The Vatican News portal reports on January 15, 2026, that the Catholic Church in Sri Lanka has mobilized humanitarian support after Cyclone Ditwah caused devastating floods, killing over 600 people and affecting millions. “The Catholic community in Sri Lanka has become involved and is committed to a single goal: to instill new hope,” states Fr. Basil Rohan Fernando of the Pontifical Mission Societies. The article emphasizes material assistance, government collaboration, and international aid while completely omitting any reference to the supernatural mission of the Church. This report exemplifies the conciliar sect’s reduction of Catholicism to a social service agency.
Naturalism Masquerading as Charity
The article’s exclusive focus on temporal relief efforts constitutes a radical departure from the Church’s divine mandate. While corporal works of mercy remain necessary, the conciliar sect’s response reduces the Church to a non-governmental organization, ignoring the primacy of the spiritual (Pius XI, Quas Primas). Father Fernando’s statement that their goal is “to instill new hope” through material and financial support demonstrates a complete inversion of priorities. True Catholic charity always subordinates earthly relief to the salvation of souls, as the Council of Trent teaches: “The Church was instituted primarily for the sanctification of souls” (Session XXV).
Omission of Sacramental Life as Heretical Silence
Nowhere does the article mention the administration of sacraments to the dying, spiritual guidance for the afflicted, or public prayers for divine mercy. This calculated silence reveals the modernist error condemned in Pius X’s Lamentabili Sane (Proposition 20): that revelation is merely man’s self-awareness of his relationship to God. By omitting the viaticum for the dying, Mass intentions for victims, and communal penance, the conciliar sect denies the supernatural purpose of suffering. The true Church would have reported priests administering last rites amidst floodwaters, not bureaucrats distributing rupees.
Blasphemous Collaboration With Anti-Catholic Regime
The uncritical praise for Anura Kumara Dissanayake’s government ignores this regime’s documented persecution of Catholics. The article’s celebration of state-church collaboration violates Pius IX’s Syllabus of Errors (Proposition 55), which condemns the notion that “the Church ought to be separated from the State, and the State from the Church.” True Catholics remember that this government has:
“destroyed 720,000 buildings…along with 16,000 kilometers of roads”
yet remains silent about its destruction of churches and harassment of faithful clergy. The conciliar sect’s willingness to partner with persecutors constitutes apostasy from Christ the King (Pius XI, Quas Primas).
Theological Bankruptcy of “Hope” Without Redemption
Father Fernando’s空洞 rhetoric about “keeping hope alive” embodies the modernist heresy condemned in Lamentabili Sane (Proposition 22): that dogmas are merely interpretations of religious facts. When stripped of its eschatological dimension – hope in Christ’s Resurrection and life eternal – this “hope” becomes a naturalistic self-deception. The article’s repeated references to school supplies and bridge reconstruction while omitting Mass offerings, rosary processions, and reparation for sins prove the conciliar sect has abandoned the unbloody sacrifice of Calvary as the source of true hope.
Economic Idolatry in Disaster Response
The article’s detailed accounting of financial costs ($7 billion reconstruction, 7% of GDP) while ignoring spiritual costs exemplifies the cult of man denounced in Pius IX’s Syllabus (Proposition 58). By framing the disaster through purely economic metrics – “debt restructuring…with support from the International Monetary Fund” – the conciliar sect practices the very materialismo condemned in Quas Primas: “The state is happy not by one means, and man by another; for the state is nothing else than a harmonious association of men” (Pius XI, quoting St. Augustine). True Catholics measure disasters by souls endangered, not bridges destroyed.
Conclusion: Abandonment of the Cross for Humanitarianism
This report manifests the conciliar sect’s complete metamorphosis into a social service agency. By replacing Extreme Unction with government subsidies and spiritual works of mercy with school supply distributions, they fulfill Pius X’s warning in Pascendi Dominici Gregis: “The Modernist…imagines a Church derived from society…a society which has its origin in the needs of the faithful” (Chapter 3). The absence of sacramental language, doctrinal instruction, and call to repentance confirms this structure has no relation to the Catholic Church founded by Christ. True relief efforts would have prioritized restoring access to valid sacraments and condemning the sins that provoke divine chastisements.
Source:
Sri Lanka Church works to ‘keep hope alive’ after devastating floods (vaticannews.va)
Date: 15.01.2026