Vatican News’ Naturalistic Hope Betrays Ukraine’s Crucifixion
The cited article from Vatican News, dated 21 February 2026, presents an interview with Bishop Maksym Ryabukha, Archiepiscopal Exarch of Donets’k, Ukraine. It describes pastoral and humanitarian activities within the territory of the post-conciliar hierarchy operating in Ukraine, emphasizing themes of “hope,” “fraternity,” and the Church’s role in providing material aid and maintaining community life amidst the war. The narrative centers on human resilience and the perceived absence of divine abandonment, framing the conflict primarily through a lens of suffering and solidarity, while omitting any supernatural context, call to conversion, or critique of the modernist errors that have precipitated the current global crisis.
Naturalistic Humanism Masquerading as Catholic Pastoral Care
The article’s core error is its reduction of the Church’s mission to a naturalistic humanitarian agency. Bishop Ryabukha states, “God has not abandoned His people… the dream and hope of victory over evil are stronger than all the fears and hardships.” This sentiment, while emotionally resonant, is theologically bankrupt. It replaces the Catholic doctrine of salus animarum (the salvation of souls) as the Church’s supreme law with a vague, immanent “hope” disconnected from grace, sacraments, and the absolute necessity of the Catholic faith. The Encyclical Quas Primas of Pope Pius XI, which the conciliar sect cynically cites while destroying its meaning, declares: “When God and Jesus Christ were removed from laws and states… the foundations of that authority were destroyed.” The interview’s focus on generators, medicine, and “fraternity” mirrors the secular NGO model, utterly silent on the primary duty to preach the Catholic faith as the sole path to salvation and to demand the public reign of Christ the King over all nations, as mandated by Quas Primas. The “hope” described is not the theological virtue of hope, which is in Deum (in God) and oriented toward eternal life, but a psychological optimism about human endurance and material recovery.
Silence on the Supernatural: The Gravest Accusation
The most damning aspect of the interview is its complete omission of supernatural truths. There is no mention of:
* The Holy Sacrifice of the Mass as the true and infinite value of the Church’s work, which alone can propitiate God for sin and obtain graces.
* The state of grace and the necessity of receiving the sacraments (Baptism, Confession, Holy Communion) for salvation, especially in danger of death.
* The reality of mortal sin and the eternal consequences of dying in it.
* The specific, Catholic devotion to the Sacred Heart or the Immaculate Heart as the means to consecrate nations and obtain peace, as opposed to generic “prayer.”
* The duty of Catholic rulers to recognize Christ’s Kingship and legislate in conformity with His law, as Pius XI demanded.
* The modernistic heresies condemned by Lamentabili Sane Exitu (1907) and the Syllabus of Errors (1864), which are the direct cause of the moral chaos leading to wars like this one. The article treats the war as a purely geopolitical tragedy, ignoring Pope Pius IX’s condemnation of the error that “the civil authority may interfere in matters relating to religion, morality and spiritual government” (Syllabus, Error 44). By not condemning the secularist, apostate principles of the Russian state (or any state) that wage war without reference to the Social Kingship of Christ, the interview implicitly accepts the modernist separation of Church and State.
Symptomatic of the Conciliar Revolution’s Apostasy
This interview is a perfect product of the conciliar sect’s “hermeneutics of continuity,” which is a lie. It uses Catholic terminology (“Exarch,” “parish,” “liturgy,” “Bishop”) while emptying them of their Catholic content. The “pastoral activities” described—catechism schools, youth meetings, Knights of Columbus—occur within a structure that promotes religious liberty (condemned by the Syllabus, Error 15), ecumenism (a project to dilute Catholic truth), and collegiality (destroying papal primacy). The bishop’s role is reduced to a community organizer and chaplain of a humanitarian effort, not a successor of the Apostles with the duty to teach, sanctify, and govern in the name of Christ, with the authority to condemn error and excommunicate heretics. This is the “democratization of the Church” and the “cult of man” decried by Saint Pius X in Pascendi Dominici Gregis. The article’s tone is cautious, bureaucratic, and focused on human experience, precisely the “modernist” method of avoiding definitive, dogmatic truths that would offend the “progress” of the world.
The Omission of the True Cause and Solution
The article’s foundational lie is its diversion from the real evil. The true cause of the war and all societal collapse is not merely “Russian aggression” in a vacuum, but the apostasy of the modern world, which has rejected Christ the King. Pope Pius XI in Quas Primas identified the plague: “It began with the denial of Christ the Lord’s reign over all nations… then it was subordinated to secular power… further still went those who conceived that the divine religion should be replaced by a natural religion.” The conciliar sect, by embracing religious liberty and ecumenism, has actively promoted this apostasy. Therefore, the “solution” offered—more humanitarian aid, more “hope,” more “fraternity”—is a satanic distraction. The true Catholic response, as defined by the pre-1958 Magisterium, is: 1) Public and solemn consecration of Russia (and all nations) to the Immaculate Heart of Mary, as requested at the rejected and suspicious Fatima apparitions (which the conciliar sect manipulates for its own ends); 2) Unwavering defense of the Social Reign of Christ the King, which demands that all human laws and governments be subject to the law of God and the teaching authority of the true Church; 3) The deposition and rejection of all modernist clerics who have embraced the errors of Vatican II. The article says nothing of this. It promotes a “Church” that is a mere beneficiary of the world’s charity, not its judge and ruler.
Critique of the “Bishop” and the Usurping Hierarchy
Bishop Maksym Ryabukha operates within a schismatic structure. The “Archiepiscopal Exarchate of Donets’k” is a jurisdiction of the “Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church,” which is in full communion with the antipopes from John XXIII through “Leo XIV” (Robert Prevost). This communion means adherence to the heresies of Vatican II: religious liberty, collegiality, ecumenism, and the new canon law that contradicts the 1917 Code. Therefore, his episcopal rank, while potentially valid in terms of sacramental orders (though this is uncertain given the pervasive corruption of the conciliar sacramental rites), is utterly null in terms of jurisdiction and teaching authority. He is a “bishop” of the “neo-church,” a “paramasonic structure” as described in the analysis of the Fatima file. His pastoral work, while appearing charitable, is performed in a state of formal cooperation with a heretical sect. It is a work that ultimately sustains the faithful in error, keeping them within the conciliar abomination rather than calling them to flee to the true, remnant Church, which endures in those who reject Vatican II and its antipopes. His message of “hope” is a opiate that prevents the necessary act of fuga saeculi (fleeing the world) and resistance to the Antichrist.
Conclusion: A Snare for Souls in a Time of Apostasy
This Vatican News article is not a report on Catholic resilience; it is a propaganda piece for the conciliar sect’s new religion. It replaces the doctrine of Christ the King with a vague, humanistic “hope.” It replaces the sacraments and the necessity of Catholic unity with stories of “fraternity” among those who remain in the schismatic structure. It replaces the call to convert nations and reject modernism with a focus on generators and medicine. In doing so, it perfectly embodies the errors of the Syllabus: it treats the State and war as purely temporal matters (Error 44), promotes a “natural religion” of humanitarianism (Error 5), and utterly fails to assert the Church’s right to judge and direct even temporal affairs. The faithful are being led to believe that their participation in this “Church” and its works is salvific, when in reality it is a path to damnation through formal cooperation with heresy and apostasy. The only true hope for Ukraine and the world is the restoration of the immutable Catholic faith, the public confession of Christ as King, and the utter rejection of the conciliar revolution and its antipopes. This interview is spiritual poison.
Source:
Exarch of Donetsk: The hope to overcome evil remains strong (vaticannews.va)
Date: 21.02.2026