Vatican’s Artifact Repatriation: Syncretism Masquerading as Reconciliation
The B.C. Catholic portal reports (December 8, 2025) on a Montreal ceremony where “Pope” Leo XIV transferred 62 Indigenous artifacts from the Vatican Museums to Canadian “bishops” for repatriation. The event, framed as part of the “Jubilee of Hope,” featured “Archbishop” Richard Smith praising the gesture as “a gift freely given” promoting reconciliation. Indigenous leaders described the returned items as “living relatives,” with Inuvialuit Regional Corporation CEO Duane Ningaqsiq Smith calling the kayak’s return “a historic step in revitalizing… cultural identity.” The artifacts—including sacred bundles and carvings—will be housed temporarily at the Canadian Museum of History while Indigenous groups determine final disposition.
Sacrilegious Equivalence Between Pagan Artifacts and Sacred Objects
The ceremony’s core blasphemy lies in its equivalence between Catholic sacred objects and pagan artifacts. When National Chief Cindy Woodhouse Nepinak declares “our relatives are finally home” about these items, the conciliar sect’s representatives sanction animistic idolatry. Pius XI’s encyclical Quas Primas (1925) condemns such syncretism: “He [Christ] must reign in the minds of men… in the will” (¶19). By treating kayaks and masks as spiritually equivalent to sacramentals, the Vatican occupiers deny Dominus Iesus (John 14:6) – that only through Christ do all nations find salvation.
Betrayal of Missionary Zeal for False “Reconciliation”
The original 1925 Vatican Missionary Exhibition—where missionaries sent these artifacts—embodied the Church’s mandate to baptize all nations (Matthew 28:19). Pius XI explicitly organized it to showcase “the endeavors of the Church… to spread daily further the Kingdom of the Bridegroom” (Quas Primas, ¶2). Now, the conciliar sect perverts this evangelistic purpose into neo-pagan appeasement. “Bishop” Pierre Goudreault’s claim that this facilitates “walking alongside Indigenous peoples” echoes the condemned relativism of Vatican II’s Nostra Aetate, which Pius IX’s Syllabus of Errors (1864) preemptively anathematized: “Error 16: Man may, in the observance of any religion whatever, find the way of eternal salvation.”
Naturalism Replacing Supernatural Faith
Smith’s description of the transfer as “an act of reconciliation rooted in the grace of the Jubilee Year” exposes the conciliar sect’s naturalism. True Jubilees, like Boniface VIII’s 1300 proclamation, focused on remission of sins through penance and sacramental grace. Here, “grace” is stripped of its supernatural meaning—reduced to a sociological process. The 1907 decree Lamentabili condemns this modernist reduction: “Error 58: Truth changes with man, because it develops with him, in him, and through him.”
Silence on the Primacy of Evangelization
Nowhere does the article mention the Church’s duty to convert Indigenous peoples. The 1925 missionaries who collected these artifacts did so to demonstrate Christ’s triumph over pagan darkness—a truth echoed in Pius IX’s Quanta cura (1864): “The Church… cannot forbear to teach and declare… the truth.” By contrast, “Pope” Leo’s gesture implies pagan practices possess autonomous spiritual value—a heresy Pius XII condemned in Mediator Dei (1947): “Unholy… mixing of falsehood with truth.”
Linguistic Subversion of Catholic Vocabulary
The article’s vocabulary—”renewed relationship,” “mutual respect“—parrots UN-style multiculturalism. The 1917 Code of Canon Law (Canon 1350) mandated missionaries to extirpate pagan rites, not celebrate them. When Victoria Pruden of the Métis National Council calls reconciliation “grounded in relationships, responsibility… justice, healing, and dignity,” she articulates the very cult of man Pius X condemned in Pascendi (1907) as “the synthesis of all heresies.”
Sacrilegious Transfer of Ecclesiastical Authority
Most grievously, the conciliar sect abdicates Christ’s exclusive authority by letting Indigenous groups determine the artifacts’ final disposition. This violates Leo XIII’s Satis cognitum (1896): “The Church alone… guards the worship of God.” The notion that “national Indigenous organizations will lead the work to establish provenance” places pagan councils above the Magisterium—fulfilling Pius IX’s warning about “Error 19: The Church is not a true and perfect society, entirely free” (Syllabus).
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Indigenous artifacts from Vatican welcomed in Montreal ceremony (catholicnewsagency.com)
Date: 08.12.2025