Neo-Church Exploits Indonesian Island to Spread Global Apostasy
EWTN News (November 29, 2025) reports on Flores Island in Indonesia as a vocational hub producing hundreds of priests for global distribution through modernist religious orders like the Society of the Divine Word (SVD). The article celebrates “more than 80%” Catholic population and seminaries forming clergy for “dioceses and religious congregations worldwide,” quoting “Archbishop” Paulus Budi Kleden’s pride in alumni “working outside the country.” Pope Francis’ 2022 reference to Flores as a vocational source is presented as endorsement, while St. Paul’s Major Seminary boasts 1,500 ordained since 1937 with “500 serving in more than 70 countries.” The report culminates in a naturalistic depiction of seminary life focused on emotional maturity, environmental activism, and financial struggles rather than doctrinal fidelity. This propagandistic piece epitomizes the neo-church’s factory-line production of apostate ministers.
Naturalism Replacing Supernatural Faith
The article reduces priestly formation to sociological phenomena, stating Catholicism arrived via “Portuguese spice traders” rather than divine providence. Nowhere does it mention grace as the source of vocations, contradicting Christ’s words: “You have not chosen me: but I have chosen you” (John 15:16). The emphasis on Flores’ 80% Catholic population ignores the dogmatic truth that numerical majority doesn’t equal fidelity, as recalled in the Syllabus of Errors: “The Church is hostile to society’s well-being” (Pius IX, Proposition 40). By celebrating geographic missionary output rather than doctrinal purity, the report embodies the condemned modernist error that “truth evolves through human consciousness” (Pius X, Lamentabili, Proposition 22).
The Abandonment of Thomistic Formation
St. Paul’s Seminary’s curriculum exposes the neo-church’s doctrinal bankruptcy. The “four years of philosophy” notably avoids specifying adherence to philosophia perennis, while the vague “two years of theology” suggests rejection of St. Thomas Aquinas’ Summa Theologica as mandated by Doctoris Angelici (1914). Father Sefrianus Juhani’s concern about seminarians’ “emotional maturity” and “digital distractions” inverts traditional priorities – placing psychology over the Three Eminent Goods of Marriage (offspring, fidelity, sacramentum) and prayerful custody of the senses taught by St. Alphonsus Liguori. The article’s pride in weekend “environmental advocacy” and “HIV patient visits” confirms Pius XI’s warning in Quas Primas that abandoning Christ’s social reign reduces religion to “humanitarian service devoid of the Cross.”
Global Dissemination of Doctrinal Corruption
Flores’ export of 500 priests to 70 countries constitutes spiritual biological warfare. These SVD missionaries advance the same errors condemned in Pascendi Dominici Gregis: “Modernists substituting vital immanence for supernatural revelation” (Chapter 3). The article admits these priests engage in “protests against mining projects” and “evacuation efforts” – secular activism directly opposing Pius XI’s mandate that clergy “must not immerse themselves in earthly affairs” (Quadragesimo Anno, 46). Their “formation” produces not alter Christus but social workers – a betrayal of the Council of Trent’s definition of priesthood as “ordained for the sacrifice and sacraments” (Session XXIII).
Omission of Crucified Orthodoxy
Nowhere does the article mention adherence to the Oath Against Modernism, Eucharistic adoration, or the Traditional Latin Mass – the sine qua non of authentic formation. The seminary’s “strict limits on electronics” pale against its tolerance for doctrinal deviancy, recalling Pius X’s condemnation of those who “disregard Index condemnations without fault” (Lamentabili, Proposition 8). The glowing portrayal of “diverse family backgrounds” fostering “cross-cultural brotherhood” masks the neo-church’s destruction of uniformity of worship condemned by Pius XII in Mediator Dei. Most damningly, the piece omits any reference to the four last things (death, judgment, heaven, hell) – the essential lens through which all priestly ministry must be viewed.
Conclusion: Factory of Apostasy
Flores’ seminary complex embodies the conciliar sect’s inversion of true vocations. As St. Pius X warned, “Modernists want a church penetrated by and identical with the modern conscience” (Pascendi, 39). By mass-producing priests trained in activism rather than asceticism, psychology rather than Thomism, and globalism rather than extra ecclesiam nulla salus, these institutions fulfill the Freemasonic goal exposed in Humanum Genus (1884): “reducing clergy to humanitarian agents.” Until these structures return to the Mandatum and Pontificale Romanum before 1958, every priest emerging from Flores remains – however well-intentioned – another foot soldier in the neo-church’s war against Catholic Tradition.
Source:
How a remote island in Indonesia forms hundreds of priests for the world (catholicnewsagency.com)
Date: 29.11.2025