The Vatican News portal reports on Israeli cabinet approval of expanded control in the West Bank, altering Oslo Accords arrangements and transferring authority over “heritage sites” like Rachel’s Tomb to Israeli control. A Palestinian official declares this ends meaningful negotiations. The article presents the geopolitical conflict through a purely secular, naturalistic framework, omitting any reference to supernatural justice, the Social Kingship of Our Lord Jesus Christ, or the moral obligations of states derived from Divine Law. This silence is not neutrality but a profound apostasy, reflecting the modernist paradigm that has infected even those structures occupying the Vatican.
The Theological Bankruptcy of Naturalistic Geopolitical Reporting
Factual Deconstruction: The Omission of the Primary Cause
The article details political maneuvers, territorial disputes, and international law considerations. It quotes Palestinian officials lamenting the end of negotiations and describes settlement facts. What it completely omits is the primum mobile of all true peace and just order: the reign of Christ the King. Pope Pius XI, in his encyclical Quas Primas (1925), definitively established that “the hope of lasting peace will not yet shine upon nations as long as individuals and states renounce and do not wish to recognize the reign of our Savior.” The article’s entire frame of reference—”political violence,” “control,” “negotiations”—operates within the naturalistic order condemned by the Syllabus of Errors. It treats the conflict as a mere dispute between human wills, ignoring the divine constitution of society. The Syllabus, under “Errors Concerning Civil Society,” condemns 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” (Error 39). The article implicitly accepts this error by discussing state authority without reference to its subordination to God’s law.
Linguistic Analysis: The Vocabulary of Apostasy
The language is bureaucratic, dispassionate, and secular. Phrases like “long-standing division of authority,” “municipal services,” “heritage sites,” “archaeological resources,” and “international law” constitute a deliberate evacuation of the supernatural. This is the language of the abomination of desolation standing in the holy place (cf. Matt. 24:15). It replaces the language of justice, sin, blasphemy, and the rights of God with the jargon of administrative reorganization. The tone is that of a UN briefing, not a Catholic analysis. This linguistic naturalism is a direct fruit of Modernism, which Lamentabili Sane Exitu (1907) condemns in Proposition 58: “Truth changes with man, because it develops with him, in him, and through him.” The article treats “truth” about the land as a negotiable human construct, not an objective moral order grounded in Divine Revelation and the juridical authority of Christ.
Theological Confrontation: Christ’s Rights vs. Human Power
The article’s foundational error is its silence on the Social Kingship of Christ. Pius XI in Quas Primas taught that Christ’s kingdom “encompasses all men” and that “no power in us is exempt from this reign.” He explicitly states that rulers must “publicly honor Christ and obey Him,” for “His royal dignity demands that all relations in the state be ordered on the basis of God’s commandments and Christian principles.” The article discusses “planning and development” in Hebron without a single syllable about whether these plans conform to the lex divina. This is the essence of the error condemned in Syllabus Error 44: the civil authority may “interfere in matters relating to religion, morality and spiritual government.” By accepting the secular premise that such questions are separate from the “political” story, the article endorses this condemned error.
Furthermore, the article mentions “heritage sites” like Rachel’s Tomb. A Catholic analysis must recognize this as a blasphemous usurpation. Rachel’s Tomb is a Catholic holy place, a site of profound significance in salvation history (cf. Gen. 35:19-20). Its transfer to a “newly created Israeli authority” is an act of sacrilegious seizure, placing a sacred site under the control of a regime that, while not Jewish in the theological sense, operates on a fundamentally naturalistic and often anti-Christian principle. The article reports this as a mere administrative change, stripping it of its supernatural horror. This mirrors the conciliar sect’s own ecumenical silence on the duty of states to recognize the unique rights of the Catholic Church, as condemned in Syllabus Error 77: “In the present day it is no longer expedient that the Catholic religion should be held as the only religion of the State.”
Symptomatic Analysis: The Fruit of the Conciliar Apostasy
This article is a perfect symptom of the post-conciliar church’s abandonment of its prophetic role. The “Vatican News” outlet, emanating from the structures occupying the Vatican since John XXIII, produces content that is functionally indistinguishable from any secular news agency. Where is the call for the conversion of the Jewish people? Where is the condemnation of the Talmudic blasphemies against Christ? Where is the reminder that peace is only possible through the Immaculate Heart of Mary (a message suppressed by the same modernists)? The silence is deafening and damning. It reflects the “hermeneutic of discontinuity” denounced by Benedict XVI (a heretic) but practiced universally in the conciliar sect. The article’s framework is that of the United Nations, not of the Civitas Dei.
The focus on “two-state solutions,” “negotiations,” and “international law” is the precise naturalism Pius XI lamented in Quas Primas: “When God and Jesus Christ… were removed from laws and states… the foundations of that authority were destroyed.” The conciliar sect, by endorsing religious freedom (Dignitatis Humanae) and embracing the errors of the Syllabus (especially Errors 15-18 on indifferentism), has rendered itself incapable of speaking this truth. Its media organs thus propagate the very secularism it pretends to critique.
The Duty of the True Catholic: Rejection and Counter-Witness
A Catholic, adhering to the integral faith before the 1958 apostasy, must reject this narrative entirely. The conflict in the Holy Land is, first and foremost, a supernatural drama: the struggle between the City of God and the City of Man, between the seed of the Woman and the seed of the Serpent (Gen. 3:15). The article’s omission of the real presence of Christ the King in the Holy Land—a land redeemed by His Blood and destined for His public reign—is a form of practical atheism. The only legitimate Catholic position is the one articulated by Pius XI: to work for the “restoration of the reign of our Lord” in all nations, including Israel and Palestine. This requires the explicit condemnation of the Talmudic denial of Christ, the defense of the rights of the Catholic Church in the Holy Places (currently violated by the Status Quo agreements which are themselves a compromise with error), and the proclamation that true justice can only flow from the Scepter of Christ.
The article, by its very secular premise, aids the forces of apostasy. It presents a conflict where both sides are equally “political” and equally distant from Christ. But Catholic doctrine, as defined by the Council of Florence and Pius IX in the Syllabus, holds that “outside the Church there is no salvation” (Extra Ecclesiam Nulla Salus). The article’s equal treatment of Israeli and Palestinian narratives as equally valid “political” viewpoints is a denial of this dogma. The Palestinian cause, while having natural justice on its side regarding land theft, is led by a largely Muslim population that denies the Divinity of Christ. The Israeli state is a product of Talmudic materialism. Neither represents the Regnum Christi. The Catholic must instead pray and work for the day when “every tongue will confess that our Lord Jesus Christ is in the glory of God the Father” (Phil. 2:11), and when the Holy Land will be ruled by the Vicar of Christ according to the laws of the Gospel.
Conclusion: A Call to Repudiate the Modernist Paradigm
This article is not merely bad reporting; it is a doctrinal failure of the highest order. It demonstrates that the conciliar sect, in its media and likely in its “diplomacy,” has fully embraced the secular, naturalistic worldview condemned by Pius IX and Pius X. Its silence on the Social Kingship of Christ is a tacit denial of a dogma defined in principle by the Council of Nicaea and proclaimed by Pius XI. The true Catholic, therefore, must repudiate this narrative and all who propagate it. He must look to the unchanging teaching of the Church: that “all power in heaven and on earth has been given to” Christ (Matt. 28:18), and that “the state is happy not by one means, and man by another; for the state is nothing else than a harmonious association of men” (St. Augustine, quoted in Quas Primas). The harmony of the state is found only in the harmony of its laws with the eternal law of God. This article, by promoting a vision of politics devoid of Christ, preaches the gospel of Antichrist. It must be rejected with the same vigor as the errors of Modernism condemned by St. Pius X.
Source:
Fears over Israeli expansion into West Bank (vaticannews.va)
Date: 14.02.2026