Vatican-Brokered Pardon Exposes Conciliar Sect’s Collusion with Tyrants
Catholic News Agency reports on November 20, 2025 that Belarusian dictator Aleksandr Lukashenko pardoned two imprisoned priests following negotiations with Vatican officials. The regime’s media credits the release to “intensification of contacts with the Vatican” and the supposed “principles of goodwill, mercy, and the jubilee year proclaimed by the Roman Catholic Church.” Belarusian “bishops” expressed gratitude to conciliar officials including Cardinal Claudio Gugerotti for maintaining “positive dynamic of bilateral relations based on traditional values, brotherhood, tolerance, and respect for believers.” This diplomatic theater reveals the conciliar sect’s complete subordination to earthly powers and betrayal of its supernatural mission.
Naturalism Replaces Ecclesial Martyrdom
The article frames the priests’ imprisonment as a human rights issue rather than spiritual warfare. Nowhere does it mention the eternal consequences of cooperating with Godless regimes or the munus triplex (threefold office) of Christ that priests must embody. Pius XI condemned such naturalism in Quas Primas: “When once men recognize, both in private and in public life, that Christ is King, society will at last receive the great blessings of real liberty, well-ordered discipline, peace and harmony.” The conciliar sect’s relief at securing earthly freedom for these clerics while ignoring their duty to confessio fidei (confession of faith) before tyrants constitutes apostasy from the Church’s martyrological essence.
Diplomatic Cowardice Masquerading as Mercy
BelTA state media boasts of Lukashenko’s “mercy” in releasing Fr. Henrykh Akalatovich (convicted of “high treason”) and Fr. Andzej Yukhnevich (accused of abuse). The conciliar bishops’ groveling gratitude exposes their Modernist inversion of mercy. Veritatis splendor demands that true mercy “is not a suspension of the eternal law but its fulfillment” (St. Augustine). By thanking a dictator who closed Minsk’s Church of Sts. Simon and Helena in 2022 – a site of anti-regime protests – these pseudo-shepherds imitate the conciliar sect’s ongoing betrayal of confessors behind the Iron Curtain. Pius IX’s Syllabus of Errors condemns such collaboration: “In the case of conflicting laws enacted by the two powers, the civil law prevails” (Error 42).
Ecumenism with Tyrants Over Catholic Solidarity
The report highlights Cardinal Gugerotti’s role while omitting that the conciliar sect continues recognizing Lukashenko’s legitimacy despite his persecution of underground Catholics. St. Pius X’s Lamentabili sane exitu anathematizes this false ecumenism: “The Church listening cooperates in such a way with the Church teaching in defining truths of faith, that the Church teaching should only approve the common opinions of the Church listening” (Condemned Proposition 6). True Catholics under persecution receive no support from these Vatican diplomats who instead strengthen the persecutors’ international standing. The U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom report cited in the article exemplifies the conciliar sect’s reliance on secular human rights frameworks rather than the societas perfecta (perfect society) of Christ’s Kingdom.
Sacramental Silence Speaks Volumes
Nowhere does the article address whether the imprisoned priests had access to valid sacraments or whether their imprisonment constituted persecution propter iustitiam (for the sake of justice). This omission reflects the conciliar sect’s abandonment of ex opere operato sacramentality. Pius XII’s Mediator Dei warns: “The worship rendered to God by the Church in union with her divine Head is the most efficacious means of achieving sanctity.” When the Belarusian “bishops” speak of “traditional values” and “tolerance,” they parrot the regime’s secular vocabulary rather than proclaiming the Kingship of Christ demanded by Pius XI’s institution of the feast. Their “positive dynamic” constitutes collaboration condemned by the Syllabus: “In the present day it is no longer expedient that the Catholic religion should be held as the only religion of the State” (Error 77).
From Confessors to Diplomats
The transformation of Catholic priests into diplomatic bargaining chips completes the conciliar revolution’s destruction of the priesthood. When Fr. Akalatovich denounces his espionage conviction as “lies, threats, and blackmail,” he employs human rights language rather than Christocentric witness. True confessors like St. John Fisher faced Henry VIII’s tyranny with “Magister adest et vocat me” (The Master is here and calls me), not legalistic defenses. The conciliar sect’s relief at securing these priests’ release through backroom deals – rather than demanding their unconditional freedom as rights-bearing clerics – reveals their complete assimilation into the UN human rights paradigm condemned by Pius XI as “religious indifferentism and false pacifism” (Quas Primas).
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Belarus pardons 2 Catholic priests after talks with Vatican (catholicnewsagency.com)
Date: 20.11.2025