The Illusion of Pastoral Care in a Church of Empty Sacraments
The “Catholic News Agency” portal (January 20, 2026) reports on the conciliar sect’s response to a train accident in Adamuz, Spain, where “Bishop” Jesús Fernández of Córdoba deployed three “priests” – Leopoldo Rivero, Francisco J. Granados, and Manuel Sánchez – to provide “spiritual care” at a civic center. The article emphasizes their role in offering psychological comfort through prayer and presence while rescue operations continue for 43 missing persons, with 41 confirmed dead and 152 injured. This theatrical display of concern masks the theological void at the heart of post-conciliar religious practice.
The Sacramental Desert in the Midst of Tragedy
What the conciliar sect calls “pastoral care” constitutes nothing less than sacramental fraud. When Rivero claims they provide “spiritual care so necessary at this time,” he perpetuates a dangerous illusion. The 1917 Code of Canon Law (Canon 732) mandates that extreme unction (sacramentum exeuntium) must be administered to those in danger of death from accidents or illness. Yet nowhere does the article mention administration of last rites – because these conciliar operatives likely lack valid Holy Orders since the 1968 Pontificalis Romani invalidated ordination rites.
Pius XII’s Mediator Dei (1947) condemned the reduction of priestly ministry to mere psychological support: “The priest is the advocate…who stands before the altar interceding for the people.” The conciliar “priests” instead function as grief counselors, with psychologists directing families to them for “warmth” and “comfort” – terms utterly foreign to the Rituale Romanum‘s prescriptions for cura animarum. This exemplifies the modernist error condemned in St. Pius X’s Pascendi Dominici Gregis: “They deny the supernatural order, making religion a mere sentiment.”
Naturalism Masked as Compassion
The diocesan statement’s focus on “despair and uncertainty” reveals the conciliar sect’s complete capitulation to naturalism. Contrast this with Pius XI’s encyclical Quas Primas (1925): “When men recognize Christ’s royal dignity…true liberty, tranquil order, and salvation itself follow.” The article’s complete silence about the Four Last Things (Death, Judgment, Heaven, Hell) demonstrates the conciliar church’s abandonment of eschatological truth.
While the “priests” allegedly “pray with” victims, the absence of sacramentals – sacramentals which Pius XII’s Sacra Virginitas (1954) called “the Church’s weapons against the powers of darkness” – proves this ministry spiritually inert. No mention of blessed candles, crucifixes, or even valid conditional absolutions appears, reducing Catholic practice to pagan fatalism dressed in ecclesiastical vestments.
The Institutional Apostasy Behind the Facade
This event exposes three fundamental ruptures with Catholic ecclesiology:
1. Invalid Ministers: The “bishop” and “priests” derive their alleged authority from antipope Leo XIV’s apostate hierarchy. As Pius XII established in Sacramentum Ordinis (1947), valid ordination requires proper form, matter, and intention – all destroyed by Paul VI’s illicit rites.
2. False Ecumenism: The civic center setting (Poniente Sur Civic Center) symbolizes the conciliar church’s submission to secular power, violating Pius IX’s Syllabus of Errors (1864) which condemned the proposition that “The Church ought to be separated from the State” (Error 55).
3. Psychologized Faith: The reduction of sacramental ministry to emotional support fulfills Modernism’s program outlined in St. Pius X’s Lamentabili Sane (1907), which condemned the notion that “Revelation was merely man’s self-awareness of his relationship to God” (Proposition 20).
The Silence Screams Apostasy
Most damning is what the article doesn’t report:
– No Masses offered for the dead according to the traditional rite
– No public Rosary processions for the missing
– No calls for Eucharistic reparation
– No conditional baptisms for unidentified bodies
This omission proves the conciliar sect has abandoned the munus sanctificandi (sanctifying office) proper to Christ’s true Church. As Leo XIII decreed in Satis Cognitum (1896): “The Church is perpetually distinguished by the efficacy of her doctrine and the power of her sacraments.” When “pastoral care” becomes psychological hand-holding rather than dispensing sanctifying grace, we witness not Catholicism but what Pope St. Pius X called “the suicide of altering the Faith” (Notre Charge Apostolique, 1910).
Source:
Catholic Church provides pastoral care to victims of tragic train accident in Spain (catholicnewsagency.com)
Date: 20.01.2026