Ethiopian “Bishops” Surrender Christ’s Kingship to Secular Failures
[The “Catholic Bishops’ Conference of Ethiopia” (CBCE) issued a statement on November 4, 2025, condemning attacks against St. Mary’s Catholic Church in West Harerghe and other religious communities in Oromia. The statement, reported by ACI Africa and CNA, laments the loss of life and destruction of property while appealing to the Ethiopian government for protection. It expresses solidarity with the Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church and the Ethiopian Islamic Affairs Supreme Council, offering condolences without distinction between the One True Church and false religions. The “bishops” make no reference to the Social Kingship of Christ, the duty of civil authorities to profess the Catholic Faith, or the Church’s exclusive right to govern her affairs without state interference.]
Naturalism Replaces Supernatural Faith
The CBCE’s statement reduces the Church’s mission to a humanitarian NGO, framing violence as a mere breach of “safety and security” rather than a spiritual catastrophe requiring penance and reparation. Nowhere do these “bishops” identify the root cause: societal rejection of Christ the King. Pius XI’s encyclical Quas Primas (1925) explicitly taught that “nations will be happy and peaceful only when they recognize the Church as Queen and submit to Christ’s law.” By contrast, the CBCE’s appeal to secular authorities accepts the modernist heresy that temporal power exists independently of divine authority—a direct violation of the Syllabus of Errors (Pius IX, 1864), which condemned the proposition 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 “bishops” compound this error by declaring:
“The Catholic Church strongly condemns these inhumane acts and calls on the government to take immediate and necessary legal measures.”
This language echoes the naturalistic fallacy condemned in St. Pius X’s Lamentabili sane exitu (1907), which rejected the notion that “the Church is an enemy of the progress of natural and theological sciences” (Proposition 57). By reducing the Church’s response to legalistic appeals, the CBCE implicitly denies her divine authority to govern souls and nations through grace.
Ecumenical Apostasy in Condolences
The statement’s “heartfelt condolences” to the “Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Church” and “Ethiopian Islamic Affairs Supreme Council” constitute religious indifferentism, a heresy anathematized by Pius IX: “Good hope at least is to be entertained of the eternal salvation of all those who are not at all in the true Church of Christ” (Syllabus, Error 17). The “bishops” treat schismatics and Muslims as spiritual equals to Catholics, ignoring the dogma Extra Ecclesiam Nulla Salus. This aligns with Vatican II’s false ecumenism but contradicts Pope Pius XI’s Mortalium Animos (1928): “The union of Christians can only be promoted by promoting the return to the one true Church of Christ of those who are separated from it.”
Worse still, the CBCE refers to God as “the Creator”—a deist term favored by Freemasons—rather than invoking Our Lord Jesus Christ. This deliberate ambiguity masks the Trinity and echoes the anti-dogmatic relativism of Modernism, which Pius X called “the synthesis of all heresies.”
Omission of Martyrdom and Reparation
Nowhere does the CBCE mention the supreme witness of martyrdom or urge the faithful to embrace suffering for Christ. Instead, the statement treats death as a purely natural tragedy, stating: “those who lost their lives […] may find eternal rest.” This contradicts the Church’s perennial teaching that martyrdom is a privilege (Acts 5:41) and the highest act of charity. The “bishops” fail to distinguish between victims killed in odium fidei and those who died without explicit witness to Christ—thereby undermining the theology of martyrdom defined at Trent.
The CBCE’s silence on reparation through the Mass and sacraments exposes their disconnect from true Catholic spirituality. Pius XI’s Quas Primas emphasized that Christ’s Kingship is exercised primarily through the Holy Sacrifice: “Christ reigns by the Truth, the Life, and the Law of Grace.” By neglecting to call for public Rosaries, Eucharistic processions, or consecrations to the Sacred Heart, these “bishops” abandon their flock to secular saviors.
The Masonic Roots of False Unity
The CBCE’s alignment with Orthodox and Islamic leaders mirrors the ecumenical syncretism of the World Council of Churches (WCC), cited in the article’s photo credit. Pius IX’s Syllabus condemned such collaborations: “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” (Error 18). The “bishops” thus participate in the Masonic project of reducing all religions to a common denominator, as documented in the anti-Fatima analysis: “Ecumenism project: The imprecise formulation ‘conversion of Russia’ opens the way to religious relativism.”
Conclusion: A Church in Chains
The CBCE’s statement exemplifies the apostate “conciliar church” that emerged after 1958. These “bishops”—likely invalidly ordained under post-Vatican II rites—act as bureaucrats rather than shepherds. They ignore Pope Pius XI’s warning that “the rebellion of individuals and states against the authority of Christ has produced the worldwide collapse of society” (Quas Primas). Until Ethiopia’s civil and religious leaders publicly consecrate the nation to the Sacred Heart and restore the Social Kingship of Christ, no government “protection” will stem the violence. As Psalm 126:1 proclaims: Nisi Dominus custodierit civitatem, frustra vigilant qui custodiunt eam (“Unless the Lord guards the city, the watchman keeps vigil in vain”).
Source:
Ethiopia’s Catholic bishops condemn deadly attack on parish, call for government protection (catholicnewsagency.com)
Article date: 06.11.2025