Islamist Atrocities Expose Bankruptcy of Secular “Solutions” in Congo
VaticanNews portal reports on November 16, 2025, about a terrorist attack by ADF militants (aligned with Islamic State) against a hospital run by the Sisters of the Presentation in Byambwe, North Kivu, DR Congo. Around 20 civilians including maternity patients were slaughtered, medical supplies looted, and facilities burned. Italian missionary Fr. Giovanni Piumatti condemns the “shameful silence” of the international community while noting the attackers’ superior weaponry and alleged Western economic interests in Congo’s mineral wealth. The article quotes antipope Leo XIV’s generic July 2025 statement about praying for victims and urging “local and international leaders” to prevent future attacks. This blood-soaked narrative unwittingly testifies to the collapse of post-conciliar ecclesiastical diplomacy and the West’s apostasy from Christ the King.
Naturalistic Framing Obscures Supernatural Reality
The report reduces the Catholic sisters’ hospital to a humanitarian outpost rather than recognizing it as militia Christi – an outpost of Christ’s Kingdom combating the “works of darkness” (Ephesians 5:11). Nowhere does it mention that these martyred patients and religious were engaged in the opus Dei (work of God) through corporal works of mercy. The sisters’ medical mission constituted ex opere operato witness to Divine Charity, making their massacre not merely a “human tragedy” but a satanic assault on the Mystical Body of Christ. Pius XI’s encyclical Quas Primas reminds us that “the empire of our Redeemer embraces all men” – a truth ignored when the article frames conflict through materialist lenses of “mineral deposits” and “commercial interests” rather than spiritual warfare between the City of God and City of Man.
Diplomatic Cowardice Replaces Catholic Fortitude
Antipope Leo XIV’s mealy-mouthed response – “entrusting victims to God’s mercy” while urging “local and international leaders to work together” – exemplifies the conciliar sect’s abdication of prophetic authority. Contrast this with Pius IX’s Syllabus condemning the error that “the Roman Pontiff can, and ought to, reconcile himself with progress, liberalism and modern civilization” (Error 80). The so-called “pope” offers neither anathema against Islamist butchers nor calls for Congo’s conversion to the One True Faith. His empty “prayers” fulfill St. Pius X’s warning in Lamentabili against reducing religion to “pious customs” disconnected from doctrinal combat.
Omission of Christ’s Kingship as Root Cause
Nowhere does the article identify the fundamental problem: Congo’s rejection of the Social Kingship of Christ. The 1925 encyclical Quas Primas established that “nations will be happy” only when “they obey Christ’s law and reverence His Church.” Decades of conciliar ecumenism have left Congo vulnerable to Islamist encroachment by treating false religions as equal to Catholicism. The report’s secular framing (“terrorism,” “economic interests”) ignores Pius XI’s teaching that “the primary duty of charity does not lie in the toleration of false ideas…but in zeal for their integration into the truth.” True peace requires exterminating heresy, not negotiating with terrorists.
International Complicity in Martyrdom of Saints
Fr. Piumatti correctly denounces Western powers funding violence for mineral exploitation, but fails to name the theological error enabling this: laicisme (secularism) condemned in Quas Primas as “enemies of the Church” who “deny the rights of God.” The “shameful silence” stems from nations abandoning their baptismal duty to “make disciples of all nations” (Matthew 28:19). Modern states – having declared independence from Christ the King through UN declarations of “religious freedom” – now reap the whirlwind of religious fanaticism they fostered. As Pius IX’s Syllabus declared: “The State, as being the origin and source of all rights, is endowed with a certain right not circumscribed by any limits” (Error 39) – a Masonic principle enabling the Congo bloodbath.
Conclusion: Only Restoration of Christ’s Reign Brings Peace
Until Congo and the international community submit to the Regnum Christi through the Catholic Church, such atrocities will multiply. The sisters’ martyrdom calls not for empty diplomacy but for Eucharistic reparation and missionary zeal. Let us remember Pius XI’s words: “When once men recognize, both in private and in public life, that Christ is King, society will at last receive the great blessings of real liberty, well-ordered discipline, peace and harmony.” All other “solutions” are satanic counterfeits.
Source:
DR Congo: Terrorists kill civilians at Church-run hospital in North Kivu (vaticannews.va)
Date: 16.11.2025