Technology Cannot Replace the Supernatural Mission of the Church
The National Catholic Register reports that the inaugural Africa Digital Assets Summit, held at the Catholic University of Eastern Africa (CUEA) in Nairobi, Kenya, concluded on April 30, 2026, with organizers declaring it a “resounding success.” The summit, themed “Ethical Stewardship for the Love of the Poor,” brought together “investors, regulators, innovators, and policymakers to accelerate Africa’s digital economy — from policy to prosperity.” Organizer Eddie Cullen, CEO of Crescite Innovation Corporation, claimed inspiration from “Pope” Leo XIV’s apostolic exhortation *Dilexi Te*, copies of which were distributed to all participants. Archbishop Bert van Megen, former papal nuncio to Kenya and newly appointed nuncio to Germany, delivered the keynote address warning that digital systems risk making the poor “invisible” and called for “structural ethics” in technology design rooted in Catholic social teaching principles such as human dignity, the common good, solidarity, and subsidiarity. While the archbishop’s concern for the poor is superficially commendable, the entire event and its framing expose the conciliar sect’s systematic reduction of the Church’s supernatural mission to naturalistic humanitarianism, its embrace of worldly power structures, and its substitution of technological “solutions” for the only true remedy: the Social Kingship of Christ and the salvation of souls.
