EWTN News reports on Bishop Raimo Goyarrola’s effort to establish Finland’s first Catholic school within a Lutheran church building on Lauttasaari island, operating under state-approved homeschooling models while welcoming students of all faiths. The “bishop” – a member of Opus Dei appointed by Bergoglio’s successor – claims this project fulfills a “dream” despite bureaucratic challenges, framing Catholic growth through immigration statistics rather than conversions. The article’s ecumenical triumphalism masks grave doctrinal betrayals.
Ecumenical Compromise as Sacrilegious Syncretism
The plan to house a “Catholic” educational institution within a Lutheran church dedicated to “St. James the Apostle” constitutes blasphemous architectural indifferentism. Pope Pius XI condemned such collaboration with heretical sects in Mortalium Animos (1928): “The Catholic Church… cannot in any way take part in [false religions’] assemblies, nor is it lawful for Catholics to support or to work for such enterprises.” By leasing space from Lutherans – who deny transubstantiation, reject papal authority, and propagate justification by faith alone – Goyarrola legitimizes a sect condemned by the Council of Trent (Session VI, Canon IX; Session XIII, Canon VI).
The article’s boast that the school will celebrate “main feasts of the liturgical calendar” while welcoming non-Catholics confirms its apostate character. True Catholic education requires total separation from error, as Pope Pius XI taught in Divini Illius Magistri (1929): “The school… must be for the youth a temple consecrated to Christian education… where all the teachings are regulated by the Christian spirit” (§77). Permitting Lutheran or secular students to participate in Catholic liturgical celebrations – even superficially – violates Canon 1258 of the 1917 Code, which forbids communicatio in sacris with heretics.
Naturalistic Metrics Replace Supernatural Ends
Goyarrola’s emphasis on bureaucratic permits, finances, and enrollment numbers (“12 children, like the apostles”) exposes the project’s materialist foundations. The article celebrates quantitative growth (“20,000 Catholics… increase in baptisms“) while omitting any mention of sanctifying grace, sacramental validity, or doctrinal fidelity.
This reduction of the Church’s mission to demographic expansion echoes the conciliar heresy of “inculturation” promoted in Vatican II’s Gaudium et Spes (1965). Contrast this with Pope Pius X’s Pascendi Dominici Gregis (1907), which condemned Modernists for making “vital immanence the source of faith” (§6). Nowhere does Goyarrola mention forming souls for eternal salvation through the Traditional Latin Mass or avoidance of proximate occasions of sin – the hallmarks of authentic Catholic education according to Pope Pius XII’s Allocution to Catholic Educators (1957).
A False “Catholic” Model Rooted in Modernism
The school’s structure as a state-approved “home schooling model” operating under Lutheran property reveals its inherent theological bankruptcy. True Catholic education requires total independence from secular oversight, as demanded by Pope Pius IX’s Syllabus of Errors (1864), which condemned the proposition that “The entire government of public schools… may and ought to appertain to the civil power” (Proposition 45).
Goyarrola’s Opus Dei affiliation – a group founded post-1958 and permeated with conciliarist errors – explains this betrayal. Their embrace of “Christian values” over defined dogma aligns with the condemned Modernist tactic of reducing faith to ethical sentimentalism. As Pope St. Pius X warned, “Modernists substitute for faith a sentiment… which originates in a need of the divine” (Pascendi, §14). By omitting the Sacrifice of the Mass, catechesis on mortal sin, or the necessity of submission to the Roman Pontiff, this school becomes another vector for apostasy.
When Bergoglio’s puppet invokes “providence” while building on Lutheran foundations, he fulfills Pope Leo XIII’s prophetic warning: “By crafty fraud they… wind themselves into the favor of the unwary… to rob the Church” (Humanum Genus, 1884). Finland’s souls deserve true shepherds, not wolves in miters trading eternal truths for ecumenical applause.
Source:
First Catholic school in Finland: The dream of Helsinki’s only Catholic bishop (ewtnnews.com)
Date: 13.01.2026