Vatican News portal (January 8, 2026) reports on Iranian security forces using tear gas and live ammunition against protesters demonstrating against economic collapse and government policies. The article documents protests spreading to 111 cities, with human rights groups alleging 34 protesters and 4 security personnel killed, plus 2,200 arrests since December 28. The report frames the conflict through secular human rights discourse while omitting any mention of Iran’s systematic persecution of Christians or the theological implications of an Islamic regime rejecting Christ’s social reign.
Naturalistic Framing as Symptom of Conciliar Apostasy
The article’s exclusive focus on temporal grievances – currency devaluation, police brutality, and “human rights” violations – embodies the modernist heresy condemned in Pius IX’s Syllabus of Errors: “The State, as being the origin and source of all rights, is endowed with a certain right not circumscribed by any limits” (Proposition 39). By reducing the conflict to economic dissatisfaction and governmental overreach, the Vatican News portal commits three fatal errors:
1. Omission of Iran’s war against Christianity: The report ignores Article 13 of Iran’s constitution mandating death for apostates from Islam – a direct assault on Christ’s command to “teach all nations” (Matthew 28:19).
2. Silence on the rights of Christ the King: Nowhere does the article reference Pius XI’s encyclical Quas Primas establishing that “the rebellion of individuals and states against the authority of Christ has produced deplorable consequences” – a truth demonstrated by Iran’s suppression of religious freedom.
3. Equivocation on martyrdom: The dead protesters are framed as victims of state violence rather than potential martyrs for Christ. This reflects the conciliar sect’s abandonment of the Church’s duty to distinguish between temporal and eternal justice, as defined by the Council of Trent (Session XXV, Decree on Purgatory).
False Human Rights as Idolatry
“crowds chanting slogans against Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei”
The report’s implied endorsement of regime change through secular protests constitutes implicit support for religious indifferentism condemned by Gregory XVI in Mirari Vos: “This shameful font of indifferentism gives rise to that absurd and erroneous proposition which claims that liberty of conscience must be maintained for everyone.” The true solution lies not in replacing one naturalistic regime with another, but in Iran’s submission to the Social Kingship of Christ as defined by Pius XI: “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” (Quas Primas, 19).
Omission of Christian Persecution
The article’s silence on Iran’s 300,000-strong Christian minority facing imprisonment, torture, and execution for practicing their faith reveals the conciliar sect’s betrayal of its evangelical mission. This aligns with Paul VI’s heretical Dignitatis Humanae, which abandoned the Church’s centuries-old teaching that “error has no rights” (Leo XIII, Libertas Praestantissimum, 33).
Meanwhile, the report’s focus on Mahsa Amini’s death while ignoring the martyrdom of Iranian converts like Pastor Youcef Nadarkhani – imprisoned since 2022 for apostasy – demonstrates the conciliar sect’s inversion of priorities. As Pius XII warned: “The Church cannot approve of that false love which considers God and Christ outside the picture” (Summi Pontificatus, 35).
The Masonic Roots of Economic Reductionism
By framing protests primarily through economic grievances (“another sharp drop in the value of the rial against the U.S. dollar”), the Vatican News portal promotes materialist dialectics condemned in Pius IX’s condemnation of socialism (Syllabus, Proposition IV). This reduction of human suffering to economic factors ignores St. Paul’s warning that “the love of money is the root of all evils” (1 Timothy 6:10) and Pius XI’s teaching that economic systems must serve man’s supernatural end (Quadragesimo Anno, 110-111).
The conciliar sect’s myopic focus on temporal solutions – rather than calling for Iran’s conversion to Catholicism – fulfills the Masonic strategy documented in the Alta Vendita papers: “Catholicism should lead the movement in the future… while appearing still to defend the Church, [it will] undermine it from within” (Pius IX, Qui Pluribus, 15).
The True Remedy: Christ’s Social Reign
Quas Primas provides the only solution to Iran’s crisis: “When once men recognize… that Christ is King, society will at last receive the great blessings of real liberty, well-ordered discipline, peace and harmony” (19). The report’s silence on this doctrine confirms the conciliar sect’s apostasy from Catholic social teaching. As St. Pius X warned: “The great movement of apostasy being organized in every country for the establishment of a One-World Church which shall have neither dogmas, nor hierarchy… is the last hour of the power of Darkness” (Letter on the Sillon, 1910).
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Iranian security forces fire tear gas at protesters (vaticannews.va)
Date: 08.01.2026