Climate Syncretism and the Betrayal of the Church’s Supernatural Mission
Vatican News portal reports (17 November 2025) on CAFOD’s advocacy at COP30, promoting climate finance and “solidarity” rooted in Bergoglio’s *Laudato si’*. Neil Thorns, CAFOD’s Director, claims Catholic actors amplify “the cry of the Earth and the cry of the poor” while urging “justice-based” climate policies. The article frames climate activism as an extension of Catholic teaching, praising Indigenous knowledge and demanding debt cancellation for the Global South.
Reduction of the Church to a Humanitarian NGO
The article reduces the Church’s mission to naturalistic activism, stating Catholic actors bring “concern for the poorest communities” into climate negotiations. This ignores the Church’s divine mandate to save souls (Mark 16:15) and subordinates the supernatural to temporal politics. Pius XI condemned such inversion in Quas Primas, declaring: “When once men recognize, both in private and in public life, that Christ is King, society will at last receive the great blessings of real liberty, well-ordered discipline, peace and harmony” (1925). The “cry of the Earth” rhetoric replaces the Gospel’s call to repentance with pagan ecology, echoing the Syllabus of Errors’ condemnation of those who equate the Church’s mission with “earthly prosperity” (Pius IX, 1864, Error 40).
Laudato Si’: A Vehicle for Modernist Apostasy
Thorns lauds Laudato si’ as a “message of hope,” claiming it motivates climate action. Yet this document epitomizes the conciliar sect’s apostasy, elevating creation worship over adoration of the Creator. The article’s praise for Indigenous “solutions” exposes its syncretism: Traditional Catholic missions sought to baptize pagan cultures, not exalt their “knowledge” as equal to Revelation. St. Pius X’s Lamentabili condemned the error that “Revelation cannot be something exterior to man’s consciousness” (1907, Proposition 22)—precisely the subjectivism underpinning Bergoglio’s eco-encyclical.
“We want to bring the voices of our partners into these central spaces… because that’s what we know is going to make a difference.”
This statement reduces the Church to a lobbying group. Contrast this with Pius IX’s teaching: “The Church has the inherent right to acquire, possess, and administer property for her divine mission” (Syllabus, Error 26). CAFOD’s demand for “debt cancellation” and wealth redistribution violates subsidiarity and promotes Marxist materialism disguised as charity.
Naturalistic “Justice” Versus Divine Law
Thorns asserts climate finance is “an issue of justice,” framing the Global North as oppressors. This Marxist narrative rejects the Church’s teaching on legitimate property rights (Leo XIII, Rerum Novarum, 1891) and ignores the primacy of personal sin as the root of societal disorder. The article’s fixation on “erratic weather” and “floating gardens” ignores the true crisis: the loss of grace caused by the conciliar sect’s abandonment of the Sacraments and dogma.
False Hope in the COP Process
Despite admitting COP negotiations are “frustrating,” Thorns insists multilateralism must continue. This blind faith in pagan governance structures mocks Christ’s Kingship. Pius XI warned: “If princes and magistrates duly elected are filled with the persuasion that they rule, not by their own right, but by the mandate and in the place of the Divine King, they will exercise their authority piously and wisely” (Quas Primas). The COP summits, however, enshrine UN Agenda 2030—a blueprint for global tyranny antithetical to Catholic social order.
Silence on the Church’s True Weapons
Nowhere does the article mention penance, the Mass, or prayer as solutions to crises. This omission proves the conciliar sect’s apostasy: It offers worldly activism instead of the Cross. True Catholic resistance would demand:
– Public consecration of nations to Christ the King
– Reparation for blasphemies against the Eucharist
– Condemnation of usury and Freemasonry—real drivers of poverty
Instead, CAFOD collaborates with the very UN system that promotes abortion and gender ideology. This is not Catholicism—it is the “abomination of desolation” (Matt. 24:15) masquerading as mercy.
Source:
CAFOD at COP30: Catholic actors push for justice and climate finance (vaticannews.va)
Date: 17.11.2025