Colombia’s president-elect Abelardo de la Espriella, accompanied by his vice president-elect and cabinet nominees, undertook a pre-inauguration spiritual retreat replete with Bibles bearing the Sacred Heart and a map of Colombia, while a video of the usurper “Pope” Leo XIV was screened for the participants. The event, reported by the conciliar propaganda outlet National Catholic Register/CNA, elicited performative outrage from the outgoing Petro administration over “secularism,” while “conservative” politicians defended the display as religious liberty. This political theater exposes the total capitulation of the conciliar sect to the Masonic separation of Church and State, reducing the Kingship of Christ to a private devotion compatible with liberal democracy.
The Conciliar Sect’s Political Theater: Simulated Piety in Service of the Revolution
The cited article relates a carefully staged photo-op: the incoming Colombian administration on retreat, each functionary gifted a Bible emblazoned with the Heart of Jesus and the national territory, while a recording of the antipope Leo XIV (Robert Prevost) was played. This is not the Social Reign of Christ the King (Regnum Christi Sociale) proclaimed by Pius XI in Quas Primas — “Peace is only possible in the kingdom of Christ” — but its Satanic parody. The conciliar sect, occupying the Vatican since 1958, has replaced the Divine Constitution of the Church with the Masonic constitution of the secular state. The retreat is a liturgical gesture of the neo-church, devoid of supernatural grace, because it proceeds from a false hierarchy and terminates in the worship of the “dignity of man” rather than the Rights of God (Iura Dei).
Pius XI taught: “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” (Quas Primas, 31). The Colombian retreat changes nothing of this satanic foundation. The Constitution remains the supreme law; the Bible is a prop. The “Heart of Jesus” on the cover is stripped of its theological meaning — reparation for sins, the salvation of souls, the conversion of nations to the Catholic Faith — and reduced to a talisman for political success: “With faith, hard work, and love for our land, we will make the country of our dreams a reality.” This is Pelagian naturalism baptized in conciliar sentimentality.
The Antipope’s Video: The Seal of the False Church
The screening of a video of “Pope” Leo XIV is the definitive marker of the retreat’s spiritual nullity. Robert Prevost is a manifest heretic, an usurper of the See of Peter, continuing the line of antipopes begun with John XXIII. As St. Robert Bellarmine teaches: “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” (De Romano Pontifice). The Cum ex Apostolatus Officio of Pope Paul IV declares the elevation of a heretic “null, void, and of no effect”. The conciliar sect’s “pope” has no authority to bind or loose; his “blessing” is a curse. To exhibit his image as a spiritual authority is idolatry of the false hierarchy, the abomination of desolation standing in the holy place (Matt. 24:15).
The article notes the retreat “strengthened his and his team’s faith and commitment to serve Colombia with humility, responsibility, and love for the nation.” Faith in what? Faith in the antipope? Faith in the conciliar counterfeit? St. Pius X condemned the Modernist error that “Faith, as assent of the mind, is ultimately based on a sum of probabilities” (Lamentabili Sane, 25). The “faith” on display here is a naturalistic trust in Providence divorced from the Fides Catholica, the supernatural virtue infused at Baptism and preserved only in communion with the true Church. Outside the true Church — which subsists in those bishops and priests retaining valid orders and the integral Faith — there is no salvation, no true grace, no mission from Christ.
The “Secular State” Dialectic: A Masonic Trap
The article highlights the controversy: outgoing ministers Antonio Sanguino and Mafe Carrascal decried the retreat as undermining the “secular state established by the Colombian Constitution,” while Medellín Mayor Federico Gutiérrez and Conservative Rep. Luis Miguel López defended it as “freedom of conscience.” Both sides accept the Masonic premise. The Syllabus of Errors (Pius IX, 1864) condemns as error: “The Church ought to be separated from the State, and the State from the Church” (Error 55) and “In the present day it is no longer expedient that the Catholic religion should be held as the only religion of the State, to the exclusion of all other forms of worship” (Error 77).
López’s statement — “a secular state guarantees freedom of conscience; it does not force a president to hide their faith” — is the heresy of Americanism and Liberal Catholicism, condemned by Leo XIII in Testem Benevolentiae (1899). The true Church teaches that the State must confess Christ the King publicly, legislate according to His law, and suppress public idolatry and heresy. “The obligation by which Catholic teachers and authors are strictly bound is confined to those things only which are proposed to universal belief as dogmas of faith by the infallible judgment of the Church” (Syllabus, Error 22) — but the conciliar “conservative” reduces the Kingship of Christ to a private “freedom of conscience” within a neutral public square. This is laicism in its most insidious form: the State as arbiter of religious truth, granting “permission” to believe.
The reference to “shamanic rituals and Santería promoted from within the government” reveals the demonic fruit of religious liberty. When the State abandons the Catholic Confessional State, it does not achieve neutrality; it opens the door to every demon. Pius IX warned: “It is from them that the synagogue of Satan, which gathers its troops against the Church of Christ, takes its strength” (Syllabus allocution). The Colombian Constitution, like all Masonic constitutions, is “null and void because they are absolutely contrary to the divine constitution of the Church” (Pius IX, allocution to Prussia). No retreat, no Bible, no “Sacred Heart” cover can baptize this illegitimate order.
The Bible as Talisman: Profanation of the Word of God
The distribution of Bibles with a “map of Colombia and the heart of Jesus on the cover” is a sacrilegious instrumentalization of Scripture. The Word of God is not a nationalistic charm. The Modernists, condemned by St. Pius X in Lamentabili Sane, teach that “The inspiration of the books of the Old Testament consists in the fact that Jewish authors conveyed religious truths in a certain particular aspect” (Prop. 10) and that “Divine inspiration does not extend to the whole of Holy Scripture to such an extent that all and individual parts of it are protected from every error” (Prop. 11). The conciliar sect’s “Bible” is often a corrupted vernacular translation (e.g., the “New American Bible” or similar), approved by the false hierarchy, stripped of the Vulgate’s authority declared by the Council of Trent.
The map of Colombia on the cover signifies the idol of the Nation-State replacing the Kingdom of God. “His reign encompasses also all non-Christians, so that most truly the entire human race is subject to the authority of Jesus Christ” (Quas Primas, 28, citing Leo XIII). The true mission of a Catholic ruler is to bring the nation into subjection to Christ the King, not to drape the nation’s map over the Sacred Heart as if Colombia were the measure of the Kingdom. The retreatants’ conviction — “human effort is futile without God’s help” — is a half-truth that becomes a lie when “God” means the vague deity of civil religion, not the Triune God revealed only in the Catholic Church.
The Spiritual Battle: Against Principalities, Not for Political Power
Incoming Labor Minister Jaime Andrés Beltrán stated: “the battle ahead is also spiritual.” It is only spiritual, and it is lost before it begins if fought under the banner of the conciliar sect. St. Paul teaches: “For our wrestling is not against flesh and blood; but against principalities and powers, against the rulers of the world of this darkness, against the spirits of wickedness in the high places” (Eph. 6:12). The “high places” today are occupied by the conciliar hierarchy — the abomination of desolation (Matt. 24:15; 2 Thess. 2:4). To seek “unity” with the vice president-elect, cabinet nominees, and the antipope’s video is to seek unity with the Mystery of Iniquity.
The article concludes with the keywords: “colombia” and a link to comments. This is the extent of the conciliar sect’s “evangelization”: a news feed for the neo-church faithful, confirming them in their delusion that the Kingdom of God advances through Masonic politics and simulated piety. The true Catholic, adhering to the immutable Faith of the Fathers, sees in this retreat not a hopeful sign, but a diabolical mockery of the Social Kingship of Christ. “You are Christ the King of glory!” sang the faithful at the Council of Nicaea commemoration (Quas Primas). Today, the conciliar sect sings the praises of the secular state, offering the Sacred Heart as a decorative motif for the inauguration of another Masonic president.
Extra Ecclesiam nulla salus. Outside the true Church — which is not the conciliar sect occupying Rome — there is no authority, no mission, no grace. The Colombian retreat is a theatrical farce played on the edge of the abyss.
Source:
Ahead of Next Week’s Inauguration, Colombia’s President-Elect Goes On Retreat (ncregister.com)
Date: 04.08.2026