The Vatican News portal, official mouthpiece of the conciliar sect occupying the Vatican, reports on a brutal massacre in Ethiopia’s Shirka district where at least sixty Orthodox Christians were slaughtered by an armed coalition identified as “Tsimido.” The article, authored by Roberta Barbi and Deborah Castellano Lubov, details house-to-house killings of elderly and children, damage to a church building, and the flight of survivors to neighboring villages. It concludes with a solicitation for donations to “support us in bringing the Pope’s words into every home.” This reportage epitomizes the conciliar sect’s reduction of the Church’s divine mission to humanitarian NGO activity and its exploitation of suffering schismatics to legitimize the usurper on Peter’s throne.
Naturalistic Humanitarianism Masquerading as Catholic Concern
The cited article relates the atrocity in purely secular, sociological terms: “armed group,” “rebel coalition,” “ethnic and religious tensions,” “federal government.” Not a single word references the supernatural reality of these events. Where is the call for the conversion of the schismatic Ethiopians to the one, holy, catholic, and apostolic Church? Where is the warning that extra Ecclesiam nulla salus (outside the Church there is no salvation)? The conciliar sect’s “journalists” frame the massacre as an attack on “Orthodox Christians,” thereby implicitly recognizing schismatics as members of the Church of Christ. This is the heresy of ecumenism condemned by Pius XI in Mortalium Animos (1928): “The Church of Christ… cannot be the object of a divided membership.” The victims, dying outside visible communion with the true Roman Pontiff and the Catholic faith, face the dread judgment of God without the sacraments of the true Church—yet Vatican News offers only temporal condolences and a fundraising pitch.
The Linguistic Deception: “Orthodox Christians” and “Pope”
The article’s vocabulary betrays its modernist presuppositions. It repeatedly designates the Ethiopian victims as “Orthodox Christians”—a contradiction in terms. As Leo XIII teaches in Satis Cognitum (1896): “He who dissents even in one point from divinely revealed truth absolutely loses all faith, since he refuses to honor God as the supreme truth and formal motive of faith.” The Orthodox, by rejecting the Filioque, papal primacy, and the Immaculate Conception, are formal schismatics. To call them “Christians” without qualification is to practice indifferentism, condemned in the Syllabus of Errors (Proposition 16: “Man may, in the observance of any religion whatever, find the way of eternal salvation”).
Equally egregious is the final appeal: “support us in bringing the Pope’s words into every home.” The reference is to Robert Prevost, the antipope “Leo XIV,” a manifest heretic who by his adherence to the conciliar errors (religious liberty, false ecumenism, collegiality) has ipso facto lost all jurisdiction. As St. Robert Bellarmine teaches in De Romano Pontifice: “A Pope who is a manifest heretic, by that very fact ceases to be Pope and head, just as he ceases to be a Christian and member of the body of the Church.” The 1917 Code of Canon Law, Canon 188.4, confirms: “Every office becomes vacant by the mere fact and without any declaration… if the cleric publicly defects from the Catholic faith.” Vatican News, by propagating the words of this usurper, acts as an instrument of the abomination of desolation spoken of by Daniel (9:27) and Our Lord (Mt 24:15).
Theological Bankruptcy: Silence on the Four Last Things
The article’s most damning feature is its total silence on the novissima—death, judgment, heaven, and hell. Sixty souls have been violently hurled into eternity. The Catholic journalist, the true priest, the authentic bishop would cry out: Convertimini! (Be converted!). He would proclaim the necessity of baptism of water or, at minimum, baptism of desire with perfect contrition. He would warn the living that “the night cometh, when no man can work” (Jn 9:4). Instead, Barbi and Castellano Lubov offer only the language of the United Nations: “authorities have accused,” “death toll remains provisional,” “deadly violence continues.” This is the laicism condemned by Pius XI in Quas Primas (1925): “The Church’s authority to teach men, to issue laws, to govern nations… was denied. And then, slowly, the Christian religion began to be equated with other false religions and shamelessly placed in the same category.” Vatican News has become a secular news agency with religious branding, serving the “cult of man” that Pius XI identified as the plague of the age.
Symptomatic of the Conciliar Apostasy
This reportage is not an aberration but the modus operandi of the post-conciliar structure. Since the false “Vatican II” (1962-1965), the conciliar sect has systematically replaced the social reign of Christ the King with “dialogue,” “religious freedom,” and “human rights.” The Syllabus of Errors (Proposition 77) condemns: “In the present day it is no longer expedient that the Catholic religion should be held as the only religion of the State.” Yet Vatican News operates precisely on this principle: it treats the Ethiopian Orthodox Church as a legitimate religious body, the massacre as a human rights violation, and the solution as political stability under a “federal government” that itself derives from Masonic revolutionary principles.
The article’s framing of the perpetrators—a coalition of “Tigray People’s Liberation Front, the Amhara Fano militias and the Oromo Liberation Army”—reveals the naturalistic lens. These are not merely political factions; they are instruments of the synagogue of Satan (Apoc 2:9) waging war against the remnants of Christian order in Ethiopia. But the conciliar sect, having made its peace with the world (cf. Jas 4:4), cannot name the spiritual warfare. It sees only “ethnic tensions” and “rebel defeats in northern Ethiopia.” As Pius IX warned in the Syllabus (Proposition 55): “The Church ought to be separated from the State, and the State from the Church”—this is the error the conciliar sect has embraced, rendering it impotent to address the causa causarum of such massacres: the rejection of Christ’s Kingship over nations.
The Fundraising Scandal: Merchandising the Antipapacy
The article concludes with a brazen appeal: “Your contribution for a great mission: support us in bringing the Pope’s words into every home.” This is simony compounded with heresy. The “great mission” is the propagation of the errors of “Leo XIV” and the conciliar revolution. The “Pope’s words” are the poisoned fruits of a false magisterium that teaches religious liberty (Dignitatis Humanae), false ecumenism (Unitatis Redintegratio), and the dignity of false religions (Nostra Aetate). Every donation to Vatican News finances the dissemination of doctrines condemned by the immutable Magisterium. The faithful Catholic must flee from this structure (Apoc 18:4: “Go out from her, my people, that ye be not partakers of her sins”).
Conclusion: A Counterfeit Charity Serving the Antichrist
The Vatican News report on the Shirka massacre is a masterpiece of diabolical mimicry. It apes the form of Catholic concern—reporting on suffering “Christians,” mentioning a damaged “church,” noting shelter in “churches”—while evacuating every supernatural element. It exploits the blood of schismatics to legitimize a usurper who sits in the Temple of God (2 Thess 2:4) proclaiming the errors of Modernism, “the synthesis of all heresies” (St. Pius X, Pascendi Dominici Gregis). True Catholic charity would send missionaries to Ethiopia to baptize, to offer the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass, to administer Extreme Unction, to preach Extra Ecclesiam Nulla Salus. The conciliar sect sends journalists to write press releases and fundraisers. Fructibus eorum cognoscetis eos (By their fruits you shall know them – Mt 7:20). The fruit is death—spiritual and eternal.
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Sixty people killed in attack on Orthodox Christian village in Ethiopia (vaticannews.va)
Date: 27.10.2026