The Catholic News Agency portal (December 27, 2025) profiles Sister Carla Venditti of the Apostles of the Sacred Heart of Jesus, who conducts nocturnal street ministry to women trafficked for prostitution in Rome and Abruzzo. The article emphasizes her decade-long work through the “Oasi Madre Clelia” shelter, which now expands to welcome “anyone who wants to be welcomed and accompanied: from abused young women to trans people to the poor.” Her collaborator Sister Lucia Soccio describes forming “friendship and trust” with transgender individuals encountered during outreach, assisting them with hospital visits and police matters while finding “joy and inspiration” in these relationships. The piece frames their mission as embodying divine mercy through non-judgmental accompaniment, quoting Venditti’s assertion that “God does not forsake his children” and celebrating facial transformations “from despair to serenity” among beneficiaries. This naturalistic presentation of religious life epitomizes the conciliar sect’s corruptio optimi pessima – the corruption of the best becoming the worst.
The Systematic Eradication of Supernatural Finality
Nowhere does this report mention the salvation of souls, sacramental reconciliation, or the necessity of conversion – the very raison d’être of authentic religious life. The sisters’ labor degenerates into social work clothed in ecclesiastical vestments, directly contradicting Pius XI’s encyclical Quas Primas: “When once men recognize, both in private and in public life, that Christ is King, society will at last receive the great blessings of real liberty, well-ordered discipline, peace and harmony.” By reducing their mission to temporal accompaniment devoid of doctrinal content, these religious exacerbate the modernist heresy condemned in Pius X’s Lamentabili (Proposition 22): “The dogmas which the Church proposes as revealed are not truths fallen from heaven, but an interpretation of religious facts which the human mind laboriously fashioned.”
The article’s repeated emphasis on “not being judged” constitutes theological malpractice, eviscerating the Church’s forensic duty to “judge the angels” (1 Cor 6:3). True mercy cannot exist without justice, as the Council of Trent infallibly teaches: “Justification… is not only a remission of sins but also the sanctification and renewal of the interior man” (Session VI, Chapter VII). Sister Venditti’s blanket acceptance of “trans people” without calling them to repentance violates the Apostolic mandate to “rebuke, exhort with all longsuffering and doctrine” (2 Tim 4:2), substituting pagan tolerance for Christian charity.
Sacrilegious Collaboration With Intrinsic Evil
The sisters’ pride in forming “friendships” with transgender individuals constitutes formal cooperation with grave sin. Pius IX’s Syllabus of Errors explicitly condemns the notion that “the Church ought to tolerate the errors of philosophy” (Proposition 11), yet these religious embrace gender ideology – a neo-gnostic heresy denying the natural law imprinted by God in creation. Their material assistance in accompanying “trans people” to hospitals and police stations facilitates the mental illness of gender dysphoria, violating the Thomistic principle that “evil must never be done so that good may come of it” (malum non fit ut bonum eveniat).
This apostasy flows directly from Vatican II’s Gaudium et Spes, which poisoned religious life by declaring “the joys and hopes, griefs and anxieties of men of this age” as the Church’s primary concern. Compare this with St. Vincent de Paul’s directive to his daughters: “You have for monastery only the houses of the sick; for cell, a hired room; for chapel, the parish church; for cloister, the streets of the city; for enclosure, obedience.” The difference? The saint’s daughters never neglected the salvation of souls while serving bodily needs, administering sacraments and catechizing amidst material care.
The Diabolical Disorientation of Post-Conciliar ‘Religious’
The article’s glowing description of facial transformations “from despair to serenity” reveals the operation’s naturalistic core. Authentic Catholic charity seeks not earthly serenity but supernatural sanctification. As Pope Leo XIII taught in Rerum Novarum: “When the Church guides men to virtue, she aids civil society in the highest degree.” By contrast, these sisters exemplify the condemned modernist error that “faith must be subordinate to science” (Pius X, Lamentabili Proposition 58), replacing theology with psychotherapy and sacraments with social services.
Their nighttime street ministry dangerously inverts the Church’s maternal warnings about nocturnal perils. The Roman Catechism (Part IV) expressly forbids “nocturnal assemblies” as occasions of sin, yet these sisters frequent prostitution zones after dark, normalizing rather than converting the environment. Where St. Maria Goretti’s martyrdom taught the gravity of sexual sin, Venditti’s approach implicitly condones prostitution by refusing to condemn its intrinsic evil – precisely the moral relativism Pius XII decried as “the sin of the century.”
Ecclesiological Sabotage Through False Mercy
By operating independently of canonical structures – accepting “anyone who wants to be welcomed” without doctrinal safeguards – this shelter constitutes a parallel pseudo-church. Pius IX’s Syllabus condemns those who claim “the Church has not the power of using force” (Proposition 24), yet these sisters renounce the Church’s juridical authority to discipline wayward souls. Their “Oasis” dangerously mimics authentic Catholic asylum, which always subordinated material refuge to spiritual reform, as demonstrated in the Magdalen laundries that salvaged countless souls through redemptive suffering.
The article’s omission of Mass attendance, confession, or Eucharistic adoration at the shelter proves its theological bankruptcy. Contrast this with St. Josephine Bakhita, who after escaping slavery became a Canossian sister, declaring: “I am definitively loved and whatever happens to me – I am awaited by this Love. And so my life is good.” True liberation from trafficking requires incorporation into Christ’s Mystical Body, not mere psychological “serenity.” Venditti’s ministry embodies the conciliar sect’s demonic inversion: offering victims temporary earthly comfort while withholding the eternal remedies of penance and sanctifying grace.
This report exemplifies the conciliar church’s terminal crisis: religious orders that should be “columns and ground of truth” (1 Tim 3:15) now propagate doctrinal corruption under the guise of mercy. As Our Lord warned: “Many will say to me in that day: Lord, Lord, have not we prophesied in thy name… and done many miracles in thy name? And then will I profess unto them, I never knew you: depart from me, you that work iniquity” (Mt 7:22-23). The sisters’ naturalistic humanitarianism, divorced from the Church’s supernatural mission, constitutes precisely such iniquity – a diabolical mimicry of charity leading souls to perdition.
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‘From despair to serenity’: The Italian nun saving women from human trafficking (catholicnewsagency.com)
Date: 27.12.2025