VaticanNews.va reports (December 2, 2025) on a pastoral statement from Zimbabwe’s “Catholic” Bishops’ Conference (ZCBC) titled “Advent Pastoral Message – Remember the Poor.” The conciliar prelates frame Advent as a season for “national renewal, both social and spiritual,” applauding Zimbabwean participation in the upcoming “Jubilee of Hope 2025” in Rome. They decry exploitation in mining industries and villager displacement while urging “responsible stewardship” of natural resources, declaring that “a nation’s moral and spiritual health is measured by how it treats its most vulnerable members.” The document reduces Christ’s Nativity to a sociological symbol, stating: “On the wounded faces of the poor, we see the suffering of the innocent and the suffering of Christ Himself.” This impoverished declaration exemplifies the conciliar sect’s systematic evacuation of supernatural grace from Catholic life.
Naturalism Masquerading as Spirituality
The ZCBC’s message exemplifies the conciliar inversion of ends that substitutes horizontal activism for vertical worship. Quas Primas (Pius XI, 1925) establishes Christ’s Kingship as the sole foundation for societal order: “When once men recognize, both in private and in public life, that Christ is King, society will at last receive the great blessings of real liberty, well-ordered discipline, peace and harmony.” Yet the Zimbabwean episcopal statement omits all reference to Christ’s Social Reign, reducing “spiritual health” to material welfare metrics. Their Advent focus on economic redistribution and environmental policy constitutes apostasy from the Church’s divine mandate: “Go therefore and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit” (Matthew 28:19).
The bishops’ directive to “remember the poor” deliberately ignores the sensus catholicus established by centuries of magisterial teaching. St. Vincent de Paul’s charitable works flowed from the conviction that “it is only because of your faith that I spend myself in the service of the poor” (Letter CCXLIII). In contrast, the ZCBC promotes a Marxist-tinged social gospel severed from the raison d’être of Catholic charity: the salvation of immortal souls. Their silence on the necessity of sacramental grace and repentance reveals the rotten core of conciliar “pastoral care.”
Jubilee 2025: Masonic Counterfeit of Holy Years
The bishops’ enthusiasm for the “Jubilee of Hope 2025” exposes their allegiance to the conciliar sect’s revolutionary agenda. Authentic Jubilees, as codified by Boniface VIII in Antiquorum habet fida relatio (1300), centered on plenary indulgences obtainable through sacramental confession, Eucharistic adoration, and pilgrimage to Rome’s patriarchal basilicas. The post-conciliar “Jubilee of Hope” constitutes sacrilege, having abolished the requirement of conversion while promoting ecumenical gatherings at desecrated Roman churches. Pius VI condemned such innovations in Auctorem Fidei (1794): “The proposition which establishes the institution of new sacraments… is heretical.”
When the ZCBC praises Zimbabweans joining “millions of pilgrims” passing through conciliar “Holy Doors,” they facilitate participation in a counterfeit sacrament. True Catholics recognize these rituals as psychological manipulation tactics, no different from the “Miracle of the Sun” hoax at Fatima—a mass suggestion event orchestrated to advance modernist ecclesiology (False Fatima Apparitions, Masonic Operation section). The conciliar “jubilee” functions as what Pius X called “the synthesis of all heresies” (Pascendi Dominici Gregis, 8), replacing the ex opere operato efficacy of sacraments with anthropocentric emotional experiences.
Silence on the Primacy of the Supernatural
Nowhere do the Zimbabwean bishops mention the Four Last Things—Death, Judgment, Heaven, and Hell—the traditional Advent meditation themes. This omission constitutes pastoral malpractice. The Council of Trent’s Doctrine on Justification (Session VI, Chapter XVI) mandates that preachers “admonish men to be mindful of the divine judgment” as essential to Christian life. Instead, the ZCBC substitutes environmentalist jargon (“ecological conversion,” “interconnected ecosystems”) for the metanoia demanded by St. John the Baptist: “Repent, for the kingdom of heaven is at hand!” (Matthew 3:2).
The document’s call for “responsible stewardship” of natural resources ignores the Church’s teaching on man’s dominion over creation (Genesis 1:28). Pius XII’s Humani Generis (1950) condemned the error of “false irenicism” that elevates “the dignity of human nature” above man’s supernatural destiny. By framing mining operations primarily as ecological concerns rather than opportunities for evangelizing laborers and mine owners, the bishops betray their capitulation to materialist ideology.
The Poverty of Conciliar Ecclesiology
Most damningly, the pastoral letter never warns Zimbabwe’s Catholics that participation in conciliar sect sacraments jeopardizes their salvation. The “Mass” celebrated by ZCBC bishops lacks valid consecration due to the invalid Novus Ordo rite (Invalid Form: “For all” instead of “For many,” per Matthew 26:28). St. Robert Bellarmine’s De Sacramentis (Bk. III, Ch. 10) establishes that “the sacraments of heretics… are not true sacraments.” The bishops’ silence on this mortal danger confirms their status as wolves in shepherd’s clothing.
When the ZCBC states “the poor are part of our family,” they pervert Catholic solidarity by omitting the first spiritual work of mercy: admonishing sinners. True charity demands telling impoverished Zimbabweans that receiving conciliar “communion” constitutes idolatry (1 Corinthians 11:27). The bishops’ refusal to condemn the Bergoglian antipope’s Pachamama rituals—or his blasphemous declaration that “God wills religious diversity” in Fratelli Tutti (2020)—proves their complicity in apostasy. As the Syllabus of Errors condemns: “The Church has not the power of using force, nor has she any temporal power, direct or indirect” (Pius IX, Proposition 24). Yet these modernists reduce the Church’s mission to temporal activism.
The Zimbabwean bishops’ Advent message epitomizes the conciliar sect’s fundamental error: replacing the Kingship of Christ with humanitarian sentimentalism. They have abandoned Quas Primas‘s mandate to “restore all things in Christ” (Ephesians 1:10) for the sterile social engineering condemned in Pius XI’s Divini Redemptoris (1937): “A false conception of social justice… based upon the pre-eminence of material prosperity.” Until these prelates denounce Vatican II and return to the immutable Faith, their “pastoral care” remains a highway to perdition.
Source:
Zimbabwe: Bishops urge national renewal, compassion, and responsible stewardship in Advent (vaticannews.va)
Date: 02.12.2025