The EWTN News portal, propaganda organ of the conciliar sect operating under the guise of ACI Africa, reports that the “bishop” of the Diocese of Yola in Nigeria, Stephen Dami Mamza, addressed the “Catholic Men’s Organization” of the Jos Ecclesiastical Province on July 7, 2026, lamenting the Nigerian government’s lack of “political will” to defeat terrorism. The “bishop” asserts the military possesses the material capacity to crush the insurgency but lacks “seriousness,” “commitment,” and is mired in “too much politics,” warning that both terrorists and negligent officials will face a generic “God’s judgment” which is “just and fair,” while calling for “divine intervention” and “hope.” This discourse, stripped of the Social Kingship of Christ the King and the Church’s divine mandate over nations, exposes the conciliar hierarchy not as shepherds of the Kingdom of God, but as chaplains to the secular City of Man, begging the secular state for a “political will” that can only exist where the Rights of God are recognized as supreme.
The Conciliar Propaganda Machine and its Simulated Episcopate
The source of this report, EWTN News and its African affiliate ACI Africa, functions as the de facto propaganda ministry of the conciliar sect occupying the Vatican structures since the usurpation of 1958. The subject, Stephen Dami Mamza, presents himself as “Bishop of Yola,” yet operates within the hierarchy of the “Church of the New Advent,” deriving his putative jurisdiction from the line of antipopes beginning with John XXIII and extending to the current usurper, “Pope” Leo XIV (Robert Prevost). Having received episcopal consecration in the invalid Novus Ordo rite of 1968 — a rite stripped of the essential form and intention for the sacrament of Order — he possesses neither valid orders nor canonical mission from the true Roman Pontiff. He is, therefore, a functionary of the abomination of desolation standing in the holy place (Matt. 24:15), a “bishop” only in the eyes of the world and the neo-church.
The linguistic framing of the article — “Catholic bishop,” “Catholic Diocese,” “Catholic Men’s Organization” — is a deliberate semantic theft. The conciliar sect usurps the terminology of the Catholic Church to cloak its modernist sect in the vestments of the Bride of Christ. When this “bishop” speaks, he does not speak with the voice of the Good Shepherd, but as a delegate of the Novus Ordo establishment, perfectly integrated into the Masonic project of a one-world religion subordinated to the temporal order.
Reduction of Christ’s Kingship to Generic Theism: The Repudiation of Quas Primas
The theological bankruptcy of Mamza’s address is total. He speaks of “God’s judgment,” “God’s justice,” “divine accountability,” and “mercy for those who repent,” employing a vague, generic theism indistinguishable from that of a Muslim imam or a Protestant pastor. Nowhere does he invoke Christ the King, Rex Regum et Dominus Dominantium, whose regnum non erit finis (Dan. 7:14; Luke 1:33). Pope Pius XI, in the encyclical Quas Primas (1925), thundered against precisely this secularist plague: “When God and Jesus Christ… were removed from laws and states… 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.” The “bishop” of Yola does not proclaim that Nigeria’s terrorism is the divine chastisement for the nation’s refusal to crown Christ as King; he begs the Godless state for “political will.”
Pius XI instituted the Feast of Christ the King precisely “to address the needs of the present times and provide a special remedy against the plague that poisons human society. And this plague is the secularism of our times, so-called laicism” (Quas Primas). Mamza’s discourse is the plague. He addresses the Nigerian state as a purely secular entity, possessing “air power,” “land power,” and “budget,” but lacking only a psychological attribute: “will.” He does not tell the rulers of Nigeria what Pius XI commanded rulers to hear: “Let rulers of states therefore not refuse public veneration and obedience to the reigning Christ… if they wish to maintain their authority inviolate and contribute to the increase of their homeland’s happiness.” The “bishop” is silent on the jus publicum of the Church, the duty of the State to profess the Catholic Faith (Syllabus, Error 21, 55), and the truth that “there is no other name under heaven given to men by which we must be saved” (Acts 4:12).
Capitulation to Secularism and Religious Indifferentism: The Syllabus Violated
The terrorism ravaging Nigeria is, in its essence, the fruit of the libertas perditionis condemned by Pope Pius IX in the Syllabus Errorum (1864). Error 55 condemns: “The Church ought to be separated from the State, and the State from the Church.” Error 39 condemns: “The State, as being the origin and source of all rights, is endowed with a certain right not circumscribed by any limits.” Errors 15-18 condemn indifferentism: “Every man is free to embrace and profess that religion which… he shall consider true… Man may, in the observance of any religion whatever, find the way of eternal salvation.” Nigeria, a state formally secular, constitutionally indifferent to the one true Religion, and harboring a massive Islamic population dedicated to the subjugation of the infidel, is the logical historical terminus of these condemned errors.
The “bishop” of the conciliar sect, formed by the Dignitatis Humanae heresy of Vatican II, cannot condemn the root cause. He cannot declare, as St. Pius X did against the Sillon, that “Catholic doctrine teaches us that the primary duty of charity does not lie in the toleration of false ideas… but in the zeal for the integrity of the Faith” (Notre Charge Apostolique, 1910). He cannot call for the conversion of Nigeria to the Catholic Faith as the sine qua non of peace. Instead, he speaks of “politicizing the security issue,” “transparency,” “accountability,” and “fake government agencies” — the vocabulary of an NGO auditor, not a Prince of the Church. He functions as a chaplain to the Masonic ideal of the secular state, begging the Leviathan to be a slightly more efficient Leviathan.
The Naturalistic Category of “Political Will” Versus the Rights of God
The central category of Mamza’s analysis is “political will” — voluntas politica. This is a purely naturalistic, Machiavellian concept. It posits that the solution to evil is the exertion of human force guided by human intention. But the Catholic doctrine, infallibly taught, declares: “Non est potestas nisi a Deo” (Rom. 13:1) — there is no power but from God. And this power is delegated propter bonum ordinis, for the good of the order established by God, which is the order of Grace and Nature united in Christ. A “political will” detached from the Voluntas Dei revealed in the Catholic Church is not a remedy; it is the very essence of the rebellion of the Civitas Terrena against the Civitas Dei.
Pius XI teaches: “His kingdom… extends not only to 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” (Quas Primas, citing Leo XIII, Annum Sacrum). The Nigerian state is subject to Christ the King whether it acknowledges it or not. Its terrorism is the fruit of its rebellion. The duty of a true bishop is not to audit the state’s “budget” or “political will,” but to proclaim the Rights of Christ the King over Nigeria, to demand the consecratio of the nation to the Sacred Heart (as Pius XI commanded be renewed annually on the Feast of Christ the King), and to denounce the false religion of Islam as a diabolical counterfeit leading souls to hell. Mamza’s silence on Islam, on the false prophet Muhammad, on the necessity of Baptism for salvation (Extra Ecclesiam nulla salus), is the silence of the hireling who flees when the wolf comes (John 10:12).
The Conciliar “Bishop” as Functionary of the City of Man
The “Catholic Men’s Organization” gathering in Jos is a microcosm of the conciliar laity: activated for temporal activism, formed in the spirituality of the Novus Ordo, deaf to the lex orandi, lex credendi of the Traditional Latin Mass. The “bishop” feeds them “hope rooted in the certainty that God sees every act of righteousness” — a Pelagianized, vague moralism. He offers them “mercy for those who repent” without the Sacrament of Penance, without the Extra Ecclesiam nulla salus, without the Kingship of Christ.
This is the inevitable fruit of the conciliar revolution. The “bishop” of Yola is not a successor of the Apostles teaching tradita; he is a manager of a religious NGO within the Nigerian secular framework. His “divine judgment” is a deistic placeholder, devoid of the terror of the Dies Irae and the glory of the Parousia of the King of Kings. He does not say: “Kiss the Son, lest he be angry, and you perish in the way” (Ps. 2:12). He says: “God will hold you accountable.” The difference is the abyss between the Catholic Faith and the Masonic theism of the Enlightenment.
The tragedy of Nigeria is not a lack of “political will” in Abuja. It is the absence of the Social Reign of Christ the King. It is the triumph of the errors of the Syllabus enshrined in a secular constitution. The conciliar “bishop,” by validating the secular order’s categories and ignoring the Rights of God, participates in the mysterium iniquitatis. He is the blind leading the blind into the ditch of eternal perdition. “If the blind lead the blind, both will fall into the pit” (Matt. 15:14). The only remedy for Nigeria, as for every nation, is the restoration of the Regnum Christi — the public profession of the Catholic Faith by the State, the suppression of public idolatry (Islam), and the subordination of the temporal sword to the spiritual authority of the true Roman Pontiff. Until the conciliar sect is recognized for the counterfeit church it is, and the true hierarchy of the Catacombs is restored, “bishops” like Mamza will continue to beg Caesar for crumbs of “political will,” while the souls of Nigerians perish for lack of the Bread of Life.
Source:
Catholic bishop: ‘There’s no political will in fight against terrorism in Nigeria’ (ewtnnews.com)
Date: 10.07.2026