Vatican News Reduces Parable of Vineyard to Sentimental Universalism Denying Catholic Justice
The Vatican News portal (September 19, 2026) publishes a reflection for the Twenty-Fifth Sunday in Ordinary Time by Fr. Marion Nguyen, OSB, on the Parable of the Workers in the Vineyard (Matthew 20:1–16). The commentary systematically evacuates the parable of its dogmatic density, replacing the lex credendi of divine justice and the necessity of the visible Church for salvation with a psychologized hermeneutic of “generosity” and “compassion” that functions as a solvent for the extra ecclesiam nulla salus dogma. The article epitomizes the conciliar sect’s reduction of the Gospel to a therapeutic narrative of inclusion, indifferent to the rigor of God’s Law and the reality of eternal damnation.