Bangladeshi Catholic Schools Capitulate to Secular Terror
The Catholic News Agency portal reports the closure of several Catholic schools in Dhaka on November 13, 2025, citing fears of political violence ahead of Bangladesh's International Crime Tribunal verdict against ousted Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina. Educational institutions including Notre Dame University and St. Joseph's International School either canceled classes or shifted to online instruction following nine vehicle arsons and 17 bomb explosions linked to supporters of Hasina's Awami League. Jyoti F. Gomes, secretary of the Bangladesh Catholic Education Board Trust, justified these decisions by stating: "No one knows what will happen in the political situation of the country tomorrow, so the safety of the students comes first." This retreat reveals the conciliar sect's complete surrender to worldly anxieties and abandonment of the Church's supernatural mission.
Subordination to Secular Powers
The decision to shutter Christ's educational outposts at the first sign of temporal danger constitutes open rebellion against the immutable teaching that "the entire human race is subject to the authority of Jesus Christ" (Pius XI, Quas Primas, §18). By prioritizing physical safety over the spiritual formation of 300,000 souls – mostly Muslim students who might otherwise hear the Gospel – these institutions betray their divine mandate. The Syllabus of Errors explicitly condemns the notion that "the Church ought to be separated from the State, and the State from the Church" (Pius IX, Proposition 55), yet here we witness ecclesiastical authorities behaving as if Christ's promise "the gates of hell shall not prevail" (Matthew 16:18) applies only in times of political tranquility.
Neglect of Supernatural Mission
Nowhere does the article mention prayer, sacramental fortification, or trust in Divine Providence – omissions revealing the conciliar sect's naturalistic worldview. Contrast this with the Church's true response to persecution: during the Cristero War, Mexican Catholics formed guardias cristeras to defend Christ the King, while today's neo-church administrators scurry to cancel exams at the first whiff of homemade explosives. The Catechism of the Council of Trent teaches that Christian education exists "to lead the faithful to the knowledge and love of God," not to function as a glorified daycare center that closes when temporal powers quarrel. That Muslim students comprise most enrollments makes the silence about evangelization particularly damning – a violation of Christ's final command (Matthew 28:19) masked as "interfaith sensitivity."
Complicity with Revolutionary Forces
The article's uncritical portrayal of the "student-led uprising" that toppled Hasina's government in 2024 ignores the Church's perennial condemnation of mob rule. Pope Leo XIII warned in Libertas Praestantissimum that "rebellion is a sin of the gravest kind" except when resisting direct commands against divine law. Yet the interim government under Muhammad Yunus – a microfinance capitalist whose Grameen Bank promotes usurious lending – receives no moral evaluation. This reflects the conciliar sect's alignment with UN Sustainable Development Goals rather than Thomistic political theology. The 1,400 protest deaths should provoke denunciation of social upheaval, not accommodation to revolutionary terror.
Sacramental Dereliction
While administrators fret over bomb threats, they remain silent about the eternal threat facing souls deprived of sacramental grace. No mention is made of ensuring Mass access or organizing Eucharistic processions to implore divine intervention – standard Catholic responses during crises for millennia. This sacramentally barren "pastoral approach" stems from Vatican II's Gaudium et Spes, which reduced the Church to a "servant of human dignity" rather than the ark of salvation. As St. Pius X warned in Pascendi Dominici Gregis, Modernists transform religion into mere "religious experience" divorced from objective truth – here manifest as educational institutions becoming secular NGOs with crucifixes.
Conclusion: Apostasy Through Secular Servility
When Bangladesh's Catholic schools substitute online modules for in persona education during turmoil, they enact Bergoglio's "synodal church" that flees from spiritual battle. Contrast this with St. Thomas More's martyrdom for educational integrity or Bl. Miguel Pro's clandestine Masses during Mexican persecution. The conciliar sect's Bangladeshi outpost reveals itself as what Archbishop Lefebvre called "a counter-Church occupying Catholic structures" – more concerned with UN disaster protocols than the Libera Nos Domine from eternal disaster. Until these institutions repent and demand Bangladesh's consecration to Christ the King, their closures constitute not prudence, but participation in the world's rebellion against the Social Reign of Our Lord.
Source:
Catholic schools in Bangladesh close amid political unrest (catholicnewsagency.com)
Date: 12.11.2025