VaticanNews portal reports on the concluding celebrations for the 200th anniversary of the Contemplative Sisters of Our Lady of Charity of the Good Shepherd, featuring a Mass presided by “Cardinal” Luis Antonio Tagle and a General Audience with antipope Leo XIV. The article emphasizes the sisters’ “contemplative heart” of reconciliation through prayer and presence, claiming their mission empowers “girls, women, and families facing vulnerability.” Antipope Leo XIV is quoted promoting “transformative renewal” and “hope amid challenges,” while Sr. Joan Marie Lopez speaks of being “made radiant by grace” to shine “God’s love… into the heart of the world.” This spectacle epitomizes the conciliar sect’s substitution of Catholic asceticism for naturalistic emotivism.
Naturalization of Religious Life Under Masonic Ecumenism
The article’s praise for sisters engaging “partners-in-mission” reveals the systematic demolition of the cloister, condemned by Pope Pius XII in Sponsa Christi (1950) as essential for contemplative orders. True nuns, according to the 1917 Code of Canon Law (Canon 487), must observe papal enclosure to “fly the contagion of the world” (St. Augustine). Here, the sisters’ mixing with lay collaborators imitates Protestant communitarianism, fulfilling Pius X’s warning that Modernists seek to “abolish all external guidance” (Pascendi Dominici Gregis, 39). The term “reconciliation“—used thrice—is code for religious indifferentism, echoing the apostate “prayer meeting” at Assisi (1986), where John Paul II declared all religions “reflect a ray of truth” (Address, October 27, 1986).
When Sr. Shirely Tomala claims their mission “welcomes, heals, and dignifies,” she inverts the raison d’être of traditional orders: saving souls from hell. St. Alphonsus Liguori teaches that nuns “must tremble at the thought of the damnation of so many souls” (Selva, I.12). The article’s silence on penance, reparation, or the Four Last Things exposes the sect’s anthropocentricity—a heresy condemned in Pius IX’s Syllabus (Errors 15, 77).
Antipope’s Resurrection Heresy and Liturgical Abuse
Leo XIV’s blasphemous assertion that Christ’s resurrection provides “care and healing amid terrifying challenges” reduces the Gloria Resurrectionis to a therapeutic tool. Contrast this with Pope Pius XI’s encyclical Quas Primas: “Christ’s kingdom is primarily spiritual and relates to spiritual matters” (n. 33). The antipope’s message aligns with Teilhard de Chardin’s evolutionary mysticism—condemned by the Holy Office (1962)—which reimagines redemption as cosmic progress.
The “Eucharistic celebration” led by Tagle—a proponent of “dialogue” with pagans—constitutes sacrilege. The 1917 Code (Canon 816) mandates that only priests in communion with the true Church may licitly offer Mass. As the False Fatima Apparitions file notes, post-conciliar rites “diminish the efficacy of Holy Mass in favor of spectacular acts.” By featuring this pseudo-liturgy, the sisters implicitly endorse Paul VI’s invalid Novus Ordo, which Ottaviani’s Intervention deemed “a striking departure from Catholic theology” (1969).
Subversion of Contemplative Charism
The congregation’s founding by St. Mary Euphrasia in 1825 originally emphasized adoration and reparation for sinners, particularly fallen women. The article perverts this legacy into social activism, boasting of “empower[ing] girls and women facing exploitation.” Authentic Catholic charity, as defined by Leo XIII, “relieves the soul rather than the body” (Rerum Novarum, 36). The sisters’ modern “mission” mirrors the apostasy of the Sisters of Charity, who under Bergoglio replaced caring for the sick with promoting gender ideology.
Sr. Lopez’s hope to be “shaped by grace to shine God’s love into the world” employs Luciferian language of self-illumination, rejecting the humble via crucis. St. John of the Cross warns: “The devil incites souls that aspire to perfect contemplation to… ostentatious works” (Ascent of Mount Carmel, II.7). True contemplatives, like the Carmelites of Compiègne martyred in 1794, offered their lives for France’s conversion—not “global challenges.”
Conclusion: A Call to Reject Neo-Monasticism
This bicentenary exemplifies how the conciliar sect transforms religious life into a UN NGO with habits. As the Defense of Sedevacantism file proves, antipopes since John XXIII lack jurisdiction, rendering all their “canonizations” and “approvals” of orders ipso facto null. Faithful must recall St. Pius X’s decree Lamentabili (Error 58): “Truth does not evolve with man.” The sole path for authentic consecration remains the pre-1958 rules—like those of the Trappists or Poor Clares—where nuns “live unknown and reckoned as dead” (St. Colette). Let us pray these sisters abandon the Vatican II wasteland and seek valid sacraments in catacomb chapels.
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Contemplative Sisters of Our Lady of Charity of the Good Shepherd celebrate 200 years (vaticannews.va)
Date: 10.11.2025