The cited article from Catholic News Agency reports that “Pope” Leo XIV addressed Caritas Internationalis leadership on November 21, 2025, praising their global humanitarian work. The antipope called them “pilgrims of hope” and “artisans of peace,” emphasizing three “pillars” of their mission: peace, justice, and truth. He referenced their debt cancellation campaign tied to the 2025 Jubilee Year and thanked them for serving “every person with dignity.” Cardinal Tarcisio Kikuchi described Caritas as the Church’s “charitable arm” to “spread the Gospel message.” The meeting occurred after Caritas’ 2022 administrative takeover by antipope Bergoglio.
Naturalism Masquerading as Christian Charity
The antipope’s speech exemplifies the conciliar sect’s complete inversion of true Catholic charity. While Quas Primas declares that “the peace of Christ can only be found in the Kingdom of Christ” (Pius XI, 1925), this modernist parody reduces the Church’s mission to three purely naturalistic “pillars.” Not once does the antipope mention the raison d’ĂȘtre of Catholic works: the salvation of souls through conversion to the One True Faith. This omission constitutes apostasy from Christ’s Great Commission: “Going therefore, teach ye all nations… teaching them to observe all things whatsoever I have commanded you” (Matthew 28:19-20).
Caritas operates as a secular NGO baptized with religious language. Cardinal Kikuchi admits their goal is debt cancellation – a Marxist economic agenda – while using vague spiritual language about “spread[ing] the Gospel message.” This confirms Pius XI’s warning against those who “pervert the Church’s real meaning” by reducing her to “kindergarten, clinic, or recreation center” (Divini Redemptoris, 21). True Catholic charity always subordinates material aid to spiritual ends, as taught by the Council of Trent: “The primary duty of charity does not lie in the toleration of false ideas… but in leading souls to the truth” (Session VII, Decree on Justification).
Theological Subversion Through Language
The antipope’s call to be “artisans of peace” constitutes blasphemous anthropocentrism. Only Christ establishes true peace through His Kingship, as Pius XI dogmatically defined: “When once men recognize, both in private and in public life, that Christ is King, society will at last receive the great blessings of real liberty, well-ordered discipline, peace and harmony” (Quas Primas, 19). By omitting Christ’s social reign, the conciliar sect promotes the Masonic ideal of universal brotherhood without conversion.
The repeated emphasis on “serving every person with dignity” disguises religious indifferentism condemned by Pius IX: “It is necessary for salvation that human beings be subject to the Roman Pontiff” (Syllabus of Errors, 18). Nowhere does Caritas condition aid on recipients abandoning false religions or embracing Catholic teaching. This violates the Church’s immutable practice, exemplified by St. Vincent de Paul who required poor families to attend catechism before receiving bread.
Structural Apostasy in Caritas’ Operation
The 2022 administrative takeover reveals the rot within this conciliar institution. When antipope Bergoglio suspended Caritas’ elected leadership, he exposed the inherent instability of modernist structures. True Catholic organizations derive authority from Christ through apostolic succession, not bureaucratic management. The post-conciliar sect’s obsession with “strengthening lay leadership” inverts the divine hierarchy where clergy govern and laity obey – a rebellion against Pius X’s condemnation of the “democratizing tendency” in Church governance (Vehementer Nos, 8).
Caritas’ “Turn Debt Into Hope” campaign embodies the conciliar sect’s Marxist materialism. Pius XI explicitly condemned debt cancellation schemes that undermine property rights: “No one can be at the same time a sincere Catholic and a true socialist” (Quadragesimo Anno, 120). The biblical Jubilee (Leviticus 25) concerned fellow Israelites, not unconditional economic transfers to pagan nations. This program advances the UN’s sustainable development goals rather than Christ’s command to “make disciples of all nations.”
Omission of Supernatural Realities
The entire address commits the gravest sin of omission: silence about the Four Last Things (Death, Judgment, Heaven, Hell). Nowhere does the antipope warn that feeding bodies without saving souls leaves men “twice the children of hell” (Matthew 23:15). True Catholic missionaries like St. Francis Xavier understood that charity without conversion is cruelty. The conciliar sect’s exclusive focus on temporal needs constitutes what St. Pius X called “the heresy of good works” (Notre Charge Apostolique).
Most damningly, Caritas operates as an ecumenical enterprise. By serving all religions equally, it implicitly denies the Catholic dogma “Extra Ecclesiam Nulla Salus” (Outside the Church There Is No Salvation). This fulfills Pius X’s prophecy about modernists who “place charity above faith” to create “a universal religion which shall have no dogmas” (Pascendi Dominici Gregis, 39). The antipope’s closing invocation of “Mary, Mother of the Poor” profanes Our Lady by divorcing her from her true titles: Mediatrix of All Graces and Destroyer of Heresies.
Conclusion: Anti-Church in Action
Caritas Internationalis epitomizes the conciliar sect’s transformation of the Church into a humanitarian NGO. Its operations embody all four Modernist errors condemned in Lamentabili Sane: religious experience as revelation (n. 22), evolution of dogma (n. 54), democratized ecclesiology (n. 53), and secularized Scripture (n. 11). Until this structure renounces its naturalistic foundations and returns to the integral Catholic Faith – including the Social Kingship of Christ and the missionary imperative – it remains what Archbishop Lefebvre called “an enterprise of auto-demolition” serving the world rather than God.
Source:
Pope Leo XIV to Caritas: Be artisans of peace, serve every person with dignity (catholicnewsagency.com)
Date: 21.11.2025