Vatican News portal reports that following a 7.7 magnitude earthquake striking southern Panama on October 9, 2026, the Panamanian episcopate of the conciliar sect issued a statement steeped in naturalistic humanitarianism, devoid of any supernatural reference to divine chastisement, the necessity of penance, the Social Kingship of Christ, or the salvific mission of the Church. The document reads like a press release from a secular relief agency, confirming that the “bishops” of the neo-church have abandoned their divine mandate to teach, govern, and sanctify in favor of managing temporal emergencies.
The Silence of the Shepherds: No Word of Sin, Penance, or Divine Justice
The cited letter from the Panamanian “bishops” contains not a single mention of peccatum (sin), poenitentia (penance), iustitia Dei (divine justice), or ira Dei (wrath of God). Instead, we find only the language of “solidarity,” “accompaniment,” “resilience,” and “hope” — a hope stripped of its theological virtue and reduced to mere human optimism. This is the hermeneutic of rupture with the constant teaching of the Church, which has always interpreted natural disasters as flagella Dei (scourges of God) calling nations to conversion.
Pope Pius XI, in Quas Primas (1925), thundered: “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… the entire human society had to be shaken, because it lacked a stable and strong foundation.” The Panamanian “bishops” invert this truth: they present the earthquake not as a consequence of a society that has dethroned Christ, but as an occasion for “solidarity that defines our people.” This is practical atheism masquerading as pastoral care.
Reduction of the Parish to a Shelter: The Ecclesiology of the Anti-Church
The instruction that parishes become “true homes with open doors, where people find welcome, a listening ear, companionship, and whatever assistance we can provide” reveals the functionalist ecclesiology of the conciliar sect. The parish is no longer the domus Dei (house of God) where the Unbloody Sacrifice of Calvary is offered, where souls are regenerated in baptism, absolved in confession, nourished by the Holy Eucharist, and prepared for judgment. It is reduced to a social service hub, a “home with open doors” offering “companionship” and “assistance.”
This is the direct fruit of the Second Vatican Council’s Gaudium et Spes and the post-conciliar “preferential option for the poor” which, in practice, became a preferential option for the temporal poor to the damnation of the spiritually poor. The Syllabus of Errors (1864) condemned the proposition: “The teaching of the Catholic Church is hostile to the well-being and interests of society” (Error 40). Today, the neo-church inverts this: it makes temporal well-being the summum bonum of its mission, rendering itself indistinguishable from the Red Cross or UNICEF.
False Shepherds Thanking False Authorities: The Scandal of Collaboration
The letter thanks “emergency response teams, volunteers, healthcare workers, and authorities” and expresses gratitude for support from “different offices of the Holy See.” This “Holy See” is the See occupied by the antipope Leo XIV (Robert Prevost), the latest in the line of usurpers beginning with John XXIII. The Panamanian “bishops” — themselves likely invalidly ordained in the new rite of Paul VI, or at best ordained by men who recognized the false hierarchy — legitimize the paramasonic structure occupying the Vatican by collaborating with its “offices.”
Pope Pius IX, in the Syllabus, condemned the error that “The civil government, even when in the hands of an infidel sovereign, has a right to an indirect negative power over religious affairs” (Error 41). Here, the “bishops” of the neo-church go further: they thank the civil authorities as partners in a common humanitarian enterprise, obliterating the distinction between the Civitas Dei and the Civitas terrena. They act as chaplains to the state, not as successores Apostolorum with the potestas ordinis et iurisdictionis to bind and loose sins.
Entrustment to a Patroness Without the Faith: Marian Devotion Divorced from Dogma
The letter closes by entrusting the nation to “the protection of their patroness, Saint Mary of La Antigua.” But Marian devotion in the neo-church is severed from the fides catholica. As the document False Fatima Apparitions exposes, the post-conciliar “Marian” apparatus — culminating in the Fatima operation — serves ecumenical and Masonic ends: “The imprecise formulation ‘conversion of Russia’ (without specifying Catholicism) opens the way to religious relativism. It can serve to legitimize dialogue with schismatic Orthodoxy.” The entrustment to “Saint Mary of La Antigua” by men who deny the Social Kingship of her Son, who practice false ecumenism, and who recognize a manifest heretic as “pope” is idolatry — honoring the Mother while rejecting the Kingship of the Son.
The Theological Vacuum: Where Is the Mass? Where Are the Sacraments?
Nowhere in the letter is there mention of the Most Holy Sacrifice of the Mass, the Propitiatory Victim offered for the living and the dead, the Sacrament of Penance for the conversion of sinners, the Extreme Unction for the dying, or the Eucharistic Procession to implore divine mercy. The “bishops” speak of “prayer” generically, but the lex orandi of the neo-church is the Novus Ordo Missae — a fabrication of Bugnini and his Masonic collaborators, which Lamentabili sane exitu (1907) would condemn as “a certain religious movement, applied or applicable to different times and places” (Proposition 59) rather than the immutable Sacrifice of the Cross.
St. Pius X condemned the Modernist proposition: “Christ did not proclaim any specific, all-encompassing doctrine suitable for all times and peoples, but rather initiated a certain religious movement…” The Panamanian letter is the pastoral application of this heresy: a generic “religious movement” of solidarity, adaptable to any culture, any disaster, any creed.
The Symptom: Systemic Apostasy of the Conciliar Sect
This letter is not an anomaly; it is the modus operandi of the conciliar sect. The “bishops” function as CEOs of a global humanitarian franchise. Their “faith” is fides quaerens intellectum inverted into caritas quaerens mundum (charity seeking the world). They have accepted the condemnation of the Syllabus: “The Roman Pontiff can, and ought to, reconcile himself, and come to terms with progress, liberalism and modern civilization” (Error 80). They have “come to terms” so completely that they no longer speak the language of the Gospel but the language of the United Nations.
The Defense of Sedevacantism demonstrates that a manifest heretic loses the papacy ipso facto (Bellarmine, De Romano Pontifice). The line of claimants since 1958 — John XXIII, Paul VI, John Paul I, John Paul II, Benedict XVI, Francis, Leo XIV — have all publicly professed heresies (religious liberty, false ecumenism, collegiality, evolution of dogma). The Panamanian “bishops” recognize them. Therefore, they are not members of the Church, cannot be its pastors, and their “parishes” are not Catholic parishes but assembly halls of a false religion.
Conclusion: The Abomination of Desolation in Panama
The earthquake in Panama is a signum magnum (great sign) — not for “solidarity,” but for conversion. The true Church, ecclesia militans, would proclaim: “Unless you do penance, you shall all likewise perish” (Luke 13:3). She would order public Rogation processions, the Litany of the Saints, the exposition of the Blessed Sacrament, the celebration of the Traditional Latin Mass pro propitiatione Dei. She would remind the faithful that “the kingdom of Christ encompasses all men… not only to Catholic nations… but His reign encompasses also all non-Christians” (Pius XI, Quas Primas), and that temporal calamities are the pedagogia Dei to bring nations back to His Kingship.
The Panamanian “bishops” offer instead: “We are brothers and sisters; we are one family. And with God’s help, united in faith and solidarity, we will overcome this difficult time.” This is the gospel of the Antichrist — a horizontal fraternity without vertical filiation, a “family” without the Father, a “God” who is merely a supportive presence in human effort. Anathema sit.
Source:
Panamanian Bishops: ‘We must show the solidarity that defines our people’ (vaticannews.va)
Date: 12.10.2026