EWTN News portal reports on a series of events that reveal the deep entrenchment of the conciliar revolution’s agenda, with a Filipino cardinal urging Catholics to be “agents of change” while other news highlights the globalist and modernist trajectory of the post-conciliar structures. Cardinal Jose Advincula of Manila, in a homily at Quiapo Church, exhorted Catholics to move beyond social media criticism and engage in real-world action. This call, while seemingly benign, is a clarion call for the laity to embrace the very modernist principles of secular activism that have hollowed out the Church, focusing on temporal solutions while ignoring the supernatural mission of the true Church. **The cardinal’s exhortation to be “agents of change” is a direct echo of the conciliar revolution’s transformation of the Church from a divine institution for salvation into a mere humanitarian NGO, a hallmark of the “Church of the New Advent.”**
The Cardinal’s Naturalistic Activism
Cardinal Advincula’s statement, “It is very easy to complain and criticize. It is very easy to be a keyboard warrior on social media. It is very easy to say that there are many things wrong in society, in the family, in the Church, or in the world,” is a classic modernist trope that dismisses legitimate Catholic critique as mere “keyboard warrior” activity. This rhetoric serves to silence faithful Catholics who, guided by the unchanging Magisterium, recognize the profound doctrinal and moral errors of the post-conciliar era. The cardinal’s call to “initiate change” is not a call to restore the integral Catholic faith but to further embed the faithful in the very systems that have led to the spiritual ruin of nations. **The true mission of the Church is not to be “agents of change” in a secular sense but to be agents of sanctification, leading souls to Christ the King and His immutable truths.**
The concept of “change” as a positive good is a fundamental tenet of Modernism, condemned by St. Pius X in *Pascendi Dominici Gregis* as the “evolution of dogmas.” The Catholic Church, founded by Christ to teach all nations the unchanging deposit of faith, cannot be an “agent of change” in the sense of adapting to the world. As Pope Pius XI encyclical *Quas Primas* teaches, “the Kingdom of Christ is not of this world” and the Church’s mission is to lead souls to eternal happiness, not to reform secular society according to the shifting sands of human opinion. The cardinal’s words, therefore, are a subtle but effective promotion of the very naturalism that the pre-conciliar Popes so vehemently condemned.
The Papal Nuncio and the Syrian Charade
The article also reports on the welcome of Syria’s new papal nuncio, Archbishop Luigi Roberto Cona, by Melkite Greek Catholic Patriarch Youssef Absi. The nuncio’s emphasis on “peace rooted in justice, love, dialogue, diplomacy, and forgiveness” is a textbook example of the conciliar religion’s embrace of naturalistic principles. **The nuncio’s call for Syrians to “see one another not as enemies but as partners and brothers” directly contradicts the Catholic doctrine on the necessity of conversion to the one true Church for salvation, as defined by the Council of Trent and Pope Boniface VIII’s *Unam Sanctam*.**
The nuncio’s vision of a “new Syria, built on truth, practical solutions, equal dignity, and shared citizenship” is a purely temporal and humanistic goal that ignores the supernatural end of man. The Catholic Church, before 1958, taught that the ultimate goal of society is the salvation of souls and the recognition of Christ the King’s social kingship. The nuncio’s language, drawn directly from the post-conciliar conciliar sect’s lexicon, reveals a Church that has abandoned its divine mandate to baptize all nations in favor of a vague, humanitarian “dialogue” that serves the globalist agenda of the United Nations, a body condemned by earlier Pontiffs for its naturalistic and anti-Catholic principles.
The Aberdeen Diocese and the False “Pope”
The report on the Scottish Diocese of Aberdeen’s warning against an unsanctioned episcopal consecration by the Sons of the Most Holy Redeemer is a rare instance of a “bishop” in the post-conciliar structures upholding canon law. Bishop Hugh Gilbert, OSB, correctly identifies that such an ordination would be “unlawful and a grave act of disobedience, separating those taking part from communion with the Catholic Church.” However, this statement is deeply hypocritical when viewed from the perspective of integral Catholic faith. **Bishop Gilbert and the entire post-conciliar hierarchy are themselves in a state of de facto schism, having embraced the modernist errors of the Second Vatican Council and submitted to the authority of manifest heretics on Peter’s throne.**
The Aberdeen diocese’s statement is a clear attempt to maintain the conciliar sect’s monopoly on ecclesiastical authority while ignoring the far greater crisis of legitimacy that has plagued the Vatican since 1958. The true Catholic Church endures in the faithful who profess the integral faith and are led by bishops with valid sacraments, such as those who have resisted the modernist takeover. The warning against the Sons of the Most Holy Redeemer is a case of the conciliar sect protecting its own apostate structures while the true Church continues to preserve the unchanging Tradition.
The Iraqi Novena and the Cult of “Martyrs”
The Syriac Catholic Archdiocese of Mosul’s novena for the beatification of Father Yousif Zakaria and Father Behnam Mikho, who were martyred in 1915, is presented as a pious custom. However, the post-conciliar cult of “martyrs” is often a tool to promote the very modernist agenda of religious liberty and dialogue. **The pre-conciliar Church taught that martyrdom is the supreme witness to the truth of the Catholic faith, not a generic “steadfastness in Christian faith” that can be shared with heretics and schismatics.** The novena, by focusing on the “witness” of these priests without explicitly emphasizing their witness to the exclusive truth of the Catholic Church, serves the conciliar religion’s ecumenical narrative.
The transfer of the priests’ remains to the Great Tahira Cathedral, while a traditional practice, is now often used to foster a sense of “Christian” unity that transcends doctrinal differences. The true Catholic Church venerates martyrs as witnesses to the faith once delivered to the saints, not as generic “agents of change” in a world that remains in enmity with the true God.
The Myanmar Sister and the Secular State
The sentencing of Sister Benedetta Nya Moe in Myanmar to eight months in jail for her charitable work is a reminder of the persecution faced by religious who refuse to submit to the totalitarian demands of the modern state. However, the article’s framing of the event as a case of “religious persecution” ignores the deeper spiritual battle. **The true persecution of the Church today is not merely physical but spiritual, waged by the modernist apostates within the conciliar sect who have surrendered the Church’s temporal and spiritual authority to the forces of secularism and globalism.**
The sister’s arrest for “crossing paths with a military column” and her phone records of “donations and news about the ongoing conflict” is a stark reminder that the secular state views any independent Catholic action as a threat. The pre-conciliar Church taught that the state must be subordinate to the moral law and the spiritual authority of the Church. The current crisis, however, is a direct result of the conciliar revolution’s embrace of religious liberty and the separation of Church and state, which has left the Church defenseless against the very secular forces it once condemned.
The Quebec Settlement and the Fruits of Apostasy
The $31 million settlement in Quebec for victims of clergy sexual abuse is a direct consequence of the moral and doctrinal collapse that followed the Second Vatican Council. The post-conciliar structures’ embrace of Modernism, with its denial of the supernatural and its naturalistic view of man, has led to the corruption of the clergy and the betrayal of the faithful. **The settlement, while a temporal remedy, is a stark reminder that the conciliar religion has abandoned the supernatural means of sanctification—the sacraments, the Mass of All Time, and the unchanging moral teaching of the pre-conciliar Church—in favor of a naturalistic humanism that cannot prevent such scandals.**
The apology letter by Auxiliary Bishop Jean Tailleur is a hollow gesture that fails to address the root cause of the crisis: the modernist apostasy that has infected the conciliar sect. The true Catholic Church, guided by the unchanging Magisterium, has always taught that the only remedy for sin is conversion, confession, and the grace of the sacraments validly administered in communion with the true Church.
The Irish Abortion Vote and the Apostasy of Nations
The Irish lawmakers’ vote to remove the three-day wait for abortion is a further sign of the apostasy of nations that were once Catholic. The conciliar religion’s embrace of religious liberty and dialogue has failed to prevent the legalization of murder in countries that were once bastions of the faith. **The true Catholic Church, before 1958, taught that the state must recognize the moral law and protect the innocent from conception to natural death. The current crisis is a direct result of the post-conciliar structures’ abandonment of this teaching in favor of a false “freedom of conscience” that has led to the spiritual and temporal ruin of nations.**
The vote, supported by the Taoiseach and Tánaiste, is a clear indication that the conciliar sect has no moral authority to guide the faithful or the nations. The true Church, enduring in the faithful who profess the integral Catholic faith, remains the only beacon of truth in a world that has embraced the culture of death.
In conclusion, the EWTN News roundup is a microcosm of the conciliar revolution’s global agenda: a Church that has abandoned its supernatural mission to become a humanitarian NGO, a clergy that has embraced the world’s values while persecuting the faithful, and a laity that is urged to be “agents of change” in a world that remains in enmity with the true God. The only hope for the restoration of the Church is a return to the unchanging Tradition of the pre-conciliar era, guided by the true Catholic faith and the social kingship of Christ the King.
[Antichurch] The Cardinal’s Call to Action: A Call to Preserve the Status Quo
EWTN News portal reports on a series of events that reveal the deep entrenchment of the conciliar revolution’s agenda, with a Filipino cardinal urging Catholics to be “agents of change” while other news highlights the globalist and modernist trajectory of the post-conciliar structures. Cardinal Jose Advincula of Manila, in a homily at Quiapo Church, exhorted Catholics to move beyond social media criticism and engage in real-world action. This call, while seemingly benign, is a clarion call for the laity to embrace the very modernist principles of secular activism that have hollowed out the Church, focusing on temporal solutions while ignoring the supernatural mission of the true Church. **The cardinal’s exhortation to be “agents of change” is a direct echo of the conciliar revolution’s transformation of the Church from a divine institution for salvation into a mere humanitarian NGO, a hallmark of the “Church of the New Advent.”**
The Cardinal’s Naturalistic Activism
Cardinal Advincula’s statement, “It is very easy to complain and criticize. It is very easy to be a keyboard warrior on social media. It is very easy to say that there are many things wrong in society, in the family, in the Church, or in the world,” is a classic modernist trope that dismisses legitimate Catholic critique as mere “keyboard warrior” activity. This rhetoric serves to silence faithful Catholics who, guided by the unchanging Magisterium, recognize the profound doctrinal and moral errors of the post-conciliar era. The cardinal’s call to “initiate change” is not a call to restore the integral Catholic faith but to further embed the faithful in the very systems that have led to the spiritual ruin of nations. **The true mission of the Church is not to be “agents of change” in a secular sense but to be agents of sanctification, leading souls to Christ the King and His immutable truths.**
The concept of “change” as a positive good is a fundamental tenet of Modernism, condemned by St. Pius X in *Pascendi Dominici Gregis* as the “evolution of dogmas.” The Catholic Church, founded by Christ to teach all nations the unchanging deposit of faith, cannot be an “agent of change” in the sense of adapting to the world. As Pope Pius XI encyclical *Quas Primas* teaches, “the Kingdom of Christ is not of this world” and the Church’s mission is to lead souls to eternal happiness, not to reform secular society according to the shifting sands of human opinion. The cardinal’s words, therefore, are a subtle but effective promotion of the very naturalism that the pre-conciliar Popes so vehemently condemned.
The Papal Nuncio and the Syrian Charade
The article also reports on the welcome of Syria’s new papal nuncio, Archbishop Luigi Roberto Cona, by Melkite Greek Catholic Patriarch Youssef Absi. The nuncio’s emphasis on “peace rooted in justice, love, dialogue, diplomacy, and forgiveness” is a textbook example of the conciliar religion’s embrace of naturalistic principles. **The nuncio’s call for Syrians to “see one another not as enemies but as partners and brothers” directly contradicts the Catholic doctrine on the necessity of conversion to the one true Church for salvation, as defined by the Council of Trent and Pope Boniface VIII’s *Unam Sanctam*.**
The nuncio’s vision of a “new Syria, built on truth, practical solutions, equal dignity, and shared citizenship” is a purely temporal and humanistic goal that ignores the supernatural end of man. The Catholic Church, before 1958, taught that the ultimate goal of society is the salvation of souls and the recognition of Christ the King’s social kingship. The nuncio’s language, drawn directly from the post-conciliar conciliar sect’s lexicon, reveals a Church that has abandoned its divine mandate to baptize all nations in favor of a vague, humanitarian “dialogue” that serves the globalist agenda of the United Nations, a body condemned by earlier Pontiffs for its naturalistic and anti-Catholic principles.
The Aberdeen Diocese and the False “Pope”
The report on the Scottish Diocese of Aberdeen’s warning against an unsanctioned episcopal consecration by the Sons of the Most Holy Redeemer is a rare instance of a “bishop” in the post-conciliar structures upholding canon law. Bishop Hugh Gilbert, OSB, correctly identifies that such an ordination would be “unlawful and a grave act of disobedience, separating those taking part from communion with the Catholic Church.” However, this statement is deeply hypocritical when viewed from the perspective of integral Catholic faith. **Bishop Gilbert and the entire post-conciliar hierarchy are themselves in a state of de facto schism, having embraced the modernist errors of the Second Vatican Council and submitted to the authority of manifest heretics on Peter’s throne.**
The Aberdeen diocese’s statement is a clear attempt to maintain the conciliar sect’s monopoly on ecclesiastical authority while ignoring the far greater crisis of legitimacy that has plagued the Vatican since 1958. The true Catholic Church endures in the faithful who profess the integral faith and are led by bishops with valid sacraments, such as those who have resisted the modernist takeover. The warning against the Sons of the Most Holy Redeemer is a case of the conciliar sect protecting its own apostate structures while the true Church continues to preserve the unchanging Tradition.
The Iraqi Novena and the Cult of “Martyrs”
The Syriac Catholic Archdiocese of Mosul’s novena for the beatification of Father Yousif Zakaria and Father Behnam Mikho, who were martyred in 1915, is presented as a pious custom. However, the post-conciliar cult of “martyrs” is often a tool to promote the very modernist agenda of religious liberty and dialogue. **The pre-conciliar Church taught that martyrdom is the supreme witness to the truth of the Catholic faith, not a generic “steadfastness in Christian faith” that can be shared with heretics and schismatics.** The novena, by focusing on the “witness” of these priests without explicitly emphasizing their witness to the exclusive truth of the Catholic Church, serves the conciliar religion’s ecumenical narrative.
The transfer of the priests’ remains to the Great Tahira Cathedral, while a traditional practice, is now often used to foster a sense of “Christian” unity that transcends doctrinal differences. The true Catholic Church venerates martyrs as witnesses to the faith once delivered to the saints, not as generic “agents of change” in a world that remains in enmity with the true God.
The Myanmar Sister and the Secular State
The sentencing of Sister Benedetta Nya Moe in Myanmar to eight months in jail for her charitable work is a reminder of the persecution faced by religious who refuse to submit to the totalitarian demands of the modern state. However, the article’s framing of the event as a case of “religious persecution” ignores the deeper spiritual battle. **The true persecution of the Church today is not merely physical but spiritual, waged by the modernist apostates within the conciliar sect who have surrendered the Church’s temporal and spiritual authority to the forces of secularism and globalism.**
The sister’s arrest for “crossing paths with a military column” and her phone records of “donations and news about the ongoing conflict” is a stark reminder that the secular state views any independent Catholic action as a threat. The pre-conciliar Church taught that the state must be subordinate to the moral law and the spiritual authority of the Church. The current crisis, however, is a direct result of the conciliar revolution’s embrace of religious liberty and the separation of Church and state, which has left the Church defenseless against the very secular forces it once condemned.
The Quebec Settlement and the Fruits of Apostasy
The $31 million settlement in Quebec for victims of clergy sexual abuse is a direct consequence of the moral and doctrinal collapse that followed the Second Vatican Council. The post-conciliar structures’ embrace of Modernism, with its denial of the supernatural and its naturalistic view of man, has led to the corruption of the clergy and the betrayal of the faithful. **The settlement, while a temporal remedy, is a stark reminder that the conciliar religion has abandoned the supernatural means of sanctification—the sacraments, the Mass of All Time, and the unchanging moral teaching of the pre-conciliar Church—in favor of a naturalistic humanism that cannot prevent such scandals.**
The apology letter by Auxiliary Bishop Jean Tailleur is a hollow gesture that fails to address the root cause of the crisis: the modernist apostasy that has infected the conciliar sect. The true Catholic Church, guided by the unchanging Magisterium, has always taught that the only remedy for sin is conversion, confession, and the grace of the sacraments validly administered in communion with the true Church.
The Irish Abortion Vote and the Apostasy of Nations
The Irish lawmakers’ vote to remove the three-day wait for abortion is a further sign of the apostasy of nations that were once Catholic. The conciliar religion’s embrace of religious liberty and dialogue has failed to prevent the legalization of murder in countries that were once bastions of the faith. **The true Catholic Church, before 1958, taught that the state must recognize the moral law and protect the innocent from conception to natural death. The current crisis is a direct result of the post-conciliar structures’ abandonment of this teaching in favor of a false “freedom of conscience” that has led to the spiritual and temporal ruin of nations.**
The vote, supported by the Taoiseach and Tánaiste, is a clear indication that the conciliar sect has no moral authority to guide the faithful or the nations. The true Church, enduring in the faithful who profess the integral Catholic faith, remains the only beacon of truth in a world that has embraced the culture of death.
In conclusion, the EWTN News roundup is a microcosm of the conciliar revolution’s global agenda: a Church that has abandoned its supernatural mission to become a humanitarian NGO, a clergy that has embraced the world’s values while persecuting the faithful, and a laity that is urged to be “agents of change” in a world that remains in enmity with the true God. The only hope for the restoration of the Church is a return to the unchanging Tradition of the pre-conciliar era, guided by the true Catholic faith and the social kingship of Christ the King.
Source:
Filipino cardinal: Catholics should be agents of change, not ‘keyboard warriors’ (ewtnnews.com)
Date: 29.06.2026