Vatican News portal reports on Vatican Radio’s participation in the European Broadcasting Union (EBU) and its advocacy for the “Digital Networks Act” — EU legislation aimed at regulating digital communications. Alessandro Gisotti, Deputy Director of Vatican Media and Vatican Radio’s representative to the EBU, presents radio as “a bastion of freedom, serving pluralism and the democratic system,” emphasizing its role in ensuring “informational pluralism” and “reliability” of information. The article reveals how the structures occupying the Vatican have fully adopted the secular, modernist language of European institutions, reducing the Church’s mission to a naturalistic service of “democratic values” while remaining entirely silent on the supernatural mission of the Church and the kingship of Christ over all nations.
The Reduction of the Church’s Mission to Secular “Pluralism”
The article’s central thesis — that radio serves as “a bastion of freedom, serving pluralism and the democratic system” — is not merely a neutral observation about media policy. It is a theological statement, and a heretical one. The conciliar sect, through its media apparatus, has explicitly adopted the language of religious indifferentism — the condemned error that all religions and systems are equally valid paths to truth and salvation. When Gisotti declares that radio benefits “democratic systems and the freedom of information”, he reveals that the occupying structures in Vatican have replaced the supernatural mission of the Church — the salvation of souls through the preaching of the one true Faith — with a purely naturalistic service to secular political structures.
This is precisely the error condemned by Pope Pius IX in the Syllabus of Errors, where he anathematized the proposition that “In the present day it is no longer expedient that the Catholic religion should be held as the only religion of the State, to the exclusion of all other forms of worship” (Proposition 77), and further that “the civil liberty of every form of worship… conduce more easily to corrupt the morals and minds of the people, and to propagate the pest of indifferentism” (Proposition 79). The article’s celebration of “pluralism” as a positive good is a direct embrace of the very errors the Church once condemned under pain of excommunication.
Pius XI, in Quas Primas, taught with absolute clarity: “His reign, namely, extends not only to Catholic nations or to those who, by receiving baptism according to law, belong to the Church, even though their erroneous opinions have led them astray or discord has separated them from love, but His reign encompasses also all non-Christians, so that most truly the entire human race is subject to the authority of Jesus Christ.” The article’s enthusiastic endorsement of “pluralism” as a value to be “safeguarded” stands in direct, irreconcilable opposition to this definitive magisterial teaching. There is no pluralism in matters of religion: there is one Truth, one Church, one King.
The Linguistic Apostasy: “Freedom,” “Democracy,” “Reliability”
The careful reader will note the complete absence of any supernatural vocabulary in this article. There is no mention of the salvation of souls, the preaching of the Gospel, the sacraments, the moral law, the Four Last Things, or the Social Kingship of Christ. Every value appealed to is purely naturalistic: “freedom,” “pluralism,” “democratic system,” “reliability,” “road safety,” “emergency situations.” This is not accidental — it is the lex orandi, lex credendi of the conciliar revolution made manifest in journalistic form.
When Gisotti states that “radio is an essential service — a true bastion of freedom, benefiting democratic systems and the freedom of information”, he employs the precise vocabulary of the Nouvelle Théologie and the post-conciliar apostasy. The Church, in her authentic teaching, has never recognized “democracy” or “pluralism” as intrinsic goods. Pius IX condemned the proposition that “the Roman Pontiff can, and ought to, reconcile himself, and come to terms with progress, liberalism and modern civilization” (Syllabus, Proposition 80). The article’s entire rhetorical framework is built upon the very liberalism and modernism that the Church has consistently condemned.
The appeal to “reliability” and “trust” in radio as a medium is particularly revealing. The conciliar sect’s own media — including Vatican Radio — have been among the primary instruments of disseminating heresy, religious indifferentism, and the systematic destruction of Catholic faith among the faithful for over six decades. That these structures now present themselves as guarantors of “reliable, public-interest information” is not merely hypocritical — it is a continuation of the disinformation strategy that has characterized the post-conciliar occupation from its inception.
The EBU: A Paramasonic Structure Embraced by the Occupying Vatican
The article proudly notes that Vatican Radio is a “founding member” of the European Broadcasting Union. This fact, presented as a credential of legitimacy, is in reality an indictment. The EBU is a pan-European institution whose very structure embodies the principles of secularism, religious indifferentism, and the subordination of truth to “pluralistic” consensus. That the structures occupying the Vatican have chosen to embed themselves within such an institution — and to advocate for its regulatory agenda — demonstrates the depth of their apostasy.
Pius IX, in the Syllabus, warned repeatedly against the “sects” — whether Masonic or otherwise — that seek to “submit the Church of God to the most cruel servitude, to undermine the foundations on which it rests, to contaminate its splendid qualities”. The EBU, as a secular institution dedicated to “pluralism” and “democratic values” rather than to the Truth, is precisely the kind of structure against which the Church has always warned. That Vatican Radio not only participates in it but serves as President of its Radio and Audio News Group reveals the total capitulation of the occupying structures to the spirit of the world.
The Omission of the Supernatural: The Gravest Accusation
The most damning feature of this article is not what it says, but what it does not say. In an entire article about the role of radio in European society, there is:
- No mention of the Church’s mission to preach the Gospel to all nations
- No mention of the Social Kingship of Christ over European nations
- No mention of the duty of states to publicly confess the Catholic Faith
- No mention of the moral law as the foundation of a just society
- No mention of the sacraments, prayer, or the supernatural life
- No mention of the obligation of rulers to submit to the authority of Christ the King
This silence is not neutral — it is theological apostasy by omission. Pius XI taught in Quas Primas: “The state is happy not by one means, and man by another; for the state is nothing else than a harmonious association of men.” And further: “Let rulers of states therefore not refuse public veneration and obedience to the reigning Christ, but let them fulfill this duty themselves and with their people, if they wish to maintain their authority inviolate and contribute to the increase of their homeland’s happiness.” The article’s complete silence on these obligations — while enthusiastically endorsing “democratic systems” and “pluralism” — constitutes a formal repudiation of the Church’s social teaching.
The “Digital Networks Act”: Legislating Religious Indifferentism
The article’s advocacy for the EU’s “Digital Networks Act” must be understood in its proper context. This legislation aims to create a “unified regulatory framework” for digital communications across Europe — a framework that, by its nature, treats all content providers equally, without distinction between truth and error, between the Catholic Faith and heresy, between moral teaching and moral corruption. The conciliar sect’s enthusiastic support for such regulation reveals its alignment with the secularist project of managing religious expression as merely one “voice” among many in the “pluralistic” marketplace of ideas.
This is precisely the vision condemned by St. Pius X in Pascendi Dominici Gregis, where he exposed the Modernist agenda of reducing religion to a matter of personal sentiment and social utility, stripped of its dogmatic content and supernatural claims. The article’s framing of radio as a tool for “road safety” and “emergency information” — while entirely ignoring its potential as a vehicle for evangelization — is a perfect illustration of the Modernist reduction of the sacred to the merely natural and utilitarian.
Conclusion: The Abomination of Desolation Speaks of “Pluralism”
This article from Vatican News is a microcosm of the entire post-conciliar apostasy. The structures occupying the Vatican have so thoroughly assimilated the values of the secular world that they can no longer distinguish between the mission of the Church and the agenda of European secular institutions. They speak of “freedom” when they mean license; of “pluralism” when they mean indifferentism; of “democracy” when they mean the rejection of Christ the King’s authority over nations.
The faithful must recognize this for what it is: not journalism, but propaganda for the religion of Modernism, dressed in the language of European institutional respectability. The remedy is not reform of these structures — which are, as the provided documents demonstrate, likely instruments of a deeper subversion — but a return to the integral Catholic Faith, to the Social Kingship of Christ, and to the unchanging teaching that “there is no other name under heaven given to men by which we must be saved” (Acts 4:12). Non possumus — we cannot serve two masters.
Source:
EBU: Safeguarding Radio, a bastion of freedom and pluralism (vaticannews.va)
Date: 01.06.2026