The Vatican’s “Humana Communitas” Is Anti-Christian

The neo-pagan bollocks coming out of the Vatican never ceases to amaze me. No mention of Christ or the Faith in a major document.

From Everyday For Life Canada

On July 22, the Vatican's Pontifical Academy for Life released a document called, "Humana Communitas in the Age of Pandemic: Ultimately Meditations on the Rebirth of Life." The Vatican is trying to address the problems faced around the world with the pandemic. However, the statement will come as a total disappointment to believers. It's main problem is that it tries to argue in a very abstract and often confusing manner for human renewal of life. And it does so without mentioning God and faith. Yes, read the document and you will find no reference to Christ and the Church in response to Covid-19 and the "Rebirth of Life."

Let's specifically consider some of the confusing content. Take this paragraph:

The Covid-19 epidemic has much to do with our depredation of the earth and the despoiling of its intrinsic value. It is a symptom of our earth’s malaise and our failure to care; more, a sign of our own spiritual malaise . Will we be able to remedy the fracture that has separated us from our natural world, too often turning our assertive subjectivities into a menace to creation, a menace to one another?

First, there is no proof to link the "depredation of the earth" to Covid-19. The problem was caused by human beings not environmental degradation. Viruses are nothing new and have little to do with "our earth's malaise and our failure to care." Second, even after the reference to "our own spiritual malaise" the solution is to repair "the fracture" with "our natural world." There is no mention of the need for Christ and turn away from sin, as well as heed the call to love one's neighbour.

Under the heading of "The challenge of interdependence and the lesson of common vulnerability" we find this convoluted statement:

Our pretentions to monadic solitude have feet of clay. With them, there crumbles the false hopes for an atomistic social philosophy built on egoistic suspicion toward what is different and new, an ethics of calculative rationality bent toward a distorted image of self-fulfillment, impervious to the responsibility of the common good on a global, and not only national, scale.

What does this paragraph mean if anything? It seems to making a case for globalism in that we are all connected together. Is this the foggy language one uses if there is a true desire to communicate a message about the rebirth of life? Of course not. Where is the sincerity and the clarity? The detached tone here shows no love for the reader and the quest for truth.

Perhaps the main point of the message is found in part II and titled: "Toward a New Vision: Life’s Rebirth and the Call for Conversion." Here's the bloated opening paragraph:

The lessons of fragility, finitude, and vulnerability bring us to the threshold of a new vision: they foster an ethos of life that calls for the engagement of intelligence and the courage of moral conversion. To learn a lesson is to become humble; it means to change, searching for resources of meaning hitherto untapped, perhaps disavowed. To learn a lesson is to become mindful, once more, of the goodness of life that offers itself to us, releasing an energy that runs even deeper than the unavoidable experience of loss, that need to be elaborated and integrated in the meaning of our existence. Can this occasion be the promise of a new beginning for the humana communitas, the promise of life’s rebirth? If so, under what conditions?

These are the words one expects to find in a self-help book or from the United Nations but not a Vatican document on the rebirth of life. There is no effort to say something of value and say it clearly. How can Church writers think about the possibility of "life's rebirth" and omit to mention Christ, faith and the sacraments? This call "for the engagement of intelligence and the courage of moral conversion" is a conversion to what when there is nothing said about Christ? The "new vision" is already with us and He is Christ, our hope and our redeemer. No amount of progressive, revisionist verbiage will re-discover or change this truth.

Here's one more opaque passage for consideration: “We emerge from a night of mysterious origins: called into being beyond choice, we come soon to presumption and complaint, asserting as ours what we have only been vouchsafed. Too late do we learn consent to the darkness from which we came, and to which we finally return.” This could easily be the language used by atheists. "Too late do we learn consent to the darkness from which we came, and to which we finally return." How sad that Vatican writers and possibly bishops are writing this nonsensical secular verbiage.

The document has no need to mention Christ, and the sacraments on which the Church is founded, because it's making the case that human renewal can take place without faith, God and the Church. It’s actually an anti-Church and anti-belief secular statement. Humana Communitas is essentially making a humanistic argument that cancels the need for Church. Did Pope Francis read this progressive, woolly and abstract poppycock before it was made public? It’s a very sad comment on the lack of faith by those that presently run the Church. May God forgive us for the sin of pride and our forgetfulness of Christ. I do hope the faithful read the document and realize just how much work needs to be done in the vineyard. Something is rotten at the Vatican.