Catholic News Agency reports on January 2, 2026, that Catholic Charities USA has prioritized government-funded food assistance (SNAP) and housing subsidies as its 2026 policy goals. Vice President of Government Relations Luz Tavarez laments disruptions to these programs during the 2025 government shutdown, advocating for expanded welfare access—including for “humanitarian-based noncitizens”—while expressing tepid concern about work requirements for Medicaid and SNAP recipients. The article frames poverty relief as primarily dependent on state intervention, with Tavarez insisting solutions require “a real bipartisan approach and it’s going to require money.”
### Subordination of Supernatural Charity to Statist Materialism
The conciliar sect’s “Catholic Charities” operation exemplifies the **heresy of Americanism** condemned by Leo XIII (*Testem Benevolentiae*), reducing the Church’s mission to secular activism. By treating the federal government—not Christ the King—as the primary agent of charity, this entity inverts the hierarchical order of grace. Pius XI’s *Quas Primas* (1925) unequivocally states: *”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.”* Yet Tavarez’s demands for taxpayer-funded solutions omit any reference to:
1. The necessity of converting nations to the Social Reign of Christ
2. The Church’s divine mandate to govern charitable works independently of civil powers
3. The supernatural end of almsgiving: the salvation of souls through corporal works of mercy
This silence betrays a **naturalist worldview** that treats hunger and homelessness as purely material crises solvable through legislative bargaining—a betrayal of St. Vincent de Paul’s maxim that *”it is only for your love alone that the poor will forgive you the bread you give to them.”*
### Complicity in the Welfare State’s Destruction of Subsidiarity
The article applauds federal programs like SNAP and Section 8 housing vouchers despite their proven role in dismantling the principle of subsidiarity—a pillar of Catholic social doctrine. Pius XI’s *Quadragesimo Anno* (1931) warns: *”Just as it is gravely wrong to take from individuals what they can accomplish by their own initiative and industry and give it to the community, so also it is an injustice… to assign to a greater and higher association what lesser and subordinate organizations can do.”*
By lobbying for centralized anti-poverty programs, “Catholic Charities” collaborates in the state’s usurpation of roles properly belonging to families, parishes, and guilds. Tavarez’s anxiety over states potentially defunding welfare programs confirms this statist mentality: She fears local governance precisely because authentic Catholic morality has been exiled from public life—a direct fruit of Vatican II’s heresy of religious liberty (*Dignitatis Humanae*).
### The Fraud of “Bipartisan Solutions” in an Apostate Age
The call for “bipartisan approaches” to housing and hunger—while ignoring the *unum necessarium* of societal conversion to Christ—constitutes apostasy. As the *Syllabus of Errors* (1864) condemns:
– *”The Church ought to be separated from the State, and the State from the Church”* (Error #55)
– *”The Roman Pontiff can, and ought to, reconcile himself, and come to terms with progress, liberalism and modern civilization”* (Error #80)
When Tavarez states *”there’s dignity in work… as long as there’s some opportunities for people to do other things,”* she echoes the modernist equivocation that reduces labor to a sociological variable rather than a means of sanctification. Contrast this with Leo XIII’s *Rerum Novarum* (1891): *”Let the working man and the employer make free agreements, and in particular let them agree freely as to the wages; nevertheless, there underlies a dictate of natural justice more imperious and ancient than any bargain between man and man, namely, that wages ought not to be insufficient to support a frugal and well-behaved wage-earner.”* True Catholic action would demand employers pay living wages under Church guidance—not outsource justice to state bureaucracies.
### Conclusion: A Satanic Distraction From the Church’s True Mission
This “policy wish list”—devoid of calls for repentance, Eucharistic reparation, or restoration of the Social Reign of Christ—proves the conciliar sect functions as a **NGO masquerading as the Church**. Its leaders have forgotten Pius X’s condemnation in *Lamentabili Sane* (1907): *”The Church does not have the power of using force, nor has she any temporal power, direct or indirect”* (Error #24). Meanwhile, they ignore the true solution: abolishing usury, restoring just wages, and mandating Sunday rest—all impossible without Catholic kings governing in communion with Rome.
Until structures like “Catholic Charities USA” denounce the Vatican II revolution and demand the public recrowning of Christ as King, their works remain **spiritual poison**—a counterfeit mercy that feeds bodies while starving souls.
Source:
Food assistance, housing top Catholic Charities’ policy wish list in 2026 (catholicnewsagency.com)
Date: 02.01.2026