Vatican’s Empty Rhetoric on Child Welfare Masks Spiritual Bankruptcy
EWTN News reports that Robert Prevost (“Pope Leo XIV”) lamented a “lack of progress in protecting children from danger” during a meeting with organizers of the initiative “From Crisis to Care: Catholic Action for Children” on February 5, 2026. The article quotes Prevost decrying children living in “extreme poverty, suffer[ing] abuse,” and lacking education while urging collaboration to address their “physical, psychological, and spiritual welfare.” He invoked Bergoglio’s Amoris Laetitia to emphasize a child’s “right to receive love from a mother and father.”
Naturalism Replaces Supernatural Charity
The entire discourse reduces the Church’s mission to a humanitarian NGO agenda, conspicuously omitting the primary spiritual dangers facing children: sacramental deprivation, heresy, and eternal damnation. Prevost speaks of “God-given potential” while suppressing the sine qua non of Catholic teaching: gratia elevans naturam (grace elevating nature). Nowhere does he mention baptism, the state of grace, or the necessity of the True Faith for salvation—omissions condemned by Pius IX’s Syllabus of Errors (1864), which anathematized the notion that “the Church ought to be separated from the State, and the State from the Church” (Error 55).
False Family Theology Rooted in Modernism
Prevost’s appeal to Amoris Laetitia—a document permitting Communion for adulterers—exposes the initiative’s rotten foundation. The claim that children require “a mother and a father” for “integral and harmonious development” deliberately ignores the Church’s infallible teaching that marriage exists primarily for “the procreation and education of children for the Kingdom of God” (Council of Trent, Session XXIV). By reducing the family to a naturalistic unit, the Vatican echoes the Declaration on Religious Freedom (Dignitatis Humanae, 1965), which Pius XI condemned in advance as a betrayal of Christ’s Kingship: “States must submit to Christ as individuals do” (Quas Primas, 1925).
Silence on Sacrilege and Heretical “Care”
The article praises “Catholic Action for Children” without questioning what “Catholic” means in a structure that:
- Promotes sacrilegious “Communions” through invalid Novus Ordo rites (St. Pius X, Lamentabili Sane, condemning Error 40: Sacraments “merely serve to remind man of the presence of the Creator”).
- Allows pagan rituals in the Vatican Gardens (e.g., Pachamama worship, 2019).
- Teaches heresy through “LGBT-friendly” catechisms (e.g., German “Synodal Way”).
When Prevost speaks of “spiritual welfare,” he refers not to sanctifying grace but to the demonic “universal fraternity” of Bergoglio’s Fratelli Tutti—a concept condemned by St. Pius X as “the synthesis of all heresies” (Pascendi Dominici Gregis, 1907).
“Failed Initiatives” Confirm Apostasy
Prevost admits to “failed initiatives” and a “seeming lack of interest”—an inadvertent confession of the conciliar sect’s impotence. True Catholic charity flows from doctrinal purity, as Leo XIII taught: “When once men recognize… that Christ is King, society will at last receive the great blessings of real liberty, well-ordered discipline, peace, and harmony” (Annum Sacrum, 1899). Instead, the Vatican’s “care” enshrines the very errors that perpetuate child suffering:
One must question whether global commitments for sustainable development have been cast aside when we see… so many children still live in extreme poverty.
This Marxist “sustainable development” language—imported from UN agendas—replaces the Kingship of Christ with UN Sustainable Development Goals. Pius XI condemned such naturalism: “The peace of Christ can only exist in the Kingdom of Christ” (Quas Primas).
Conclusion: A Call to Reject False Shepherds
The article concludes with saccharine quoting of children desiring to “cleanse the world of bad things”—a blasphemous parody of exorcism rites, stripped of the Church’s authority. True protection of children requires:
- Rejecting the conciliar sect’s invalid sacraments and false doctrines.
- Restoring the Social Reign of Christ the King (Pius XI, Quas Primas).
- Preaching the Four Last Things (death, judgment, Heaven, Hell) as the ultimate “care.”
As St. Augustine warned: “What does it profit a child to gain the whole world and lose his soul?” (De Doctrina Christiana, 1.24). Until the Vatican repudiates Modernism and returns to Catholic Tradition, its “care” remains a satanic trap.
Source:
Pope Leo XIV laments lack of progress in protecting children (ewtnnews.com)
Date: 05.02.2026