Zambian Graduation Ceremony Exposes Modernist Subversion of Religious Life
The Vatican News portal reports on a graduation ceremony at Zambia’s Kalundu International Study Centre where 16 religious sisters from various African countries completed a leadership and formation program. The event featured “Apostolic Nuncio” Gian Luca Perici and ZAS President Sister Valeria Kabaso, who urged graduates to become “beacons of hope” equipped for “intercultural and digital contexts.” Centre Director Sister Mishael Manianga claimed the nuncio’s presence demonstrated “Pope Leo XIV’s” closeness to religious women, while administrator Sister Felistus Nyirongo described the center’s mission as forming “integrated, prophetic women religious leaders.” This spectacle epitomizes the conciliar sect’s systematic destruction of authentic religious life through naturalistic formation programs divorced from Catholic asceticism.
Naturalism Masquerading as Religious Formation
The program’s focus on producing sisters “emotionally intelligent, socially aware, and capable of leading in intercultural and digital contexts” constitutes blatant substitution of worldly competencies for supernatural virtues. Sister Kabaso’s emphasis on “holistic formation” prioritizing social skills over ascetic discipline inverts the hierarchy of values defined by centuries of Catholic teaching.
“Recent models of formation focus on integrating the human, spiritual, intellectual, and pastoral dimensions.”
This statement reveals the anthropocentric orientation (man-centered focus) of post-conciliar formation, condemned by Pope Pius X in Pascendi Dominici Gregis as characteristic of Modernism: “They place the foundation of religious philosophy in that doctrine which is commonly called Immanence” (Pius X, 1907). True religious formation, as outlined in Sacra Virginitas, requires “flight from the world, contempt of earthly goods, and hatred of the flesh” (Pius XII, 1954), not adaptation to digital modernity.
Counterfeit Hierarchy Legitimizes Apostasy
The presence of “Apostolic Nuncio” Perici constitutes sacramental theater validating the conciliar sect’s parallel ecclesial structure. His role as representative of antipope “Leo XIV” completes the diabolical parody, with Sister Manianga’s statement about feeling “the support and closeness of Pope Leo XIV” invoking communicatio in sacris (sharing in sacred things) with heretical pseudo-authorities. The 1917 Code of Canon Law explicitly forbids such interaction: “It is illicit for the faithful to assist actively or take part in the sacred rites of non-Catholics” (Canon 1258).
The center’s mission to form “prophetic women religious leaders” constitutes feminist rebellion against St. Paul’s injunction: “Let women keep silence in the churches” (1 Corinthians 14:34). By training sisters as “formators,” the program usurps the male hierarchical role reserved to priests and bishops, violating Ordinatio Sacerdotalis‘s definitive teaching that “the Church has no authority whatsoever to confer priestly ordination on women” (John Paul II, 1994 – though cited here only to demonstrate doctrinal consistency).
The Silent Apostasy of Omissions
Conspicuously absent from the report are any references to:
- The primary duty of religious: sanctification through prayer and penance
- Devotion to the Most Holy Sacrifice of the Mass
- Fidelity to the traditional vows of poverty, chastity and obedience
- The missionary mandate to convert non-Catholics
This systematic silence about supernatural realities exposes the program’s fundamentally naturalistic orientation. While boasting of serving “numerous African countries,” the article never mentions the salvation of souls – the raison d’être of missionary activity according to Rerum Ecclesiae: “The Church’s sole purpose is that the Kingdom of Our Lord Jesus Christ may be established in all the world” (Pius XI, 1926).
Ecumenical Rot in African Soil
The pan-African composition of participants (from Ethiopia to Namibia) facilitates dissemination of conciliar errors across the continent. By gathering sisters from nations with Orthodox and Animist majorities without demanding their conversion, the program implements the heretical ecumenism condemned in Mortalium Animos: “The union of Christians can only be promoted by promoting the return to the one true Church of Christ of those who are separated from it” (Pius XI, 1928). The center’s inter-cultural focus substitutes relativistic dialogue for the missionary imperative, violating Christ’s command: “Going therefore, teach ye all nations” (Matthew 28:19).
Digital Idolatry Replaces Spiritual Combat
The obsession with preparing sisters for “digital contexts” constitutes idolatrous worship of technological modernity. Nowhere does the formation program reference the Spiritual Exercises of St. Ignatius, the writings of St. John of the Cross, or the Regula of St. Benedict – the true foundations of religious life. Instead, sisters are indoctrinated in the conciliar sect’s new gospel of “social awareness,” condemned by Pope Pius IX in the Syllabus of Errors: “The Church ought to be separated from the State, and the State from the Church” (Error #55).
The graduation ceremony’s lavish publicity – complete with photo opportunities – violates the cloistered humility exemplified by St. Thérèse of Lisieux: “Without love, deeds, even the most brilliant, count as nothing.” True religious formation produces saints like St. Catherine of Siena, who converted popes through prayer and suffering, not “leaders” trained in emotional intelligence jargon.
Source:
Zambia: Kalundu International Study Centre holds graduation and unites African religious women (vaticannews.va)
Date: 10.11.2025