The EWTN News portal reports that the schismatic Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church, through its patriarch Abune Mathias I, has condemned the slaughter of over sixty of its adherents in the Oromia region, demanding government protection and justice according to constitutional law. Simultaneously, the “Catholic Bishops’ Conference of Ethiopia” (CBCE), operating under the obedience of the usurper “Pope” Leo XIV (Robert Prevost), issued a parallel statement calling for “dialogue, forgiveness, and reconciliation” rooted in “truth, justice, and the common good.” The article frames this convergence as a shared Christian witness, citing the “Pope’s” September 30 appeal for dialogue amid the Tigray conflict. This spectacle of schismatics and Modernists joining hands in a purely naturalistic cry for “human rights” and “constitutional guarantees,” while completely silencing the necessity of the one true Church and the Social Kingship of Christ, exposes the utter bankruptcy of the post-conciliar religion.
The Ecumenism of Blood: A Diabolical Counterfeit of Catholic Unity
The article presents the joint condemnation by the schismatic Orthodox hierarchy and the “Catholic” episcopate as a edifying display of Christian solidarity. In reality, it is the ecumenism of blood so dear to the conciliar sect—a sentimental unification in error that obscures the dogmatic reality: extra Ecclesiam nulla salus. The Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church is a schismatic body, severed from the Roman Pontiff since the 5th century, rejecting the Council of Chalcedon and the primacy of Peter. Its hierarchy possesses no jurisdiction, no mission from Christ, and its sacraments, though materially valid in some instances, are celebrated outside the unity of the Church and therefore profit nothing unto salvation without the bond of charity which is unity with the Vicar of Christ.
Yet the “Catholic bishops” of the CBCE treat these schismatics as brothers in the episcopal college, issuing parallel statements as if both bodies shared the same divine mandate. This is the rotten fruit of Vatican II’s Unitatis Redintegratio, which redefined the Church of Christ as “subsisting in” the Catholic Church while granting ecclesial reality to heretical and schismatic sects. The article notes the Orthodox synod prayed for the “honor of martyrdom” for their dead. To attribute the crown of martyrdom to those dying in schism, outside the communion of the true Church, is a theological abomination. St. Cyprian teaches: “He cannot have God for his Father who has not the Church for his mother” (De Unitate Ecclesiae, 6). True martyrdom requires the confession of the integral Catholic faith; death suffered for a false religion, however sincere the victim, is not martyrdom but a tragic deception.
The Usurper “Leo XIV” and the Naturalization of the Papacy
The article casually references “Pope Leo XIV’s Sept. 30 appeal for dialogue.” Robert Prevost, the current claimant to the See of Peter, is a manifest heretic who adheres to the conciliar errors of religious liberty, false ecumenism, and collegiality—errors condemned by the perennial Magisterium. By the principle ipso facto articulated by St. Robert Bellarmine and confirmed by Canon 188.4 of the 1917 Code, a manifest heretic loses all jurisdiction and membership in the Church automatically, before any declaratory sentence. The “Defense of Sedevacantism” file confirms: “A manifest heretic cannot be Pope… he cannot be the head of something of which he is not a member.” Therefore, Prevost is not the Pope but an antipope, a usurper occupying the Vatican structures. His “appeals for dialogue” carry zero supernatural authority; they are the political utterances of a private individual heading a paramasonic structure.
The EWTN article treats this usurper as the legitimate Vicar of Christ, thereby participating in the great delusion of the conciliar sect. This is not merely a jurisdictional dispute; it is the fulfillment of the prophecy of the “abomination of desolation standing in the holy place” (Matt. 24:15). The “Church” headquartered in the Vatican since 1958 is not the Catholic Church but the “Church of the New Advent,” a counterfeit institution erected by Modernists to displace the Bride of Christ.
Reduction of the Church’s Mission to Secular Humanitarianism
Both statements analyzed in the article—the Orthodox synod’s and the CBCE’s—are saturated with the language of secular liberalism: “constitutional rights,” “human rights,” “rule of law,” “national values of peaceful coexistence,” “shared responsibility,” “common good” understood in a purely temporal sense. Nowhere is there a mention of the Social Kingship of Christ the King, the necessity of the Catholic confessional state, the duty of civil authority to profess the true religion, or the eternal destiny of souls.
Pius XI in Quas Primas (1925) thundered: “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 entire human society had to be shaken, because it lacked a stable and strong foundation.” The Ethiopian “bishops” echo the very secularism Pius XI condemned: they appeal to the “constitution” and “human rights” as the highest standard, not the divine law. The Orthodox synod demands the government “uphold the constitutionally guaranteed rights to life and freedom of worship.” Freedom of worship? The Syllabus of Pius IX (Error 77) condemns the proposition: “In the present day it is no longer expedient that the Catholic religion should be held as the only religion of the State.” The true Church demands the duty of the state to protect the true religion and suppress public error—not “freedom of worship” for all sects indiscriminately.
The CBCE’s call for “peace rooted in truth, justice, forgiveness, and reconciliation” sounds pious but is vacuous without the definition of truth as the Catholic faith and justice as the rendering to God His due. This is the “cult of man” denounced by the pre-conciliar Magisterium: a horizontal, immanentist humanitarianism that has replaced the vertical worship of the Most Holy Trinity.
The Linguistic Camouflage: “Catholic Bishops” and “His Holiness”
The article’s rhetoric is designed to normalize the abnormal. It refers to “His Holiness Abune Mathias I, the patriarch of the Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church”—bestowing the title “His Holiness” on a schismatic prelate who rejects the Roman Primacy. It speaks of the “Catholic Bishops’ Conference of Ethiopia” and “Catholic leaders” without qualification, implying these men are legitimate successors of the Apostles in communion with Rome. They are not. They are clergy of the conciliar sect, ordained in the doubtful new rite of Paul VI, adhering to the heresies of Vatican II, and in communion with the antipope in Rome. They possess no canonical mission from the true Church.
The phrase “Pope Leo XIV” appears without scare quotes in the source text; our duty is to strip away this veneer of legitimacy. The consistent use of quotation marks for all post-conciliar titles—”pope,” “bishop,” “cardinal,” “Catholic”—is not polemical excess but theological precision: it signifies the ontological rupture between the true Church and the counterfeit structure occupying her visible patrimony.
The Symptomatic Level: The Conciliar Revolution’s Inevitable Fruit
This article is a textbook illustration of the symptomatic level of analysis. The convergence of schismatics and Modernists on a platform of naturalistic human rights advocacy is not an accident; it is the necessary consequence of the conciliar revolution. Once the Church abandons her divine mandate to teach all nations and baptize them (Matt. 28:19-20) in favor of “dialogue” and “religious freedom,” she becomes indistinguishable from any secular NGO. The “Catholic” bishops have nothing supernatural to offer the Ethiopian crisis because they have abandoned the supernatural order. They cannot call the Orthodox to conversion because they no longer believe the Church is necessary for salvation. They cannot demand the state recognize Christ the King because they have accepted the laicist separation of Church and state condemned by Pius IX and Pius XI.
The silence on the supernatural is the loudest accusation. No call for conversion. No warning of divine judgment. No invocation of the Most Holy Sacrifice of the Mass as the only propitiation for the sins of a nation. No mention of the Immaculate Heart of Mary (the true one, not the Fatima construct) as the refuge of sinners. Only “dialogue,” “reconciliation,” “constitutional protections,” and “memorial prayer services.” This is the religion of the Antichrist: a parody of Christianity that serves the prince of this world by diverting souls from the one Ark of Salvation.
The EWTN Apparatus: Propaganda Arm of the Neo-Church
The source, EWTN News (ACI Africa), is the media arm of the conciliar sect, founded by the Modernist “Mother Angelica” and fully integrated into the “Vatican” communications machinery. Its self-description—”giving particular emphasis to the words of the Holy Father and happenings of the Holy See”—confesses its allegiance to the usurper. The article’s framing is pure propaganda: it presents the collaboration between schismatics and Modernists as a hopeful sign, the “Pope’s appeal” as authoritative, and the secular language of “human rights” as Christian discourse. This is the “disinformation strategy” described in the “False Fatima Apparitions” file: Stage 3—”Takeover of the narrative by modernists, concealment of the Third Secret, ecumenical reinterpretation.” EWTN is a primary instrument of this narrative control.
Conclusion: The Only Solution Is the Restoration of All Things in Christ
The bloodshed in Ethiopia is a chastisement for the apostasy of nations and the betrayal of the clergy. The remedy is not “dialogue” between false religions, nor “constitutional guarantees” from a Masonic-inspired state, nor the humanitarian platitudes of the conciliar sect. The remedy is the Instaurare omnia in Christo (Eph. 1:10)—the restoration of the Social Kingship of Christ the King over every nation, every law, every classroom, every hospital, and every heart. This can only be achieved by the true Church, governed by true bishops with valid orders and jurisdiction, in communion with a true Roman Pontiff. Until that restoration, the slaughter will continue, and the false shepherds—whether in Addis Ababa or the Vatican—will continue to cry “Peace, peace” when there is no peace (Jer. 6:14), leading the blind into the pit (Matt. 15:14).
“Non est pax, dicit Dominus, impiis.” (Isa. 48:22) — There is no peace, saith the Lord, for the wicked.
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Ethiopian Orthodox Church condemns killings in Oromia as Catholic bishops call for reconciliation (ewtnnews.com)
Date: 27.10.2026