The Vatican News portal reports that the Association of Zambian Diocesan Catholic Clergy in the Livingstone Diocese recently convened a “leadership and child safeguarding training workshop” at the Luxe Country Convention Centre. The sessions, directed by the “Diocesan Safeguarding Policy Focal Point Person” Father Imasiku Ngalama Mwanamulena IV and the “Diocesan Pastoral Coordinator” Father John Damascene Rurangwa, focused on “protection protocols,” “leadership accountability,” and “reporting channels for the abused and exploited.” The “Parish Priest of St. Fidelis Parish,” Father Gregory Chabala, praised the workshop for providing “correct information on the Diocesan Safeguarding Policy” and suggested it be extended to lay leaders. This bureaucratic exercise, devoid of any reference to the supernatural mission of the Church, the gravity of sin, or the necessity of grace, epitomizes the total substitution of the Kingdom of Christ for a Masonic-inspired NGO structure.
The Conciliar Sect’s NGO-ification of the Priesthood
The cited article presents a scene that is perfectly emblematic of the Church of the New Advent: a convention center, a “Focal Point Person,” a “Pastoral Coordinator,” and a “Safeguarding Policy.” Nowhere does the report mention the Most Holy Sacrifice, the Unbloody Sacrifice of Calvary, the confession of sins, the preaching of the Gospel for the conversion of souls, or the worship of the Triune God. The “priests” of the Livingstone Diocese are depicted not as alter Christus offering the Propitiatory Sacrifice, but as functionaries attending a mandatory compliance seminar.
This is the logical terminus of the conciliar revolution. Pius XI, in his encyclical Quas Primas, taught with unshakeable authority that “the Kingdom of Christ encompasses all men… not only to Catholic nations… but His reign encompasses also all non-Christians, so that most truly the entire human race is subject to the authority of Jesus Christ”. He warned that “when God and Jesus Christ were removed from laws and states… the foundations of that authority were destroyed”. The Livingstone workshop is the microcosm of this destruction: the authority of Christ the King has been evicted from the sanctuary and replaced by the “Safeguarding Policy” of the secular state. The “clergy” of the conciliar sect have become mere agents of the Civitas Terrena, administering temporal welfare under the guise of religion. Salus animarum suprema lex (The salvation of souls is the supreme law) has been abrogated in favor of salus corporum et reputationis (the safety of bodies and reputation).
Linguistic Engineering: ‘Safeguarding’ as a Substitute for Sanctity
The vocabulary of the article is a deliberate, calculated Newspeak designed to obliterate the Catholic sensus. Terms like “Safeguarding Policy Focal Point Person”, “reporting channels”, “mandatory orientation”, and “updated scope” belong to the lexicon of corporate compliance officers and United Nations NGOs, not to the ministers of the Most High. The “priest” Chabala speaks of “correct information” and “understanding reporting channels” as the summit of pastoral care.
This linguistic shift manifests the theological apostasy. The true pastor speaks of peccatum (sin), gratia (grace), paenitentia (penance), and iudicium aeternum (eternal judgment). The conciliar functionary speaks of “protocols,” “exploitation,” and “abuse” — categories of the civil code. By adopting the language of the secular legislator, the conciliar sect admits de facto that its true sovereign is the Masonic state, not Christ the King. St. Pius X, in Lamentabili Sane Exitu, condemned the Modernist error that “The Church is an enemy of the progress of natural and theological sciences” and that “Truth changes with man”. Here, the immutable truth of the priesthood is “updated” into a mutable “policy.” The “workshop” is the liturgy of the new religion: the religion of Man.
Theological Vacuity: Absence of Sin, Grace, and Eternal Judgment
The gravest accusation against this “workshop” is its total silence on the supernatural order. There is no mention of the Sacrament of Penance as the divinely instituted means to restore the sinner to grace. There is no mention of the Holy Eucharist as the source of priestly sanctity and the antidote to concupiscence. There is no mention of the Four Last Things — Death, Judgment, Heaven, Hell — which are the only ultimate context for understanding the horror of scandal.
The “Safeguarding Policy” treats the abuse of a child as a violation of protocol, a bureaucratic failure to be managed by “reporting channels.” The Catholic Church treats it as a crime crying to heaven for vengeance (peccatum clamans), a mortal sin that damns the perpetrator’s soul to eternal fire unless repented with a firm purpose of amendment, confessed with integrity, and expiated by penance. By reducing the spiritual catastrophe of clerical impurity to a “safeguarding issue,” the conciliar sect commits a sacrilege against the Holy Ghost. It offers the victims not the Pearl of Great Price — the mercy of Christ in the Confessional — but the cold comfort of a “policy” and a “workshop.” It offers the perpetrator not the terror of Gehenna and the rigor of canonical penance, but “accountability” and “training.”
Pope Pius IX, in the Syllabus of Errors, condemned the proposition that “The teaching of the Catholic Church is hostile to the well-being and interests of society” (Error 40). The conciliar sect inverts this: it adopts the world’s teaching (secular safeguarding) as its own, proving that it considers the Church’s own supernatural doctrine insufficient for the “modern world.” This is the heresy of action — Modernism in praxis.
Invalid Orders and Jurisdiction: The Nullity of the ‘Clergy’ Involved
The article names “Father Imasiku Ngalama Mwanamulena IV,” “Father John Damascene Rurangwa,” and “Father Gregory Chabala” as the leaders of this enterprise. From the perspective of integral Catholic theology, these men are not priests. They were “ordained” in the post-1968 rite of Paul VI, a rite stripped of the essential form and intention for the Sacrament of Holy Orders as defined by the Council of Trent (Sess. XXIII, Can. 4) and Pope Pius XII (Sacramentum Ordinis). Leo XIII in Apostolicae Curae declared Anglican orders “absolutely null and utterly void” due to defect of form and intention; the Novus Ordo rite suffers from the identical defects — the suppression of the essential words specifying the sacrificial priesthood and the intention to “do what the Church does” being replaced by an intention to “preside over the assembly.”
Therefore, these men possess no priestly character, no power to confect the Eucharist, no power to absolve sins. They are laymen dressed in vestments, simulating the clergy. Consequently, the “Diocese of Livingstone” is a juridical fiction. Its “Bishop” (unnamed in the article but implied) is a usurper without jurisdiction. Canon 188.4 of the 1917 Code states that an office becomes vacant ipso facto by “public defection from the Catholic faith”. The public adhesion of the Zambian hierarchy to the Vatican II sect — its false ecumenism, religious liberty, and collegiality — constitutes this defection. As St. Robert Bellarmine teaches (De Romano Pontifice), a manifest heretic “ceases to be Pope and head… by that very fact” (ipso facto). This principle applies a fortiori to bishops. The “workshop” is thus a meeting of private individuals with zero ecclesiastical authority, playing church in a convention center.
Masonic Inspiration: The Secular State’s Infiltration of the Sanctuary
The structure of this “workshop” bears the unmistakable fingerprints of the Masonic infiltration condemned by Pope Pius IX (Syllabus, Error 55: “The Church ought to be separated from the State, and the State from the Church”) and Leo XIII (Humanum Genus). The “Safeguarding Policy” is invariably imposed on the conciliar sect by secular governments and Masonic-dominated international bodies (UN, WHO) as a condition for legal recognition and financial flow. The conciliar “bishops” comply with servile obedience, transforming the House of God into a branch office of the Civitas Diaboli.
The “Luxe Country Convention Centre” venue is symbolic: the worship of Mammon and comfort replaces the austerity of the Cross. The “Association of Zambian Diocesan Catholic Clergy” (AZADCC) functions as a trade union, a sodalicium of the laity, not a presbyterium united around the Bishop in the Sacrifice. Pope Pius XI in Quas Primas insisted that “the Church, established by Christ as a perfect society, demands for itself by a right belonging to it… full freedom and independence from secular authority”. The Livingstone Diocese has surrendered this independence. It has accepted the exsequatur of the state on its internal discipline. It has accepted the definition of “abuse” and “safeguarding” provided by the enemies of Christ. Quis custodiet ipsos custodes? (Who will guard the guards themselves?) The answer in the conciliar sect is: the Masonic state.
The True Scandal: Apostasy, Not Abuse Protocols
The article concludes with a plea for donations: “Your contribution for a great mission: support us in bringing the Pope’s words into every home.” This “Pope” is Leo XIV (Robert Prevost), the current usurper on the Chair of Peter, an antipope who perpetuates the apostasy of Vatican II. The “great mission” of Vatican News is the propagation of the abomination of desolation standing in the holy place (Matt. 24:15).
The true scandal in Livingstone, as in every diocese of the conciliar sect, is not the failure to implement “safeguarding protocols.” The true scandal is the absence of the True Mass, the absence of valid Sacraments, the preaching of a false gospel (religious liberty, ecumenism, collegiality), and the leading of souls to Hell under the guise of “pastoral care.” St. Pius X condemned the Modernist proposition that “Contemporary Catholicism cannot be reconciled with true knowledge without transforming it into a certain dogmaless Christianity, that is, into a broad and liberal Protestantism” (Lamentabili, Prop. 65). The “Safeguarding Workshop” is the pastoral face of this dogma-less Protestantism: pure humanitarianism, stripped of the Cross.
No “policy” can save a soul. No “workshop” can confer grace. No “Focal Point Person” can stand in persona Christi. The clergy of the Livingstone Diocese, and the entire conciliar hierarchy, stand extra Ecclesiam. Extra Ecclesiam nulla salus. The only “safeguarding” that avails is the Catholic Faith entire and inviolate, the Traditional Latin Mass, and submission to the true Vicar of Christ (sede vacante, awaiting a canonical election). The Zambia “workshop” is a theater of the absurd, a Masonic farce played out in the ruins of the vineyard. Vae pastoribus qui dissipant et lacerant ovem gregis mei (Woe to the shepherds who scatter and tear the sheep of my flock — Jer. 23:1).
Source:
Zambia: Diocesan Catholic clergy in Livingstone Diocese welcome workshop on Safeguarding (vaticannews.va)
Date: 17.08.2026