EWTN News reports that following a shooting at the Teotihuacán archaeological site in Mexico, which left two dead and 13 injured, “Bishop” Guillermo Francisco Escobar Galicia of Teotihuacán called for prayers and urged a “return to Christian values within families.” While the tragedy is undeniably sorrowful, the response of this conciliar prelate — and the entire framework within which he operates — reveals the profound spiritual impotence of the post-conciliar sect when confronted with the fruits of the very revolution it has championed. His appeal to vague “Christian values” without any mention of the supernatural order, the necessity of conversion to the Catholic Faith, the reality of sin, or the social reign of Christ the King is not merely inadequate; it is a symptom of the modernist apostasy that has gutted the Church of her divine mission.
The Hollowing Out of Episcopal Authority: A “Bishop” Without a Mission
The individual identified as “Bishop” Guillermo Francisco Escobar Galicia operates within the structures of the conciliar sect — the same structures that, since the death of Pope Pius XII in 1958, have systematically dismantled the Catholic Church from within. The post-conciliar hierarchy, beginning with the usurper John XXIII and continuing through the present antipope Leo XIV (Robert Prevost), has forfeited any claim to legitimate authority by embracing the very errors condemned by the perennial Magisterium. As St. Robert Bellarmine teaches, a manifest heretic ceases to be Pope and head *ipso facto*, and the same principle applies to bishops who adhere to the modernist program of Vatican II. The 1917 Code of Canon Law, Canon 188.4, confirms that every office becomes vacant by the mere fact of public defection from the Catholic faith. The conciliar “bishops” who have embraced religious liberty, ecumenism, and the democratization of the Church have publicly defected from the Catholic faith and therefore hold no jurisdiction.
This is not a mere technicality. It is the theological reality that renders every word, every gesture, and every “pastoral appeal” of these men spiritually void. When Escobar Galicia speaks, he speaks not as a successor of the Apostles but as an employee of the paramasonic structure that has occupied the Vatican since 1962. His words carry no more spiritual authority than those of any layman — indeed, less, because he cloaks himself in the vestments of an office he no longer legitimately holds.
“Christian Values” Without Christ the King: The Modernist Substitution
The most revealing element of Escobar Galicia’s statement is his appeal to “reaffirm Christian values within families” and to “look to Jesus Christ, the way, the truth, and the life, to return to Christian values within our families.” This language is not Catholic. It is the language of Protestantism, of naturalistic humanism, of the very modernism condemned by St. Pius X in *Pascendi Dominici gregis* and in the 65 propositions of *Lamentabili sane exitu*.
What is conspicuously absent from this “bishop’s” statement? Everything that matters.
There is no mention of the necessity of the Catholic Faith for salvation — the dogma *extra ecclesiam nulla salus* that the Council of Florence defined and that Vatican II’s *Dignitatis Humanae* effectively denied. There is no mention of the sacraments — no call to Confession, no exhortation to receive the Holy Eucharist worthily, no reminder that without sanctifying grace, no amount of “values” will save a single soul. There is no mention of repentance for sin — the shooter is described as someone who “went astray,” a euphemism that obscures the reality of mortal sin and the eternal consequences of dying in a state of grace lost. There is no mention of the social reign of Christ the King — the doctrine that Pius XI proclaimed in *Quas primas* as the only foundation for true peace.
Pius XI declared with unmistakable clarity: “The hope of lasting peace will not yet shine upon nations as long as individuals and states renounce and do not wish to recognize the reign of our Savior.” And further: “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 violence at Teotihuacán is not an aberration in a world that has accepted “Christian values.” It is the inevitable fruit of a world that has rejected Christ the King — a rejection in which the conciliar sect has been complicit.
The Omission of the Supernatural: A Telltale Sign of Modernism
St. Pius X, in *Pascendi Dominici gregis*, identified the fundamental error of Modernism as the denial of the supernatural order and its reduction to mere natural experience. The modernist, he wrote, “is not content with denying the supernatural, but reduces it to a natural phenomenon.” This is precisely what Escobar Galicia does. His statement is entirely horizontal — concerned with human feelings, family harmony, and social peace — without any vertical dimension pointing souls toward God, the life of grace, and eternity.
Consider what a true bishop — a successor of the Apostles acting with the fullness of the Catholic Magisterium — would have said in response to such a tragedy. He would have proclaimed:
– That the shooter, if he died in a state of mortal sin, faces the eternal torments of Hell — and that this reality, however unpleasant, is a truth of faith that must be proclaimed for the salvation of souls.
– That the only true remedy for violence is the conversion of nations to the Catholic Faith and the recognition of Christ the King over all human societies, as Pius XI demanded.
– That the sacraments are the ordinary means of grace, and that families must be called to frequent Confession, worthy reception of the Holy Eucharist, and devotion to the Blessed Sacrament — not vague “values.”
– That the conciliar revolution itself is a cause of the present chaos, because by undermining the Church’s authority, denying the necessity of the true faith, and opening the doors to religious indifferentism, it has contributed to the very loss of the “sense of the meaning of life” that Escobar Galicia laments.
None of this is present. Instead, we get the language of a social worker, not a bishop. The “bishop” calls for prayers — but to what end? He invokes Mary Most Holy — but without the Catholic understanding of her role as Mediatrix of all graces and the instrument of the conversion of nations through the Rosary and the consecration demanded by Our Lady of Fatima (which, as documented in the file on False Fatima Apparitions, is itself a suspect phenomenon that diverts attention from the true crisis of modernist apostasy within the Church).
Teotihuacán: A Symbol of the Pagan Past That the Conciliar Sect Refuses to Confront
The location of this tragedy is itself instructive. Teotihuacán is a pre-Columbian archaeological site — a monument to the pagan civilizations that practiced human sacrifice on a massive scale. The Pyramids of the Sun and the Moon were centers of worship to false gods, where the blood of innocent victims was shed to propitiate demons. The Catholic Church, in her true missionary spirit, spent centuries evangelizing the Americas precisely to eradicate such paganism and establish the reign of Christ.
Yet the concilar sect has abandoned this mission. Under the influence of the very modernism condemned in *Lamentabili sane exitu* — which rejected the idea that “the Church is an enemy of the progress of natural and theological sciences” (proposition 57) and that “truth changes with man” (proposition 58) — the post-conciliar Church has embraced a relativistic attitude toward non-Christian religions. The “bishops” of Mexico no longer speak of the necessity of converting the descendants of pagans to the Catholic Faith. Instead, they speak of “dialogue,” of “values,” of “recognizing the other as a brother” — language that Pius IX condemned in the *Syllabus of Errors* when he rejected the proposition that “every man is free to embrace and profess that religion which, guided by the light of reason, he shall consider true” (proposition 15).
The violence at Teotihuacán is a reminder that the pagan past is not truly past. The demons that were worshipped at those pyramids have not departed. They have merely changed their masks — and one of those masks is the conciliar revolution itself, which by denying the supernatural, undermining the faith, and reducing Christianity to “values” has prepared the ground for the return of barbarism.
The Silence About the True Causes of Violence
Escobar Galicia attributes the shooting to “the loss of a sense of the meaning of life and the failure to recognize the other as a brother.” This is the language of the United Nations, not of the Catholic Church. It is the language of *Gaudet Mater Ecclesia*, the opening speech of the usurper John XXIII at Vatican II, which spoke of “the progress of humanity” and “the new conditions of modern life” while ignoring the reality of sin, the devil, and the eternal destiny of souls.
The true causes of violence are well known to Catholic theology:
1. Original Sin: Man is fallen, and without grace, his nature is inclined to evil.
2. The Devil: The conciliar sect has systematically exorcised the devil from its pastoral practice, following the modernist tendency to deny the existence of the supernatural enemy.
3. The loss of faith: When nations abandon the Catholic Faith, they lose the only true foundation for morality and social order. As Pius XI wrote, “the entire human society had to be shaken, because it lacked a stable and strong foundation.”
4. The conciliar revolution: By undermining the Church’s teaching authority, corrupting the liturgy, and opening the doors to religious indifferentism, the post-conciliar sect has contributed directly to the moral chaos that produces violence.
None of this is mentioned. The “bishop” offers no diagnosis rooted in Catholic theology, no remedy rooted in the supernatural order. He offers only the empty shell of “Christian values” — a phrase that means everything and nothing, that can be embraced by Protestants, Jews, Muslims, and atheists alike, and that therefore means nothing specifically Catholic.
The Duty of the Faithful: Rejecting the Conciliar Imposture
The faithful who still profess the integral Catholic faith must recognize that the response of Escobar Galicia to the Teotihuacán shooting is not merely inadequate — it is dangerous. It offers false comfort in place of truth, naturalistic remedies in place of supernatural ones, and the authority of a man who has no authority in the eyes of God.
The true response to violence is not “Christian values” but the social reign of Christ the King — the doctrine that Pius XI proclaimed as the only foundation for peace. It is the recognition that there is no salvation outside the Catholic Church and that the mission of the Church is not to promote “values” but to save souls through the preaching of the Gospel, the administration of the sacraments, and the establishment of Catholic societies ordered according to the laws of God.
The faithful must reject the conciliar imposture in all its forms — including the “pastoral” appeals of “bishops” who have forfeited their authority by embracing modernism. They must cling to the unchanging Tradition of the Church, to the true Mass, to the sacraments as administered by priests with valid orders and the right intention, and to the social teaching of the pre-conciliar popes. Only in this way will they find the true peace that the world cannot give — and that the conciliar sect, in its spiritual bankruptcy, has utterly failed to offer.
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Bishop urges ‘return to Christian values’ after shooting at Mexican pyramid (ewtnnews.com)
Date: 21.04.2026