US Commission’s Empty Gestures Mask True Catholic Persecution
Catholic News Agency portal (January 13, 2026) reports Nicaraguan researcher Martha Patricia Molina’s testimony before the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom (USCIRF), detailing 19,836 attacks by Daniel Ortega’s regime against the Church since 2018. Molina cited the expulsion of 304 priests and nuns, Bible import bans, police harassment of altar boys, and the closure of seminaries—reducing some dioceses to 30-40% priestly capacity. She demanded “aggressive” sanctions against Ortega’s military and prosecution for crimes against humanity. USCIRF Chair Vicky Hartzler framed religious freedom as a universal human right, while U.S. representatives like Riley Moore (R-WV) declared America “a Christian nation” with a duty to defend persecuted Christians. The commission heard similar appeals regarding China, Nigeria, and other nations.
Naturalistic Reduction of Religious Liberty
The entire hearing operates within the condemned framework of Dignitatis Humanae, reducing religion to a privatized “human right” rather than affirming Christ’s exclusive social kingship. Molina’s plea for “religious freedom” ignores the regnum sociale Christi (social reign of Christ) demanded by Pius XI in Quas Primas: “Nations will be happy… only when individuals and states allow themselves to be governed by Christ.” By omitting Nicaragua’s duty to embrace Catholicism as the sole path to societal order, Molina’s secularized narrative echoes the Vatican II heresy that “the truth cannot impose itself except by virtue of its own truth” (DH 1)—a direct contradiction of Pope Pius IX’s condemnation of religious indifferentism: “Every man is free to embrace and profess that religion which… he shall consider true” (Syllabus of Errors, §15).
USCIRF’s Complicity in Modernist Apostasy
Hartzler’s claim that “U.S. leadership is critical” to protect “freedom of religion or belief” exposes the commission’s theological bankruptcy. The USCIRF—a U.S. government body—presumes to arbitrate spiritual matters while America itself promotes abortion, gender ideology, and Masonic pluralism. Rep. Moore’s assertion that America is “a Christian nation” is blasphemous when its laws defy the First Commandment. As Leo XIII warned in Immortale Dei, states rejecting Christ’s authority become “a theater of vice” and “insolent malice.” The commission’s focus on individual rights ignores the Church’s doctrine that nations, not just persons, owe public worship to God (Pius XI, Quas Primas).
“In Nicaragua, praying in public is considered a crime.”
While true, Molina fails to identify the root cause: Nicaragua’s rejection of the social reign of Christ the King. Ortega’s suppression of Catholicism flows naturally from the modernist heresy that faith is a private sentiment—a view enshrined in the 1917 Masonic Constitution of Nicaragua and later amplified by Vatican II’s false ecumenism. The article ignores that authentic Catholic resistance would demand Nicaragua’s conversion, not mere “religious freedom” for competing sects. Silence on the sacramental crisis—deprived Nicaraguans facing death without confession—reveals a naturalistic worldview incompatible with extra Ecclesiam nulla salus.
Ortega’s Regime as Fruit of Conciliar Betrayals
The report’s statistics—19,836 attacks, 13 closed universities, 304 exiled clergy—confirm the Ortega-Murillo regime as a direct product of the conciliar church’s failure to convert nations. By abandoning Pius XI’s mandate to “restore all things in Christ,” post-1958 Rome left Catholics defenseless against Marxist tyranny. Note the omission of any call for Nicaragua’s consecration to Christ the King or demands for public penitential processions—the very remedies prescribed by pre-1958 popes. Instead, Molina seeks secular interventions (sanctions, ICC prosecutions), reflecting the modernist reduction of the Church to a NGO pleading before human tribunals.
The False Mercy of Human Rights Advocacy
Grace Drexel’s testimony about her imprisoned father in China typifies the article’s sentimentalism: “What happens in China does not stay in China.” Yet her plea for “human dignity” ignores that China’s persecution continues precisely because the Vatican legitimized its communist overlords via the 2018 Sino-Vatican Agreement. Similarly, USCIRF’s hearings are theater—America funds Nicaragua’s oppression through IMF loans while posturing as a defender of “religious freedom.” True Catholics must reject this charade and demand nations submit to Christus Vincit, Christus Regnat, Christus Imperat—not hollow UN declarations.
Until USCIRF and its Catholic collaborators renounce the heresy of religious liberty and proclaim the Social Kingship of Christ, their efforts will remain a satanic parody of justice. As St. Pius X decreed in Lamentabili, modernism synthesizes all errors—and this commission embodies it perfectly.
Source:
Nicaraguan researcher urges religious freedom commission to refocus attention on abuses (catholicnewsagency.com)
Date: 13.01.2026