Vatican Diplomacy Compromises Catholic Doctrine in Denmark
EWTN News reports on Cardinal Pietro Parolin’s January 2026 visit to Denmark commemorating the 12th centenary of St. Ansgar’s mission. The article details his meetings with Danish Foreign Minister Lars Løkke Rasmussen and King Frederik X, ecumenical services at Lutheran Vor Frue Domkirke, and Mass at St. Ansgar Catholic Cathedral. Parolin emphasized “concrete service and shared responsibility” for Christian unity, describing the Church as a “living communion in diversity.” The visit occurred amid geopolitical tensions over U.S. claims on Greenland, Denmark’s autonomous territory. The Vatican secretary of state framed St. Ansgar’s legacy as a response to modern “forms of slavery” while avoiding any call for conversion of Lutherans or Danish society.
Ecumenical Apostasy Masquerading as “Christian Unity”
The article celebrates Parolin’s participation in Lutheran worship services, ignoring the Church’s eternal condemnation of communicatio in sacris (communication in sacred things). Canon 1258 of the 1917 Code explicitly forbids Catholics from actively participating in non-Catholic religious ceremonies. Pius XI’s Mortalium Animos (1928) declares: “The Apostolic See cannot on any terms take part in their assemblies, nor is it anyway lawful for Catholics either to support or to work for such enterprises” (§8). Parolin’s joint prayer service with Lutherans—who deny Transubstantiation, reject Papal authority, and uphold justification by faith alone—constitutes scandalous indifferentism. The cardinal’s claim that unity is a “living communion in diversity” directly contradicts the dogma Extra Ecclesiam Nulla Salus and Pius IX’s condemnation in the Syllabus of Errors: “[It is an error to say] Protestants are merely in the same Church in a different state” (Prop. 18).
Political Subservience Replaces Christ’s Social Kingship
Parolin’s diplomatic meetings with Danish secular authorities epitomize the post-conciliar betrayal of Quas Primas. Pius XI’s encyclical commanded rulers to “publicly venerate and obey the reigning Christ” or risk losing legitimacy. Instead of demanding Denmark’s submission to the Catholic Faith—considering Lutheranism has been its state heresy since 1536—Parolin reduced the Church to a humanitarian NGO. His focus on “economic, cultural, and spiritual slavery” echoes the Marxist-inflected language of Bergoglio’s Evangelii Gaudium, abandoning St. Ansgar’s actual mission: to overthrow pagan worship and establish Catholic monarchies. The Greenland controversy is framed through worldly geopolitics, with no mention of the territory’s spiritual desolation under Danish Protestant rule.
Distortion of St. Ansgar’s Legacy
“It was the ninth century when the Benedictine monk arrived in northern Europe for a mission founded not on ‘strategies or success, but on fidelity to Jesus’”
This sanitized portrayal omits St. Ansgar’s militant Catholicism. The Vita Ansgarii records how he destroyed pagan temples in Sweden and demanded King Horik II outlaw blasphemy. Parolin’s claim that Ansgar sought no “success” is theological malpractice. The saint explicitly worked to convert nations, writing: “My greatest joy is to preach the Gospel where Christ has not been named”. The article’s assertion that the Church grows through “transformed hearts” rather than “numbers” defies Matthew 28:19 and Pope Boniface VIII’s Unam Sanctam: “It is necessary for salvation that every human creature be subject to the Roman Pontiff”.
Naturalism Replaces Supernatural Faith
Nowhere does Parolin mention grace, the Sacraments, or Heaven—the very foundations of Ansgar’s mission. His homily reduces Christianity to social work, stating Denmark’s Catholic community contributes through “service, solidarity, and respect for human dignity.” This echoes the Modernist heresy condemned in Pius X’s Lamentabili: “Revelation was merely man’s self-awareness of his relationship to God” (Prop. 20). The cardinal’s visits to Carmelite and Benedictine monasteries serve as liturgical window-dressing while promoting the conciliar sect’s false ecumenism. True monasticism, as defined by St. Benedict, exists to “prefer nothing to Christ” (Rule, Ch. 72)—not to dialogue with error.
Conclusion: Apostolic Mission Betrayed
This diplomatic theater exposes the conciliar sect’s total inversion of Catholic priorities. St. Ansgar faced Viking torturers to plant the Cross in Scandinavia; his alleged successors court Lutheran heretics and socialist politicians. The article’s closing reference to Denmark’s “Christian heritage”—a majority-Lutheran nation where only 3% attend Sunday services—mocks the saint’s sacrifices. As Pope Leo XIII warned in Satis Cognitum (1896): “The practice of the Church has always been the same… to pursue with the utmost rigor those who erred from the Faith.” Parolin’s Denmark visit embodies everything Ansgar fought against: syncretism, political servility, and the abandonment of souls to eternal peril.
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Cardinal Parolin meets with Danish foreign minister, king amid Greenland controversy (ewtnnews.com)
Date: 26.01.2026