Vatican News Exalts Naturalistic Liberty as Ukraine’s Highest Good Amid War
The Vatican News portal reports an interview with Vitalij Skomarovskyj, the “bishop” of Lutsk and president of the “Conference of Catholic Bishops in Ukraine (Latin Rite),” on the occasion of thirty-five years of Ukrainian independence from the Soviet Union. The piece celebrates “genuine freedom of conscience” guaranteed by the Ukrainian Constitution as an “extraordinary and unique gift,” contrasts it with Soviet persecution, and frames the current war as a defense of the “common home” and “Fatherland.” Skomarovskyj invokes “Pope St. John Paul II” to condemn war as a “great scourge” and extols the “solidarity” and “material and spiritual support” from “every corner of the earth” as a “voice of people’s hearts” giving “strength and hope.” The article is a masterclass in naturalistic humanitarianism masquerading as Catholic pastoral care, utterly devoid of the supernatural mission of the Church and the Social Kingship of Christ the King.