Neo-Church’s Child Welfare Textbook Masks Apostasy with Secular Psychology
Vatican News portal (December 10, 2025) reports on the publication of an English-language textbook titled “The Wellbeing of the Child: Promotion – Protection – Rights” by Myriam Wijlens and Yeshica Marianne Umaña Calderón. The work emerges from an interdisciplinary course at the University of Erfurt involving UN officials, psychologists, and conciliar church figures like Luis Alí Herrera of the “Pontifical” Commission for the Protection of Minors. Praised for its “innovative, digital, and international” approach, the textbook claims to advance abuse prevention while allegedly fulfilling the “Church’s mission of proclamation.” This synthesis of secular child protection frameworks with conciliar rhetoric exemplifies the neo-church’s definitive abandonment of sacramental supernaturalism in favor of naturalistic social engineering.









