Neo-Church’s Naturalistic Youth Program Masquerades as Catholic Outreach
Vatican News (January 8, 2026) reports on the St. Brigitta Learning Centre in Indonesia’s Kei Besar Island, describing a program combining medical services with youth activities including music, English lessons, and public speaking. The initiative—founded by Dr. Angelina Vanessa and “Father” Patrisius Jeujanan, MSC—claims to empower youth through “faith enrichment” alongside practical skills. The article emphasizes warm welcomes with musical performances, plans for sports facilities to combat “scrolling addiction,” and collaboration with Jakarta-based volunteers.
Substitution of Supernatural Ends With Earthly Activism
The entire project operates on the naturalistic fallacy condemned by Pope Pius X in Pascendi Dominici Gregis: “They [Modernists] place confidence in [man] as if he were not a fallen creature… they extol human nature as if it were impeccable.” Nowhere does the article mention the salus animarum (salvation of souls) as the Church’s primary mission. Instead, it celebrates temporal achievements: “productive and confident individuals,” “healthy spaces,” and combating gadget use—priorities indistinguishable from secular NGOs.
“Young people need healthy spaces to channel their physical energy through activities like mini football. We do not want them to spend their afternoons glued to mobile gadgets, wasting money on data packages and falling into scrolling addiction.”
This statement by the MSC “priest” exemplifies the reduction of Catholic formation to behavioral management. Contrast this with Pope Pius XI’s teaching: “The Kingdom of Christ… demands that its subjects… live not according to the world… but according to God” (Quas Primas, §19). The program’s focus mirrors the condemned modernist error of making the Church “a mere institution for social betterment” (Syllabus of Errors, Proposition 40).
Sacramental Silence and False Ecumenism
A damning omission pervades the report: zero references to the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass, Confession, Eucharistic adoration, or catechism on mortal sin. The sole religious activity mentioned is “festive liturgies” with “vibrant” choir performances—reducing worship to emotional entertainment. This aligns with the modernist “Table of Assembly” paradigm condemned in the Ottaviani Intervention (1969), which warned of replacing propitiatory sacrifice with communal meals.
The involvement of Magdalena “Lena” Jeujanan—a “former religious sister” who abandoned her vocation—as an English teacher further demonstrates the program’s doctrinal bankruptcy. Canon Law §696 strictly forbids apostates from ecclesiastical roles, yet here she operates under conciliar “priestly” approval. Meanwhile, the claim that Moluccans are “blessed with natural talent for music” dangerously implies ethnic gnosticism, contradicting the Council of Trent’s teaching on gratia elevans (elevating grace) as the sole source of spiritual gifts.
Structural Apostasy of Conciliar Operators
The MSC (“Missionaries of the Sacred Heart”) order exemplifies post-conciliar decay. Founded in 1854, it historically promoted devotion to Christ’s Sacred Heart—the Votive reparation demanded by Pope Leo XIII in Annum Sacrum (1899). Now, its members erect “retreat facilities” and soccer fields while ignoring Cor Jesu Sacratissimum, miserere nobis (Most Sacred Heart of Jesus, have mercy on us). Their “youth formation” replaces the Spiritual Exercises of St. Ignatius with guitar sessions, enacting the very “cult of man” denounced in Paul VI’s Humanae Vitae crisis—though even that compromised document exceeds their current apostasy.
Dr. Vanessa’s 12-year tenure with DoctorShare—an NGO operating “floating hospitals”—further exposes the project’s alignment with anti-Catholic UN Sustainable Development Goals. As Pius XI warned, “Charity… divorced from truth… becomes mere philanthropy” (Caritate Christi Compulsi, §15). True Catholic mission requires primum vivere Deo (first live for God), not the U.N.’s materialist “empowerment” metrics.
Pseudo-Liturgical Entertainment Replaces Sacramental Life
The article’s photographic evidence proves the rot: a “celebration of Mass” shows a bare, circular table with laypeople in casual dress—violating every rubric of De Defectibus on valid Eucharistic celebration. Such liturgical abuse stems directly from Vatican II’s Sacrosanctum Concilium §40, which unleashed “adaptations” destroying Catholic worship. Meanwhile, the center’s “multifunction hall” serves as both classroom and “dining area,” erasing the distinction between sacred and profane—an echo of the masonically inspired “multi-purpose spaces” replacing churches since 1965.
When students “led storytelling sessions” and performed “traditional dances,” they enacted the conciliar heresy of “inculturation” condemned in Pope Pius XII’s Mediator Dei: “The sacred liturgy… is entirely independent of human whims… it is the font from which all the Church’s power flows” (§35). By prioritizing local customs over lex orandi, lex credendi (the law of praying is the law of believing), the program fosters precisely the “religious relativism” that Quas Primas identified as secularism’s root (§18).
Conclusion: The Abandoned Flock and the Duty of Resistance
This project—like all conciliar “pastoral initiatives”—is a spiritual poison wrapped in humanitarian rhetoric. Its architects have replaced the Four Last Things (death, judgment, heaven, hell) with four modern idols: skills, confidence, health, and entertainment. As the Lamentabili Sane decreed, such naturalism “corrupts dogma” by reducing faith to “religious facts” (Proposition 22). True Catholics must reject these false shepherds and seek priests who offer the Immemorial Mass, preach extra Ecclesiam nulla salus (no salvation outside the Church), and subordinate all human activity to Christ the King. Dominus regnavit, decorem indutus est (The Lord reigns, He is clothed with majesty—Ps 93:1).
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St. Brigitta Learning Centre empowering young people in Indonesia (vaticannews.va)
Date: 08.01.2026