The Vatican’s Naturalist Distortion of Economics Under the Guise of “Gospel”
Vatican News portal reports on antipope Leo XIV’s November 28, 2025 message to the “Economy of Francesco” gathering, urging young economists to transform economic systems that “produce inequality” and create “material and spiritual well-being”. The text promotes breaking “chains of injustice” while invoking Bergoglio’s (“Pope Francis”) legacy. This represents the complete inversion of Catholic social doctrine into neo-Marxist activism.
Naturalism Replaces the Divine Order
The message reduces economics to a mechanistic problem of resource distribution, stating:
Restarting means bringing back systems of life that are more than a mere ‘production machine’ […] breaking the chains of injustice, repairing what has been wounded.
This framing omits the regnum Christi (kingdom of Christ) as the sole foundation of societal order. Pius XI’s encyclical Quas Primas (1925) explicitly condemned such naturalism:
The rebellion of individuals and states against the authority of Christ has produced deplorable consequences […] peace will not flower until individuals and nations recognize the kingship of our Savior
By prioritizing egalitarian outcomes over the lex divina (divine law), the message embodies the condemned Syllabus error #39: “The State is the source of all rights.”
St. Francis Betrayed for Masonic “Fraternity”
The event’s title hijacks St. Francis of Assisi’s legacy while promoting economic theories diametrically opposed to his fuga mundi (flight from the world). Bergoglio’s quoted line – “May a new way of living together and doing economics be born among you” – echoes the Masonic triad of “liberty, equality, fraternity”. This aligns with the 1864 Syllabus condemnation (#77-79) of religious indifferentism masquerading as social progress.
The true Franciscan spirit requires paupertas evangelica (evangelical poverty), not wealth redistribution. As Pope Pius XI warned in Rite Expiatis (1926):
The enemies of the Church […] attempt to claim Francis for themselves […] to deceive peoples into accepting social doctrines that Francis would have abhorred
The Omission of Christ the King
Nowhere does the message acknowledge Christ’s sovereignty over economic life – the foundational principle of Catholic social teaching. Leo XIII’s Rerum Novarum (1891) established that economic justice flows from caritas in veritate (charity in truth), requiring employers to “give just wages […] not by legal compulsion but by religious duty.”
The text’s call to “make even the desert bloom” perverts Psalm 126:4’s spiritual meaning into environmentalist activism. Pius X’s Pascendi Dominici Gregis (1907) exposed such modernist tactics:
They […] distinguish between the verbal and real meaning of Scripture […] allowing them to distort texts to suit contemporary errors
The False Gospel of Social Activism
Antipope Leo XIV’s exhortation – “your work ought to be accompanied by social action” – replaces the Church’s divine mission with Marxist class struggle. The 1917 Code of Canon Law (Canon 1372) explicitly forbade clergy from engaging in political activism.
The message’s recommendation to read Scripture without the Church’s interpretive authority (“return to the heart through reading the Gospel”) embodies the condemned Lamentabili error #4: “The Magisterium cannot determine Scripture’s sense.”
The Cult of Bergoglio as Anti-Christ
The reference to Bergoglio’s death occurring “in the fragrance of Easter” constitutes blasphemous hagiography for a heretic who denied Christ’s uniqueness (Amoris Laetitia 3), endorsed pagan worship (2019 Amazon Synod), and abolished the Mass of Ages.
Conclusion: Apostasy Institutionalized
This “Economy of Francesco” event exemplifies the conciliar sect’s complete abandonment of societas christiana (Christian society). As St. Pius X declared in Notre Charge Apostolique (1910):
The true friends of the people […] are neither revolutionaries nor innovators: they are traditionalists
The only economic solution remains Christ the King’s social reign – not utopian schemes devised by modernist usurpers.
Source:
Pope: The economy should not just be a ‘production machine’ (vaticannews.va)
Date: 28.11.2025