Vatican News Whitewashes Pakistani Hierarchy’s Naturalistic Child Protection Rhetoric
The Vatican News portal reports that “Archbishop” Joseph Arshad of Islamabad-Rawalpindi, citing a Pakistani NGO report titled Cruel Numbers, decried an 8 percent rise in child abuse cases in 2025, averaging over nine victims daily. The “Archbishop” dedicated 2026 as a “Year of Children,” urging cooperation between the “Church,” government, police, media, and civil society to protect children as a “national moral responsibility” and a “sacred gift from God.” This report exposes the thoroughgoing naturalism of the conciliar hierarchy: the episcopal office is reduced to social advocacy, the Kingship of Christ is supplanted by “national moral responsibility,” and the supernatural order of grace is entirely eclipsed by NGO statistics and secular legalism.