Vatican News Whitewashes Terrorism, Ignores Christ’s Kingship
Vatican News portal (November 8, 2025) reports on Israel’s identification of Lior Rudaeff’s body returned by Palestinian Islamic Jihad terrorists, framing the October 7 Hamas-led massacre as merely an “attack” while omitting its genocidal intent. The article uncritically amplifies Turkey’s politically motivated arrest warrants against Israeli leaders and presents the Gaza conflict through a naturalistic lens devoid of Catholic moral theology.
Omission of Moral Context Constitutes Complicity With Evil
The article describes Hamas’ deliberate slaughter of civilians at Nir Yitzhak kibbutz as a neutral “attack,” committing two grave sins of omission: 1) Failure to identify Hamas as a terrorist organization whose charter calls for genocide against Jews (Article 7), and 2) Silence on the intrinsic evil (Pius XI, Divini Redemptoris) of targeting non-combatants. This moral relativism echoes Vatican II’s heresy of religious liberty condemned in Quanta Cura: “To consider all religions equally valid is equivalent to abandoning the divine truth revealed in Christ” (Pius IX, Syllabus of Errors #77).
“Hamas has released all 20 living hostages and returned the bodies of 23 out of 28 deceased hostages.”
This transactional language reduces mass murder to bureaucratic accounting, ignoring the Church’s teaching on retributive justice: “The State has the right to punish malefactors by death” (Leo XIII, Libertas Praestantissimum §32). Nowhere does the text affirm Israel’s God-given right to self-defense against those who “slay the children in the streets” (Lam 2:19).
Turkish Political Theater Elevated Over Divine Law
By uncritically reporting Turkey’s arrest warrants against Israeli leaders, Vatican News promotes the modernist error that civil authority transcends divine law:
“Türkiye’s Istanbul Chief Public Prosecutor’s Office has issued arrest warrants for 37 individuals, including Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, on charges of genocide…”
This implicitly endorses the heresy that “The State is the origin and source of all rights” (Pius IX, Syllabus #39). Quas Primas condemns this inversion: “When rulers of states…do not obey Christ’s laws, they destroy the foundations of their own authority” (Pius XI). The article’s failure to note Turkey’s persecution of Christians (99.8% decline in Anatolian Christians since 1914) reveals its anti-Western bias.
Naturalism Replaces Supernatural Perspective
The entire report operates within a horizontal framework antithetical to Catholic eschatology:
– No mention of prayers for victims’ souls or the eternal consequences of terrorism
– Absence of calls for conversion of Hamas operatives
– Silence on the duty of Muslim authorities to recognize Christ’s Kingship
This reflects the condemned modernist tenet that “Revelation cannot be other than man’s consciousness of his relation to God” (St. Pius X, Lamentabili Sane #20). By ignoring the regnum sociale Christi, the article becomes complicit in the “apostasy of society” Pius XI warned would follow dethroning Christ (Quas Primas).
Journalism as Vehicle for Conciliar Apostasy
The antiseptic reporting style – “neutral” yet selective in its outrage – manifests the conciliar sect’s abandonment of extra Ecclesiam nulla salus. When Vatican News amplifies Erdogan’s propaganda while omitting Hamas’ documented use of human shields (a war crime per 1907 Hague Convention), it confirms the sect’s de facto alliance with Islamist powers against Christendom. This fulfills Pius IX’s warning about those who “place the Catholic religion on equal footing with false religions” (Syllabus #78).
The article’s concluding call to “support us in bringing the Pope’s words into every home” underscores its spiritual bankruptcy. True apostles proclaim Christus vincit, Christus regnat, Christus imperat – not the ambiguous mutterings of antipopes who deny His Social Kingship.
Source:
Israeli military identifies body of hostage returned from Gaza (vaticannews.va)
Date: 08.11.2025