The article from EWTN News (June 18, 2026) reports that Catholic priests in the Archdiocese of Kinshasa in the Democratic Republic of Congo have raised alarm over what they describe as a worsening wave of insecurity targeting ecclesial institutions. The priests condemned attacks on churches, the killing of a security guard at St. Francis de Sales Parish, assaults on Church personnel at St. Agnes Parish in Ndjili and St. Théophile Parish in Kimbanseke, and acts of vandalism and desecration of sacred spaces. They called upon state authorities to guarantee safety, demanded investigations, and appealed for strengthened cooperation between security services and local leaders. While expressing solidarity with victims, they reaffirmed the “Church’s” commitment to peace-building and prayed for divine protection. This is a textbook example of the conciliar neo-church’s abdication of its supernatural mission in favor of naturalistic whining for secular protection, reducing the Mystical Body of Christ to just another NGO begging the state for security.
The Neo-Church’s Naturalistic Reduction: Begging Caesar Instead of Preaching the Gospel
The most striking feature of this statement from the Kinshasa presbyteral council is its complete and utter naturalism. The priests express “deep concern” over criminal activity, they condemn acts that “violate human dignity and freedom of worship,” they call upon “political, administrative, and security leaders” to “fully assume their constitutional responsibility,” and they demand “serious and transparent investigations” to identify perpetrators. Every single demand directed at the state is framed in the language of secular governance, constitutional rights, and public safety. Not once — not a single time — do these men mention the only true remedy for the violence afflicting their society: conversion to Jesus Christ, repentance from sin, and the establishment of the Social Reign of Christ the King over the nation.
This silence is not accidental. It is the inevitable fruit of the conciliar revolution. Pope Pius XI, in his encyclical Quas Primas (1925), taught with absolute clarity: “His reign, namely, extends not only to Catholic nations or to those who, by receiving baptism according to law, belong to the Church, even though their erroneous opinions have led them astray or discord has separated them from love, but His reign encompasses also all non-Christians, so that most truly the entire human race is subject to the authority of Jesus Christ.” And further: “Let rulers of states therefore not refuse public veneration and obedience to the reigning Christ, but let them fulfill this duty themselves and with their people, if they wish to maintain their authority inviolate and contribute to the increase of their homeland’s happiness.” The Kinshasa priests, by contrast, beg the Congolese state to fulfill its “constitutional responsibility” as if the constitution of man could substitute for the law of God.
Consider the profound theological inversion at work here. The priests state: “Security, justice, and peace are possible when each person responsibly fulfills their duty in service of the common good.” This is the language of the United Nations Declaration of Human Rights, not the language of the Catholic Church. Compare this with the teaching of Pius XI: “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, because the main reason why some have the right to command and others have the duty to obey was removed. For this reason, the entire human society had to be shaken, because it lacked a stable and strong foundation.” The violence in Kinshasa is not primarily a policing problem — it is a spiritual problem, the direct consequence of the rejection of Christ the King by individuals and societies. Yet the neo-church’s priests are incapable of diagnosing this, because the conciliar sect has systematically dismantled the Church’s teaching on the social reign of Christ.
The Omission of the Supernatural: Where Is the Call to Repentance?
The article describes desecration of sacred spaces — sacristies, archives, pastoral materials, devotional objects. The priests call this “vandalism.” But what is the proper Catholic understanding of such acts? They are sacrilege — sins against the virtue of religion that cry out to Heaven for vengeance. The proper response of true pastors would be to call the faithful to reparation: public prayers, acts of reparation, the Way of the Cross, exhortations to the faithful to make acts of contrition and to receive the sacraments of Penance and Holy Eucharist worthily. Instead, these men call for police investigations and security cooperation.
St. Pius X, in Lamentabili Sane Exitu (1907), condemned the modernist proposition that “the Church is an enemy of the progress of natural and natural sciences” (proposition 57) and that “truth changes with man, because it develops with him, in him, and through him” (proposition 58). The entire conciliar project is built upon this modernist foundation — the reduction of the Church’s mission from the supernatural order (the salvation of souls through preaching, the sacraments, and the establishment of Christ’s reign) to the natural order (social services, peace-building, cooperation with secular authorities). The Kinshasa statement is a perfect specimen of this reduction.
Notice also the complete absence of any mention of the sacramentals — blessings, exorcisms, the use of holy water, the Sign of the Cross — as spiritual weapons against the forces of darkness. The neo-church has effectively abandoned the supernatural arsenal of the Church, leaving its “priests” with nothing but press conferences and appeals to state power. When the Church ceases to fight spiritual battles with spiritual weapons, she deserves to lose her earthly possessions to criminals.
The “Freedom of Worship” Heresy: A Conciliar Invention
The priests condemn acts that violate “human dignity and freedom of worship.” This phrase — “freedom of worship” — is not Catholic teaching. It is the language of the conciliar document Dignitatis Humanae, which Pope Pius IX explicitly condemned as heretical in The Syllabus of Errors (1864). Error 77 states: “In the present day it is no longer expedient that the Catholic religion should be held as the only religion of the State, to the exclusion of all other forms of worship.” And Error 79: “Moreover, it is false that the civil liberty of every form of worship, and the full power, given to all, of overtly and publicly manifesting any opinions whatsoever and thoughts, conduce more easily to corrupt the morals and minds of the people, and to propagate the pest of indifferentism.”
The Catholic position is that the Catholic Church is the one true Church of Jesus Christ, that the State has a duty to recognize her and to protect her rights, and that error has no rights. The neo-church’s priests, by invoking “freedom of worship,” implicitly place the Catholic religion on the same level as every false religion and irreligion. This is religious indifferentism — the very error that Pius IX condemned as a “pest.” The conciliar sect does not defend the rights of the true Church; it defends the “right” of every cult to exist on equal footing, thereby denying the unique kingship of Jesus Christ.
The Myth of “Peace-Building” Without Christ the King
The priests reaffirm the “Church’s” commitment to “peace-building.” This is conciliar Newspeak. The Catholic Church does not “build peace” through dialogue, cooperation with secular authorities, and social programs. “Peace is only possible in the kingdom of Christ” (Pius XI, Quas Primas). The “King of Peace” Himself said: “Do not think that I came to send peace upon earth: I came not to send peace, but the sword” (Matt. 10:34). The peace of Christ is not the absence of conflict achieved through secular negotiation — it is the tranquility of order that comes when God’s law governs individuals, families, and states.
The neo-church’s “peace-building” is the peace of the world — the peace that the Antichrist will offer before the final consummation. It is a peace built on the exclusion of Christ from public life, on the pretense that all religions contribute equally to the common good, and on the reduction of the Church to a humanitarian organization. The priests of Kinshasa would do well to read the encyclical Quas Primas and learn that the only true peace comes from the recognition of Christ’s royal dignity — not from the Congolese police force.
The Structural Apostasy: Why the Neo-Church Cannot Defend Itself
The attacks described in the article — killings, assaults, desecration — are presented as if they were unexpected tragedies. But they are the entirely predictable consequence of the conciliar revolution. When the neo-church abandoned the Traditional Latin Mass (the Unbloody Sacrifice of Calvary) for the Protestantized Novus Ordo “memorial meal,” she lost the most powerful supernatural protection available to her. When she abandoned the teaching on the Social Kingship of Christ for “religious freedom” and “ecumenism,” she surrendered her public rights and reduced herself to just another private association. When she replaced the sacramental system with “encounter groups” and “faith sharing,” she deprived the faithful of the graces necessary to resist evil.
The “bishops” of the conciliar sect — including those in the DRC — have spent decades dismantling the spiritual fortifications of the Church. They have permitted liturgical abuse, doctrinal confusion, and moral laxity on a massive scale. They have cooperated with Freemasonry-inspired programs of “social justice” and “interreligious dialogue.” And now they wonder why criminals target their parishes? Quos Deus vult perdere, prius dementat — “Those whom God wishes to destroy, He first makes mad.”
The true Catholic response to the violence in Kinshasa would be threefold: first, a public call to the Congolese people to repent and return to the true faith; second, a demand that the Congolese state recognize the Catholic Church as the one true religion and enact laws in accordance with God’s commandments; third, the celebration of the Traditional Latin Mass and the administration of the true sacraments as the primary means of obtaining divine protection and grace. None of this will come from the conciliar structures, because none of this is within their theological vocabulary.
Conclusion: The Neo-Church as a Defenseless Prey
The statement from the Kinshasa presbyteral council is a microcosm of the conciliar sect’s total bankruptcy. These “priests” — products of post-conciliar seminaries, formed in the theology of the “New Advent,” ordained (if validly at all) within a structure that has systematically denied the integral Catholic faith — are utterly incapable of addressing the root causes of the violence they decry. They can call for police. They can demand investigations. They can invoke “human dignity” and “freedom of worship.” But they cannot call for repentance, because they have redefined sin. They cannot demand the recognition of Christ the King, because they have embraced religious indifferentism. They cannot offer the true Mass and sacraments, because they have replaced them with Protestantized simulacra.
The faithful in Kinshasa — and everywhere else — must understand that the neo-church is not the Catholic Church. It is the abomination of desolation standing in the holy place (Matt. 24:15). It cannot protect itself, because it has forfeited the supernatural means of protection. It cannot offer true peace, because it has rejected the Prince of Peace’s claim to public authority. The only hope for the Congolese people — and for all peoples — is a return to the integral Catholic faith: the unchanging doctrine of the Church’s divine constitution, the Traditional Latin Mass, the true sacraments, and the recognition of Our Lord Jesus Christ as King of all nations and all hearts. Adveniat Regnum Tuum — Thy Kingdom Come.
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Catholic priests in Democratic Republic of Congo decry rising insecurity targeting parishes (ewtnnews.com)
Date: 18.06.2026