EWTN News reports that the National Dialogue for Peace, a “Church”-led organization in Mexico, has called for church bells to be rung on June 20 “as a call to build peace” and in memory of victims of violence, marking the fourth anniversary of the murders of Jesuit priests Javier Campos Morales and Joaquín César Mora Salazar. The organization also called for placing white ribbons on homes, schools, and workplaces, and for photographs of missing persons to be placed at church altars. This initiative, born from the Mexican Bishops’ Conference and the Society of Jesus in Mexico, exemplifies the post-conciliar Church’s reduction of the Faith to naturalistic humanitarianism, stripping the supernatural order of grace, conversion, and the Social Kingship of Christ from its so-called “peace-building” efforts.
The Murdered Jesuits: Martyrs or Mere Victims of Circumstance?
The article commemorates the fourth anniversary of the deaths of Jesuit priests Javier Campos Morales and Joaquín César Mora Salazar, killed on June 20, 2022, in Cerocahui, Chihuahua, while attempting to protect a man pursued by a criminal. The National Dialogue for Peace remembers them as “murdered religious leaders” alongside “thousands of missing persons” and “families living amid violence.” Yet the article offers no theological framework whatsoever to understand their deaths. Were these men in the state of grace? Did they receive the last sacraments? Was the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass offered for their souls? These questions, which would have been paramount to any Catholic before 1958, are entirely absent. Instead, they are reduced to mere statistics in a narrative of social suffering — victims of violence, not potential martyrs for the Faith. The distinction is not merely semantic: a martyr dies in odium fidei (in hatred of the faith), bearing supreme witness to Christ. A man killed while intervening in a criminal dispute, however heroic in natural terms, is not necessarily a martyr. The post-conciliar Church, having abandoned the theology of martyrdom in favor of secular human rights discourse, conflates the two, thereby diluting the most powerful witness the Faith has to offer.
“Building Peace” Without Christ the King: A Modernist Contradiction
The National Dialogue for Peace states: “Amid the pain this country is experiencing, Jesus continues to call us to build peace.” This invocation of “Jesus” is revealing in its vagueness. Which Jesus? The Jesus of the Gospels who declared “My kingdom is not of this world” (John 18:36) and “I came not to send peace, but the sword” (Matthew 10:34)? Or the Jesus of the conciliar revolution — a Jesus reduced to a mascot for social cohesion, stripped of His divine authority, His demands for repentance, and His exclusive claim to be “the Way, the Truth, and the Life” (John 14:6)?
Pius XI, in the encyclical Quas Primas (1925), established the Feast of Christ the King precisely to combat the secularism that removes Jesus Christ and His most holy law from public life. He wrote that “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.” The Mexican “Church” initiative does the exact opposite: it seeks peace while systematically excluding the reign of Christ the King from the public square. There is no call for Mexico to recognize the Catholic Faith as the only true religion. There is no demand that the laws of the state conform to the commandments of God. There is no mention of the necessity of sacramental confession, the state of grace, or the eternal destiny of souls. Instead, we are offered “white ribbons,” “photographs of missing persons at church altars,” and “special prayers” — the liturgical equivalent of a United Nations press release.
The Theology of the White Ribbon: Naturalism Disguised as Pastoral Care
The call to place “a white ribbon or small flag” on doors of homes, schools, and workplaces is emblematic of the post-conciliar Church’s substitution of naturalistic gestures for supernatural action. What does a white ribbon accomplish? It “makes visible the commitment to peace, dialogue, reconciliation, or hope,” according to the statement. But visibility before men is not the same as conversion before God. The Church before 1958 understood that true peace is a fruit of justice, and justice requires the ordering of society according to divine law. As Pius XI taught, “When God and Jesus Christ 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 white ribbon campaign is not merely inadequate — it is a counterfeit. It simulates the outward form of Catholic action while emptying it of all supernatural content. It is the ecclesiology of Gaudium et Spes made manifest: the Church as a partner in human development, not as the ark of salvation. The faithful are not called to mortal sin avoidance, to the reception of the sacraments, to the propagation of the Social Kingship of Christ, or to the conversion of Mexico to the Catholic Faith. They are called to “place photographs of missing persons at church altars” — a gesture that, however emotionally compelling, is theologically vacuous. It is the worship of victimhood, not the worship of God.
The National Dialogue for Peace: A Conciliar Front Organization
The National Dialogue for Peace is described as “an initiative of the Catholic Church in Mexico formed by the Mexican Bishops’ Conference, the Bishops’ Commission for the Laity, the Conference of Major Religious Superiors of Mexico, and the Society of Jesus in Mexico.” Every single one of these entities is a product of the post-conciliar revolution. The Mexican Bishops’ Conference operates under the authority of the conciliar sect. The “Bishops’ Commission for the Laity” is a Vatican II innovation designed to democratize the Church and undermine the hierarchical constitution given by Christ. The Society of Jesus, once the Pope’s elite corps against Protestantism, has been since the 1960s a primary vehicle for liberation theology, modernism, and the dissolution of Catholic identity.
This organization’s statement reveals its true nature through its omissions. It speaks of “healing the wound caused by the forced disappearance of loved ones” and “having concern for abandoned youth” — but there is no mention of the wound of sin, which is the true cause of all disorder in the world. It speaks of “envisioning the institutional framework Mexico needs” — but there is no mention of the only institutional framework that can bring true peace: the recognition of the Catholic Church as the one true Church of Christ and the submission of the state to the law of God. It speaks of “truth, political will, and reparation for the harm done” — but the “truth” it seeks is purely naturalistic, not the Truth of Jesus Christ, who said “If you continue in my word, you are truly my disciples, and you will know the truth, and the truth will make you free” (John 8:31-32).
The Silence on Sacramental Life: The Gravest Omission
Perhaps the most damning aspect of this entire initiative is what it does not say. There is no call to the sacraments. No exhortation to confession, to the reception of the Holy Eucharist, to prayer for the conversion of sinners. The “special prayer” mentioned is undefined — it could be anything from a vaguely theistic meditation to a full-blown syncretistic invocation. The “church bells” are rung not to call the faithful to the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass, but to signal a moment of secular solidarity. The “photographs of missing persons at church altars” transform the altar of God — the place where the Immaculate Lamb is immolated in the unbloody renewal of Calvary — into a memorial wall for a humanitarian crisis.
This is the abomination of desolation spoken of by Our Lord (Matthew 24:15). The temple is occupied, but the true worship has been replaced by a counterfeit. The altar is still standing, but it has been repurposed for the cult of man. The bells still ring, but they no longer summon the faithful to the battle for souls — they summon them to a rally for “peace and reconciliation” that has no supernatural content whatsoever.
The Jesuit Question: Agents of the Conciliar Revolution
The Society of Jesus, co-sponsor of this initiative, deserves special scrutiny. Founded by Saint Ignatius of Loyola to defend the Holy See and combat heresy, the Jesuits were, by the mid-twentieth century, already infiltrated by modernist elements. Under the leadership of Pedro Arrupe (1965-1983), the Society explicitly reoriented itself toward “social justice” and “dialogue with the world,” effectively abandoning its founding charism. The murdered Jesuits, Campos Morales and Mora Salazar, were products of this transformed Society. Their deaths, while tragic, are instrumentalized by the conciliar apparatus to advance its agenda of “peace-building” — an agenda that, as we have shown, is devoid of supernatural content and serves only to perpetuate the modernist revolution within the Church.
Conclusion: The Only True Peace
The Catholic Church before 1958 knew that there is no peace without justice, and no justice without the recognition of God’s sovereign rights over individuals, families, and states. The Syllabus of Errors of Pius IX condemned the proposition that “the Roman Pontiff can, and ought to, reconcile himself, and come to terms with progress, liberalism and modern civilization” (Proposition 80). The Mexican “Church” initiative is precisely this reconciliation — a Church that has come to terms with the world, that speaks the language of the world, that employs the methods of the world, and that has abandoned the only thing that could actually bring peace to Mexico: the preaching of the integral Catholic Faith, the administration of the sacraments, and the public recognition of the Social Kingship of Jesus Christ.
The bells of Mexico will ring on June 20. But they will ring in vain, because the message they carry is not the message of Christ the King. They carry the message of a Church that has betrayed its divine mission, that has exchanged the supernatural for the natural, the eternal for the temporal, and the salvation of souls for the “building of community.” Let the faithful who still profess the true Faith pray for Mexico — not with white ribbons and photographs, but with the Holy Rosary, the Most Holy Sacrifice of the Mass, and the unceasing demand that Christ the King reign over this nation, as He rightfully must.
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Church bells in Mexico to toll for peace and in memory of victims of violence (ewtnnews.com)
Date: 16.06.2026