Uganda’s Bishops Promote Naturalism While Ignoring Christ’s Social Kingship
VaticanNews portal reports (December 26, 2025) that Uganda’s Catholic “bishops” issued a Christmas message urging “peaceful elections” amid campaign violence for January 2026 polls. “Bishop” Joseph Zziwa, head of the Uganda Episcopal “Conference,” invoked their March 2025 pastoral letter “The Truth Will Set You Free” to demand electoral fairness, security force restraint, and voter vigilance against violence and bribery. While superficially referencing Christmas’ “peace, love, reconciliation, and Emmanuel,” the message reduces the Church’s mission to a secular NGO role, exemplifying the conciliar sect’s apostasy from Catholic integralism.
Reduction of the Church’s Mission to Humanistic Activism
The “bishops” declare:
“As we draw closer to polling day, we appeal to all stakeholders to play their roles in a manner that promotes the dignity of every Ugandan, regardless of political affiliation.”
This naturalistic language ignores the Church’s divine mandate to proclaim Regnum Christi (the Kingship of Christ) over all nations. Pius XI’s Quas Primas (1925) anathematizes such secularism: “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” (§19). By omitting Christ’s sovereignty, the message implies civil authority derives from “stakeholders” rather than God – a direct rejection of Leo XIII’s Immortale Dei: “The State, constituted as it is, is clearly bound to act up to the manifold and weighty duties linking it to God, by the public profession of religion” (§6).
Omission of Christ’s Social Reign Amid Electoral Violence
While decrying security forces’ violent acts that “injure and kill voters,” the “bishops” never identify the root cause: Uganda’s constitutional rejection of Christ’s social reign. Pius IX’s Syllabus of Errors condemns as heresy the notion that “the Church ought to be separated from the State, and the State from the Church” (Error #55). The message’s vague call for “accountability through disciplinary measures or courts” substitutes human legalism for the Church’s duty to demand public reparation for sins against divine law. As the Catechism of Pope Pius X teaches: “Rulers must govern in accordance with the laws of Jesus Christ… The Church has the right to make laws for civil society when necessary for the spiritual good of souls” (The Duties of Civil Rulers).
Acceptance of Religious Liberty Heresy
The appeal to “dignity regardless of political affiliation” implicitly endorses Vatican II’s false doctrine of religious liberty condemned by St. Pius X: “The Church cannot approve of that liberty which begets contempt of the most sacred laws of God, and casts off the obedience due to the authority of the Church” (Encyclical Editae Saepe). By failing to demand Uganda’s constitutional recognition of Catholicism as the sole true religion, the “bishops” betray their duty to “instruct rulers and nations… [that] the Church of Christ is to be considered the sole Church of Christ” (Pius IX, Quanta Cura #6). Their silence on converting non-Catholic politicians constitutes cooperation with syncretism.
Naturalistic “Peace” Versus Sacramental Remedies
The message reduces Christmas peace to a social construct:
“Wishing Ugandans a Merry Christmas and a blessed 2026, the Bishops framed the season as an opportunity for renewal in the context of the Jubilee Year proclaimed by Pope Francis.”
This omits the only foundation of true peace: “He Himself is our peace” (Ephesians 2:14). Nowhere do the “bishops” prescribe the sacramental means to peace – Eucharistic adoration, public rosaries, or fasting – because the conciliar sect has abandoned ex opere operato grace. Pius XI’s Miserentissimus Redemptor condemns such naturalism: “The peace of Christ can only be attained by the divine plan… through the Church’s sacraments and pious practices” (§17). Their invocation of Bergoglio’s “Jubilee Year” – an modernist parody of Holy Years – confirms their alignment with the Antichurch.
Conclusion: Apostate Shepherds Leading Flock to Ruin
Uganda’s paramasonic “episcopal conference” exemplifies the conciliar sect’s program: reduce the Church to a humanitarian NGO, erase Christ’s social kingship, and replace sacramental grace with human activism. As Pius XII warned: “When the State does not place itself at the service of the Kingdom of God, it undermines its own authority” (Radio Message Benignitas, 1944). True Catholic shepherds would demand Uganda’s consecration to Christ the King, condemn its secular constitution, and refuse Communion to politicians supporting religious indifferentism. Until these pseudo-bishops repent, their words serve only the “mystery of iniquity” (2 Thessalonians 2:7).
Source:
Uganda’s Catholic Bishops call for peaceful elections amid rising campaign violence (vaticannews.va)
Date: 26.12.2025