The Pillar portal (Oct. 27, 2026) reports that the Holy Synod of the Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church announced at least 60 dead, over 20 seriously injured, and 20 homes burned in attacks on Orthodox Christians in the Arsi Eparchy of the Oromia region. The article, authored by Luke Coppen, frames the atrocity as a humanitarian and security crisis, asking “Who is responsible?” while treating the schismatic Ethiopian Orthodox communion as simply “Christians.” This reporting exposes the conciliar sect’s irreducible naturalism: it chronicles the slaughter of those outside the Ark of Salvation with the same secular urgency it would apply to a natural disaster, utterly silent on the *necessitas medii* of the Catholic Church and the Social Kingship of Christ.
The Naturalistic Frame: Humanitarianism Substitutes for the Supernatural
The cited article is a masterclass in the laicism condemned by Pius XI in Quas Primas. It presents the massacre as a geopolitical puzzle—”What’s the background? And who is responsible?”—thereby reducing the mystery of iniquity to a criminal investigation. There is not a single reference to the rights of God (iura Dei), the duty of nations to profess the true Faith, or the reality that the victims, while baptized, remain in schism from the Una, Sancta, Catholica et Apostolica Ecclesia. The conciliar sect’s media organ, The Pillar, functions here as a secular NGO newsletter, adopting the vocabulary of “displacement,” “loss of life,” and “destruction of property”—categories of the City of Man—while banishing the categories of the City of God: salus animarum, the necessity of visible unity under the Roman Pontiff, and the eschatological dimension of persecution.
Pius XI taught: “When God and Jesus Christ… were removed from laws and states… the foundations of that authority were destroyed” (Quas Primas, citing Ubi Arcano). The Pillar’s reporting mimics this godless anthropology. It treats the Ethiopian Orthodox hierarchy as a legitimate ecclesiastical authority (“The Holy Synod… announced”), granting implicit recognition to a body that has rejected the Primacy of Peter and the Council of Chalcedon for 1,500 years. This is false ecumenism in action: the conciliar sect cannot bring itself to call schismatics “schismatics” lest it undermine the oecumenical fiction that all “Christians” are walking together toward a unity that already subsists in the Catholic Church.
Theological Bankruptcy: Silence on Extra Ecclesiam Nulla Salus
The gravest omission is the total absence of the dogma Extra Ecclesiam Nulla Salus. The article speaks of “Christians” being killed. But from the perspective of integral Catholic doctrine, the Ethiopian Orthodox—adherents of the Monophysite heresy condemned at Chalcedon (451) and separated from the See of Peter since the 5th century—are outside the visible bonds of the Church. Pope Eugene IV, in the Bull Cantate Domino (1441), defined ex cathedra: “The Holy Roman Church firmly believes, professes, and preaches that none of those existing outside the Catholic Church, not only pagans, but also Jews, heretics, and schismatics, can have a share in life eternal… unless they are added to the Church before the end of their lives.”
The Pillar’s silence on this dogma is not an oversight; it is the modus operandi of the conciliar sect. By reporting the deaths of schismatics as a tragedy for “Christians” without qualification, it implicitly affirms the heresy of salvation outside the Church—the very error condemned by Pius IX in the Syllabus (Prop. 16, 17) and by the Holy Office in 1949 (Letter to the Archbishop of Boston). The article’s humanitarian framing serves the Modernist religion of man: the temporal body is exalted, the immortal soul is forgotten. This is not Catholic journalism; it is Masonic philanthropy wearing a mitre.
The Linguistic Tell: “Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church” as Legitimate Authority
Note the careful nomenclature: “The Holy Synod of the Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church announced…” The definite article “The,” the capitalization of “Holy Synod,” the use of the self-designation “Tewahedo” (meaning “Made One,” a Monophysite theological claim)—all confer ecclesiastical legitimacy on a schismatic structure. A truly Catholic organ would write: the schismatic Ethiopian Monophysite hierarchy claimed, or the non-Catholic sect calling itself the Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church reported. The Pillar’s language betrays the hermeneutic of continuity with Vatican II’s Unitatis Redintegratio, which calls schismatic bodies “Churches” and “means of salvation.” This is the democratization of the Church decried by St. Pius X in Pascendi: the divine institution is reduced to a sociological phenomenon.
Symptomatic Level: The Conciliar Sect’s Complicity in the Great Apostasy
Why does The Pillar report this? Not to call the Ethiopian schismatics to unity with Rome—there is no appeal for conversion, no citation of Mortalium Animos (Pius XI, 1928) forbidding participation in non-Catholic worship, no reminder that the Social Kingship of Christ demands the public profession of the Catholic Faith by states. The report serves the agenda of the conciliar sect: to present itself as the defender of “religious freedom” and “persecuted Christians” on the world stage, thereby legitimizing the Dignitatis Humanae error that the state must be neutral in religious matters.
Pius IX in the Syllabus (Prop. 55, 77, 78) condemned the errors that “The Church ought to be separated from the State” and that “it is no longer expedient that the Catholic religion should be held as the only religion of the State.” The Pillar’s reporting aligns perfectly with these condemned propositions. It treats the Ethiopian state’s failure to protect a schismatic sect as a violation of “human rights” rather than as a symptom of a nation that has rejected the Kingship of Christ. The conciliar sect does not want the conversion of Ethiopia to the Catholic Faith; it wants the “freedom” for all sects to operate undisturbed. This is the laicism Pius XI called “the plague that poisons human society” (Quas Primas).
The False Opposition: “Who Is Responsible?” — The Wrong Question
The article asks: “Who is responsible?” The integral Catholic answer is known a priori: the Devil and his agents, permitted by God’s justice to chastise a nation steeped in heresy and schism. The proximate human agents—whether Oromo militants, government forces, or shadowy “extremists”—are secondary causes. The Pillar’s investigative posture pretends that identifying the gunmen solves the theological problem. It does not. The true remedy is the Consecratio Gentium to the Sacred Heart, the restoration of the Catholic State, the suppression of public heresy and schism. But the conciliar sect has abandoned the Kingship of Christ for the dialogue of religions. Its media organs can only document the collapse they have theologically enabled.
Conclusion: A Sect That Mourns the Body But Despises the Soul
The Pillar’s article is a document of the anti-Church. It weeps for the temporal lives of schismatics while collaborating in the spiritual murder of souls by refusing to proclaim the whole truth: that outside the Catholic Church there is no salvation, that the Social Reign of Christ the King is the only foundation of peace, and that the conversion of Ethiopia to the true Faith is the only ultimate solution to its bloodshed. This is the “Church of the New Advent” in its essence: a humanitarian NGO with sacramental trappings, preaching a Gospel without the Cross, a Kingdom without the King, and a Church without the Papacy. Let the faithful catacumbenses take warning: the conciliar sect’s “news” is the liturgy of the abomination of desolation standing in the holy place.
Source:
Who is killing Christians in Ethiopia? (pillarcatholic.com)
Date: 27.10.2026