Leo XIV’s Labor Address: Humanism Masquerading as Catholic Social Teaching
Vatican News portal reports that antipope Leo XIV (Robert Prevost) addressed employment consultants on December 18, 2025, advocating for a labor system centered on “the person, the family, and their well-being” while decrying capital, market laws, and profit as secondary concerns. The address emphasized “the dignity of the person, mediation, and the promotion of safety,” urging businesses to become “humane and fraternal communities” amid technological advancements like artificial intelligence.
Naturalism Displacing the Reign of Christ the King
The entire discourse operates within a purely naturalistic framework, conspicuously omitting the social kingship of Christ (Regnum Christi) – the foundational principle of authentic Catholic social teaching. Pius XI’s encyclical Quas Primas (1925) dogmatically declared: “The empire of our Redeemer embraces all men… Nor is there any difference in this matter between the individual and the family or the State; for all men, whether collectively or individually, are under the dominion of Christ.” By reducing labor ethics to anthropocentric concerns about “well-being” and “fraternal communities” devoid of submission to Divine Law, Leo XIV perpetuates the conciliar sect’s heresy condemned by Pius IX in the Syllabus of Errors: that “the Church ought to be separated from the State, and the State from the Church” (Error #55).
The Scandal of Selective “Dignity”
While feigning concern for “parents with small children” and caregivers, the address ignores the primary duty of states and employers: to uphold the lex divina by prohibiting usury, ensuring living wages that support single-income households (cf. Rerum Novarum §10), and suppressing immoral industries. Instead, Leo XIV’s focus on “mediation” and bureaucratic efficiency tacitly endorses the neoliberal commodification of labor rebuked by Pius XI: “The wages paid to the workingman must be sufficient for the support of himself and of his family… It is shameful and inhuman, however, to use men as things for gain and to put no more value on them than what they are worth in muscle and energy” (Quadragesimo Anno §71).
Technological Utopianism and the Silence on Sin
The uncritical embrace of “artificial intelligence” as an inevitable force needing “humane” management exposes the modernist denial of original sin and the necessity of supernatural grace to order human affairs. Contrast this with Pius XII’s warning: “Technical progress must be subordinated to man’s spiritual and moral progress… lest it become an instrument of universal ruin” (Address to the International Congress on Human Relations in Industry, 1957). Leo XIV’s appeal for “safety” rings hollow while his sect promotes abortion-tainted COVID vaccines and collaborates with globalist entities exploiting workers worldwide.
“Fraternal Communities” as Crypto-Masonic Syncretism
The call for “humane and fraternal communities” resurrects the condemned errors of Freemasonry, which Pius VIII denounced for “spreading the pest of indifferentism” (Lamentabili sane exitu, 1907). True Catholic solidarity flows from Caritas in Veritate – charity rooted in truth – not the naturalistic brotherhood peddled by the Nouvelle Théologie. Leo XIV’s language deliberately echoes Vatican II’s Gaudium et Spes (§68), which reduced the Church to a servant of “the human community” rather than its divine consecrator.
Omission of Eternal Consequences
Nowhere does the address mention the Four Last Things – death, judgment, heaven, hell – or the worker’s duty to sanctify labor through obedience to Christ the King. This omission proves the conciliar sect’s apostasy from Quas Primas: “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 divorcing labor ethics from the supremacy of the supernatural end, Leo XIV reduces Catholicism to a humanitarian NGO – the very “Christianity without Christ” Pius XII condemned (Address to the Roman Patriciate and Nobility, 1952).
Source:
Pope Leo XIV: The person and families must be at center of labor system (catholicnewsagency.com)
Date: 19.12.2025