Vatican Legate Parolin Distorts Ansgar’s Mission with Modernist Heresies
VaticanNews portal (January 27, 2026) reports on Pietro Parolin’s Mass in Copenhagen marking the 12th centenary of St. Ansgar’s Danish mission. The antipope’s secretary of state claims the Church’s credibility derives not from “power, numbers, or strategies” but from “faith becoming lived witness” through “acts of liberation, justice, and mercy.” He compares 9th-century slavery to modern “economic, cultural, spiritual” forms while praising ecumenical collaboration with Lutherans. Parolin cites Ansgar’s “courageous choice” of mission work under Emperor Louis the Pious, framing evangelization as social activism rather than conversion of souls.
Reduction of Evangelization to Social Activism
Parolin’s assertion that the Church’s credibility flows from “concrete acts of liberation, justice, and mercy” constitutes blasphemous inversion of divine priorities. The Church’s authority stems not from humanitarian works but from her divine constitution by Christ (Quas Primas, Pius XI). As Pope Pius XI declared: “The Church cannot submit to opposition between her moral and dogmatic teaching” (Divini Redemptoris, §10). By omitting sacramental grace and doctrinal fidelity as the sine qua non of evangelization, Parolin reduces Catholicism to NGO activism.
The original St. Ansgar sought not social liberation but conversion of pagans, establishing churches and monasteries to administer baptism and the Holy Sacrifice. Rimbert’s Vita Anskarii records his miracles and preaching against idolatry – facts ignored in Parolin’s sanitized retelling. This distortion aligns with Modernist rejection of supernatural mission objectives condemned by St. Pius X: “The Church is not an institution for philanthropic purposes” (Pascendi Dominici Gregis, §25).
Ecumenical Apostasy Against Divine Law
Parolin’s claim that Denmark’s “Christian heritage” involves collaboration between Catholics and Lutherans constitutes formal heresy. Pope Pius IX’s Syllabus of Errors explicitly condemns the notion that “Protestantism is nothing more than another form of the same true Christian religion” (Proposition 18). The Church teaches Lutherans remain outside salvation until abandoning heresy: “There is but one universal Church of the faithful, outside which no one at all is saved” (Fourth Lateran Council, Canon 1).
By praising Lutheran “service and solidarity,” Parolin violates Pope Pius XI’s mandate: “The apostolate of today will not have God’s blessing if it does not labor with all energy for the return of the dissidents to the one true Church” (Mortalium Animos, §10). The silence on Ansgar’s confrontations with Norse paganism reveals the conciliar sect’s fear of proclaiming extra Ecclesiam nulla salus.
Naturalistic Deformation of Mission Theology
The article’s repeated emphasis on “human dignity” without mention of sanctifying grace exposes its anthropological heresy. St. Ansgar understood true freedom comes only through incorporation into Christ’s Mystical Body, as Pius XII taught: “The dignity of man requires him to obey God’s eternal law” (Summi Pontificatus, §35). Parolin’s “new forms of slavery” rhetoric substitutes Marxist class struggle for the Church’s teaching on liberation from Original Sin through baptism.
When Parolin claims the Church grows through “lives of faithfulness” rather than numbers, he contradicts Christ’s Great Commission: “Going therefore, teach ye all nations” (Matthew 28:19). The apostolic mandate demands conversion, not mere “witness” – a distinction erased by Vatican II’s Nostra Aetate. This naturalized mission theology was condemned by Pope Gregory XVI: “An indifference to souls which allows everyone to wander down the path of death” (Summo Iugiter Studio, §2).
Omission of Eschatological Finality
Nowhere does Parolin mention the Four Last Things – death, judgment, heaven, hell – the essential framework of Ansgar’s preaching. The Modernist reduction of Christianity to earthly solidarity constitutes apostasy from defined dogma: “The primary duty of charity does not lie in the toleration of false ideas… but in the prudence of the physician who amputates a gangrened limb” (Pius XI, Ubi Arcano, §69). By celebrating Ansgar while rejecting his doctrinal content, the conciliar sect commits historical vandalism akin to using cathedrals as museums.
The article concludes with Parolin quoting Leo XIII’s motto In Illo Uno Unum while subverting its meaning. The late pontiff intended communion in veritate, not ecumenical indifferentism: “The Church alone is the ark of salvation; he who does not enter it will perish in the flood” (Satis Cognitum, §10). This Copenhagen spectacle demonstrates the conciliar sect’s total rupture from Catholic mission theology.
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Cardinal Parolin in Denmark: Church's credibility is not from power, but witness (vaticannews.va)
Date: 27.01.2026