The EWTN News portal reports that the family and advocates of imprisoned Hong Kong media tycoon Jimmy Lai, a layman presented as a “Catholic pro-democracy activist,” are pressuring the Trump administration to secure his release before a scheduled meeting between President Donald Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping on September 24. The article details a congressional hearing led by Rep. Chris Smith, testimony from Lai’s son Sebastien, and statements from human rights lawyers and NGOs, all framing the case as a crusade for “freedom,” “democracy,” and “human rights.” The piece culminates in Sebastien Lai’s declaration that “America understands, in its bones, that freedom dies with the last man willing to defend it.” This spectacle of naturalistic political agitation, draped in the vestments of a false piety, exposes the total substitution of the Kingship of Christ for the idols of Masonic liberty.
The Conciliar Sect’s Chaplaincy to the New World Order
The source of this report—EWTN News—is the flagship media organ of the conciliar sect, the counterfeit church erected in the Vatican since the usurpation of John XXIII in 1958. That this outlet serves as the megaphone for Jimmy Lai’s cause is not incidental; it is ontological. The article makes no reference to the Most Holy Sacrifice, the sacraments, the state of grace, or the Social Reign of Christ the King. Instead, it offers a liturgy of “bipartisan support,” “moral courage,” and “accountability acts.” This is the precise fulfillment of the condemnation by Pope Pius XI 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.” EWTN does not report news; it manufactures consent for the religion of laicism, the “plague that poisons human society” identified by the same Pontiff.
Jimmy Lai: A Saint of the Synagogue of Satan
The article canonizes Jimmy Lai ante mortem as a “child of God,” a “lover of the real China,” and “one of China’s greatest entrepreneurs.” Steve Yates, a “research fellow on China and national security policy,” declares the case “a test of character… of whether there remains any credible basis for the assumptions on which American policy toward Hong Kong was long constructed.” This is the language of the Synagogue of Satan denounced by Pope Pius IX in the Syllabus of Errors (Allocution “Maxima quidem”): “It is from them that the synagogue of Satan, which gathers its troops against the Church of Christ, takes its strength.” Lai is not a confessor of the Faith; he is a martyr of the Masonic trinity—Liberty, Equality, Fraternity. His “Catholicism” is the false ecumenism condemned by the Holy Office in Lamentabili sane exitu (Prop. 16, 17, 18), which reduces the one true Church to a mere NGO advocating for “religious freedom”—a liberty condemned by Gregory XVI as liberty of perdition (Mirari Vos).
The Heresy of “Human Rights” vs. The Rights of God
The entire rhetorical architecture of the article rests on the condemned proposition that “The civil government… has a right to an indirect negative power over religious affairs” (Syllabus, Prop. 41) and that “The Church ought to be separated from the State, and the State from the Church” (Prop. 55). Caoilfhionn Gallagher, the “human rights lawyer,” laments that Hong Kong is a place where “you can be thrown in prison for singing the wrong song.” She does not lament that the Unbloody Sacrifice of Calvary is banned, that the true Mass is suppressed, or that souls are damned by the millions under the paramasonic structure of the “People’s Republic.” Her concern is purely naturalistic: the “right” to print a newspaper, to wear a T-shirt, to sing a song. This is the error of Naturalism condemned in the Syllabus (Props. 3, 4, 56, 57): “Human reason, without any reference whatsoever to God, is the sole arbiter of truth and falsehood, and of good and evil.” The “Jimmy Lai Hong Kong Political Prisoner Accountability Act of 2026” is a legislative act of idolatry, rendering to Caesar the things that are God’s.
The Silence of the Sacraments: The Gravest Accusation
At 78, he is the oldest political prisoner in Hong Kong. With a 20-year sentence looming over him, if he’s not freed soon, he will most likely die in prison… My father learned of his own daughter’s diagnosis from a maximum-security prison. He cannot hold her hand.
The article obsesses over solitary confinement, rotting teeth, rashes, heart issues, and the heat of a Hong Kong summer. It is a pornography of suffering stripped of all supernatural meaning. There is not a single word of Extreme Unction, of Viaticum, of the Indulgentia Plenaria at the hour of death, of the Mass of the Ages offered for his soul. Sebastien Lai pleads: “Let Jimmy Lai come home to his family and let him sit beside his daughter in her hardest moment.” This is the cult of man in its purest form. Pius XI teaches in Quas Primas: “Let Christ reign in the mind of man… let Him reign in the will… let Him reign in the heart… let Him reign in the body and its members.” For the neo-church, Christ reigns nowhere; only the “autonomy of the temporal sphere” reigns. The article proves that the “Catholicism” of Jimmy Lai and his promoters is a hollow shell, a dogmaless Christianity (Lamentabili, Prop. 65) indistinguishable from “broad and liberal Protestantism.”
Trump and Xi: Two Sides of the Same Masonic Coin
The article pins its hope on a meeting between Donald Trump and Xi Jinping. From the perspective of integral Catholic faith, this is a dialogue between two servants of the Prince of this World. Trump, the darling of the “conservative” wing of the conciliar sect, is hailed as a “true champion” by Sebastien Lai. Yet Trump has never consecrated the United States to the Sacred Heart, never recognized the Social Kingship of Christ, and governs a regime founded on the Masonic Constitution of 1789. Xi Jinping governs an atheist Communist dictatorship. The Syllabus condemns the error that “The Roman Pontiff can, and ought to, reconcile himself, and come to terms with progress, liberalism and modern civilization” (Prop. 80). The conciliar sect, through EWTN, does exactly this: it begs the liberal Caesar to intercede with the Communist Caesar for a crumb of “compassionate release.” This is not the Libertas Christiana of the martyrs; it is the servitus diaboli of the compromisers.
The “Two Lucys” of the Conciliar Narrative
Just as the False Fatima Apparitions document exposes the “Two Lucia Sisters” theory as a distraction from the Masonic core of the Fatima operation, the Jimmy Lai narrative functions as a limited hangout. It directs the faithful’s outrage toward a specific political prisoner—managed by the conciliar sect’s media—while the abomination of desolation sits in the Vatican, the true Mass is suppressed globally, and the Novus Ordo “mass” validates the very “secularism” and “laicism” that Pius XI condemned. The article mentions Cardinal Zen’s conviction in a “Related Articles” sidebar, reminding us that the “hero” of the neo-church in Hong Kong is a “cardinal” of the false church who concelebrates the invalid rite and recognizes the usurpers. The Lai case is a psychological operation to channel Catholic sentiment into the safe, sterile channels of “human rights advocacy,” far from the Cross of Christ.
Conclusion: No King But Caesar
The article ends with a subscription prompt for EWTN. It is a commercial transaction selling the opium of the people: the illusion that “freedom” and “democracy” can be secured by petitioning antichrists. “There is no other name under heaven given to men by which we must be saved” (Acts 4:12), declares Pius XI in Quas Primas, quoting Scripture. The Jimmy Lai spectacle, amplified by the conciliar sect’s propaganda arm, proves that the neo-church has another name: Political Liberalism. It has another king: Caesar. And it has another gospel: The Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Non possumus. We cannot serve two masters. The only “Accountability Act” that matters is the Particular Judgment, before which no “bipartisan legislation” will avail, only the Blood of the Lamb offered on the Altar of the True Mass.
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Jimmy Lai’s family, advocates press for his release before Xi-Trump meeting (ewtnnews.com)
Date: 16.09.2026