The “Catholic News Agency” portal describes the first official meeting between the antipope Leo XIV and leaders of the Symposium of Episcopal Conferences of Africa and Madagascar (SECAM) as a “new chapter for Church in Africa.” The January 17, 2026 audience featured “Cardinal” Fridolin Ambongo and other conciliar sect representatives discussing their 2025 Plenary Assembly theme “Christ, Source of Hope, Reconciliation, and Peace.” Ambongo praised the antipope’s potential African visit as “pastoral and prophetic,” while lamenting conflicts in the Democratic Republic of Congo. This spectacle of ecclesial theater epitomizes the conciliar sect’s substitution of supernatural faith for humanitarian platitudes.
Naturalization of the Church’s Divine Mission
The SECAM assembly’s focus on “Reconciliation and Peace” constitutes a fundamental betrayal of the Church’s raison d’être. Pius XI’s encyclical Quas Primas (1925) explicitly condemned such reductionism: “When God and Jesus Christ…were removed from laws and states…the foundations of authority were destroyed.” By framing Africa’s crises purely in socio-political terms – “suffering,” “instability,” “war investment” – SECAM operatives conceal the radix malorum: collective apostasy from Catholic social order.
Ambongo’s claim that “the Church does not belong to any political camp but stands with the people” directly violates the Syllabus of Errors (1864) which anathematized the notion that “the Church ought to be separated from the State, and the State from the Church” (Error 55). This neo-Modernist ecclesiology inverts the hierarchy of ends, treating Christ’s Mystical Body as a humanitarian NGO rather than the societas perfecta destined to govern nations.
Sacrilegious Usurpation of Apostolic Authority
The very premise of SECAM – a continental episcopal federation – constitutes structural heresy. Pius VI’s Auctorem Fidei (1794) condemned the Gallicanist error that “ecclesiastical power must be exercised…with consideration for civil government.” Ambongo, ordained under Paul VI’s invalid rites (as demonstrated by Archbishop Pierre Martin Ngô Đình Thục’s 1984 declaration), lacks sacramental capacity to govern any diocese, rendering his “Archdiocese of Kinshasa” a canonical fiction.
The conciliar sect’s theatrical “audience” follows the Masonic ecumenical playbook exposed in Pius IX’s Etsi Multa (1873): “These sects…triumph as powerful masters…submitting the Church to cruel servitude.” By receiving SECAM’s heretical reports without correction, the antipope confirms St. Robert Bellarmine’s warning in De Romano Pontifice that manifest heretics “cease to be Pope by that very fact.”
Eclipse of the Supernatural by Revolutionary Rhetoric
Ambongo’s celebration of Africa as “dynamic, radiant” while quoting the apostate Ratzinger’s “spiritual lung” metaphor epitomizes the conciliar inversion. Contrast this with Cardinal Charles Martial Lavigerie’s 1874 address: “Africa will be Christian or Muslim; there is no middle path.” The SECAM assembly’s silence on Islamization and witchraft – which the 1917 Code of Canon Law (Canon 1258) mandated missionaries to combat – reveals their capitulation to religious indifferentism condemned in Lamentabili Sane (1907).
When Ambongo claims “Christian hope tells us to hold on” amidst Congolese conflicts, he extinguishes true hope (virtus theologica) by omitting its object: Christ’s Kingship. As the 1911 Catholic Encyclopedia states, “Hope…attains God Himself as our supernatural reward.” This vacuous “hope” resembles Che Guevara’s revolutionary optimism more than St. Paul’s “endurance which comes from Christ” (2 Thess 3:5).
Conclusion: Apostasy Wrapped in Cassocks
The SECAM-antipope collusion manifests what St. Pius X termed “the synthesis of all heresies” in Pascendi. Their “pastoral and prophetic” posturing masks diabolical disorientation – replacing the Unum Sanctum with UN-style conflict resolution. True African saints like King Mutara III Rudahigwa understood Catholic monarchy; modern “prelates” sell their birthright for humanitarian pottage. Until Africa’s bishops restore the Social Reign of Christ the King – starting with public consecrations to His Sacred Heart – their meetings remain blasphemous charades accelerating eternal ruin.
Source:
First meeting with Pope Leo XIV marks new chapter for Church in Africa (catholicnewsagency.com)
Date: 22.01.2026