Conciliar Sect’s Therapeutic Gospel Replaces Sacramental Order with Psychology
The Vatican News portal (30 January 2026) reports on a Memorandum of Understanding between the Zimbabwe Catholic Bishops’ Conference (ZCBC) and the Catholic University of Zimbabwe (CUZ) to train teachers in “psycho-spiritual therapy and counselling.” The agreement, signed by Fr. Tryvis Moyo (ZCBC Secretary General) and Prof. Ben Nyambo (CUZ Vice-Chancellor), claims to address “social, emotional and spiritual challenges” through secular therapeutic methods while establishing “Psycho-Spiritual Social Support Centres” nationwide. This initiative epitomizes the conciliar sect’s systematic replacement of sacramental grace with naturalistic psychology.
Subordination of Supernatural Mission to Therapeutic Humanism
The article frames teachers as “mentors, counsellors and guardians of learners’ holistic wellbeing,” with Prof. Nyambo asserting their role extends beyond academic instruction to “nurture intellectual, emotional, moral and spiritual development.” This language erases the distinction between natural and supernatural ends, reducing the Church’s mission to a social services agency. Pius XI’s encyclical Quas Primas (1925) condemns such naturalism, declaring: “The Church cannot contribute effectively to the renewal of society unless Christ’s authority over men is recognized” (§1). By omitting grace, sacraments, and the Four Last Things, the programme denies the Church’s divine mandate to save souls through supernatural means.
Sr. Theresa Nyadombo’s statement that teachers will become “healed healers” through “emotional intelligence” training dangerously implies psychological techniques substitute for sacramental confession and sanctifying grace. The Council of Trent (Session XIV, Chapter 4) infallibly teaches: “The effect of the sacrament of Penance is reconciliation with God, which brings peace and serenity to the conscience, followed by deep consolation”. Modernist terminology like “psycho-spiritual therapy” camouflages the abandonment of this doctrine.
Structural Apostasy Masquerading as Collaboration
Fr. Moyo’s claim that “safeguarding is something the Conference takes very seriously” rings hollow when paired with the programme’s admission that teachers require psychological healing due to “emotional and social challenges.” This tacitly acknowledges that the conciliar sect’s clergy have failed to administer the medicine of immortality—the sacraments—leaving educators spiritually destitute. Setting up “free counselling services” through CUZ’s “Psycho-Spiritual Social Support Centre” institutionalizes the heresy that man’s existential crises can be resolved through dialogue rather than divine intervention.
The plan to replicate these centres across Zimbabwe under the “Archdiocese of Harare” reveals the programme’s true purpose: consolidating the conciliar sect’s infrastructure for propagating psychological self-worship. St. Pius X’s encyclical Pascendi Dominici Gregis (1907) §26 identifies this inversion: “The Modernists place the foundation of religious philosophy in that doctrine which is commonly called Agnosticism, according to which human reason is confined entirely within the field of phenomena.” By housing the programme in CUZ’s “Faculty of Theology, Ethics, Religious Studies and Philosophy,” the conciliar sect sacrilegiously equates Freudian analysis with Thomistic theology.
Silence Speaks Louder Than Modernist Rhetoric
Nowhere does the article mention the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass, the intercession of saints, or the necessity of avoiding sin—the very pillars of Catholic education prior to the conciliar revolution. Pius XI’s encyclical Divini Illius Magistri (1929) §80 clarifies: “Education belongs pre-eminently to the Church, by reason of a double title: the supernatural fatherhood and the mission to teach.” The ZCBC-CUZ programme replaces this supernatural fatherhood with a grotesque parody: teachers trained as therapists dispensing placebo “healing” devoid of absolution or Eucharistic sustenance.
The article’s final appeal for donations to “support us in bringing the Pope’s words into every home” inadvertently confesses the conciliar sect’s bankruptcy. When Bergoglio (“Pope” Leo XIV) reduces the Gospel to sentimental therapy, the faithful must recall Pius IX’s Syllabus of Errors (1864), which condemns the proposition that “the Roman Pontiff can, and ought to, reconcile himself, and come to terms with progress, liberalism and modern civilization” (Proposition 80). True Catholic education forms souls for eternity—not “safe environments” for temporal complacency.
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ZCBC and Catholic University of Zimbabwe partner for Psycho-Spiritual Therapy Training (vaticannews.va)
Date: 30.01.2026