VaticanNews portal reports on January 16, 2026, that ten thousand students in Jerusalem’s Christian schools remain out of classes after 171 West Bank teachers lost Israeli work permits. The article frames this as a labor dispute, lamenting how “a message of peace is being taught” in these institutions while decrying Israeli bureaucratic measures. This superficial reporting exemplifies the neo-church’s pathological obsession with earthly politics at the expense of eternal truths.
Reduction of the Church’s Mission to Naturalistic Humanism
The cited article reduces Catholic education to a peace-building workshop rather than acknowledging its primary purpose as articulated in Pius XI’s Divini Illius Magistri: “Education belongs preeminently to the Church, because she has the duty of announcing to all men the way of salvation.” Not once does the article mention the salvation of souls, catechesis, or the formation in virtue – the essential marks of authentic Catholic education condemned by the Syllabus of Errors (1864) when it forbids the notion that “the entire government of public schools…may and ought to appertain to the civil power” (Proposition 45).
Instead, the piece celebrates these schools as mere social service providers, quoting administrators boasting about teaching “peace” while omitting whether they teach the Pax Christi that comes solely through submission to Christ the King. This modernist inversion fulfills Pius X’s warning in Lamentabili Sane against those who “place the chief cause of divine revelation in the consciousness of man” (Proposition 22).
Silent Complicity in Persecution of Catholic Order
The report’s outrage focuses exclusively on Israel’s permit policies while ignoring the true scandal: that “Christian” schools operate under hostile secular jurisdiction rather than demanding recognition of the Church’s divine right to educate independently of state interference. The 1917 Code of Canon Law (Canon 1375) explicitly forbids Catholic schools from submitting to non-ecclesiastical oversight, yet these institutions voluntarily placed themselves under Zionist administration – a betrayal of the Church’s libertas ecclesiae championed by Gregory XVI in Mirari Vos.
When the article frets that “a bill under review in 2025 could ban the employment of teachers trained in Palestinian territories,” it accepts the anti-Catholic premise that states may dictate teacher qualifications. Pius IX’s Quanta Cura condemns this exact error: “the Church ought to be separated from the State, and the State from the Church” (Proposition 55). True Catholic schools would rather close than recognize civil authority over ecclesiastical formation.
Ecumenical Cowardice Masquerading as Peacemaking
These compromised institutions exemplify the conciliar sect’s ostpolitik, exchanging doctrinal integrity for earthly validation. By employing teachers from schismatic Eastern communities without requiring conversion to Catholicism, they implement the condemned ecumenism of Vatican II – a betrayal of Pius XI’s Mortalium Animos: “The union of Christians can only be promoted by promoting the return to the one true Church of Christ of those who are separated from it.”
The article’s lament about canceled “work permits” reveals the neo-church’s Babylonian captivity to bureaucratic paganism. Where St. Thomas More went to the scaffold rather than recognize Henry VIII’s supremacy over the Church, these modern hirelings negotiate with Zionist officials over five-day work permits – a grotesque parody of apostolic courage.
Omission of Supernatural Realities as Symptomatic Apostasy
Nowhere does the piece mention sacraments, grace, or the eternal consequences of children being deprived of Catholic formation – omissions that scream louder than its political complaints. This reflects the neo-church’s adoption of the modernist heresy condemned in Lamentabili Sane: “Revelation could not be other than the consciousness man acquired of his relation to God” (Proposition 20).
The true tragedy isn’t disrupted schedules but souls starved of the unbloody sacrifice of Calvary and catechesis in the One True Faith. As the Council of Trent teaches, children require formation to “know what they must seek and what avoid” for salvation (Session XXIV). By reducing education to social engineering, these schools become accomplices in the “cult of man” John XXIII inaugurated – the very apostasy Our Lady of La Salette warned would make “Rome lose the faith.”
Source:
News from the Orient – January 16, 2026 (vaticannews.va)
Date: 16.01.2026