The Conciliar Sect’s Business “Sainthood”: Another Step Towards the Religion of Man
VaticanNews portal (November 13, 2025) reports that antipope Leo XIV praised Argentine businessman Enrique Shaw (1921-1962) as proof that “one can be both an entrepreneur and a saint” and that “economic efficiency and fidelity to the Gospel are not mutually exclusive.” The article presents Shaw—declared “venerable” by Bergoglio in 2021—as a model of “Catholic social teaching in action,” highlighting his advocacy for “fair wages” and worker formation programs. Shaw’s cause, now in its final stages, exemplifies the conciliar sect’s systematic replacement of supernatural holiness with naturalistic humanitarianism.
Reduction of Sanctity to Social Activism
The article celebrates Shaw’s “promotion of fair wages” and “solidarity-based company” as the essence of sanctity, stating:
“He did not conceive profitability as an absolute but as an important aspect to sustain a human, just, and solidarity-based company.”
This reduces the heroic virtue required for canonization to mere corporate philanthropy. The Codex Iuris Canonici (1917) demands proof of miracles through intercession and heroic virtue exercised in the theological virtues (Canon 1999 §2). Nowhere does it equate sanctity with labor policies. By omitting Shaw’s spiritual life—his adherence to the lex orandi, reception of valid sacraments, or rejection of modern errors—the conciliar sect perpetuates the Modernist heresy condemned by Pascendi Dominici Gregis: “In the sentiment of the soul… consists both religion and faith” (Pius X, 1907).
Naturalism Masquerading as Catholic Social Teaching
Antipope Leo XIV invokes Leo XIII’s Rerum Novarum to justify Shaw’s “Gospel-centered” business practices:
“The Church denounced unjust labor conditions… neither justice nor humanity can tolerate excessive work.”
This is a deliberate distortion. Rerum Novarum grounded workers’ rights in eternal salvation, stating: “The first and most fundamental principle… is that man must accept the station in life which Providence has assigned him” (§18). The encyclical condemned socialism precisely for prioritizing material equality over the supremacy of the spiritual: “When society is disturbed… the Church alone… has authority to check the movement” (§27). Shaw’s secularized “solidarity” replaces caritas with collectivist ideology, ignoring Pius XI’s warning in Quas Primas that societies rejecting Christ’s reign “had to be shaken, because they lacked a stable and strong foundation.”
A False Model for a False Church
The article admits Shaw “faced misunderstanding and persecution” under Perón’s regime—a government that expelled the Apostolic Nuncio and imprisoned clergy faithful to Rome. Yet it remains silent on whether Shaw opposed Perón’s suppression of Catholic education and establishment of secular labor unions. This omission exposes the conciliar sect’s pattern: elevating figures who accommodate statist regimes while marginalizing true defenders of Christus Rex. Shaw’s imprisonment is presented as a quasi-martyrdom, yet the article admits he was jailed for just four months before dying of cancer—hardly comparable to Cristeros slaughtered while crying “Viva Cristo Rey!“
Antipope Leo XIV concludes: “The world urgently needs entrepreneurs who work for an economy at the service of the common good.” This inversion of priorities—placing economics before adoration—fulfills Pius IX’s condemnation in the Syllabus of Errors: “In the present day it is no longer expedient that the Catholic religion should be held as the only religion of the State” (§77). Shaw’s cause advances the conciliar sect’s ultimate goal: replacing the Social Reign of Christ the King with a religion of man where “social justice” becomes the new dogma, and businessmen supplant martyrs as its saints.
Source:
Pope Leo XIV highlights example of Argentine businessman Enrique Shaw (catholicnewsagency.com)
Date: 13.11.2025