Vatican News portal reports on Cardinal Stephen Brislin’s address to the Extraordinary Consistory, unpacking the encyclical Magnifica humanitas. The article presents a vision of a Church that abandons its supernatural mission to become a synodal NGO, reducing the Faith to a “grammar of building” for a purely earthly civilization.
The cited article relates how Cardinal Brislin, Archbishop of Johannesburg, opened the third session of the Extraordinary Consistory by inviting the Cardinals to reflect on how humanity is “building” its future. He focused on the relationship between the introduction and conclusion of Pope Leo XIV’s encyclical Magnifica humanitas, claiming the document provides a “grammar of building” centered on desire, limitation, shared responsibility, and discernment. The Cardinal described synodality as the “concrete trace of the communion from which the Church is born and grows,” enabling Christians to enter the “building site of history” without fear. He concluded that the encyclical entrusts the Church with the responsibility to face history’s struggles through a synodal approach rooted in theological virtues. This entire discourse is a complete betrayal of the Church’s mission to save souls, replacing the supernatural order with a naturalistic program of social engineering.
