The EWTN News portal reports that the Philippine “bishops” of the conciliar sect offered “dialogue” with President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. during their January 2026 plenary assembly, while lamenting internal institutional failures. Archbishop Gilbert Garcera, president of the counterfeit “Catholic Bishops’ Conference of the Philippines,” declared readiness for governmental collaboration on corruption while admitting the conciliar structure’s “wounded” state through “clericalism,” “fragmented communion,” and “weak evangelical witness.” The gathering received encouragement from antipope Leo XIV through his nuncio Charles Brown, urging unity modeled on “the inner life of love of the Holy Trinity.”
Surrender of Christ’s Social Kingship to Humanistic Parliamentarianism
The assembly’s central betrayal lies in its embrace of dialogue with civil powers as moral equals, utterly rejecting Pius XI’s teaching that “nations will be happy only when they accept the reign of Our Savior with willing hearts” (Quas Primas, 1925). By framing collaboration as technical partnership in “monitoring public projects” rather than demanding societal conversion to Christ the King, these prelates commit the very error condemned in the Syllabus of Errors: “The State must leave the same freedom to the members of Orders and Congregations… to strike it with frequent blows, to shake it, to overthrow it” (Prop. 55). Their proposed “collective action against corruption” constitutes blasphemous naturalism, implying God’s grace is insufficient without bureaucratic mechanisms.
Bishop Gerardo Alminaza’s claim that “we cannot expect one sector… to do it alone” directly contradicts Leo XIII’s teaching that “the Church alone is the depository of heavenly grace” (Satis Cognitum, 1896). The true Church administers the remedium peccati through the Sacraments and doctrinal clarity, not social engineering partnerships with apostate regimes.
Psychological Reductionism Replaces Sacramental Economy
The conciliar sect’s obsession with “mental health crises” reveals its abandonment of supernatural faith. Archbishop Garcera’s lament about youth depression and suicide rates ignores the radix malorum – the conciliar church’s destruction of sacramental life through invalid rites and modernist preaching. Pius X condemned precisely this naturalization of spiritual disorders: “Modernists replace faith with religious sentiment divorced from any fixed doctrine” (Pascendi, 1907). Where traditional pastoral care would prescribe frequent Confession, Eucharistic adoration, and the Rosary, these prelates offer secular counseling techniques – a fulfillment of St. Pius X’s warning about “the replacement of the supernatural with psychology” (Holy Office Decree Lamentabili Sane, Prop. 58).
Their cited statistics about “77% of employees showing depressive symptoms” demonstrate the rotten fruits of Vatican II’s anthropocentric shift. As the true Church taught through Pius XII: “The world is in trouble because it has divorced itself from the supernatural life which flows from the Heart of God-made-man” (Radio Message, 1947). The conciliar sect becomes complicit in this suicide epidemic by withholding the true sacraments and preaching a gospel of worldly accommodation.
Technocratic Paganism Masquerading as Pastoral Innovation
The assembly’s embrace of artificial intelligence for “pastoral ministry” completes its apostasy from Catholic ontology. Edwin Lopez’s gnostic maxim that “technology serves, communion saves” inverts the proper order, suggesting digital tools possess neutral utility apart from moral ends. This violates Pius IX’s condemnation of those who claim “human reason is the sole arbiter of truth” (Syllabus, Prop. 3). The Church’s authentic tradition, as articulated in Leo XIII’s Rerum Novarum, subordinates all technological development to the Eternal Law.
Archbishop Rex Alarcon’s call for “moral responsibility in AI use” constitutes empty verbiage when his sect denies the very possibility of fixed moral truth. Their seminar’s failure to cite Quas Primas‘ teaching that Christ must reign over “all human discoveries” (n.18) exposes the bankruptcy of conciliar technophilia. True shepherds would condemn AI’s transhumanist agenda as satanic rebellion against the divine image, not seek to “use it in ministry.”
Antipapal Usurpation Sanctified Through False Obedience
The gathering’s acceptance of antipope Leo XIV’s message through nuncio Charles Brown constitutes formal participation in the abominatio desolationis. By permitting this Vatican II sectarian to address them as legitimate prelate, these Philippine “bishops” commit the mortal sin of communicatio in sacris with heresiarchs. St. Robert Bellarmine’s doctrine applies here: “Manifest heretics automatically lose all jurisdiction” (De Romano Pontifice), making Brown’s nunciature and antipope Leo’s pretensions utterly invalid. Their embrace of “synodality” language – a code for conciliar church’s democratization heresy – reveals them as wolves in miters.
Bishop Elias Ayuban’s Claretian background ironically underscores his betrayal, as his founder St. Anthony Claret would have denounced this assembly as apostate. When Ayuban laments “tensions receiving more attention than cooperation,” he inverts St. Paul’s command: “There must be heresies, that those who are approved may be made manifest” (1 Cor 11:19). True Catholic unity flows from doctrinal purity, not institutional loyalty to the counterfeit church of Vatican II.
Self-Criticism as Camouflage for Doctrinal Vacuum
The prelates’ admissions of “entrenched clericalism” and “socially indifferent ministry” constitute Freudian slips revealing the conciliar experiment’s failure. Yet their “examination of conscience” remains radically immanentized – a bureaucratic self-assessment utterly divorced from the Church’s true criteria of holiness. Nowhere do they mention the disappearance of vocations due to invalid ordination rites, the sacrilege of lay distributors handling counterfeit “eucharists,” or the suppression of the Traditional Mass – the actual roots of their “credibility crisis.”
Dominican “Sister” Cecilia Espenilla’s claim that “our oneness is very much needed” constitutes blasphemy when that unity comes at the price of truth. As the true Church taught through Pius XI: “There is no true unity outside the one Church of Christ – that is, outside the body of Christ’s true disciples” (Mortalium Animos, 1928). The Philippine conciliar sect’s “oneness” is but the uniformity of apostasy, binding souls ever tighter in the chains of modernism.
Source:
Why Philippine bishops offer Marcos dialogue on corruption (ewtnnews.com)
Date: 30.01.2026