Cobalt Mine Collapse Exposes Moral Bankruptcy of Godless Societies
The “[X] portal” (November 17, 2025) reports on the collapse of a bridge at the Kalando copper-cobalt mine in the Democratic Republic of Congo, killing at least 32 illegal miners. The article attributes the disaster to overcrowding, heavy rainfall, and panic triggered by soldiers enforcing access restrictions. It further contextualizes the tragedy within Congo’s socio-economic instability, foreign exploitation of mineral resources, and allegations of child labor and corruption. While detailing these material factors, the report remains silent on the radix malorum (root of evils) – the systematic rejection of Christ’s social reign.
Naturalistic Moral Vacuum Masquerading as Analysis
The article’s sterile description of events exemplifies modernity’s reduction of human tragedy to mechanical causes:
“heavy rainfall and the risk of landslides… gunfire from soldiers… triggered panic among the diggers who rushed to the bridge.”
This deliberate omission of moral agency contradicts Pius XI’s teaching that “the empire of Christ over all nations was rejected in practice” when “the right which the Church has from Christ Himself, to teach mankind… was denied” (Quas Primas, 1925). By framing the disaster as inevitable rather than a consequence of structural sin, the report embodies the naturalism condemned in the Syllabus of Errors: “Human reason… is the sole arbiter of truth and falsehood” (Pius IX, 1864, Propositions 3-4).
Socio-Economic “Solutions” as Spiritual Bankruptcy
When the portal suggests Congo’s crisis stems from “corruption, displacement and an acute humanitarian crisis” caused by “enormous financial interests,” it perpetuates the Marxist error of reducing human suffering to economic factors. Nowhere does it acknowledge Leo XIII’s condemnation of “rapacious usury” that “grinds the poor” (Rerum Novarum, 1891) as a moral failure requiring supernatural remedy. The report’s proposed solutions – implicit in its focus on “foreign companies” and “Rwanda-backed M23” – rely on geopolitical rearrangement rather than what Pius XI called “the restoration of Christ to His kingdom” (Quas Primas).
Exploitation as Inevitable Fruit of Materialism
The description of miners “piled on top of each other” in death mirrors the spiritual condition of societies that prioritize lithium-ion batteries over eternal souls. While correctly noting that “80% of [cobalt] production” is foreign-controlled, the article fails to identify this exploitation as the direct fruit of liberal capitalism condemned by Pius XI: “the worst kind of slavery, the slavery of souls” (Divini Redemptoris, 1937). The blood-soaked cobalt supplying “electric vehicles” for affluent environmentalists exemplifies how modernity worships creation while rejecting the Creator – the “cult of man” Pius XII warned would lead to “the suicide of civilization.”
Starvation of Souls in Mineral-Rich Lands
Most damning is the report’s silence on Congo’s spiritual starvation amidst material wealth. No mention that these miners likely died without sacraments, their souls harvested like minerals by globalist predators. The portal obsesses over “child labor” while ignoring the millions of Congolese children deprived of baptism by decades of conciliar neglect. When Pius XII condemned “those who deny Christ… [yet] suck out the vital forces of peoples” (Summi Pontificatus, 1939), he precisely described the cobalt cartels profiting from DRC’s chaos while the conciliar sect abandons its evangelizing mission.
The True Church Alone Holds the Antidote
The article concludes with a call to “support us in bringing the Pope’s words into every home” – a blasphemous inversion when Bergoglio’s sect promotes climate idolatry over mine safety. Contrast this with the true social doctrine: “Unless the world returns to Christ… society will labor in vain” (Pius XI, Ubi Arcano, 1922). Authentic Catholic action would demand Congo’s mineral wealth serve Christ the King through corporatist structures ensuring just wages and banning Sunday labor. Instead, the conciliar machine offers empty “humanitarian” gestures while blessing the electric vehicles built on Congolese corpses.
As bodies are pulled from Kalando’s mud, we hear the echo of Ezekiel’s warning to shepherds who “fed not the flock… but ruled with force and cruelty” (Ezekiel 34:4). Until Congo kneels before its true Sovereign – not cobalt oligarchs or UN bureaucrats – such tragedies will multiply as divine justice upon nations “who have rejected the law of the Lord of hosts” (Isaiah 5:24).
Source:
Dozens of people die in DRC mine accident (vaticannews.va)
Date: 17.11.2025