The Vatican News portal reports on a gathering of the so-called Gauteng Interfaith Leadership Council (GILC) in South Africa, where the pretended “Cardinal” Stephen Brislin, Archbishop of Johannesburg, presided over a joint statement condemning the murder of nine women in Ekurhuleni. The statement, steeped in the language of the heretical Abu Dhabi Document on Human Fraternity signed by the antipope Bergoglio and the Grand Imam of Al-Azhar in 2019, brought together representatives of Christian denominations, Islam, Hinduism, and the International Society for Krishna Consciousness. The event was framed as a “common effort” to rebuild respect for human life through education, family formation, and societal cooperation, deliberately omitting any reference to the Social Kingship of Christ, the necessity of the Catholic Church for salvation, or the supernatural order of grace. This is not a Catholic response to evil; it is a Masonic humanitarian substitute that reduces the Bride of Christ to a mere NGO among false religions.
The Abu Dhabi Declaration: The Magna Carta of Apostasy
The GILC statement explicitly anchors itself in the Document on Human Fraternity for World Peace and Living Together, the 2019 Abu Dhabi declaration signed by the manifest heretic Jorge Bergoglio (“Pope Francis”) and Ahmed Al-Tayeb. This document asserts that “the pluralism and the diversity of religions… are willed by God in His wisdom,” a proposition that directly contradicts the defined dogma Extra Ecclesiam nulla salus and the teaching of Pope Pius XI in Quas Primas: “His reign encompasses not only 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.” By invoking this Masonic-inspired declaration as their theological foundation, the GILC leaders publicly repudiate the Kingship of Christ over society and embrace the condemned error of religious indifferentism (Syllabus of Errors, Props. 15-18). They place the true God and idols on the same level, calling it “God-given dignity.”
Interfaith Dialogue as Practical Atheism
The gathering included “Muslim, Hindu and the International Society for Krishna Consciousness.” The Council of Trent anathematizes those who deny that the Catholic Church is the sole Ark of Salvation. The Syllabus of Errors (Prop. 18) condemns the proposition: “Protestantism is nothing more than another form of the same true Christian religion, in which form it is given to please God equally as in the Catholic Church.” A fortiori, the inclusion of pagan cults (Hinduism, Krishna Consciousness) and the false religion of Islam in a common “leadership council” constitutes practical apostasy. The pretended “Cardinal” Brislin admits: “We have our differences and we cannot deny differences, but the fact of the matter is that we have many common values as well.” This is the language of Freemasonry, not the language of the Gospel. Quas Primas teaches that the remedy for societal evils is “the restoration of the reign of our Lord” through the public confession of His Kingship, not a syncretic pooling of “shared values” with worshippers of demons (1 Cor 10:20).
Reduction of the Supernatural to the Sociological
The entire discourse is horizontal. The statement speaks of “gender-based violence and femicide” as “a profound moral failure and a grave sin against the sanctity of human life,” yet it never names the Author of Life, the Divine Lawgiver, or the Redeemer. It calls for “investigations to be pursued diligently” and “perpetrators to be brought to justice” — purely civil, naturalistic categories. There is zero mention of:
- The necessity of sanctifying grace for true moral reform.
- The Sacraments (Baptism, Penance, the Holy Eucharist) as the only effective weapons against the concupiscence that fuels violence.
- The duty of the State to profess the Catholic Faith and base its laws on God’s Commandments (Quas Primas: “all relations in the state be ordered on the basis of God’s commandments and Christian principles”).
- The Final Judgment, where Christ the King will “avenge these insults” (Quas Primas).
This silence is the gravest accusation. It proves the speakers are functionally atheist, operating entirely within the natural order. As St. Pius X condemned in Lamentabili Sane Exitu (Prop. 26): “The dogmas of faith should be understood according to their practical function, i.e., as binding in action, rather than as principles of belief.” Here, even the “practical function” of dogma is discarded for secular criminology and sociology.
The “Family” Without the Fatherhood of God
The discussion “repeatedly returned to the family and the formation of children, particularly boys.” “Respect starts at home,” they declare. But a family severed from the Sacrament of Matrimony, the domestic Church, and the Kingship of Christ is merely a natural association. The pretended “Cardinal” highlights “the role of men in mentoring boys… helping them understand what responsible manhood means.” This is Pelagian moralism. True Catholic fatherhood flows from the Fatherhood of God (Eph 3:15) and is sustained by grace. Without the Sacramentum Matrimonii and the authority of Christ the King in the home, “mentoring” is empty psychology. The Syllabus (Prop. 67) condemns the error that “By the law of nature, the marriage tie is not indissoluble.” The GILC’s “family” is the Masonic family: a social construct devoid of supernatural bond.
The Usurper’s Hierarchy: False Shepherds Leading to the Slaughter
Stephen Brislin is presented as “Cardinal… Archbishop of Johannesburg and a member of the GILC.” According to the principles articulated by St. Robert Bellarmine and confirmed by Canon 188.4 of the 1917 Code, a manifest heretic loses all jurisdiction ipso facto. Bergoglio (“Pope Francis”) is a public, pertinacious heretic (e.g., Abu Dhabi, Amoris Laetitia, Pachamama worship). Brislin, by recognizing him as Pope, participating in his false “synodality,” and implementing his heretical “fraternity,” manifests adherence to the Great Apostasy. He is not a Cardinal; he is not an Archbishop; he is a layman occupying an ecclesiastical office invalidly. His “leadership” in this interfaith council is the blind leading the blind into the pit (Mt 15:14). The faithful in South Africa have no true shepherd in these structures; they have a hireling who flees at the approach of the wolf of Modernism (Jn 10:12).
The Symptom: The Conciliar Church as the “Abomination of Desolation”
This event is the rotten fruit of Vatican II’s Nostra Aetate and Dignitatis Humanae. The “conciliar sect” has replaced the Missio ad Gentes (proclaiming Christ for conversion and baptism) with dialogue (affirming error as “shared values”). It has replaced the Social Kingship of Christ with the “common good” defined by the United Nations and Masonic lodges. The GILC is a microcosm of the “Church of the New Advent”: a paramasonic structure where the “clergy” function as chaplains to the New World Order. The murder of women in Ekurhuleni is a horrific crime crying to heaven for vengeance. The true Catholic response is not an interfaith press conference citing a heretical document, but the public proclamation of Christ the King, the call to penance, the administration of the Sacraments, and the demand that the State criminalize abortion, pornography, and blasphemy — the root causes of the contempt for human life. The GILC offers placebos; the Church offers the Cure. The former serves the Prince of this World; the latter serves the King of Kings.
Let the faithful flee these assemblies of darkness (2 Cor 6:14-17). There is no communion between light and darkness, between Christ and Belial. The only “Interfaith Leadership” that saves is the Supreme Pontiff of the Catholic Church teaching ex cathedra the Kingship of Christ. Since that office is vacant, the duty falls to the remnant bishops and priests preserving the Tradition: Instaurare omnia in Christo.
Source:
South Africa: Gauteng faith leaders urge respect for women and human life (vaticannews.va)
Date: 23.09.2026