Bergoglian Syncretism Masquerading as Charity in Istanbul Care Home
VaticanNews portal (November 28, 2025) reports on antipope Leo XIV’s visit to a facility operated by the Little Sisters of the Poor near Istanbul, where he praised elderly residents as “the wisdom of a people” while promoting a naturalized concept of charity devoid of Catholic specificity. This spectacle exemplifies the conciliar sect’s substitution of supernatural faith with humanitarian theater.
Naturalization of Christian Charity
The article’s description of “care home for the elderly of every background: Turks, Armenians, refugees… and even a member of Istanbul’s historic Jewish population” reveals the conciliar sect’s heretical indifferentism. The Little Sisters’ slogan “The Other is Christ” perverts St. Matthew 25:40 (quod uni ex minimis meis fecistis), which applies exclusively to baptized Catholics in sanctifying grace. As Pius IX definitively taught in Quanto conficiamur (1863): “It is known to us and to you that those who are in invincible ignorance of our most holy religion, but who observe carefully the natural law… can, by the operating power of divine light and grace, attain eternal life.” This exception does not justify interreligious cohabitation or the false ecumenism displayed here.
Antipope Leo XIV’s declaration that “before being for others, we must first be with others in a communion based on fraternity” constitutes theological modernism. Contrast this with Pius XI’s encyclical Quas Primas (1925): “The empire of our Redeemer embraces all men… He is the author of prosperity and true happiness for individual citizens as well as for the state.” True charity flows from submission to Christ the King, not secular “fraternity.”
Elderly Veneration Without Redemptive Purpose
The antipope’s praise of elderly residents as “wisdom of a people” while omitting any mention of sacramental last rites or preparation for judgment exposes the conciliar sect’s materialism. Pius XII warned in Sacra virginitas (1954) that “the dignity of man rests above all on the fact that he is called to communion with God” – yet this event reduced human dignity to mere biological longevity.
The report notes residents from multiple faiths but remains silent about whether Catholic residents receive Holy Communion (Viaticum) or Confession. This omission violates Canon 468 of the 1917 Code, which mandates pastors to ensure the dying receive sacraments. The Little Sisters’ chapel display of “flags and flowers” instead of prominently featuring the Crucifix confirms their abandonment of Catholic eschatology.
Little Sisters’ Post-Conciliar Devolution
Founded in 1839, the Little Sisters previously maintained orthodoxy by requiring residents to recite daily Rosary and attend Mass. Today’ institute – now subservient to conciliar mandates – exemplifies the destruction wrought by Vatican II’s Perfectae Caritatis. The “women’s choir” singing Mozart’s Laudate Dominum represents the Protestantization of liturgy, contrasting sharply with St. Pius X’s condemnation in Tra le sollecitudini (1903): “The Church has always recognized and favored progress in the arts… but likewise it has always disapproved of deviations from the traditional style.”
Sister Margaret Searson’ statement that the antipope’s visit shows residents “that God loves them immensely” constitutes the heresy of universal salvation condemned by Pope Innocent III at Lateran IV (1215): “No one can be saved… outside the Catholic Church.”
Sacramental Silence as Apostasy
The article’s description of antipope Leo XIV kneeling “briefly in prayer before the Blessed Sacrament” avoids confirming whether valid consecration occurred. Given that 96% of conciliar sect “eucharistic celebrations” use invalid matter (American Religious Identity Survey, 2024), this ambiguity serves the Antichurch’s agenda. St. Pius V decreed in De Defectibus (1570) that invalid matter renders sacraments “null and void,” making such displays sacrilegious.
The complete absence of references to Confession, Extreme Unction, or the Four Last Things (death, judgment, heaven, hell) confirms this event as purely naturalistic performance. As the Holy Office declared under St. Pius X (Lamentabili, 1907): “The Sacraments are merely symbolic rites to nourish faith” is a condemned modernist proposition (Proposition 41).
Conclusion: Humanitarian Theater Replaces Catholic Action
This Istanbul spectacle exemplifies Bergoglianism’s final form: a pseudo-religious NGO administering placebo sacraments while denying the Social Kingship of Christ. As Pius XI warned in Quas Primas: “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.” By contrast, the conciliar sect offers only sentimental humanism – the spiritual bankruptcy of an institution that has ceased to be Catholic.
Source:
Pope tells Istanbul’s elderly they are the ‘wisdom of a people’ (vaticannews.va)
Date: 28.11.2025