supreme Court of Justice with honorable, independent, and impartial judges.” They seek a secular judiciary, explicitly severed from the divine law, in direct violation of the Syllabus of Pius IX which condemns the error that “The civil government… has a right to an indirect negative power over religious affairs” (Error 41) and that “In the case of conflicting laws enacted by the two powers, the civil law prevails” (Error 42).
By offering themselves as “guarantors” of a process “promoted and driven by the U.S. government,” these men place the Church under the patronage of a Masonic power. They have forgotten—or rather, rejected—the teaching of Pius XI that “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.” Their “civilization of love” is a counterfeit, a humanitarian parody of the Civitas Dei, stripped of the Cross, the Confessional, and the Crown Rights of Christ the King. They speak of “divine assistance” but refuse to invoke the only Name by which nations are saved: Jesus Christus Rex.
Linguistic Level: The Newspeak of the Conciliar Sect
The rhetoric deployed by the Venezuelan hierarchy is saturated with the vocabulary of the Revolution. They diagnose “indeterminacy, confusion, and uncertainty”—the permanent atmosphere of Modernism condemned by St. Pius X in Lamentabili Sane Exitu and Pascendi Dominici Gregis. They propose “opinions, judgments, and proposals” to “open the way,” language redolent of the hermeneutic of rupture masquerading as “continuity.” The phrase “civilization of love” is a Paul VI neologism, unknown to the Fathers, the Councils, and the pre-conciliar Magisterium; it replaces the Regnum Christi with a vague, sentimental humanitarianism compatible with Freemasonry’s “universal brotherhood.”
They speak of the “sovereign people of Venezuela” having a “defined and clear mandate.” This is the heresy of popular sovereignty (vox populi, vox Dei), explicitly anathematized by the Syllabus (Error 39: “The State, as being the origin and source of all rights, is endowed with a certain right not circumscribed by any limits”) and by Leo XIII in Diuturnum Illud: “All power is from God.” The prelates’ call for “social reconciliation” and “peace” without the prior condition of conversion to the Catholic Faith and the public confession of Christ the King is the peace of the world, which Christ explicitly refused: “Peace I leave with you, my peace I give unto you: not as the world giveth, do I give unto you” (Jn 14:27). Their “prudence and gradual approach” regarding the plunder of Venezuelan oil is the language of the worldly merchant, not the parrhesia of the Apostle.
Factual Level: Collaboration with the “Synagogue of Satan”
The article reveals the sordid reality: the “opposition” negotiates with the “ruling socialist government delegation” led by Jorge Rodríguez, a henchman of the Chavista narcotyranny. The “Cardinals” and “Bishop” legitimize this farce by their presence. Pius IX, in the Syllabus and his allocutions, identified the sects—”whether they be called masonic or bear another name”—as “the synagogue of Satan, which gathers its troops against the Church of Christ.” He warned that “the present misfortune must mainly be imputed to the frauds and machinations of these sects.” The Venezuelan hierarchy, instead of denouncing the Chavista regime as an instrument of this satanic conspiracy—as Pius IX denounced the Carbonari and the Communists—sits at the table with them, sharing “greetings” and “initial agreements.”
The oil deal, granting the U.S. control over 65 billion barrels via the corrupt intermediary Alejandro Betancourt López, is described with tepid “concern” for “transparency.” There is zero condemnation of the intrinsic evil of socialism/communism, condemned by Pius IX (Quanta Cura, Syllabus Error 14-18), Leo XIII (Rerum Novarum, Quod Apostolici Muneris), Pius XI (Divini Redemptoris, Quadragesimo Anno), and Pius XII. The prelates worry about “vast sums of money” but not about the souls damned by the atheistic materialism of the regime they are “guaranteeing.” This is the silent apostasy of the conciliar sect: the substitution of the salus animarum with the salus rei publicae managed by Masonic powers.
Symptomatic Level: The Inevitable Fruit of Dignitatis Humanae and Gaudium et Spes
This Venezuelan spectacle is the modus operandi of the conciliar sect worldwide. The Second Vatican Council’s declaration on Religious Liberty (Dignitatis Humanae) and the pastoral constitution Gaudium et Spes transformed the Church from the Ark of Salvation into an NGO for “dialogue,” “reconciliation,” and “integral human development.” The Venezuelan prelates are not rogue actors; they are the faithful executors of the conciliar paradigm. They practice the “ecumenism of the blood” with socialism, just as the “pope” in Rome practices it with Islam, Judaism, and Protestantism.
The Syllabus condemns the error that “The Roman Pontiff can, and ought to, reconcile himself, and come to terms with progress, liberalism and modern civilization” (Error 80). The Venezuelan hierarchy has done precisely that: they have come to terms with the “progress” of the Chavista revolution, the “liberalism” of the U.S.-brokered deal, and the “modern civilization” of the New World Order. They have accepted the fait accompli of the regime’s “illegitimate” power (their own admission) and seek only to manage its transition—a transition within the Masonic framework, not a restoration of the Ordo Christianus.
The “bishop emeritus” Pérez Morales, the “cardinals” Porras and Padrón—these are not successors of the Apostles feeding the flock with doctrina sana (Titus 1:9). They are functionaries of the “abomination of desolation” (Mt 24:15) occupying the visible structures of the Church in Venezuela. They have tacitly resigned their office (Canon 188.4, 1917 Code) by publicly defecting from the Catholic Faith regarding the Social Kingship of Christ and the duty to condemn error. As St. Robert Bellarmine teaches, “A manifest heretic cannot be Pope… he cannot be the head of something of which he is not a member.” The same principle applies to the episcopate: a bishop who denies the Kingship of Christ over nations ceases to be a bishop of the Catholic Church.
Conclusion: No Salvation in “Dialogue,” Only in the Kingship of Christ
The article concludes with the prelates’ pious wish: “God has given us this country as a setting in which to build a ‘new society,’ the ideal of the civilization of love.” This is the ultimate blasphemy. God gave Venezuela not for a “new society” of Masonic design, but for the Regnum Christi. The only solution for Venezuela—as for every nation—is the one proclaimed by Pius XI: “When all willingly accept the reign of Christ and obey Him, and every tongue will confess that our Lord Jesus Christ is in the glory of God the Father.” There is no “transition to democracy and freedom” apart from Christ the King. The “dialogue” in Venezuela is a trap set by the Prince of this World. The true Catholic response is not a seat at the table, but the excommunication of the tyrants, the interdict on the Masonic lodges, and the public coronation of Christ the King. Viva Cristo Rey!
Source:
Venezuela: Talks with opposition, oil deal, Delcy Rodríguez in New York, and the Church’s stance (ewtnnews.com)
Date: 16.09.2026