The NCR/EWTN portal reports that the Mexican episcopal conference (CEM) has issued a statement demanding a “thorough investigation” into the September 15 murder of Father Román de la Cruz Hernández, pastor of Santa Cruz in Huejutla, Hidalgo. The conciliar “bishop” José Hiraís Acosta Beltrán urged the faithful not to speculate, denounced the “alarming situation of violence,” and called for building a “culture of peace and reconciliation.” The article cites the “Catholic Multimedia Center” statistic of 28 violent incidents against “Church members” and four priest murders during Claudia Sheinbaum’s presidency. This report exposes the conciliar sect’s total reduction of the Church’s mission to naturalistic humanitarianism and secular crime-reporting.
Usurpers of Jurisdiction Feign Pastoral Concern
The individuals presented as “bishops” and “priests” in this narrative — Acosta Beltrán, the CEM hierarchy, the murdered Father Román de la Cruz Hernández — operate within the conciliar sect that has occupied the visible structures of the Church since the usurpation of John XXIII in 1958. By the infallible principle of Cum ex Apostolatus Officio (Pope Paul IV), a manifest heretic ipso facto loses all jurisdiction and cannot hold ecclesiastical office. The “bishops” of the neo-church, having adhered to the heresies of Vatican II (religious liberty, ecumenism, collegiality, the new mass), are not true successors of the Apostles but functionaries of a paramasonic structure. Their “statements” and “prayers” carry no supernatural weight; they are the administrative acts of a counterfeit hierarchy. As St. Robert Bellarmine teaches: “A manifest heretic cannot be Pope… he cannot be the head of something of which he is not a member” (De Romano Pontifice 2:30). The same applies to the episcopate.
Naturalistic Humanitarianism Replaces Supernatural Mission
The CEM statement is a masterpiece of laicism condemned by Pius XI in Quas Primas. It speaks of “fraternal solidarity,” “eternal rest,” “strength and comfort,” “culture of peace,” “eradication of violence,” “respect for life” — not one word of the Social Kingship of Christ, the rights of God, the necessity of the state of grace, the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass, or the final judgment. Pius XI declared: “When God and Jesus Christ were removed from laws and states… the foundations of that authority were destroyed… the entire human society had to be shaken” (Quas Primas). The conciliar “bishops” have capitulated to the secular order; they petition Caesar for “justice” instead of proclaiming Christ the King as the only remedy for societal collapse. Their “prayer for eternal rest” is a vague humanitarian sentiment, devoid of the Communion of Saints, the Holy Sacrifice for the dead, or the indulgences of the true Church.
Silence on the Priest’s Spiritual State: The Gravest Omission
The article mentions the priest’s murder, his “ministry and his life,” but never his state of soul, his fidelity to the Tridentine Mass and Catholic doctrine, or whether he died in odium fidei (in hatred of the faith) — the only criterion for true martyrdom. The “Catholic Multimedia Center” tallies “incidents of violence against Church members” like a secular NGO tracking human rights violations. This is the language of the world, not the Church. A true Catholic bishop would first ask: Did this priest celebrate the true Mass? Did he reject the Novus Ordo? Did he profess the integral faith? Did he administer the true sacraments? The silence is deafening because the conciliar sect cannot ask these questions without condemning itself. As the Syllabus of Errors (Pius IX) condemns: “The Church is not a true and perfect society… but it appertains to the civil power to define what are the rights of the Church” (Error 19). The neo-church has become a department of the state, begging the secular power for “investigations” and “justice.”
Collaboration with the Secular Arm: Betrayal of Ecclesiastical Liberty
The “bishop” Acosta Beltrán explicitly urges the faithful to “allow the relevant authorities to conduct the investigation” and to “not speculate.” This is the exsequatur and appellatio ab abusu condemned by Pius IX (Syllabus, Errors 41, 42): the subjection of ecclesiastical matters to civil judgment. The true Church possesses innate and legitimate right (ius proprium, perpetuum) to judge her own causes (Canon 188.4, 1917 Code; Syllabus Error 24). By inviting the Masonic-secular state to “investigate” and “render justice,” the conciliar hierarchy renounces the Church’s independence and legitimizes the very power that persecutes it. Pius XI in Quas Primas insists: “The Church… demands for itself by a right belonging to it, which it cannot renounce, full freedom and independence from secular authority.” The neo-church “bishops” have renounced it.
Statistics as Propaganda: The “Catholic Multimedia Center” Illusion
The citation of the “Catholic Multimedia Center” (CMC) — a modernist NGO — reporting “28 incidents… four priests murdered” serves a political agenda: to portray the conciliar sect as a victim deserving of secular protection, thereby reinforcing the religious liberty heresy (Dignitatis Humanae). The CMC does not distinguish between a true priest of the Traditional Mass and a “presbyter” of the Novus Ordo; it counts functionaries of the neo-church as “Church members.” This is statistical fraud in service of the ecumenical narrative. The real persecution — the spiritual murder of souls by the New Mass, the false sacraments, the heretical catechesis — goes unmentioned because the conciliar sect is the primary agent of that persecution.
The “Culture of Peace” is the Peace of the World, Not of Christ
Acosta Beltrán’s call for a “culture of peace and reconciliation, seeking the eradication of violence” echoes the Masonic triad of Liberty, Equality, Fraternity — not the Pax Christi in Regno Christi. Pius XI teaches: “His kingdom is opposed only to the kingdom of Satan and the powers of darkness… requires its followers… to deny themselves and carry their cross” (Quas Primas). The conciliar “peace” is compromise with error, dialogue with the world, submission to the secular order. It is the peace of the world which Christ explicitly rejected: “My kingdom is not of this world” (John 18:36). The “bishop” asks God to “root out from the human heart every destructive sentiment” — a Pelagian moralism that ignores original sin, the necessity of grace, and the Sacraments as the only remedy.
EWTN/ACI Prensa: Propaganda Arm of the Neo-Church
The article’s provenance — ACI Prensa, EWTN News, National Catholic Register — confirms its nature as controlled opposition. These outlets, founded and sustained within the conciliar structures, exist to normalize the neo-church, to present its “bishops” as legitimate, its “priests” as martyrs, its “statements” as authoritative. They are the media wing of the abomination of desolation. The translation and adaptation by “EWTN News English” is the dissemination of counterfeit Catholic news to the English-speaking world, reinforcing the Great Apostasy foretold by St. Paul (2 Thess 2:3).
Conclusion: The Murder is a Symptom, Not the Cause
The murder of Father Román de la Cruz Hernández — whatever his personal dispositions — is a temporal crime in a nation already spiritually dead due to the apostasy of its hierarchy. Mexico, once the Cradle of Christendom in the Americas (Guadalupe, Cristeros), has been delivered to the Masonic-secular state by the very “bishops” now demanding “investigations.” The only solution is the restoration of the Social Kingship of Christ (Quas Primas), the rejection of religious liberty (Syllabus, Quanta Cura), the return to the Traditional Mass and Doctrine, and the recognition of the Vacant See. Until then, every “statement,” every “prayer,” every “statistic” from the conciliar sect is dust and ashes — vanitas vanitatum.
Source:
Mexican Bishops Demand ‘Thorough Investigation’ of Priest’s Murder (ncregister.com)
Date: 17.09.2026