Chiclayo’s World Day of the Sick: Naturalism Masquerading as Catholic Piety
EWTN News reports that Chiclayo, Peru, will host the 34th World Day of the Sick from February 9-11, 2026, at the Shrine of Our Lady of Peace. Cardinal Michael Czerny justified the choice by citing Chiclayo’s warm February climate as “a practical reason” to avoid “bad weather,” while claiming antipope Leo XIV was “very happy with the choice” due to his past missionary work in Peru. This event exemplifies the conciliar sect’s substitution of supernatural faith with climate calculations and personality cults.
Sacramental Absence in a Ritual of Humanism
The article reduces the spiritual care of the sick to a weather-dependent logistical operation, stating Cardinal Czerny’s primary concern was ensuring “the celebration would be less likely to be affected by bad weather.” This naturalistic rationale contradicts the Church’s immutable teaching that the sacraments—particularly the Anointing of the Sick—transcend earthly conditions. The Catechism of the Council of Trent (1566) declares: “Extreme Unction […] is instituted against the languor of the soul and of the body.” By omitting any reference to sacramental grace, the event reduces Catholic tradition to a climate-controlled spectacle.
We needed a place where, given the climate in February, it would be less likely that the celebration would be affected by bad weather.
This weather-centric logic inverts the hierarchy of values. Pope Pius XI’s encyclical Quas Primas (1925) established Christ’s universal kingship, demanding that “men must obey Him” in all matters—not schedule divine worship according to meteorological convenience. The absence of phrases like “redemptive suffering” or “eternal salvation” in the report exposes the conciliar sect’s abandonment of sana doctrina (sound doctrine).
The Usurper’s False Credentials
The article attempts to legitimize antipope Leo XIV by referencing his missionary history in Peru, including his tenure as “bishop of Chiclayo.” Yet his 2023 appointment by Bergoglio to head the “Dicastery for Bishops” confirms his adherence to modernist heresies. Pope St. Pius X’s encyclical Pascendi Dominici Gregis (1907) condemned such figures as “enemies of the Church” who “fabricate” new doctrines. Leo XIV’s “pastoral experience” in Peru—a region plagued by liberation theology—further implicates him in the apostasy foretold in 2 Thessalonians 2:3.
It moved me to hear how he himself has been touched by the way the people of his diocese respond to suffering—not only the professionals, but everyone.
Czerny’s emotive language (“touched,” “joy“) replaces doctrinal fidelity with subjectivism. The true Catholic response to suffering, as defined by Pope Pius XII in Mystici Corporis Christi (1943), requires “union with the sufferings of Christ“—not communal sentimentality divorced from the Cross.
A Shrine Without Substance
The choice of the “Shrine of Our Lady of Peace” raises doctrinal alarms. Authentic Marian apparitions—such as Our Lady of Lourdes (1858)—emphasize penance and doctrinal orthodoxy. The conciliar sect’s shrines, however, promote indifferentism. Cardinal Czerny’s hope that the event will combine “compassion and care for the sick” with “joy” neglects the necessity of gratia sanans (healing grace) through valid sacraments. The Roman Ritual (1614) mandates exorcisms and sacramental oils for healing—elements conspicuously absent from this modernist pageant.
Conclusion: Synodal Theater Replaces Sacraments
EWTN‘s uncritical reportage of this event exemplifies the conciliar sect’s apostasy. The “World Day of the Sick“—a post-Vatican II invention—substitutes the Church’s unbloody sacrifice of Calvary and sacramental treasury with a naturalistic workshop. As Pope Leo XIII warned in Satis Cognitum (1896): “The Church is the mystical body of Christ, ruled by the Vicar of Christ Himself.” Since the true Church endures only among clergy and faithful preserving the pre-1958 faith, events like Chiclayo’s are Satanic counterfeits—where “care for the sick” becomes code for erasing the Last Rites.
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Why will Chiclayo, Peru, host the World Day of the Sick? (ewtnnews.com)
Date: 20.01.2026