The Vatican News portal (August 12, 2026) publishes a report on the devastating 7.4 magnitude earthquake that struck Manizales, Colombia, on August 10, killing over 200 people. The article features an interview with the conciliar “archbishop” José Miguel Gómez Rodríguez, who describes the destruction of the Neo-Gothic cathedral and the humanitarian response coordinated through the “Food Bank.” The piece culminates in the “archbishop” expressing gratitude for a message of “solidarity” from the antipope Leo XIV (Robert Prevost), explicitly identifying this false shepherd’s “paternal kindness” with “the help and companionship of the Lord Jesus Christ himself.” This report is not a chronicle of Catholic pastoral care but a staged propaganda piece designed to normalize the usurpation of the Holy See and reduce the Church’s divine mission to mere naturalistic humanitarianism.
The Naturalistic Reduction of the Episcopate to Disaster Management
The cited article presents the conciliar “archbishop” functioning not as a successor of the Apostles charged with the cura animarum (care of souls), but as a coordinator of non-governmental relief operations. His primary concern is structural damage: “half of [churches] suffered serious damage,” the “emblematic image” is the cathedral as a “very important symbol of this region,” and the auxiliary tower collapsed. The supernatural dimension—the violation of the sacred edifice dedicated to the Unbloody Sacrifice, the profanation of the Blessed Sacrament, the spiritual state of the dying—is entirely absent.
This silence is the gravest accusation. Where is the mention of the Holy Mass, the propitiatory Sacrifice of Calvary, offered for the repose of the souls of the deceased? Where is the call to penance, the recognition of the earthquake as a flagellum Dei (scourge of God) calling a sinful nation to conversion? As Pius XI teaches in Quas Primas, “When God and Jesus Christ… were removed from laws and states… the foundations of that authority were destroyed.” The conciliar “archbishop” manifests the exact fruit of this removal: a Church emptied of its munus regendi (governing office) and munus sanctificandi (sanctifying office), retaining only a corrupted munus docendi reduced to social work.
The “charity” described is purely horizontal: “Food Bank,” “donations,” “household goods,” “basic necessities.” This is philanthropia, not caritas. True Catholic charity, as defined by the Angelic Doctor, is amicitia quaedam hominis ad Deum (a certain friendship of man with God), ordered primarily to the supernatural good of the neighbor. The Syllabus of Errors (Pius IX, 1864) condemns the proposition that “The teaching of the Catholic Church is hostile to the well-being and interests of society” (Error 40), but the conciliar sect inverts this: it abandons the supernatural interest of society—salvation—for a purely temporal “well-being” that the State and secular NGOs can provide more efficiently.
Linguistic Engineering: “Solidarity” Supplants Supernatural Charity
The rhetoric of the article is saturated with the vocabulary of the Civitas Terrena (City of Man): “solidarity,” “resilience,” “rebuild,” “move forward,” “accompaniment.” The word “solidarity” appears repeatedly, a hallmark of the conciliar neologism introduced by the heretic John Paul II in Sollicitudo Rei Socialis, which substitutes the theological virtue of caritas with a sociological category. The “archbishop” speaks of the population’s “desire to begin rebuilding immediately” and “determination to move forward.” This is the language of Pelagian self-redemption through human effort, devoid of gratia sanans (healing grace) and gratia elevans (elevating grace).
Note the careful avoidance of specifically Catholic terminology: no “Last Rites,” no “Extreme Unction,” no “Requiem Mass,” no “Purgatory,” no “Indulgences,” no “Intercession of the Saints.” The victims are not “faithful departed” needing suffrage; they are “people who have lost everything” needing “housing” and “food.” The “archbishop” concludes: “Here we are, trying to praise and bless the Lord even in these circumstances.” This is a vague, Protestantized “praise,” not the Sacrificium laudis (sacrifice of praise) of the Canon of the Mass. It is the “worship” of the homo religiosus of Vatican II’s Gaudium et Spes, not the latria due to the Triune God in the True Church.
The Blasphemous Identification of the Usurper with Christ the King
The theological apex of the article—and its diabolical purpose—is the “archbishop’s” statement regarding the antipope Leo XIV: “It represents a paternal kindness and closeness that here… are felt as the help and companionship of the Lord Jesus Christ himself, the shepherd of his Church.”
This is idolatry and antichristian substitution. A manifest heretic, an usurper of the See of Peter, elected by a conclave of cardinals created by previous usurpers (John XXIII, Paul VI, John Paul I, John Paul II, Benedict XVI, Francis), is explicitly presented as the Vicar of Christ on earth. The Defense of Sedevacantism file demonstrates conclusively: “A manifest heretic cannot be Pope… A non-Christian in no way can be Pope… he cannot be the head of something of which he is not a member” (Bellarmine, De Romano Pontifice 2:30). Leo XIV, by his public adhesion to the heresies of Vatican II (religious liberty, ecumenism, collegiality, new mass), is a manifest heretic. He has lost the papacy ipso facto by Canon 188.4 of the 1917 Code (“Publicly defects from the Catholic faith”) and by the Bull Cum ex Apostolatus Officio of Paul IV (“his promotion… shall be null, void, and of no effect”).
To attribute to this antipope the “closeness… of the Lord Jesus Christ himself” is to commit the abominatio desolationis (abomination of desolation) in the holy place. It fulfills the prophecy of St. Paul: “The man of sin… sitteth in the temple of God, shewing himself as if he were God” (2 Thess 2:3-4). The conciliar “archbishop” acts as the False Prophet (Apoc 13:11-12), causing the earth and them that dwell therein to adore the first beast (the conciliar sect) by performing signs (humanitarian “miracles”) in its sight.
The “Cathedral” as Symbol of the Neo-Church’s Ruin
The focus on the “Neo-Gothic building” as an “emblematic image” and “symbol of this region” reveals the conciliar sect’s ecclesiology: the Church is a sociological institution rooted in culture and architecture, not the Mystical Body of Christ rooted in the Hypostatic Union. Pius XI in Quas Primas defines Christ’s Kingship: “He possesses, in a word, dominion over all creatures, not by force but by essence and nature… through the hypostatic union, Christ has authority over all creatures.” The conciliar “archbishop” inverts this: the cathedral is a “symbol of the region,” not the House of God (Domus Dei) and Gate of Heaven (Porta Coeli). Its damaged tower is a material problem for “professionals,” not a spiritual sign demanding rogationes (processions of supplication) and the Veni Creator Spiritus.
Symptomatic Level: The Conciliar Sect as Paramasonic Humanitarian NGO
This article is a textbook example of the modus operandi of the “Church of the New Advent” described in the False Fatima file: “Stage 3 (1958-2000): Takeover of the narrative by modernists, concealment of the Third Secret, ecumenical reinterpretation.” The strategy continues: exploit natural disasters to project an image of “relevance,” “compassion,” and “unity” that masks the apostasy within.
The “Food Bank” operation mirrors the Masonic “psychological operation” structure: a visible, media-friendly corporeal work of mercy that replaces the spiritual works (instruct the ignorant, counsel the doubtful, admonish sinners, pray for the living and the dead). The Syllabus condemns: “The civil government… has a right to an indirect negative power over religious affairs… The teaching of the Catholic Church is hostile to the well-being and interests of society” (Errors 41, 40). The conciliar sect accepts this Masonic frame: it seeks validation from the “State” (here, the Colombian government, the UN, the “international community”) by becoming the most efficient provider of “social services,” thereby surrendering its libertas Ecclesiae (freedom of the Church) which Pius XI declares “a right belonging to it, which it cannot renounce” (Quas Primas).
The “archbishop” thanks the antipope for a “message of solidarity.” This is the recognitio of the usurper’s legitimacy. Every such public act by a conciliar “bishop” reinforces the schisma (schism) from the True Church. As St. Cyprian teaches: “He cannot have the ordinance of God who holds not the unity of the Church… He is not a Christian who is not in the Church of Christ.” The conciliar hierarchy, by recognizing the antipope, places itself outside the Church.
The Silence on Divine Judgment: The Ultimate Apostasy
Not a single word on sin, divine justice, the Four Last Things, or the necessity of the True Faith for salvation. This silence is the “gravest accusation” mentioned in the Framework. Lamentabili Sane Exitu (St. Pius X, 1907) condemns the Modernist proposition: “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). The conciliar “archbishop” lives this condemnation: dogma (Trinity, Incarnation, Redemption, Judgment, Hell, Papacy) is discarded; only “action” (humanitarian aid) remains.
The earthquake killed over 200 souls. Where is the De profundis? Where is the warning: “Unless you shall do penance, you shall all likewise perish” (Luke 13:3)? Where is the proclamation of Extra Ecclesiam nulla salus? The “archbishop” offers “hope” to “rebuild,” “strengthen,” “move forward.” This is the hope of the world, spes mundana, which “confoundeth not” only because it is not the spes theologalis (theological hope) anchored in the resurrection of the dead and the life of the world to come.
Conclusion: The Conciliar Sect is the Antichurch
This Vatican News report is not a news item; it is a liturgical act of the synagoga Satanae (synagogue of Satan, Apoc 2:9; 3:9). It worships the creature (the antipope, the “symbolic” cathedral, the humanitarian project) instead of the Creator. It validates the paramasonic structure occupying the Vatican. It confirms the sedevacantist thesis: the See of Peter is vacant; the conciliar hierarchy has defected ipso facto; the True Church subsists in those bishops and priests who retain the integral Faith, the Traditional Mass, and the rejection of the conciliar errors.
Faithful Catholics must reject this false “solidarity,” refuse the false “pope,” and flee the conciliar sect’s “churches” which are become spelunca latronum (den of thieves, Jer 7:11; Matt 21:13). “Come out of her, my people, that you be not partakers of her sins, and that you receive not of her plagues” (Apoc 18:4). The only “rebuilding” that matters is the restoration of the Social Reign of Christ the King (Quas Primas) through the Traditional Latin Mass, the unadulterated Faith, and submission to the true Vicar of Christ—whenever God in His Providence restores the See of Peter.
Christus vincit, Christus regnat, Christus imperat.
Source:
Colombian Archbishop: 'The earthquake was extremely devastating' (vaticannews.va)
Date: 12.08.2026