Conciliar Sect’s Venezuela Meddling Exposes Apostate Priorities
The Catholic News Agency portal (January 17, 2026) reports on former U.S. ambassador Francis Rooney’s analysis of the Vatican’s diplomatic engagement with Venezuelan opposition leader MarÃa Corina Machado under antipope Leo XIV. The article frames this interaction as strengthening Machado’s international standing ahead of a meeting with U.S. President Trump, while praising the antipope’s “calm, deliberate” approach compared to his predecessor. Rooney claims the conciliar sect has a “long tradition of intervening in hostage situations” and speculates about discussions between President Trump and “Archbishop” Paul Coakley regarding U.S. immigration policy. This report exemplifies the neo-church’s complete subordination of supernatural mission to geopolitical power-brokering.
Reduction of Church Mission to Secular Power-Brokering
The article celebrates the conciliar sect’s involvement in Venezuelan regime change operations, stating: “The Holy See has a long tradition of intervening in hostage situations… like a regime change”. This reduces the Church’s divine mandate to a NGO-like crisis management agency, directly contradicting Pius XI’s condemnation of those who “remove Jesus Christ and His most holy law from… public life” (Quas Primas, §1). The true Church intervenes spiritually through sacraments and conversion – not through propping up political factions. Regime change advocacy constitutes implicit endorsement of revolution, condemned by Pius IX as unlawful rebellion against legitimate authority (Syllabus of Errors, §63).
Blasphemous Attribution of Ecclesiastical Titles
Throughout the article, the antipope Robert Prevost is repeatedly called “Pope Leo XIV” and “Holy Father” – titles reserved exclusively for valid successors of Peter. This violates the anathema of Paul IV’s Cum ex Apostolatus Officio which declares that manifest heretics “are deprived of all jurisdiction… even before any declaratory sentence”. The same applies to references to “Archbishop” Coakley, whose orders are doubtful under the sacramental theology of Pius XII’s Sacramentum Ordinis given post-conciliar rite defects. The article’s respectful treatment of these figures constitutes material cooperation with apostasy.
Naturalism Replaces Supernatural Mission
Nowhere does the analysis mention the Venezuelan people’s spiritual needs – sacraments abandoned by modernist clergy, rampant Freemasonic influence, or the Orthodox schismatics’ growing foothold. Instead, Rooney reduces Church-state relations to cynical power dynamics: “They resent our power, but they love our money, and they love our number of Catholics”. This echoes the naturalism condemned by St. Pius X as reducing religion to “a certain innate sense of religion” (Lamentabili, §22) rather than divine revelation. The article’s exclusive focus on border security and migrant labor (“We need workers… have an orderly rational plan for citizenship”) ignores the Church’s true concern: the salvation of souls imperiled by secular ideologies.
“Peace is no longer sought as a gift and a desirable good”
Attributed to antipope Leo XIV, this statement hypocritically omits the only source of peace: Christus vincit, Christus regnat, Christus imperat. Pius XI definitively taught that “the peace of Christ can only be found in the Kingdom of Christ” (Quas Primas, §1), yet the conciliar sect deliberately avoids proclaiming Christ’s social kingship while meddling in temporal affairs. This mirrors the Modernist strategy of using religious language to camouflage secular agendas.
Illegitimate Clergy Meddles in Temporal Governance
The reported meeting between President Trump and “USCCB” president Coakley exemplifies the conciliar sect’s illicit power-seeking. Canon 188.4 of the 1917 Code automatically deprives office from clergy who publicly defect from faith – which all post-conciliar hierarchs have done by promulgating heretical novelties. St. Robert Bellarmine’s principle applies: “A non-Christian in no way can be Pope… a manifest heretic cannot be Pope” (De Romano Pontifice). Thus, any “dialogue” between civil authorities and these apostates lacks canonical validity, constituting cooperation with false shepherds who “trample underfoot the heritage of Christ” (Pius XI, Quas Primas, §24).
Omission of Supernatural Realities
The article’s complete silence about Venezuela’s spiritual crisis – destruction of churches, persecution of faithful priests, sacramental deprivation – reveals the conciliar sect’s true priorities. While true shepherds would call for Eucharistic crusades and public consecrations to Christ the King, antipope Leo XIV engages in petty diplomacy that “contributes to the corruption of morals” (Pius IX, Syllabus, §79). Nowhere does the analysis mention the eternal consequences of socialist tyranny – only temporal power arrangements. This fulfills Pius X’s warning about Modernists reducing religion to “a certain religious motion of the heart” (Pascendi, §6).
Source:
Former U.S. ambassador to Holy See weighs in on Vatican diplomacy in Venezuela, U.S. (catholicnewsagency.com)
Date: 17.01.2026