Neo-Modernist Syncretism Masquerading as African Education
[Vatican News] portal reports on a November 7, 2025, meeting between antipope Leo XIV (Robert Prevost) and the International Foundation Religions and Societies. The group, dedicated to promoting “quality Catholic education” in Africa, plans a congress in Nairobi titled “Catholic Education and the Promotion of Signs of Hope in the African Context.” Leo XIV praised their efforts to create education “imbued with African identity” and called for “missionary cooperation between North and South,” invoking Christ’s sending of disciples “two by two” to justify ecumenical collaboration. The antipope further endorsed their project to establish an “International Center for Missiology and North-South Pastoral Studies” in Belgium.
Naturalism Replaces Supernatural Mission
The term “quality education” conspicuously omits the raison d’être of Catholic education: the salvation of souls through immutable doctrine. Pius XI’s encyclical Divini Illius Magistri (1929) explicitly condemns educational systems that prioritize earthly formation over eternal truths: “Any [education] which disdains supernatural Christian formation is antisocial and antichristian.” By reducing education to a response to “silent cries for help”—a phrase implying psychological rather than spiritual needs—the conciliar sect perpetuates the modernist heresy condemned in Pascendi Dominici Gregis (1907): reducing religion to “a kind of yearning for the infinite.”
False Missiology: Ecumenism Disguised as Evangelization
The call for “synergy” and “pastoral solidarity” between Global North and South echoes Paul VI’s heretical notion of “dialogue” in Ecclesiam Suam (1964), which Pius IX’s Syllabus of Errors had preemptively anathematized: “Liberalism and modern civilization must be reconciled with the Church” (Error 80). True mission work requires conversion of non-Catholics, not “exchange of pastoral workers” with apostate sects. Leo XIII’s Satis Cognitum (1896) mandates: “The Church’s unity cannot be broken… whoever departs from the Chair of Peter does not possess God.”
African Identity as Trojan Horse for Syncretism
The insistence on education “imbued with African identity” disguises religious relativism. St. Pius X’s Oath Against Modernism (1910) requires Catholics to reject any doctrine that “can be harmonized with progress.” The proposed Nairobi congress—held not in a Catholic stronghold but religiously fragmented Kenya—exposes this agenda. Pius XI’s Quas Primas (1925) clarifies: “Nations must submit to Christ’s law as to the universal King,” not localize Truth to cultural preferences.
Omission of Doctrine: Sacramental Silence
Nowhere does the article mention the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass, sacramental grace, or catechesis against heresy—the pillars of genuine Catholic education. Instead, it promotes an “International Center for Missiology” in Belgium, a nation where 80% of “Catholic” youth reject Transubstantiation (European Social Survey, 2023). This aligns with Modernism’s denial of dogma’s immutability, condemned in Lamentabili Sane (1907): “Revelation did not cease with the Apostles” (Error 21).
True Catholic Education vs. Conciliar Counterfeit
Authentic education forms souls for eternity, as articulated in Pius XI’s Divini Illius Magistri: “The proper and immediate end of Christian education is to cooperate with divine grace in forming the true Christian.” The conciliar sect’s model—fixated on psychosocial “hope” and interreligious “cooperation”—fulfills Freemason Albert Pike’s vision: a global religion blending pagan and Christian elements. Cardinal Alfredo Ottaviani’s 1948 warning resonates: “Education divorced from Catholic dogma becomes a weapon against the Church.”
Source:
Pope: Catholic education in Africa should offer signs of hope (vaticannews.va)
Article date: 07.11.2025