The Abomination of Interreligious Dialogue in Spain
The Spanish Bishops’ Conference (CEE), operating within the post-conciliar “conciliar sect,” has approved the creation of a dedicated department for relations with Islam. This initiative, chaired by auxiliary bishop Ramón Darío Valdivia and endorsed by spokesperson Bishop Francisco César García Magán, aims to “respond to the pastoral challenges posed by the growing presence of Muslim faithful in Spain.” The stated goals include supporting mixed marriages, training clergy and laity for dialogue, developing catechetical materials for converts from Islam, and fostering “institutional relations with Islamic groups.” This follows similar structures in France and Italy. With an estimated 2.5 million Muslims (5% of Spain’s population), the CEE’s action represents a definitive embrace of the modernist, indifferentist principles condemned by the pre-conciliar Magisterium.
1. Factual Deconstruction: The Naturalistic Premise
The article presents the bishops’ decision as a pragmatic, pastoral response to demographic change. The language is bureaucratic and managerial (“department,” “pastoral challenges,” “trained personnel,” “institutional relations”). There is no mention of the supernatural end of the Catholic Church—the salvation of souls—nor of the absolute necessity of the Catholic faith for salvation. The focus is entirely on social integration, interfaith coexistence, and dialogue as ends in themselves. The assumption is that the presence of a large non-Catholic population requires institutional adaptation, not militant evangelization. This is a purely naturalistic, sociological approach that reduces the Church to a humanitarian NGO.
2. Theological Confrontation: The Rejection of Christ’s Kingship
The very foundation of this department is a repudiation of the doctrine so clearly proclaimed by Pope Pius XI in *Quas Primas* (1925), a document provided in the files. Pius XI established the feast of Christ the King precisely to combat the secularism and laicism that remove God from public life. He declared: “When God and Jesus Christ… were removed from laws and states… the foundations of that authority were destroyed.” The Spanish bishops, by creating a department to “relate” with a false religion that denies the Divinity of Christ, actively participate in the removal of Christ from the public square. They treat Islam as a legitimate religious partner, not as a system of error from which souls must be snatched.
Pius XI further stated that Christ’s kingdom “encompasses all men” and that rulers have a duty to publicly honor and obey Him. The bishops’ action does the opposite: it honors a rival “king” (Allah, who is not the Holy Trinity) and fosters loyalty to a religious power that is intrinsically hostile to the Social Reign of Christ. This is the very “secularism” and “laicism” Pius XI lamented, now wearing a cassock.
3. The Omission of Salvation: Silent Apostasy
The gravest error is not in what the article says, but in what it omits entirely. There is zero mention of:
- The exclusive salvific role of the Catholic Church: “Extra Ecclesiam nulla salus” (Outside the Church there is no salvation).
- The duty to convert Muslims to the one true faith. The CEE speaks of “converts to Christianity from Islam” as a group requiring catechesis, but never commands the conversion of Muslims to Catholicism.
- The falsehood of Islam. No word of its denial of the Incarnation, its rejection of the Crucifixion, its intrinsic violence (see the Syllabus of Errors’ condemnation of state religions that “equate” false religions with Catholicism).
- The danger of indifferentism. The department’s very existence implies that Islam is a valid path to God, a damnable error condemned by Pius IX in the Syllabus (Errors #15-18).
- The supernatural purpose of mixed marriages: they are a cross to be borne with the clear aim of the conversion of the non-Catholic spouse and the Catholic’s perseverance in faith, not a “pastoral challenge” to be managed through dialogue.
The silence on these non-negotiable dogmas is the loudest declaration of apostasy. It is the “dialogue of salvation” turned into the “dialogue of perdition.”
4. Symptomatic of the Conciliar Infection
This department is a direct fruit of the poisonous tree planted at Vatican II. The Council’s document *Nostra Aetate* (1965) on non-Christian religions initiated the revolution, treating Islam with “esteem” and recognizing “elements of truth” in it. This was a 180-degree reversal from the pre-1958 Church, which viewed Islam as a Christological heresy and a scourge. The “Subcommittee for Interconfessional Relations and Interreligious Dialogue” itself is a conciliar invention, a bureaucratic arm of the “abomination of desolation” standing in the holy place (cf. Matt 24:15).
The training at the Pontifical Institute for Arabic and Islamic Studies in Rome is itself suspect, as the entire Roman curia has been occupied by modernists since the death of Pope Pius XII. The “doctrinal work” produced by similar bodies in France and Italy, which the CEE praises, is replete with heresies on religious liberty and the evolution of dogma, as condemned by St. Pius X in *Lamentabili sane exitu* (e.g., Prop. #80: “The Roman Pontiff can, and ought to, reconcile himself, and come to terms with progress, liberalism and modern civilization”).
5. The Naturalistic and Masonic Mindset
The approach is fundamentally naturalistic. It assumes a common moral ground between Catholicism and Islam, ignoring that Islam’s morality is based on the will of a capricious deity (Allah) and not on the Natural Law as participation in the Eternal Law of the Triune God. It is a “human rights” approach, where the “right” to practice Islam is defended, while the “right” of Christ to reign over Spain is denied.
This mirrors the Masonic strategy of “building a world without exclusion,” a one-world religion foretold by Pope Pius IX in the Syllabus and by the Fatima files (which detail the Masonic operation to syncretize religions). The CEE’s work is a concrete step toward the “ecumenical project” where Catholicism is reduced to one option among many, precisely what the “False Fatima Apparitions” file identifies as a goal: “religious relativism” and “dialogue with schismatic Orthodoxy” extended to Islam.
6. Critique of the “Clerics”: The Scandal of Shepherds
Bishops Valdivia and García Magán are exemplars of the post-conciliar “clergy” who have abandoned the care of souls for the management of interreligious affairs. Their primary duty, as defined by every pre-1958 pontiff, is to feed their flock with Catholic truth and to extirpate error. Instead, they are “training personnel” to dialogue with agents of Satan (for “Satan himself transforms himself into an angel of light”, 2 Cor 11:14). They scandalize the faithful by implying that the Immaculate Heart of Mary, which desires the conversion of sinners, especially Muslims, is somehow satisfied by institutional talks rather than by the preaching of the Gospel.
Their actions violate the clear teaching of Pope Pius IX in the Syllabus: “It is false that the civil liberty of every form of worship… conduce more easily to corrupt the morals and minds of the people, and to propagate the pest of indifferentism.” (Error #79). They actively propagate that pest.
7. The Missing King: Pius XI’s Warning Ignored
Pius XI, in *Quas Primas*, did not institute a feast for empty dialogue. He demanded the public and social reign of Christ: “Let rulers of states therefore not refuse public veneration and obedience to the reigning Christ… If rulers… will have the conviction that they exercise authority… in the place of the Divine King… peace will flourish.” The Spanish bishops have done the exact opposite. They have refused to demand that the Spanish state, which legally privileges Catholicism, enforce Catholic unity. They have refused to call for the conversion of the Muslim population. They have refused to condemn the Islamic religion. They have, in effect, dethroned Christ in Spain and offered His throne to Allah.
The feast of Christ the King, which they presumably still celebrate, has become a meaningless ritual, a “vain repetition” (Matt 6:7), because their actions deny its very purpose. They honor Christ with their lips while their hearts are far from Him, seeking the approval of the world and the “dialogue” of the Antichrist.
Conclusion: A Sect Serving the Globalist Agenda
The creation of this department is not a pastoral innovation but a definitive act of apostasy. It is the logical outcome of the conciliar revolution’s rejection of the exclusive, social kingship of Jesus Christ. It implements the Masonic program of neutralizing the Catholic Church by turning it into a partner in a global religious consortium. The Spanish bishops, by this act, demonstrate that they are not Catholic bishops but functionaries of the “paramasonic structure” occupying the Vatican. They serve the “abomination of desolation” by building bridges to the religion of the Antichrist, all while their own people are being overwhelmed by an Islamic invasion that will, if unchecked, extinguish the last vestiges of Catholic Spain. Their “dialogue” is a dialogue of the deaf, where the Catholic side has already surrendered the only truth that matters: “I am the way, and the truth, and the life. No man cometh to the Father, but by Me” (John 14:6).
Source:
Catholic Church in Spain creates department for relations with Islam (ewtnnews.com)
Date: 02.03.2026