Technological Idolatry Masks Ecclesial Apostasy in Czech 3D-Printed Church Project
EWTN News reports (January 8, 2026) that Neratovice, Czech Republic—a town founded by communists as a “church-free” zone—plans to construct the “world’s largest 3D-printed church” through its “Archdiocese of Prague.” The structure, designed by architect Zdeněk Fránek with an “ark-like” form and “green roof,” has received financial backing from donors and political support from European Parliament member Tomáš Zdechovský. Archbishop Jan Graubner blessed the foundation stone in 2024 for this “$8 million project” intended as both a parish church and “Cardinal Josef Beran Community Centre.” This technological spectacle epitomizes the conciliar sect’s abandonment of sacred tradition for modernist novelty.
Sacred Architecture Reduced to Technological Exhibition
The conciliar sect promotes this project as an “architectural innovation” that will “put Czechia back on the architectural map of the world” through 3D-printed blocks assembled “like a puzzle.” Such language betrays a materialist obsession with technological prowess utterly alien to Catholic ecclesiology. The Church has always understood sacred architecture as sacramentum mundi—a visible sign of supernatural realities—not an engineering competition. Pope Pius XI’s encyclical Quas Primas (1925) establishes that all human endeavors, including art and architecture, must submit to Christ’s social kingship: “Rulers of states therefore not refuse public veneration and obedience to the reigning Christ… if they wish to maintain their authority inviolate.” By contrast, this project elevates “energy efficiency” and “acoustic function” above the primary purpose of a church: the worthy offering of the Most Holy Sacrifice.
Naturalism Replaces Supernatural Faith in Conciliar Sect’s Building Projects
The article boasts of “rainwater retention tanks” and a “park with a pond” while remaining conspicuously silent about sacramental theology. This omission reveals the conciliar sect’s systematic naturalism condemned by Pope Pius IX in the Syllabus of Errors (1864): “All the truths of religion proceed from the innate strength of human reason” (Proposition 4). Nowhere does the report mention the need for consecrated altars, tabernacles, or confessionals—the very elements that make a building ecclesia rather than a communal center. The design’s “Noah’s Ark” symbolism becomes ironic: just as the Ark preserved life during God’s judgment, true churches preserve souls through grace. This structure, however, symbolizes only the conciliar sect’s surrender to ecological pantheism.
Financial Pragmatism Over Spiritual Necessity
“Father Peter Kováč”—a post-conciliar “priest”—openly admits the project prioritizes financial sustainability: “It is important that the project is sustainable and meaningful financially.” This utilitarian calculus directly contradicts Pope Pius X’s condemnation of modernist “vital immanence” in Lamentabili Sane (1907), which rejects the notion that “truth changes with man, because it develops with him, in him, and through him” (Proposition 58). True Catholics build churches ad maiorem Dei gloriam, not as cost-effective real estate ventures. The $8 million price tag—equivalent to approximately 200 traditional altars—will fund what amounts to a Masonic meeting hall disguised as a church.
Historical Revisionism Conceals Ongoing Apostasy
The article frames this project as a reversal of communist persecution, noting that Neratovice “has never had a church” since its 1957 founding. Yet the conciliar sect’s collaborators with communist regimes—like “Cardinal” Josef Beran, whose beatification process it promotes—cannot be celebrated as martyrs. True martyrs, such as those under Soviet persecution, refused all compromise with atheism. The Syllabus of Errors explicitly condemns those who claim “the Roman Pontiff can, and ought to, reconcile himself, and come to terms with progress, liberalism and modern civilization” (Proposition 80). By erecting this monument to technological hubris, the conciliar sect completes the communists’ work: replacing divine worship with human ingenuity.
Conclusion: A Temple to Man’s Pride
This 3D-printed structure—blessed by apostate hierarchs and designed by secular architects—embodies the conciliar sect’s essence: “the cult of man” denounced by Pope Pius XII. As the true Church teaches through Pope Pius XI: “When God and Jesus Christ were removed from laws and states… the foundations of that authority were destroyed” (Quas Primas). Until Czechs reject this neo-modernist idol and return to the immutable Roman Mass offered in true Catholic churches, they remain spiritual orphans in a technological Babylon.
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Czech town may build world’s largest 3D-printed church in historic reversal (ewtnnews.com)
Date: 08.01.2026