Slovak Prelates’ False Repentance: Apostasy Disguised as Penance
EWTN News reports on November 14, 2025 that Slovakia’s conciliar “bishops” will conduct a “Day of Repentance” on November 16, ostensibly to apologize for historical Church “failures” during communist rule. Archbishop Bernard Bober, president of the Slovak “episcopal conference,” claims this act seeks to “renew respect, solidarity, and peace in our society” through interdenominational participation. Bishop František Trstenský frames the event as a spiritual gesture promoting servility over rights, while Evangelical Lutheran leader Ivan Eľko endorses the initiative. The ceremony coincides with the anniversary of Czechoslovakia’s 1989 Velvet Revolution and will be held in Bratislava’s former parliamentary building with state representatives present.
Naturalistic Subversion of True Penance
The conciliar sect’s spectacle constitutes a blasphemous parody of sacramentum paenitentiae (sacrament of penance). Authentic Catholic repentance requires:
1. Contrition for sins ex caritate perfecta (from perfect charity)
2. Confession to validly ordained priests possessing jurisdiction
3. Firm purpose of amendment anchored in grace
Nowhere do these apostates invoke the Kingship of Christ or condemn their own collaboration with Marxist heresies. Instead, they reduce penance to sociological therapy, with Bishop Trstenský admitting the goal is to release “accumulated frustrations and disappointments from politics.” This echoes Modernism’s error of reducing religion to “a kind of appetite” (Pius X, Pascendi Dominici Gregis 14).
Ecumenical Betrayal of the One True Church
The “bishops'” pledge to seek forgiveness alongside Lutheran heretics violates the dogma Extra Ecclesiam nulla salus</i (Outside the Church there is no salvation). The Council of Trent anathematizes those claiming "that men living in heresy and separated from the Catholic Church…can attain eternal life" (Session VI, Canon 4). Pius XI condemned ecumenism as "tantamount to abandoning the religion revealed by God" (Mortalium Animos 10). Yet these conciliar operatives promote unity with schismatics while omitting any mention of their duty to convert non-Catholics.
Omission of True Crimes Against Faith
The listed “failures” conspicuously avoid condemning the conciliar sect’s actual apostasies:
– Celebration of invalid “eucharists” following Paul VI’s invalid rites
– Promotion of religious liberty condemned in Quanta Cura and Mirari Vos
– Acceptance of Vatican II’s heresies like collegiality and false ecumenism
Instead, they bewail vague offenses like “lack of acceptance” – code for enforcing moral doctrines. Their silence on abortion, contraception, and sacrilegious communions proves their repentance is theatrical. As Pius XII warned: “The sin of the century is the loss of the sense of sin” (Radio Message, 1946).
Political Servility Masquerading as Humility
By scheduling their act on the eve of a secular revolution anniversary and hosting it in a parliamentary building, these “bishops” subordinate the Church to temporal power – precisely condemned in Pius IX’s Syllabus of Errors (Proposition 39). Their appeal to “serve” society inverts Christ’s mandate: “My kingdom is not of this world” (John 18:36). The true Church serves God alone, as Pius XI declared: “When…Caverns for religious worship are permitted, they are merely tolerated; and such tolerance is granted only by the will of the civil authority” (Quas Primas 32).
Rooted in Vatican II’s Apostasy
This sacrilege flows directly from the conciliar revolution:
1. Nostra Aetate established false equivalence between Catholicism and pagan religions
2. Dignitatis Humanae invented a right to propagate heresy
3. Gaudium et Spes subordinated eternal salvation to earthly progress
When Bober speaks of “reconciliation,” he implements Bergoglio’s program of ecclesial self-destruction. As Cardinal Ottaviani warned in 1966: “The Council texts must be criticized…because they are full of ambiguities and actually favor heresy.”
Source:
Slovak bishops to ask for forgiveness on Day of Repentance (catholicnewsagency.com)
Date: 14.11.2025