The EWTN News portal (November 27, 2025) reports on antipope Leo XIV’s theatrical distribution of apartment keys to a homeless Australian mother, Nadia Howlader, as part of the “13 Houses” campaign during the neo-church’s fabricated “World Day of the Poor.” The article celebrates this modernist spectacle while omitting all reference to the supernatural ends of Christian charity.
Naturalism Disguised as Charity
The article frames the antipope’s act as virtuous because it allegedly “combat[s] homelessness,” yet it reduces Catholic charity to social work. Pius XI condemned such horizontalism in 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 contrast, the “13 Houses” campaign—inspired by St. Vincent de Paul’s orphan care—is twisted into a secular housing initiative across 13 countries including apostate regimes like Ukraine. Graham West of the St. Vincent de Paul Society boasts of being “the largest homeless prevention organization in Australia”—a claim exposing the group’s absorption into the welfare-state machinery. True Catholic charity, as defined by Leo XIII’s Rerum Novarum, requires spiritual conversion as its primary aim:
“The chief duty of the rich is to give alms according to the precepts of the Gospel… [to] relieve the lot of the poor, with the intent of making them partners in some way, even in a small measure, in their own prosperity.” (§22)
Here, no mention is made of Howlader’s faith, sacramental life, or repentance—only her material circumstances. The antipope’s “blessed key” becomes a pagan talisman, divorced from the ex opere operato grace of valid sacraments.
The Cult of Man Replaces the Kingship of Christ
The article’s language glorifies human action while silencing God: “hope to vulnerable families” is attributed to a neo-Vatican program, not divine providence. The “Jubilee Year of Hope” parodies the true Jubilee instituted by Boniface VIII in 1300, which mandated pilgrimage to Rome for plenary indulgences—a practice anathema to antipope Leo’s ecumenism.
The St. Vincent de Paul Society’s original mission—founded in 1833 by Blessed Frédéric Ozanam to combine almsgiving with evangelization—has been gutted. Its modern Australian branch exemplifies the neo-church’s apostasy: distributing housing like a secular NGO while withholding the true keys of Peter (Matthew 16:19)—the sacraments that free souls from eternal destitution.
Symptomatic of Conciliar Revolution
This spectacle follows the anti-dogmatic playbook of Vatican II’s Gaudium et Spes, which declared: “The joys and the hopes, the griefs and the anxieties of the men of this age… are the joys and hopes, the griefs and anxieties of the followers of Christ” (§1). By equating earthly misery with “Gospel priorities,” the neo-church reduces Christ’s mission to sociology.
Pius X’s Pascendi Dominici Gregis foresaw this deformation:
“Modernists constantly and openly rebuke the Church for… her supposed aversion to modern civilization… They would have her adapt herself to the times” (§26).
The article’s climax—Howlader “thank[ing] [Leo XIV] for the generous gift”—completes the inversion: a pseudo-pope replaces Christ as benefactor. Meanwhile, the true poor—souls deprived of valid Masses and orthodox teaching—remain abandoned in the neo-church’s desolate landscape.
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Homeless mother given 'key' to new apartment by Pope Leo XIV (ewtnnews.com)
Date: 27.11.2025