Conciliar Sect’s Charity Masks Apostate Reality
The “Catholic News Agency” portal (November 6, 2025) promotes a December 13-14 fundraiser for the “National Religious Retirement Office,” claiming it supports “more than 21,000 retired priests and religious” in the United States. The article states these individuals served in “schools, hospitals, parishes” with “little or no compensation,” now facing a $1 billion annual care deficit. “USCCB” official John Knutsen calls this collection “a profound opportunity to show gratitude” for their service.
Naturalistic Reduction of the Church to Pension Management
The entire narrative reduces the Church’s mission to a purely financial and sociological problem (contrary to Pius XI’s Quas Primas which declares Christ’s kingship over all temporal affairs). By framing the crisis as merely “rising costs of elder care versus limited resources,” the conciliar sect ignores the theological catastrophe underlying this demographic collapse: the systematic destruction of religious life through Vatican II’s Perfectae Caritatis, which dissolved cloisters, secularized orders, and abolished the sine qua non of religious vocation – the pursuit of personal sanctification through vows lived in radical separation from the world.
“For decades, consecrated men and women in the U.S. have served […] often with little or no compensation”
This socialist-tinged language (“little or no compensation”) implicitly condemns the pre-conciliar model where religious orders sustained themselves through Divine Providence, monastic labor, and alms given freely by the faithful – not through institutionalized welfare systems. The 1917 Code of Canon Law (Canon 537) explicitly forbade religious from salaries, stating: “Religious shall not demand remuneration for their work; but whatever is spontaneously offered, they may accept for their community or for pious causes.”
Financial Sorcery Replaces Spiritual Paternity
The admission that “only 4% of communities reporting to the NRRO indicated they had sufficient funds for retirement” exposes the fruit of post-conciliar apostasy. Authentic religious orders built monasteries designed for aeternitatem (eternity), with infirmaries staffed by members as part of their opus Dei. Modernist communities, having abandoned the vow of poverty (replaced with “common purse” bureaucracy), the vow of chastity (through psychologized formation), and the vow of obedience (via democratic governance models), now face corporate-style bankruptcy.
“The average annual cost per person is $56,600, and specialized care costs $96,000”
These figures reveal the ultimate betrayal: elderly religious dumped into secular nursing facilities rather than being cared for by their own communities as mandated by the Rule of St. Benedict (Ch. 36: “Care of the sick must rank above every other duty”). The “$28.1 million” collected in 2024 constitutes blood money – donations extorted to sustain those who dismantled the very infrastructure that would have provided charitable care without charge.
Subsidizing Apostate Clergy Through Emotional Blackmail
Knutsen’s appeal to “compassion and solidarity” constitutes spiritual extortion. The 21,000 retirees include:
- Priests who invalidly “concelebrated” the Novus Ordo Missae after 1969, per Cardinal Ottaviani’s Short Critical Study which proved the new rite “represents a striking departure from Catholic theology.”
- Religious who disseminated heresies like religious liberty (Dignitatis Humanae) condemned by Pius IX’s Syllabus of Errors (Proposition 15).
- “Nuns” who abandoned habits for pantsuits, transforming convents into feminist communes.
When Knutsen states “we can help ensure they are cared for with the dignity they so rightly deserve,” he ignores St. Paul’s warning: “If any man shall not obey our word by this epistle, note that man and do not keep company with him, that he may be ashamed” (2 Thess 3:14). True charity demands withholding support from those who persist in doctrinal rebellion – a principle applied by Pope Pius V in excommunicating Elizabeth I and confiscating properties of heretical Anglican clergy.
Omission of the Supernatural as Damning Silence
The article’s 700 words contain zero references to grace, sacraments, or the salvation of souls – the sole purpose of religious life according to Vatican I’s Dei Filius. Not one statistic addresses:
- How many retirees regularly attend the Traditional Latin Mass (the only licit rite)
- How many have recourse to valid sacramental confession
- How many publicly reject Vatican II’s heresies
This silence confirms the fundraiser’s true aim: propping up the conciliar sect’s collapsing infrastructure rather than healing the spiritual bankruptcy of its members. The $1 billion “annual cost of care” parallels the “$1 billion distributed since 1988,” revealing a parasitic system where donations fund heresy’s retirement homes rather than missions, schools, or conversions.
Source:
Upcoming collection to support more than 21,000 retired religious and priests (catholicnewsagency.com)
Article date: 06.11.2025