India’s Bishops Champion Constitutional Idolatry Over Christ’s Social Kingship
The EWTN News article dated February 11, 2026 reports on the election of Cardinal Anthony Poola as president of the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of India (CBCI) and the conference’s demands for repeal of anti-conversion laws. While presenting this as advancement for Dalit Christians, the article reveals the conciliar sect’s fundamental betrayal of Catholic principles in exchange for secular approval.
Naturalistic Reduction of Conversion to “Human Right”
The bishops’ statement reduces the Church’s divine mission to a constitutional dispute, declaring:
“the repeal of all legislation undermining religious freedom and privacy”
while citing Article 25 of India’s constitution. This juridical positivism directly contradicts Pius XI’s encyclical Quas Primas (1925), which teaches: “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” (§19). By framing conversion as mere “religious freedom,” the CBCI ignores the munus regale (kingly office) of Christ, who commanded: “Going therefore, teach ye all nations; baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost” (Matt 28:19).
Ecumenical Betrayal of Catholic Exclusive Claims
Cardinal Poola’s pledge to work for “the unity of the Churches in India, the unity of Christians, and a deeper unity with the people of our nation” constitutes theological indifferentism condemned by Pius IX’s Syllabus of Errors: “Protestantism is nothing more than another form of the same true Christian religion, in which form it is given to please God equally as in the Catholic Church” (Proposition 18). The bishops’ call for “sustained interreligious dialogue” ignores the extra Ecclesiam nulla salus doctrine defined at the Council of Florence (1442) and replaces evangelization with syncretistic “social harmony.”
Caste Obsession Replacing Spiritual Hierarchy
The elevation of Poola as “first Dalit” CBCI president exposes the neo-church’s Marxist fixation on earthly categories over supernatural realities. While the article celebrates this as progress against “discrimination,” it omits the Church’s true solution: abolishing caste distinctions through baptismal regeneration (Gal 3:28). Instead, the CBCI demands “Scheduled Caste” welfare benefits for Dalit Christians – a materialist ploy that reduces the Church to a social NGO. As Pius XI warned in Divini Redemptoris (1937), such class warfare rhetoric “is directed to the overthrow of the whole social order and the subversion of all civilized government” (§10).
Constitutional Idolatry Over Divine Law
The bishops’ repeated appeals to India’s “secular democratic republic” constitution constitute blasphemous subordination of Divine Law to human legislation. Their statement that “Fidelity to the Constitution of India flows from our Christian faith” inverts the principatus (primacy) of Christ’s reign over nations. Pius IX’s Syllabus explicitly condemned the notion that “the State, as being the origin and source of all rights, is endowed with a certain right not circumscribed by any limits” (Proposition 39). Nowhere do these conciliar prelates mention the Kingship of Christ or the duty of states to submit to His law.
Omission of Supernatural Realities
The entire CBCI statement exhibits the naturalism condemned in Pius X’s Lamentabili Sane (1907), particularly Proposition 58: “Truth changes with man, because it develops with him, in him, and through him.” Not once do the bishops mention grace, sacraments, or the Four Last Things. Their “peace-building” initiatives lack any reference to the Prince of Peace, reducing Christianity to social work. As the Holy Office decreed in 1949: “A false opinion cannot be tolerated which contends that the Church’s purpose is not the eternal salvation of souls, but the prosperity of this mortal life on earth” (Decree against Fr. Leonard Feeney).
Conclusion: Apostate Shepherds Serving Humanist Agenda
This CBCI meeting demonstrates the conciliar sect’s complete absorption into the “abomination of desolation” (Matt 24:15) – a church structure that “sitteth in the temple of God, shewing himself as if he were God” (2 Thess 2:4). By exalting constitutional rights over divine mandates and caste politics over supernatural unity, these “blind leaders of the blind” (Matt 15:14) accelerate India’s descent into Hindu nationalism while betraying the Church’s true mission: “For we preach not ourselves, but Jesus Christ our Lord” (2 Cor 4:5).
Source:
India’s bishops elect first Dalit president, demand end to conversion laws (ewtnnews.com)
Date: 11.02.2026