Cardinal Koch’s ACN Appointment: Ecumenical Subversion of Catholic Charity
Catholic News Agency reports the appointment of Cardinal Kurt Koch as president of “Aid to the Church in Need” (ACN), replacing Cardinal Mauro Piacenza after 14 years. Executive Director Regina Lynch praised the “antipope” Leo XIV for this decision, highlighting Koch’s “experience in ecumenical and interreligious relations” as particularly valuable for ACN’s work with Christian minorities. The article celebrates Piacenza’s tenure, noting his support for initiatives like the “One Million Children Praying the Rosary” campaign, while presenting interreligious dialogue as an essential aspect of Catholic charity work. This appointment exemplifies the conciliar sect’s systematic corruption of ecclesiastical institutions through religious indifferentism.
Ecumenism as Institutionalized Apostasy
The article celebrates Koch’s leadership of the Dicastery for Promoting Christian Unity as qualification for directing a pontifical foundation, revealing the neo-church’s fundamental distortion of Catholic charity. Pius XI condemned such ecumenism in Mortalium Animos (1928): “False opinions which turn men away from God are not to be placed on the same footing with Catholic truth.” The 1917 Code of Canon Law (Can. 1325 §2) explicitly forbade participation in interreligious gatherings where non-Catholic sects were treated as equal to the true Church.
By contrast, Koch’s entire career epitomizes the conciliar heresy condemned by St. Pius X in Pascendi Dominici Gregis: “They are to be found in the mixing up of Catholicism with false philosophies.” His 2025 statement rejecting “extreme traditionalist positions on Vatican II” confirms his adherence to the modernist synthesis that equates doctrinal fidelity with “fundamentalism.”
Naturalization of the Supernatural Mission
ACN’s claimed mission to aid “persecuted and suffering Christians” conspicuously avoids any mention of conversion or sanctification, reducing the Church’s work to humanitarianism. The article boasts that ecumenical relations are “essential” in countries where Catholics are minorities, implying coexistence rather than evangelization. This directly contradicts Our Lord’s command: “Going therefore, teach ye all nations; baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost” (Matthew 28:19).
Pius XII’s Mystici Corporis Christi (1943) affirmed that “only those are really to be included as members of the Church who have been baptized and profess the true faith, and who have not unhappily withdrawn from Body-unity or for grave faults been excluded.” The conciliar sect’s “aid” to non-Catholic communities constitutes formal cooperation with heresy, violating the First Commandment through practical indifferentism.
Liturgical and Doctrinal Subversion Through “Charity”
The praise for Piacenza’s support of the “One Million Children Praying the Rosary” campaign masks the neo-church’s systematic destruction of authentic Catholic piety. While ostensibly promoting devotion, this initiative operates within the conciliar sect’s false ecclesiology that treats the Rosary as a human tradition rather than a weapon against heresy.
Leo XIII’s encyclical Supremi Apostolatus Officio (1883) prescribed the Rosary specifically “for imploring the Divine aid in the midst of calamities,” particularly against “the enemies of the Catholic Church.” When divorced from the integral Catholic faith – including rejection of Vatican II’s errors – such devotions become empty rituals, a “sounding brass or a tinkling cymbal” (1 Corinthians 13:1).
Systemic Apostasy in the Conciliar Sect
Koch’s appointment continues the conciliar sect’s pattern of placing modernist heretics in control of remaining Catholic institutions. As prefect of the Dicastery for Promoting Christian Unity, Koch actively promotes the heresy condemned by Pius IX in the Syllabus of Errors: “Allocution ‘Nunquam fore,’ Dec. 15, 1856” which rejected the notion that “Protestantism is nothing more than another form of the same true Christian religion.”
The 1917 Pio-Benedictine Code established strict canonical penalties for such offenses against faith (Can. 2314). Yet Koch’s entire career exemplifies the “pernicious errors” condemned in St. Pius X’s Lamentabili Sane (1907), particularly Proposition 65: “Contemporary Catholicism cannot be reconciled with true knowledge without transforming it into a certain dogmaless Christianity.”
Conclusion: Charity Without Truth Is Spiritual Deception
The article’s triumphant tone regarding Koch’s ecumenical credentials exposes the conciliar sect’s fundamental corruption. True Catholic charity – exemplified by St. Vincent de Paul’s insistence on catechizing the poor while feeding them – has been replaced by humanitarianism that confirms heretics in their errors. As the Catechism of the Council of Trent teaches, “The first duty of charity does not lie in the toleration of false opinions, however sincere they may be, but in the extirpation of error.”
Until structures like ACN renounce Vatican II’s heresies and return to the integral Catholic faith, their works remain “whited sepulchres, which outwardly appear to men beautiful, but within are full of dead men’s bones” (Matthew 23:27). The restoration of true Catholic charity requires uncompromising adherence to the perennial Magisterium – a standard the conciliar sect systematically rejects.
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Aid to the Church in Need welcomes appointment of Cardinal Koch as its new president (catholicnewsagency.com)
Date: 01.12.2025