The EWTN News portal reports the killing of two Christian women in Gaza City by an Israeli strike, framing the event through the lens of the “Latin Patriarchate of Jerusalem” and its “Cardinal” Pierbattista Pizzaballa. The piece functions as a humanitarian communiqué, lamenting demographic decline and celebrating inter-confessional sheltering, while maintaining absolute silence on the Social Kingship of Christ, the necessity of the Catholic Church for salvation (extra Ecclesiam nulla salus), and the duty to convert Muslims and Jews to the true Faith. This is not Catholic journalism; it is the voice of the conciliar sect administering the abomination of desolation in the very land where Our Lord walked.
The Conciliar Sect’s Mouthpiece: EWTN and the Manufacture of Consent
The source itself condemns the content. EWTN News, the media arm of the neo-church founded by the modernist Mother Angelica, serves as the propaganda organ for the paramasonic structure occupying the Vatican. Its “ACI MENA” service produces pablum for a demographic that has substituted Caritas for Veritas. The article bears the byline of Sanad Sahelia, a “freelance journalist” reporting on “affairs of Christian communities” — a phrase that reveals the ecumenical presupposition: there are “Christian communities” plural, not the Church, One, Holy, Catholic, and Apostolic. This is the democratization of the Church condemned by Pius XI in Quas Primas: “When God and Jesus Christ… were removed from laws and states… the foundations of that authority were destroyed.” EWTN builds on those ruins.
Pizzaballa and the “Latin Patriarchate”: Usurped Authority in the Holy Places
The article centers the statement of “Cardinal Pierbattista Pizzaballa,” the “Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem.” In the economy of the Church of the New Advent, this title carries weight. In the economy of Cum ex Apostolatus Officio and the immutable law of the Church, a manifest heretic — and every “pope” and “bishop” of the conciliar line since John XXIII has professed the heresies of Vatican II (religious liberty, ecumenism, collegiality) — ipso facto loses all jurisdiction. 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, II, 30). Pizzaballa, appointed by the antipope Francis and confirmed by the antipope Leo XIV (Robert Prevost), exercises a simulated authority. His “profound sorrow and grief” is the sentimentality of a functionary managing a humanitarian NGO, not a successor of the Apostles weeping over souls lost to Islam and Judaism for want of the baptism of water or blood.
Ecumenism in the Rubble: The Scandal of St. Porphyrius
The article notes the funeral took place at the “Greek Orthodox Church of St. Porphyrius” and that “Holy Family Catholic Church and St. Porphyrius Greek Orthodox Church have provided shelter to Christian and non-Christian families.” This is false ecumenism in action — the pan-heresy condemned by Pius IX in the Syllabus (Error 16: “Man may, in the observance of any religion whatever, find the way of eternal salvation”) and by Pius XI in Mortalium Animos. The conciliar sect treats the schismatic Orthodox as a “sister Church,” sharing sacred space and social work, thereby legitimizing schism and confirming the Orthodox in their separation from the Cathedra Petri. The “Latin Patriarchate” mourns with the schismatics, prays with them, and thus denies the necessity of unity under the Roman Pontiff for salvation. This is not the “peace of Christ in the Kingdom of Christ” (Quas Primas); it is the peace of the world, pax mundi, purchased at the price of divine truth.
Demographics Over Dogma: The Naturalistic Reduction of the Faith
The article’s most telling passage cites Pizzaballa’s statistics: “the number of Christians remaining in Gaza — Catholics and Orthodox combined — had fallen to 541, down from 1,017 before the war.” Here lies the heartbeat of the neo-church: demographics. Not a word on the state of souls. Not a word on whether these “Christians” die in a state of grace, fortified by the Sacraments of the true Mass and true priesthood. Not a word on the duty of the Church to preach the Gospel to the Muslim majority surrounding them (Mark 16:15). The conciliar sect counts bodies; the true Church counts souls. Pius XI thundered: “His reign encompasses also all non-Christians, so that most truly the entire human race is subject to the authority of Jesus Christ” (Quas Primas). In Gaza, the “authority of Jesus Christ” is proclaimed by neither the “Latin Patriarchate” nor the “Orthodox” — only the Allahu Akbar of the minarets and the secular nationalism of the combatants. The “Church” has become a refugee camp manager.
Sheltering the Unbaptized: Corporal Works Without Spiritual End
Anton boasts that the churches “provided shelter to Christian and non-Christian families.” In the theology of the neo-church, this is the summit of mission: humanitarian aid stripped of supernatural finality. St. Pius X condemned this in Lamentabili sane exitu (Prop. 63): “The Church is incapable of effectively defending evangelical ethics, because it steadfastly adheres to its views, which cannot be reconciled with modern progress.” The “progress” here is religious indifferentism: feeding the Muslim without proposing the one Name under heaven by which we must be saved (Acts 4:12). The true Church, as Pius XI teaches, “demands for itself… full freedom and independence from secular authority… to teach, govern, and lead all to eternal happiness.” The “Latin Patriarchate” leads no one to eternal happiness; it manages displacement camps under Israeli bombs and calls it “preserving Christian presence.” Presence without profession is a corpse.
The Silence on the Kingship of Christ: The Gravest Omission
Nowhere does the article mention Christ the King. Nowhere does it invoke the feast instituted by Pius XI “to address the needs of the present times and provide a special remedy against the plague that poisons human society… the secularism of our times, so-called laicism” (Quas Primas). Gaza is the laboratory of that plague: a territory ruled by Islamist terror (Hamas) and besieged by a secular Zionist state, both denying the Social Kingship of Christ. The “Latin Patriarchate” has capitulated to both. It negotiates “access” and “ceasefires” — purely temporal concerns — while the eternal destiny of every Muslim and Jew in Gaza remains unaddressed by the only Ark of Salvation. This is the betrayal of the Mandate: “Going therefore, teach ye all nations; baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost” (Matt 28:19). The “Church” in Gaza has become a chaplaincy to death, not a militia Christi for life.
The Fruit of the Conciliar Revolution: A Church That Does Not Convert
This article is a symptom, not an anomaly. The Second Vatican Council‘s Dignitatis Humanae (religious liberty) and Nostra Aetate (false esteem for non-Christian religions) have produced a “Church” that cannot proclaim the Gospel to Muslims or Jews without violating its own “magisterium.” The “Latin Patriarchate” in Gaza is the local instantiation of this systemic apostasy. It exists to manage decline, to curate coexistence, to witness — but never to conquer for Christ. As Pius XI warned: “Many of them do not hold the position in so-called social life, nor do they have the significance that those who carry the torch of truth should have. This unfavorable situation may perhaps be attributed to the laziness and timidity of the good… the enemies of the Church act with greater audacity and hardness” (Quas Primas). The “good” in Gaza are the traditional Catholics — few, scattered, without true pastors — who keep the Traditional Latin Mass and the integral Faith alive in catacombs, while the “Latin Patriarchate” holds press conferences.
Conclusion: The Abomination Standing Where It Ought Not
The death of Maysaa Khader Ibrahim Abu Dawoud and Mary Hafez Michel al-Najjar is a tragedy of the temporal order. The eternal tragedy is the silence of the hirelings (John 10:12-13) who occupy the Holy Places. They weep for the body but abandon the soul. They dialogue with the schismatic and the infidel but refuse to judge (John 7:24) and convert them. They count the remnant (541) but ignore the multitude (2 million Muslims) perishing without the Faith. This is the Church of the New Advent: a humanitarian facade on the abomination of desolation. Quas Primas remains the unrevoked charter: “If rulers and legitimate superiors will have the conviction that they exercise authority not so much by their own right as by the command and in the place of the Divine King, everyone will notice how religiously and wisely they will use their authority.” Pizzaballa, EWTN, the “Latin Patriarchate” — they exercise no authority of the Divine King. They are usurpers in the Holy Land, administering the funeral of the Faith while the true Israel of God (Gal 6:16) waits in the catacombs for the Restoration.
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Latin Patriarchate mourns two Christian women killed in Gaza City strike (ewtnnews.com)
Date: 03.10.2026