Naturalism Masquerading as Peacebuilding in South Sudan
The Vatican News portal (December 5, 2025) reports on a workshop organized by Eduardo Hiiboro Kussala, “bishop” of Tombura-Yambio, South Sudan, promoting youth-led peacebuilding under the theme “The Youth who build Peace, Build the Future.” The article emphasizes dialogue, tribal identity, and development as tools for unity while omitting any reference to Christ, sacramental life, or the Social Reign of Christ the King.
Sacrilegious Substitution of Grace with Naturalistic Activism
The workshop’s focus on purely human elements—“self-love, tribal identity, peace through development, dignity, opportunity, and equality”—reveals a modernist reduction of peace to sociological factors. Pius XI’s encyclical Quas Primas (1925) condemns this naturalism, 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.” By omitting the necessity of conversion to Christ’s Kingship, Hiiboro’s program echoes the condemned proposition of Vatican II’s Gaudium et Spes that “peace is not merely the absence of war” (GS 78)—a heresy implying peace can exist without submission to divine law.
Silence on Apostasy’s Role in Conflict
The article attributes South Sudan’s instability to “political polarization” and “humanitarian strain” while ignoring the theological root of all social disorder: rejection of Christ’s authority. Pius IX’s Syllabus of Errors (1864) anathematized the notion that “the Church ought to be separated from the State, and the State from the Church” (Error 55). Yet Hiiboro’s appeal to “bad policies” as divisive forces deliberately avoids naming the apostasy of South Sudan’s ruling class—including collaboration with UN agencies promoting contraception and gender ideology—as the primary catalyst for divine chastisement manifest in famine and war.
“Young people must be role models for peace, building on faith and moral values. We must pray together, work together, and rise together.”
This vague invocation of “faith and moral values” constitutes religious indifferentism, condemned by Gregory XVI in Mirari Vos (1832) as “that absurd and erroneous proposition which claims that liberty of conscience must be maintained for everyone.” Nowhere does Hiiboro demand youth Catholicam fidem profiteri (“to profess the Catholic faith”), reducing piety to a utilitarian tool for social cohesion.
UN Collaboration as Spiritual Adultery
The article’s reference to UN reports on food insecurity underscores the conciliar sect’s betrayal to secular powers. St. Pius X’s Lamentabili Sane (1907) condemned the idea that “the Church listening cooperates with the Church teaching” (Proposition 6), yet Hiiboro’s workshop—framed as a “movement led by youth”—parrots UN Sustainable Development Goals rather than the mandatum Christi to “make disciples of all nations” (Matthew 28:19). This syncretism fulfills Pius X’s warning against modernists who “place the Church on a level with other human societies” (Pascendi Dominici Gregis, 26).
Omission of the Supernatural: A Heretical Vacuum
Hiiboro’s call to “remember the past” while ignoring the ex opere operato efficacy of the Sacrament of Penance exposes the bankruptcy of his pastoral approach. The Council of Trent (Session XIV, Chapter 1) infallibly defined confession as necessary for salvation, yet the article reduces reconciliation to psychological healing—“a nation cannot build new paths on old wounds.” This therapeutic language denies the need for absolution through valid priests, implicitly endorsing the Protestant error of justification through social activism.
Conclusion: A Blueprint for Ecclesial Suicide
By elevating tribal identity and UN metrics above the Regnum Christi, Hiiboro’s program embodies the conciliar sect’s apostasy. As Pius XI warned in Quas Primas, nations rejecting Christ’s reign “will ever seek in vain for stability and security.” The youth of South Sudan are not “essential to building peace”—they are souls in mortal danger, abandoned by shepherds who trade sacraments for NGO platitudes. Until true bishops return to proclaiming Christus Vincit, Christus Regnat, Christus Imperat, such workshops will only hasten the descent into chaos foretold in Psalm 2: “The kings of the earth rise up, and the rulers take counsel together, against the Lord, and against his Christ.”
Source:
South Sudanese bishop: The youth are essential to building peace (vaticannews.va)
Date: 05.12.2025