The National Catholic Register portal, operating as the propaganda arm of the conciliar sect (CNA), reports that a 7.5-magnitude earthquake struck Panama on October 9, 2026, damaging over one hundred buildings belonging to the Panamanian “bishops’ conference,” with two “totally destroyed.” The cited article details structural cracks, toppled towers, and the relocation of “Masses” outdoors, while quoting the “bishops” expressing “closeness to affected communities” and emphasizing the “architectural value” and “collective memory” of these structures. This report exposes the total naturalization of the conciliar sect: its hierarchy mourns masonry while ignoring the divine chastisement calling a apostate nation to penance.
The Conciliar “Bishops’ Conference”: A Masonic Parody of Episcopal Authority
The article centers on a statement from the Conferencia Episcopal Panameña (CEP), a body that has no canonical existence in the Catholic Church. Since the usurpation of the Holy See by John XXIII in 1958, the sacramental hierarchy has been extinguished in the official structures. The men cited as “bishops” — whether in Panama City, Penonomé, Chitré, David, or Santiago de Veraguas — are at best laymen in episcopal vestments, ordained in the invalid Pontificale Romanum of 1968 by “bishops” themselves devoid of orders. Canon 188.4 of the 1917 Code declares that any cleric who “publicly defects from the Catholic faith” loses his office ipso facto et sine ulla declaratione (by the very fact and without any declaration). Every “bishop” who accepted the Second Vatican Council, the Novus Ordo Missae, and the new sacramental rites has publicly defected. Their “conference” is a Masonic-style bureaucratic assembly, not a college of successors to the Apostles.
Temples of the New Advent: Not Catholic Churches But Protestantized Assembly Halls
The article enumerates damaged structures: “St. Isidore the Farmer parish church,” “Jesus of Nazareth Minor Basilica,” “St. John the Baptist Cathedral,” “Old St. Mary’s Cathedral Basilica.” These are not Catholic churches. A Catholic church is consecrated by a valid bishop for the offering of the Unbloody Sacrifice of Calvary — the True Mass of the Roman Rite codified by St. Pius V. Since the imposition of the Novus Ordo in 1969, these buildings have been desecrated into “assembly halls” for a Protestantized memorial service. The altars described as “destroyed” were likely the versus populum tables introduced by the liturgical revolution. The destruction of a table is not the destruction of an altar. As Pius XII taught in Mediator Dei (1947): “The altar is the center of the sanctuary… where the Priest offers the Sacrifice.” No valid Priest, no True Sacrifice, no Catholic church — only real estate held by a schismatic sect.
“Masses Outdoors”: Invalid Novus Ordo Services, Not the Unbloody Sacrifice
The article notes:
Following the closure of Our Lady of the Most Holy Rosary Church in Chitré, Panama, after the Oct. 9, 2026, earthquake, Masses are being held outdoors.
These are not Masses. They are invalid simulations celebrated by men lacking the priesthood, using a fabricated rite that denies the propitiatory nature of the Sacrifice, the Real Presence, and the priesthood itself. St. Pius V’s Bull Quo Primum (1570) binds all priests in perpetuity to the Roman Missal; Paul VI’s “Missal” of 1969 abrogated nothing canonically because a true Pope cannot destroy the immemorial rite of the Church. Lex orandi, lex credendi (the law of praying is the law of believing). The outdoor services in Panama manifest the faith of the conciliar sect: a horizontal, anthropocentric “celebration of community,” not the vertical worship of the Blessed Trinity. The faithful attending these receive neither grace nor the Body of Christ — only bread, and spiritual deception.
Naturalistic Humanism Replaces Supernatural Faith: Heritage Over Salvation
The “bishops’ conference” report concludes that these buildings possess “more than just architectural value”; they serve as “meeting places, the celebration of faith, and collective memory, and are closely linked to the history and identity of Panamanian communities.” Not a word of the supernatural. No mention of the Missae pro defunctis for the dead, no call to the Sacrament of Penance, no warning of the Final Judgment, no exhortation to amend lives. The “episcopate” expresses “closeness” and highlights “protecting people’s lives, addressing the safety conditions of the buildings, and ensuring the preservation of these places of worship.” This is pure secular humanitarianism — philanthropia masquerading as pastoral care. Pius XI in Quas Primas (1925) thundered: “When God and Jesus Christ were removed from laws and states… the foundations of that authority were destroyed… the entire human society had to be shaken, because it lacked a stable and strong foundation.” The Panamanian “hierarchy” has removed Christ the King from the public order; the earthquake is the shaking.
The Earthquake as Divine Chastisement: Silence on Sin and God’s Justice
Not a single syllable in the report acknowledges the earthquake as a divine chastisement. The Old Testament is replete with examples: “The earth is moved, and the foundations thereof are shaken… because they have transgressed the laws, they have changed the ordinance, they have broken the everlasting covenant” (Isaiah 24:19, 5). The Council of Trent (Sess. XIV, De Poenitentia) teaches that temporal punishments are inflicted by God “for the satisfaction of sins.” The conciliar sect, infected by Modernism, denies the very notion of divine punishment. The Syllabus of Pius IX (1864) condemns the error: “Moral laws do not stand in need of the divine sanction” (Error 56). By treating the earthquake as a mere “natural disaster” requiring “technical inspections” and “civil protection,” the “bishops” manifest the practical atheism of the Church of the New Advent. They are canes muti non valentes latrare (dumb dogs unable to bark — Isaiah 56:10), silent while the flock perishes eternally.
The NCR/CNA: Propaganda Organ of the Antichurch
The source — National Catholic Register / Catholic News Agency — is a mouthpiece of the usurping structure in Rome. It consistently legitimizes the false “pope” (currently Leo XIV, Robert Prevost), the false “bishops,” the false “Mass,” and the false “saints” of the conciliar calendar. Its reporting on Panama serves to normalize the conciliar sect as “the Catholic Church,” obscuring the reality that the True Church subsists only in those bishops and priests who preserve the integral Faith, the Traditional Latin Mass, and the unbroken sacramental succession sine interruptione from before 1958. The article’s focus on “preliminary data,” “specialized technical inspections,” and “preservation of places of worship” is the language of insurance adjusters, not shepherds of souls. Salus animarum suprema lex (the salvation of souls is the supreme law) — a law the conciliar sect has abolished.
Conclusion: Ruins as Signs, Not Tragedies
The ruined towers and cracked walls of Panama are not tragedies for the Catholic Church; they are signa contra haereticos (signs against heretics). The True Church, the Ecclesia Militans, endures in the catacombs of Tradition, offering the True Mass on stone altars, praying the Rosary, doing penance. The conciliar sect’s buildings — whether standing or fallen — are domus haereticorum (houses of heretics). Let the “bishops” hire engineers; the true pastors call for sackcloth and ashes. “Unless you do penance, you shall all likewise perish” (Luke 13:3). That is the only report the Panamanian people need.
Source:
More Than 100 Churches in Panama Affected by October Earthquake (ncregister.com)
Date: 23.10.2026