Catholic News Agency reports on efforts by the “Khulna Diocese” to reclaim the site of Bangladesh’s first Catholic church in Iswaripur, built by Portuguese Jesuits in 1600 and now occupied by a Muslim family. The article cites financial constraints and the need for government intervention while quoting “Fr.” Philip Mondal and layman Praveen Mondal lamenting the disappearance of physical evidence of Christian history. The report frames the issue as a bureaucratic land dispute rather than a spiritual battle.
Naturalization of Ecclesial Memory as Secular Relic
The article reduces the Church’s foundational presence to a real estate negotiation, omitting any reference to the raison d’être of church buildings: the perpetuation of Calvary’s Sacrifice and the sanctification of souls. Nowhere does it mention that the original Church of the Holy Name of Jesus existed to offer the verum et proprium sacrificium (true and proper sacrifice) denounced by Protestant invaders. This silence mirrors the conciliar sect’s abandonment of Quas Primas (Pius XI, 1925), which declared: “Nations will be reminded by the annual solemnity of this feast that not only private individuals but also rulers and princes are bound to give public honor and obedience to Christ.” The land officer Rashed Hossain’s conditional offer to “look into the matter” if formally approached exemplifies the post-conciliar betrayal of Christ’s Social Kingship – treating the Church as a supplicant to pagan authorities.
Sacramental Amnesia in Historical Narrative
While detailing Portuguese Jesuit missionaries’ collaboration with Hindu King Pratapaditya, the report commits the modernist heresy of separating missionary activity from sacramental efficacy. It celebrates the Jesuits’ linguistic contributions to Bengali culture but suppresses the sine qua non of their mission: administering baptism and hearing confessions. This aligns with Vatican II’s Nostra Aetate heresy that “The Catholic Church rejects nothing that is true and holy in [non-Christian] religions.” Pius IX’s Syllabus of Errors (1864) condemns such indifferentism in Propositions 16-18, affirming that “No one may be saved outside the Catholic Church.” The article’s lament over “erased” Christian history deliberately ignores the true tragedy: the conciliar sect’s abandonment of extra Ecclesiam nulla salus, reducing the Church’s memory to a multicultural artifact.
Financial Idolatry Replacing Divine Providence
“Fr.” Mondal’s admission that reclamation requires “a lot of money, which the Khulna Diocese cannot provide” exposes the neo-church’s materialist apostasy. Contrast this with the FIRST VATICAN COUNCIL (1870): “The Church herself is a great and perpetual motive of credibility and an irrefutable witness to her own divine mission by her… unfailing fertility in all places and times.” True Catholics would invoke God’s justice against land usurpers, not beg secular administrators. The article’s focus on financial and governmental obstacles constitutes practical atheism – denying Matthew 19:26 (“With God all things are possible”). This reflects the conciliar sect’s institutionalization of the Modernist error condemned in Lamentabili Sane (1907) Proposition 25: “Faith ultimately rests on a sum of probabilities.”
Laity’s Sentimentalism Versus Militant Catholicism
Layman Praveen Mondal’s complaint that “the history of a religion has been erased” reduces the Church’s divine foundation to cultural nostalgia. Nowhere do these neo-Catholics demand the restoration of the Holy Sacrifice on the desecrated site or public processions to reclaim it. Their bourgeois concern for “preservation of memory” ignores the Church’s militant duty to “restore all things in Christ” (Pope St. Pius X). The article’s suggestion to build “a small chapel” without mentioning altar, tabernacle, or Sacrifice confirms the conciliar sect’s transformation of churches into community centers. As Quas Primas teaches: “When men recognize both in private and public life that Christ is King, society will at last receive great blessings.” The “Bangladesh Church’s” surrender to secular power proves it serves the Antichrist.
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History erased? Bangladesh Catholics struggle to recover first church land (catholicnewsagency.com)
Date: 10.01.2026