Digital Idolatry: Rwandan Diocese Promotes False “Saint” Carlo Acutis
The VaticanNews portal (November 25, 2025) reports that “bishop” Vincent Harolimana of Ruhengeri Diocese in Rwanda unveiled a mural portrait of Carlo Acutis during Mass commemorating Christ the King. The article presents Acutis as “a model saint who can help [young people] navigate today’s digital world” and an “Apostle of the digital world,” while promoting the upcoming SIGNIS World Congress for Catholic communicators in Kigali (August 2026). This blasphemous substitution of authentic Catholic spirituality with technological idolatry exemplifies the neo-church’s complete abandonment of supernatural faith.
Blasphemous Substitution of Christ’s Kingship
The article’s timing proves diabolical disorientation: “During the Mass commemorating the feast of Christ the King” the diocese unveiled a mural to a false “saint.” Pius XI established this feast precisely to combat such naturalistic reductions, 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” (Quas Primas, 19). Yet the conciliar sect replaces the Regnum Sociale Christi with what Pius XI condemned as “the plague of our age, laicism or the apostasy of society from God” (Miserentissimus Redemptor, 12).
Canonical and Theological Invalidity of “Saint” Acutis
The claim that Acutis was “canonised on 7 September 2025 by Pope Leo XIV” constitutes formal heresy. The “pontiff” Robert Prevost (called Leo XIV) lacks papal authority according to Cum ex Apostolatus Officio (1559), which declares that heretics cannot hold office: “If at any time it becomes clear that any bishop… or even the Roman Pontiff… prior to his promotion… has deviated from the Catholic Faith or fallen into heresy, his promotion is null, void and worthless” (Pope Paul IV). Acutis’ “canonization” violates the immutable requirements for sainthood:
- False devotion: Acutis attended the invalid Novus Ordo service, which Pius XII warned risks becoming “a sacrilegious parody of the Holy Sacrifice” (Mediator Dei, 62). The Eucharistic “miracles” he documented concern invalid matter (ordinary bread) and illicit rites.
- Naturalistic foundation: His “internet project” syncretizes Catholic teaching with false religions, violating Pius XI’s condemnation: “That false opinion which considers all religions to be more or less good and praiseworthy… is entirely contrary to the truth” (Mortalium Animos, 2).
- Doctrinal corruption: Acutis praised the heretical “Brother Sun” pantheism of the Assisi interreligious meetings condemned by true Popes as “a betrayal of the deposit of faith” (Cardinal Silvio Oddi, L’Osservatore Romano, October 3, 1986).
Sacramental Nullity and False Evangelization
The article’s promotion of “young Catholic media professionals” using “social media for Evangelization” constitutes the Modernist heresy condemned in Lamentabili Sane (1907): “The dogmas which the Church proposes as revealed are not truths fallen from heaven, but are an interpretation of religious facts which the human mind has laboriously fished up” (Proposition 22). Pius X exposed this error: “The Modernists place the foundation of religious philosophy in the doctrine of becoming… God Himself is said to be in a constant state of becoming” (Pascendi, 13).
The SIGNIS Congress represents precisely the naturalistic communication condemned in the Syllabus of Errors: “The Roman Pontiff can, and ought to, reconcile himself, and come to terms with progress, liberalism and modern civilization” (Proposition 80). True evangelization requires sacramental validity – impossible when “bishops” like Harolimana lack jurisdiction according to Canon 188.4: “Any office becomes vacant by tacit resignation recognized by the law itself if a cleric publicly defects from the Catholic faith.”
Omission of Supernatural Reality
The article’s complete silence about the ex opere operato efficacy of sacraments reveals the conciliar sect’s apostasy. Pius XII dogmatically taught: “The minister’s power is spiritual and comes from God” (Mediator Dei, 43), yet the neo-church reduces priesthood to social activism. The Rwandan youth are being led to idolatry through Acutis’ mural – a violation of the First Commandment and Pius XI’s warning: “No one… can evade the paramount duty of excluding all compromise with error” (Mortalium Animos, 10).
Diabolical Distortion of Youth Formation
By encouraging youth to emulate Acutis’ digital activity rather than pursue sanctity through penance and valid sacraments, the conciliar sect fulfills Pius X’s prophecy: “The Modernists… put into operation their designs for the undoing of the Church… Hence… the removal of the old scholastic methods” (Pascendi, 41). The true model remains St. Dominic Savio, who at age 7 made the resolution: “Death rather than sin!” – a supernatural orientation utterly absent from Acutis’ technocratic pseudo-spirituality.
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Rwandan youth encouraged to emulate ‘digital Apostle,’ Carlo Acutis (vaticannews.va)
Date: 25.11.2025