Greenland’s Geopolitical Anxiety Masks Deeper Crisis of Faith
Catholic News Agency portal (January 22, 2026) reports on Slovenian Conventual Franciscan “Father” Tomaž Majcen, the sole priest serving approximately 800 Catholics in Greenland. The article focuses on geopolitical tensions surrounding U.S. interest in the territory while promoting environmentalism, ecumenism, and naturalistic pastoral approaches divorced from Catholic supernatural mission.
Naturalism Displaces Supernatural Mission
The article describes Majcen’s ministry as centered on emotional comfort amid political anxieties, with statements like “the tenderness of the Gospel reminds us that each person has a face, a name, and a story” – a modernist reduction of Christianity to sentimental humanitarianism. Nowhere does he reference the raison d’être of priesthood: offering the Sacrifice of Calvary for the salvation of souls. The term “Most Holy Sacrifice” appears zero times, replaced by vague references to Mass as a community gathering.
This aligns with the conciliar sect’s abandonment of extra ecclesiam nulla salus (outside the Church there is no salvation). Pius IX’s Syllabus of Errors condemned the heresy that “good hope at least is to be entertained of the eternal salvation of all those who are not at all in the true Church of Christ” (Proposition 17). Yet Majcen uncritically promotes ecumenical prayer with Lutheran heretics, whose false religion was anathematized at the Council of Trent.
Ecumenical Apostasy in Arctic Disguise
The article praises Lutheran Bishop Paneeraq Siegstad Munk’s call for joint ecumenical prayers, which Majcen describes as “not a theory but a reality.” This violates the dogmatic teaching of Pope Pius XI: “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” (Mortalium Animos, 1928). The Second Council of Lyon (1274) and Council of Florence (1439) defined that the Holy Roman Church “firmly believes, professes, and preaches that none of those existing outside the Catholic Church… can have a share in life eternal.”
Strategic Silence on Sacramental Validity
Notably absent is any examination of Majcen’s priestly orders. Conventual Franciscans, like all post-conciliar religious orders, operate under modernist constitutions. The 1917 Code of Canon Law required ordinations to follow the Pontificale Romanum, abrogated by Paul VI’s illicit reforms. As Pius XII taught in Sacramentum Ordinis (1947), validity requires proper matter, form, and intention. The Novus Ordo rite of ordination exhibits dubious sacramental form, rendering Majcen’s priesthood objectively questionable.
Environmental Pantheism Over Catholic Ecology
Majcen’s statement that “our fragile Arctic environment is one of God’s most impressive — and most vulnerable — masterpieces” echoes the false ecological spirituality of Bergoglio’s Laudato Si’. Contrast this with Pius XII’s authentic teaching: “The Catholic Church… has never made the mistake of separating the care of nature from the final end of man” (Address to the First National Congress of Italian Forestry, 1953). True Catholic ecology subordinates material creation to man’s supernatural end – a concept wholly absent from the article’s secular environmental narrative.
The Unmentioned Iceberg: Loss of Catholic Identity
Of Greenland’s 57,000 inhabitants, merely 800 are identified as Catholics – yet the article never addresses the conciliar sect’s catastrophic missionary failure. Pre-Vatican II missionary activity under Pius XII saw annual growth rates exceeding 7% in Africa and Asia. The Novus Ordo’s gutted liturgy, prohibition of proselytism (cf. Vatican II’s Dignitatis Humanae), and ecuмenical indifferentism have caused global Catholic collapse. Greenland’s 1.4% Catholic population stands as testament to this apostasy.
Geopolitics as Distraction From Doctrinal Bankruptcy
The article’s focus on Trump’s alleged annexation threats serves to:
1. Distract from the conciliar sect’s abandonment of Quas Primas (1925), which instituted Christ the King as remedy for secular nationalism
2. Normalize the heresy of religious liberty by framing Greenlanders as autonomous political actors rather than souls needing conversion
3. Ignore the true spiritual warfare: Freemasonic globalism dismantling Christendom
Pius XI condemned precisely this error: “When once men recognize… that Christ has been bestowed by God on men as Redeemer… it will become apparent to all that the Church… cannot submit to external guidance without denying her Divine Spouse” (Quas primas, §18).
A Church Without Keys, A Flock Without Shepherds
Majcen’s alleged concern for Greenlanders’ dignity rings hollow while he withholds the uncompromised Catholic Faith. The article mentions no sacraments beyond Mass (omitting Confession, Last Rites), no Eucharistic adoration, no Rosary processions – the spiritual arsenal that sustained missionaries like St. Francis Xavier. Instead, we find saccharine references to “the northern lights” and emotional reassurance.
Traditional Catholic missionaries – from the Jesuits in Paraguay to the French martyrs in Quebec – understood that true human dignity flows from sanctifying grace. By reducing the Gospel to a geopolitical counseling service, Majcen perpetuates the conciliar sect’s fundamental betrayal: making peace with the world rather than converting it.
Source:
Greenland’s only Catholic priest: ‘We’re not just minerals or a military position’ (catholicnewsagency.com)
Date: 22.01.2026