Interfaith Syncretism Masquerading as Catholic Charity in Istanbul
The Vatican News portal (November 27, 2025) reports on preparations for antipope Leo XIV’s visit to a Little Sisters of the Poor facility in Istanbul. The article emphasizes the sisters’ interfaith accommodation – maintaining both a Catholic chapel and Islamic masjid – while caring for 60 elderly residents of various religions. Sister Margaret states residents feel “honoured” by the visit regardless of religious affiliation, while Mother Mary Ignatius claims they “don’t make any difference with religion.” The report frames this pluralism as virtuous, quoting the sisters’ excitement about the “privilege” of hosting the antipope during “Thanksgiving time.”
Sacrilegious Equivalence Between True Worship and Pagan Rites
The facility’s maintenance of a masjid alongside a Catholic chapel constitutes formal cooperation with false worship, violating the First Commandment. The Syllabus of Errors (1864) condemns the notion that “the Church ought to be separated from the State, and the State from the Church” (Error #55), while Pius XI’s Quas Primas (1925) declares Christ’s kingship over “not only Catholic nations or to those who… belong to the Church… but also all non-Christians.” True Catholic charity requires seeking the conversion of souls, not institutionalizing religious indifferentism.
St. Pius X’s encyclical Lamentabili sane exitu (1907) condemned the modernist error that “Revelation was merely man’s self-awareness of his relationship to God” (Proposition 20) – precisely embodied in Mother Mary Ignatius’ claim that spiritual care means providing spaces for both Christian and Islamic rituals. The Church has always taught extra Ecclesiam nulla salus (Outside the Church there is no salvation), with Pius IX’s Quanto conficiamur (1863) affirming that those in invincible ignorance cannot be saved without submitting to the Church when truth becomes known to them.
Illegitimate Authority Receiving False Obedience
The sisters’ reverence toward “Pope” Leo XIV exposes their acceptance of conciliar sect leadership. Canon 188.4 of the 1917 Code states that clergy “publicly defecting from the Catholic faith” automatically lose office. Paul IV’s Cum ex Apostolatus Officio declares elections of heretics “null, void, and of no effect” – applying to all antipopes since John XXIII. St. Robert Bellarmine teaches manifest heretics cease being Church members “by that very fact” (De Romano Pontifice), making the sisters’ fawning over this usurper spiritually deadly.
Naturalism Replacing Supernatural Charity
Nowhere does the article mention administering sacraments or pursuing residents’ conversions. This reduces Catholic charity to social work, violating Pius XI’s warning against those who “remove Jesus Christ and His most holy law from customs and public life” (Quas Primas). Mother Mary Ignatius’ statement about “bringing residents close to God” while facilitating Islamic prayer constitutes the “false irenicism” condemned in Pius XII’s Humani Generis (1950).
The sisters’ claim to serve “Jesus Himself” in residents while enabling Islamic worship creates theological incoherence. As the Council of Florence (1439) decreed: “The Holy Roman Church… firmly believes, professes, and preaches that all those outside the Catholic Church… cannot share in eternal life.” True corporal works of mercy must be accompanied by spiritual works – especially instructing the ignorant and admonishing sinners.
Globalist Subversion of Religious Life
The report highlights the sisters’ multinational composition (India, England, Nigeria, Kenya, Malta) as virtuous, ignoring how this disperses cultural roots and facilitates doctrinal compromise. Traditional religious orders maintained distinct cultural expressions while professing identical doctrine – unlike the conciliar sect’s “inculturation” errors. The sisters’ focus on interfaith dialogue over evangelization fulfills Pius X’s warning in Pascendi about modernists reducing religion to “vital immanence” divorced from objective truth.
Omission of Grave Spiritual Dangers
The article completely ignores whether residents receive sacraments, if Mass follows traditional rites, or if the sisters warn against receiving conciliar sect “sacraments.” This silence speaks volumes about their theological bankruptcy. As the Holy Office decreed (1949), those knowingly adhering to false religions “cannot obtain eternal salvation.” The sisters’ failure to proclaim this constitutes criminal negligence of souls.
Sister Margaret’s reference to “Thanksgiving time” adopts American secular culture rather than Catholic liturgical time. Her anxious uncertainty about the antipope’s visit (“we were not certain he would come”) reveals disordered attachment to conciliar personalities rather than immutable doctrine.
Conclusion: Charity Without Truth Is Spiritual Fraud
This facility operates as a pluralistic social service agency, not a Catholic institution. The sisters’ interfaith masquerade directly contradicts Pius XI’s teaching that “the entire human race is subject to the authority of Jesus Christ” (Quas Primas). Their excitement over an antipope’s visit confirms their incorporation into the conciliar sect’s project of replacing the One True Church with a humanist NGO. Until they renounce Vatican II’s errors and return to integral Catholic practice, their work remains spiritually barren – whatever temporal good they provide.
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Little Sisters honoured to welcome Pope to home for the elderly (vaticannews.va)
Date: 27.11.2025