Vatican News portal (January 20, 2026) reports on “Archbishop” Gabriele Caccia’s address to the UN Preparatory Committee, where he called for “effective measures to prevent war crimes” through international cooperation and dialogue. The article quotes Caccia stating that “violations of the sanctity of human life persist” and emphasizes “constructive dialogue leading to an effective and lasting response to crimes against humanity,” while citing antipope Leo XIV’s remarks about “rediscovering the meaning of words.” This bureaucratic appeal to secular mechanisms constitutes a wholesale abandonment of the Church’s divine mandate to proclaim Christ as the sole solution to human conflict.
Naturalism Masquerading as Diplomacy
The address commits the heresy of practical atheism by treating war as a purely geopolitical problem rather than a consequence of original sin. Pius XI’s encyclical Quas Primas explicitly teaches: “Nations will be reminded by the annual celebration of this feast that not only private individuals but also rulers and princes are bound to give public honor and obedience to Christ” (§31). Caccia’s silence about the Social Kingship of Christ reduces the Church’s mission to that of a humanitarian NGO, directly contradicting the Syllabus of Errors’ condemnation of those who claim “the Church ought to be separated from the State, and the State from the Church” (Proposition 55).
“International cooperation plays a key role… in supporting those States that lack the capacity to fulfil their obligations effectively.”
This statement ignores the Church’s uncompromising teaching that states forfeit legitimacy when opposing Divine Law. As the Syllabus declares: “The Roman Pontiff can, and ought to, reconcile himself, and come to terms with progress, liberalism and modern civilization” is an error (Proposition 80). The “Holy See’s” collaboration with the UN – an organization promoting abortion and gender ideology – implicates it in what Pius IX called “the synagogue of Satan” (Syllabus, Conclusion).
Theological Vacuum in “Human Rights” Discourse
Caccia’s emphasis on “fundamental human rights” and “victim dignity” employs a modernist vocabulary utterly divorced from Catholic soteriology. The term “sanctity of human life” rings hollow when uttered by representatives of an institution that refuses to condemn the global genocide of unborn children. True Catholic doctrine recognizes no “rights” divorced from man’s telos toward God, as the Syllabus condemns those who place “human reason… as the sole arbiter of truth and falsehood” (Proposition 3).
The article’s focus on “ethnic and religious minorities” suffering persecution carefully avoids mentioning Christians persecuted for rejecting ecuмenical apostasy. This omission aligns with the conciliar sect’s ongoing betrayal of confessors like Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre, whom true Catholics recognize as a defender of integrae fidei. By reducing persecution to a matter of identity politics rather than confessio fidei, the address tacitly endorses religious indifferentism condemned by Pius IX: “Good hope at least is to be entertained of the eternal salvation of all those who are not at all in the true Church of Christ” is false (Proposition 17).
Erasure of the Church’s Prophetic Office
Not once does the text reference the ex opere operato efficacy of the Sacraments or the necessity of grace to heal humanity’s wounds. The complete absence of phrases like “conversion,” “penance,” or “Reign of Christ” exposes the address as a purely naturalistic document. Contrast this with Pius XII’s teaching in Mystici Corporis: “For not every sin, however grave it may be, is such as of its own nature to sever a man from the Body of the Church, as does schism or heresy or apostasy.” The conciliar sect’s diplomats have become what St. Pius X warned against in Pascendi – modernists who “make experience the very foundation of faith.”
The invocation of antipope Leo XIV’s call to “rediscover the meaning of words” thinly veils the postmodern deconstruction of dogma. When Bergoglio’s successor speaks of dialogue requiring “agreement on words,” he continues the modernist project exposed in St. Pius X’s Lamentabili, which condemned the proposition that “Revelation could not have been other than man’s consciousness of his relation to God” (Proposition 20). This epistemological skepticism fuels the address’s pusillanimous approach to “international frameworks” rather than boldly proclaiming the Unam Sanctam doctrine that “every human creature [must] be subject to the Roman Pontiff” (Boniface VIII).
The Vatican News article exemplifies how the conciliar sect has become what Cardinal Giuseppe Siri termed “an NGO baptized with Christian terminology.” Until the usurpers in Rome repent and restore the lex orandi by abrogating the Novus Ordo Missae, their diplomatic maneuvers remain what St. Augustine called ruinae inanes – empty ruins devoid of sacramental power. True Catholics recognize only one solution to humanity’s ills: the public reign of Christ the King through the restoration of the Catholic monarchy and the Social Reign of the Sacred Heart.
Source:
Holy See: 'We need effective measures to prevent war crimes' (vaticannews.va)
Date: 20.01.2026