The Bankruptcy of Naturalistic “Dialogue” in Cameroon’s Crisis
Portal Vatican News (November 4, 2025) reports on statements by “Archbishop” Andrew Nkea Fuanya of Bamenda regarding Cameroon’s post-election turmoil and the Anglophone crisis. The article frames “dialogue” between government and opposition as the solution while ignoring the supernatural mission of the Church, exemplifying the conciliar sect’s surrender to naturalism.
Naturalism Masquerading as Peacebuilding
The “archbishop” declares:
“My call to all Cameroonians is that they should hold their peace, hold their anger, and manifest in different ways, in legal ways… The government should initiate a dialogue with the opposition.”
This reduces the Church’s role to that of a secular NGO, promoting pax terrae (earthly peace) while utterly neglecting pax Christi in regno Christi (the peace of Christ in the Kingdom of Christ). Pius XI’s encyclical Quas Primas (1925) unequivocally teaches: “Nations will be happy and peaceful only when they recognize that the Church holds from God Himself the right to teach mankind, to make laws, to govern peoples” (§18). By omitting Christ’s Kingship, Nkea’s “dialogue” echoes the condemned errors of the Syllabus (1864), which rejected the Church’s divine right to govern societies (Errors #19-24, 39-55).
Betrayal of Catholic Social Doctrine
The article’s description of the Anglophone crisis reveals a complete abandonment of Thomistic principles on just authority. Nkea states:
“The Cameroonian soldiers… are committing their own crimes against the people,”
yet he fails to condemn the regime’s illegitimacy according to Quas Primas §25: “Rulers must govern as ministers of God, who has been appointed by Him to the rule of the state.” When soldiers massacre civilians, the Church’s duty is not “dialogue” but anathema sit against tyrannicide, as Pius IX taught in Quanta Cura (1864): “Kings and princes are not exempt from the jurisdiction of the Church” (condemning Error #54).
Silence as Apostasy
Most damning is the total absence of references to Cameroon’s spiritual collapse. No mention of:
– Sacrilegious “communions” administered by conciliar “priests” to politicians who murder citizens
– The 92-year-old dictator’s eighth term violating the natural law principle of bonum commune (common good)
– The Church’s duty to withhold sacraments from unrepentant tyrants (Council of Trent, Session XIV, Chapter 4)
Instead, we find bureaucratic platitudes:
“We are getting into the ninth year of that crisis. And not much is happening to resolve the root cause.”
The true root cause—Cameroon’s rejection of Social Reign of Christ the King—remains unaddressed, proving the conciliar sect’s complicity in what Pius X called “the suicide of altering the Faith” (Pascendi Dominici Gregis, 1907).
Conclusion: When “Hope” Becomes Heresy
The article’s closing reference to the “Jubilee of Hope” pilgrimage epitomizes Modernist deception. True hope lies not in human “dialogue” but in Dominus Iesus (Acts 4:12). As St. Pius X warned in Lamentabili Sane (1907), such naturalism reduces Christianity to “a certain religious movement” (condemned Proposition #59). Until Cameroon’s pseudo-hierarchy proclaims with Pius XI that “Christ reigns in the State no less than in the Church” (Quas Primas §31), their “hope” remains what St. Paul called “a shipwreck of the faith” (1 Timothy 1:19).
Source:
Cameroon: Genuine dialogue is the only way forward, says Archbishop Nkea (vaticannews.va)
Article date: 04.11.2025