Filipino Bishops’ Nuclear Opposition: Naturalism Over Sanctity
The Catholic News Agency reports on December 15, 2025, that six bishops from the Ecclesiastical Province of Lingayen-Dagupan in the Philippines issued a pastoral letter opposing government plans to build a nuclear power plant in Western Pangasinan. The bishops—including Archbishop Socrates B. Villegas and Bishop Napoleon B. Sipalay—cite safety risks, environmental concerns, and moral objections, invoking statements from the Japanese bishops’ conference regarding the Fukushima disaster and quoting the post-conciliar figure Jorge Bergoglio (“Pope Francis”) on “stewardship for future generations.” They advocate instead for renewable energy under the Philippines’ Renewable Energy Law of 2008, declaring nuclear power “fundamentally incompatible” with ecological and human safety.
Subordination of Supernatural Mission to Naturalist Environmentalism
The bishops’ letter exemplifies the conciliar sect’s systematic reduction of the Church’s divine mission to secular activism. By framing their opposition around “safety, resilience, and long-term development” while omitting the eternal salvation of souls, the necessity of grace, and the primacy of spiritual combat against sin, they reduce Catholicism to a mere NGO. The Church’s true mandate—articulated by Pope Pius XI in Quas Primas (1925)—is to establish “the reign of our Savior” over all creation, including technological progress governed by God’s law. Instead, these bishops parrot the Japanese hierarchy’s neo-pagan concept of a “symbiotic society”, which replaces the Mystical Body of Christ with a pantheistic cult of nature.
Rejection of Catholic Teaching on Prudent Stewardship
The letter invokes “prudence” while ignoring the Church’s historical support for technological advancement under moral law. Pope Pius XII, in his 1953 address to scientists, affirmed that nuclear energy, when developed “for peaceful purposes and the true welfare of humanity,” aligns with divine providence. The bishops’ blanket condemnation contradicts the principle of bonum ex integra causa (good from a whole cause)—whereby licit means (e.g., nuclear power with rigorous safeguards) may serve the common good. Their dismissal of nuclear energy as “greater risk than benefit” denies the Church’s teaching on man’s God-given dominion over creation (Genesis 1:28) and the virtue of industria (diligent labor) praised by Leo XIII in Rerum Novarum.
Doctrinal Amnesia and Modernist Selective Quoting
The bishops cite Bergoglio’s ambiguous appeals to “stewardship” while suppressing pre-conciliar papal condemnations of ecological idolatry. Pope Pius IX’s Syllabus of Errors (1864) explicitly condemns the notion that “the Church ought to reconcile herself with progress [and] modern civilization” (Error #80)—precisely the attitude underlying their letter. Worse, they omit the Sacred Congregation of the Holy Office’s 1956 instruction permitting nuclear energy research under ethical guidelines, which states: “Science, when rightly ordered, glorifies the Creator.”
Silence on the True Crisis: Apostasy and Moral Collapse
Notably absent is any mention of the Philippines’ rampant abortion, blasphemous “LGBT” parades, or state-sanctioned usury—all graver threats to “future generations” than a power plant. This aligns with the conciliar sect’s fixation on earthly utopianism while ignoring Satan’s war against souls. St. Pius X’s Lamentabili Sane (1907) condemns the modernist error that “the Church is incapable of effectively defending evangelical ethics” (Error #63)—a heresy manifest when bishops prioritize Fukushima over fornication.
Conclusion: A Betrayal of Catholic Integralism
These bishops, functioning as agents of the conciliar sect, subordinate Christ’s Kingship to the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals. Their letter—devoid of references to the Sacred Heart, the Last Judgment, or reparation for sins—exposes a Church usurped by naturalism. As Pius XI declared: “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” (Quas Primas). Until then, such documents merely underscore the abyss between Catholic Tradition and the apostate structures occupying the Vatican.
Source:
Filipino bishops oppose nuclear power plant plan (catholicnewsagency.com)
Date: 15.12.2025