The official propaganda organ Vatican News reports on the launch of the “Catholic Universities Art Triennial 2026-2027,” an initiative of the Dicastery for Culture and Education of the conciliar sect, inaugurated under the theme “Exercises in Empathy.” The project, spanning seven conciliar universities across four continents, explicitly cites the fictitious encyclical Magnifica humanitas of the usurper “Pope” Leo XIV (Robert Prevost) and the modernist constitution Ex corde Ecclesiae of the antipope John Paul II as its magna charta. The Prefect of the Dicastery, “Cardinal” José Tolentino de Mendonça, declares “empathy” to be the singular identity of the Catholic university, displacing the regnum Christi and the salvation of souls. This spectacle of “co-creation,” “interdisciplinary dialogue,” and “safeguarding what is fundamentally human” constitutes a formal apostasy from the Church’s divine mandate, substituting the Social Kingship of Christ the King with a naturalistic, Masonic religion of humanitarian sentiment.
The Theological Nullity of “Empathy” as a Substitute for Charity
The entire edifice of this “Triennial” rests upon the category of “empathy” — a modern psychological construct entirely foreign to Catholic theology. The usurper Prevost, in his fabricated encyclical Magnifica humanitas, is quoted as contrasting artificial intelligence’s simulation of empathy with the human “affective, relational and spiritual perspective.” This is not theology; it is anthropology without grace. The “Cardinal” Prefect Mendonça goes further, asserting:
If there were one word capable of expressing the identity of Catholic universities and their integral vision of education, that word would be empathy. Empathy lies at the origin of this university project.
This is a heretical redefinition of the Church’s mission. The identity of a Catholic university is not “empathy” — a natural virtue of fellow-feeling accessible to pagans — but the scientia sacra ordered to the gloria Dei and the salus animarum. Pope Pius XI, in Quas Primas, teaches that “the Kingdom of Christ is primarily spiritual… men who wish to belong to it prepare themselves through repentance, but cannot enter except through faith and baptism.” The conciliar sect replaces the necessitas fidei et baptismatis with the vague, inclusive sentiment of “empathy,” which requires neither conversion nor grace. It is the caritas of the Freemasons — philanthropy stripped of the Cross.
Usurpation of Authority: The Antipope and the False Magisterium
The article cites two “authorities”: the usurper “Pope” Leo XIV (Robert Prevost) and the antipope John Paul II (Wojtyla). According to the Bull Cum ex Apostolatus Officio of Pope Paul IV, “if at any time it shall appear that any… Roman Pontiff… has defected from the Catholic Faith or fallen into some heresy: (i) his promotion or elevation… shall be null, void, and of no effect.” The line of claimants since John XXIII has publicly professed the heresies of religious liberty, false ecumenism, and collegiality — condemned by the Syllabus of Pius IX and Lamentabili sane exitu of St. Pius X. Therefore, “Leo XIV” possesses zero authority. His “encyclical” Magnifica humanitas is waste paper. Citing it as a normative text for Catholic education is an act of idolatry of the living, enthroning a manifest heretic in the place of Christ.
Furthermore, the appeal to Ex corde Ecclesiae as a “Magna Carta” exposes the rupture. That document enshrined the Modernist principle of “academic freedom” within the Church, effectively subjecting theology to the judgment of secular reason — precisely the error condemned in Lamentabili (Prop. 8, 9, 10): “Theological must be treated in the same manner as philosophical sciences… philosophy neither can nor ought to submit to any such authority.” The “Triennial” is the rotten fruit of that poisoned tree.
Reduction of the University to a Secular Cultural Hub
The listed institutions — Boston College, PUC Rio, Cattolica Milan, etc. — are notorious centers of theological dissent, liberation theology, and moral corruption. The “Triennial” does not propose to catechize them but to “bring aesthetics and ethics into dialogue” and foster “mutual recognition.” This is the language of the Courtyard of the Gentiles, the Masonic project of dialogue without conversion.
Pius XI in Quas Primas thundered: “When God and Jesus Christ… were removed from laws and states and when authority was derived not from God but from men, the foundations of that authority were destroyed.” Here, the “Catholic” university removes Christ from the curriculum and derives its purpose from “addressing today’s problems” through art. The “Dicastery for Culture and Education” functions exactly as the Syllabus condemned: “The civil government… has a right to an indirect negative power over religious affairs” (Error 41), but here the “Dicastery” voluntarily surrenders the potestas magisterii to the secular art world.
Art Detached from the Liturgy: Idolatry of the Aesthetic
The initiative treats art as an autonomous sphere for “exploring how art plays a role in addressing the most relevant issues.” This is the Modernist heresy of immanentism condemned by St. Pius X in Pascendi Dominici Gregis: the divorce of the beautiful from the True and the Good. True Catholic art is ancilla theologiae, ordered to the Sacrum — the Most Holy Sacrifice, the liturgy, the iconography of the Saints. The “Triennial” exhibits in Rio, Santiago, Bogotá, Boston, Milan, Lisbon, Luanda are not acts of worship but profane spectacles, “co-creation” exercises where the creature usurps the role of the Creator.
The reference to AI — “they lack the affective, relational and spiritual perspective” — reveals the sect’s obsession with the novelties of the world (1 John 2:15). The true Church condemns the world’s errors; she does not organize triennials to “dialogue” with algorithms.
Symptomatic Level: The Abomination of Desolation in the Academic Temple
This “Triennial” is not an anomaly; it is the systematic implementation of the conciliar revolution. The “Dicastery for Culture and Education” (a modernist bureaucratic invention unknown to the 1917 Code) replaces the Sacred Congregation of Studies. The “Prefect” Mendonça, a poet-bureaucrat, replaces the Doctor of the Church. The universities, stripped of the mandatum and the professio fidei of the anti-Modernist Oath, become “centers of creativity” for the civitas terrena.
The silence is deafening: no mention of Christ the King, no mention of the Social Reign, no mention of the Four Last Things, no mention of the Immaculate Heart of Mary (the true one, not the Masonic Fatima construct), no mention of the necessity of the Catholic Church for salvation. Only “empathy,” “fraternity,” “justice,” “co-creation,” “interdisciplinary conversation.”
This is the ecclesia horizontalis of the Antichrist. As St. Robert Bellarmine teaches (De Romano Pontifice), a manifest heretic “ceases to be Pope and head, just as he ceases to be a Christian and member of the body of the Church.” The structure occupying the Vatican, promoting this “Triennial,” is a paramasonic structure, a “Church of the New Advent” which has ipso facto lost the potestas iurisdictionis by defection from the Faith.
Conclusion: Return to the Integral Faith and the True University
The “Catholic Universities Art Triennial” is a satanic parody of Catholic education. It replaces the Wisdom Incarnate with the “empathy” of the natural man. It replaces the Magisterium with the “dialogue” of the heretics. It replaces the Sanctifying Grace with the “co-creation” of the artists.
True Catholics — bishops, priests, and faithful adhering to the Throne of Peter vacant since 1958 — must reject this abomination. The only “Triennial” that matters is the Triumph of the Immaculate Heart promised not by the Masonic spectacle of Fatima, but by the fidelity to Tradition and the Social Kingship of Christ the King (Pius XI, Quas Primas). Instaurare omnia in Christo — not in “empathy.”
Source:
Catholic universities offer art as a way of addressing today’s problems (vaticannews.va)
Date: 07.08.2026