Ethiopian Bishops’ Synodality Message Promotes Modernist Subversion of Catholic Faith
The Catholic News Agency reports that Ethiopia’s conciliar sect “bishops” issued a December 2025 message advocating synodality as solution to national crises. Circulated for reading at parish Masses, this text invokes “do not be afraid” while promoting concepts condemned by Catholic tradition. The message exemplifies how conciliar structures substitute naturalism for supernatural faith.
Naturalization of the Church’s Mission
The Ethiopian “bishops” reduce the Church’s divine mission to social activism, declaring: “We are called to be instruments of peace, to advocate for the voiceless, and to work tirelessly for reconciliation.” This echoes the conciliar heresy articulated in Gaudium et Spes (1965), which subordinated spiritual aims to worldly concerns. Pius XI’s Quas Primas (1925) explicitly condemned such inversion, teaching: “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.” The message’s exclusive focus on socio-economic issues constitutes apostasy from the Church’s primary duty: the sanctification of souls through propagation of Christ’s Kingship.
Uncritical Adoption of Conciliar Heresies
The document incorporates multiple condemned propositions:
“We see the features of a synodal, missionary, and merciful Church shining in full light in the Virgin Mary… who listens, prays, meditates, dialogues, accompanies, discerns, decides, and acts.”
This blasphemous parallel between Our Lady and the conciliar “synodal church” inverts true Mariology. The Blessed Virgin exemplifies perfect obedience to divine authority, not democratic processes. St. Pius X’s Lamentabili Sane (1907) condemned similar attempts to redefine the Church’s constitution: “The organic constitution of the Church is not immutable; but Christian society, like human society, is subject to perpetual evolution” (Proposition 53).
False Ecumenism and Religious Indifferentism
The message promotes dialogue with “all people of goodwill” while demanding “respect for the other’s point of view.” This violates Pius XI’s condemnation in Mortalium Animos (1928): “This being so, it is clear that the Apostolic See cannot on any terms take part in their assemblies, nor is it anyway lawful for Catholics to give to such enterprises their encouragement or support.” The document’s silence about conversion of non-Catholics constitutes implicit denial of extra Ecclesiam nulla salus, defined infallibly at the Fourth Lateran Council (1215).
Theological Omissions Reveal Modernist Foundation
Nowhere does the document mention:
- The Social Kingship of Christ
- The propitiatory Sacrifice of the Mass
- The necessity of sacramental confession
- Eternal punishment for unrepentant sinners
This systematic omission of supernatural realities proves the message’s naturalistic foundation. As Pius IX’s Syllabus of Errors (1864) declared: “The Church ought to be separated from the State, and the State from the Church” (Proposition 55). The “bishops” treat the Church as NGO rather than Christ’s mystical body.
“Do Not Be Afraid” Without Conversion
The repeated injunction “do not be afraid” lacks necessary context: repentance. Christ’s words to the shepherds (Lk 2:10) accompany the command to seek the newborn King. The message divorces consolation from conversion, embodying the condemned proposition that “Faith, as assent of the mind, is ultimately based on a sum of probabilities” (Lamentabili Sane, Proposition 25). True courage comes through sanctifying grace, not psychosocial encouragement.
Marian Distortion for Conciliar Agenda
The blasphemous claim that “the action of the Church in the world can be likened to an extension of Mary’s concern” perverts Our Lady’s role. Mary’s fiat exemplifies submission to divine authority, not the conciliar sect’s anthropocentric activism. St. Louis de Montfort’s True Devotion clarifies: “The more the Holy Spirit finds Mary, His dear and inseparable spouse, in a soul, the more active and mighty He becomes in producing Jesus Christ in that soul.”
Conclusion: Apostasy Institutionalized
This document proves the conciliar sect’s complete rupture with Catholic tradition. By embracing synodality while ignoring doctrinal truth, the Ethiopian “bishops” fulfill Pius X’s warning: “Modernists substitute for the divine authority an authority governed by… the conscience of the individual” (Pascendi Dominici Gregis, 33). True shepherds would call Ethiopians to repentance and allegiance to Christ the King, not sociological platitudes.
Source:
‘Do not be afraid’: Ethiopia’s bishops speak of courage in synodality message (catholicnewsagency.com)
Date: 05.01.2026