EWTN News (January 27, 2026) reports on Silvio Báez, exiled auxiliary “bishop” of Managua, demanding political activism under the guise of ecclesial duty. The article highlights his Miami homily asserting that “freedom and democracy” justify ecclesiastical interference in temporal affairs, while uncritically promoting the antipope Leo XIV’s humanitarian rhetoric.
Subordination of Supernatural Mission to Revolutionary Politics
Báez’s declaration that “for the Church, this is not a time for silence” inverts the Church’s divine mandate. The authentic Magisterium teaches that the Church’s primary weapon is sanctifying grace administered through sacraments (Council of Trent, Session XXIII), not political agitation. Pius XI’s encyclical Quas primas (1925) warns against such secularization:
“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.”
By reducing the Church’s role to denouncing “oppressive structures” rather than preaching repentance, Báez embodies the modernist heresy condemned in Pius X’s Lamentabili sane (Proposition 22): that dogmas are merely evolving interpretations of religious facts.
Naturalism Disguised as Pastoral Concern
The “bishop’s” exhortation to “steer history in a new direction” through “compassion and solidarity” constitutes pure naturalism. Contrast this with St. Pius X’s condemnation in Pascendi:
“The Modernists…lay down that the primary object of the religious sentiment is God, but in a vague way…as the universal law of the world.”
True conversion requires submission to objective dogmatic truth, not Báez’s subjectivist call to “discover new strength hidden within ourselves.” His silence on the necessity of the sacraments for societal transformation reveals a fundamentally materialist worldview.
Illegitimate Appeals to False Authority
Báez compounds his errors by invoking antipope Leo XIV’s heretical statement: “The heart of the Gospel is the love of God that makes us brothers and sisters.” This reduction of Christianity to social fraternity echoes Paul VI’s apostasy at the UN (1965):
“We here celebrate the epilogue of a weary pilgrimage…the moral consciousness of mankind.”
Such horizontalism explicitly denies Pius IX’s Syllabus of Errors (Proposition 77), which condemns the claim that “the Church should be separated from the State.”
Omission of Mandatory Doctrinal Foundations
Nowhere does Báez mention:
- The Kingship of Christ over nations (Quas primas)
- The Church’s duty to condemn heresy before political oppression (Pius IX, Quanta cura)
- The necessity of converting Nicaragua to the Catholic Faith for true social order (Cantate Domino, Council of Florence)
His selective “prophetic voice” follows the conciliar sect’s pattern of amplifying leftist causes while ignoring Islamic persecution of Christians and global abortion regimes. As Bishop Sanborn notes: “The post-conciliar church persecutes those who defend Tradition while embracing Marxists who murder priests.”
Conclusion: Revolutionary Echoes in Ecclesiastical Garb
Báez’s rhetoric aligns precisely with the KGB’s 1962 “Moscow Patriarchate” directives to instrumentalize religion for communist aims. By framing Nicaragua’s crisis as a political struggle rather than a spiritual battle between Christ and Satan, this exiled prelate demonstrates why the conciliar sect cannot effect true liberation. As Our Lord warned: “Unless you do penance, you shall all likewise perish” (Luke 13:3) – a message conspicuously absent from this politically-obsessed homily.
Source:
Exiled Bishop Báez of Nicaragua: ‘For the Church, this is not a time for silence’ (ewtnnews.com)
Date: 27.01.2026