The Pillar portal reports that the Hungarian “bishops’ conference” of the conciliar sect issued a statement on November 4 asking forgiveness on behalf of “Church members who collaborated with the Communist state,” following the release of secret police archives. The statement acknowledges that some “genuinely collaborated,” others were “tortured or blackmailed,” some produced meaningless reports, and some were merely recruitment targets. It also claims the “Church’s resistance to the regime” and notes archival gaps. This groveling before the world by the very hierarchy that has betrayed Christ the King for sixty years exposes the conciliar sect’s total bankruptcy: it confesses collaboration with a fallen temporal tyranny while remaining the willing instrument of the eternal spiritual tyranny of Modernism.
The “Bishops” of the Conciliar Sect Possess No Authority to Absolve or Condemn
The men speaking in this statement are not Catholic bishops. They are functionaries of the novus ordo sect erected by the usurper John XXIII and consolidated by the Masonic revolution of Vatican II. Since 1968, the sacramental rites of episcopal consecration have been corrupted by the novel rite of Paul VI (Montini), which omits the essential form specifying the potestas ordinis and potestas jurisdictionis conferred by Christ. As Leo XIII teaches in Apostolicae Curae (1896), a defect of form invalidates the sacrament. These “bishops” are at best laymen in vestments; at worst, they are intruders in the sanctuary. They possess nulla potestas to bind or loose, to forgive or retain sins (John 20:23). Their public “apology” is a theatrical gesture devoid of supernatural efficacy, a ludibrium performed for the cameras of the secular press.
Confession of Collaboration with Communism Masks the Far Graver Collaboration with Modernism
The statement weeps over collaboration with a regime that fell in 1989. It is silent on the collaboration of the conciliar hierarchy with the synagoga Satanae that has occupied the Vatican since 1958. Pius XI, in Quas Primas (1925), declares that “the reign of Christ extends not only to Catholic nations… but His reign encompasses also all non-Christians, so that most truly the entire human race is subject to the authority of Jesus Christ.” The Hungarian “bishops” do not proclaim this Kingship. They do not denounce the laicism that Pius XI identifies as “the plague that poisons human society.” Instead, they adopt the language of the world: “forgiveness,” “victims,” “appraisal,” “transparency.” This is the vocabulary of the Declaration on Religious Freedom (Dignitatis Humanae), the Masonic charter of the conciliar sect, which Pius IX condemned in the Syllabus (Error 55: “The Church ought to be separated from the State, and the State from the Church”) and Pius X anathematized in Lamentabili sane exitu (Proposition 58: “Truth changes with man”).
The “Resistance” Claim Is a Lie: The Conciliar Sect Was the Regime’s Most Effective Ally
The statement boasts of the “Church’s resistance to the regime.” This is historical falsification. The true resistance in Hungary was led by Cardinal Mindszenty, who was abandoned and ultimately betrayed by the Vatican of Paul VI. The “Ostpolitik” of the conciliar sect — the secret agreements with Communist governments negotiated by Casaroli and approved by Montini — surrendered the faithful to the very secret police whose files are now published. The “bishops” who now ask forgiveness are the heirs of that betrayal. They are the spiritual descendants of those who, in the words of Pius XI in Quas Primas, “removed Jesus Christ and His most holy law from their customs, from private, family, and public life.” The secret police did not need to recruit collaborators when the hierarchy itself had already capitulated to the spirit of the age.
Linguistic Analysis: The Rhetoric of the Secular Tribunal, Not the Tribunal of Christ
Observe the bureaucratic lexicon: “dossier,” “index card” (6-os karton), “archival material,” “careful appraisal,” “variety of stories.” There is not a single reference to peccatum, gratia, iudicium, aeternitas. The “bishops” speak as functionaries of a truth commission, not as successors of the Apostles. They ask forgiveness from “victims and their families” — a horizontal, anthropocentric request — but they do not ask forgiveness from God, offended by the scandal given to the little ones (Matt. 18:6). They do not invoke the Sanctissimum Sacrificium of reparation. They do not call for public penance, fasting, the restoration of the Missale Romanum of St. Pius V. This silence on the supernatural order is the nota distinctive of Modernism, condemned by St. Pius X in Pascendi Dominici Gregis (1907): “The Modernist… eliminates the supernatural entirely.”
Theological Bankruptcy: No Mention of the Kingship of Christ, the Social Reign, or the Duty of the State
Pius XI instituted the Feast of Christ the King precisely “to address the needs of the present times and provide a special remedy against the plague that poisons human society. And this plague is the secularism of our times, so-called laicism” (Quas Primas). The Hungarian “bishops” ignore this remedy entirely. They do not proclaim that the Communist regime was an offense against the Social Kingship of Christ. They do not teach that “rulers of states… have the duty to publicly honor Christ and obey Him” (Quas Primas). They do not condemn the errors of the Syllabus that the Communist state embodied: Errors 39 (State as source of all rights), 42 (civil law prevails over canon law), 44 (civil authority over sacraments), 55 (separation of Church and State). Their silence is complicity. By framing the past solely in terms of “collaboration” and “victims,” they adopt the Marxist anthropology of class struggle, baptizing it with a veneer of “reconciliation.”
The “Victims” Narrative Serves the Agenda of the Conciliar Sect’s Masters
The emphasis on “victims,” “forgiveness,” “transparency,” and “incomplete archives” mirrors the language of the United Nations, the European Union, and the globalist NGOs that fund and direct the conciliar sect. This is not Catholic justice; it is the theologia crucis inverted into a theology of victimhood. True Catholic justice, as taught by St. Thomas Aquinas (ST II-II, q. 58), renders to each his due: to God, worship; to the Church, liberty; to the faithful, sound doctrine and valid sacraments. The “bishops” render to the world a spectacle of contrition for a dead regime while withholding from the faithful the integrum fidei depositum and the vera Missa. They are hirelings who flee when the wolf comes (John 10:12), and now they negotiate with the wolf’s ghost.
The Conciliar Sect Is the Abominatio Desolationis in the Holy Place
The release of these files is a providential unmasking. It reveals that the conciliar hierarchy in Hungary, like its counterparts in Poland, Czechoslovakia, and East Germany, was penetrated, manipulated, and ultimately co-opted by the Communist state — because it had already surrendered to the spiritus mundi of Modernism. The “bishops” who now ask forgiveness are the same men who impose the Novus Ordo Missae, who promote false ecumenism with heretics and schismatics, who remain silent on abortion, “gender” ideology, and the Masonic enslavement of nations. They are the pseudo-episcopi of whom St. Paul warns: “For such false apostles are deceitful workmen, transforming themselves into the apostles of Christ” (2 Cor. 11:13). Their “apology” is not a step toward restoration; it is a further act of the Great Apostasy foretold in 2 Thess. 2:3.
Only the True Church, the Ecclesia Persecuta, Can Judge and Heal
The true Catholic Church in Hungary survives not in the conciliar structures, but in the catacombs: in the priests and faithful who keep the Missale Romanum of 1962, who hold the Sedes Vacans position, who recognize that the line of true Popes ended with Pius XII, and who await the restoration of all things in Christ (Eph. 1:10). They do not need the forgiveness of the “bishops’ conference.” They need the Sacraments, the Traditio, the Magisterium uncorrupted. The “apology” of November 4 is dust and ashes. Non est in eo spiritus Dei (1 John 4:3). The only appropriate response is the cry of the Psalmist: “Exsurge, Domine, judica causam tuam” (Ps. 73:22).
Source:
Hungary’s bishops respond to release of Communist-era secret files (pillarcatholic.com)
Date: 05.11.2026