The Vatican News portal reports on 19 October 2026 that the “Archbishop of Marseille,” “Cardinal” Jean-Marc Aveline, and the “Archbishop of Lyon,” Olivier de Germay, have issued statements condemning the widespread rioting, looting, and attacks on churches and public buildings that have convulsed France over recent days. Aveline decries “unacceptable violence,” urges prayer for peace, and expresses solidarity with injured shopkeepers and police. De Germay echoes these sentiments on X, calling violence a “dead end” and urging society to “stand together” to face its challenges. The French government admits failure; “Justice Minister” Gérald Darmanin acknowledges the state “undeniably failed,” while “President” Emmanuel Macron speaks of “anger and shame.” Over 2,000 businesses vandalized, 2,331 detained. The “Yellow Vests” announce further protests for 24 October. This spectacle of conciliar prelates functioning as chaplains to a godless republic, invoking a vague “peace” utterly divorced from the Kingship of Christ, exposes the total bankruptcy of the post-conciliar hierarchy’s mission.
The Factual Level: A Hierarchy in Service of the Secular City
The reported facts reveal a “Church” that has entirely surrendered its supernatural mandate to the exigencies of the Civitas terrena. “Cardinal” Aveline, the “Archbishop” of France’s second-largest city, does not call the faithful to penance, to the Sacraments, or to the recognition of Christus Rex over the French nation. He calls for an end to “violence” and a return to “peace” — concepts stripped of all theological content. The “Archbishop” of Lyon, de Germay, goes further, framing the riots as a “sign of a society in distress” and proposing “standing together” as the remedy. This is pure sociologism. The “prefecture” bans demonstrations; the “Justice Minister” admits failure; the “President” vows firmness. The conciliar prelates stand shoulder-to-shoulder with the Masonic republic’s functionaries, blessing the restoration of ordre public rather than the restoration of the Regnum Christi.
Not a single reference is made to the Social Kingship of Christ, to the duty of the State to profess the Catholic Faith, or to the reality that France’s chaos is the direct fruit of its apostasy from the true God. The “churches broken into” are mentioned only as property damage, not as sacrileges crying out for reparation. The “prayer for peace” is stripped of its essentially Eucharistic and sacrificial nature, reduced to a civic invocation indistinguishable from that of any secular NGO.
The Linguistic Level: The Vocabulary of the Civitas Humana
The rhetoric employed is a masterclass in Modernist newspeak. Terms like “unacceptable violence,” “peace,” “solidarity,” “living together” (vivre ensemble), “challenges confronting our society,” and “peacemakers” dominate. These are the shibboleths of the Declaration on Religious Liberty (Dignitatis Humanae) and the Pastoral Constitution on the Church in the Modern World (Gaudium et Spes). They presuppose a purely naturalistic anthropology where man is the author of his own destiny, where the common good is defined by temporal tranquility and material security, and where the Church’s role is to accompany, dialogue, and facilitate social cohesion.
The language of Quas Primas — “the reign of our Savior,” “the Kingdom of Christ,” “the peace of Christ in the Kingdom of Christ,” “public veneration and obedience to the reigning Christ” — is entirely absent. Pius XI taught: “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” (Encyclical Ubi Arcano, cited in Quas Primas). The “cardinals” speak exactly the language of the authority derived from men. Their “peace” is the pax Romana of the Masonic republic, not the Pax Christi in Regno Christi.
The Theological Level: The Denial of Christ’s Rights Over Nations
The theological bankruptcy is total. The Syllabus of Errors (1864) condemns as error the proposition: “The Church ought to be separated from the State, and the State from the Church” (Error 55), and “In the present day it is no longer expedient that the Catholic religion should be held as the only religion of the State, to the exclusion of all other forms of worship” (Error 77). The conduct of Aveline and de Germay embodies these condemned errors. They function as chaplains of a secular state that explicitly separates itself from the Church, in a nation where the “law of 1905” institutionalized the separation condemned by Pius IX and St. Pius X.
Pius XI in Quas Primas declares: “Let rulers of states therefore not refuse public veneration and obedience to the reigning Christ, but let them fulfill this duty themselves and with their people, if they wish to maintain their authority inviolate and contribute to the increase of their homeland’s happiness.” The French “president” Macron does no such thing; he speaks of “unity” and “firm stance.” The “cardinals” do not demand this public veneration; they beg for “calm” and “dialogue.”
The silence on the supernatural order is the gravest accusation. No mention of sin as the root of disorder. No call to conversion. No invocation of the Sacred Heart (whose feast Pius XI linked to the Kingship feast). No reference to the necessity of the Sacraments for the restoration of order. No warning that “there is no other name under heaven given to men by which we must be saved” (Acts 4:12, cited in Quas Primas). The “peace” they seek is the peace of the world, which Christ explicitly distinguished from His peace: “Peace I leave with you, my peace I give unto you: not as the world giveth, do I give unto you” (John 14:27).
The Symptomatic Level: The Fruit of the Conciliar Revolution
This episode is the inevitable fruit of the conciliar apostasy. The “Church” of the New Advent, born of Vatican II, has as its raison d’être the service of the civitas humana. Its “prelates” are functionaries of a paramasonic structure occupying the Vatican. “Cardinal” Aveline is a known architect of the “theology of encounter” and “Mediterranean dialogue,” a proponent of the false ecumenism and religious liberty condemned by Lamentabili Sane Exitu (propositions 15, 16, 17, 18) and the Syllabus. His “peace” is the peace of the civitas terrena built on the ruins of the Civitas Dei.
The riots themselves — the looting, the attacks on churches, the “urban warfare” — are the direct consequence of the dechristianization of France, a process accelerated by the conciliar hierarchy’s refusal to teach the integral Faith, its collaboration with the secularist state in education (Error 47, 48 of Syllabus), and its promotion of a “Church” that “reconciles itself with progress, liberalism, and modern civilization” (Error 80 of Syllabus).
The “Yellow Vests” announcement of further protests signifies the ongoing collapse of the Masonic order established in 1789. The conciliar prelates have no answer because they have abandoned the only answer: “Instaurare omnia in Christo” (Eph 1:10). They offer the opium of the people — a secularized “solidarity” — while the true Church, the Ecclesia militans persevering in the Tradition of the Fathers and the Mass of all ages, knows that “unless the Lord build the house, they labour in vain that build it” (Ps 126:1).
The Vacant See and the Usurped Hierarchy
The very titles “Cardinal,” “Archbishop” applied to Aveline and de Germay are usurpations. Since the death of Pius XII (1958), the See of Peter has been vacant; the line of claimants — John XXIII, Paul VI, John Paul I, John Paul II, Benedict XVI, Francis, and now “Leo XIV” (Robert Prevost) — are manifest heretics who, by the principle ipso facto articulated by St. Robert Bellarmine and confirmed by Canon 188.4 of the 1917 Code and Pope Paul IV’s Cum ex Apostolatus Officio, lost all jurisdiction upon their public defection from the Faith. They cannot be “Cardinals” or “Bishops” of the Catholic Church. They are officers of the synagoga Satanae occupying the visible structures.
Their “statements” carry no ecclesiastical authority. They are the pronouncements of laymen heading a false sect. The faithful Catholic is bound to reject them entirely, adhering to the immutable doctrine that “the state is happy not by one means, and man by another; for the state is nothing else than a harmonious association of men” (Quas Primas, citing St. Augustine), and that this harmony is impossible without the Kingship of Christ.
Conclusion: The Only Remedy Is the Restoration of the Kingship
The riots in France are a chastisement (flagellum Dei) for a nation that dethroned Christ the King in 1789 and perfected that dethronement in 1905. The conciliar “hierarchy,” by its silence on Christ’s Rights and its servile collaboration with the republican order, shares in the guilt. True peace will return to France only when the French State publicly recognizes the Kingship of Christ, consecrates itself to the Sacred Heart, restores the Catholic Faith as the sole public religion, and suppresses the Masonic sects that have ruled it for two centuries. Until then, the “peace” begged for by Aveline and de Germay is the peace of the cemetery — the temporary lull before the final collapse of a civilization that has rejected its Cornerstone. “He shall rule from sea to sea, and from the river unto the ends of the earth” (Ps 71:8). Christus vincit, Christus regnat, Christus imperat.
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Cardinal Aveline: Don't be drawn into violence, but restore peace (vaticannews.va)
Date: 19.10.2026