The EWTN News portal reports on October 19, 2026, that the French “bishops’ conference,” headed by the usurper “Cardinal” Jean-Marc Aveline of Marseille and “Archbishop” Olivier de Germay of Lyon, issued communiqués appealing for an end to violence after a weekend of widespread rioting, arson, and looting across France. The violence erupted during protests against the cost of living, resulting in burned public buildings, ransacked churches, and nearly 1,000 injured police officers. The conciliar hierarchy’s response was to postpone an interreligious “March for Peace” — commemorating the 40th anniversary of the scandalous 1986 Assisi meeting — and to issue vague sociological platitudes about a “society that is unwell.” This spectacle of hirelings fleeing the wolf exposes the total bankruptcy of the conciliar sect: stripped of the Kingship of Christ, it can offer only naturalistic sedation to a nation perishing for want of the true Faith.
The Usurped Mitre Speaks: Silence on the Rights of Christ the King
The communiqué attributed to “Cardinal” Aveline — a man elevated by the antipope Francis and confirmed in his errors by the current usurper Leo XIV (Robert Prevost) — is a masterpiece of laïcité accommodation. “I call on everyone not to be swept up in the spiral of this violence: Our city and our country deserve better than this,” he intones. Not a word of the Social Kingship of Our Lord Jesus Christ. Not a whisper that France, the eldest daughter of the Church, has officially dethroned God since the 1905 Law of Separation, embracing the very laicism condemned by Pope Pius XI in Quas Primas as “the plague that poisons human society” (Quas Primas, 1925). The “archbishop” of Marseille speaks as a functionary of the Republic, not as a successor of the Apostles commissioned to “teach all nations… to observe all things whatsoever I have commanded you” (Matt. 28:19-20). Where is the call for public reparation? Where is the demand that the civil power “fulfill this duty themselves and with their people, if they wish to maintain their authority inviolate and contribute to the increase of their homeland’s happiness” by “public veneration and obedience to the reigning Christ” (Quas Primas)? Nowhere. The conciliar “bishop” has abdicated the very mission of the episcopate: to bind the consciences of men — and of nations — to the sweet yoke of Christ.
Interreligious Placebo: The Assisi Legacy Bears Its Rotten Fruit
The postponement of the “March for Peace” organized by “Christian, Muslim, and Jewish leaders” to mark the 40th anniversary of John Paul II’s 1986 Assisi abomination is the supreme symbol of the conciliar sect’s apostasy. That gathering, where the Vicar of Christ (so-called) placed the Church of the Living God on equal footing with false religions, was a public violation of the First Commandment and the dogma Extra Ecclesiam nulla salus. Pope Pius IX in the Syllabus of Errors (1864) condemned the proposition: “Protestantism is nothing more than another form of the same true Christian religion, in which form it is given to please God equally as in the Catholic Church” (Error 18). He condemned: “Every man is free to embrace and profess that religion which, guided by the light of reason, he shall consider true” (Error 15). The Assisi paradigm — replicated now on the streets of Lyon — is the institutionalization of indifferentism, the “pest of this kind” (Pius IX, Qui Pluribus) that the Syllabus brands as socialism, communism, secret societies, biblical societies, clerical-liberal societies. The “Archbishop” de Germay, by endorsing this march, confesses that the conciliar hierarchy worships a false god: the idol of human fraternity divorced from the Fatherhood of God in Christ. “There is no other name under heaven given to men by which we must be saved” (Acts 4:12), thundered Pius XI in Quas Primas; the Lyon “archbishop” effectively denies this by marching alongside those who deny the Divinity of Christ.
Sociological Analysis Replaces Supernatural Diagnosis
“I am well aware that this violence is the sign of a society that is unwell, but I want to state forcefully once again that it is a dead end,” writes de Germay. This is the language of the sociologist, the politician, the humanitarian NGO — not the language of a Prince of the Church. A true bishop, facing the chastisement of a nation that has “removed Jesus Christ and His most holy law from their customs, from private, family, and public life” (Quas Primas), would cry out with the Prophet: “Why have we fasted, and thou hast not regarded? … Behold, in the day of your fast your own will is found… Behold, you fast for debates and strife, and strike with the fist wickedly” (Isa. 58:3-4). The riots are not merely a “sign of a society that is unwell”; they are the inevitable fruit of the rejection of the Kingship of Christ. “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” (Quas Primas, quoting Ubi Arcano). The conciliar “bishops” are blind guides leading the blind into the ditch (Matt. 15:14), diagnosing the fever while denying the only Physician.
The Conciliar “Church” as Accomplice to the Revolution
The article notes that the riots grew out of “weeks of high school protests over school conditions, during which several schools were severely damaged by the demonstrators”. This is the direct harvest of the conciliar surrender on Catholic education. The Syllabus of Errors condemned: “The entire government of public schools… may and ought to appertain to the civil power… freed from all ecclesiastical authority, control and interference” (Error 47). The French “bishops” have for decades collaborated with the secularist state in the destruction of the Catholic school system, accepting contrats d’association that subject Catholic formation to the “standard of the prevalent opinions of the age” (Error 47). Now, the youth formed in this godless system — or abandoned to the “triple concupiscence of the world” (Quas Primas) — burn the very institutions that failed to give them the Truth. The “Bishop” Matthieu Rougé, heading the “Council for Catholic Education,” urges “responsible adults must lead young people to express their concerns peacefully”. Peaceful expression of error is still error. The only “responsible” leadership is leading souls to Christ the King through the Traditional Latin Mass, the Catechism of Trent, and the rejection of the conciliar revolution.
EWTN: The Propaganda Arm of the Paramasonic Structure
The source of this article, EWTN News, styles itself “a team of journalists dedicated to reporting news concerning the Catholic Church around the world… bureaus… in Washington, D.C., and Rome.” In reality, it is the media wing of the conciliar sect, tasked with normalizing the usurpers in the Vatican and their global network of false “bishops.” By reporting the communiqués of Aveline and de Germay as authoritative “Catholic” responses, EWTN perpetuates the Great Imposture. It presents the abomination of desolation standing in the holy place (Matt. 24:15) as the legitimate hierarchy. The mention of “St. John Paul II” — a manifest heretic who kissed the Quran, prayed with pagans, and taught religious liberty contrary to Mirari Vos, Quanta Cura, and the Syllabus — as a saintly reference point for “peace” is blasphemous. The Defense of Sedevacantism demonstrates conclusively that “a Pope-manifest heretic loses his office automatically” (Bellarmine, De Romano Pontifice); John Paul II, by his public adhesion to the errors of Vatican II (religious liberty, ecumenism, collegiality), ceased to be Pope ipso facto. His “canonization” by the antipope Francis is null, void, and of no effect (Cum ex Apostolatus Officio). EWTN’s complicity in this canonization farce makes it an accomplice to the usurpation of the Holy See.
Political Messianism: Trump and Vance as False Saviors
The article cites Donald Trump and J.D. Vance blaming immigration: “Western liberals imported the third world into France… the immigration of people from an entirely different world, people with hatred in their hearts, has shattered that once great country.” While the demographic suicide of the West is a factual consequence of the Masonic revolutionary principles (Liberty, Equality, Fraternity) that the conciliar sect has reconciled itself to (Error 80: “The Roman Pontiff can, and ought to, reconcile himself, and come to terms with progress, liberalism and modern civilization”), the solution proposed by Trump and Vance is political messianism — the illusion that “authority derived not from God but from men” can restore order. Pius XI warned: “When authority was derived not from God but from men, the foundations of that authority were destroyed” (Quas Primas). France will not be saved by closing borders while keeping the Masonic Republic; it will be saved only by the restoration of the Catholic Monarchy (or at minimum a confessional State) under the Kingship of Christ, as taught by the Action Française tradition before its unjust condemnation by the modernist Pius XI (a tragic error later exploited by the revolution). The conciliar “bishops,” by their silence on the Divine origin of authority, leave the field open to nationalist idolatry on the right and humanitarian chaos on the left.
The Burning Churches: God’s Judgment on the Conciliar Liturgical Revolution
The article notes: “shops were looted, churches broken into… The archdiocese has not said which churches were entered.” This reticence is telling. The churches burned are likely those where the Novus Ordo Missae — the “table of assembly” fabricated by the Freemason Bugnini — is celebrated, where the propitiatory Sacrifice of Calvary has been obscured, where the Real Presence is denied by Communion in the hand and lay “ministers.” St. Pius X in Lamentabili Sane Exitu condemned the Modernist proposition: “The sacraments merely serve to remind man of the presence of the ever-benevolent Creator” (Error 41). The conciliar “Mass” is precisely this: a memorial meal, not a Sacrifice. When the Unbloody Sacrifice is suppressed, the devil enters the vacuum. The arson of churches is a visible sign of the invisible apostasy within. The true Church — the remnant faithful to Tradition, attending the Traditional Latin Mass offered by validly ordained priests (ordained before 1968 in the traditional rite) — understands that “the efficacy of Holy Mass is diminished in favor of spectacular acts” (as the False Fatima Apparitions document notes, though applying it to Fatima, the principle holds: the conciliar liturgy is the spectacular act replacing the Sacrifice). The silence of the “archdiocese” on which churches were violated suggests a fear of exposing the emptiness of their own temples.
Conclusion: The Only Remedy is the Restoration of All Things in Christ
The riots in France are the chastisement of a nation that has formally apostatized — from the 1789 Revolution to the 1905 Separation, to the 1965 Vatican II capitulation. The conciliar “bishops,” far from being the “watchmen” (Ezek. 33:7) who blow the trumpet, are “dumb dogs not able to bark… sleeping, loving dreams” (Isa. 56:10). Their “appeals for calm” are the whistling past the graveyard of a dead institution. The only path to peace — Pax Christi in Regno Christi — is the total rejection of the conciliar sect, the recognition of the Vacant See (Sedevacantism), and the restoration of the Social Kingship of Christ over individuals, families, and the French State. “He who gives the Kingdom of Heaven does not take away earthly things!” (Quas Primas, hymn Crudelis Herodes). But the conciliar hierarchy, having surrendered the Kingdom of Heaven to the world, finds that the world takes away even the earthly things — leaving only ashes, blood, and the silence of God.
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French bishops appeal for calm as riots and looting sweep France (ewtnnews.com)
Date: 19.10.2026