Vatican News reports that the John Paul II Foundation for the Sahel, approved by antipope Leo XIV, held its 44th Board session in Dakar, with Sr. Alessandra Smerilli praising its projects as “bearers of hope” for local communities. The Foundation, established in 1984, focuses on alleviating suffering from drought, desertification, and famine. The Board reviewed the social, political, and security situations in nine countries, elected new leadership, and approved a budget prioritizing project financing. The entire initiative, conducted under the auspices of the conciliar dicastery for “integral human development,” represents a stark substitution of naturalistic humanitarianism for the supernatural reign of Christ the King, revealing the apostate core of the post-conciliar “Church.”
Factual Deconstruction: A Foundation Named for a Heretic
The very entity under discussion is fatally compromised. The John Paul II Foundation for the Sahel is named after Karol Wojtyła, who, as the long-reigning head of the conciliar sect, systematically dismantled Catholic doctrine and practice. His “canonization” by the antipope Francis in 2014 was a sacrilegious act, honoring a man whose teachings and actions constitute manifest heresy and apostasy. From the perspective of integral Catholic faith, an institution bearing the name of such a figure is inherently corrupt, a tool of the revolution rather than an instrument of the true Church. The Foundation’s establishment in 1984, during Wojtyła’s pontificate, places it squarely within the framework of the post-Vatican II “aggiornamento,” which sought to align the Church’s external works with the principles of the world rather than with the exclusive demands of the supernatural kingdom of Christ.
Theological Bankruptcy: Silence on Supernatural Ends
The ARTICLE is a masterclass in omission, a silent sermon on the naturalistic religion of the conciliar sect. It breathlessly details projects, budgets, roundtables on “social, political, and security situation,” and messages to civil authorities. Yet, it is utterly devoid of the essential language of Catholic mission: there is no mention of the **Most Holy Sacrifice of the Mass** as the central act of worship and reparation; no reference to the **Sacraments** as necessary means of grace; no call to **repentance, faith, and baptism** as the non-negotiable path to salvation; no discussion of the **state of grace** or the **final judgment**. This silence is not accidental; it is doctrinal. It exposes a foundational error: the reduction of the Church’s mission to temporal, material welfare, a heresy condemned by Pope Pius XI in *Quas Primas*.
The encyclical *Quas Primas*, on the feast of Christ the King, explicitly defines the nature and goal of His reign: “His kingdom… is such that men who wish to belong to it prepare themselves through **repentance**, but cannot enter except through **faith and baptism**… This kingdom is opposed only to the kingdom of Satan and the powers of darkness.” The ARTICLE’s “bearers of hope” offer a kingdom without repentance, a hope without baptism, a peace without the Cross. They collaborate with “local Churches” (i.e., conciliar structures) and civil powers without a single word on the absolute necessity of these souls’ conversion and submission to the **sole rule of Christ the King**. This is the precise error of “national conversion without evangelization” identified in the analysis of the Fatima apparitions—a diversion from the primary danger of apostasy within souls and an embrace of a false, naturalistic hope.
Symptomatic of the Conciliar Apostasy: “Integral Human Development” as Modernist Dogma
The terminology itself is a red flag. Sr. Smerilli represents the Dicastery for Promoting Integral Human Development. This phrase is a direct heir to the modernist errors condemned by St. Pius X in *Lamentabili sane exitu*. Proposition 64 states: “The Church is incapable of effectively defending evangelical ethics, because it steadfastly adheres to its views, which cannot be reconciled with modern progress.” The conciliar sect’s response was to abandon the defense of evangelical ethics in favor of a vague, evolutionary “human development” that adapts to “modern progress.” This dicastery, and the Foundation it endorses, operationalizes that surrender.
Pius XI in *Quas Primas* directly links the social order to the supernatural: “The state is happy not by one means, and man by another; for the state is nothing else than a harmonious association of men… He is the author of prosperity and true happiness for individual citizens as well as for the state.” The happiness and prosperity of the Sahel, according to Catholic doctrine, can only flow from the public recognition and reign of Christ the King, whose law orders all relationships. The Foundation’s work, divorced from this principle, is merely a sophisticated form of the Pelagianism condemned in the *Syllabus of Errors* (Error 58: “All the rectitude and excellence of morality ought to be placed in the accumulation and increase of riches…”). It builds with “corruptible gold and silver” (1 Peter 1:18) while ignoring the “precious blood of Christ” as the sole price of redemption and source of true hope.
Collaboration with Apostasy: The “Local Churches” and Civil Powers
The ARTICLE celebrates the Board’s “deeply united” spirit and its “sensitivity to the challenges and sufferings of the Sahel,” including discussions with “the life of the local Churches.” These “local Churches” are the dioceses of the conciliar sect, led by bishops who, in almost all cases, are either manifest heretics themselves or in formal cooperation with heretics (the antipopes). From the *Defense of Sedevacantism*, we recall St. Robert Bellarmine: “a manifest heretic… is not a Christian… therefore, a manifest heretic cannot be Pope.” The same principle applies to bishops in formal communion with a manifest heretic. The Foundation’s collaboration is therefore collaboration with a **paramasonic structure** that occupies Catholic sees. This is not “sensitivity”; it is complicity in the greatest crime in history: the systematic destruction of the Faith.
Furthermore, the Board sends messages to the “President of the Republic of Senegal” and the “Italian Bishops’ Conference.” The *Syllabus of Errors* (Error 55) anathematizes the separation of Church and State: “The Church ought to be separated from the State, and the State from the Church.” The Foundation’s work, by operating within this separated framework and seeking legitimacy from civil powers and modernist bishops, implicitly accepts the very error Pius IX condemned. It builds a “civilization of love” (a phrase popularized by John Paul II, the heretic) on the sand of secular neutrality, forgetting that “when God and Jesus Christ were removed from laws and states… the foundations of that authority were destroyed” (*Quas Primas*).
The Heretical Legacy of the Namesake: John Paul II
To understand the Foundation’s spirit, one must understand its patron. John Paul II (Karol Wojtyła) was a consummate modernist. He:
* Denied the Catholic doctrine of the **social reign of Christ the King** in practice, promoting religious liberty (*Dignitatis Humanae*) which contradicts the *Syllabus* (Errors 15-18) and the immutable teaching that the State has the duty to publicly recognize the Catholic religion as the sole religion of the State.
* Engaged in **false ecumenism**, praying with heretics and infidels, treating all religions as equally valid paths to God—a direct violation of *Quas Primas*: “His reign encompasses also all non-Christians, so that most truly the entire human race is subject to the authority of Jesus Christ,” meaning they must be converted, not dialogued with as equals.
* Promoted a **syncretic, anthropocentric humanism** that placed man at the center, epitomized by his “theology of the body” and his World Youth Days, which were spectacles of emotionalism devoid of solid doctrine.
* Was personally implicated in the cover-up of the most vile crimes against Faith and morals within the Church, protecting modernist and perverted clerics.
A foundation bearing his name, therefore, cannot help but propagate his errors. Its focus on “development” without dogma, “collaboration” without conversion, and “hope” without the Cross is the exact practical outworking of Wojtyła’s apostate program.
Conclusion: A Tool of the Apostasy
The John Paul II Foundation for the Sahel is not a Catholic work. It is a **conciliar project** that embodies the post-1958 revolution’s core tenets: the **silencing of supernatural truth** in favor of naturalistic philanthropy, the **collaboration with apostate ecclesiastical and civil powers**, and the **implicit rejection of the social kingship of Christ**. Its “hope” is the false hope of the world, its “development” is a Pelagian works-righteousness, and its “unity” is the unity of apostasy. The true Catholic response to the suffering in the Sahel is not this humanistic NGO, but the preaching of the **sole reign of Christ the King**, the administration of the **Sacraments** (especially Baptism and Penance), and the formation of **martyrs and confessors** who would rather die than see the Faith compromised. The Foundation, approved by an antipope and led by conciliar bishops, is part of the **abomination of desolation** standing in the holy place—a sophisticated operation to make the world believe the “Church” cares, while it systematically leads souls to perdition by omission of the one thing necessary.
Source:
John Paul II Foundation for the Sahel is ‘bearer of hope’ for communities (vaticannews.va)
Date: 17.02.2026