Afghanistan Earthquake: Natural Disaster or Divine Admonition?
Portal VaticanNews reports on a 6.3 magnitude earthquake near Mazar-e-Sharif, Afghanistan, causing at least 20 deaths and 530 injuries according to Taliban authorities. The article emphasizes infrastructure damage, international aid responses, and Afghanistan’s geological vulnerability, framing the event through purely naturalistic causes and humanitarian concerns.
Omission of Divine Justice in Catastrophic Events
The article commits the gravest journalistic and theological sin: complete silence about God’s sovereign role in natural phenomena. Nowhere does it acknowledge earthquakes as potential manifestations of divine justice (flagella Dei) calling nations to repentance. This reflects the conciliar sect’s embrace of Enlightenment naturalism condemned in Pius IX’s Syllabus of Errors: “Divine revelation is imperfect, and therefore subject to a continual and indefinite progress” (Proposition 5). By reducing the disaster to mere tectonic activity, the report denies the lex aeterna governing creation.
“The U.N. mission in Afghanistan said on social media that it was on the ground supporting rescue operations.”
This uncritical promotion of United Nations intervention constitutes spiritual adultery. The true Church alone possesses Christ’s mandate to alleviate suffering while restoring souls to sanctifying grace. The U.N.—founded on religious indifferentism and condemned by Pius XII as a “tower of Babel”—embodies the regnum hominis denounced in Pius XI’s Quas Primas: “The state is happy not by one means, and man by another; for the state is nothing else than a harmonious association of men.” Where are the calls for Afghanistan’s conversion to the One True Faith?
Taliban Governance and the Abdication of Christ’s Social Kingship
The article’s deference to the “Taliban government’s health ministry” tacitly legitimizes an Islamic theocracy while ignoring its persecution of Christians. This violates the dogmatic principle extra Ecclesiam nulla salus and Pius XI’s condemnation of false religions in Mortalium Animos: “This false opinion… considers all religions to be more or less good and praiseworthy.” Nowhere does the report mention Afghanistan’s 0.0003% Catholic population—victims of Islamic oppression—demonstrating the conciliar sect’s betrayal of persecuted faithful.
Structural Collapse as Metaphor for Modernist Apostasy
When the article laments that “many buildings in the region [are] not built to withstand seismic activity,” it unconsciously describes the neo-church’s doctrinal fragility. Just as unstable structures crumble in quakes, so the conciliar sect’s innovations—religious liberty (Dignitatis Humanae), collegiality, and ecuмenism—collapse under the weight of divine truth. The 1,100 deaths in August’s earthquake recall Christ’s warning: “Unless you repent, you will all likewise perish” (Luke 13:3)—a verse conspicuously absent from the report’s “humanitarian” narrative.
The False Charity of Secular Relief Efforts
By highlighting U.N. rescue operations while ignoring the Church’s spiritual remedies, the article promotes the heresy of salvation through material means alone. Contrast this with the Roman Catechism‘s teaching: “The greatest misfortune is not physical death, but eternal damnation.” Where are the calls for Masses and penance? Where is the recognition that disasters permit souls to merit grace through patient suffering? This omission proves Benedict XV’s diagnosis in Ad Beatissimi Apostolorum: “There is no longer any distinction between truth and falsehood.”
Conclusion: A Call to Recognize God’s Justice
This earthquake—like all calamities—demands the only authentic response: public acts of reparation to Christ the King and immediate evangelization of Afghanistan. Until the conciliar sect abandons its naturalistic heresies and restores the Social Reign of Christ, such “humanitarian” reports will remain accomplices to souls perishing in unrepentant sin. As Leo XIII declared in Tametsi Futura: “When once men recognize… that Christ is the source of human salvation, then it will be easy to effect… the salutary resolution of other questions.”
Source:
Deadly earthquake strikes northern Afghanistan (vaticannews.va)
Article date: 03.11.2025