EWTN News reports Colombian President Gustavo Petro’s blasphemous assertion that Jesus Christ engaged in romantic relations with Mary Magdalene during a hospital reopening ceremony. Petro declared: “A man like that couldn’t exist without love… he died surrounded by the women who loved him. And there were many of them.” The Colombian Bishops’ Conference responded with a statement demanding “respect for the person of Christ” while citing constitutional provisions on religious freedom, stopping short of doctrinal condemnation. Legislative officials and lay organizations condemned the remarks, with Senator Mauricio Giraldo criticizing the president’s sacrilegious diversion from national crises.
Naturalistic Reduction of the God-Man to Carnal Depravity
Petro’s reduction of the Incarnate Word to a mere sensual revolutionary constitutes deliberate blasphemy against Christ’s divine nature. The president’s Darwinian presumption that human sexuality defines authentic existence directly contradicts the Council of Ephesus (431 AD), which dogmatized Christ’s hypostatic union as fully God and fully man without sin’s corruption. By implying sexual concupiscence in the Sinless One, Petro revives the Gnostic Gospel of Philip’s heresy condemned by St. Irenaeus (Adversus Haereses, 180 AD). The Colombian bishops’ failure to explicitly identify this as formal heresy reveals their conciliar captivity to modernist equivocation.
Episcopal Cowardice Masked as Bureaucratic Proceduralism
The conciliar sect’s response exemplifies the post-Vatican II paralysis before secular power. Their statement prioritizes constitutional technicalities (“Article 4 of Law 133 of 1994”) over Quas Primas‘s (1925) mandate that “the rebellion of individuals and states against Christ’s authority” merits public condemnation. While quoting legal statutes about “noninterference”, they omit Pius IX’s condemnation in the Syllabus of Errors (1864): “The Church ought to be separated from the State, and the State from the Church” (Error #55). Their invitation to “review the Catechism” proves doubly scandalous when referencing the modernist 1992 text rather than the Catechism of the Council of Trent.
“No official nor other person is called upon to issue theological opinions on the religious or doctrinal convictions of citizens.”
This episcopal declaration constitutes apostasy from Catholicism’s missionary imperative. Contrast their procedural neutrality with Pius XI’s Mortalium Animos (1928): “The Catholic Church alone is entrusted with the truth’s defense. Shall she desert her sacred trust by cringing before Christ’s enemies?” The bishops’ statement contains zero references to Christ’s divinity, the Eucharist, or the Four Last Things – symptomatic of the conciliar sect’s naturalistic anthropology. Their silence on Petrine authority (Matthew 16:18-19) confirms abandonment of the Church’s judicial power over heretical rulers.
Lay Organizations’ Inadequate Response Highlights Ecclesial Collapse
The “Men’s Rosary of Colombia” and “Reason + Faith” website exemplify neo-conservative impotence. Their petitions for retraction and apologies ignore the Codex Iuris Canonici (1917) Canon 2314 mandate that blasphemers face excommunication latae sententiae. By reducing their response to signature campaigns rather than demanding sacramental sanctions, they operate within the conciliar sect’s relativistic framework. Senator Giraldo’s rebuke – “Those in power should not trifle with what is sacred” – reduces the Godhead to subjective “sacredness” rather than affirming Quas Primas‘s decree that Christ possesses “jurisdiction over every creature without exception.”
Symptomatic of Conciliarism’s Intrinsic Apostasy
This episode manifests Modernism’s ultimate consequence as predicted in St. Pius X’s Pascendi Dominici Gregis (1907): “The elimination of the supernatural order reduces religion to sentimental experience.” Petro’s sexualized Christ mirrors Teilhard de Chardin’s evolutionary heresies embraced by the Vatican II sect. The bishops’ legalistic response fulfills Lamentabili Sane‘s condemnation (#65) of Catholicism reduced to “broad and liberal Protestantism.” Their appeal to “objective sources of the Gospels” while ignoring the Magisterium’s interpretive authority enacts Modernist proposition #22 condemned in Lamentabili: “Revealed dogmas are interpretations of religious facts by human reason.”
The Colombian hierarchy’s failure to invoke Quas Primas‘s teaching that “rulers must submit to Christ’s laws or face judgment” confirms the conciliar sect’s surrender to secular tyranny. Until true shepherds restore the Syllabus‘s condemnation of religious liberty and the Social Kingship of Christ, such blasphemies will proliferate under the anti-church’s watch.
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Colombian bishops demand respect for Christ after President Petro’s ‘blasphemous’ comments (ewtnnews.com)
Date: 29.01.2026