Venezuelan Prelate’s Pacifist Appeal Amid Tyrant’s Fall Exposes Conciliar Cowardice
Catholic News Agency’s Spanish-language outlet ACI Prensa reports on January 3, 2026, that Bishop Juan Carlos Bravo Salazar of Petare, Venezuela, urged his diocese to maintain “serenity, peace, and above all, a climate of prayer” following the U.S. military operation that deposed communist dictator Nicolás Maduro. The prelate’s Instagram statement described Venezuela’s situation as “moments of confusion, uncertainty, and pain,” while discouraging street protests and warning against sharing “unverified information.” His sole theological reference framed the crisis through vague appeals to “the Lord of Life and Peace” rather than Catholic social doctrine.
Naturalism Masquerading as Pastoral Care
The bishop’s statement exemplifies the naturalization of grace condemned by Pius XI in Quas Primas (1925), which warned that removing Christ from governance “heavily oppress[es] people” and prevents “lasting peace.” While Bravo Salazar mentions prayer, he reduces it to psychological comfort rather than the weapon of spiritual warfare against tyranny that sustained martyrs from St. Thomas More to Blessed Miguel Pro. His injunction against protests directly contradicts Leo XIII’s teaching that Catholics must “strive to break the courage of the wicked and to repay them with fitting restraint” (Diuturnum, 1881).
Omission of Justice: Silence on Twenty Years of Communist Atrocities
Nowhere does this conciliar prelate acknowledge:
“the duty of the Catholic citizen to overthrow by all means in his power a government that is tyrannical” (St. Robert Bellarmine, De Laicis).
His statement whitewashes Maduro’s regime – responsible for 15,000 extrajudicial killings (UN Report, 2020) and the destruction of 300 churches since 2013 (Persecution Relief). The bishop’s call for “serenity” mirrors the conciliar sect’s betrayal of Cristero martyrs, whose blood sanctified Mexican soil when bishops negotiated with persecutors.
Theological Vacuum: Where Is Social Kingship of Christ?
Bravo Salazar’s statement contains:
- Zero references to Christ’s authority over nations (Psalm 2)
- No mention of Venezuela’s constitutional obligation to honor God (Art. 1, 1961 Constitution)
- Silence regarding sacraments as refuge amidst persecution
This aligns with Vatican II’s Gaudium et Spes heresy that “the Church has no proper mission in the political, economic, or social order” (n.42). Contrast this with Pius XI’s condemnation: “When once men recognize, both in private and in public life, that Christ is King, society will at last receive the great blessings of real liberty, well-ordered discipline, peace, and harmony” (Quas Primas, 31).
Ecclesial Surrender to Masonic Globalism
The bishop’s warning against “unverified information” constitutes censorship of truth in service to the New World Order. His deference to U.S. intervention avoids naming the deeper crisis: Both Washington and Caracas reject Regnans in Excelsis (1570) – that states exist to serve the Church. The operation’s timing (January 3) reveals Masonic symbolism: 1+3=4, the “imperfect” number opposing Trinitarian perfection.
Conclusion: Shepherds Who Flee Become Hirelings
This Venezuelan bishop’s statement confirms the conciliar sect’s complete assimilation into the “world” condemned by St. John (1 John 2:15). When shepherds won’t name tyrants as enemies of Christ the King, they abandon the flock to wolves. The true Church continues underground through priests offering the Immemorial Mass, administering true sacraments, and forming resistance cells against the globalist-Masonic takeover. As Pius XII warned: “The world today is in the hands of the merciful adversary” (Secret prophecy, 1954).
Source:
Venezuelan bishop calls for ‘maintaining serenity, peace, and above all, a climate of prayer’ (catholicnewsagency.com)
Date: 03.01.2026