VaticanNews portal reports on December 27, 2025, that the United States conducted airstrikes against Islamic State-linked militants in Nigeria’s Sokoto state, with Nigerian President Bola Tinubu’s approval. The article frames this as an expansion of counterterrorism efforts against the Lakurawa faction, quoting former US President Donald Trump’s characterization of the operation as combating “Radical Islamic Terrorism” targeting Christians. While acknowledging years of jihadist violence in Nigeria, the report reduces complex religious conflict to geopolitical maneuvering, exemplifying the conciliar sect’s embrace of secular solutions to spiritual crises.
Naturalistic Reduction of Conflict to Mere Political Violence
The article’s vocabulary betrays its modernist foundations, employing terms like “counterterrorism reach,” “political violence,” and “jihadist violence” while avoiding any mention of lex divina (divine law) or the supernatural dimension of this conflict. By describing the strikes as having “expanded counterterrorism reach,” the portal implicitly endorses the heresy condemned by Pius IX that “the Church ought to be separated from the State, and the State from the Church” (Syllabus of Errors, §55). Nowhere does the analysis reference Pius XI’s definitive teaching that “the rebellion of individuals and states against the authority of Christ has produced deplorable consequences” (Quas Primas, 1925), reducing the massacre of Christians to a mere geopolitical statistic.
“Nigerian officials confirmed the operation and said it was conducted with the explicit approval of President Bola Tinubu and with full involvement of Nigeria’s armed forces.”
This uncritical reporting ignores the quaestio iuris (question of law) regarding the moral legitimacy of military operations not ordered for the public profession of Christ’s social kingship. The Catechism of Pius X teaches that war can only be just when waged by lawful authority for a righteous cause – yet Tinubu’s regime persecutes faithful Catholics while tolerating sharia law in northern states. The article’s silence on this moral contradiction exposes its complicity with the modernist error that “human reason… suffices, by its natural force, to secure the welfare of men and of nations” (Syllabus of Errors, §3).
Theological Bankruptcy in Addressing Islamist Onslaught
By focusing exclusively on military solutions, the portal commits the same error as the false Fatima visionaries who “focus on external threats (communism), omitting the main danger: modernist apostasy within the Church” (False Fatima Apparitions). The report mentions Trump’s claim about protecting Christians without once demanding the regnum Christi (kingdom of Christ) as the only solution, thereby validating the religious indifferentism condemned in Quas Primas: “Nor is there any difference in this matter between the individual and the family or the State; for all men, whether collectively or individually, are under the dominion of Christ.”
The casualties reported (“multiple militants were killed”) receive more attention than the spiritual casualties of Muslims denied conversion opportunities. This violates the missionary imperative of extra Ecclesiam nulla salus (no salvation outside the Church) affirmed by Pope Boniface VIII’s Unam Sanctam (1302). Where are the calls for evangelization of Sokoto’s Muslims? The conciliar sect’s silence confirms its embrace of the apostate proposition that “Protestantism is nothing more than another form of the same true Christian religion” (Syllabus, §18), now extended to false religions.
Ulterior Geopolitical Agenda Over Catholic Truth
Trump’s statement that the U.S. “would not allow Radical Islamic Terrorism to prosper” receives unchallenged prominence, despite the United States’ role in destabilizing Christian communities globally through promotion of abortion and LGBT ideology. The article’s failure to contrast this with Pius XI’s teaching that “Nations will be reminded by the annual celebration of this feast that not only private individuals but also rulers and princes are bound to give public honor and obedience to Christ” (Quas Primas) reveals its complicity with the novus ordo seclorum (new order of the ages).
The report concludes by inviting readers to “support us in bringing the Pope’s words into every home” – a blasphemous irony given that the true papal magisterium demands the destruction of religious liberty errors. When VaticanNews speaks of “the Pope,” it refers to the antipope Leo XIV, whose very claim to authority constitutes the abusus in materia fidei (abuse in matters of faith) condemned by Paul IV’s Cum ex Apostolatus Officio. The portal’s call for support thus constitutes spiritual fraud, equivalent to seeking alms for the Sanhedrin while Christ is crucified.
Source:
U.S. strikes target IS‑linked militants in Nigeria (vaticannews.va)
Date: 27.12.2025