Conciliar Sect’s Seoul Summit: Equating Christ’s Kingdom with Confucian Utopia
The Vatican News portal reports that on 4 August 2026, at Sogang University in Seoul, the Dicastery for Interreligious Dialogue of the conciliar sect inaugurated its first formal dialogue with Confucianism. The prefect of this modernist dicastery, “Cardinal” George Jacob Koovakad, placed the Christian eschatological hope of the New Heaven and New Earth (Apoc. 21:1) on the same plane as the Confucian philosophical construct of Datong (“Great Unity”), declaring both to be expressions of humanity’s aspiration for “peaceful, inclusive and supportive societies.” The meeting, co-organized by the “Catholic Bishops’ Conference of Korea” and the Sungkyunkwan Confucian Academy, produced draft Guidelines for Christian–Confucian Dialogue grounded in the Second Vatican Council’s Nostra Aetate and Gaudium et Spes. This spectacle constitutes a formal apostasy from the Social Kingship of Christ, reducing the supernatural order to a naturalistic project of human fraternity.