Naturalistic Brotherhood: Apostate Vatican’s Distortion of Catholic Fraternity
The Vatican News portal (November 12, 2025) reports on antipope Leo XIV’s general audience promoting a humanistic concept of fraternity detached from the supernatural order. The article presents fraternity as a purely natural virtue necessary for survival, claims coexistence fulfills humanity’s purpose, and cites Bergoglio’s Fratelli tutti as authentically Christian. This modernist manifesto reduces Christ’s redemptive work to social coexistence while omitting the necessity of sacramental life and submission to Christ the King.
Reduction of Supernatural Charity to Natural Sentiment
The antipope’s declaration that fraternity is “deeply human” and that “without these relationships, we would not be able to survive” constitutes a material heresy against the theological virtue of charity. Caritas originates not from human social instinct but from divine infusion through sanctifying grace (Council of Trent, Session VI, Chapter VII). The true Catholic understanding was expressed by Pius XI: “The Reign of Christ the King demands complete submission of the intellect and will to God, without which no true fraternity exists” (Quas Primas, §18). The article’s emphasis on coexistence as humanity’s “best fulfillment” echoes Rousseau’s social contract theory condemned in Mirari Vos (Gregory XVI, 1832).
Omission of Christ’s Social Kingship
Nowhere does the antipope mention the Regnum Christi established through Calvary’s sacrifice. This silence constitutes apostasy from Pius XI’s dogmatic teaching: “Not only private individuals but also rulers and governments are bound to give public honor and obedience to Christ” (Quas Primas, §32). The article’s promotion of Bergoglio’s Fratelli tutti directly violates the Syllabus of Errors’ condemnation of those claiming “the Roman Pontiff can reconcile himself with progress, liberalism, and modern civilization” (Proposition 80). True fraternity flows from membership in Christ’s Mystical Body, not from Enlightenment-inspired human rights theories.
Perversion of Franciscan Spirituality
The fraudulent attribution of universal brotherhood to St. Francis of Assisi constitutes historical revisionism. The Regula Bullata (1223) explicitly conditions fraternal relations on submission to Holy Mother Church: “All brothers must be Catholics, living in obedience to the Roman Church” (Chapter XII). Bonaventure documents Francis calling Muslims “children of perdition” who must be “either converted or vanquished” (Legenda Major, IX:7-8), not “brothers” in some ecumenical fantasy. The antipope’s misuse of Omnes fratres distorts the saint’s missionary zeal into religious indifferentism condemned by Pius IX: “Good hope at least is to be entertained of the eternal salvation of those who are not at all in the true Church of Christ – anathema” (Syllabus of Errors, Proposition 17).
Sacramental Amnesia and False Ecumenism
The complete absence of references to Baptism as the source of supernatural brotherhood reveals this doctrine’s demonic origin. Traditional catechisms teach: “We become brothers in Christ only through the laver of regeneration which incorporates us into His Mystical Body” (Baltimore Catechism III, Q. 629). The antipope’s call to “support fellow man in hardships” while omitting the necessity of penance and Eucharist constitutes the heresy of Americanism condemned in Testem Benevolentiae (Leo XIII, 1899). True Catholic fraternity requires the hierarchical mediation of validly ordained priests offering the propitiatory sacrifice – not the neo-church’s table gatherings.
Naturalism as Synthesis of Modernist Errors
The reduction of Christ’s Resurrection to a mere “new history” that makes disciples “fully brothers” encapsulates the modernist denial of dogma’s immutable truth. Pius X condemned this evolutionary heresy: “Dogmas… are not truths fallen from heaven but interpretations of religious facts which the human mind laboriously worked out” (Lamentabili Sane, Proposition 22). The article’s therapeutic language about “active pursuit of unity” replaces the Church’s missionary mandate with Freudian group dynamics, fulfilling Pius X’s warning that modernists reduce religion to “a certain experience united to a need of the heart” (Pascendi Dominici Gregis, §7).
Source:
Pope at General Audience: Without fraternity, we cannot survive (vaticannews.va)
Date: 12.11.2025