EWTN News reports (January 24, 2026) on escalating anti-Christian violence in Europe, citing 2,211 documented hate crimes in 2024 including the murder of Ashur Sarnaya in Lyon. European Parliament member Bert-Jan Ruissen and bishops’ conference representative Alessandro Calcagno demand EU institutional responses: filling the vacant Special Envoy for Religious Freedom position and creating a European Coordinator on Anti-Christian Hatership. The article promotes increased security funding, hate crime documentation, and alignment with initiatives like #RedWeek’s symbolic lighting of buildings. This technocratic approach exemplifies the conciliar sect’s surrender to naturalist paradigms while ignoring the supernatural crisis of apostasy.
Naturalism Replaces Supernatural Mission
The proposal for an EU religious freedom envoy constitutes blasphemous displacement of Regnum Christi by bureaucratic mechanisms. Calcagno’s statement that “protecting places of worship is crucial… to safeguard the exercise of religious freedom” reduces the Church’s divine mandate to a human right among others. Pius XI condemned this inversion in Quas Primas (1925): “When once men recognize… that Christ… has dominion over all creatures, the Church will receive a great freedom.” The article’s exclusive focus on physical security (barriers, patrols) while ignoring sacramental protection reveals profound theological bankruptcy. No mention is made of the Holy Sacrifice’s propitiatory power against diabolical hatred – a telling omission given that desecrated tabernacles featured in 37% of OIDAC-reported incidents.
“EU initiatives should address not only terrorism but also vandalism, violence, disruptions, arson, harassment…”
This secularist framing contradicts the Church’s perennial teaching that persecution flows from rejection of Christ’s sovereignty. As the Syllabus of Errors (1864) condemned: “The Church ought to be separated from the State, and the State from the Church” (Error 55). The proposed EU coordinator would institutionalize this heresy by placing anti-Christian hatred alongside anti-Semitism and Islamophobia as competing victimhood claims rather than symptoms of Europe’s collective apostasy.
Omission of Catholic Doctrine on Persecution
Nowhere does the article reference the theological necessity of persecution foretold by Christ: “If they have persecuted me, they will also persecute you” (John 15:20). The 388 million persecuted Christians statistic is presented as a humanitarian crisis rather than the mystical participation in Calvary described by Pope Leo XIII: “The more the enemies of religion endeavor to deprive the Church of… liberty, the more let us cling… to the Vicar of Jesus Christ” (Inimica Vis, 1892).
The bishops’ silence on state complicity constitutes cowardice. France – site of Sarnaya’s martyrdom – banned sacraments during COVID lockdowns while keeping mosques open, yet Calcagno demands more EU funding rather than denouncing this persecution. This aligns with Pius X’s condemnation of Modernists who “make themselves out to be apostles of peace… while they destroy all” (Pascendi Dominici Gregis, 1907).
False Solutions Rooted in Modernism
The #RedWeek campaign’s theatrical illuminations exemplify empty symbolism condemned by Holy Office decree Lamentabili Sane (1907): “Faith… is ultimately based on a sum of probabilities” (Proposition 25). Lighting buildings red while tolerating sacrilegious “Communions” in modernist sects makes a mockery of martyrdom. True Catholic solidarity requires:
- Public reparatory processions with the Blessed Sacrament exposed
- Consecration of nations to Christ the King
- Denunciation of ecumenical events enabling heresy
Ruissen’s demand that member states “systematically document attacks” extends the conciliar sect’s obsession with statistics over souls. Contrast this with St. Pius V’s response to Lepanto – mandating Rosary confraternities and perpetual adoration. The article’s proposed EU funding instruments would further entangle the Church in bureaucratic networks, violating Pius IX’s condemnation of state control over ecclesiastical properties (Error 26).
Symptom of Conciliar Apostasy
This EWTN News piece – while masquerading as defense of Christianity – actually promotes the Vatican II heresy of religious liberty. The demand for “parity in protection” between Christianity and false religions directly contradicts Quanta Cura‘s condemnation of the “erroneous opinion… that liberty of conscience and worship is each man’s personal right” (1864). The bishops’ collaboration with EU technocrats reveals their membership in the “synagogue of Satan” (Apocalypse 2:9) that Pius IX denounced in the Syllabus‘ final paragraphs.
Until Europe’s leaders enforce Christ’s social reign through:
- Revocation of religious liberty laws
- Expulsion of Freemasonic influences
- Restoration of the Index Librorum Prohibitorum
No bureaucratic appointments will stem the persecution. As Archbishop Lefebvre warned before his excommunication: “They have left us the churches, but stolen the Faith.” The conciliar sect’s EU envoy would be but another Judassending martyrs to death while pocketing thirty pieces of silver from Brussels.
Source:
Growing persecution prompts calls for European Union envoy on religious freedom (ewtnnews.com)
Date: 24.01.2026