The CNA portal (ncregister.com) reports on Lebanese President Joseph Aoun’s declaration to French legislators that “there is no danger to the Christian presence in Lebanon,” even as it catalogues a litany of murders, displacements, and demographic collapse. The article details the assassination of Maronite Father Samir Daou, the killing of Father Pierre al-Rahi by Israeli shelling, the murder of Armenian Archimandrite Anania Kojanian, and the slaughter of entire Christian families — the Karams and Moawads — by Israeli strikes. It notes Hezbollah’s stranglehold on the south, the coordinated land purchases in Christian areas, the exclusion of Christians from public employment (only three of 54 trainee accountants were Christian), and the staggering statistic that 58% of Lebanese youth aged 18-29 wish to emigrate. The Maronite Patriarch, “Cardinal” Bechara Boutros al-Rai, is cited merely warning against land sales. The conciliar hierarchy’s silence on the supernatural order, its reduction of the Church’s mission to demographic survival and property rights, and its collaboration with the Masonic political order expose the total bankruptcy of the post-conciliar sect.
The Conciliar Sect’s Complicity in the Erasure of Christendom
The cited article functions as a dispatch from the front lines of a war already lost — not because the enemy is too strong, but because the putative shepherds have surrendered the battlefield before the first shot was fired. The “Maronite Patriarch” al-Rai, a “cardinal” of the conciliar sect, is reduced to issuing press releases about real estate transactions while his flock is butchered. This is the inevitable fruit of Dignitatis Humanae and Gaudium et Spes: a hierarchy that has abdicated its munus regendi (governing office) to become a mere NGO managing demographic decline.
Pius XI, in Quas Primas (1925), thundered: “When God and Jesus Christ — as we lamented — 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.” The Lebanese “power-sharing arrangement” praised by the article — a Masonic construct dividing spoils between Maronites, Sunnis, and Shiites — is precisely the laicism Pius XI condemned as “the plague that poisons human society.” The article treats this sectarian carve-up as a guarantee of Christian rights; in reality, it is the instrumentum of their enslavement.
Reduction of the Kingship of Christ to Sectarian Demography
The article’s entire framework is naturalistic. It speaks of “Christian presence,” “coexistence,” “land ownership,” “public employment,” “emigration statistics.” Not one word of the Social Reign of Christ the King (Regnum Christi Sociale). Not one word of the duty of the Lebanese state to publicly profess the Catholic faith and conform its laws to the lex divina. Pius XI declared: “The state must leave the same freedom to the members of Orders and Congregations… The annual celebration of this solemnity will also remind states that not only private individuals, but also rulers and governments have the duty to publicly honor Christ and obey Him.”
The “Cardinal” al-Rai does not demand that Lebanon’s constitution recognize Christ as King. He does not anathematize the Masonic “National Pact” of 1943 that enshrined religious indifferentism as the foundation of the state. He negotiates land deals. This is the hermeneutic of continuity in action: the conciliar hierarchy preserves the accidents of Catholic culture (processions, feasts, patriarchal titles) while denying the substance — the potestas iurisdictionis of Christ over nations.
The Silence on Hezbollah: Ecumenical Dialogue with the Enemies of the Cross
The article identifies Hezbollah as “the Iran-backed Shiite political and armed movement designated by the United States as a terrorist organization.” It notes Hezbollah “has dragged Christian communities into a war they did not choose and cannot afford.” Yet the conciliar hierarchy — from the Vatican to Bkerke — has for decades pursued dialogue with Islam, praising “shared values” and “Abrahamic fraternity.” The Document on Human Fraternity signed by the usurper Bergoglio in Abu Dhabi (2019) declared that “the pluralism and the diversity of religions… are willed by God in His wisdom.” This blasphemy paralyzes any authentic resistance.
St. Pius X in Lamentabili Sane Exitu (1907) condemned the proposition: “The Church is incapable of effectively defending evangelical ethics, because it steadfastly adheres to its views, which cannot be reconciled with modern progress.” The conciliar sect has “reconciled” itself with the world — and therefore cannot defend the faithful. The murders of Fathers Daou and al-Rahi, of Archimandrite Kojanian, of the Karam and Moawad families, are the price of this apostasy.
The Masonic Architecture of the Lebanese State
The article describes Lebanon’s confessional system as a “long-standing power-sharing arrangement” and “the country’s founding political understanding.” Pius IX’s Syllabus of Errors (1864) condemned as error: “The Church ought to be separated from the State, and the State from the Church” (Error 55); “In the present day it is no longer expedient that the Catholic religion should be held as the only religion of the State, to the exclusion of all other forms of worship” (Error 77); “The Roman Pontiff can, and ought to, reconcile himself, and come to terms with progress, liberalism and modern civilization” (Error 80).
Lebanon’s constitution is a Syllabus made law: parity between truth and error, between the Church and Islam, between Christ and Belial. The “Cardinal” al-Rai swears allegiance to this constitution. The article reports his warning about land sales — but not a syllable about the intrinsic evil of a state that grants equal rights to the enemies of Christ. Non possumus serve two masters.
The Demographic Argument: Pelagianism Without Grace
The article’s obsession with statistics — “only three of 54 trainee accountants were Christians,” “58% of youth want to emigrate” — reveals a Pelagian anthropology. The Church’s survival is not a matter of birth rates or job quotas but of sanctifying grace and fidelitas. Pius XI taught: “The Kingdom of our Redeemer encompasses all men… His reign extends not only to Catholic nations… but His reign encompasses also all non-Christians, so that most truly the entire human race is subject to the authority of Jesus Christ.”
The conciliar hierarchy has forgotten this. It counts heads instead of souls. It petitions the Masonic state for “fair representation” instead of demanding the Crown Rights of Christ the King. The result is what we see: a “Christian presence” reduced to real estate and bureaucratic quotas, while the vera religio is extinguished.
The False Shepherds and the True Remnant
The article mentions “Maronite Father Samir Daou,” “Father Pierre al-Rahi,” “Armenian Apostolic Archimandrite Anania Kojanian” — priests murdered while the hierarchy issues statements. These men, if they died adhering to the integral Faith (outside the conciliar sect’s novelties), are the true witnesses. The “Cardinal” al-Rai, the “bishops” of the conciliar sect, the “pope” Leo XIV (Robert Prevost) — these are the mercenarii (hirelings) of whom Christ spoke: “The hireling fleeth, because he is a hireling: and he careth not for the sheep” (John 10:13).
The Defense of Sedevacantism documentation demonstrates that a manifest heretic loses the papacy ipso facto (St. Robert Bellarmine, De Romano Pontifice). The line of usurpers from John XXIII to Leo XIV has promulgated heresies (religious liberty, ecumenism, collegiality, new mass, new rites of ordination) that sever them from the Church. They have no jurisdiction. Their “canonizations” are null. Their “cardinals” are not cardinals. Their “patriarchs” are not patriarchs. The faithful in Lebanon — and everywhere — are not bound to obey them.
Conclusion: No Political Solution Without the Kingship of Christ
The CNA article concludes: “Like all Lebanese, Christians have the right to live in peace on their own land, free from war and the coercive power of Islamist militias. The guarantee they need is a state capable of making those rights part of everyday life.” This is the language of the City of Man, not the City of God. The only guarantee is Christus Vincit, Christus Regnat, Christus Imperat. Until Lebanon — and every nation — publicly acknowledges the Kingship of Christ, submits its laws to His lex aeterna, and restores the Confessional State, the slaughter will continue. The conciliar sect, having made its peace with the world, offers only managed decline. The true Church, the Ecclesia Militans persevering in the catacombs of Tradition, alone holds the solution: Instaurare omnia in Christo — to restore all things in Christ.
Source:
Lebanon’s President Reassures Christians As They Remain Under Pressure (ncregister.com)
Date: 13.11.2026