The Catholic News Agency article via EWTN News reports on Bangladeshi Catholics struggling to obtain Indian medical visas amid political tensions between Bangladesh and India. It details how visa restrictions since August 2024 have doubled treatment costs for conditions like heart disease and cancer, with anonymous testimonies from patients like Mita Corraya and Rina Gomes. The piece frames this as a bilateral political issue, quoting Dr. Edward Pallab Rozario on approval rates and economists like Khandaker Golam Moazzem urging separation of economics from politics. Notably absent is any reference to God’s providence, the supernatural purpose of suffering, or the duty of nations to recognize Christ’s social reign.
Reduction of Human Suffering to Political Negotiation
The article operates within a purely naturalistic framework, treating medical care as a consumer commodity (“cost nearly 1 million taka… would have cost around 500,000 taka”) rather than a matter of divine providence. Nowhere does it remind sufferers that “all things work together for good to them that love God” (Romans 8:28), nor does it encourage offering pains for the conversion of nations. This omission reflects the post-conciliar church’s abandonment of redemptive suffering, reducing the Faith to social activism.
By framing the crisis as solvable through “dialogue” between governments, the report implicitly endorses religious indifferentism condemned by Pius IX: “Man may, in the observance of any religion whatever, find the way of eternal salvation” (Syllabus of Errors, Proposition 16). The true Catholic response would demand both nations submit to Christ the King, as Pius XI declared: “When men…do not recognize the dominion of Christ, not only is there no cure for their ills, but they lay themselves open to yet graver disasters” (Quas Primas, 20).
Silence on Sacramental Realities and Ecclesial Betrayal
While mentioning “Christian Medical College Vellore,” the article ignores whether these institutions still uphold Catholic teaching after Vatican II’s religious liberty heresies. The report fails to warn that receiving medical treatment from compromised religious orders risks cooperation with apostasy. Worse, it never advises patients to seek sacraments from validly ordained priests – a grave omission when the conciliar sect routinely invalidates Holy Orders through liturgical abuses.
The unnamed “Telugu Catholic” lamenting family separation exemplifies how modernist ecclesiology severs the Mystical Body. True Catholics understand that physical separation matters less than maintaining communion in the one true Faith. Yet EWTN prioritizes earthly family bonds over supernatural unity, echoing the condemned error: “The Church is not a true and perfect society” (Syllabus, Proposition 19).
Economic Idolatry Replaces Spiritual Priorities
By extensively quoting economists and trade statistics (“exports worth $760 million…decline of 6.68%”), the report reveals its materialist worldview. It treats India’s medical industry as a cost-effective solution rather than questioning whether Hindu-majority hospitals properly respect Catholic moral theology in treatments. The article’s climax – Corraya’s plea “We only want treatment, dignity, and the chance to live” – reduces human dignity to biological existence, rejecting St. Paul’s teaching: “For to me to live is Christ, and to die is gain” (Philippians 1:21).
This humanistic focus mirrors the modernist church’s betrayal of its mission. As the Holy Office warned under St. Pius X: “The Church listening cooperates…the Church teaching should only approve the common opinions” (Lamentabili Sane, Proposition 6). When EWTN amplifies sufferers’ demands rather than forming consciences, it becomes a microphone for the world’s errors instead of a herald of Truth.
The Kingship of Christ as Only Solution
True Catholics recognize such crises as divine chastisements for national apostasy. Bangladesh’s 88.4% Muslim population and India’s Hindu nationalist policies both reject Christ’s social reign – yet the article never calls for their conversion. The report’s proposed “initiatives to strengthen bilateral relations” constitute a satanic substitute for the only real solution: public consecration of both nations to the Sacred Heart and Immaculate Heart.
Until these countries acknowledge Pius XI’s teaching that “the Church cannot be subject to any external power” (Quas Primas, 30), their citizens will continue suffering temporal and eternal consequences. EWTN’s refusal to proclaim this uncompromising truth exposes its complicity in the conciliar sect’s surrender to the world.
Source:
‘We only want treatment’: Catholics caught in Bangladesh-India visa crisis (catholicnewsagency.com)
Date: 17.01.2026