The “Mercy” of Marxists and the Silence of Modernists
The cited article from the NC Register/CNA, a flagship outlet of the conciliar sect, reports on the Cuban regime’s announcement of the release of 2,010 prisoners “in the context of the religious celebrations of Holy Week.” This act, framed as a gesture of goodwill coinciding with a “spirit of… relations between the Cuban State and the Vatican,” is presented as a positive development, with the article highlighting the humanitarian crisis and the moral imperative of the Diocese of Palm Beach to provide aid. The underlying narrative is one of cautious diplomatic engagement and humanitarian concern, utterly devoid of any theological or supernatural critique of the communist state that has persecuted the Catholic Church for decades. From the perspective of integral Catholic faith, this is not news; it is a perfect case study in the apostasy of the post-conciliar “Church,” which has traded the Kingship of Christ for the table of communist dialogue.
1. Factual Deconstruction: A Regime’s Propaganda Parroted
The article uncritically relays the Cuban Ministry of Foreign Affairs’ statement, treating the regime’s self-serving justification—”good behavior,” “state of health,” and the exclusion of “crimes against authority”—as neutral facts. There is no mention of who defines “crimes against authority.” In Cuba, this has historically meant peaceful pro-democracy activists, Christians catechizing outside state control, and those merely possessing unapproved literature. The regime’s definition of “crime” is an instrument of totalitarian oppression. By accepting this framework, the article implicitly legitimizes the communist state’s moral authority to define justice, a direct contravention of Catholic teaching that all law must be subordinate to the eternal law of God.
Furthermore, the article notes this is the “fifth pardon” since 2011, totaling over 11,000 releases. This statistical presentation sanitizes a system of arbitrary, politically-motivated incarceration. The true Catholic analysis must ask: Were these prisoners guilty of crimes against the divine law (e.g., blasphemy, sacrilege, persecution of the Church)? Almost certainly not. They were likely guilty of crimes *defined by the atheist state* as threats to its power—such as advocating for religious freedom or private property. The article’s silence on this fundamental distinction is complicity.
2. Linguistic & Symptomatic Analysis: The Language of Naturalistic Humanism
The vocabulary is meticulously naturalistic and humanitarian, not supernatural and Catholic. Key phrases reveal the rot:
* **”Religious celebrations of Holy Week”:** This reduces the most sacred week in the liturgical year—commemorating the Passion, Death, and Resurrection of Our Lord Jesus Christ—to a mere “celebration,” a cultural or sentimental event. It strips Holy Week of its doctrinal content: the unique, propitiatory Sacrifice of Calvary made present on the altar, the triumph over sin and death, the mandate to preach the Gospel to all nations. The conciliar sect speaks of “celebrations” where the pre-conciliar Church spoke of Sacred Mysteries.
* **”Spirit of good will, of close and fluid relations between the Cuban State and the Vatican”:** This is the language of diplomacy between equals. It suggests a fraternal partnership. The pre-conciliar Magisterium, however, taught that the State must publicly recognize the Catholic Church as the sole true religion and the Kingdom of Christ on earth. Quas Primas is explicit: rulers must “publicly honor and obey” Christ the King. “Close and fluid relations” with a regime that officially promotes atheism, imprisons priests, and expels religious orders is a scandal and an implicit denial of Christ’s absolute sovereignty. It is the “dialogue” of the abomination of desolation.
* **”Deep and increasing humanitarian crisis”:** While true, this focus is symptomatic. The modernist hierarchy, having abandoned the supernatural goal of the salvation of souls, retreats into the purely material sphere of “humanitarian” aid. This is the direct fruit of the errors condemned by Pius IX in the Syllabus of Errors (Error #58: “all the rectitude and excellence of morality ought to be placed in the accumulation and increase of riches… and the gratification of pleasure”) and by St. Pius X against Modernism, which reduces religion to a “practical” function. The article quotes Bishop Rodríguez saying prayer “must lead to action,” but the “action” described is purely material assistance. There is no mention of the supernatural action required: the public confession of Christ the King, the condemnation of communist errors, the administration of the Sacraments to those in danger of death, the preaching of the immutable Faith against atheistic materialism. This is the “social Gospel” of Protestantism imported into the conciliar structures.
3. Theological Confrontation: Christ the King vs. the Cult of Man
The article operates entirely within the sphere of the “cult of man” denounced by Pius XI in Quas Primas. It evaluates the situation through the lenses of “humanitarian crisis,” “political pressure,” “diplomatic relations,” and “moral imperative” defined by material need. This is a complete inversion of Catholic social order.
Pius XI’s encyclical is unequivocal:
> “When God and Jesus Christ – as we lamented – were removed from laws and states and when authority was derived not from God but from men, the foundations of that authority were destroyed… the entire human society had to be shaken, because it lacked a stable and strong foundation.”
The Cuban state is the living embodiment of this error. It is founded on the Marxist-Leninist principle of state atheism, which the Syllabus condemns (Error #39: “The State… is endowed with a certain right not circumscribed by any limits”). Yet the article presents this state as a legitimate actor with which the “Vatican” can have “close and fluid relations.” This is the heresy of indifferentism (Syllabus Error #15-18) applied to geopolitics: the false notion that the atheist state and the Church can find common ground on “humanitarian” issues while disagreeing on the foundation of all truth.
The article’s entire frame accepts the modern, liberal, and condemned principle of the separation of Church and State (Syllabus Error #55: “The Church ought to be separated from the State, and the State from the Church”). The Cuban regime is allowed its atheistic sphere; the “Vatican” is allowed its charitable sphere. But Pius XI, quoting Leo XIII, taught that Christ’s reign “encompasses also all non-Christians” and that “the state is happy not by one means, and man by another; for the state is nothing else than a harmonious association of men.” Therefore, the state’s happiness and order *must* be derived from the same source as man’s: obedience to Christ the King and His law. A state that officially rejects this law is in a state of mortal sin and its laws are an injustice. A Catholic authority that “relates” to such a state without demanding its conversion is guilty of apostasy.
The silence on the primary duty of the Church—to proclaim Christ’s Kingship over all nations, to condemn errors by name, to call rulers to public repentance—is the article’s gravest sin. It is the silence of the “spouse of Christ” who has become the “lover of the world” (James 4:4). The article mentions “Holy Week” but not the central truth of Holy Week: that the God-Man, Jesus Christ, is King of kings and Lord of lords, and that every knee shall bend to Him, including the knees of communist dictators. Where is the call for the Cuban bishops to excommunicate the regime’s leaders? Where is the declaration that the Cuban state is illegitimate in the eyes of God? Nowhere. Because the conciliar “Church” has embraced the Syllabus’s condemned errors.
4. The Symptomatic Fruit of the Conciliar Apostasy
This article is not an anomaly; it is the logical product of the revolution initiated by John XXIII and carried forward by every subsequent antipope. The “hermeneutics of continuity” is exposed here as a lie. There is no continuity between:
* Pius IX condemning the idea that “the State… is endowed with a certain right not circumscribed by any limits” and the conciliar sect negotiating with a totalitarian state that claims precisely that unlimited right.
* Pius XI demanding that rulers publicly obey Christ the King and the conciliar sect praising a regime that imprisons those who try to live that obedience.
* St. Pius X condemning the reduction of Faith to a “practical” sentiment (Lamentabili Sane Exitu, Prop. 26: “The dogmas of faith should be understood according to their practical function, i.e., as binding in action, rather than as principles of belief”) and the article’s focus on “action” (humanitarian aid) divorced from the “principles of belief” (the Social Kingship of Christ).
The article’s source, NC Register/CNA, is an organ of the “abomination of desolation” standing in the holy place. Its reporting reflects the new, post-1958 “Catholic” priority: not the conversion of souls and the establishment of the Social Reign of Christ, but the management of “humanitarian crises” and the performance of “dialogue” with the enemies of God. This is the “peace of the world” (John 14:27) that Christ did not give, replacing the peace of Christ’s Kingdom.
5. The True Catholic Response: Non Possumus
The true Catholic, clinging to the faith of our fathers, must react with horror. The Cuban communist regime is an intrinsically evil system, built on the denial of God and the enslavement of man. Any “pardon” it grants is a manipulative tool to gain legitimacy. The only legitimate response of a Catholic authority is the non possumus of the early Church: “We must obey God rather than men” (Acts 5:29). This means:
1. Publicly declaring the Cuban state’s official atheism a damnable error and its laws unjust when contrary to the divine law.
2. Demanding the immediate and unconditional release of *all* prisoners of conscience, especially those persecuted for practicing the Catholic Faith outside state control.
3. Refusing any “dialogue” or “close relations” until the regime publicly acknowledges Jesus Christ as King and guarantees full religious freedom for His Church.
4. Focusing pastoral efforts on the Sacraments, the True Mass, and the formation of Catholics in the uncompromising doctrine of Christ the King, even if this means going underground.
The article, in its quiet, humanitarian tone, is a masterpiece of apostasy. It makes no mention of the Sacraments, of grace, of sin, of hell, of the divinity of Christ, of the Immaculate Conception, of the Real Presence. It is a purely secular, humanistic report wearing a thin, discredited Catholic veneer. It is the spirit of the world, breathed out by the conciliar sect, which has become its most effective propagandist. The release of prisoners, if done for purely political reasons and without a return to God, is a work of natural pity at best, and a cynical political maneuver at worst. It is not a sign of the “Kingdom of Christ,” which the article cynically invokes by mentioning Holy Week. The Kingdom of Christ is not built through pardons from Marxists, but through the triumph of the Cross, the confession of the Faith, and the public rejection of all errors, especially the “pest of communism” so rightly condemned by Pius IX and Pius XI.
Source:
Government of Cuba Announces Release of More Than 2,000 Prisoners for Easter (ncregister.com)
Date: 04.04.2026