The Catholic News Agency portal (January 3, 2026) reports on Andrew Laubacher’s presentation at the SEEK 2026 conference in Denver, where attendees were urged to use technology as a “tool” through Humanality’s 12-week digital detox program. Laubacher emphasized statistics about decreased life expectancy and mental health issues allegedly caused by smartphone features like front-facing cameras, proposing behavioral solutions such as “being light, giving, and present” to combat digital addiction.
Naturalism Masquerading as Pastoral Care
The entire presentation epitomizes the conciliar sect’s reduction of religion to anthropology (Pius X, Pascendi Dominici Gregis), treating spiritual maladies as mere psychological disorders requiring temporal solutions. Laubacher’s claim that “algorithms are shaping your perception of what is true” ignores the actual crisis of faith caused by Vatican II’s abandonment of extra Ecclesiam nulla salus. When he states “my purity […] got better” after quitting social media, this echoes the Pelagian heresy condemned by the Council of Carthage (418 AD), implying human effort alone can achieve virtue without sanctifying grace.
“You have to understand algorithms are literally shaping your perception of what is true.”
This statement reveals the talk’s fundamental error: Equating technological influence with formal heresy (Canon 1325). The true danger lies not in screens but in the neo-church’s failure to teach that “the truth shall make you free” (John 8:32) through adherence to Catholic doctrine. The 27 years of projected screen time pales against eternity spent in hell – a reality never mentioned in this naturalistic “catechesis.”
Omission of Supernatural Remedies
Laubacher’s threefold solution – “be light, be giving, be present” – constitutes pure humanism, utterly devoid of reference to:
- The Most Holy Sacrifice of the Mass as font of grace
- Sacramental confession for breaking habitual sin
- Marian consecration as protection against impurity
His advice to “start to think outside of yourself” directly contradicts Pope Pius XI’s teaching that “the primary duty of charity does not lie in the toleration of false ideas…but in the prudence of the apostle who cries out: ‘Woe to me if I do not preach the Gospel'” (Mortalium Animos). The talk’s exclusive focus on temporal happiness (“get that time back into your life”) ignores the finis ultimus of man: the glorification of God through obedience to His eternal laws.
Structural Apostasy of FOCUS
That this presentation occurred at a “Catholic” conference organized by FOCUS (Fellowship of Catholic University Students) exposes the rot within conciliar institutions. These organizations operate under the 1983 Codex Iuris Canonici – an invalid legal framework replacing the 1917 Pio-Benedictine Code. Their “missionary” work constitutes spiritual fraud, having abandoned the mandate to “make disciples of all nations” (Matthew 28:19) in favor of therapeutic deism.
The article’s description of attendees as “young Catholics” is a canonical lie. True Catholics cannot participate in events recognizing antipopes, per Pope Paul IV’s Cum Ex Apostolatus Officio. FOCUS itself was founded in 1997 under antipope Wojtyła’s regime, making it structurally incapable of transmitting authentic faith.
Modernist Language of Self-Help
Linguistic analysis reveals the talk’s heterodoxy:
- “Digital detox” replaces penance
- “Intentional relationship with technology” substitutes for custody of the senses
- “Be present” parodies recollection in prayer
This vocabulary follows the modernist playbook described in St. Pius X’s Lamentabili Sane (Proposition 65): “Contemporary Catholicism cannot be reconciled with true knowledge without transforming it into […] liberal Protestantism.” Nowhere does Laubacher mention the Index Librorum Prohibitorum – the Church’s true remedy against poisonous media – because the conciliar sect abolished it in 1966.
Theological Implications
The presentation’s core error lies in treating technology as morally neutral rather than recognizing Pius XII’s warning that “cinema, radio, and television […] can become instruments of spiritual ruin” (Miranda Prorsus, 1957). By suggesting behavioral modification can solve spiritual problems, Humanality’s program constitutes semi-Pelagianism condemned by the Council of Orange (529 AD).
Most grievously, the talk reduces prayer to mere self-help technique. Contrast Laubacher’s claim that “my prayer got better” after quitting social media with St. Alphonsus Liguori’s teaching: “He who does not meditate is like one who never looks into a mirror and so does not bother to put himself in order.” True spiritual progress requires sacramental grace, not digital abstinence.
Symptom of Conciliar Apostasy
This SEEK conference epitomizes how the neo-church has become what Pope St. Pius X called “a society of mutual admiration” rather than the ark of salvation. The article’s closing appeal for donations to “report the truth” is particularly damning – the “Catholic News Agency” hasn’t published truth since Vatican II’s Dignitatis Humanae betrayed the Syllabus of Errors (Proposition 15).
Until the conciliar sect disappears like the Arian heresy, such events will continue substituting psychology for theology, self-help for salvation, and humanism for Catholicism. The only authentic response remains adherence to the extraordinary magisterium prior to 1958 and total rejection of all post-conciliar innovations.
Source:
At SEEK 2026, young Catholics urged to use technology intentionally, as a tool (catholicnewsagency.com)
Date: 03.01.2026