The EWTN News portal reports on the launch of “Encuentros Siloé,” a lay initiative in Spain spearheaded by convert Javier Huerta, which purports to evangelize atheists and agnostics through domestic gatherings blending personal testimony, multimedia presentations, music, and dialogue. Born from a subjective conversion experience devoid of sacramental theology, nurtured by the condemned false apparitions of Medjugorje, and operating without canonical mission under the auspices of the conciliar hierarchy, this enterprise epitomizes the post-conciliar substitution of the missio ad gentes with a naturalistic, psychologized “new evangelization” that denies the necessity of the Church, the Sacraments, and the Social Kingship of Christ the King.
The Factual Facade: Subjectivism Masquerading as Conversion
The article centers on the narrative of Javier Huerta, who recounts:
“I received the love of God. I didn’t believe in anything; I had no faith. In fact, I didn’t even remember that there were four Evangelists. I actually had to look up ‘Gospels’ on the internet.”
This account reveals a purely sentimental, intellectualist conversion — an “absolute certainty that God exists and is in our hearts” — entirely detached from the necessitas medii (necessity of the means) of salvation: Baptism, the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass, Confession, and submission to the teaching authority of the true Church. The “conversion” is reduced to a psychological event (“best version of ourselves”), a Protestantized sola fide of the emotions, ignoring the Council of Trent’s anathema on those who say justifying faith is nothing else but confidence in divine mercy (Sess. VI, can. 12).
The involvement of Medjugorje is not incidental but constitutive. The article states:
“On their journey of conversion, Javier and Marta made a pilgrimage to Medjugorje. While walking the Stations of the Cross, a longing stirred in Javier’s heart: ‘I had to throw the best parties for Jesus.’”
As documented in the theological objections against false apparitions, Medjugorje functions as a Masonic psychological operation diverting the faithful from the true Church and the true Mass toward sentimental piety and “hyper-acts” of worship. The “parties for Jesus” — domestic festivities replacing the Sacrificium laudis — are the rotten fruit of this poisoned tree.
Linguistic Decay: The Vocabulary of the “Church of the New Advent”
The rhetoric betrays the Modernist hermeneutic. Terms like “reasonableness of faith,” “accessible,” “sharing joy without shame,” “false stereotypes” regarding parishes, and “complex theology” (dismissed as an obstacle) construct a therapeutic, horizontal narrative. The parish — the divinely instituted locus of the cura animarum — is disparaged as a place of “strong resistance” due to “false stereotypes,” while the living room becomes the new “catacomb.” This is the language of aggiornamento: the Church is not the Una, Sancta, Catholica, Apostolica but a “community of accompaniment.”
The phrase “reconquer Spain once again” is deployed by Huerta, yet stripped of its Catholic meaning. Quas Primas teaches that the Social Reign of Christ requires public veneration and obedience from rulers and laws conformed to God’s commandments (Quas Primas, §31). For the conciliar “apostolate,” “reconquest” means filling theaters and living rooms with “seekers,” not the restauratio omnium in Christo through the Kingship of Christ over legislation, education, and public life. It is laicism baptized in holy water.
Theological Bankruptcy: Denial of the Supernatural Order
1. The “Reasonableness of Faith” vs. the Credo ut Intelligam
The apostolate’s core method — a 40-minute video on “God and the creation of the universe” to prove faith is “reasonable” — inverts the Catholic order. St. Anselm teaches Credo ut intelligam (I believe that I may understand). The Vatican Council I dogmatized that God can be known with certainty by the natural light of reason from created things (Dei Filius, can. 2), but the motiva credibilitatis (miracles, prophecy) are subordinate to the authority of God revealing. Here, reason is the judge; faith is the defendant. This is Moderate Rationalism condemned by the Syllabus (Error 9): “All the dogmas of the Christian religion are indiscriminately the object of natural science or philosophy… human reason… is able, by its own natural strength and principles, to attain to the true science of even the most abstruse dogmas.”
2. Ecclesiology of the “Small Communities” vs. the Hierarchical Church
Huerta appeals to the “model of the small Christian communities of the first century” to justify bypassing the parish. This is the ecclesiology of Lumen Gentium (Chapter II) — the “People of God” — replacing the Societas perfecta founded on the Papacy and Episcopacy. Pope Pius XII in Mystici Corporis condemned the error of those who “imagine that the Church is a kind of federation of communities.” The article’s praise for “bringing them to Jesus… then God’s grace must be allowed to work” is Quietism: it denies the ordinary necessity of the Sacraments administered by valid priests for the communication of grace (Ex opere operato, Council of Trent, Sess. VII).
3. Silence on Sin, Judgment, and Hell
Nowhere in the article — nor presumably in the “Encuentros” — is there mention of Original Sin, Actual Sin, the Four Last Things, the necessity of Baptism for salvation (Extra Ecclesiam Nulla Salus), or the reality of Hell. The “meaning of life and more profound, transcendent matters” discussed are anthropocentric, not theocentric. This is the synthesis of all heresies: Modernism, condemned by St. Pius X in Lamentabili Sane Exitu (Prop. 26: “The dogmas of faith should be understood according to their practical function… rather than as principles of belief”; Prop. 59: “Christ did not proclaim any specific, all-encompassing doctrine suitable for all times and peoples”).
4. The “Bishop” and the “Pope”: Usurpers of Authority
The article notes the initiative “does not yet have official ecclesiastical endorsement” but “receives spiritual guidance from several priests and will soon be presented to the Archdiocese of Madrid.” It cites “Bishop Mikel Garciandía” observing Spain is a “mission field.” Since the usurpation of the See of Peter by John XXIII (1958), the conciliar “bishops” — ordained in the invalid Novus Ordo rite of Paul VI (1968) — possess no jurisdiction, no orders, no mission. As Cum ex Apostolatus Officio (Paul IV) and Canon 188.4 (1917 Code) teach, manifest heretics lose office ipso facto. The “Archdiocese of Madrid” is a paramasonic structure occupying ecclesiastical buildings. “Pope Leo XIV” (Robert Prevost), mentioned in the related articles sidebar, is the current antipope, a manifest heretic by his adherence to the Second Vatican Council and its heresies (religious liberty, false ecumenism, collegiality). Seeking “endorsement” from them is seeking legitimacy from the abomination of desolation.
Symptomatic Analysis: The Fruit of the Conciliar Revolution
“Encuentros Siloé” is not an anomaly; it is the logical, necessary fruit of the Second Vatican Council.
- False Ecumenism/Interreligious Dialogue: Targeting “atheists and agnostics” not for conversion to the One True Faith (profession of all dogmas, submission to the Pope, reception of Sacraments) but for “dialogue” and “reasonableness” implements Nostra Aetate and Gaudium et Spes. It treats the unbeliever as a partner in search, not a soul in peril of damnation.
- Religious Liberty: The domestic setting, the absence of doctrinal demands, the “pride without shame” — this is the Dignitatis Humanae paradigm: faith as a private choice, not a public duty owed to God.
- Collegiality/Laicism: Lay people “committed to the apostolate” (25 of them) receiving “specific training to ensure… doctrinal orthodoxy” — but orthodoxy defined by whom? By the conciliar “priests” guiding them? This is the democratization of the priesthood, the common priesthood of the faithful usurping the ministerial priesthood.
- Charismatic/Pentecostal Infection: “Testimonies, videos, music, dialogue,” “filled with much love,” “Virgin has always ensured they were full” — this is emotional manipulation replacing the opus operatum of the Sacraments. The “Virgin” invoked is the Medjugorje phantom, not the Mother of God of the Rosary and Scapular.
The statistic cited — “more Spaniards identify as atheists than as practicing Catholics” — is the direct fruit of 60 years of conciliar apostasy: the suppression of the True Mass, the demolition of catechesis, the silence on sin, the worship of man. “Encuentros Siloé” proposes to cure the gangrene with the same poison: more lay activism, more sentiment, less dogma, less Sacrifice.
Conclusion: Non est in eo salus
This “apostolate” is a counterfeit of the Church’s mission. It offers a ersatz Christianity: a God without wrath, a Christ without Cross, a Church without Hierarchy, a Faith without Dogma, a Salvation without Sacraments. It is a work of the devil disguised as an angel of light (2 Cor 11:14), designed to inoculate souls against the true Faith by satisfying their religious sentiment with naturalistic palliatives.
True evangelization in Spain — as in every nation — requires the restoration of the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass (Tridentine), the unadulterated preaching of all Dogmas, the public recognition of Christ the King over the State, and the administration of the Sacraments by validly ordained priests under a true Pope. Until the conciliar sect is recognized as the whore of Babylon (Apoc. 17) and the remnant returns to the Tradition of the Fathers, initiatives like “Encuentros Siloé” will only swell the ranks of the damned with the false security of “spiritual sight” at a pool that is not Siloam, but a mirage in the desert of apostasy.
Quas Primas declares: “Peace is only possible in the Kingdom of Christ” (Pius XI). “Encuentros Siloé” builds a tower of Babel in the living room, calling it the Kingdom. Non praevalebunt.
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New apostolate to atheists and agnostics takes off in Spain (ewtnnews.com)
Date: 20.10.2026