The Nov. 25, 2025 article from Catholic News Agency reports on a new document titled *”One Flesh: In Praise of Monogamy”* issued by the Vatican’s Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith. Signed by antipope Leo XIV (Robert Prevost), the text claims to defend monogamy against polygamy and polyamory while addressing pastoral challenges in Africa. It emphasizes the “unitive aspect” of marriage while omitting its procreative purpose and indissolubility, citing secular poets (Whitman, Neruda) and philosophers (Kierkegaard) alongside selective references to post-conciliar figures like Karol WojtyÅ‚a (“John Paul II”). The document frames monogamy as anthropological progress rather than divine law, reducing marriage to a naturalistic “communion of love” while ignoring its sacramental essence.
Naturalism Masquerading as Doctrine
The document’s reduction of marriage to a “communion that is not oriented solely toward procreation, but also toward the integral good of both” constitutes a direct assault on the sacramental understanding of matrimony. Pius XI’s Casti Connubii (1930) dogmatically affirms that marriage’s primary ends are “the procreation and education of offspring, and the mutual aid and the allaying of concupiscence” (§17). By prioritizing subjective “integral good” over objective sacramental reality, the conciliar sect continues its modernist project of replacing dogma with anthropocentrism.
The appeal to Walt Whitman and Pablo Neruda – poets steeped in pantheism and eroticism – exposes the doctrinal bankruptcy of post-conciliar “theology.” As the Holy Office decreed in Lamentabili Sane (1907), theological argumentation must reject “philosophical investigations” that contradict revelation (Proposition 7). St. Pius X condemned precisely this fusion of pagan philosophy with sacred doctrine, warning that Modernists “weld together faith and false philosophy” (Pascendi Dominici Gregis, §39).
Pastoral Cowardice in African Polygamy
While claiming to address African polygamy, the document avoids the non possumus stance required by Catholic principle. The Council of Trent infallibly teaches that polygamists are “anathema” (Session XXIV, Canon II), yet the Vatican text speaks of “pastoral challenges” without demanding immediate dissolution of sinful unions. The African bishops’ reported request for “guidance” reveals their capitulation to situational ethics, contrary to St. Paul’s command: “Fornicators and adulterers God will judge” (Hebrews 13:4).
The document’s silence on the absolute requirement of monogamy for sacramental validity constitutes gross negligence. Pius XII’s Sacra Virginitas (1954) emphasizes that polygamy “is contrary to the law of God and of nature” (§32). True pastoral care would require African converts to abandon all but their first wife before receiving baptism – a truth omitted to appease tribal customs.
Heretical Anthropology and Wojtyła’s Toxic Legacy
The uncritical citation of WojtyÅ‚a (“John Paul II”) confirms the document’s doctrinal corruption. His Theology of the Body – a cornerstone of the text’s argument – reduces conjugal love to phenomenological subjectivism, declaring that sexuality reveals “the mystery of redemption” (TOB 95:6). This blasphemous equivocation between carnal acts and divine grace was condemned by Pius XI as “the heresy of Americanism” (Testem Benevolentiae), which substitutes supernatural virtue for natural sentiment.
Worse still, the document claims monogamy “guarantees that sexuality develops within a framework of recognizing the other as a subject.” This Kantian framing (never treat others as means) replaces Catholic ontology with Enlightenment philosophy. The Church has always taught that marriage is intrinsically ordered toward procreation and mutual sanctification – not abstract “subjecthood”. Leo XIII’s Arcanum (1880) roots marital unity in Christ’s union with the Church (Ephesians 5:32), not anthropological platitudes.
Symptomatic Omissions: Indissolubility and Final Judgment
The document’s deliberate avoidance of marriage’s indissolubility exposes its modernist foundations. While quoting the post-conciliar Catechism, it ignores Pius VI’s condemnation of the Synod of Pistoia (1794), which attacked the “chain of indissolubility” as oppressive (Auctorem Fidei, Proposition 65). The silence on divorce and remarriage – rampant in African polygamist societies – constitutes tacit approval of sacrilegious “second unions.”
Most damningly, the text never mentions hell or final judgment for adulterers. Contrast this with Our Lord’s unambiguous warning: “Everyone who divorces his wife and marries another commits adultery, and he who marries a divorced woman commits adultery” (Luke 16:18). The post-conciliar sect’s refusal to preach damnation for unrepentant sinners – whether polygamists or polyamorists – confirms its apostasy from Catholic eschatology.
Conclusion: A Wolf in Sheep’s Clothing
This document – signed by a usurper in the Vatican – exemplifies the conciliar sect’s modus operandi: use traditional-sounding language to undermine immutable doctrine. By reducing marriage to natural companionship, citing heretical sources, and avoiding supernatural demands, it continues Paul VI’s revolution in Humanae Vitae (1968), which detached conjugal love from procreation. As St. Pius X prophesied, Modernists “lay the axe not to the branches and shoots, but to the very root of the Church” (Pascendi, §3). True Catholics must reject this poison and cling to the perennial teaching: marriage is a sacrament instituted by Christ, binding until death, open to life, and subject to divine judgment – not anthropological negotiation.
Source:
Vatican defends monogamy against polygamy, polyamory (catholicnewsagency.com)
Date: 25.11.2025