The “Holy Family” Orphanage: Naturalistic Charity Replacing Supernatural Mission
The Vatican News portal (December 28, 2025) describes a Bethlehem orphanage run by “Daughters of Charity” where “children up to age 6 who have been orphaned or abandoned are welcomed.” The institution reportedly houses 45 children permanently with 35 more in daycare, staffed by approximately 70 personnel including “sisters, educators, doctors, and volunteers.” “Sister Laudy Fares” claims they “celebrate the living Jesus every day” by welcoming “Christ into our arms” through these children “rejected by society.” The operation depends entirely on donations from pilgrims, Israelis, and Palestinians, with children transferred to Palestinian state custody at age six.
Sacramental Abandonment Masquerading as Charity
The article conspicuously avoids mentioning whether these children receive baptism (Code of Canon Law 1917, Can. 737) or any catechetical formation. “Sister Fares” openly admits:
“We do not do catechesis with words; our identity is expressed through who we are and what we do”
– a stance diametrically opposed to St. Pius X’s condemnation of “those who exclude religious instruction from the works of charity” (Encyclical Jucunda Sane). The conciliar sect’s inversion of priorities reduces Christianity to social work, forgetting Christ’s command: “Unless a man be born again of water and the Holy Ghost, he cannot enter into the kingdom of God” (John 3:5).
Illegitimate Cooperation With Anti-Catholic Regimes
By transferring six-year-olds to the Palestinian Authority – an Islamic entity hostile to Catholicism – the institution actively collaborates with enemies of Christ the King. This violates Pius XI’s teaching that “States must conform their laws to the prescriptions of the divine and natural law” (Encyclical Quas Primas, §18). The article’s celebration of Israeli donors alongside Palestinians exemplifies religious indifferentism condemned in Pope Pius IX’s Syllabus of Errors: “Every man is free to embrace and profess that religion which he shall consider true” (Proposition 15).
Naturalism Replacing Supernatural Charity
The orphanage’s exclusive focus on physical needs (“food, education, and medical care”) while ignoring spiritual needs embodies the modernist heresy denounced in St. Pius X’s Pascendi Dominici Gregis: “For them, the religious sentiment is exclusively… a movement of the spirit, purely subjective” (§14). True Catholic charity – as practiced by St. Vincent de Paul himself – always prioritizes the salvation of souls through sacraments and doctrine. The article’s tearful sentimentality about “affection and love” without mention of grace or redemption constitutes what Pope Pius XII called “a conspiracy of silence against the supernatural” (Address to Catechetical Congress, 1950).
Conciliar Sect’s Institutionalized Apostasy
This orphanage operates under the authority of “Father Karim Maroun, provincial superior of the Vincentians” – a cleric undoubtedly ordained with Paul VI’s invalid rites (Sacred Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, Inter Insigniores, 1976). The entire operation exemplifies the conciliar sect’s transformation of religious life into NGO activism. As Pope Pius XII warned: “Works of mercy can never be disassociated from the truth which Christ taught would make us free” (Radio Message La Solennità , 1956). The institution’s dependence on fickle donations rather than ecclesiastical support reveals its detachment from the Church’s divine mission.
The “Holy Family” orphanage stands as tragic evidence of the conciliar sect’s complete abandonment of Extra Ecclesiam Nulla Salus – substituting sentimental humanitarianism for the hard truths of redemption. While pre-Vatican II missionaries would have baptized these children immediately and raised them in the Faith, these pseudo-religious now deliver them to Islamization by the Palestinian Authority. Such is the bitter fruit of abandoning the Social Kingship of Christ.
Source:
In Bethlehem, a religious orphanage gives love to children without families (vaticannews.va)
Date: 28.12.2025