The National Catholic Register, organ of the conciliar sect’s EWTN propaganda apparatus, publishes an interview with “Cardinal” Malcolm Ranjith, archbishop of Colombo, wherein the Sri Lankan prelate declares the rise of political Islam in the West a “natural process” resulting from Christian hypocrisy, urges the faithful to imitate Muslim “commitment to living consistently with their beliefs,” and explicitly rejects the “traditionalist” label while recognizing the manifest heretic Robert Prevost as “Pope Leo XIV.” This is not soul-searching; it is apostasy disguised as self-criticism, a capitulation to the enemies of Christ the King that confirms the conciliar sect’s role as the abomination of desolation standing in the holy place.
The Naturalistic Reduction of Religious Conflict
Cardinal Malcolm Ranjith, 78, said the growth in Islam “is not at all surprising and does not necessarily result from a deliberate plan,” but rather is a “natural process.” The cardinal archbishop of Colombo, Sri Lanka, who has long sought interreligious harmony in his native country, said Christian societies are gradually declining because they are “absorbing secular values” and basing political choices on them. Other religions, such as Islam, “do not share the same fascination with secularism,” but rather “base their life choices on their beliefs, which is right and natural,” he said.
Here the conciliar “cardinal” reduces the cosmic battle between the City of God and the City of Man to a sociological phenomenon — a “natural process.” He speaks as a secular sociologist, not a successor of the Apostles. Islam’s expansion is not a “natural process” but a divine chastisement for the apostasy of once-Christian nations, a scourge permitted by God to punish the rejection of His Kingship. Pope Pius XI teaches in Quas Primas: “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.” Ranjith inverts this truth: he presents Islam’s rise as the consequence of Christian failure to live consistently, rather than the judgment of God upon nations that have dethroned Christ.
He praises Islam for “basing life choices on their beliefs, which is right and natural.” This is indifferentism condemned by Pope Pius IX in the Syllabus of Errors (Proposition 16): “Man may, in the observance of any religion whatever, find the way of eternal salvation, and arrive at eternal salvation.” And Proposition 18: “Protestantism is nothing more than another form of the same true Christian religion, in which form it is given to please God equally as in the Catholic Church.” Ranjith applies this principle to Islam: consistency in error becomes a virtue to imitate. The truth of the belief is irrelevant; only the sincerity of the adherence matters. This is the very essence of Modernism condemned by St. Pius X in Lamentabili Sane Exitu (Proposition 22): “The dogmas which the Church proposes as revealed are not truths of divine origin but are a certain interpretation of religious facts, which the human mind has worked out with great effort.”
The “Double Life” Accusation: Projection of Conciliar Hypocrisy
“Secular society is dualistic, because it holds that a person can adhere to a religion without being required to put the values that stem from it into practice in the public sphere,” Cardinal Ranjith observed. He added that it is a concept that forces believers to act contrary to their deepest spiritual convictions and makes them “lead a ‘double life,'” something Islam and other religions do not accept as “realistic or honest,” adding that this “shows us, as Christians, just how ‘hypocritical’ we have become.”
The “double life” Ranjith describes is precisely the condition of the conciliar sect: it professes the Catholic name while denying the Catholic Faith in its integrity. It claims to be the Church while teaching religious liberty, false ecumenism, collegiality, and the legitimacy of the Novus Ordo — all condemned by the perennial Magisterium. The “dualism” of separating private faith from public duty was solemnly condemned by Pope Pius XI: “The state must leave the same freedom to the members of Orders and Congregations… The annual celebration of this solemnity will also remind states that not only private individuals, but also rulers and governments have the duty to publicly honor Christ and obey Him.” Ranjith laments the fruit of Vatican II’s Dignitatis Humanae while embracing its root. He condemns the “secular values” absorbed by Christians but says nothing of the conciliar hierarchy that imposed those values through the “theological revolution” he vaguely references.
False Ecumenism: Learning from the Enemies of Christ
So rather than confronting Islam and other religions or imposing secular rules on them, the cardinal believes the faithful should learn from their commitment to living consistently with their beliefs and recover that integrity themselves.
“Rather than confronting Islam… the faithful should learn from their commitment.” This is the voice of the synagogue of Satan (Apoc. 2:9), not the voice of the Good Shepherd. The Church’s mission is not to “learn consistency” from false religions but to convert them to the one true Faith. Extra Ecclesiam nulla salus. Pope Pius XI in Quas Primas cites Leo XIII: “His reign 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.” Ranjith proposes dialogue where Christ commands conquest; he proposes imitation of error where the Church demands profession of truth. The Syllabus condemns (Prop. 55): “The Church ought to be separated from the State, and the State from the Church.” Ranjith’s “secular rules” language accepts this Masonic principle. The Church has the right and duty to impose the Kingship of Christ on societies, not to negotiate with Islam under secular auspices.
Recognition of the Usurper: The Fatal Compromise
He pointed to young people’s enthusiastic response to Pope Leo XIV’s visits to France and Spain this year as evidence of a longing for a “more humane, more spiritual, and authentically transformed world.”
Here is the smoking gun of Ranjith’s apostasy: he recognizes Robert Prevost as “Pope Leo XIV.” A true Cardinal of the Holy Roman Church cannot recognize a manifest heretic as Pope. St. Robert Bellarmine teaches: “A Pope who is a manifest heretic, by that very fact ceases to be Pope and head, just as he ceases to be a Christian and member of the body of the Church.” Wernz and Vidal confirm: “By notorious and publicly manifested heresy, the Roman Pontiff… is deprived ipso facto of his personal jurisdiction even before any declaratory sentence by the Church.” Prevost, as a conciliar “bishop,” has publicly professed the heresies of Vatican II: religious liberty, ecumenism, collegiality, the new Mass. He is a manifest heretic and therefore ipso facto no Pope. Canon 188.4 of the 1917 Code: “Every office becomes vacant by the mere fact and without any declaration… if the cleric: 4. Publicly defects from the Catholic faith.” Pope Paul IV’s Bull Cum ex Apostolatus Officio declares the elevation of a heretic “null, void, and of no effect.” Ranjith’s recognition of Prevost proves he is not a Cardinal but a functionary of the paramasonic structure occupying the Vatican.
The “Theological Revolution” Euphemism
He linked the spread of secularism partly to a “theological revolution that swept away the solid pillars of Catholic theology” and argued that changes since World War II weakened “forms of worship, moral principles, and hierarchical structure.”
“Theological revolution” — a sanitized term for the Modernist coup d’état of Vatican II. St. Pius X in Pascendi Dominici Gregis identified Modernism as “the synthesis of all heresies.” The “changes since World War II” are the conciliar novelties: the Novus Ordo Missae (invalid form, protestantized theology), the new sacramental rites (doubtful validity), the 1983 Code (subversive ecclesiology), the Catechism of the “Catholic Church” (heretical content). Ranjith laments the effects while serving the cause. He says the Western Church “abandoning its own spiritual and liturgical heritage in the belief that it was enough simply to go with the flow” — but he himself “goes with the flow” of the conciliar revolution, recognizing its antipopes, celebrating its invalid rites, governing its schismatic structures.
False Equivalence: “Neither Modernism Nor Traditionalism”
“The Church must not allow herself to be engulfed by either modernism or traditionalism,” he said. “She must present the teaching of Jesus, the Lord, as the path to happiness in this life as well as in the life to come.”
This is the classic Modernist trap: presenting the Catholic Faith as a middle position between two extremes. “Traditionalism” here means integral Catholicism — the Faith of the Fathers, the Trentine Mass, the unchanging doctrine. To equate this with Modernism is blasphemy. The Church is Tradition (paradosis — 2 Thess. 2:14). St. Vincent of Lérins: “We hold that which has been believed everywhere, always, and by all.” Ranjith’s “teaching of Jesus… as the path to happiness” reduces the Divine Revelation to a self-help program. Quas Primas teaches: “Christ the Lord is King of hearts because of His love… but, if we delve deeper into the matter itself, we shall realize that the name and authority of king in the proper sense belong to Christ the Man.” The Kingship of Christ is not a “path to happiness” but a sovereign right demanding submission. Ranjith’s “nonconformist and ever new” Jesus who “cannot be fossilized” is the Modernist Christ of Lamentabili (Prop. 59): “Christ did not proclaim any specific, all-encompassing doctrine suitable for all times and peoples, but rather initiated a certain religious movement, applied or applicable to different times and places.”
Silence on the Supernatural: The Grave Omission
Nowhere in the interview does Ranjith mention:
– The necessity of baptism for salvation (Extra Ecclesiam nulla salus)
– The Social Kingship of Christ over nations
– The duty of states to profess the Catholic Faith
– The reality of Hell and Final Judgment
– The Immaculate Conception, the Rosary, the Mass as propitiatory sacrifice
– The conversion of Muslims to the true Faith
This silence is the loudest condemnation. A Prince of the Church speaks as a politician, a sociologist, a manager of decline. He suspects government complicity in the 2019 Easter attacks — a temporal concern — but says nothing of the eternal damnation awaiting the Muslim terrorists who died attacking Christians, or the Muslims living in Sri Lanka who need conversion. He calls for “serious examination of conscience” but not for conversion to the integral Faith. He wants a “new spiritual, theological, and pastoral approach” — the language of Aggiornamento, not of Traditio.
The Demographic and Spiritual Reality
Ranjith notes Sri Lanka’s religious composition: “70% Buddhist, 13% Hindu, 10% Muslim and 7% Christian (predominantly Catholic).” In a land where Catholics are a tiny minority, the “cardinal” seeks “interreligious harmony” instead of the conversion of the nation to Christ the King. This is the fruit of Dignitatis Humanae and Nostra Aetate: the Church reduced to one “faith community” among others, renouncing her divine mandate to “teach all nations” (Matt. 28:19). Pope Pius XI: “The Church, established by Christ as a perfect society, demands for itself by a right belonging to it, which it cannot renounce, full freedom and independence from secular authority.” Ranjith’s “harmony” is the peace of the cemetery — the silence of the Church’s voice in the public square.
Conclusion: The Conciliar Sect as Precursor of Antichrist
Cardinal Ranjith’s interview is a masterpiece of conciliar duplicity: he diagnoses the disease (secularism, hypocrisy, loss of heritage) while administering the poison (recognition of the antipope, praise of Islam, rejection of integral Tradition, Modernist Christology). He is a “cardinal” of the Church of the New Advent, the neo-church that St. Pius X warned would be the “synagogue of Satan” gathering its troops against the Church of Christ. The true remedy is not “learning from Islam’s consistency” but the restoration of the Catholic Kingship of Christ — the Reconquista of souls and societies for the Regnum Christi. As Pius XI commanded: “Let rulers of states therefore not refuse public veneration and obedience to the reigning Christ… if they wish to maintain their authority inviolate and contribute to the increase of their homeland’s happiness.” Ranjith offers the world a Church that dialogues with error; the true Church offers the world Christ the King, Rex Regum et Dominus Dominantium, before whom every knee must bend — in heaven, on earth, and under the earth.
Non praevalebunt.
Source:
Cardinal Ranjith: Islam’s Rise Should Prompt Christian Soul-Searching, Not Confrontation (ncregister.com)
Date: 11.11.2026