The Pillar portal reports on the kidnapping and torture of Fr. Clemente Morales, a 67-year-old “parochial vicar” of the conciliar diocese of Culiacán, Sinaloa, by members of the warring cartels Los Chapitos and La Mayiza. The “bishop” Jesús José Herrera and “chancellor” “fr.” Ramón Ibarra confirmed the priest was beaten, burned, and threatened for three days before release. The “diocesan spokesman” “fr.” Saul Norzagaray and ACN Mexico director Julieta Appendini frame the atrocity within a narrative of “solidarity,” “peace campaigns,” and “dialogue,” citing the 2022 “National Dialogue for Peace” initiative. This tragedy lays bare the utter impotence of the conciliar sect’s naturalistic “peace” offensives against the demonic powers unleashed by the formal dethronement of Christ the King from Mexican laws and society.
The Conciliar Hierarchy: Hirelings Fleeing Before the Wolf
The article presents the “bishop” Herrera and his “chancellor” “fr.” Ibarra as legitimate shepherds issuing statements on letterhead. From the perspective of integral Catholic faith, these men are not successors of the Apostles but functionaries of the conciliar sect, the abomination of desolation occupying the visible structures. St. Robert Bellarmine teaches that a manifest heretic ipso facto loses all jurisdiction and membership in the Church (De Romano Pontifice, 2:30). The “bishops” of the neo-church, by adhering to the heresies of Vatican II — religious liberty, ecumenism, collegiality — have severed themselves from the Mystical Body. They possess no authority to bind or loose; their “blessings” are empty, their “governance” a usurpation. When the wolf — here, the cartel gunmen — attacks, the hireling flees because he cares not for the sheep (John 10:12). The “bishop’s” statement is not a fatherly act of spiritual warfare but a bureaucratic press release managing public relations for a paramasonic structure.
Linguistic Decay: The Vocabulary of the NGO, Not the Church
The rhetoric employed by the conciliar officials is strikingly devoid of the supernatural. “Fr.” Norzagaray speaks of priests as “points of reference for their communities,” offering “comfort” and “consistently calling for peace.” Appendini of ACN reduces the priesthood to human rights activism: “human rights and environmental activist.” The “National Dialogue for Peace” gathers “academics, activists, government officials, and Church representatives” in a “multifaceted effort.” This is the language of the Civitas Terrena, stripped of Civitas Dei. There is zero mention of the Most Holy Sacrifice, the Rosary, exorcism, penance, conversion of sinners, or the Social Kingship of Christ. The “psychological and emotional repercussions” replace the care of souls; “comprehensive support” substitutes for the Sacraments. This linguistic sterilization is the hallmark of Modernism condemned by St. Pius X in Lamentabili Sane Exitu and Pascendi Dominici Gregis: the reduction of the divine to the human, the eternal to the temporal.
Theological Bankruptcy: “Dialogue” as Idolatry Against Quas Primas
The centerpiece of the conciliar response is the “National Dialogue for Peace” launched in 2022. This initiative is the practical application of the heresy of religious liberty and the false ecumenism of Dignitatis Humanae and Gaudium et Spes. Pius XI, in Quas Primas, 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, because the main reason why some have the right to command and others have the duty to obey was removed.” Mexico, consecrated to the Sacred Heart in the early 20th century, has formally apostatized by enshrining laicism (laicidad) in its Constitution, expelling Christ from the public square. The cartels are not an “external threat” but the logical consequence of a society that has crowned Satan as its prince. The “peace campaign” is a Masonic farce — pax satanae — attempting to build order on the sand of human consensus while the Rock (Matt 16:18) is rejected. The Syllabus of Pius IX condemns the proposition: “The Church ought to be separated from the State, and the State from the Church” (Prop. 55) and “The State, as being the origin and source of all rights, is endowed with a certain right not circumscribed by any limits” (Prop. 39). The neo-church’s “dialogue” with the State and civil society on the State’s terms is adhesion to these condemned errors.
The “Priest” as Activist: The New Man of the Conciliar Revolution
The article highlights “Father Marcelo Pérez,” killed in 2024, described as a “human rights and environmental activist.” This is the novus ordo ideal: the priest as social worker, the alter Christus reduced to alter Marx. The true priest is a victim offered in the Unbloody Sacrifice of Calvary, a mediator of grace, a warrior of the Church Militant. The conciliar “presbyter” is a functionary of the “People of God” heresy, ordained in the invalid 1968 rite of Paul VI, lacking the power to consecrate or absolve. His torture by cartels, while materially tragic, is spiritually meaningless in the economy of salvation if he dies outside the true Church, without the true Mass, without true jurisdiction. The “bruises and marks on his skin” are not the stigmata of Christ but the wounds of a world at war with God. The “vigils” and “prayers” of the parishioners are directed to a false deity of their own making, the “god” of the conciliar consensus, not the Triune God of the Tridentine Faith.
Symptomatic Analysis: The Cartel State as the Fruit of the Conciliar Apostasy
The “two years of violence,” “4,000 missing,” the “dispute between two factions” — this is the regnum diaboli established in the vacuum left by the abdication of the Regnum Christi. The “State Human Rights Commission” head Loza Ochoa admits: “when violence reaches a certain level in society, no segment is exempt.” The conciliar sect, having embraced the world (saeculum) at Vatican II, shares the world’s fate. The “Church” that “stands by people” horizontally cannot save them vertically. The “peace” they seek is the peace of the cemetery. The only true peace is Pax Christi in Regno Christi (Pius XI, Quas Primas). The torture of “Fr.” Morales is a divine chastisement (flagellum Dei) upon a structure that calls itself Catholic but denies the Kingship of Christ, the necessity of the Church for salvation (Extra Ecclesiam Nulla Salus), and the reality of Hell. The “bishops” who “dialogue” with the cartels’ political enablers are the caeci ducentes caecos (Matt 15:14).
Conclusion: No Solution in the Structures of the Antichrist
The article ends with Loza’s praise: “the work of the Church and civil society has been very important. We could be in a worse situation if it weren’t for them.” This is the supreme blasphemy: the conciliar sect claims credit for mitigating the very chaos its apostasy unleashed. The integral Catholic response is not “comprehensive support” or “dialogue” but the uncompromising proclamation: Non est pax, dicit Dominus, impiis (Isa 48:22). There is no peace for the wicked. The cartels will not be converted by “National Dialogues” but by the Social Reign of Christ the King enforced by Catholic states, or by the sword of divine justice. The true Church — the remnant faithful to Tradition, the validly ordained bishops and priests preserving the Mass of All Time and the uncorrupted Faith — alone holds the keys to bind the strong man (Matt 12:29). The neo-church in Mexico is a corpse; the cartels are the maggots. Only the Resurrection of the True Faith can drive out the demons.
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Mexican Church leaders: Kidnapped priest was tortured and burned (pillarcatholic.com)
Date: 06.11.2026