Naturalistic Charity Masks Ecclesial Apostasy in New York Pension Fund Scandal
The Catholic News Agency portal (November 20, 2025) reports that various groups are petitioning the Mother Cabrini Health Foundation – established with $3.2 billion from the Diocese of Brooklyn’s sale of Fidelis Care health insurer – to fund three causes: pensions for former employees of defunct St. Clare’s Hospital, preservation of Buffalo churches scheduled for closure, and support for clerical abuse victims. This appeal to a foundation bearing a saint’s name to clean up the conciliar sect’s self-inflicted disasters epitomizes the neo-church’s complete inversion of Catholic priorities.
Diabolical Subversion of Ecclesial Mission
The very existence of this petition demonstrates how the conciliar sect has abandoned the Church’s divine mission for temporal management. Pius XI’s encyclical Quas Primas (1925) established that “the Church, instituted by Christ as a perfect society, has a natural and inalienable right to perfect freedom and immunity from the power of the state” (¶31). Yet here we see the “Diocese” of Buffalo:
fighting diocesan-mandated closures and mergers over the past year
while pensioners from St. Clare’s Hospital – formerly operated by the Albany “diocese” – suffer from a $52 million pension fund collapse despite New York State allegedly
hiding the collapse of the pension plan from former hospital workers
This financial chaos directly results from the conciliar sect’s embrace of naturalism. The Second Vatican Council’s Gaudium et Spes initiated the shift from the societas perfecta ecclesiology to a humanitarian service organization. As the Syllabus of Errors (1864) condemned: “The Church is not a true and perfect society, entirely free” (Error #19). The current crisis proves Pius IX’s prophetic warning against subordinating spiritual goods to temporal management.
Theological Anesthesia in Abuse Response
The petition’s inclusion of abuse victims
denied the long-term healing resources and institutional acknowledgment of the harm they endured
exposes the conciliar sect’s sacramental bankruptcy. Authentic Catholic response to scandal requires:
- Public excommunication of predator clerics (Canon 2359 §2, 1917 Code)
- Mandatory reparation through Eucharistic adoration and penance
- Rejection of psychologized “healing” divorced from sacramental confession
Instead, the neo-church offers victims financial settlements while maintaining the same homosexual networks that enabled predation. St. Pius X’s Lamentabili sane (1907) condemned precisely this modernist reduction of sin to psychological harm: “Revelation was merely man’s self-awareness of his relationship to God” (Proposition 20). The petition’s therapeutic language (“long-term healing resources”) continues this anthropocentric heresy.
Masonic Charity Replaces Supernatural Works
The Mother Cabrini Health Foundation exemplifies the conciliar sect’s masonic-style philanthropy. Its $3.2 billion came from selling Fidelis Care – a Catholic health insurer – to secular interests. This follows the pattern condemned in Pius IX’s Syllabus: “The Roman pontiff can, and ought to, reconcile himself, and come to terms with progress, liberalism and modern civilization” (Error #80).
Authentic Catholic charity flows from the Mass as fons et culmen of ecclesial life. The petition’s signatories instead seek:
emergency relief, stabilization funds, and community support initiatives
reducing the Church to an NGO. As Pius XI warned in Quas Primas, when Christ is dethroned as King, “the entire human society had to be shaken, because it lacked a stable and strong foundation” (¶18). The pension collapse and parish closures manifest this divine chastisement.
Canonical Consequences of Modernist Governance
The financial implosion follows logically from the conciliar sect’s invalid governance. Canon 188.4 of the 1917 Code states:
Every office becomes vacant by the mere fact…if the cleric: publicly defects from the Catholic faith
Since all post-1958 “bishops” adhere to Vatican II’s heresies (religious liberty, collegiality, ecumenism), they lack jurisdiction over Church property. The attempted sale of parishes constitutes sacrilege. True Catholics must follow St. Paul’s injunction:
You were bought with a price; do not become slaves of men (1 Cor 7:23)
by abandoning these robber churches (John 10:1) and seeking valid sacraments from priests ordained in apostolic succession outside the conciliar structures.
Source:
Catholic advocates petition New York foundation to fund pensions, church preservation (catholicnewsagency.com)
Date: 20.11.2025