Post-Conciliar Sect Reduces Church to Humanitarian Agency in Spanish Train Tragedy
Vatican News portal (January 20, 2026) reports on the response of San Andrés “parish” in Adamuz, Spain, to a railway accident killing 41 persons. The article portrays “Fr.” Rafael Prados opening church facilities to survivors, distributing food and mattresses, while “Bishop” Jesús Fernández González offers “solidarity.” Antipope Leo XIV allegedly sent condolences. The piece concludes with promises of future “Masses” for victims once identified.
Reduction of the Church’s Mission to Naturalistic Humanism
The report exemplifies the conciliar sect’s abandonment of the munera sanctificandi (sanctifying office) in favor of secular crisis management. Nowhere does the article mention administration of the Sacrament of Penance, Extreme Unction, or the viaticum to the dying—the primary spiritual works of mercy demanded by Catholic tradition in calamities (Council of Trent, Session XIV, On the Most Holy Sacrament of Penance). Instead, we find a purely naturalistic response: “water, food, and even mattresses” provided by laypeople who “emptied their refrigerators.”
Pius XI condemned this inversion of priorities: “When once men recognize, both in private and in public life, that Christ is King, society will at last receive the great blessings of real liberty, well-ordered discipline, peace and harmony” (Quas Primas, 19). By reducing the Church to a humanitarian NGO—”a balm in a moment of pain” in “Fr.” Prados’ saccharine phrase—the conciliar sect denies the raison d’être of ecclesiastical institutions: the salvation of souls through the application of Christ’s merits.
Sacramental Silence as Systemic Apostasy
The absence of sacramental language exposes the conciliar sect’s ontological rupture with Catholic Tradition. While emergency crews worked at the crash site, no reference is made to priests bringing Holy Oils or hearing confessions—contrary to centuries of Catholic practice exemplified by St. John Vianney, who rushed to accident scenes to administer last rites.
This omission flows directly from Vatican II’s Gaudium et Spes (n. 40), which subordinates the supernatural to earthly “progress.” As the Syllabus of Errors condemns: “The Church is not a true and perfect society, entirely free… it appertains to the civil power to define what are the rights of the Church” (Proposition 19). By allowing civil authorities to monopolize disaster response while limiting “ecclesial” activity to psychological comfort, the conciliar sect implicitly denies the Church’s divine constitution.
Illegitimate Actors Performing Empty Rituals
The article’s reference to future “Masses” for the dead is doubly scandalous:
- The Novus Ordo Missae—promulgated by the apostate Montini—lacks efficacy for propitiatory sacrifice, as its prayers deliberately omit references to Christ’s satisfaction for sin (Cardinal Ottaviani’s Intervention on the New Mass, 1969).
- The celebrants—”Fr.” Prados and “Bp.” Fernández González—possess doubtful orders due to the invalidity of the post-1968 Ordo Ordinationis (Sacred Congregation for Divine Worship, 1968).
Moreover, antipope Leo XIV’s “condolences” carry no spiritual weight. As St. Robert Bellarmine teaches: “A manifest heretic cannot be Pope” (De Romano Pontifice, II.30). Bergoglio’s successor embodies the secta antipapalis condemned by Pius X: “The enemies of the Church… are to be sought for among those who… are striving to ruin the Church” (Pascendi Dominici Gregis, 2).
Sentimentalism Replacing Eschatological Urgency
Nowhere does the article urge survivors to “repent, for the kingdom of heaven is at hand” (Matthew 3:2). The conciliar “clergy” instead peddles emotional palliatives—”accompaniment,” “listening,” “consolation”—while withholding the only true remedy for sudden death: repentance and sanctifying grace.
Contrast this with the Catholic response to the 1917 Quebec train disaster, where priests absolved hundreds amid wreckage while preaching on the quattuor novissima (four last things). As Pius XII warned: “The sin of the century is the loss of the sense of sin” (Radio Message, 1946). By avoiding judgment, hell, and divine justice, the conciliar sect proves itself a “synagogue of Satan” (Apocalypse 2:9).
Conclusion: Abandoned Flock, False Shepherds
This tragedy lays bare the conciliar sect’s essence: a humanitarian NGO masquerading as the Church. While true Catholics mourn the dead and pray for their souls, we denounce the counterfeit “comfort” offered by invalidly ordained ministers serving an antipapal regime. Let the faithful heed Our Lord’s warning: “If the blind lead the blind, both fall into the pit” (Matthew 15:14). Only return to the immutable Mass, valid sacraments, and integral doctrine can avert eternal catastrophe.
Source:
Parish helps victims in aftermath of Spain railway crash (vaticannews.va)
Date: 20.01.2026