Venezuelan Regime’s Persecution Exposes Conciliar Sect’s Diplomatic Impotence
The EWTN portal reports that Venezuelan immigration police confiscated the passport of “Cardinal” Baltazar Porras on December 10, 2025, preventing his travel to Colombia and Spain. Authorities allegedly subjected the Caracas archbishop emeritus to “humiliating treatment” including luggage searches with drug-sniffing dogs, while falsely declaring him deceased in state databases. The Military and Hospitaller Order of St. Lazarus denounced this as a “flagrant violation” of the Vienna Convention, filing protests with the Vatican Secretariat of State. Porras framed his persecution through Nativity imagery: “Strength lies in the weakness of the manger.” This incident follows months of attacks from Venezuelan socialist officials, including President Nicolás Maduro, after Porras criticized the regime’s human rights abuses during October 2025 canonization ceremonies.