COP30’s Pagan Pantheism Masquerading as Climate Concern
The VaticanNews portal (November 10, 2025) reports on the United Nations COP30 conference in Belém, Brazil, framing the Amazon rainforest as “the heartbeat of our planet” and promoting indigenous animism alongside environmental activism. The article describes Belém’s “contrasting harmony” between urban life and nature, glorifies indigenous spirituality as ecological wisdom, and quotes “Cardinal” Pietro Parolin citing “Pope” Leo XIV’s call to “care for creation” as a path to peace. It presents climate change as a moral issue requiring global “solidarity,” while urging wealthier nations to fund developing countries’ environmental initiatives. The piece culminates in a pseudo-sacramental vision where caring for the planet becomes inseparable from human relationships, devoid of any reference to the Kingship of Christ or supernatural order.
Naturalism Displacing Supernatural Faith
The article reduces creation to a self-sustaining ecosystem, stating the Amazon “is the heartbeat of our planet”—a pantheistic concept condemned by Pius IX’s Syllabus of Errors (1864): “God is identical with the nature of things… is subject to changes” (Error 1). This naturalism ignores St. Paul’s teaching that “the creature itself also shall be delivered from the bondage of corruption into the glorious liberty of the children of God” (Romans 8:21). By claiming life in Belém “moves in time with nature,” the report substitutes cyclical pagan fatalism for the Christian understanding of tempus ordinatum (ordered time) directed toward eternity.
Pius XI’s encyclical Quas Primas (1925) establishes the only legitimate framework for ecological discourse: “The empire of our Redeemer embraces all men… so that most truly the entire human race is subject to the authority of Jesus Christ.” The article’s silence about Christ’s dominion over creation constitutes what St. Pius X called in Lamentabili Sane (1907) the “false striving for novelty” (Proposition 57) that replaces divine revelation with natural philosophy.
Indigenous Animism as Ecological Model
The portal elevates Amazonian tribes to quasi-redemptive figures, calling them “guardians” whose “coexistence” with nature represents “the only way of being.” This romantic primitivism directly contradicts the Church’s mission to “teach all nations” (Matthew 28:19). The 400 indigenous groups mentioned practice religions that Pius IX condemned as “mythical inventions” (Syllabus, Error 7). Their presence at COP30 as moral authorities illustrates the conciliar sect’s apostasy, implementing the condemned error that “every man is free to embrace and profess that religion which… he shall consider true” (Syllabus, Error 15).
When the text describes indigenous people as “those living close to the earth,” it echoes Rousseau’s heresy that uncorrupted human nature possesses innate wisdom—a notion St. Pius X anathematized as the modernist claim that “revelation was merely man’s self-awareness of his relationship to God” (Lamentabili, Proposition 20).
Climate Syncretism as False Religion
The COP30 conference becomes a global pseudo-liturgy where delegates “negotiate how to accelerate emissions cuts” as if performing sacerdotal rites. Cardinal Parolin’s statement—“caring for the planet is inseparable from caring for one another”—inverts the hierarchy of charity, placing creation above the Creator. True Catholic teaching, as expressed in Quas Primas, demands that “rulers of states… fulfill this duty [to] honor Christ the King” so that “unheard-of blessings would flow upon the whole society.”
The article’s climax—a photo of the Igarapé Água Preta River captioned “Thank you for reading”—completes this pantheistic ritual, reducing readers to nature-worshippers. This fulfills Pius IX’s warning against those who “place the sanctity of nature… above the true sanctity of divine law” (Syllabus, Error 58).
Laudato si’ as Modernist Manifesto
The citation of Bergoglio’s encyclical Laudato si’ confirms the theological bankruptcy of COP30’s agenda. Its claim that “humanity’s vocation is not to dominate the earth” perverts Genesis 1:28 (“subdue the earth”), denying man’s God-given dominion. St. Pius X’s condemnation resonates here: “The dogmas… are not truths of divine origin but… interpretations of religious facts” (Lamentabili, Proposition 22). Bergoglio’s document—quoted as authoritative—embodies the condemned modernist synthesis where “contemporary Catholicism cannot be reconciled with true knowledge without transforming it into… liberal Protestantism” (Lamentabili, Proposition 65).
False Moral Responsibility
The article’s moral framework—“justice and solidarity” demanding wealth redistribution—ignores the regnum sociale Christi (social kingship of Christ). Pius XI warned in Quas Primas that societies rejecting divine authority “contribute to the destruction of people and nations distant from God.” True ecological responsibility flows from adherence to the divine law, not UN climate accords. By omitting the necessity of nations submitting to Christ the King, the portal promotes the condemned error that “the principal articles of the Apostles’ Creed did not have the same meaning for the first Christians as they do for contemporary Christians” (Lamentabili, Proposition 62).
Source:
COP30: Ode to the Amazon (vaticannews.va)
Date: 10.11.2025