Catholic News Agency reports on January 2, 2026, that Archbishop Timothy Costelloe of Perth, president of the Australian Catholic Bishops’ Conference, has called for a national inquiry into antisemitism following the December 14, 2025, Islamist terrorist attack at Bondi Beach which killed 16 people during a Hanukkah celebration. While announcing the Richardson Review into security failures, Costelloe demanded broader investigations into “political, business, academic, media, religious, and cultural institutions” to “unmask antisemitism.” The article notes supportive statements from Archbishop Anthony Fisher of Sydney and antipope Leo XIV condemning antisemitism while omitting any call for conversion of non-Christians or defense of Christ’s social reign.
Naturalistic Reduction of the Church’s Mission
The conciliar sect’s response exemplifies its apostasy from Catholic doctrina immutabilis (unchanging doctrine). Costelloe’s statement reduces the Church’s mission to social activism, declaring that “a society that protects its Jewish community is a society that protects everyone” while omitting the regnum Christi (kingship of Christ) over nations. This directly contradicts Pius XI’s encyclical Quas Primas, which teaches that “nations will be happy only when they accept the reign of our Savior and obey His laws” (Quas Primas §19). The bishops’ exclusive focus on temporal protection of Jews—while remaining silent about their eternal salvation through conversion to Catholicism—constitutes implicit denial of extra Ecclesiam nulla salus.
Selective Condemnation of Violence
Fisher’s condemnation of “antisemitic violence” while avoiding the term “Islamic terrorism” reveals doctrinal cowardice. The conciliar hierarchy demonstrates greater outrage over abstract “prejudice” than over concrete Islamic blasphemies against the Divinity of Christ. This echoes the modernist tendency condemned in Pius X’s Lamentabili Sane, which forbids treating “the Church as an enemy of scientific progress” (Proposition 57)—in this case, refusing to identify Islam’s theological errors for fear of appearing “intolerant.” The article’s description of the Akrams’ Philippines training as occurring in an “Islamist hotspot” rather than naming Muslim territories continues this deliberate obfuscation.
Ecumenical Betrayal of Catholic Identity
By declaring that attacks on Jews constitute “attacks on all of us,” Fisher commits three theological errors:
- Equates the Old Covenant with the New Covenant, denying Hebrews 8:13’s teaching that the former is “obsolete”
- Implies religious indifferentism condemned in Pius IX’s Syllabus (Proposition 16)
- Subordinates Catholic doctrine to Jewish sensitivities, violating Galatians 1:8-9
The absence of any mention that “salvation is found in no one else but Christ” (Acts 4:12) exposes the conciliar sect’s abandonment of evangelization. This aligns with Vatican II’s Nostra Aetate heresy which claims Jews “remain dear to God” without conversion.
Structural Complicity with Antichristian Forces
Costelloe’s demand to investigate “religious institutions” for antisemitism constitutes self-indictment. The conciliar sect:
- Has removed prayers for Jewish conversion from its liturgical books
- Allowed synagogue visits by antipopes like Leo XIV’s predecessors
- Promotes joint “Abrahamic” prayers with Muslims and Jews
Pius XII’s 1948 condemnation precisely anticipated this situation: “Those who deny Christ’s divinity have no right to be considered immune from criticism when promoting errors destructive to Christian civilization” (Allocution to Roman Rota, Oct 27, 1948). The Australian bishops’ inquiry proposal would inevitably target traditional Catholics who maintain the Church’s teachings on Judaism while ignoring Islamic persecution of Christians worldwide.
Symptomatic Silence on Islamist Theology
The article’s description of the attackers as “Islamist” rather than “Muslim” reflects the conciliar sect’s refusal to confront Islamic doctrine’s inherent violence. Canon 1325 of the 1917 Code requires missionaries to “publicly refute Mohammedanism as a false religion,” yet Fisher’s statement about “redoubling efforts” against antisemitism says nothing about catechizing Muslims. This fulfills Pius X’s warning that modernists would “pervert the very concept of truth” by avoiding doctrinal confrontation (Pascendi Dominici Gregis §39). The conciliar hierarchy’s selective outrage reveals its subservience to globalist agendas rather than Catholic truth.
Source:
Why Australia’s bishops’ president is calling for antisemitism inquiry after Bondi attack (catholicnewsagency.com)
Date: 02.01.2026