“The world fell apart in less than two minutes,” Claudia Gonzales, an external relations manager for World Vision Venezuela, told “EWTN News Nightly” on June 30. “And yesterday our government says that we already have confirmed 1,700 people that died during the earthquakes.”
The EWTN News portal reports on the aftermath of twin earthquakes that devastated coastal Venezuela on June 24, 2026, killing at least 1,700 with over 60,000 missing and 50,000 homeless. The article highlights the mobilization of the conciliar sect’s humanitarian apparatus — Catholic Relief Services (CRS), Caritas Internationalis, Catholic Charities, and the Archdiocese of Miami under “Archbishop” Thomas Wenski — alongside the inevitable performative gesture from the usurper “Pope” Leo XIV (Robert Prevost), who reportedly prayed for victims and sent 100,000 euros. This spectacle of naturalistic philanthropy, masquerading as Catholic charity, exposes the total substitution of the Church’s divine mission for temporal relief work, a hallmark of the apostasy that has reigned in Rome since 1958.
The Conciliar Sect’s NGOs: Philanthropy Without the Faith
The article’s centerpiece is the “Catholic response” — a litany of NGOs: CRS, Caritas Internationalis, Catholic Charities. These entities, born of the conciliar revolution, operate as secular humanitarian agencies with Catholic branding. They distribute food, shelter, and medical care — corporal works of mercy stripped of their supernatural finality. St. Thomas Aquinas teaches that charity, as a theological virtue, has God as its object and end (Summa Theologiae II-II, q. 23, a. 1). When the gloria Dei and the salus animarum are absent, what remains is not Catholic charity but Masonic philanthropy — humanitas sine Deo.
Pius XI in Quas Primas (1925) condemned the “secularism of our times, so-called laicism” which “began with the denial of Christ the Lord’s reign over all nations.” The conciliar sect’s humanitarianism is precisely this laicism baptized: it acknowledges no Kingship of Christ over the social order, no duty of nations to publicly profess the true Faith, no Christus vincit, Christus regnat, Christus imperat. The “solidarity” invoked by “Archbishop” Wenski is a Masonic keyword, substituting the supernatural communion of saints with a naturalistic “global citizenship.”
The Usurper’s Performative Almsgiving
“Pope” Leo XIV (Robert Prevost) — the latest in the line of antipopes beginning with John XXIII — sends 100,000 euros and offers prayers. This is the theater of the abomination of desolation (Matt. 24:15). A true Pope, as Vicar of Christ, would first proclaim the Kingship of Christ over Venezuela, call the nation to penance, warn of divine judgment, and demand the restoration of the Catholic State. Instead, the usurper mimics the Red Cross. The Syllabus of Pius IX (1864) condemns the error that “the Roman Pontiff can, and ought to, reconcile himself, and come to terms with progress, liberalism and modern civilization” (Error 80). Leo XIV’s gesture is precisely this reconciliation: the papacy reduced to a moral NGO.
Silence on the Supernatural: The Gravest Accusation
Nowhere in the article — nor in the quoted statements of Gonzales, Wenski, or the usurper — is there mention of:
- The Holy Sacrifice of the Mass offered for the dead and the living
- The sacraments of Penance and Extreme Unction for the dying
- The duty of the faithful to see God’s chastising hand in the calamity
- The necessity of conversion and the Catholic Faith for salvation
- The Social Kingship of Christ as the only remedy for societal collapse
This silence is not omission; it is apostasy. The Lamentabili Sane Exitu (1907) condemned the Modernist proposition that “the dogmas of faith should be understood according to their practical function, i.e., as binding in action, rather than as principles of belief” (Prop. 26). The conciliar sect has made this heresy its operational principle: dogma is discarded; “action” — humanitarianism — remains.
“Archbishop” Wenski and the Counterfeit Hierarchy
Thomas Wenski, installed in the See of Miami by the conciliar usurpers, calls for “our Catholic faithful and all people of goodwill… to stand in solidarity.” The phrase “people of goodwill” — bonae voluntatis homines — is the vocabulary of Gaudium et Spes and the Masonic ecumenism condemned by Pius XI in Mortalium Animos (1928). A true bishop, possessing jurisdiction and the munus docendi, would not solicit alms for a secular relief fund but would command the faithful to pray, do penance, and recognize the earthquakes as flagella Dei calling a sinful nation to conversion. Wenski’s “Archdiocese of Miami” is a juridical fiction within the paramasonic structure occupying the Vatican; his acts have no canonical force.
CRS and Caritas: The Long March Through the Institutions
Catholic Relief Services, founded in 1943 as “War Relief Services,” was the prototype of the Church’s transformation into a humanitarian NGO. Caritas Internationalis, restructured after Vatican II, embodies the aggiornamento’s surrender to the world. Both are funded by governments (USAID, EU) and bound by their secular conditionalities — including the promotion of contraception, “gender” ideology, and religious indifferentism. The article notes CRS works “in partnership with Caritas to provide food, shelter, and emergency healthcare.” No mention of the Faith. This is the Church of the New Advent: a branch of the globalist welfare state.
Venezuela: A Nation Abandoned by the True Church
Venezuela, once a Catholic nation, has been delivered to socialism and now to natural disaster without the voice of the true Church. The conciliar hierarchy there — “bishops” ordained in the invalid Novus Ordo rite, recognizing the usurpers — offers only material aid. The true remedy, as Pius XI taught, is that “rulers of states… not refuse public veneration and obedience to the reigning Christ” (Quas Primas). Until Venezuela (and all nations) publicly confess Christ the King, no amount of euros or NGOs will save it. The earthquakes are a call to penance; the conciliar response is a call to forget God.
Conclusion: The Counterfeit Charity of the Antichurch
The EWTN article, far from edifying, documents the triumph of the civitas terrena over the civitas Dei within the structures occupying Rome. The “world fell apart” for Venezuelans; the conciliar sect offers tents and euros while the true Church — Ecclesia militans in the catacombs of Tradition — offers the Mass, the sacraments, and the unchanging doctrine of Christ the King. Let no faithful soul be deceived: humanitarianism is not charity; the conciliar sect is not the Church; Leo XIV is not the Pope. Non praevalebunt (Matt. 16:18).
Source:
Aid official: ‘The world fell apart’ as coastal Venezuela awaits assistance (ewtnnews.com)
Date: 30.06.2026