ACI Prensa portal (November 24, 2025) reports on kidnappings targeting Catholic institutions in Nigeria and Cameroon. The article details how 265 Nigerian students remain captive after the November 2023 attack on St. Mary’s Catholic school in Kontagora Diocese, while “Archbishop” Andrew Nkea Fuanya threatens church closures in Cameroon’s Ndop deanery unless kidnapped “priest” John Berinyuy Tatah is released by November 26. The report quotes Kontagora’s “Bishop” Bulus Dauwa Yohanna attributing the attacks to criminal motives and Minnesota “Bishop” Robert Barron lamenting persecution while avoiding any substantive theological analysis.
Naturalistic Reduction of Persecution to Mere Criminality
The Kontagora diocesan statement reduces the mass kidnapping to “criminals seeking illicit gain” while Cameroon’s conciliar prelate frames his ultimatum through purely pragmatic safety concerns. This naturalistic narrative deliberately omits the sensus catholicus (Catholic understanding) that such atrocities constitute spiritual warfare against Christ’s Mystical Body. As Pius XI declared in Quas Primas: “The rebellion of individuals and states against the authority of Christ has produced deplorable consequences.” By refusing to identify Islamist Fulani herdsmen (in Nigeria) and Anglophone separatists (in Cameroon) as militia diaboli (soldiers of the devil), these conciliar figures deny the supernatural dimension of persecution – a betrayal echoing the false Fatima narrative’s diversion from modernist apostasy.
Sacramental Desertion Masquerading as Pastoral Strategy
Nkea’s threat to “remove the Blessed Sacrament from the churches” and evacuate clergy exposes the conciliar sect’s sacramental nihilism. The Code of Canon Law (1917) mandates: “The Eucharist must be kept in the cathedral, collegiate, parochial, and religious churches…and cannot be wholly removed unless demanded by grave necessity” (CIC 1265 §2). Pius XII condemned such desertion as “an unthinkable sacrilege” (Mediator Dei), yet this pseudo-archbishop treats the Real Presence as bargaining chip. When armed Muslims desecrated Eucharistic species during the Cristero War, true shepherds like Blessed Miguel Pro died in odium fidei (in hatred of the faith) rather than surrender tabernacles.
Heretical Ecumenism in Persecution Narratives
“Bishop” Barron’s lament about “100,000 Christians murdered” deliberately blurs distinctions between Catholic martyrs and Protestant sectarians. This violates Pius XI’s condemnation in Mortalium Animos: “The union of Christians can only be promoted by promoting the return to the one true Church of Christ of those who are separated from it.” The conciliar sect’s persecution narrative follows the Masonic ecumenism decried in the False Fatima analysis: “The imprecise formulation opens the way to religious relativism.” True Catholic martyrology requires certamen fidei (combat of faith) – supernatural witness rejected by Barron’s generic “Christian” framing.
Omission of Supernatural Remedies Constitutes Pastoral Malpractice
Neither the article nor quoted conciliar figures mention exorcism, penance, or consecration to Christ the King as responses to persecution. This reflects the modernist heresy condemned in Pius X’s Lamentabili (Proposition 22): “The dogmas…are not truths of divine origin but interpretations of religious facts by the human mind.” Authentic Catholic practice would mandate:
Public recitation of the Leonine Prayers after Mass
Consecration of nations to the Sacred Heart
Exorcisms against territorial demons
Fasting and reparatory communion as specified at Fatima (before its corruption)
Instead, the conciliar sect offers bureaucratic negotiations and empty threats – proving its shepherds are “hirelings [who] flee because they are hirelings and have no concern for the sheep” (John 10:13).
Canonical Irregularity of Conciliar “Clergy”
The article’s reference to “Archbishop” Nkea and “Bishop” Yohanna obscures their juridical illegitimacy. As the Syllabus of Errors condemns: “The Church has not the power of defining dogmatically that the religion of the Catholic Church is the only true religion” (Proposition 21). These conciliar figures, appointed by antipopes who deny extra ecclesiam nulla salus (no salvation outside the Church), lack jurisdiction. St. Robert Bellarmine’s De Romano Pontifice proves: “A manifest heretic cannot be Pope” – and by extension, his appointed “bishops” are mere usurpers. Their sacraments remain valid but illicit, rendering their pastoral directives spiritually void.
Conclusion: Silence Screams Apostasy
The gravest indictment emerges from what the article omits: No invocation of Christus Rex (Christ the King), no calls for public consecration of nations, no warning that receiving “Communion” in post-conciliar structures constitutes sacrilege. This silence confirms the conciliar sect’s identity as “the abomination of desolation standing in the holy place” (Matt 24:15). Until Africa’s faithful reject these modernist hirelings and seek true shepherds consecrated before 1958, their persecution will continue bearing the bitter fruits of ecclesial treason.
Source:
Hundreds of Nigerian students remain captive; Cameroon archbishop warns of church closures (catholicnewsagency.com)
Date: 24.11.2025