Conciliar Sect Hails Trump’s Naturalistic Diplomacy as ‘Miracle’ for Protestant Pastor
The National Catholic Register portal (July 6, 2026) reports the release of Protestant pastor Ezra Jin Mingri by the Chinese Communist Party after diplomatic pressure from U.S. President Donald Trump, presenting the event as a “miracle” and a triumph for “people of faith” and international relations. The article cites layman Chris Smith, the conciliar “Catholic” politician, and former vice president Mike Pence praising Trump’s intervention, while noting the continued imprisonment of the conciliar “Catholic” Jimmy Lai. This celebration of secular statecraft as divine intervention exposes the total naturalization of the supernatural order by the conciliar sect, its indifferentist equating of all religions, and its betrayal of the Social Kingship of Christ for a mess of geopolitical pottage.
The Naturalistic Reduction of the Supernatural Order
The family’s statement — “We truly witnessed a miracle and we are feeling so overwhelmed with joy. We thank God for this tremendous miracle. We also thank President Trump and his administration for their tremendous leadership” — reveals a Protestantized, naturalistic conception of miracle indistinguishable from secular humanitarianism. A true miracle, in the theological sense, is a sensible effect produced by God as the primary cause, exceeding the powers of nature, to confirm the truth of the Catholic Faith (St. Thomas Aquinas, Contra Gentiles, III, 101). The release of a heretic pastor through the machinations of a non-Catholic head of state negotiating with a Communist dictator is not a miracle but a diplomatic transaction. To attribute it to God as a miracle while thanking Trump as the instrument is to confuse providentia ordinaria with providentia extraordinaria, and to subordinate the ordo gratiae to the ordo rerum. This is the heresy of naturalism condemned by Pope Pius IX in the Syllabus Errorum (Prop. 3, 58): “Human reason, without any reference whatsoever to God, is the sole arbiter of truth and falsehood… No other forces are to be recognized except those which reside in matter.” The conciliar sect, by echoing this language, confirms its apostasy from the supernatural.
Indifferentism and the Denial of the Social Kingship of Christ
The article speaks of “persecuted Christians worldwide” and “people of faith” as an undifferentiated category, lumping together a Protestant pastor, a conciliar “Catholic” media tycoon, and implicitly any other religion. This is the condemned error of indifferentism (Syllabus, Prop. 15, 16, 17, 18): “Every man is free to embrace and profess that religion which, guided by the light of reason, he shall consider true… Man may, in the observance of any religion whatever, find the way of eternal salvation.” Pope Pius XI in Quas Primas teaches that “the Kingdom of Christ… encompasses all men… not only Catholic nations… but His reign encompasses also all non-Christians, so that most truly the entire human race is subject to the authority of Jesus Christ” (Ench. 28). The duty of states is not to secure “freedom of religion” — a Masonic chimera — but to publicly honor Christ the King and order their laws according to His commandments. The article’s praise for Trump’s “ability to stand up for persecuted Christians” (Sen. Risch) ignores that Trump, as a non-Catholic, has no authority from Christ to act as defender of the Church, and that his “defense” extends equally to heretics and schismatics, thereby denying the unique mediatory role of the Catholic Church (Extra Ecclesiam nulla salus). The silence on the necessity of conversion to the Catholic Faith for salvation is the gravest accusation against this reporting.
Collaboration with the Masonic Order of World Governance
The entire narrative revolves around the U.S.-China summit, the “positive turn for… relations between our two nations”, and the geopolitical theater of “America 250 celebrations”. This is the paramasonic structure of the novus ordo seclorum in full view. The conciliar sect, instead of condemning the Communist persecution as a crime crying to heaven for vengeance against the Kingship of Christ, celebrates the diplomatic success of the American empire. Pope 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… the entire human society had to be shaken” (Quas Primas, citing Ubi Arcano). The article’s joy at “relations between our two nations” improving is a joy at the consolidation of the Masonic world order which knows no King but Caesar. The mention of Jimmy Lai as a “democracy advocate” further betrays the conciliar sect’s idolatry of liberal democracy, condemned by Pope Pius IX (Syllabus, Prop. 77, 78, 79, 80) and Pope St. Pius X (Lamentabili sane exitu, Prop. 58, 59, 64) as the political form of Modernism.
The False ‘Catholic’ Politician as Agent of Secularism
The layman Chris Smith, identified as “a Catholic”, issues a statement thanking President Trump for “personally raising Pastor Jin’s case with CCP General Secretary Xi Jinping”. Here is a “Catholic” politician acting as a lobbyist for a Protestant sect before a Communist tyrant, invoking not the rights of Christ the King but the “human rights” framework of the Masonic United Nations. This is a direct violation of the duty of Catholic laity to restore all things in Christ (Instaurare omnia in Christo, St. Pius X). The Syllabus condemns the proposition: “The civil government, even when in the hands of an infidel sovereign, has a right to an indirect negative power over religious affairs” (Prop. 41). Smith’s collaboration with Trump (an infidel sovereign in Catholic theology) to negotiate religious “freedom” with Xi (a Communist persecutor) is the practical application of this condemned error. He seeks favors from the civil power (Prop. 29: “Favours granted by the Roman pontiff ought to be considered null, unless they have been sought for through the civil government” — here inverted: favors for the Church sought through the civil government). The true Catholic response to persecution is not diplomatic pressure from a heretical nation, but prayer, penance, and the proclamation of the Kingship of Christ which alone can convert the persecutor or confound his power.
Silence on the Necessity of the True Faith for Salvation
Nowhere in the article — nor in the statements of the family, Smith, Risch, or Pence — is there a single word about the salvation of souls, the necessity of Baptism, the profession of the Catholic Faith, or the danger of dying in heresy or schism. The pastor is described as “stay[ing] true to his faith” (Risch) — a faith which, if Protestant, cannot save (Cantate Domino, Council of Florence: “It firmly believes, professes, and preaches that none of those existing outside the Catholic Church… can be saved”). The family thanks God for a temporal release but shows zero concern for the eternal destiny of the pastor or his flock. This is the practical atheism of the conciliar sect: man is saved by temporal security and “human rights,” not by grace and the Sacraments. The Lamentabili sane exitu condemns the Modernist proposition: “The dogmas of faith should be understood according to their practical function, i.e., as binding in action, rather than as principles of belief” (Prop. 26). Here, the “dogma” of religious liberty functions practically to secure release from prison; the dogma of Extra Ecclesiam nulla salus is discarded as impractical.
Symptomatic of the Conciliar Apostasy
This article is not an anomaly; it is the necessary fruit of Vatican II’s Dignitatis Humanae and Gaudium et Spes. The conciliar sect has abdicated the Church’s divine mandate to teach, govern, and sanctify in favor of NGO-style advocacy at the feet of secular powers. It has replaced the Unbloody Sacrifice of Calvary with the “table of assembly” of political summits. It has exchanged the Sword of the Spirit for the pen of the diplomat. The release of a Protestant pastor by a Communist regime at the behest of a Masonic-affiliated U.S. president is hailed as a “miracle” — a sacrilegious parody of the true miracles which confirm the One, Holy, Catholic, and Apostolic Church. “The state is happy not by one means, and man by another; for the state is nothing else than a harmonious association of men” (Quas Primas, citing St. Augustine). But the conciliar sect, by celebrating this harmonious association of Trump and Xi, proves it serves the City of Man, not the City of God. Non est hic Deus vester (Judges 17:6). The true Church, Ecclesia militans, endures in the catacombs of Tradition, awaiting the Social Reign of Christ the King, not the next press release from the abomination of desolation occupying the Vatican.
Source:
China Releases Detained Christian Pastor Ezra Jin Mingri (ncregister.com)
Date: 06.07.2026