SACBC’s G20 Endorsement: Naturalism Masquerading as Catholic Social Doctrine
The Vatican News portal (November 26, 2025) reports on the Southern African Catholic Bishops’ Conference (SACBC) Justice and Peace Commission praising the G20 Leaders’ Summit resolutions. “Bishop” Thulani Victor Mbuyisa of Kokstad Diocese commends the summit’s themes of “Solidarity, Sustainability and Equality,” debt relief mechanisms for poor nations, and Africa’s inclusion in global governance. The article frames this as alignment with “global justice,” omitting any reference to the Social Reign of Christ the King or condemnation of the G20’s godless globalism.
Subordination of Supernatural Mission to Secularist Agendas
The SACBC’s declaration reduces the Church’s mission to humanitarian activism, stating:
“We welcome the renewed call for global partnership and the pledge to leave no person, no community, and no country behind.”
This echoes the modernist heresy condemned in Lamentabili Sane (1907), which rejected the Church’s duty to conform societies to divine law (Prop. 58). Pius XI’s Quas Primas (1925) explicitly taught: “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.” By praising the G20’s naturalistic “equality” agenda while remaining silent on the obligation of states to recognize Christ’s sovereignty, the SACBC betrays its surrender to religious indifferentism – a doctrine anathematized by Pius IX (Syllabus of Errors, Prop. 15, 77).
Theological Bankruptcy of Debt Relief Advocacy
Mbuyisa’s celebration of the G20’s debt framework (
“fair debt treatment and stronger debt management capacity”
) ignores the Church’s perennial teaching on usury and just economic relations. Nowhere does the statement mention that indebted nations are enslaved by banking systems rooted in Masonic usury, which Leo XIII condemned in Humanum Genus (1884) as “deadly mischief that is creeping into the veins of society.” The 1917 Code of Canon Law (Canon 1543) forbade clerics from engaging in financial speculation, yet this “commission” reduces the Church’s prophetic voice to lobbying secular institutions.
Africa’s “Historic Moment” in Service of Globalist Idolatry
The SACBC’s framing of the summit as
“a significant moment for Africa’s voice in global affairs”
reveals a revolutionary nationalism antithetical to Catholic integralism. Pius XI warned in Quas Primas that nations rejecting Christ’s reign would face “the seeds of discord sown far and wide; those bitter enmities and rivalries between nations, which still hinder so much the cause of peace.” The G20’s exclusion of God from governance ensures Africa’s “voice” merely echoes the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals – a blueprint for population control and cultural annihilation condemned by true pre-1958 Magisterium.
Omission of Christ’s Kingship: A Silent Apostasy
The SACBC statement’s vocabulary – “multilateralism,” “inclusive industrialisation,” “women’s economic empowerment” – parrots UN technocratic language devoid of supernatural content. This mirrors the modernist tactic condemned in St. Pius X’s Pascendi Dominici Gregis (1907): reducing religion to “vital immanence” divorced from revelation. Nowhere does Mbuyisa demand nations submit to Christ’s laws regarding marriage, family, or prohibition of blasphemy. Such silence constitutes tacitus apostasia (silent apostasy), enabling the G20’s promotion of abortion and gender ideology under the guise of “equality.”
Source:
SACBC Justice and Peace Commission commends G20 resolutions (vaticannews.va)
Date: 26.11.2025