Invalid Consecration in Bergen: Neo-Church Erects Altar to Religious Indifferentism
The EWTN News portal reports on the solemn consecration of St. Paul’s Church in Bergen, Norway, on June 28, 2026, presided over by the “Bishop” of Oslo, Fredrik Hansen, a full 150 years after the building first opened. The article celebrates the “universal Church in 1 parish,” boasting nearly 20,000 adherents from over 120 nations, liturgies in eight vernaculars plus a “Saturday evening Latin Mass,” and a “Corpus Christi procession” where “national communities” prepare altars. “Bishop” Hansen hails the event as completing a historical mission and calls for “renewed evangelization” through “teaching the faith, celebrating the sacraments, and building the parochial community.” The parish priest, “Father” Alois Brodersen, an Augustinian canon regular, exults: “I see the whole world united in adoration.” This ceremony is a sacrilegious nullity: a layman-usurper pretending to episcopal character consecrates a building for the conciliar sect, ritualizing the apostasy from the Social Kingship of Christ into a naturalistic Babel of religious indifferentism.