Nicaragua’s Anti-Catholic Persecution: The Conciliar Church’s Denial of Christ the King
The article reports the expulsion of Father José Concepción Reyes Mairena by the Nicaraguan government, bringing the total of expelled religious to 309. It cites researcher Martha Patricia Molina, who states that the dictatorship has carried out 1,070 attacks and banned 16,500 processions since 2018. It notes that Bishop Sócrates René Sándigo Jirón voted in Ortega’s 2021 election, while other bishops like Rolando Álvarez and Silvio Báez were deported. Bishop Báez, meeting with “Pope” Leo XIV in 2025, called the regime’s actions “crimes against humanity” and “homicidal.” The article frames the conflict as a political human rights issue, with the Church portrayed as a victim of state oppression.
This narrative reduces the Mystical Body of Christ to a secular non-governmental organization, utterly betraying the Catholic Church’s divine mandate to proclaim the Social Kingship of Christ and her absolute immunity from secular powers, as defined by the pre-conciliar Magisterium. The article’s naturalistic focus on “crimes” and “human rights” exposes the apostate nature of the conciliar sect, which has exchanged the doctrine of Christ the King for the ideology of man.
Factual Distortion: Political Persecution vs. Persecution for the Faith
The article describes the expulsions as attacks by a “dictatorship,” but it carefully avoids defining the persecution as for the faith. From the integral Catholic perspective, the state’s conflict with the Church arises not from generic political dissent but from the Church’s unwavering proclamation of absolute truth and her refusal to accept the modernist errors of religious liberty and separation of Church and State. The article’s omission of this supernatural cause is deliberate. It presents the situation as a mere power struggle, aligning with the conciliar sect’s rejection of the Church’s right to demand the public recognition of the Catholic faith. As Pope Pius XI declared in Quas Primas: “When God and Jesus Christ… were removed from laws and states… the foundations of that authority were destroyed.” The article’s framework implicitly accepts the secular state’s autonomy, contradicting the Syllabus of Errors’ condemnation of the separation of Church and State (Error 55) and the state’s supremacy (Errors 39-42).
Linguistic Naturalism: The Language of Human Rights Over Divine Law
The article’s vocabulary is steeped in modern international law and human rights discourse: “crimes against humanity,” “homicidal actions,” “legal irregularities,” “international norms.” This language is antithetical to Catholic tradition, which speaks of sin, heresy, apostasy, and the violation of God’s law. The Syllabus of Errors explicitly condemns the notion that moral laws do not need divine sanction (Error 56) and that civil authority can judge religious matters (Error 44). By using secular terminology, the article sacralizes the UN’s naturalistic framework, which Pius IX called the “synagogue of Satan” (Syllabus). The grave silence on the supernatural dimension—the state’s obligation to worship Christ as King, the salvation of souls, the final judgment—is the clearest mark of apostasy. Bishop Báez’s reference to “crimes” that “will be punished sooner or later” appeals to human tribunals, not to the divine justice of Christ the King, who “will come to judge the living and the dead.”
Theological Omission: The Social Kingship of Christ Silenced
The article never mentions the Social Kingship of Our Lord Jesus Christ, the central doctrine that demands the state’s public veneration and obedience to the Church. Pius XI’s Quas Primas is unequivocal: “Let rulers of states therefore not refuse public veneration and obedience to the reigning Christ… The state must leave the same freedom to the members of Orders and Congregations… The annual celebration of this solemnity will also remind states that not only private individuals, but also rulers and governments have the duty to publicly honor Christ and obey Him.” The article’s complete omission of this duty proves that the conciliar sect has fully embraced the errors condemned in the Syllabus: that the state can be neutral toward religion (Error 77) and that the Church has no right to demand recognition (Error 21). Instead, the article implies the Church’s “rights” derive from human dignity and international law—a direct inversion of Catholic doctrine, which holds that all rights flow from God’s law.
Symptomatic Apostasy: The Conciliar Church’s Alignment with Modernist Errors
The article’s reporting of Bishop Sándigo’s participation in Ortega’s election is scandalous. A Catholic bishop should never lend legitimacy to a farcical election under an anti-Catholic regime, as it violates the Church’s independence (Syllabus Error 20) and implies the state’s authority is independent of Christ. More damning is the report that bishops Álvarez, Báez, and others met with “Pope” Leo XIV. From the integral Catholic perspective, Leo XIV (Robert Prevost) is a manifest heretic, having promoted heresies like religious liberty and collegiality. According to St. Robert Bellarmine, cited in the Defense of Sedevacantism file, a manifest heretic “by that very fact ceases to be Pope and head.” The 1917 Canon 188.4 states that an office is Vacant if one “publicly defects from the Catholic faith.” The bishops’ communion with an antipope is formal schism, yet the article treats it as a normal pastoral visit. This exposes the conciliar sect’s fundamental rupture with Catholic unity.
The Real Cause: Modernist Apostasy, Not Political Disagreement
The article blames Ortega’s “dictatorship” but ignores the deeper cause: the modernist apostasy within the Church since the 20th century, warned by St. Pius X in Pascendi Dominici gregis and Lamentabili sane exitu. The conciliar church’s embrace of ecumenism, religious freedom, and the “hermeneutics of continuity” has emptied the Church of her supernatural authority, making her a target for any state that rejects her. The Fatima file correctly identifies the diversion from the “main danger: modernist apostasy within the Church.” The article’s focus on external political oppression is a classic modernist tactic to divert attention from the internal corruption. The expelled priests are from dioceses led by conciliar bishops who accept the antipope and the post-conciliar reforms; their “persecution” is a consequence of the Church’s own apostasy, which has forfeited the protection of God.
Conclusion: The Conciliar Church as a Naturalistic NGO
This article is a paradigm of the conciliar sect’s ideological capture. It replaces the Catholic Church’s mission—to subject all nations to the reign of Christ the King—with the secular agenda of human rights activism. The bishops’ appeals to “international norms” and “crimes against humanity” are a betrayal of the Church’s divine law. As Pius XI taught, true peace flows only from the recognition of Christ’s kingship: “Oh, what happiness we would enjoy if individuals, families, and states allowed themselves to be governed by Christ.” The article’s silence on this truth is a damning admission of apostasy. The faithful must reject this naturalistic narrative and return to the immutable Tradition that demands the public and exclusive reign of Our Lord Jesus Christ over all societies.
Source:
Nicaraguan dictatorship expels another priest: 309 religious forced to leave so far (ewtnnews.com)
Date: 18.02.2026