Vatican Dicastery’s Naturalistic Distortion of Consecrated Life
The VaticanNews portal (January 29, 2026) reports on a letter from the Dicastery for Institutes of Consecrated Life and Societies of Apostolic Life, signed by Sr. Simona Brambilla, Cardinal Ángel F. Card. Artime, and Sr. Tiziana Merletti. The document praises consecrated persons for their “presence that remains” in regions marked by “conflict, violence, division, and instability,” framing their role as “active hope” that generates “gestures of peace” through dialogue, listening, and “refusal of the mentality of the strong prevailing over the weak.” It cites antipope Leo XIV’s view of peace as a “daily journey” divorced from theological truth. This manifesto reduces consecrated life to a social-work ethic, omitting its supernatural purpose and capitulating to modernist apostasy.