The EWTN News portal, via its ACI Africa service, reports on the temporary profession of Aicha Settimia Canté, a 27-year-old daughter of a Muslim imam, in the post-conciliar “Congregation of the Sisters of the Divine Spirit” in Guinea-Bissau. The ceremony, presided over by the “bishop emeritus” José Câmnate Na Bissign on the Feast of the Assumption 2026, is presented as a triumph of “coexistence,” “freedom of conscience,” and “dialogue,” complete with approving citations of the Quranic dictum “there is no compulsion in religion” by the National Confederation of Islamic Youth. This spectacle is not a victory for the Catholic Faith but a quintessential manifestation of the conciliar sect’s apostasy: the reduction of the supernatural mission of the Church to a naturalistic theater of human rights and interreligious indifferentism, betraying the Social Kingship of Christ the King.
The Theatrics of Apostasy: A “Vocation” Stripped of the Cross
The cited article drips with the sentimental vocabulary of the neo-church: “joy, emotion, profound gratitude,” “accompaniment,” “discernment,” “divine mission” understood as generic humanitarian service. Nowhere does one find the language of mortificatio carnis, of odium sui (Luke 14:26), of the absolute renunciation of Islam as a false religion leading souls to damnation, or of the necessity to convert the father, the family, and the nation to the unica salus of the Catholic Church. The “bishop” Na Bissign speaks of “responding to God’s plan” and “relationship with God” – vague, Protestantized notions that carefully avoid the dogmatic reality that outside the Church there is no salvation (Extra Ecclesiam Nulla Salus, Fourth Lateran Council, 1215; Pope Boniface VIII, Unam Sanctam, 1302). The “vocation” is framed as a personal fulfillment, not as an enlistment in the Ecclesia Militans for the conquest of souls for Christ the King.
Invalid Hierarchy, Invalid Sacraments, Invalid Religious Life
The entire edifice of this event rests on sand. The “bishop emeritus” José Câmnate Na Bissign is a product of the post-1958 apostasy, likely “ordained” in the invalid Novus Ordo rite of Paul VI (1968) or “consecrated” by a lineage contaminated by it. As St. Robert Bellarmine teaches (De Romano Pontifice), a manifest heretic loses jurisdiction ipso facto; the “bishops” of the conciliar sect, by their adherence to the heresies of Vatican II (religious liberty, ecumenism, collegiality), are deprived of all jurisdiction and orders. Consequently, the “Mass” presided over was the Novus Ordo Missae — a Protestantized “table of assembly” that denies the propitiatory Sacrifice of Calvary, rendering the “Eucharist” invalid and the “profession” received within it a nullity. The “Congregation of the Sisters of the Divine Spirit” is a post-conciliar institute, founded under the auspices of the neo-church, lacking the canonical standing of true religious orders approved by a true Pope. Canon 188.4 of the 1917 Code declares that an office becomes vacant by tacit resignation upon public defection from the faith; the founders and superiors of such institutes, by embracing the conciliar revolution, have canonically forfeited any ecclesiastical authority.
Religious Liberty: The Heresy Condemned by the Syllabus and Quas Primas
The article’s centerpiece is the statement of the National Confederation of Islamic Youth, quoted with evident approval: “Respecting someone’s choice does not necessarily mean agreeing with it… freedom of expression should not be confused with the freedom to defame… Muslims, Christians, and people of other convictions can live with respect, fraternity, and dignity.” This is the condemned error of indifferentism and religious liberty in its purest form.
Pope Pius IX, in the Syllabus of Errors (1864), anathematized the propositions that “Every man is free to embrace and profess that religion which, guided by the light of reason, he shall consider true” (Error 15), that “Man may, in the observance of any religion whatever, find the way of eternal salvation” (Error 16), and that “The Church ought to be separated from the State, and the State from the Church” (Error 55). The Islamic youth group’s appeal to the Quran (“no compulsion in religion”) as a foundation for human dignity is adopted by the neo-church as a locus theologicus, inverting the order: truth is subordinated to a false concept of liberty.
Pope Pius XI, in Quas Primas (1925), teaches authoritatively: “Peace is only possible in the Kingdom of Christ… When God and Jesus Christ were removed from laws and states… the foundations of that authority were destroyed.” The “bishop” Na Bissign’s homily — “Those who do not have faith in God find themselves completely disoriented” — while superficially pious, functions within a framework that legitimizes the public profession of a false religion (Islam) as a valid exercise of “conscience.” The “coexistence” praised is the pax satanae, the peace of the world which Christ came not to bring but to divide (Matt 10:34). The State of Guinea-Bissau, by allowing this “freedom,” fails its divine duty to publicly profess the Catholic Faith and repress the public propagation of error (Leo XIII, Immortale Dei, 1885; Pius XI, Quas Primas, §31).
The Linguistic Camouflage: “Dialogue” as Surrender
The rhetoric of the article is meticulously crafted to obscure the theological catastrophe. Words like “milestone,” “journey,” “accompaniment,” “strengthening of vocation” replace conversio, abrenuntiatio, professio fidei. The motto attributed to St. Thérèse of Lisieux — “In the heart of the Church, my Mother, I will be love” — is weaponized as a sentimental bromide, stripped of the Saint’s doctrine of victimhood and reparation for the sins of the world, including the sin of infidelity. The “bishop” presents Mary as “the ark of the new covenant” but omits her role as Terribilis ut castrorum acies ordinata (Terrible as an army set in battle array), the Crusher of heresies. The “Holy Spirit” invoked is the vague “spirit of the council,” the spiritus mundi, not the Spiritus Veritatis who convicts the world of sin, justice, and judgment (John 16:8).
Symptomatic Level: The Masonic Architecture of the “New Evangelization”
This event mirrors the Masonic strategy of “infiltration and neutralization” described in the analysis of False Fatima: Stage 3 — “Takeover of the narrative by modernists, concealment of the Third Secret, ecumenical reinterpretation.” The conversion of a Muslim is not used to proclaim “There is no salvation outside the Catholic Church” but to showcase the “openness” of the neo-church. The “attacks on social media” are exploited to paint the neo-church as the victim of “intolerance,” while the true intolerance — the hatred of the Catholic Dogma by the conciliar hierarchy — remains unexamined. The “Islamic Youth” statement is a masterpiece of taqiyya facilitated by the neo-church’s surrender of the jus publicum Ecclesiae. They demand “respect for human dignity” derived from the Quran, while the neo-church “bishop” validates this naturalistic anthropology, forgetting that true dignity consists solely in the adoption as sons of God through Baptism and the state of grace (Council of Trent, Sess. VI, Chap. 7).
The Silence on the Father’s Soul: The Ultimate Betrayal
The gravest omission is the total silence regarding the eternal perdition of the father, the Imam. A true Catholic “bishop” would have used this occasion to call the father to conversion, warning him that “He who believes not shall be condemned” (Mark 16:16) and that Islam, denying the Trinity and the Divinity of Christ, is a secta perditionis. Instead, the “bishop” and the “sister” participate in a photo-op that confirms the Imam in his error, signaling that his “choice” too is respectable. This is not caritas in veritate; it is cruelty masquerading as mercy. The “joy” of the “sister” is the joy of the world; the “emotion” is the emotion of the flesh. Where is the Cross? Where is the Blood? Where is the Kingship of Christ? Nowhere. They have been expunged to make the neo-church palatable to the “spirit of the age” — which is the spirit of Antichrist.
Conclusion: A Counterfeit Profession in a Counterfeit Church
Aicha Settimia Canté has not become a bride of Christ. She has entered a pseudo-religious congregation within a paramasonic structure, presided over by a layman usurping the episcopal character, celebrating an invalid rite, under the patronage of a false ecumenism condemned by the perennial Magisterium. The “profession” is a theatrical performance in the theatrum mundi of the abomination of desolation standing in the holy place (Matt 24:15). True conversion demands the integral profession of the Catholic Faith, the rejection of all heresies, submission to a valid Bishop, and entrance into a canonically regular order preserving the lex orandi, lex credendi of Tradition. This event possesses none of these. It is a diabolical mockery of the vocational call, designed to consolidate the reign of the Antichristus in the hearts of Africans, substituting the Regnum Christi for the regnum hominis. Woe to those who call evil good, and good evil (Isa 5:20).
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Imam’s daughter in Guinea-Bissau makes profession as Catholic religious sister (ewtnnews.com)
Date: 21.08.2026