The EWTN News portal reports that the conciliar hierarchy in Maharashtra, led by the “archbishop” Elias Gonsalves, responds to a Hindu nationalist anti-conversion law not with the weapons of the Church Militant—excommunication, interdict, and the proclamation of Christ’s Social Kingship—but with the Memorare prayer and a lawsuit before pagan tribunals. Simultaneously, the “bishops” of Goa celebrate the withdrawal of a similar bill as a victory for “mutual trust” and “social harmony,” the very language of Masonic indifferentism. This surrender to the secular state’s definition of religious exercise exposes the conciliar sect’s total apostasy from the divine mandate to subject all nations to the Kingship of Christ.
The “Memorare” as Substitute for the Kingship of Christ
The “archbishop” of Nagpur mandates the recitation of the Memorare after every “Eucharistic celebration”—a term which itself betrays the Protestantized, assembly-centered theology of the Novus Ordo Missae, having replaced the unbloody Sacrifice of Calvary. This gesture is the perfect symbol of the conciliar impotence: lex orandi, lex credendi (the law of prayer is the law of belief). By prescribing a Marian prayer for a political crisis while ignoring the Feast of Christ the King instituted by Pius XI precisely to combat the “plague of secularism” (laicism), the hierarchy admits that they no longer believe Christ reigns now over nations. Pius XI taught in Quas Primas: “When God and Jesus Christ… were removed from laws and states and when authority was derived not from God but from men, the foundations of that authority were destroyed… the entire human society had to be shaken, because it lacked a stable and strong foundation.” The Maharashtra “bishops” do not demand the restoration of Christ’s rights; they beg the Hindu state for “freedom of faith” guaranteed by a Masonic constitution.
Religious Liberty: The Condemned Error as Operational Principle
The Western Region Bishops Council explicitly invokes Articles 19, 21, and 25 of the Indian Constitution—the “fundamental freedom of faith”—as the bulwark against the anti-conversion law. This is a formal adherence to the heresy of libertas religiosa, condemned by Pope Pius IX in the Syllabus of Errors (Propositions 15, 16, 77, 78, 79). Proposition 15 anathematizes: “Every man is free to embrace and profess that religion which, guided by the light of reason, he shall consider true.” Proposition 77 condemns: “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.” By arguing that the state must permit conversion as a constitutional right, the conciliar “bishops” concede that the Catholic Church has no divine right to exist publicly, but only a civil privilege granted by the Hindu majority. They have adopted the very laicism Pius XI called the “plague that poisons human society.”
The “Rite of Christian Initiation of Adults”: A Novelty Opposed to Apostolic Tradition
The “bishops” complain that the law interferes with “its Rite of Christian Initiation of Adults program.” This RCIA is a post-conciliar fabrication (1972), unknown to the immemorial tradition of the Church, which converted nations by the catechumenate culminating in the Sacrament of Baptism administered sub conditione if necessary, not by a year-long “program” of “discernment” and “liturgical rites” modeled on Protestant praxis. The complaint reveals that the conciliar sect views conversion not as a supernatural rebirth ex opere operato by the power of the Keys, but as a bureaucratic process subject to state regulation. They seek to protect a human institution, not the divine right to baptize all nations (Mt 28:19).
Lay “Sabha” Usurps the Episcopal Office
The spokesperson for the legal challenge is Dolphy D’Souza, a layman of the “Bombay Catholic Sabha.” The “archbishop” and “bishops” retreat behind a lay council to fight their battle in the secular courts. This inversion of hierarchy—clericus laicus fit, laicus clericus fit—is the fruit of the conciliar “theology of the laity” (Lumen Gentium 31), which dissolves the sacramental distinction between the priesthood of orders and the priesthood of the faithful. St. Pius X condemned in Lamentabili sane exitu (Prop. 50): “The elders fulfilling supervisory functions at Christian gatherings were appointed by the Apostles as priests or bishops to ensure order… but they did not, in the proper sense, continue the apostolical mission and authority.” Here, the laity direct the “apostolate” while the hierarchy prays the Memorare.
Goa: “Cultural Identity” Replaces the Catholic Confession
The Goa “bishops” and lay association celebrate the bill’s withdrawal because it “risks irreparably damaging that precious inheritance” of a “distinctive Catholic cultural identity.” Not the Faith, not the Sacraments, not the salvation of souls—but “cultural identity.” This is the religion of the abomination of desolation: Catholicism reduced to ethnicity, folklore, and social cohesion. The joint statement speaks of “mutual trust,” “social harmony,” “surveillance and fear”—the vocabulary of the United Nations, not the Gospel. Non est in eo veritas (There is no truth in him). They do not say: “The law forbids the preaching of the Gospel; therefore we must defy it as the Apostles defied the Sanhedrin (Acts 5:29).” They say: “The law threatens our comfortable coexistence.”
The Secular Judiciary as the New Magisterium
The “only option before us now is to approach the judiciary,” declares the lay coordinator. The conciliar sect has no other recourse because it has abandoned the potestas iurisdictionis of the Church. It recognizes the Hindu nationalist state as a legitimate authority with the right to regulate religion, differing only on the interpretation of the Constitution. This is the practical application of the heresy condemned by Pius IX (Syllabus, Prop. 39): “The State, as being the origin and source of all rights, is endowed with a certain right not circumscribed by any limits.” By submitting to the Supreme Court of India, the “bishops” acknowledge the State as the supreme arbiter of religious truth. Quas Primas warned: “Let rulers of states therefore not refuse public veneration and obedience to the reigning Christ… if they wish to maintain their authority inviolate.” The conciliar hierarchy does the opposite: it demands the State’s obedience to a Constitution that ignores Christ.
Demographic Irrelevance as Proof of Apostasy
The article notes: “Christians number less than 1% of Maharashtra’s population of more than 120 million.” After centuries of “missionary” presence, the conciliar sect constitutes a statistical nullity. This is the inevitable fruit of Nostra Aetate, Dignitatis Humanae, and the “dialogue” which replaces missio ad gentes. The true Church grows by the blood of martyrs and the clarity of doctrine; the neo-church withers by the poison of religious liberty. The “martyrs of Kandhamal” cited in the author’s bio died because the conciliar hierarchy had already surrendered the public order to secularism, leaving the faithful defenseless before anti-Christian violence.
Conclusion: The Conciliar Sect is the Enemy of Christ’s Kingship
The Maharashtra and Goa episodes are not “persecution of the Church.” They are the just chastisement of a counterfeit church that has refused to crown Christ King of India. The “archbishop,” the “bishops,” the “lay sabha,” and the EWTN portal that amplifies their voice—all operate within the framework of the Civitas Diaboli, seeking “rights” from the Civitas Terrena. They have no authority, no sacrifice, no doctrine, and no future. Ecclesia Catholica non est in eis (The Catholic Church is not in them). The only remedy for India, as for the world, is the integral restoration of the Social Kingship of Our Lord Jesus Christ—the very doctrine the conciliar sect has labored for sixty years to bury.
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Catholic Church weighs legal challenge to new anti-conversion law in India (ewtnnews.com)
Date: 02.09.2026