The EWTN News portal (ACI Prensa) reports on an interview given by Silvio Báez, the exiled auxiliary “bishop” of Managua, to the Nicaraguan newspaper Confidencial. The article portrays Báez as a courageous voice against the Ortega-Murillo dictatorship, highlighting his exile since 2019, his biblical rhetoric comparing the regime to Pharaoh, his criticism of “negative silence” within the Church, and his expressed hope in “Pope Leo XIV,” whom he claims has “detailed knowledge” of Nicaragua and has approved monthly Zoom meetings of exiled priests. The piece concludes with Báez’s vision of a future Nicaragua built on “social justice,” “solidarity,” and “freedom” to think differently. This report exposes the thoroughgoing naturalism of the conciliar hierarchy: a pseudo-bishop of the neo-church collaborates with a Masonic-inspired media outlet to reduce the supernatural crisis of the Church and the temporal duty of the State to Christ the King into a banal struggle for “human rights” and “democracy,” all while recognizing the usurper Leo XIV as the Vicar of Christ.
The Conciliar Sect’s Media Apparatus Legitimizes a False Hierarchy
The source of this article, EWTN News and its Spanish-language sister service ACI Prensa, is a principal organ of the conciliar sect, the Church of the New Advent occupying the Vatican since the usurpation of John XXIII in 1958. Walter Sánchez Silva, the byline author, is identified as a “senior writer” who has reported “during the pontificates of Benedict XVI and Pope Francis.” This phrasing alone manifests the heresy of papal continuity with the false popes of the Second Vatican Council. By treating the manifest heretics Francis and Leo XIV as legitimate successors of Peter, EWTN functions as a propaganda arm of the abomination of desolation (Matt. 24:15), normalizing the great apostasy foretold by St. Paul (2 Thess. 2:3).
The article uncritically refers to Silvio Báez as “Auxiliary Bishop of Managua” and “prelate,” never enclosing his title in quotation marks as intellectual honesty and Catholic truth demand. Báez was “ordained” in 1985 and “consecrated” in 2009 within the novus ordo rites, which are doubtfully valid at best and sacrilegiously invalid at worst, given the defective form and intention introduced by Paul VI’s 1968 Pontifical. Even if the rites were materially valid, no one receiving orders from the conciliar hierarchy receives jurisdiction, for the Church of the New Advent lacks the munus of the true Church. As Pius XII taught in Mystici Corporis, jurisdiction comes from the true Roman Pontiff; since 1958, there has been none. Báez is, at most, a layman dressed in episcopal insignia, a pseudo-bishop of a paramasonic structure.
Reduction of the Church’s Mission to Naturalistic Humanism
The entire rhetorical framework of Báez’s interview is purely naturalistic. He speaks of “irrationality,” “cruelty,” “human dignity,” “dialogue,” “social justice,” “solidarity,” “fairness,” and “peace founded on social justice.” Not once does he mention the Social Kingship of Christ the King, the duty of the State to profess the Catholic Faith, the salvation of souls, the necessity of the Sacraments, or the reality of eternal damnation. This is the heresy of Americanism and Liberal Catholicism condemned by Leo XIII in Testem Benevolentiae (1899) and by St. Pius X in Pascendi Dominici Gregis (1907).
Pius XI, in Quas Primas (1925), the very encyclical instituting the Feast of Christ the King, declares with unmistakable clarity: “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, because the main reason why some have the right to command and others have the duty to obey was removed.” Báez, by contrast, frames the Nicaraguan crisis as a conflict between a “dictatorship” and “the people,” invoking the Exodus narrative not to proclaim Christus Vincit but to legitimize a political liberation theology stripped of its supernatural end. He says: “The homeland lives in your heart. And I love Nicaragua.” This is idolatry of the nation, substituting patria for Regnum Christi.
The Pharaoh Analogy: A Protestantized, Politicized Reading of Scripture
Báez compares Ortega to Pharaoh and implies that God “hears the cry of the oppressed” and “comes down into history” to liberate them politically. This is a Protestantized, modernist exegesis. The true Catholic sense of the Exodus, as taught by the Fathers and the Magisterium, is a typus of the spiritual liberation from sin and the devil accomplished by Christ the King through His Church and the Sacraments. St. Augustine teaches that the crossing of the Red Sea signifies Baptism (Enarrationes in Psalmos, 77). The “Promised Land” is the Catholic Church, the Kingdom of Heaven, not a democratic Nicaragua.
By silencing the supernatural dimension, Báez turns the Word of God into a manifesto for liberation theology — the very error condemned by the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith in Libertatis Nuntius (1984) under the false pope John Paul II, and rooted in the Modernist heresy of immanentizing the eschaton. The “God” Báez preaches is not the Deus Absconditus who judges nations (Ps. 9:18), but a deistic facilitator of human projects.
Recognition of the Usurper Leo XIV: The Gravest Act of Schism
The article reveals that Báez met with “Pope Leo XIV” in August 2025 and that the monthly Zoom meetings of exiled priests have “the approval of Pope Leo XIV.” This explicit recognition of Robert Prevost as the Roman Pontiff constitutes formal adherence to the great apostasy. Leo XIV (Prevost) is a manifest heretic: he participated in the Synod on Synodality, promotes the hermeneutic of continuity with Vatican II, and has not condemned the Amoris Laetitia sacrileges, the Fiducia Supplicans blasphemies, or the pagan Pachamama rites. By the principle ipso facto (Canon 188.4, 1917 Code; Bellarmine, De Romano Pontifice), a manifest heretic ceases to be Pope and head of the Church the moment he falls into public heresy. St. Robert Bellarmine states: “A manifest heretic… by that very fact ceases to be Pope and head, just as he ceases to be a Christian and member of the body of the Church.”
Báez admits he “argued with Pope Francis at length” in 2019 but submitted because “there was no point in arguing with the Holy Father.” This submission to a false pope is the essence of the conciliar religion: obedience to man rather than to God (Acts 5:29). The true Catholic bishop, like St. Athanasius or St. John Fisher, would have denounced the antipope and suffered exile or death rather than acknowledge him. Báez’s “exile” is not for the Faith — he was expelled for political opposition to Ortega — but his spiritual exile from the true Church is self-imposed by his communion with the usurpers.
The “Silence of the Church” Critique: A Modernist Tactic
Báez denounces a “negative silence” within the Church, saying: “We are not a community of silence.” This rhetoric mirrors the Modernist demand for “parrhesia” (bold speech) against “clericalism,” a staple of the Francis pontificate. But the true silence Báez laments is not the silence of bishops failing to denounce dictators; it is the silence of the conciliar hierarchy regarding the apostasy in the Vatican. Where is Báez’s voice against the novus ordo Mass, the destruction of the priesthood, the ecumenical betrayal of the Faith, the Assisi abominations, the Amoris Laetitia adultery license? His “courage” is selective and worldly: loud against a temporal dictator, mute against the spiritual Antichrist in Rome.
St. Pius X in Pascendi condemns the Modernist tactic of “speaking courageously against the enemies of the Church outside, while betraying her from within.” Báez exemplifies this. His “community of the Word” is a community of human words, for the Verbum Dei — Extra Ecclesiam Nulla Salus, the Social Kingship of Christ, the necessity of the Traditional Mass — is absent from his discourse.
The Zoom “Clergy in Exile”: A Virtual Synodal Church
The detail that “more than 200 exiled Nicaraguan priests meet via Zoom… with the approval of Pope Leo XIV” reveals the synodal, virtual, dematerialized nature of the conciliar sect. The true Church is una, sancta, catholica, apostolica — visible, hierarchical, sacramental. A “Zoom meeting” approved by a false pope is a Masonic parody of ecclesiastical communion, replacing the sacra potestas of jurisdiction with digital connectivity. These “priests,” mostly ordained in the invalid novus ordo rite, lack the power to confect the Eucharist or absolve sins. Their “ministry” is a simulacrum, a theatrum of the sacred, deceiving the faithful into believing they have access to the channels of grace.
Pius XII in Mediator Dei (1947) warns: “The liturgy is not a mere spectacle… it is the exercise of the priestly office of Jesus Christ.” The conciliar sect has turned the priesthood into a social work profession, and Báez’s “pastoral creativity” in exile confirms this: “You are where your heart is, not where your feet are.” This is Gnostic dualism, denying the incarnational, territorial, and sacramental reality of the Church.
The Eschatological Void: No Mention of Judgment, Hell, or the Kingship of Christ
The gravest omission in the article — and in Báez’s entire worldview — is the total absence of the supernatural last things. No mention of the Final Judgment, of Hell, of the necessity of Baptism and the Catholic Faith for salvation (Extra Ecclesiam Nulla Salus), of the duty of the Nicaraguan State to recognize Christ the King as its Sovereign (Pius XI, Quas Primas; Leo XIII, Immortale Dei). The “hope” Báez offers is “a new chapter in Nicaragua’s history,” “a country with true peace founded on social justice.” This is chiliasm, the heresy of an earthly paradise, condemned by the Church (DS 3839).
The Syllabus of Errors (Pius IX, 1864) condemns: “The Roman Pontiff can, and ought to, reconcile himself, and come to terms with progress, liberalism and modern civilization” (Error 80). Báez and his masters in the conciliar sect have done precisely this. They have capitulated to the world, adopting its language (“human rights,” “democracy,” “social justice”), its methods (Zoom, media interviews, political advocacy), and its false popes.
Conclusion: A False Bishop Serving a False Church for a False Hope
The EWTN article, far from edifying the faithful, serves as a document of the apostasy. It presents a pseudo-bishop of the neo-church, ordained in a doubtful rite, lacking jurisdiction, recognizing a manifest heretic as Pope, preaching a naturalistic gospel of political liberation, and collaborating with a media outlet that sustains the great illusion of the “living magisterium” of Vatican II. The Nicaraguan people deserve not a “bishop” who dialogues with dictators and antipope alike, but true bishops with valid orders and jurisdiction, preaching the integral Faith, offering the Traditional Mass, and proclaiming the Social Kingship of Christ the King as the only remedy for the evils of nations.
As Pius XI declared in Quas Primas: “If rulers of states… wish to maintain their authority inviolate and contribute to the increase of their homeland’s happiness, let them not refuse public veneration and obedience to the reigning Christ.” Until the conciliar sect is recognized for what it is — the abomination of desolation — and the true Church emerges from the catacombs to restore the Kingship of Christ, Nicaragua, like the world, will remain under the judgment of God, whether ruled by a Pharaoh or a “democrat.”
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Nicaraguan bishop: Irrationality and cruelty are tragic characteristics of the dictatorship (ewtnnews.com)
Date: 10.07.2026