The EWTN News portal reports on a message from “Pope” Leo XIV (Robert Prevost) for the 34th World Day of the Sick, issued under the title “The Compassion of the Samaritan: Loving by Bearing Another’s Pain.” The text urges Catholics to “rediscover the beauty of charity” through “concrete gestures,” using the parable of the Good Samaritan as a model for “fraternal” action in a society marked by “haste and indifference.” The principal observance will occur in Chiclayo, Peru, where the antipope previously served as “bishop.” The message insists that “love is not passive” but must manifest through “authentic worship” expressed in social service, drawing heavily on Bergoglio’s Fratelli Tutti to frame compassion as a collective responsibility. The apostate John Paul II—originator of this annual observance—is cited without critique, while the “Virgin Mary under her title Health of the Sick” is invoked superficially. This modernist distortion reduces charity to a horizontal act of human solidarity, evacuating it of supernatural purpose.
Naturalism Masquerading as Christian Charity
The message’s repeated emphasis on “concrete gestures” and “communal responsibility” operates within a purely immanent framework. Leo XIV declares:
“Compassion, in this sense, implies a profound emotion that compels us to act… manifest[ing] itself through concrete gestures.”
This reduces charity to a naturalistic impulse, severed from its raison d’être: the salvation of souls and glory of God. Pius XI’s Quas Primas (1925) explicitly condemns such anthropocentric shifts: “When God and Jesus Christ were removed from laws and states, the foundations of authority were destroyed… human society had to be shaken, lacking stable foundation.” The antipope’s message inverts this order—love of neighbor becomes an end in itself, detached from the lex divina.
Omission of the supernatural is systemic: no mention of sanctifying grace, the Four Last Things, or the necessity of the sacraments appears. The sick are treated as mere objects of social concern rather than souls to be prepared for judgment. This contradicts the Church’s perennial teaching that corporal works of mercy must always serve spiritual ends (Council of Trent, Session XIV). The message’s reference to “authentic worship” as social action blasphemously equates human service with the latria due to God alone.
Fratelli Tutti and the Poison of Religious Indifferentism
Leo XIV’s reliance on Bergoglio’s Fratelli Tutti exposes the message’s theological corruption. The encyclical—condemned by faithful theologians for its syncretism—declares that “different religions… are called to openness” (Art. 279), implying all faiths equally mediate salvation. By invoking this text, the antipope smuggles in the heresy of indifferentism, which Pius IX anathematized: “Good hope at least is to be entertained of the eternal salvation of all those who are not at all in the true Church of Christ” is an error (Syllabus of Errors, Prop. 17). The Good Samaritan parable is weaponized to suggest that “neighborliness” transcends doctrinal boundaries—a direct assault on the extra Ecclesiam nulla salus dogma.
Subversion of Authority and False Ecumenism
The antipope’s call to “unite as a family” with “innkeepers” (secular actors) normalizes apostasy. True Catholic charity requires submission to the Church’s magisterium, yet the message elevates interfaith collaboration. St. Pius X’s Lamentabili sane (1907) condemns such relativism: “The Church is incapable of effectively defending evangelical ethics because it steadfastly adheres to its views” (Prop. 63). By celebrating Chiclayo—a diocese complicit in Peru’s liturgical abuses—Leo XIV confirms his alignment with revolutionary forces dismantling the Faith.
Masonic Roots of the “World Day of the Sick”
John Paul II’s establishment of this observance in 1992 aligns with Masonic strategies to replace supernatural piety with humanitarianism. The Syllabus of Errors condemns such naturalism: “The Church is an enemy of the progress of natural and theological sciences” (Prop. 57). True Catholic tradition honors the sick through the Sacrament of Extreme Unction and suffrages for the dying—not public spectacles of false unity. The perfunctory invocation of Mary as “Health of the Sick” rings hollow, as post-conciliar Mariology empties her role as Mediatrix of Grace, reducing her to a symbolic “mother of solidarity.”
Conclusion: Charity Without Christ Is Fraud
Leo XIV’s message epitomizes the neo-church’s betrayal. By divorcing charity from divine law and reducing it to social work, he fulfills Pius X’s warning in Pascendi Dominici Gregis (1907): Modernists make religion a “vital immanence arising from feeling.” Catholics must reject this simulacrum and adhere to the true Church’s teachings—where charity flows from the Mass, nourishes souls, and rebels against the modern world’s false mercy. As Pius XI declared: “In the Kingdom of Christ, all relations must be ordered by God’s commandments” (Quas Primas). Anything less is apostasy.
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Pope Leo XIV urges faithful to rediscover the beauty of charity (ewtnnews.com)
Date: 20.01.2026