VaticanNews portal (November 22, 2025) reports on Tetiana Stawnych, head of “Caritas Ukraine,” discussing her meeting with antipope Leo XIV and promoting his modernist exhortation *Dilexi te*. The article portrays humanitarian efforts following a Russian missile strike on Ternopil while emphasizing “love and solidarity” divorced from the Catholic obligation to convert nations to Christ the King. Stawnych—a U.S. citizen who relocated to Ukraine—claims “Dilexi te” helps “see Christ present in the one who’s in need,” yet conspicuously avoids any mention of Russia’s mandatory conversion to Catholicism or the Social Reign of Christ. This propaganda piece exemplifies how the conciliar sect substitutes the Church’s divine mission with naturalistic activism.
Humanitarian Paganism Replaces the Spiritual Works of Mercy
The article celebrates “Caritas Ukraine” providing “warm drinks,” food, and psychological counseling after the Ternopil attack—a deliberate reduction of charity to materialist terms. Contrast this with the Church’s uncompromising teaching: “The primary duty of charity does not lie in the toleration of false ideas… but in the zeal for their elimination” (Pius XI, Mortalium Animos). True Catholic response to tragedy begins with administering Last Rites, urging repentance, and offering the Sacrifice of the Mass—not merely distributing blankets.
Stawnych’s admission that “Dilexi te” focuses on “seeing the other in need” exposes the document’s immanentist heresy. Pius XI condemned such horizontalism in Quas Primas: “When once men recognize… that Christ has been given all power in heaven and on earth… it will be possible to heal human society.” The conciliar sect’s “Caritas” operates as a secular NGO, abandoning the first spiritual work of mercy: admonishing sinners.
False Obedience to Antipopes Contradicts Divine Law
The uncritical presentation of Stawnych’s meeting with antipope Leo XIV constitutes formal cooperation with apostasy. Canon 188.4 of the 1917 Code declares that clergy who “publicly defect from the Catholic faith” lose office automatically—a principle affirmed by Pope Paul IV’s Cum ex Apostolatus Officio. Since John XXIII, Vatican occupiers have promulgated heresies like religious liberty (contrary to Quanta Cura #3), making their authority illegitimate.
Stawnych’s claim that meeting Bergoglio’s successor gave “a sense of community… to something larger” constitutes idolatrous substitution. The true Catholic community is defined by communion with the immutable depositum fidei, not emotional gatherings with manifest heretics. As St. Robert Bellarmine states: “A manifest heretic cannot be Pope” (De Romano Pontifice II.30).
“Dilexi te” Codifies Modernist Apostasy
The Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church’s endorsement of this document—presented at a “formation program” for Caritas staff—demonstrates its complete assimilation into the conciliar sect. Any text authored by antipopes automatically falls under Pius X’s condemnation in Lamentabili Sane (#22): “The dogmas which the Church proposes as revealed are not truths of divine origin but interpretations of religious facts.”
This “exhortation” follows the condemned Modernist playbook by:
- Redefining charity as social work rather than leading souls to baptism (contrary to Quas Primas‘s demand for Christ’s social reign)
- Elevating subjective “encounter” over the Church’s objective missionary mandate (condemned in Syllabus of Errors #77)
- Omitting all references to the Four Last Things—judgment, hell, heaven, purgatory—thereby denying the supernatural end of charity
Naturalistic “Solidarity” Betrays Ukraine’s True Need
Stawnych praises Ukraine’s “sense of togetherness” as revealing “what it means to be human”—a Rousseauian romanticization divorced from Original Sin. The article never mentions that Ukraine’s liberation depends on consecration to the Immaculate Heart of Mary (though we reject the false Fatima narrative, Russia’s conversion remains dogmatically necessary). Pius IX’s Syllabus (#15-17) condemns the notion that pagan nations can find salvation without submitting to the Catholic Church.
When asked what Ukrainians need, Stawnych requests worldly “support” and “action”—ignoring the only solution: “There is no salvation in anyone else [but Christ], for there is no other name under heaven given among men by which we must be saved” (Acts 4:12). True Catholic solidarity demands prayer for Russia’s conversion, not UN-funded NGOs.
Conclusion: Rejecting the Neo-Church’s Counterfeit Charity
This “Caritas” operation—like all conciliar projects—subverts Catholic identity by:
- Replacing the Corpus Christi Mysticum with humanitarian networks
- Equating antipopes with legitimate papal authority
- Reducing the Works of Mercy to social services devoid of evangelization
As Pope Pius XI taught in Quas Primas, “Nations will be reminded by the annual celebration of this feast that not only private individuals but also rulers and princes are bound to give public honor and obedience to Christ.” Ukraine’s true liberation begins when its people reject the conciliar sect’s lies and demand the Social Reign of Christ the King.
Source:
Ukraine Caritas chief on love, solidarity and Dilexi Te (vaticannews.va)
Date: 22.11.2025