Catholic News Agency reports on Greenlandic Catholics’ opposition to potential U.S. annexation efforts, quoting Sister Anna Mirijam Kaschner of the Nordic Bishops’ Conference stating parishioners view Greenland as “their land” and don’t wish to become Americans. The article describes Greenland’s 55,000 residents as predominantly Lutheran, with Catholics served by Denmark’s Diocese of Copenhagen. Political leaders jointly declared: “We do not want to be Americans, we do not want to be Danes — we want to be Greenlanders,” asserting their right to self-determination under 2009 self-rule provisions. Church representatives adopt a “cautious” stance prioritizing “the well-being and wishes of Greenland’s people” while awaiting developments.
Naturalism Masquerading as Pastoral Prudence
The Nordic bishops’ reported neutrality in this geopolitical conflict constitutes spiritual abdication. Pius XI’s Quas Primas (1925) explicitly teaches that “the Church cannot relinquish the duty to proclaim the reign of Christ over all nations” (n. 18), condemning precisely this false dichotomy between earthly politics and supernatural order. By reducing their role to sociological observers “stressing respect for local people” rather than heralds of Regnum Christi, these churchmen perpetuate the conciliar heresy of religious indifferentism denounced in Pius IX’s Syllabus of Errors: “The Roman Pontiff can, and ought to, reconcile himself…with modern civilization” (Error 80).
“Generally, Catholic leaders in the Nordic countries handle issues like this with caution, stressing respect for local people, existing sovereignty, and the dignity of affected communities.”
This bureaucratic language exposes the modernist reduction of the Church’s mission to humanitarian NGO status. Contrast this with Leo XIII’s immutable principle: “Civil society must recognize God as its Founder and Parent, and must obey and reverence His power and authority” (Immortale Dei, 1885). The article’s silence on Greenland’s Lutheran majority’s spiritual destitution – 500 years after the Protestant revolt – demonstrates how post-conciliar structures prioritize geopolitical narratives over anima ecclesiastica (the Church’s soul).
Omission of the Kingship Crisis
Nowhere does the article mention Greenland’s constitutional reality: As part of Denmark’s realm, the territory formally confesses the 1849 Constitutional Act establishing “Evangelical Lutheran” as the state religion. This blasphemous establishment of heresy directly violates the dogmatic teaching of Boniface VIII: “It is necessary for salvation that every human creature be subject to the Roman Pontiff” (Unam Sanctam, 1302). The Nordic bishops’ silence on this diabolical displacement of Christ’s Social Reign constitutes material cooperation with apostasy.
The geopolitical quarrel between U.S., Danish, and Greenlandic authorities represents a classic power struggle between “the rulers of the Gentiles [who] lord it over them” (Mt 20:25). Authentic Catholic response would demand all parties submit to Christ’s universal kingship, as Pius XI proclaimed: “When once men recognize…that Christ has been given all power in heaven and on earth…it will be understood that the Church has the right to govern peoples entire” (Quas Primas, n. 21). Instead, the conciliar sect’s operatives reduce the Faith to ethnic identity preservation – a pagan instinct dressed in Christian vocabulary.
Symptomatic Modernist Methodology
Sister Kaschner’s statement that “it is too early to make any definitive statements” epitomizes the conciliar revolution’s epistemological skepticism. Contrast this paralysis with Pius X’s condemnation of modernist agnosticism: “The Church listening cooperates…that the Church teaching should only approve the common opinions” (Lamentabili, Prop. 6). True shepherds don’t await geopolitical developments but proclaim eternal truths irrespective of circumstances.
The article’s emphasis on Greenland’s “distinct identity” and political self-determination uncritically adopts Enlightenment nation-state ideology condemned by Gregory XVI as “the absurd and erroneous doctrine springing from naturalism” (Mirari Vos, 1832). Nowhere does Catholic News Agency challenge Greenlanders’ sinful pride in declaring “we want to be Greenlanders” rather than “subditi Regis Christi” (subjects of King Christ). This omission flows from the neo-church’s acceptance of religious liberty heresy formalized at Vatican II.
Eschatological Implications of Geopolitical Chaos
The military posturing between nuclear powers over an ice-covered island demonstrates the accelerating collapse of the Westphalian order. As Pius XII warned: “When God is hated, every basis of morality is undermined; the voice of conscience is stilled” (Radio Message, 1944). The absence of any clerical voice calling Greenlanders to repentance and submission to Rome’s spiritual authority confirms we live through vacantis sedis – the great apostasy foretold in 2 Thessalonians 2:3.
While worldly minds debate Greenland’s strategic minerals and Arctic positioning, faithful Catholics recognize this crisis as symptomatic of humanity’s rebellion against Divine Order. Until nations kneel before Christ the King – including those currently usurping ecclesiastical authority – such conflicts will multiply, for “unless the Lord builds the house, they labor in vain who build it” (Ps 127:1). The conciliar sect’s silence amid this chaos proves its complicity in building Babel rather than Christ’s Kingdom.
Source:
Greenland Catholics ‘do not wish to become Americans’ amid U.S. efforts at acquisition (catholicnewsagency.com)
Date: 14.01.2026