The National Catholic Register (NCR), organ of the EWTN neo-church media apparatus, reports on the response of the Spanish “bishops’ conference” and various conciliar prelates to a high-speed train collision in Toledo province claiming over sixty lives. The article catalogues a litany of condolences, “prayers,” and offers of psychological support from “Archbishop” Francisco Cerro of Toledo, “Cardinal” José Cobo of Madrid, “Archbishop” José Ángel Saiz Meneses of Seville, and a roster of other usurpers. A conciliar “priest,” Fernando Fernández de Bobadilla, is quoted performing triage with IV bags at the disaster site. The thesis is clear: the conciliar sect has reduced the Church’s divine mission to a secular NGO dispensing humanitarian aid and therapeutic sentiment, utterly silent on the supernatural realities of death, judgment, and the absolute necessity of the true Sacraments for eternal salvation.
The Theatrics of a False Priesthood at the Scene of Death
The article’s centerpiece is the vignette of “Father” Fernández de Bobadilla: “Right now, I’m holding an IV bag in one hand and another bag in the other. It’s horrific… They’ve already begun removing the deceased. They place a black wristband on those who have died, a red one on those in critical condition, and a yellow one on those who can be treated.” This is the perfect icon of the post-conciliar “priest”: a lay social worker in a collar, administering saline solution while souls plunge into eternity. Where is the Extreme Unction? Where is the Confiteor, the Absolution, the Viaticum? The article breathes not a word of the Sacrament of the Dying, the only remedy that matters at the hour of death. “The two people I’m with right now have red wristbands, and I’m waiting for them to be taken away.” Taken away to where? To the operating table, perhaps; but if they die without the true priesthood, they are taken away to the particular judgment unprepared. This “priest” holds IV bags because he likely lacks valid orders—the new ordinal of “Paul VI” (1968) being defective in form and intention—and because his “bishops” have abandoned the cura animarum for the cura corporum. Salus animarum suprema lex (the salvation of souls is the supreme law); the conciliar sect has inverted this axiom into salus corporum suprema lex.
A “Bishops’ Conference” That Knows Not the Cross
The “Spanish Bishops’ Conference” (CEE) issues a communiqué: “condolences to the families of the victims and prays for the eternal rest of the deceased and for the recovery of the injured,” invoking “the intercession of the Virgin Mary, comforter of the afflicted and queen of peace.” Eternal rest is begged for the dead, yet the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass—the sole propitiatory oblation for the souls in Purgatory—is conspicuously absent from the vocabulary. They “commend to God all those involved in emergency response,” equating firefighters and paramedics with the Alter Christus. This is practical Pelagianism: man saves man; God is a distant spectator invoked for “comfort” and “hope.” “The diocesan Church of Toledo, like a house with open doors, joins in the pain and worry…” A “house with open doors” is the slogan of the neo-church’s false ecumenism; the true Church is Ecclesia militans, a fortress with gates that prevail against hell, not a shelter for emotional processing. The “Primatial Archbishop” offers “help, accompaniment, and support”—the trinity of modernist pastoral theology—while the Four Last Things (Death, Judgment, Heaven, Hell) are erased from the narrative.
Linguistic Engineering: The Vocabulary of Apostasy
The rhetoric is meticulously sanitized of Catholic dogma. “Grief,” “dismay,” “consternation,” “closeness,” “accompaniment,” “support,” “comfort,” “hope,” “solidarity.” These are the lexicon of the United Nations, not the Roman Catechism. Not once does the article mention sin, penance, conversion, divine justice, the reality of Hell, or the necessity of the Catholic Faith for salvation (Extra Ecclesiam nulla salus). The “Archbishop of Seville” tweets: “prayer, closeness, and support for the victims and their families.” Three nouns, zero theology. The “Bishop of Vitoria” remarks: “May the Lord be their comfort, and may we, as brothers and sisters, accompany the injured…” A generic theism suitable for a Masonic lodge. This studied silence on the supernatural order is not an omission; it is a positive profession of naturalism. As Pius XI thundered in Quas Primas: “When God and Jesus Christ… were removed from laws and states… the foundations of that authority were destroyed.” Here, God is removed from the very moment of death, and the “Church” becomes a grief-counseling agency.
Theological Bankruptcy: No Mass, No Sacraments, No Salvation
The article reveals the metaphysical void at the heart of the conciliar sect. Sixty-plus souls have stood before the Tribunal of Christ. Did they die in the state of grace? Did they receive valid Absolution and Extreme Unction from a validly ordained priest? The “bishops” do not ask; the “priest” distributes IV fluids; the journalists report “wristbands.” This is the abomination of desolation standing in the holy place: a counterfeit hierarchy occupying cathedrals while the vera religio is eclipsed. The “Cardinal” of Madrid, the “Archbishop” of Granada, the “Bishop” of Getafe—all are intruders (intrusi), canonically null by reason of the heretical rites of consecration and the manifest heresy of their adherence to the Vatican II apostasy. They possess no jurisdiction, no orders, no mission. Their “prayers” are preces haereticorum, which “non exaudi Deus” (God hears not the prayers of heretics), as St. Cyprian teaches. The faithful laity, deceived by these wolves in purple, are led to believe that “prayer and accompaniment” suffice—while the one thing necessary (Luke 10:42), the true Mass and true Sacraments, is withheld from the dying.
Symptomatic of the Conciliar Revolution: The Church as Humanitarian NGO
This spectacle is the inevitable fruit of the conciliar revolution. Gaudium et Spes (1965) shifted the Church’s gaze from superna to terrena; Dignitatis Humanae enthroned religious liberty; Nostra Aetate dissolved the missionary mandate. The result: a “Church” that speaks the language of the Red Cross. The “bishops” offer “diocesan Caritas”—the neo-church’s vast NGO network—as the primary response. “The diocesan Church of Toledo… makes itself available… to offer them the help, accompaniment, and support they may need.” Caritas without Christ is not charity; it is philanthropy. St. Pius X condemned in Lamentabili Sane Exitu (prop. 58) the error that “The Church is incapable of effectively defending evangelical ethics, because it steadfastly adheres to its views, which cannot be reconciled with modern progress.” The conciliar sect has “reconciled” by surrendering: it offers the world exactly what the world wants—material aid and emotional validation—while withholding what the world needs: the Cross, the Blood, the Truth.
EWTN: The Propaganda Arm of the Usurpation
The source, EWTN News Español / National Catholic Register, functions as the Pravda of the neo-church. It normalizes the usurpers by styling them “Archbishop,” “Cardinal,” “Bishop,” “Father” without qualification, legitimizing the great imposture. The article is a psychological operation designed to convince the remnant that the conciliar sect is “the Church” because it “cares” and “prays.” But Quas Primas declares: “His reign encompasses also all non-Christians, so that most truly the entire human race is subject to the authority of Jesus Christ.” The conciliar prelates do not proclaim Christ’s Kingship over Spain, over the railways, over the laws that govern safety, over the souls of the dead. They offer “prayers during the religious services of the Christian community”—a vague, Protestantized phrase that avoids the Holy Sacrifice. This is the spiritual bankruptcy of the Novus Ordo religion: a corpse painted to look alive, administering IV bags to corpses.
Conclusion: The True Church Prays Pro Defunctis at the True Altar
While the conciliar sect stages its humanitarian theater, the true Catholic Church—the Ecclesia Catholica persevering in the catacombs, in the chapels of the valid priesthood (those ordained in the traditional rite before 1968, maintaining the Tridentine Mass and the integral Faith)—offers the Unbloody Sacrifice of Calvary for the repose of the souls of the victims. She pronounces the Absolve, Domine, animas… over the dead; she administers valid Extreme Unction to the dying; she teaches the living that “it is appointed unto men once to die, and after this the judgment” (Heb 9:27). The conciliar “bishops” have no part in this. They are “blind guides of the blind” (Mt 15:14), leading the faithful into the ditch of naturalism. Let no Catholic be deceived: the only “comfort” for the dead is the Holy Mass; the only “hope” for the living is conversion to the integral Faith and reception of the true Sacraments. Requiem aeternam dona eis, Domine: et lux perpetua luceat eis.
Source:
Deadly Train Accident in Spain: The Church Joins in Grief (ncregister.com)
Date: 28.10.2026