The article reports that the Cuban communist regime will release 51 prisoners following talks with the Vatican, framing the decision as a product of “goodwill” and “smooth relations” between the state and the Holy See. This diplomatic gesture, timed with Holy Week, is presented as a positive outcome of dialogue, with the Holy See confirming recent conversations. The analysis exposes this as a definitive act of apostasy by the conciliar sect, which has utterly abandoned the Catholic doctrine of the Social Kingship of Christ and replaced it with naturalistic humanism and communist appeasement.
Diplomacy of Apostasy: The Abandonment of Christ the King
The entire premise of the article rests on the modernist, naturalistic assumption that the primary mission of the Church in the world is to broker geopolitical deals and secure humanitarian concessions from atheistic regimes. This is a radical repudiation of the immutable Catholic doctrine defined by Pope Pius XI in his encyclical Quas Primas, instituted precisely to combat the secularism condemned by Pope Pius IX’s Syllabus of Errors. Pius XI declared that the feast of Christ the King was established “to provide a special remedy against the plague that poisons human society,” identifying that plague as secularism and laicism, which “denied Christ the Lord’s reign over all nations.” The article’s complete silence on the necessity of Cuba’s public conversion to Christ and the submission of its laws to the Divinum Imperium is the gravest accusation. Where is the demand that the Cuban state recognize “that the authority of rulers and governments proceeds from God, as from a First Cause” (Quas Primas)? The “spirit of goodwill” celebrated here is the spirit of Modernism, the “synthesis of all heresies” condemned by St. Pius X in Pascendi Dominici gregis and Lamentabili sane exitu, which seeks to reconcile the Church with the principles of the French Revolution and communist materialism.
The Heresy of “Smooth Relations” with the State
The phrase “smooth relations” between the Cuban state and the Vatican is a euphemism for the heresy of Indifferentism and the error of the separation of Church and State, both solemnly condemned. The Syllabus of Errors (Error 55) anathematizes the proposition: “The Church ought to be separated from the State, and the State from the Church.” The article portrays this separation as a neutral, even positive, reality in which two parallel powers can engage in polite diplomacy. This is the very error Pius IX condemned. Furthermore, Error 19 states: “The Church is not a true and perfect society, entirely free… but it appertains to the civil power to define what are the rights of the Church.” By negotiating with the Cuban regime as one sovereign entity to another, the conciliar sect implicitly accepts the communist state’s right to define the terms of engagement, thereby denying the Church’s inherent, God-given right to demand the public reign of Christ. The “close and smooth relations” are thus a public manifestation of the Church’s abdication of her divine mission to teach all nations and to seek the establishment of the Social Reign of Christ.
Omission of the Supernatural: The Mark of Modernism
The article is a masterpiece of naturalistic reporting, utterly devoid of any supernatural perspective. It discusses “prisoners,” “humanitarian” releases, “dialogue,” and “goodwill.” It is silent on: the salvation of souls, the state of grace, the Sacrifice of the Mass, the necessity of Catholic faith for salvation, the moral obligation of the state to profess the Catholic religion, and the final judgment. This silence is not accidental; it is the very essence of the “synthesis of all errors.” St. Pius X, in Lamentabili sane exitu, condemned the proposition that “The Church is an enemy of the progress of natural and theological sciences” (Prop. 57), but more fundamentally, he condemned the Modernist premise that reduces religion to a mere internal sentiment or a component of social progress. The article’s framework assumes religion is a private, social good, not the exclusive path to salvation and the sole foundation for just public order. Pius XI in Quas Primas warned that when “God and Jesus Christ were removed from laws and states… the foundations of that authority were destroyed.” The Vatican’s talks with Cuba, conducted without any public call for the island’s conversion, the restoration of Catholic education, or the repeal of laws persecuting the Church, are a concrete act of removing Christ from the public square.
Complicity with Communism: The “Dialogue” Heresy
The article notes the talks occur amid “renewed tensions” with the United States, presenting the Vatican as a neutral mediator. This role is antithetical to Catholic teaching. The Syllabus of Errors (Section IV) explicitly condemns Socialism, Communism, and secret societies. Error 64 even declares: “It is lawful to refuse obedience to legitimate princes, and even to rebel against them,” a principle communists apply. The conciliar sect’s engagement with a regime founded on Marxist materialism—an ideology Pius XI called “intrinsically evil” in Divini Redemptoris—as a legitimate diplomatic partner is a scandalous betrayal. The “release of prisoners” is used as a fig leaf to legitimize the regime. Where is the condemnation of Cuba’s atheism, its persecution of the Church, its denial of parental rights in education (condemned in Syllabus Error 46)? The article’s tone of approval for this “goodwill” mirrors the error of Error 80: “The Roman Pontiff can, and ought to, reconcile himself, and come to terms with progress, liberalism and modern civilization.” This is the heresy of accommodation with the enemies of Christ.
The “Holy Week” Smokescreen
The timing of the release around Holy Week is a particularly grotesque piece of theater. The conciliar sect uses the most sacred days of the liturgical year—which in the true Church would be focused on the Passion and Resurrection of Our Lord—as a backdrop for a diplomatic success story with a communist state. This inverts the purpose of Holy Week. Pius XI taught that the feast of Christ the King should remind rulers of “the final judgment, in which Christ… will very severely avenge these insults” (from Quas Primas). Instead, the conciliar sect uses the sacred time to whitewash a regime that insults Christ by its very constitution. The article’s failure to even hint at this contrast demonstrates the total inversion of values: the liturgy is used to sanctify worldly politics, not to call politics to submit to the liturgy.
Conclusion: The Full Measure of Apostasy
This news item is not a neutral report; it is a symptom and a tool of the Great Apostasy. It demonstrates that the entity occupying the Vatican since the death of Pope Pius XII operates on principles utterly alien to the Catholic Faith. Its “diplomacy” is based on the natural law of pragmatic compromise, not the divine law of Christ’s exclusive kingship. Its “goodwill” is the goodwill of Modernism, which seeks to build a better world without Christ. The release of prisoners, while a temporal good, is used to obscure the far greater evil: the continued propagation of idolatry and the suppression of the one true faith in Cuba. The article’s uncritical acceptance of this narrative proves its complicity in the apostasy. The true Catholic, holding to the faith of Pius IX and Pius X, must denounce this act as a betrayal of Christ the King and a formal cooperation with the errors condemned in the Syllabus. The only “goodwill” that matters is the goodwill of God, which demands the conversion of Cuba and every nation to the one, holy, Catholic, and apostolic Church, outside of which there is no salvation. The silence on this truth is the loudest heresy of all.
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Cuban government to release 51 prisoners following Vatican talks (ewtnnews.com)
Date: 13.03.2026