Vatican News portal reports on May 18, 2026, that Cardinal Sebastian Francis, Archbishop of Penang in Malaysia, during an interview conducted within the framework of the ad limina visit of bishops from Malaysia, Singapore, and Brunei, presented a vision of the Church in Asia that is thoroughly saturated with the post-conciliar modernist spirit. He described the Church in the region as “vibrant” and “alive,” emphasizing adult baptisms as a sign of vitality. Most revealingly, he declared that the multi-religious, multicultural, and multilingual character of these nations—which any pre-conciliar Catholic theologian would identify as an obstacle to the spread of the one true Faith and a source of grave dangers to the salvation of souls—should be seen not as challenges but as “assets.” He explicitly warned against a “minority complex,” effectively rebuking any Catholic who might consider the overwhelming non-Catholic majority in Asian nations as a spiritual peril requiring urgent evangelization aimed at conversion to the Catholic Church as the sole ark of salvation. He further stated that “diversity is not a threat” and linked the concepts of “unity, diversity and equality” directly to the Most Blessed Trinity—a breathtaking theological confusion that equates the supernatural mystery of the Triune God with the naturalistic, horizontal categories of liberal sociology. The cardinal expressed his feeling of solidarity “with the Universal Church under Pope Leo,” thereby affirming his communion with the conciliar usurpers occupying the Vatican. This interview is a textbook exposition of the modernist apostasy: the replacement of the supernatural mission of the Church—the conversion of all nations to Christ the King through baptism and the Catholic Faith—with a naturalistic celebration of religious pluralism, in direct contradiction to the perennial Magisterium of the Church.
