Antichurch

EWTN News reports that the Commission of the Episcopal Conferences of the European Union (COMECE) has published a study titled “Mental Health in Europe — A Call for Care,” urging the European Union to adopt policies that include “spiritual accompaniment” in hospitals, palliative care, and migration settings, while simultaneously calling for the strengthening of families and warning against the dangers of artificial intelligence and digital addiction. The document, prepared by the COMECE ethics committee, rests on what it calls “Christian anthropology” — the dignity of the human person created in the image of God with body and soul — and identifies loneliness, trauma, job insecurity, and forced migration as drivers of the crisis. Friederike Ladenburger, jurist and secretary of the commission, emphasized the need for “meaningful, authentic, and lasting human connections” and warned that technology must be “supplementary, not substitutive.” The study advocates for a “comprehensive” vision of mental health that encompasses social, relational, and spiritual dimensions, calling on the EU to provide financial support for young families and to include hospital chaplaincies as part of holistic care. This is a textbook example of the conciliar sect reducing the supernatural life of grace to a therapeutic supplement within a fundamentally naturalistic framework — the very inversion of Catholic teaching that the Church exists not to make men comfortable in this world but to save their souls for the next.