Vatican News portal (11 August 2026) reports a magnitude 7.4 earthquake struck western Colombia on 10 August, killing over 130 and injuring 570, with extensive damage in Pereira, Manizales, Cali, and Quibdó. The “Colombian Bishops’ Conference” expressed “solidarity and prayers,” calling for the nation to “recognise itself as one family” and respond with “generosity, responsibility and solidarity.” Six airports closed; rescue operations continue. The article concludes by soliciting donations to “bring the Pope’s words into every home”—referring to the antipope Leo XIV. This report epitomizes the conciliar sect’s reduction of the Church’s divine mission to mere naturalistic humanitarianism, utterly silent on sin, divine judgment, and the necessity of supernatural grace.
The Conciliar Hierarchy’s Anthropocentric Perversion of the Episcopate
The cited article reveals the complete inversion of the episcopal office by the men occupying the sees of Colombia. The “Bishops” speak not as successores Apostolorum charged with the munus regendi, sanctificandi, et docendi for the salvation of souls, but as coordinators of a disaster-relief NGO. Their statement—“this is an emergency of such magnitude that it cannot be faced individually, but requires the country to recognise itself as one family and to respond to suffering with generosity, responsibility and solidarity”—is pure Masonic naturalism. Not a word of the wrath of God, not a call to penance, not an exhortation to the Most Holy Sacrifice, not a reminder of the Four Last Things.
Pius XI, in Quas Primas, teaches that “Peace is only possible in the kingdom of Christ” and that “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”. The Colombian “bishops” ignore this divine mandate entirely. They address the temporal power not as ministers of the King of Kings demanding public recognition of His rights, but as supplicants for “solidarity”—a Masonic substitute for Christian charity, stripped of its supernatural motive and end.
Silence on Divine Judgment and the Necessity of Penance
The gravest accusation against this “episcopal” communication is its studied silence on the supernatural order. Holy Scripture and the unanimous Tradition teach that natural calamities are often flagella Dei—scourges of divine justice calling sinners to conversion. Our Lord Himself warned: “Except you do penance, you shall all likewise perish” (Luke 13:3). The Council of Trent anathematizes those who deny that God punishes sin in this life. Yet the “Colombian Bishops’ Conference” utters not a syllable of this truth.
Their “prayers for the victims” are vague, devoid of the Communion of Saints, the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass for the dead, the gaining of indulgences, the invocation of the Mother of God under her true titles (not the false “Fatima” construct). The article notes damage to “Manizales Cathedral, one of the city’s principal religious landmarks”—treating the House of God as a heritage building. Where is the call to repair the spiritual ruin far worse than the physical? Where is the warning that “the state is happy not by one means, and man by another; for the state is nothing else than a harmonious association of men” (Pius XI, Quas Primas, citing St. Augustine), and that this harmony is impossible without the reign of Christ?
The Neo-Church as Humanitarian NGO: Implementation of the Masonic Program
This reduction is not accidental; it is the very essence of the conciliar revolution. The Syllabus of Pius IX 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). The “bishops” of Colombia, by adopting the language of “solidarity,” “family of nations,” and “humanitarian aid” to the exclusion of the Kingship of Christ, implement this condemned program. They function as chaplains to the Masonic city of man.
The article’s closing appeal—“Your contribution for a great mission: support us in bringing the Pope’s words into every home”—exposes the paramasonic structure occupying the Vatican. The “Pope” referenced is “Pope” Leo XIV (Robert Prevost), the latest in the line of usurpers beginning 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 “magisterium” of this false pope—Amoris Laetitia, Fratelli Tutti, the Abu Dhabi declaration—constitutes manifest heresy against the Social Kingship of Christ, the Unity of the Church, and the Necessity of the Catholic Faith for Salvation. Therefore, ipso facto, he holds no office. Canon 188.4 of the 1917 Code confirms: “Every office becomes vacant by the mere fact and without any declaration… if the cleric: 4. Publicly defects from the Catholic faith.”
The False “Fatima” Narrative as Diversion from the True Crisis
While the article does not mention Fatima, the conciliar sect’s entire “spirituality” of disaster response is steeped in the false apparitions condemned by sound theology. The False Fatima Apparitions document demonstrates that the Fatima message “diverts attention from modernist apostasy within the Church” by focusing on external threats (communism) while ignoring the “enemies within” warned by St. Pius X. The Colombian “bishops” replicate this diversion: they point to the earthquake as a challenge for “solidarity,” never to the apostasy of the hierarchy itself as the cause of divine chastisement. The “Miracle of the Sun” was a “mass optical manipulation… and mass panic and autosuggestion”; similarly, the media spectacle of “episcopal solidarity” is a psychological operation masking the abomination of desolation in the sanctuary.
The Only Remedy: The Social Kingship of Christ and the True Church
Pius XI instituted the Feast of Christ the King precisely “to address the needs of the present times and provide a special remedy against the plague that poisons human society. And this plague is the secularism of our times, so-called laicism” (Quas Primas). The Colombian catastrophe is a manifestation of this plague. The only true response is the public, official, corporate recognition of Christ the King by the civil authority, the restoration of the Most Holy Sacrifice in its integrity (the Tridentine Mass), the rejection of the conciliar sect and its false shepherds, and the adherence to the sedevacantist position which alone preserves the depositum fidei intact.
As the Syllabus condemns: “The civil government, even when in the hands of an infidel sovereign, has a right to an indirect negative power over religious affairs” (Error 41). The Colombian State, by accepting the “bishops'” humanitarian framing, confirms its laicist apostasy. The true bishops—those validly ordained before 1968, holding the Catholic faith entire—would have declared a public fast, a solemn procession of reparation, the suspension of the Novus Ordo service, and the celebration of the Mass of the Angels for the dead. They would have told the President of Colombia: “Recognize Christ the King, or perish.”
The “Vatican News” report is not news of the Church; it is propaganda for the Church of the New Advent, a syncretistic, humanitarian, Masonic counter-church that has no power to save. Salus animarum suprema lex—the salvation of souls is the supreme law. This law is violated in every line of the conciliar “bishops'” statement. Woe to the shepherds who feed themselves and not the flock (Ezek. 34:2). Woe to the structures occupying the Vatican that have made the House of God a den of thieves (Matt. 21:13).
Source:
Colombian Bishops appeal for solidarity after devastating earthquake (vaticannews.va)
Date: 11.08.2026