Vatican Portal Promotes Naturalism Over Christ’s Kingship in Taybeh Conflict
Vatican News portal reports on November 21, 2025, about Israeli settler attacks against Christians in Taybeh – “the last Palestinian village inhabited entirely by Christians.” The article quotes Latin-rite parish priest Bashar Fawadleh describing property destruction, stolen goods, and restricted access to farmland, while appealing for international pressure against “these acts of vandalism and violence.” The report emphasizes ecumenical gestures from “heads of the Churches of the Holy Land” and diplomatic delegations visiting the village last July, framing hope in naturalistic terms of job creation and housing projects rather than supernatural grace.
Reduction of the Church’s Mission to Humanistic Activism
The article reduces the Church’s mission to social work and political advocacy, stating the “immediate goal is to create new jobs” and “raise funds for a housing project.” This contradicts Quas Primas (1925), where Pius XI established Christ the King’s feast precisely to combat the error that “the Church has nothing to do with political and economic matters” (§18). The portal’s silence on the divine right of Christ the King to govern all nations reveals its modernist foundation.
When Fr. Fawadleh claims prayer “can transform these situations for the better and lead to peace,” he echoes the naturalism condemned by St. Pius X in Pascendi Dominici Gregis: “Religious sentiment is to be ever more separated from…divine faith, and the Catholic to be brought to accept the Protestant principle” (§39). True Catholic hope resides not in geopolitical solutions but in the Social Reign of Christ the King, which the article systematically ignores.
Ecumenical Betrayal Masquerading as Solidarity
The report celebrates how “leaders of the Christian Churches of the Holy Land—together with several diplomatic delegations—visited the village” as a “sign of unity among Christians.” This undiscerning ecumenism violates Pius XI’s Mortalium Animos (1928): “The unity of Christians cannot be fostered except by promoting the return of the dissidents to the one true Church of Christ.” The article fails to note that non-Catholic “churches” reject the very Kingship of Christ that Taybeh’s suffering Christians need most.
By framing the conflict as ethnic (“Palestinian village”) rather than religious, the portal obscures the supernatural dignity of Palestine’s Catholics as members of the One True Church. Pius XII’s Mystici Corporis (1943) clarifies: “Only those are really to be included as members of the Church who have been baptized and profess the true faith” (§22). The report’s ecumenical tone suggests all “Christians” share equal standing before God – a heresy condemned by Pius IX’s Syllabus of Errors (Proposition 17).
Omission of Catholicism’s Political Non-Negotiables
Nowhere does the article reference the immutable Catholic teaching on the duty of states to profess and propagate the True Faith, as defined by Leo XIII in Immortale Dei (1885): “States cannot…conduct their government according to their own will” but must “conform their laws to the Christian constitution.” The portal’s call for “international pressure” treats Israel as a secular democracy rather than a nation bound to honor Christ’s Kingship.
The report’s focus on “human security” ignores the primacy of spiritual weapons against persecution. Pius XI taught in Caritate Christi Compulsi (1932) that societal crises demand “penance and expiation…more than ever necessary.” Taybeh’s faithful receive no exhortation to offer sufferings for the conversion of their persecutors – the only hope that transcends geopolitical conflict.
False Hope Rooted in Naturalism
Fr. Fawadleh concludes: “My hope is the hope of the Resurrection.” While doctrinally true in isolation, this statement is weaponized by the article to bolster quietism in the face of injustice. The Resurrection hope authentic Catholics proclaim includes Christ’s imminent return as Judge of nations (Matthew 25:31-46), not indefinite tolerance of sacrilege. When settlers attacked the Church of Saint George, the proper response was not diplomatic appeals but public exorcisms and processions of reparation – acts presupposing faith in Christ’s Real Presence and Kingship.
The Vatican portal’s narrative aligns with the UN’s “human rights” framework rather than Catholic integralism. As Pius IX condemned in the Syllabus: “The Church ought to be separated from the State, and the State from the Church” (Proposition 55). Until the conciliar sect demands Israel’s conversion to Catholicism – the only path to true peace – its reports serve the globalist agenda, not the Glory of God.
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After West Bank settler attacks, Christians express importance of hope (vaticannews.va)
Date: 21.11.2025