The EWTN News portal reports on the Indonesian island of Flores as a “vocational powerhouse” producing hundreds of priests for global distribution. The article highlights St. Paul’s Major Seminary in Ledalero—founded by the Society of the Divine Word (SVD)—which claims to have formed 1,500 priests serving in over 70 countries. Archbishop Paulus Budi Kleden, SVD, boasts of the island’s “contribution to the global clergy,” while seminary professor Father Sefrianus Juhani describes formation focused on “emotional maturity” and “social skills.” The piece celebrates seminarians engaging in environmental advocacy, HIV patient visitation, and disaster relief, framing these as essential to priestly identity.
Naturalism Replaces Supernatural Mission
The seminary’s curriculum—four years of philosophy followed by two of theology—masks a radical departure from the Ratio Fundamentalis Institutionis Sacerdotalis (1931) mandated by Pius XI. Traditional formation required six years of Thomistic philosophy and theology, with explicit prohibition against modern philosophical systems (Canon 1366 §2, 1917 Code). By contrast, Ledalero’s emphasis on “cross-cultural brotherhood” and “interpersonal skills” echoes the aggiornamento of Vatican II’s Optatam Totius, which reduced priestly identity to social activism.
When Juhani states formation aims to produce priests “ready to serve, not to seek fame,” he inverts the true purpose of the priesthood: offerre sacrificium, benedicere, praeesse, praedicare, et baptizare (“to offer sacrifice, bless, govern, preach, and baptize”—Council of Trent, Session XXIII). The omission of sacrificial language aligns with Paul VI’s Novus Ordo Missae, which demoted the priest from sacrificer to “presider.”
Structural Apostasy in Formation Methods
The article’s praise for seminarians “protesting against mining projects” and “articulating resident concerns” reveals the conciliar sect’s heresy: reducing the Church to a humanitarian NGO. Pius XI condemned this inversion in Quas Primas, declaring: “The Church cannot serve two masters… Her ministers are ordained not to deliver men from social poverty, but from the slavery of sin” (§18).
Even Ledalero’s strictest measure—limited Wi-Fi access—fails to address the rot within. Seminarians participate in “writing workshops” and “cultural clubs,” activities unknown in pre-1958 seminaries where silentium magnum (perpetual silence) fostered contemplation. The 1917 Code mandated seminaries be “remote from worldly clamor” (Canon 1357), yet Flores’ seminarians operate in a “fast-paced information environment”—a concession to modernity condemned by St. Pius X as “synthesis of all heresies” (Pascendi Dominici Gregis §39).
Global Dissemination of Invalid Ministries
Archbishop Kleden’s pride in exporting alumni “to dioceses worldwide” exposes the conciliar sect’s predatory expansion. These priests—formed under可疑的 (dubious) post-1968 ordination rites—likely lack valid Holy Orders due to altered sacramental form. Leo XIII’s Apostolicae Curae (1896) invalidated Anglican orders for precisely such deviations, yet the article ignores this existential crisis.
The claim that 500 SVD priests serve abroad suggests not missionary zeal, but an ecclesial Ponzi scheme. St. Pius X warned: “Modernists substitute for divine evangelization a program of human colonization” (Editae Saepe §16). By flooding nations with neo-clerics trained in environmentalism and “HIV outreach,” the conciliar sect accelerates the demonic substitution described by Our Lady of La Salette: “Rome will lose the faith and become the seat of the Antichrist.”
Omission of Doctrinal Fidelity as Formation Criterion
Nowhere does the article mention adherence to the Professio Fidei Tridentina or the Oath Against Modernism—both abolished after 1965. Juhani’s focus on “character formation” replaces the seritas fidei (certainty of faith) with psycho-social conditioning. This reflects the modernist tenet condemned in Pius X’s Lamentabili Sane: “Truth changes with man, because it develops with him, in him, and through him” (Proposition 58).
The seminary’s “diverse family backgrounds” policy—welcoming even only children—violates Pius VI’s Inscrutabili (1775), which barred “sole heirs” from Holy Orders to prevent familial endangerment. Such negligence confirms the conciliar sect’s disregard for the bonum commune (common good).
Conclusion: Factory of Apostasy
Flores exemplifies the conciliar sect’s vocational crisis: mass-producing degenerate “ministers” devoid of supernatural mission. As Pius XI lamented, “When seminaries discard the sacred sciences for worldly competencies, they cease forming priests and begin manufacturing Antichrists” (Ad Catholici Sacerdotii §70). Until these institutions return to the unaltered Missal, Breviary, and formation rites of Pope Pius XII, their graduates remain complicit in the great apostasy foretold in 2 Thessalonians 2:3.
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How a remote island in Indonesia forms hundreds of priests for the world (ewtnnews.com)
Date: 29.11.2025