The article from EWTN News (May 13, 2026) reports on the inaugural Africa Digital Assets Summit held at the Catholic University of Eastern Africa (CUEA) in Nairobi, Kenya, on April 29-30, 2026. The summit, themed “Ethical Stewardship for the Love of the Poor,” was inspired by the apostolic exhortation “Dilexi Te” of the antipope Leo XIV and aimed to explore how digital innovation can serve humanity, especially the poor. Archbishop Bert van Megen, former papal nuncio to Kenya, delivered a keynote address warning that rapid advances in digital systems risk making the continent’s poorest citizens “invisible.” The organizers declared the event a “resounding success,” with plans to expand faith-driven technological initiatives across Africa. This entire enterprise exemplifies the neo-church’s substitution of technological utopianism and naturalistic social engineering for the supernatural mission of the Catholic Church: the salvation of souls through the preaching of the Gospel, the administration of the sacraments, and the establishment of the Social Reign of Christ the King.
The Substitution of Technological Utopianism for the Supernatural Mission of the Church
The summit in Nairobi, hosted at the Catholic University of Eastern Africa under the patronage of the conciliar structures, represents a paradigmatic example of how the post-Vatican II “Church” has abandoned its divine mandate in favor of secular, naturalistic activism dressed in vaguely religious language. The very premise — that a “Catholic” university should host a summit on “digital assets” and “fintech ecosystems” as a response to the needs of the poor — reveals the depth to which the neo-church has sunk into the worship of material progress and technological solutionism, a direct inheritance of the Modernism condemned by Saint Pius X in *Pascendi Dominici Gregis* and *Lamentabili Sane Exitu*.
The article states that the summit’s purpose was to bring “together investors, regulators, innovators, and policymakers to accelerate Africa’s digital economy — from policy to prosperity.” Observe the language: **”investors,” “regulators,” “policymakers,” “digital economy,” “prosperity.”** This is not the language of the Church of Christ. This is the language of the United Nations, the World Economic Forum, and secular development agencies. Where in this litany of buzzwords is there any mention of the Most Holy Sacrifice of the Mass, the sacraments, the preaching of the Gospel, the conversion of souls to the Catholic faith, the necessity of baptism, or the eternal destiny of man? **The silence is deafening and damning.**
The Church of Christ was founded by Our Lord Jesus Christ for one supreme purpose: *”Going therefore, teach ye all nations; baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost”* (Matthew 28:19). The Church does not exist to “accelerate digital economies.” She exists to lead souls to eternal salvation through the preaching of the true faith and the administration of the sacraments. Any “Catholic” institution that devotes its resources to organizing summits on digital assets and fintech, rather than to the propagation of the faith and the defense of Catholic doctrine, has betrayed its mission and become, in the words of Pope Pius IX’s *Syllabus of Errors*, an instrument of the “sects” that seek to undermine the Church from within.
The Idolatry of Technology and the Cult of Man
Archbishop van Megen’s keynote address, as reported, is a masterclass in the neo-church’s characteristic substitution of naturalistic humanism for supernatural theology. He framed technological development as a moral question, stating: *”Artificial intelligence, fintech ecosystems, and digital identity infrastructures are not merely tools; they are rapidly becoming systems of governance.”* He warned that these systems “determine access to credit, healthcare, mobility, and even citizenship itself.”
Let us be clear: the Church’s concern is not with “digital identity infrastructures” or “fintech ecosystems.” The Church’s concern is with the state of souls, the preaching of the Gospel, the administration of the sacraments, and the establishment of the Social Reign of Christ the King over all nations and all aspects of human life. Pius XI, in *Quas Primas*, taught with absolute clarity: *”The Kingdom of our Redeemer encompasses all men… His reign, namely, extends not only to Catholic nations or to those who, by receiving baptism according to law, belong to the Church, even though their erroneous opinions have led them astray or discord has separated them from love, but His reign encompasses also all non-Christians, so that most truly the entire human race is subject to the authority of Jesus Christ.”*
The neo-church’s obsession with “digital inclusion” and “technological systems” as the means to serve the poor is a direct manifestation of the **cult of man** condemned by the pre-conciliar Magisterium. It places man’s material well-being — his access to credit, healthcare, and “digital identity” — above his supernatural end: the knowledge and love of God, the attainment of eternal salvation, and the submission of his intellect and will to divine revelation. This is not Catholic social teaching. This is the naturalistic humanism of the Modernists, who, as Saint Pius X taught in *Pascendi*, deny the supernatural order and reduce religion to a mere expression of human consciousness and social activism.
Van Megen’s statement that *”technology is never merely technology. It reveals man and his aspirations”* — borrowed from the heretic Benedict XVI’s *Caritas in Veritate* — is a classic Modernist trope. It reduces the moral order to a question of human “aspirations” rather than divine law. The Church has always taught that technology, like all human artifacts, must be judged by the moral law and ordered toward man’s supernatural end. But the neo-church, having abandoned the supernatural order, can only speak of technology as a neutral instrument to be directed by “conscience” and “ethical frameworks” — concepts utterly divorced from the objective moral law revealed by God and taught by the infallible Magisterium.
The Omission of the Supernatural: The Gravest Accusation
The most damning aspect of the entire article — and of the summit it purports to describe — is **what it omits entirely.** There is no mention of the Most Holy Sacrifice of the Mass. There is no mention of the sacraments. There is no mention of the necessity of the Catholic faith for salvation. There is no mention of the Social Reign of Christ the King. There is no mention of the conversion of Africa to the Catholic faith. There is no mention of the eternal destiny of the poor souls whom the summit claims to serve.
Instead, we are offered a litany of secular concerns: “algorithmic systems,” “digital identities,” “fintech ecosystems,” “credit,” “healthcare,” “mobility.” The poor are reduced to “data points, profiles, and probabilities.” This is not the language of the Gospel. This is the language of the World Economic Forum and the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals. It is the language of a “Church” that has completely capitulated to the spirit of the age.
Pius XI, in *Quas Primas*, warned: *”When God and Jesus Christ — as we lamented — were removed from laws and states and when authority was derived not from God but but from men, the foundations of that authority were destroyed, because the main reason why some have the right to command and others have the duty to obey was removed.”* The summit in Nairobi is a perfect illustration of this principle applied to the internal life of the neo-church: having removed Christ the King from her mission, the conciliar structures can only offer the poor the cold comfort of “digital inclusion” and “algorithmic accountability” — a cruel mockery of the supernatural charity that the true Church has always exercised.
The Invocation of “Dilexi Te” and the Apostasy of Leo XIV
The article explicitly states that the summit was inspired by the apostolic exhortation *Dilexi Te* of the antipope Leo XIV (Robert Prevost), and that all participants received a copy. The invocation of a document by a manifest heretic and usurper of the papal throne as the inspiration for a “Catholic” event is itself a scandal of the first order.
As the sedevacantist position, grounded in the teaching of Saint Robert Bellarmine, John of St. Thomas, and the 1917 Code of Canon Law (Canon 188.4), unequivocally establishes: **a manifest heretic cannot be Pope.** Leo XIV, like his predecessors from John XXIII onward, has publicly professed heresies — including religious liberty, false ecumenism, and the collegiality of bishops — that are condemned by the infallible Magisterium. He is, therefore, an antipope, and his documents, including *Dilexi Te*, have no authority whatsoever in the Church.
To invoke such a document as the inspiration for a “Catholic” summit is to publicly acknowledge the authority of a heretic and to participate in the systematic apostasy of the conciliar sect. It is to place the “love of the poor” — understood in purely naturalistic, materialistic terms — above the love of God and the defense of His truth. This is the very inversion of the moral order that the Modernists have wrought within the structures occupying the Vatican.
“Structural Ethics”: The Neo-Church’s Pseudo-Theology
Van Megen’s call for what he terms “structural ethics” — the idea that “ethical responsibility must shape the design of systems themselves” — is yet another example of the neo-church’s characteristic substitution of secular social engineering for Catholic moral theology. He stated: *”Ethics today must move from personal virtue to system design.”*
This is a direct denial of the Catholic understanding of morality. The Church has always taught that morality is first and foremost a question of personal virtue — the conformity of the individual human act to the moral law as known through reason and revelation. The notion that “system design” can replace personal moral responsibility is a collectivist, secularist error that denies the reality of free will, sin, and personal accountability before God. It is the ethics of the Antichrist, who seeks to subordinate the individual to the collective and to replace the moral law of God with the “ethical frameworks” of human invention.
The true “structural ethics” of the Church is the Social Reign of Christ the King, as taught by Pius XI in *Quas Primas*: *”The state must leave the same freedom to the members of Orders and Congregations, both male and female, who are indeed the most valiant helpers of the Pastors of the Church and contribute most to the expansion and establishment of Christ’s Kingdom.”* The Church’s concern is not with designing “digital systems” but with establishing the reign of Christ over all nations, all laws, all institutions, and all aspects of human life — including, of course, technology, but ordered always toward the supernatural end of man.
The False Charity of the Conciliar Sect
The summit’s theme, “Ethical Stewardship for the Love of the Poor,” and Cullen’s statement that he hopes to “spread the love of Christ across the continent” through “faith-driven technological initiatives,” reveal the neo-church’s characteristic distortion of Christian charity. True charity, as taught by the Church, is first and foremost the love of God and the desire for the salvation of souls. The corporal works of mercy — feeding the hungry, clothing the naked, sheltering the homeless — are important, but they are ordered toward and subordinate to the spiritual works of mercy: instructing the ignorant, counseling the doubtful, admonishing sinners, bearing wrongs patiently, forgiving offenses, praying for the living and the dead.
The neo-church has inverted this order. It places material “development” — digital or otherwise — above the spiritual needs of souls. It speaks endlessly of “the poor” while remaining silent about sin, grace, the sacraments, the necessity of the Catholic faith, and the eternal destiny of those same poor. This is not charity. This is the false charity of the Modernists, who, as Saint Pius X taught, reduce the love of God to a vague humanitarian sentiment devoid of supernatural content.
The true love of the poor consists first in preaching to them the Gospel of Jesus Christ, administering to them the sacraments, and leading them to the Catholic faith — the only faith that can save their souls. A “Catholic” summit that omits all of this and instead focuses on “digital assets” and “fintech ecosystems” is not an act of charity. It is an act of betrayal — a betrayal of the poor, a betrayal of the Church, and a betrayal of Christ the King.
Conclusion: The Abomination of Desolation in Nairobi
The Africa Digital Assets Summit at the Catholic University of Eastern Africa is not a “resounding success.” It is a resounding failure — a failure of the neo-church to be the Church of Christ. It is a manifestation of the abomination of desolation standing in the holy place: the substitution of secular, naturalistic, technocratic activism for the supernatural mission of the Catholic Church.
The true Church — the Church of all ages, the Church that endures in the faithful who profess the integral Catholic faith and are led by bishops with valid sacraments — has no interest in “digital assets” or “fintech ecosystems” except insofar as these must be ordered toward the supernatural end of man and subjected to the Social Reign of Christ the King. The true Church’s mission is to preach the Gospel, administer the sacraments, and lead souls to eternal salvation. Everything else is secondary.
Let the faithful beware of these “faith-driven technological initiatives” that are nothing but the latest iteration of the Modernist apostasy. Let them return to the unchanging Tradition of the Catholic Church — the Tradition that teaches that Christ is King, that the Church is His Kingdom on earth, and that the salvation of souls, not the acceleration of digital economies, is the supreme law and the sole reason for the Church’s existence. *Non praevalebunt.*
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Nuncio warns not to forget the poor at Africa summit on digital technology inspired by ‘Dilexi Te’ (ewtnnews.com)
Date: 13.05.2026