Vatican News portal (December 21, 2025) reports on the fifth edition of the Zanzibar Cup kitesurfing competition, scheduled for February 7, 2026. The article highlights founder Dr. Stefano Conte’s vision of using sport to promote “peace, brotherhood, and coexistence” among participants of diverse nationalities and religions. The event receives institutional support from Zanzibari authorities and media partnership with Azam TV, with ambitions for European broadcast distribution. Vatican News presents this as a model of “shared human values” and “counterpoint to violence,” omitting any reference to Catholic doctrine or the social reign of Christ the King.
Naturalistic Peace as Antithesis to Catholic Truth
The article’s celebration of “fraternity” through athletic competition constitutes a radical inversion of Catholic social order. Pax hominibus bonae voluntatis (peace to men of good will) becomes redefined as mere interpersonal tolerance achieved through recreational activities. This contradicts Pius XI’s definitive teaching: “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, 19). The complete silence about the Regnum Christi exposes the event’s adherence to Masonic-inspired naturalism condemned in Pius IX’s Syllabus of Errors (Errors 15, 39, 77-80).
Dr. Conte’s reduction of human dignity to “respect, loyalty, and mutual understanding” through sport constitutes apostasy from the supernatural order. The Council of Trent (Session VI, Canon 2) anathematizes those who claim man can achieve righteousness through natural virtues alone. The article’s praise of “simple lifestyle” as the event’s spiritual core directly opposes St. Paul’s admonition: “If you live according to the flesh, you will die; but if by the Spirit you put to death the deeds of the body, you will live” (Romans 8:13).
False Ecumenism Masquerading as “Shared Values”
The promotion of interreligious coexistence through athletic competition constitutes an endorsement of religious indifferentism. Pius IX’s Quanta Cura condemns as “insanity” the belief that “liberty of conscience and worship is each man’s personal right” (Error 15). The article’s omission of conversion as the only path to true unity confirms its alignment with the modernist heresy exposed in St. Pius X’s Lamentabili Sane (Errors 21-22, 64-65).
The event’s institutional partnerships reveal its anti-Catholic character. Azam TV’s involvement as media sponsor—a network operating in majority Muslim Tanzania—illustrates how post-conciliar structures advance Islamo-modernist syncretism. This fulfills Pius X’s warning about “the enemies within” who undermine the Church through false dialogue (Pascendi Dominici Gregis, 3). The Zanzibari government’s support further demonstrates the event’s service to secular powers, directly violating Pope Pius VI’s condemnation of state interference in spiritual matters (Auctorem Fidei, 33).
Omission of Christ’s Kingship as Spiritual Bankruptcy
Nowhere does the article mention that true peace flows exclusively from submission to Christ’s universal reign. This silence constitutes implicit denial of the dogma proclaimed in Quas Primas: “He must reign in our minds… in our wills… in our hearts… in our bodies and in our members” (13). The reduction of Catholicism to humanitarian sportsmanship confirms the conciliar sect’s complete abandonment of its evangelizing mission (Matthew 28:19).
The event’s focus on athletic spectacle as a substitute for sacramental life embodies the “cult of man” denounced in St. Pius X’s Pascendi (40). Dr. Conte’s assertion that sport provides a “counterpoint to excessive materialism” ironically promotes a deeper materialism—the worship of physical prowess and worldly camaraderie. Pius XI’s condemnation resonates powerfully: “Those who would take away the right of Christ the King over nations would deny Him as King of all mankind” (Quas Primas, 18).
Source:
Zanzibar Cup 2026 aims to build on global fraternity and peace (vaticannews.va)
Date: 21.12.2025