The EWTN News portal, through its African affiliate ACI Africa, reports that the “archbishop” of Lusaka, Alick Banda, was arrested by Zambia’s Drug Enforcement Commission on charges of possessing a vehicle allegedly stolen from the Zambia Revenue Authority. The “prelate” spent a night in a civil prison before securing bail, while the Zambian episcopal conference of the neo-church issued a statement demanding “fairness, dignity, and due process” for their colleague. This sordid affair lays bare the utter worldliness and institutional corruption of the conciliar sect, where “clerics” are indistinguishable from the corrupt politicians they supposedly oppose, and where the “bishops” rally to protect one of their own from temporal justice while ignoring the eternal damnation awaiting unrepentant public sinners.
The Neo-Church’s “Shepherd” Caught in the Wolf’s Snare
The facts are damning. The “archbishop” Banda stands accused under Section 319 of the Zambian Penal Code of possessing a blue Toyota Hilux (registration ALF 7734) “unlawfully obtained from the Zambia Revenue Authority” between April 2021 and December 2023. The vehicle is merely one of approximately 22 ZRA vehicles allegedly “disposed of improperly” in a wider corruption investigation. Here is a “successor of the apostles” — or so the neo-church claims — entangled in the very theft of public funds meant for the poor of Zambia. The article notes he “pleaded not guilty,” but the scandalum (scandal) is already accomplished: a “prince of the Church” sitting in a common jail cell, reus (accused) of furtum (theft).
St. Paul thundered: “But if our gospel be also hid, it is hid to them that are lost: In whom the god of this world hath blinded the minds of unbelievers, that the light of the gospel of the glory of Christ, who is the image of God, should not shine unto them” (2 Cor 4:3-4). The “god of this world” — Mammon — has clearly blinded this “archbishop.” The Catholic Encyclopedia teaches that a bishop must be “irreprehensible, as the steward of God… not given to wine, no striker, not greedy of filthy lucre” (Titus 1:7). Banda’s alleged greed for a “filthy lucre” vehicle exposes the lie of his “episcopal” dignity.
Linguistic Deception: Bureaucratic Language Masks Spiritual Void
The statement of the Zambia Conference of Catholic Bishops is a masterpiece of Masonic newspeak. They “call for fairness, dignity, and due process.” They express “solidarity” and “deep respect for Banda’s pastoral ministry.” Not a single word about peccatum (sin), scandalum (scandal), poenitentia (penance), or salus animarum (salvation of souls). The language is pure jus naturale (natural law) liberalism — the “human rights” dialectic of the French Revolution, baptized by Vatican II’s Gaudium et Spes.
Pius XI in Quas Primas (1925) condemned this exact inversion: “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 Zambian “bishops” derive their “authority” from the Zambian Constitution and the “due process” of the secular state, not from Christus Rex. They demand “fairness” from Caesar for a “bishop” who has allegedly robbed Caesar’s treasury. Quos Deus vult perdere, prius dementat (Whom God wishes to destroy, He first makes mad).
Theological Bankruptcy: No Supernatural Vision, Only Institutional Preservation
The theological level reveals the abyss. The “bishops” affirm “the Church’s teaching that every person is entitled to fairness, dignity, and due process.” This is a lie. The Church’s teaching is that every person is entitled to the truth of the Gospel and the sacraments for salvation. Extra Ecclesiam nulla salus (Outside the Church there is no salvation). The “dignity” of man consists in his adoption as a son of God through baptism and the state of grace — not in procedural guarantees before a Masonic tribunal.
The Syllabus of Errors (Pius IX, 1864) condemns: “The Church ought to be separated from the State, and the State from the Church” (Error 55). The Zambian “bishops” operate entirely within this condemned framework. They appeal to the “Lusaka Magistrates’ Court” — a civil tribunal — for justice for their “archbishop.” They have abandoned the forum ecclesiasticum (ecclesiastical forum) because the neo-church has no functioning canon law, no true hierarchy, and no power to judge. As Pius XII taught: “The Church is a perfect society… endowed with proper and perpetual rights of her own, conferred upon her by her Divine Founder” (cf. Syllabus, Error 19). The conciliar sect has surrendered these rights to the state.
Symptomatic of the Conciliar Revolution: The Clergy as Corrupt Functionaries
This arrest is not an anomaly; it is the modus operandi of the post-conciliar “clergy.” The “archbishop” Banda is a product of the “new” rites of ordination (post-1968), which are dubia de validitate (doubtful validity) at best, and certainly devoid of the character indelebilis (indelible character) conferred by the traditional rite. He is a functionary of the “paramasonic structure” occupying the Vatican, appointed by the usurper “Pope” Leo XIV (Robert Prevost) or his predecessors in the line of anti-popes beginning with John XXIII.
The “bishops’ conference” rallying behind him mirrors the universal pattern: the “Lefebvrians” (FSSPX) defending their “bishops” despite schism; the “indultists” (FSSP) serving the neo-church while pretending tradition. All are simulacra (counterfeits). The vehicle — a Toyota Hilux — is a fitting symbol: a rugged, worldly machine for a rugged, worldly “church.” The 22 stolen ZRA vehicles represent the systematic looting of the faithful’s temporal goods by a hierarchy that has no supernatural mission.
The Silence on the Soul: The Gravest Accusation
Nowhere in the EWTN report, nor in the “bishops'” statement, is there mention of:
- The state of Banda’s soul
- The scandal given to the faithful in Zambia
- The duty of public penance for public sin
- The eternal consequences of dying in unrepented mortal sin
- The munus docendi (teaching office) to condemn corruption as a sin crying to heaven
This silence is the crimen nefandum (unspeakable crime) of the conciliar sect. They have reduced the Ecclesia to an NGO, the Episcopus to a CEO, and the Sacerdos to a social worker. As St. Pius X warned in Pascendi Dominici Gregis (1907): “The Modernists… aim at such a development of dogmas as appears to be their corruption.” The “development” here is the total evaporation of the supernatural.
EWTN: Propaganda Arm of the Abomination
The source — EWTN News / ACI Africa — is the Pravda of the neo-church. Its related articles promote “Pope Leo XIV’s trip” and “U.S. and African bishops displayed solidarity.” It feeds the faithful a steady diet of “news” about the anti-church’s activities, never questioning the legitimacy of the usurpers, never applying the regula fidei (rule of faith) to the daily outrages. It is opium for the people — a Catholic-flavored distraction from the abomination of desolation standing in the holy place (Matt 24:15).
Conclusion: The True Church Weeps, the False Church Schemes
While the “archbishop” Banda prepares his legal defense, and his “brother bishops” maneuver for public relations, the true Catholic Church in Zambia — the Ecclesia militans (Church militant) of the catacombs, the faithful adhering to the Mass of All Times, the sede vacante reality — weeps for the souls lost to this spectacle. The lex orandi, lex credendi (the law of praying is the law of believing) has been shattered. The “bail” of 80,000 kwacha ($4,094) is the price of the neo-church’s credibility. The true price — Sanguis Christi (the Blood of Christ) — has been despised.
“Be not deceived: God is not mocked. For what things a man shall sow, those also shall he reap. For he that soweth in his flesh, of the flesh also shall reap corruption: but he that soweth in the spirit, of the spirit shall reap life everlasting” (Gal 6:7-8). The Zambian “hierarchy” has sown corruption; it reaps the whirlwind. Deus non irridetur (God is not mocked).
Source:
Zambia archbishop released on bail after night in jail (ewtnnews.com)
Date: 30.09.2026