The EWTN News portal, through its Portuguese-language sister service ACI Digital, reports on a ruling by Brazil’s Superior Electoral Court (TSE) on September 30, 2026, upholding the removal of social media posts falsely linking conservative presidential candidate Flávio Bolsonaro to an alleged initiative to strip Our Lady of Aparecida of her title as Patroness of Brazil, while permitting a blasphemous post by comedian Antonio Tabet to remain online under the guise of “freedom of expression.” The decision, rendered days before the October 4 presidential election, exposes the total subordination of the sacred to the profane electoral machinery of the Masonic republic, the complicity of the conciliar “hierarchy” in this farce, and the utter bankruptcy of the neo-church’s engagement with the temporal order.
The Neo-Church as Chaplain to the Masonic Republic
That ACI Digital — an arm of the EWTN empire, itself a flagship of the conciliar “new evangelization” — reports on this secular judicial proceeding with the tone of a court chronicler rather than a prophetic voice is the first and gravest scandal. The article treats the Tribunal Superior Eleitoral as a legitimate arbiter of truth regarding the Queen of Brazil, quoting its justices, André Mendonça and Nunes Marques, at length as they pontificate on “religious freedom in its collective and democratic dimension.” Nowhere does the report invoke the Social Kingship of Christ, the Rights of God over nations, or the duty of the State to profess the Catholic Faith exclusively. Instead, we are fed the Masonic vocabulary of “minimal intervention,” “heightened protection of freedom of expression,” and the “instrumentalization of faith” — a lexicon straight from the Syllabus of Errors, where Pius IX condemned the proposition that “the Church ought to be separated from the State, and the State from the Church” (Error 55). The neo-church, having abdicated its divine mandate to teach, govern, and sanctify temporal society (Quas Primas, §31), now functions as a mere NGO commenting on the procedural correctness of the very secular powers that have dethroned Christ the King.
Our Lady of Aparecida: Hostage to Electoral Calculus
The central fact — that the Patroness of Brazil, the Rainha e Padroeira do Brasil, is dragged into a sordid electoral dispute between a “conservative” politician and a comedian — is a diabolical masterpiece of profanation. The court’s ruling acknowledges the claims about Bolsonaro are “objectively false,” yet the very necessity of such a ruling reveals that the Mother of God has been reduced to a political football in a Masonic republic founded on the overthrow of the Catholic monarchy in 1889. Justice Nunes Marques claims the decision “protects religious freedom in its collective and democratic dimension” by preventing “the faith of millions of Brazilians from being instrumentalized.” This is the language of the Declaration on Religious Freedom (Dignitatis Humanae), the conciliar heresy that makes the State the guarantor of religious liberty rather than the subject of Christ the King. As Pius XI thundered 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” (§31). The Brazilian court, by adjudicating the “instrumentalization” of the Virgin, implicitly claims a jurisdiction over the sacred that belongs solely to the Church — a usurpation the Syllabus condemns when it rejects the idea that “the civil government… has a right to an indirect negative power over religious affairs” (Error 41).
The “Conservative” Candidate and the Illusion of Catholic Politics
Flávio Bolsonaro, son of former president Jair Bolsonaro, is presented as a “conservative candidate” of the Liberal Party. From the perspective of integral Catholicism, this is a cruel illusion. The Bolsonaro dynasty operates entirely within the framework of the 1988 Constitution — a document that enshrines religious liberty, separation of Church and State, and popular sovereignty, all condemned by the Syllabus (Errors 39, 55, 77). No Catholic may legitimately seek the presidency of a republic constituted on the denial of Christ’s Kingship. As Leo XIII taught in Immortale Dei, and Pius XI reiterated in Quas Primas (§31), “the State is nothing else than a harmonious association of men” whose happiness depends on obedience to Christ. A politician who swears to uphold a Masonic constitution is not a defender of the Faith but a functionary of the Civitas Diaboli. The neo-church’s enthusiasm for such figures — evident in EWTN’s favorable coverage — is the bitter fruit of the “democratization of the Church” and the heresy of religious liberty inaugurated at Vatican II.
Blasphemy Protected, Truth Suppressed: The Tabet Post
The most damning aspect of the ruling is the preservation of Antonio Tabet’s post: “The militia family hates black women so much that they decided to attack Our Lady of Aparecida.” This is not “ambiguous”; it is a direct, racialized blasphemy against the Mother of God, invoking her dark-skinned image to stoke hatred against a political family. Judge Mendonça, a former “minister of justice” under Bolsonaro, declares it “reasonable to take the content to be ambiguous” and invokes “minimal intervention” to protect “freedom of expression.” This is the libertas perditionis condemned by Gregory XVI in Mirari Vos and Pius IX in the Syllabus (Error 79): the “full power, given to all, of overtly and publicly manifesting any opinions whatsoever and thoughts.” The court thus sanctions the public vilification of the Queen of Heaven while claiming to defend her from “instrumentalization.” The neo-church report does not condemn this blasphemy; it merely transcribes the judge’s sophistry. Silence in the face of blasphemy is complicity. As St. Pius X warned in Lamentabili Sane Exitu (prop. 25), faith cannot be reduced to “a sum of probabilities” — nor can the honor due to the Mother of God be balanced against “freedom of expression.”
The Conciliar “Hierarchy”: Absent and Complicit
Where are the “bishops” of Brazil? Where is the “Archbishop of Aparecida”? The article mentions none. The defense of Our Lady is left to a secular electoral court and a politician’s legal team. This is the inevitable result of the conciliar revolution: the “Church” has abandoned the munus regendi over society, ceding the public square to the Masonic State. The Syllabus (Error 20) condemns the proposition that “the ecclesiastical power ought not to exercise its authority without the permission and assent of the civil government.” Today, the conciliar “hierarchy” exercises no authority at all without the State’s permission — witness the Concordat that subjects the Church to Brazilian law. The “bishops” are reduced to functionaries of the Civitas Terrena, terrified of losing tax exemptions and media access. They have forgotten the words of Pius XI: “The Church, established by Christ as a perfect society, demands for itself by a right belonging to it, which it cannot renounce, full freedom and independence from secular authority” (Quas Primas, §32).
The Masonic Architecture of the “Miracle”
The article notes the image of Our Lady of Aparecida is “dark-skinned.” Tabet’s post weaponizes this for racial politics. This instrumentalization of the sacred image for identity politics is a hallmark of the Masonic strategy described in the analysis of the False Fatima Apparitions: “The name ‘Fatima’: a symbol of Christian-Islamic syncretism.” Here, the dark-skinned Virgin becomes a symbol of “black women” versus the “militia family” — a crude dialectic of liberation theology, that synthesis of Marxism and Modernism condemned by Pius XII and the pre-conciliar Magisterium. The neo-church, having embraced the “preferential option for the poor” as a political program, has no vocabulary to defend the Virgin’s honor except the secular language of “fake news” and “electoral integrity.” The supernatural reality — that Our Lady reigns as Queen of Brazil by divine right, not by electoral decree — is entirely absent.
Sedevacantist Clarity: No Legitimacy in the Usurpers’ Courts
From the perspective of the sede vacante, the entire proceeding is a theater of shadows. The “justices” of the TSE — Mendonça, Nunes Marques — are appointees of a Masonic republic. The “candidate” Bolsonaro is a aspirant to the presidency of that republic. The “journalist” Monasa Narjara writes for ACI Digital, an organ of the EWTN network, which recognizes the usurper “Leo XIV” (Robert Prevost) as Pope. As the Defense of Sedevacantism demonstrates, a manifest heretic loses the papacy ipso facto (Bellarmine, De Romano Pontifice 2.30). The line of usurpers from John XXIII onward has promulgated the heresies of religious liberty, ecumenism, and collegiality, placing themselves outside the Church. Their “canonizations” (John Paul II, John XXIII, Paul VI) are null. Their “magisterium” is a magisterium of error. Therefore, no institution deriving authority from them — including the Brazilian “bishops’ conference” and its media outlets — has any standing to speak for the Catholic Church. The true Church endures in the catacombs, among the faithful who reject the conciliar apostasy and await the restoration of the Social Kingship of Christ.
Conclusion: The Only Remedy is the Restoration of Christendom
The Brazilian court’s ruling is a symptom, not a cure. It manages the symptoms of a society that has dethroned Christ the King. The neo-church’s reporting is a symptom of a hierarchy that has betrayed its King. The comedian’s blasphemy is a symptom of a culture that has lost the Fear of God. The only remedy is the one Pius XI prescribed in Quas Primas: the public, legal, and liturgical recognition of the Kingship of Christ over every nation, every law, every court, and every heart. “If rulers of states therefore not refuse public veneration and obedience to the reigning Christ… everyone will notice how religiously and wisely they will use their authority” (§31). Until Brazil — and every nation — abolishes the Masonic constitution, proclaims the Catholic Faith as the sole religion of the State, and submits its laws to the Decalogue and the Canons of the Church, the Mother of God will remain a hostage to electoral farces, and the neo-church will remain the chaplain of the revolution. Viva Cristo Rei! Viva a Rainha do Brasil! Death to the Masonic Republic!
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Brazilian court rules posts making false claims about conservative candidate must be removed (ewtnnews.com)
Date: 02.10.2026