The National Catholic Register reports that the inaugural Africa Digital Assets Summit, held at the Catholic University of Eastern Africa (CUEA) in Nairobi, Kenya, concluded on April 30, 2026, with organizers declaring it a “resounding success.” The summit, themed “Ethical Stewardship for the Love of the Poor,” brought together “investors, regulators, innovators, and policymakers to accelerate Africa’s digital economy — from policy to prosperity.” Organizer Eddie Cullen, CEO of Crescite Innovation Corporation, claimed inspiration from “Pope” Leo XIV’s apostolic exhortation *Dilexi Te*, copies of which were distributed to all participants. Archbishop Bert van Megen, former papal nuncio to Kenya and newly appointed nuncio to Germany, delivered the keynote address warning that digital systems risk making the poor “invisible” and called for “structural ethics” in technology design rooted in Catholic social teaching principles such as human dignity, the common good, solidarity, and subsidiarity. While the archbishop’s concern for the poor is superficially commendable, the entire event and its framing expose the conciliar sect’s systematic reduction of the Church’s supernatural mission to naturalistic humanitarianism, its embrace of worldly power structures, and its substitution of technological “solutions” for the only true remedy: the Social Kingship of Christ and the salvation of souls.
The Church Co-opted by the Digital Revolution
The very premise of this summit should alarm any Catholic faithful to the unchanging deposit of the faith. A “Catholic” university — an institution of the conciliar sect — hosted a gathering whose explicit purpose was to “accelerate Africa’s digital economy” by uniting “investors, regulators, innovators, and policymakers.” This is not the mission of the Church. Our Lord Jesus Christ did not establish His Church to facilitate digital economies or to partner with Silicon Valley-style innovators and venture capitalists. “The kingdom of Christ is not of this world” (John 18:36). The Church’s mission is the salvation of souls through preaching the Gospel, administering the sacraments, and leading men to eternal life — not optimizing fintech ecosystems or designing digital identity infrastructures.
That the organizers distributed copies of *Dilexi Te* — an apostolic exhortation of the antipope Robert Prevost — as a kind of ideological banner for a technology investment summit reveals the instrumentalization of sacred documents for worldly purposes. The conciliar apparatus has long been accused of reducing Catholic social teaching to a series of platitudes compatible with global capitalism and technocratic governance. This event confirms that accusation with devastating clarity. The document is not being used to call souls to repentance, conversion, and the true faith; it is being used to lend a veneer of moral legitimacy to what is essentially a corporate technology conference.
The Reduction of Poverty to a Technical Problem
Archbishop van Megen’s keynote address, while containing phrases that sound superficially Christian, fundamentally misdiagnoses both the nature of poverty and its remedy. He warned that digital systems risk making the poor “statistically invisible” and called for “structural ethics” to ensure that technological systems are designed with vulnerable populations in mind. He stated: “Systems should not be designed around the most efficient or profitable user but around those who are most vulnerable.”
This entire framing accepts the premise that poverty is primarily a technical and systemic problem solvable through better engineering of digital infrastructure. It is not. The Church has always taught that poverty, while a real material evil that demands Christian charity, is ultimately a consequence of Original Sin and the disordered state of a world in rebellion against God. The true remedy for poverty is not algorithmic fairness or digital identity systems — it is conversion to the Catholic faith, the establishment of the Social Kingship of Christ over nations, and the ordering of all human affairs according to divine law.
Pius XI, in the encyclical *Quas Primas* (1925), which we have in our possession, taught with absolute clarity: “When God and Jesus Christ — as we lamented — were removed from laws and states and when authority was derived not from God 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. For this reason, the entire human society had to be shaken, because it lacked a stable and strong foundation.” The archbishop does not once mention that the root cause of Africa’s poverty — and indeed all the world’s social ills — is the rejection of Christ the King by individuals and nations. He offers digital systems where the Church offers the Gospel. He proposes “structural ethics” where the Church demands the sacramental life, grace, and obedience to God’s commandments.
Silence on the Supernatural: The Gravest Omission
The most damning feature of this summit and the archbishop’s address is what is entirely absent: any mention of the supernatural order. There is no call to evangelization. There is no mention of baptism, the indispensable means of salvation. There is no reference to the necessity of the true faith for eternal life. There is no warning that the greatest poverty is not material but spiritual — the poverty of souls living in mortal sin, without sanctifying grace, destined for hell.
The archbishop quotes *Dilexi Te*’s statement that “the poor are the privileged recipients of the Gospel,” yet the entire summit was organized around digital technology, not around preaching the Gospel. This is the conciar sect’s characteristic inversion: it speaks endlessly of “the poor” while systematically denying them the one thing they truly need — the Catholic faith, the sacraments, and the path to eternal salvation. As the *Syllabus of Errors* of Pope Pius IX (1864) condemns in Proposition 40: “The teaching of the Catholic Church is hostile to the well-being and interests of society.” The conciliar sect has effectively accepted this condemned proposition by treating the Church’s supernatural mission as secondary to — or even dependent upon — technological and economic development.
The Myth of “Neutral” Technology and the Real Masters
To his credit, Archbishop van Megen challenged the claim that technology is neutral, stating: “We often hear that technology is neutral. While this is convenient, it is equally false.” This is a rare moment of lucidity, but it is fatally incomplete. He correctly identifies that technology embodies human choices about what to measure, prioritize, and optimize. He warns that control over digital systems becomes “a form of social authority” and that concentrated authority amplifies inequality.
Yet he does not draw the obvious conclusion: the digital revolution is not merely a neutral tool being misused — it is a project of global concentration of power in the hands of those who already dominate the world’s financial, political, and ideological systems. The same forces that have driven secularism, religious indifferentism, and the dismantling of Christian civilization are the forces building digital identity systems, central bank digital currencies, and AI-powered social credit architectures. Pius IX, in the *Syllabus*, condemned the proposition that “the State, as being the origin and source of all rights, is endowed with a certain right not circumscribed by any limits” (Proposition 39). Digital governance systems represent precisely this unlimited state power — now augmented by algorithms that operate with a speed and opacity no human bureaucracy could achieve.
The archbishop calls for “accountability structures” and “non-digital alternatives,” but within what framework? Within the conciliar sect, which has systematically dismantled the Church’s own institutional independence and replaced it with partnerships with the very powers that are building this digital architecture of control? The Church of Christ does not need to “shape ethical frameworks for emerging technologies” — it needs to preach repentance and faith in Jesus Christ to all nations (Luke 24:47) and to insist, as Pius XI did, that “rulers of states therefore not refuse public veneration and obedience to the reigning Christ, but let them fulfill this duty themselves and with their people, if they wish to maintain their authority inviolate and contribute to the increase of their homeland’s happiness” (*Quas Primas*).
The False Substitution: Conscience Over Conversion
The archbishop concluded his address with the statement: “The answer will not be found in code alone. It will be found in conscience.” This is the language of the conciar revolution distilled to a single sentence. Not grace. Not faith. Not the sacraments. Not obedience to the Church’s Magisterium. Conscience. This is the theology of Dignitatis Humanae — the conciliar declaration on religious freedom condemned by the *Syllabus of Errors* in Propositions 15 and 79 — elevated to a governing principle. The “enlightened conscience” of technologists and investors, not the revealed law of God, becomes the arbiter of justice.
The true teaching of the Church is that conscience is not autonomous — it must be formed by divine law and the teaching authority of the Church. As the Council of Trent taught, and as every Pope before the conciliar revolution affirmed, “if anyone says that man can be justified before God by his own works, without the grace of God through Jesus Christ, let him be anathema” (Session VI, Canon 1). The poor of Africa do not need the conscience of technologists — they need the grace of God, which comes through the Catholic faith and the sacraments.
The Catholic University: An Instrument of the World
That this summit was held at the “Catholic University of Eastern Africa” is itself a scandal. A Catholic university, in the true sense of the term, is an institution dedicated to the pursuit of truth under the light of divine revelation and the guidance of the Church’s Magisterium. It forms youth in “sound doctrine and purity of morals,” as Pius XI demanded in *Quas Primas*. Instead, this institution hosted a conference designed to integrate Africa into the global digital economy under the banner of a heretic antipope’s document. This is not Catholic education — it is the abomination of desolation standing in a holy place (Matthew 24:15), the temple of learning converted into a marketplace for the princes of this world.
Pius IX’s *Syllabus* condemns the proposition that “the entire government of public schools in which the youth of a Christian state is educated… may and ought to appertain to the civil power” (Proposition 45). By logical extension, the governance of a Catholic university by the standards of digital investors and technology corporations — rather than by the immutable principles of Catholic doctrine — is an even graver violation of the Church’s divine constitution.
Conclusion: The Only True Digital Exclusion
The conciliar sect’s obsession with digital inclusion and technological ethics is a grotesque parody of the Church’s true mission. The only exclusion that truly matters is exclusion from the Kingdom of God. The only invisibility that condemns is the invisibility of souls who die outside the Catholic Church, without baptism, without sanctifying grace, without the true faith. “And there is no other name under heaven given to men by which we must be saved” (Acts 4:12).
The Africa Digital Assets Summit, for all its talk of “loving the poor,” offered them digital systems instead of the sacraments, algorithms instead of absolution, and the conscience of technologists instead of the blood of Christ. It is a perfect illustration of what the conciliar revolution has produced: a Church that speaks the language of the world, serves the agenda of the world, and has forgotten — or deliberately abandoned — the only mission that matters: the salvation of souls for the glory of God.
Source:
Nuncio Warns Not to Forget the Poor at Africa Summit On Digital Technology Inspired by ‘Dilexi Te’ (ncregister.com)
Date: 13.05.2026