VaticanNews portal (November 22, 2025) reports on antipope Robert Prevost (“Leo XIV”) invoking Servant of God Dorothy Day during a Jubilee Audience, framing peace activism as “taking a stand where human dignity is trampled.” The article presents Prevost praising Day’s social work during the Great Depression while urging listeners to “promote a society that truly reflects the love of the Gospel.” This humanistic reductionism exposes the conciliar sect’s abandonment of extra Ecclesiam nulla salus (no salvation outside the Church) in favor of naturalistic activism.
Eclipse of Supernatural Ends in Neo-Church Discourse
“[Dorothy Day] understood that as a Christian she had to involve herself with workers, with migrants, with those cast aside by an economy that kills.”
The cited article’s celebration of Day’s activism commits three mortal errors condemned by Pius XI in Quadragesimo Anno (1931):
- Substitution of class struggle for Christian charity: The article applauds Day’s alignment with labor movements while ignoring Pius XI’s warning that “socialism cannot be reconciled with the teachings of the Catholic Church” (§120). Day’s Catholic Worker Movement consistently flirted with socialist ideals condemned in the Syllabus of Errors (1864), particularly Proposition 64 permitting rebellion against legitimate authority.
- Omission of man’s supernatural destiny: Prevost’s injunction to “promote a society that reflects the Gospel” deliberately avoids specifying which Gospel – the authentic Gospel requiring submission to Christ the King (Pius XI, Quas Primas §18), or the neo-modernist “gospel of encounter.” The silence on Christ’s social reign confirms the Vatican II sect’s apostasy from Regnum Christi.
- Canonization of activism over sanctity: By highlighting Day’s social work rather than her spiritual life (notably absent are mentions of Mass attendance, sacraments, or devotion), the article exemplifies the modernist heresy decried in Pascendi §38: reducing religion to “a certain sentiment born of need of the divine” rather than objective truth.
Naturalism Masquerading as Mercy
Prevost’s call to “take a stand” for human dignity employs language condemned by Pius IX in the Syllabus:
“To hope is to take a stand, like Jesus, with Jesus… His fire is our fire.”
This emotionalist rhetoric inverts Catholic soteriology. As the Council of Trent decreed (Session VI, Canon XII), hope resides not in human action but in “Dei misericordia (God’s mercy) and the merits of Christ.” The antipope’s implication that social activism constitutes the “fire” of Christ contradicts the Acta Apostolicae Sedis (1910) which defines apostolic zeal as “the propagation of Catholic truth and the salvation of souls” – not economic redistribution.
Substitution of Social Activism for Supernatural Charity
The article’s hagiography of Day exposes the conciliar sect’s betrayal of true mercy:
| Authentic Catholic Charity | Day/Prevost Activism |
|---|---|
| Seeks salvation of souls (Mt 16:26) | Seeks temporal equality (quoted: “development model… did not create same opportunities”) |
| Flows from Eucharistic piety (Benedict XV, Annus iam plenus) | Rooted in political ideology (Day’s admitted socialist leanings) |
| Subject to hierarchical authority (Pius X, Pascendi §3) | Autonomous “discernment” (Prevost: “show us how to take a stand”) |
Silence That Condemns
The article’s most damning feature lies in what it omits:
- No mention of reparation for sin: Day’s activism centered on material poverty while ignoring spiritual destitution – the only poverty that eternally kills (Lk 12:4-5).
- Absence of Mary’s intercession: Prevost’s “Jubilee of Hope” makes no reference to the Mediatrix of All Graces, contrary to Leo XIII’s Octobri Mense (§6).
- Erasure of Christ’s Kingship: The term “Kingdom of Christ” appears zero times – an unthinkable omission given Pius XI’s institution of the feast precisely to combat secularism (Quas Primas §24).
This Jubilee Audience exemplifies the conciliar sect’s completed apostasy: a pseudo-religion of humanitarian works severed from the Cross, where Marx replaces Maximilian Kolbe, and the Social Gospel supplants the Gospel of Repentance. As Our Lord warned: “Many will say to me in that day: Lord, Lord… and then I will profess unto them, I never knew you” (Mt 7:22-23).
Source:
Pope at Jubilee Audience: Peace is taking a stand where human dignity is trampled (vaticannews.va)
Date: 22.11.2025