EWTN News portal (July 6, 2026) reports that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, appearing on Fox News, claimed unnamed Lebanese Christian villages requested annexation by Israel for protection against Hezbollah. Former U.S. ambassador and EWTN contributor Alberto Fernández dismissed the assertion as ridiculous domestic Israeli propaganda, citing denials from Lebanese officials including the Kataeb party and the mayor of Rmeich. Fernández insisted the villagers merely desire peace, to be left alone to farm their land. This reduction of the Church’s mission to geopolitical commentary by a neo-church mouthpiece exposes the total abandonment of the Social Kingship of Christ.
The Naturalist Reduction of “Christian” Identity
The cited article speaks of “Christian villages” as a sociological demographic, a voting bloc, a geopolitical pawn. Nowhere does the EWTN contributor—or the portal itself—inquire whether these villagers possess the supernatural life of grace, whether they adhere to the integral Catholic Faith, or whether they are in communion with the true Church of Christ. The Syllabus of Errors condemns the proposition that “Man may, in the observance of any religion whatever, find the way of eternal salvation” (Error 16). Yet the neo-church’s media apparatus treats “Christian” as a mere cultural label, indistinguishable from “Druze” or “Sunni” in the calculus of power politics. This is the fruit of Vatican II’s Nostra Aetate and the false ecumenism it spawned: the erosion of the extra Ecclesiam nulla salus principle into a vague humanitarianism.
Pax Americana vs. Pax Christi in Regno Christi
Fernández, a creature of the State Department now paraded as an “expert” by the neo-church, declares: “They want peace. They want to be left alone. They want to be able to live their lives and their villages and farm their land and be left alone.” This is the pax mundi, the peace of the world which Christ explicitly distinguished from His own: “Peace I leave with you, my peace I give unto you: not as the world giveth, do I give unto you” (Jn 14:27). Pius XI, in Quas Primas, teaches 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 EWTN analysis offers the peace of “farming land” while ignoring the reign of Christ over Lebanon, over Israel, over all nations. The Syllabus condemns the error that “The Church ought to be separated from the State, and the State from the Church” (Error 55). Yet here a “Catholic” portal publishes a secular diplomat’s opinion as if it were the last word on the fate of souls in the Levant.
The Neo-Church as Chaplain to Zionist Geopolitics
Netanyahu’s claim—“Christian villages in Lebanon, some of them have actually asked to be annexed to Israel, because we protect them against the Hezbollah”—is transparently a justification for territorial expansion. That EWTN News gives it oxygen, framing it through a “contributor” who validates the Zionist narrative (“We can’t forget that it’s Hezbollah that keeps plunging Lebanon into war”), reveals the conciliar sect‘s subservience to the geopolitical order of the Civitas Diaboli. The “Church in Lebanon” tag appended to the article refers to the Maronite hierarchy in full communion with the usurper “pope” Leo XIV (Prevost)—a hierarchy that has long since traded the Kingship of Christ for a seat at the table of the Masonic world order. Lamentabili Sane Exitu condemned the Modernist proposition that “Christ did not proclaim any specific, all-encompassing doctrine suitable for all times and peoples, but rather initiated a certain religious movement, applied or applicable to different times and places” (Prop. 59). The neo-church lives this condemnation: it has no doctrine for Lebanon, only talking points for the State Department.
Silence on the Supernatural: The Gravest Accusation
Not a word on the Most Holy Sacrifice, the state of grace, the Final Judgment, the Social Kingship of Christ the King. The article is a Godless void. Pius XI warned: “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.” EWTN News, organ of the abomination of desolation occupying the Vatican, produces content indistinguishable from CNN or Haaretz—save for the pious veneer of a “contributor” who once served the American empire. This is the cult of man in its purest form: the reduction of the Church’s divine mandate to a department of religious affairs for the New World Order.
The False “Christian” Leadership of Lebanon
The article cites the “Kataeb party” and the “mayor of Rmeich” as authorities denying Netanyahu. The Kataeb (Phalange) is a political party with a history of collaboration with Israel and a ideology blending Lebanese nationalism with a truncated Catholicism. Its “Catholic” credentials are as dubious as the neo-church that cites it. The true shepherds of Lebanon—bishops validly ordained before 1968, holding the Faith entire—are invisible to EWTN. The portal prefers the “senior members of the Kataeb party” to the successors of the Apostles. This is the democratization of the Church condemned by St. Pius X: the laity usurping the teaching office, the political replacing the sacramental.
Conclusion: No Salvation in Geopolitics
The EWTN article is a document of apostasy. It presents a dispute over territory as a dispute over “Christian protection,” yet knows nothing of the protection that matters: “Unless the Lord keep the city, he watcheth in vain that keepeth it” (Ps 126:1). The villagers of Rmeich, like all men, need not the “protection” of the IDF but the Precious Blood of Christ and the unbloody Sacrifice of Calvary offered by true priests. They need the Kingship of Christ proclaimed over Lebanon, not the annexationist fantasies of Netanyahu nor the naturalist platitudes of a former ambassador. The neo-church has nothing to offer them—and nothing to offer the world—but idolatry disguised as journalism.
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Netanyahu claims unnamed Lebanese Christian villages sought annexation (ewtnnews.com)
Date: 06.07.2026