The National Catholic Register (NCR) portal reports that the “bishop” of the Diocese of Wheeling-Charleston, Evelio Menjívar-Ayala — installed July 2, 2025 by the usurper Bergoglio — has ordered special collections in parishes to fund disaster relief after flash flooding struck north-central West Virginia on July 21. The deluge killed at least two persons and damaged approximately 151 homes in Upshur County alone. The “Catholic” Republican Governor Patrick Morrisey praised “faith-based organizations” for their role in recovery. All funds are to be managed by Catholic Charities West Virginia (CCWVa), a standard bureaucratic NGO of the conciliar sect. The “bishop’s” rhetoric is purely horizontal: “love our neighbors as ourselves,” “put that love into action,” “remember in prayer,” “support our brothers and sisters in Christ.” Not a word of the Social Kingship of Christ, the necessity of the Church for salvation, the propitiatory Sacrifice, or the supernatural end of man. This is not Catholic charity; it is naturalistic humanitarianism wearing a mitre.
The Fact of the Matter: A Secular NGO in Ecclesiastical Drag
The cited article presents a tableau of the conciliar sect’s complete assimilation to the secular order. The “bishop” Menjívar-Ayala acts as a regional coordinator for a disaster relief agency. The timeline is telling: installed July 2, flooding July 21, press release July 22, collections August 1–2 or 8–9. The machinery of the “Church of the New Advent” functions with the efficiency of a FEMA subcontractor. The funds flow through Catholic Charities West Virginia — an entity structurally dependent on government grants, bound by secular accounting standards, and staffed largely by lay functionaries who may or may not possess the Faith. The “bishop” explicitly states: “All of the funds collected will remain in West Virginia and will be managed by Catholic Charities West Virginia.” Manent in West Virginia — the treasure stays in the world. Thesaurus in caelo (treasure in heaven) is nowhere mentioned.
Governor Morrisey, a “Catholic Republican,” provides the political seal of approval: “Volunteer organizations remain at the heart of the recovery effort.” The conciliar hierarchy has become a “volunteer organization” — a sodalitas of the civil society, not the Societas Perfecta instituted by Christ. The Syllabus of Errors (Pope Pius IX, 1864) condemns the proposition: “The Church is not a true and perfect society, entirely free… but it appertains to the civil power to define what are the rights of the Church, and the limits within which she may exercise those rights” (Error 19). Here the “Church” voluntarily subordinates its mission to the civil power’s definition of “recovery effort.” The “bishop” does not direct souls to the Ark of Salvation; he directs donations to a 501(c)(3).
Linguistic Decay: The Vocabulary of the “Church of Man”
Analyze the “bishop’s” quoted words: “West Virginia is truly one community. The way the people of this state support each other… is a testament to how we are called to love our neighbors as ourselves… Let us now put that love into action… Please remember in prayer all those whose lives have been changed… Let us come together now to support our brothers and sisters in Christ who have been injured and lost their homes, cars, employment, and access to food and water.”
Observe the total absence of theological vocabulary. No mention of peccatum (sin), poenitentia (penance), gratia (grace), salus animarum (salvation of souls), Regnum Christi (Kingdom of Christ), Sacrificium (Sacrifice). The phrase “brothers and sisters in Christ” is reduced to a sociological category denoting victims of material loss. “Prayer” is tacked on as a therapeutic afterthought, not as the potentissima arma (most powerful weapon) of the Church Militant. The language is that of a community organizer, a social worker, a Red Cross spokesman. It is the lingua novitiae of the conciliar revolution — stripped of the sacramentale and the hierarchicum, retaining only the humanitarium.
Pius XI in Quas Primas (1925) declared: “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.” The “bishop’s” speech derives its authority entirely from horizontal solidarity — “one community,” “support each other” — not from the potestas iurisdictionis of Christ the King. He does not speak in persona Christi; he speaks in persona ONG.
Theological Bankruptcy: The Denial of the Social Kingship of Christ
The article is a practical application of the heresy of laicism condemned by Pius XI: “This plague is the secularism of our times, so-called laicism, its errors and wicked endeavors… It began with the denial of Christ the Lord’s reign over all nations; the Church’s authority to teach men, to issue laws, to govern nations… was denied.” The “bishop” Menjívar-Ayala does not proclaim Christ’s rights over West Virginia. He does not call the flood a chastisement for sin, nor the relief a work of supernatural mercy flowing from the Unbloody Sacrifice of Calvary. He does not urge the faithful to assist at the Most Holy Sacrifice for the repose of the dead and the conversion of the living. He organizes a cash drive.
This is the cult of man in its purest form. The Syllabus condemns: “The civil government… has a right to an indirect negative power over religious affairs” (Error 41) and “The Church ought to be separated from the State, and the State from the Church” (Error 55). The conciliar sect has not merely accepted this separation; it has internalized it. Its “bishops” function as chaplains to the secular order, administering temporal relief while the regnum Christi is ignored. Quas Primas teaches: “His reign encompasses also all non-Christians, so that most truly the entire human race is subject to the authority of Jesus Christ.” The “bishop” acts as if Christ’s authority ends at the church door (which is now a “gathering space”), and the world belongs to the Governor and the NGOs.
Furthermore, the very structure of “Catholic Charities” embodies the Modernist error condemned in Lamentabili Sane Exitu (1907): “The dogmas of faith should be understood according to their practical function, i.e., as binding in action, rather than as principles of belief” (Prop. 26). Charity is severed from veritas (truth) and fides (faith). It becomes “social service.” The “bishop” says: “Let us now put that love into action.” Actio replaces contemplatio; opus replaces sacramentum. This is the heresy of actionism — the reduction of the Church’s munus (office) to humanitarian activism.
Symptomatic Analysis: The Conciliar Sect as “Abomination of Desolation”
This event is not an anomaly; it is the modus operandi of the post-conciliar structure. The “bishop” Menjívar-Ayala was appointed by Bergoglio, installed days before the disaster. His first major public act is a fundraiser. This signifies the priority of the neo-church: temporal management over eternal salvation. The “Catholic Republican” Governor Morrisey represents the clerico-liberal synthesis condemned by the Syllabus: “Catholics may approve of the system of educating youth unconnected with Catholic faith and the power of the Church, and which regards the knowledge of merely natural things, and only, or at least primarily, the ends of earthly social life” (Error 48). Here, the “bishop” and the Governor collaborate on the “ends of earthly social life” — flood recovery — while the finis ultimus (ultimate end) is obliterated.
The Defense of Sedevacantism demonstrates that a manifest heretic loses office ipso facto. The conciliar “bishops” manifestly profess the heresies of religious liberty, ecumenism, and collegiality — condemned by the perennial Magisterium. They are not bishops; they are functionaries of a paramasonic structure occupying the Vatican. Their “charity” is not the caritas Christi (charity of Christ) which urget nos (urges us) ad salutem animarum (toward the salvation of souls), but the philanthropia of the Masonic “brotherhood of man.” The “Miracle of the Sun” at Fatima — exposed in the provided file as a “mass optical manipulation” and a Masonic psychological operation — finds its parallel here: a “miracle” of bureaucratic efficiency mistaken for the Church’s mission.
The faithful in West Virginia are being led by a hireling (mercenarius) who flees the wolf of Modernism by pretending the wolf is a sheepdog. They are asked to give alms to an organization that likely funds programs contrary to the Faith (immigration resettlement without conversion, “gender” ideology compliance, interreligious dialogue). The Canon 188.4 of the 1917 Code states an office becomes vacant by tacit resignation if the cleric “Publicly defects from the Catholic faith.” The “bishop” defects by his silence on Christ the King, by his reduction of the Church to an NGO, by his collaboration with the secular power on purely naturalistic terms. He has resigned the munus episcopale; he holds only a civil incorporation.
Conclusion: No King But Caesar
The article from the NCR portal is a damning indictment of the conciliar sect. It reveals a “bishop” who is a disaster relief coordinator, a “Church” that is a subordinate partner of the State, a “charity” that is secular philanthropy, and a “faith” that is horizontal solidarity. Non est hic Christus (Christ is not here). The true Church, the Societas Perfecta, the Regnum Christi on earth, does not exist in these structures. She subsists in the remnants of Tradition — in the bishops and priests who retain the Traditio entire, who offer the Unbloody Sacrifice, who teach the Social Kingship, who condemn the errors of the Syllabus and Lamentabili, who know that extra Ecclesiam nulla salus.
Let the Catholics of West Virginia keep their money for the true Mass, for the support of true priests, for the propagation of the Faith once delivered. Let them pray for the dead, do penance for the sins that draw down chastisements, and recognize that the “bishop” Menjívar-Ayala and his “Catholic Charities” are lupus in veste ovis (wolf in sheep’s clothing), administering the abomination of desolation in the holy place. Quis sicut Deus? (Who is like God?) — not the NGO managers of the conciliar sect.
Source:
West Virginia Catholic Parishes Rally to Support Communities Hit by Flash Flooding (ncregister.com)
Date: 03.08.2026