Conciliar Sect’s Iskali Initiative: Syncretism Disguised as Evangelization
The article from Catholic News Agency (December 20, 2025) promotes Iskali, a Chicago-based ministry targeting young Hispanics with programs blending “faith formation,” sports, mentorship, and social activism. Founded by Vicente Del Real, it claims inspiration from Our Lady of Guadalupe while employing Nahuatl terminology (“Iskali” meaning “growth” in Aztec). The initiative boasts four pillars: “faith and community,” mentorship, sports leagues, and monthly service projects. Del Real asserts it responds to Latino demographic growth in the conciliar sect by providing “personal encounters with God” and forming “transformative leaders.”
Naturalization of Faith: Replacing Sacraments with Social Engineering
The article reduces evangelization to a psychosocial program devoid of ex opere operato (by the work performed) sacramental efficacy. Nowhere does it mention confession, Eucharistic adoration, or the propitiatory sacrifice of the Mass—the very means the Church before 1958 identified as essential for sanctification. Pius XI’s Quas Primas (1925) condemned such naturalism:
“When God and Jesus Christ […] were removed from laws and states […] the entire human society had to be shaken, because it lacked a stable and strong foundation.”
Iskali’s “four pillars” mirror Masonic humanitarianism condemned in Pius IX’s Syllabus of Errors (1864):
- Faith and community: Replaces doctrinal clarity with emotional gatherings of “5 to 600” participants—a tactic echoing Pentecostal revivalism.
- Mentorship: Prioritizes careerism over cultivating virtues like obedience or purity.
- Sports leagues: Distract from spiritual combat (militia Christi) with earthly games.
- Monthly service: Reduces charity to social work, ignoring the primary duty to save souls from hellfire.
Our Lady of Guadalupe Exploited for Ethnocentric Syncretism
The article weaponizes Our Lady of Guadalupe—whose authentic message called for conversion from Aztec idolatry—to justify cultural relativism. By naming the initiative “Iskali” (Nahuatl for “growth”) and emphasizing Aztec linguistic elements, promoters resurrect pagan associations condemned by Pope Saint Pius X in Pascendi Dominici Gregis (1907):
“[Modernists] affirm that […] religious formulas […] must be subject to […] evolution […] to suit the variations of […] environment.”
This ethnocentric focus contradicts Galatians 3:28 (“There is neither Jew nor Greek […] in Christ Jesus”) and the Church’s universal mission. The true Guadalupe apparition demanded repentance, not celebration of pre-Columbian pagan legacies.
“Personal Encounter”: Code for Subjectivist Modernism
Del Real’s emphasis on “personal encounters with God” and “intimacy” exposes the Kantian subjectivism condemned in St. Pius X’s Lamentabili Sane (1907):
“Revelation was merely man’s self-awareness of his relationship to God.” (Proposition 20)
Authentic Catholic spirituality requires submission to objective truth (John 14:6), not emotional experiences. The article’s silence on catechism, moral theology, or hell reveals its alignment with the conciliar sect’s abandonment of extra Ecclesiam nulla salus (no salvation outside the Church).
Demographic Delusions: Quantity Over Sanctity
The boast about Latino “demographic growth” ignores the conciliar sect’s catastrophic apostasy. As Pius XI warned in Quas Primas:
“Nations will not have peace until they recognize the reign of our Savior.”
A “fast-growing” congregation immersed in naturalism and liturgical abuse (e.g., invalid Novus Ordo Masses) constitutes not growth but metastatic decay. True Catholic vitality—as seen in Cristero martyrs or Counter-Reformation saints—requires doctrinal integrity, not ethnic marketing.
Conclusion: Sheep’s Clothing for Wolves
Iskali epitomizes the conciliar sect’s betrayal: replacing sacraments with social programs, venerating culture over conversion, and reducing faith to therapeutic self-help. This initiative—like all post-1958 innovations—must be rejected by faithful Catholics who cling to the depositum fidei (deposit of faith) guarded by pre-conciliar popes. As Our Lord warned: “Beware of false prophets, who come to you in sheep’s clothing but inwardly are ravenous wolves” (Matthew 7:15).
Source:
How Iskali is helping young Latino Catholics encounter God and find their purpose (catholicnewsagency.com)
Date: 20.12.2025