Catholic News Agency reports on Bishop Raimo Goyarrola’s plan to establish Finland’s first Catholic school within a Lutheran church building in Helsinki, describing it as a “dream” to serve approximately 20,000 Catholics in this majority-Lutheran country. The institution would operate under state-recognized homeschooling models while maintaining “Christian values” and admitting children of all faiths. This ecumenical venture exemplifies the conciliar sect’s surrender to religious indifferentism and structural apostasy.
Illegitimate Authority in Ecumenical Captivity
The so-called “bishop” Raimo Goyarrola holds no legitimate office, being appointed by antipope Leo XIV (Francis) – a usurper of papal authority since the invalid “election” of John XXIII. As Pope Pius XII established in Ad Apostolorum Principis (1958), no bishopric can be legitimately established without Rome’s approval, which ceased to exist with the true papacy’s vacancy. His collaboration with Lutheran authorities constitutes explicit violation of Canon 1258 (1917 Code): “It is not permitted to the faithful to assist in any way actively, or to take part in the sacred [rites] of non-Catholics”. The very notion of Catholic education being administered from Protestant premises mocks Pius XI’s condemnation in Mortalium Animos (1928): “The union of Christians can only be promoted by promoting the return to the one true Church of Christ of those who are separated from it.”
Naturalistic Education Masquerading as Catholic
The proposal’s admission of non-Catholic students and emphasis on generic “Christian values” constitutes pedagogical apostasy. Divini Illius Magistri (1929) unequivocally demands Catholic education must “have as its direct and principal objective to cooperate with divine grace in forming the true and perfect Christian”, not interfaith dialogue. By adopting state-approved homeschooling models rather than insisting on parochial structures, Goyarrola subordinates Catholic formation to secular approval – precisely the error condemned in Pius IX’s Syllabus of Errors (Proposition 45): “The entire government of public schools… may and ought to appertain to the civil power.” The absence of any mention of catechism, sacramental preparation, or Latin liturgy reveals this project’s fundamentally naturalistic character.
Structural Syncretism and the Finnish Experiment
Placing Catholic children under Lutheran rooftops institutionalizes the heresy condemned by Leo XIII in Satis Cognitum (1896): “The practice of the Church has always been…that conversion should bring about a complete change of life…foreign to the Catholic name cannot be kept.” The article’s celebration of converts from Protestantism rings hollow when their instruction occurs in heterodox environments. This structural syncretism fulfills Pius X’s warning in Pascendi (1907) about Modernists making the Church “the prisoner of liberalism”. Notably absent is any reference to Finland’s Catholic martyrs slaughtered during Luther’s rebellion – historical amnesia enabling false ecumenism.
Conclusion: Educational Aberration in Apostate Matrix
Goyarrola’s “dream” constitutes a nightmare of conciliar compromise, where Catholic identity dissolves into Protestant frameworks under bureaucratic supervision. As the true Church teaches through Pius XI’s Quas Primas (1925): “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.” This Finnish experiment achieves the opposite: captivity to secular approval, dilution of doctrine, and sacramental indifferentism. Until Finland’s Catholics reject the conciliar sect and return to true bishops maintaining Apostolic Succession outside modernist structures, no authentic Catholic education can exist there.
Source:
First Catholic school in Finland: The dream of Helsinki’s only Catholic bishop (catholicnewsagency.com)
Date: 13.01.2026