The National Catholic Register reports that on May 4, 2026, the usurper Robert Prevost, known as “Pope” Leo XIV, received the board of directors of Catholic Charities USA in a private audience. The article describes how Leo XIV encouraged the organization in its work for the less fortunate, expressing awareness of funding difficulties from the U.S. government and urging them not to be discouraged, saying “I am with you always.” Kerry Robinson, president and CEO of Catholic Charities USA, described the audience as encouraging and discussed federal funding cuts related to migration policy differences and donor skepticism following abuse cases in the U.S. Catholic Church. Robinson emphasized the organization’s efforts over the past 20 years to implement “contemporary best practices, accountability, and financial transparency” and presented the Pope with a book about the “People of Hope” initiative, a mobile museum touring the nation to encourage helping the less fortunate. The entire exchange is a masterclass in naturalistic philanthropy masquerading as Catholic charity, completely devoid of any mention of the supernatural end of man, the necessity of sanctifying grace, or the true mission of the Church.
The Complete Absence of Supernatural Charity
The most damning aspect of this entire exchange is not what was said, but what was omitted. At no point in the reported address did Leo XIV mention God, Jesus Christ, the Blessed Virgin Mary, the sacraments, sanctifying grace, the salvation of souls, the reality of sin, the necessity of contrition, or the existence of heaven and hell. Not once. The entire discourse is reduced to a purely horizontal, naturalistic plane: helping “the less fortunate,” overcoming “institutional challenges,” and hearing an abstract “Jesus” say “I am with you always” — a verse ripped from its context in Matthew 28:20, where it is tied to the command to teach and baptize all nations, not merely to fund social programs.
This is precisely the error condemned by Pope Pius IX in the Syllabus of Errors, which anathematized the proposition that “the Church has not the power of using force, nor has she any temporal power, direct or indirect” (Proposition 24) and that “the progress of sciences requires a reform of the concept of Christian doctrine concerning God, creation, Revelation, the Person of the Incarnate Word, and Redemption” (Proposition 64). When Leo XIV reduces the Church’s mission to charitable works without any reference to the supernatural order, he implicitly denies the spiritual authority of the Church and reduces her to a mere humanitarian NGO — which is exactly what the conciliar sect has become.
Pius XI, in Quas Primas, established the Feast of Christ the King precisely to combat this secularization: “His reign, namely, extends not only to Catholic nations or to those who, by receiving baptism according to law, belong to the Church… but His reign encompasses also all non-Christians, so that most truly the entire human race is subject to the authority of Jesus Christ.” The reign of Christ is not</i) primarily about feeding the hungry — it is about the salvation of souls through faith, the sacraments, and obedience to the divine law. Pius XI explicitly warned that "the entire human society had to be shaken, because it lacked a stable and strong foundation" when "God and Jesus Christ — as we lamented — were removed from laws and states and when authority was derived not from God but from men."
“I Am With You Always” — But in What?
Leo XIV’s invocation of Christ’s words — “I am with you always” — is particularly cynical when one considers that the conciliar sect has systematically dismantled the very means by which Christ is present and active in the world. Christ is present in the Most Holy Eucharist — but the post-conciliar “Mass” has been reduced to a communal meal, stripping away the theology of the propitiatory sacrifice. Christ is present in the sacraments — but the conciliar reforms have adulterated baptism, confirmation, matrimony, and extreme unction to the point of probable invalidity. Christ is present in the teaching authority of the Church — but the conciliar sect has embraced religious liberty, ecumenism, and interreligious dialogue, all condemned by the pre-conciliar Magisterium.
When Leo XIV tells Catholic Charities USA that “Jesus’ voice” says “I am with you always,” one must ask: which Jesus? The Jesus of the Gospels, who said “I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh to the Father, but by me” (John 14:6)? Or the Jesus of the conciliar sect, a vague figure of “hope” and “encouragement” who never demands conversion, never threatens with hell, and never insists on the necessity of the Catholic faith for salvation?
St. Pius X, in Lamentabili Sane Exitu, condemned the modernist proposition that “revelation was merely man’s self-awareness of his relationship to God” (Proposition 20) and that “the dogmas which the Church proposes as revealed are not truths of divine origin but are a certain interpretation of religious facts, which the human mind has worked out with great effort” (Proposition 22). The Jesus invoked by Leo XIV at this audience is precisely this modernist Jesus — a projection of human aspirations for social improvement, stripped of his divine authority and salvific mission.
The “People of Hope” — A Carnival of Naturalism
Perhaps the most grotesque detail in the entire article is the “People of Hope” initiative — a museum of hope outfitted in a car, embarking on a three-year nationwide tour to encourage visitors to “look for ways to help the less fortunate.” Robinson described this as a cause to “actually end generational cycles of violence and poverty.”
Let us be clear: a museum in a car is not the Gospel. It is not the preaching of repentance. It is not the administration of the sacraments. It is not the Most Holy Sacrifice of the Mass. It is a traveling exhibit of naturalistic humanism, dressed in the language of “hope” — a word that, in the modernist lexicon, has replaced “faith,” “charity,” and “grace.”
The proposition that human effort alone can “end generational cycles of violence and poverty” is a denial of original sin and the necessity of divine grace. As Pope Pius IX declared in the Syllabus, “Human reason, without any reference whatsoever to God, is the sole arbiter of truth and falsehood, and of good and evil; it is law to itself, and suffices, by its natural force, to secure the welfare of men and of nations” (Proposition 3) — an error that Leo XIV’s entire address implicitly endorses.
St. Augustine taught that “our hearts are restless until they rest in Thee, O God.” The “hope” offered by a museum in a car is a false promise — it offers earthly comfort without addressing the fundamental problem of the human condition: sin and the need for redemption through Jesus Christ. This is the “cult of man” condemned by the pre-conciliar Magisterium, the very error that Pius IX identified as the root of modern liberalism.
Accountability and Transparency — The Language of the Corporation, Not the Church
Kerry Robinson’s statement that “for 20 years, we have been working to usher in a culture of contemporary best practices, accountability, and financial transparency to restore trust in the Church” reveals the thoroughly corporate, bureaucratic mentality that has infected the conciliar sect. The Church does not need “contemporary best practices” — she needs eternal truth. She does not need “financial transparency” — she needs holiness. She does not need to “restore trust” through corporate governance — she needs to preach the Gospel with authority and demand faith in her divine mission.
The language Robinson uses is the language of a secular nonprofit organization, not of the Church of Jesus Christ. It is the language of the conciliar sect, which has replaced the supernatural with the managerial, the sacred with the administrative, and the divine with the bureaucratic. This is precisely the “evolution of dogmas” condemned by St. Pius X in Lamentabili — the proposition that “dogmas, sacraments, and hierarchy, both in concept and in reality, are merely modes of explanation and stages in the evolution of Christian consciousness” (Proposition 54).
Moreover, Robinson’s reference to “donor skepticism following cases of abuse in the U.S. Catholic Church” is revealing. The abuse crisis is a direct fruit of the conciliar revolution — the relaxation of discipline, the abandonment of traditional formation, the infiltration of modernist theology in seminaries, and the systematic cover-up by the conciliar hierarchy. That Catholic Charities USA must now engage in PR exercises to “restore trust” is an indictment of the entire conciar project, not a reason for further “reform.”
The Funding Cuts — A Consequence of Apostasy
The article notes that Catholic Charities USA faces federal funding cuts due to “policy differences on migration.” This is presented as an external challenge, but it is in fact a consequence of the conciliar sect’s own confusion and apostasy. The Church’s teaching on migration is clear: nations have the right to control their borders, and the common good requires ordered immigration that does not undermine the social fabric. The conciliar sect, however, has promoted open borders and mass migration under the guise of “welcome” and “compassion,” contradicting the teaching of the pre-conciliar Magisterium on the rights of nations and the common good.
Pius XI, in Quas Primas, taught that “the state is happy not by one means, and man by another; for the state is nothing else than a harmonious association of men.” The conciliar sect’s embrace of mass migration — often without regard for the assimilative capacity of host nations or the spiritual welfare of the migrants themselves — is a violation of this principle. That the U.S. government now cuts funding to Catholic Charities USA as a result is not a persecution of the Church; it is a natural consequence of the conciar sect’s abandonment of Catholic social teaching in favor of globalist humanitarianism.
The Apostolic Mission Reduced to Social Work
The article reports Leo XIV saying: “As was the case with the apostles and with the early Church, the proclamation of the Gospel through caring for the poor and for those most in need will always present certain difficulties.” This formulation is deeply dishonest. The Apostles did not “proclaim the Gospel through caring for the poor” — they proclaimed the Gospel first, and charity flowed from that proclamation. The primary mission of the Church is the salvation of souls through the preaching of the faith and the administration of the sacraments. Charity is a consequence of the Gospel, not a substitute for it.
St. Pius X, in Pascendi Dominici Gregis, condemned the modernist tendency to reduce religion to a “feeling” or “experience” rather than a submission to revealed truth. The entire address by Leo XIV is a perfect example of this reduction: the Gospel is not a set of divinely revealed truths to be believed with the assent of faith, but a “proclamation” that is essentially identical with social action. This is the “broad and liberal Protestantism” that Pius IX warned against in the Syllabus (Proposition 65 of Lamentabili: “Contemporary Catholicism cannot be reconciled with true knowledge without transforming it into a certain dogmaless Christianity, that is, into a broad and liberal Protestantism”).
Conclusion: The Abomination of Desolation Continues
This audience between Leo XIV and Catholic Charities USA is a microcosm of the conciliar sect’s apostasy. There is no mention of God, no mention of the sacraments, no mention of the salvation of souls, no mention of sin, no mention of the supernatural. In its place, we find corporate language, naturalistic humanitarianism, a traveling museum in a car, and a vague “Jesus” who offers “encouragement” but never demands repentance.
The true Church of Jesus Christ — the Church that endures in the faithful who profess the integral Catholic faith — has not abandoned her mission. She continues to offer the Most Holy Sacrifice of the Mass, to administer the sacraments validly, to preach the fullness of revealed truth, and to demand the conversion of all men to the Catholic faith. The conciar sect, by contrast, has become a charitable corporation with a religious veneer — a synagogue of Satan disguised as the Church of Christ.
As Pius IX warned in the Syllabus: “The Roman Pontiff can, and ought to, reconcile himself, and come to terms with progress, liberalism and modern civilization” (Proposition 80) — and this is precisely what Leo XIV and the entire conciliar hierarchy have done. They have reconciled themselves with the world, and in doing so, they have betrayed Christ.
Source:
Pope Leo XIV: U.S. Charities Face Challenges, but Christ Is With Us (ncregister.com)
Date: 04.05.2026