Charity Without Conversion: Modernist Distortion of Almsgiving in Vatican’s Poverty Spectacle

VaticanNews portal (November 16, 2025) reports on the Ninth World Day of the Poor, where antipope Leo XIV shared lunch with 1,300 guests in the Paul VI Hall. The event featured vegetable lasagna, cutlets, Neapolitan fruit, and babà dessert, with Vincentian volunteers distributing personal-care kits containing panettone. Attendees included displaced persons from Nigeria, Ukraine, Cuba, Barcelona, and Rome, with anecdotes about unemployment, disability, and war trauma. The antipope thanked his predecessor “Pope Francis” and urged guests to take home fruit baskets, framing the meal as “fraternity” while recalling those suffering from “violence, war, and hunger.” The gathering notably included non-Catholics and made no distinction between baptized believers and unbelievers.

Naturalism Displacing Supernatural Charity

The event epitomizes the neo-church’s reduction of charity to materialist anthropology. While Quas Primas declares “the right of Christ to reign over societies no less than over individuals” (Pius XI, 1925), this spectacle reduces the Church’s mission to social work. The antipope’s blessing for “those suffering violence” pointedly avoids naming the only remedy for human suffering: repentance and submission to Christ the King. Contrast this with Pius XI’s encyclical: “When once men recognize… the right of Christ the King to rule… human society will at last receive the great blessings of real liberty, well-ordered discipline, peace and harmony” (§19).

Sacrilegious Equivalence of Believers and Unbelievers

“That doesn’t matter,” he said. “It’s beautiful here—you feel at home.”

This statement from a Côte d’Ivoire attendee reveals the gathering’s core heresy: the presumption that non-Catholics can experience ecclesial communion without conversion. The Syllabus of Errors condemns precisely this relativism: “Good hope at least is to be entertained of the eternal salvation of all those who are not at all in the true Church of Christ” (Error 17). True Catholic charity always seeks the salvation of souls, as Pius XII taught: “The first duty of charity does not lie in the toleration of false ideas… but in the prudence by which we lead the erring ones into the truth” (Ci Riesce, 1953).

Omission of Penance and Final Judgment

The article’s glowing account of a woman nursing her infant while “marked by both tenderness and fatigue” exemplifies sentimentalism replacing supernatural discernment. Traditional Catholic teaching distinguishes between deserving poor (humbly accepting Providence) and undeserving poor (rejecting moral law). The Council of Trent (Session XIV, Chapter VIII) mandates priests to investigate “whether the poor man is in such necessity… and whether he can be relieved by his own or other means” before almsgiving. This event’s indiscriminate handouts ignore the ordo caritatis – the hierarchy of spiritual versus corporal works of mercy.

Communist Undertones in “Fraternity” Rhetoric

Antipope Leo’s call for “a spirit of fraternity” during lunch echoes Masonic ideals condemned in Humanum Genus (Leo XIII, 1884): “They… plan to unite… all mankind in complete harmony… without any distinction of religion.” The menu’s symbolism is telling: lasagna (egalitarian uniformity), babà (Neapolitan syncretism), and fruit baskets (communist redistribution). Contrast this with St. Vincent de Paul’s true charity: “Go to the poor with the crucifix in one hand and the catechism in the other” (Conference 102).

War Narratives Sans Prayer for Conversion of Russia

The Ukrainian woman’s lament – “I don’t know if I’ll ever go home again” – receives empty sympathy, while the neo-church suppresses the Heaven-sent remedy for war: the Collegial Consecration of Russia to the Immaculate Heart. Pius XII’s Sacra Vergine (1952) warns: “The wicked… have reached such a point that they seek to destroy the rational foundations of the Catholic Faith and of the Church herself.” True peace comes through obedience to Mary’s Fatima requests, not anthropocentric “solidarity meals.”

Illegitimacy of “World Day of the Poor”

This invented observance contradicts the liturgical wisdom of ages. The traditional Church embeds almsgiving within penitential seasons (e.g., Lent Ember Days) and saints’ feasts (St. Lawrence the Deacon, August 10). Bergoglio’s innovation (initiated 2017) follows Masonic 100-year cycles (1717-1917-2017), as evidenced by the False Fatima Apparitions file: “The name ‘Fatima’: a symbol of Christian-Islamic syncretism”. Authentic Catholic charity flows from the Mass of Ages – abolished in this gathering’s Novus Ordo context.

As the true Church teaches through St. Vincent de Paul: “The poor are the image of Jesus Christ, but only insofar as they patiently bear their sufferings”. Any “charity” ignoring their need for sanctification mocks the Cross. Let us heed Pius XI: “No one… can at the same time be a sincere Catholic and a true Socialist” (Quadragesimo Anno, 1931). This Vatican spectacle proves the conciliar sect’s apostasy.

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Pope Leo has lunch with the poor, recalls people suffering from war (vaticannews.va)
Date: 16.11.2025