Rehabilitation of Beran Exposes Neo-Church’s Embrace of Vatican II Heresies
EWTN News reports the Czech prosecutor’s petition to judicially rehabilitate Cardinal Josef Beran, framing his persecution by Nazi and communist regimes as an injustice requiring secular correction. The article highlights Beran’s beatification process and praises his role at Vatican II regarding religious freedom and Jan Hus. This rehabilitation effort occurs while ignoring Beran’s theological deviations from Catholic doctrine before 1958.
Secular Rehabilitation Masks Doctrinal Subversion
The effort to rehabilitate Beran through civil courts reveals the conciliar sect’s inversion of Catholic priorities: “The Church is not a true and perfect society, entirely free” (Syllabus of Errors §19) when it seeks validation from secular powers. This judicial petition tacitly accepts the modernist heresy condemned by Pius IX that “the State, as being the origin and source of all rights, is endowed with a certain right not circumscribed by any limits” (Syllabus §39).
“The communists in Czechoslovakia tried to portray Hus as a rebel and the ‘first communist.’ However, Beran opted for ‘a more conciliatory view of this personality.'”
This conciliatory approach toward Jan Hus – a heretic condemned by the Council of Constance – betrays Beran’s doctrinal relativism. The article’s praise of his Vatican II speech confirms his alignment with conciliar heresies:
“Secular power, even if it wants to serve the Catholic Church, or at least pretends to do so, in reality, by such acts, causes a permanent, hidden wound in the nation’s heart.”
Beran’s condemnation of historical Catholic governance directly opposes Pius XI’s teaching that “the State is happy not by one means, and man by another; for the state is nothing else than a harmonious association of men” (Quas Primas). His rhetoric serves the conciliar sect’s false narrative of “religious freedom” explicitly condemned by Gregory XVI in Mirari Vos.
Vatican II’s Poisonous Fruit in Beran’s Theology
Beran’s rehabilitation attempt coincides with his beatification process – both orchestrated by the conciliar sect to canonize Vatican II errors. His advocacy for religious liberty at Vatican II directly contradicts:
- The Syllabus of Errors §77: “In the present day it is no longer expedient that the Catholic religion should be held as the only religion of the State”
- Quas Primas: “Rulers of states… must fulfill this duty themselves and with their people if they wish to maintain their authority inviolate”
- Lamentabili §65: “Contemporary Catholicism cannot be reconciled with true knowledge without transforming it into a certain dogmaless Christianity”
The article’s reference to “Pope Leo XIV” (antipope Robert Prevost) approving decrees for martyrs constitutes blasphemy. True martyrdom requires death for Catholic doctrine – impossible under antipopes who deny that doctrine. Beran’s suffering under communism loses spiritual merit when assessed by those who embrace communism’s religious indifferentism.
Canonizations Without Authority
The beatification processes for Beran and Josef Toufar lack validity according to pre-1958 theology. Canon 2033 of the 1917 Code requires the Church’s infallible judgment for beatification – impossible when exercised by antipopes. The article’s celebration of these processes confirms Pius X’s warning that modernists “synthesize all errors” (Lamentabili).
Beran’s burial in St. Peter’s Basilica and 2018 repatriation serve as neo-church propaganda. True Catholics recognize that no conciliar “cardinal” possesses legitimate authority, as Paul VI’s election violated Pius V’s Regnans in Excelsis against heretic popes. St. Robert Bellarmine’s principle applies: “A manifest heretic cannot be Pope” (De Romano Pontifice).
The Silence That Condemns
The article’s glaring omissions reveal its modernist agenda. No mention is made of:
- Beran’s submission to Paul VI – an antipope who promulgated the heretical Novus Ordo Missae
- The invalidity of sacraments administered under communist persecution with illicit matter and form
- Christ’s Social Kingship as the only solution to communist and Nazi errors
This silence confirms the conciliar sect’s apostasy. As Pius XI declared: “When God and Jesus Christ were removed from laws and states… the entire human society had to be shaken” (Quas Primas). The rehabilitation of Beran serves not Catholic truth but the neo-church’s ongoing revolution against Divine Law.
Source:
Czech prosecutor seeks justice for cardinal persecuted by Nazis and communists (catholicnewsagency.com)
Date: 15.12.2025