Secular Humanism Masquerades as Charity in Jamaican Relief Efforts
Vatican News portal (November 18, 2025) reports on Lorna Owens, a Jamaican expatriate in Florida organizing a “One Love Supper” fundraiser with chef Hari Pulapaka. The event directs proceeds to secular NGOs World Central Kitchen and Global Empowerment Movement for Hurricane Melissa relief. The article emphasizes material needs (“food, water, medicine”) while promoting interfaith collaboration and psychological aid, framing the crisis through naturalistic humanitarianism rather than Catholic truth.
Naturalistic Reduction of Charity to Materialism
The article reduces human suffering to physical deprivation:
“living without homes, food, water, or medicine”
while suppressing the causa finalis (final cause) of disasters as divine chastisement requiring penance (Luke 13:1-5). Pius XI condemned this materialist worldview in Quas Primas, asserting Christ’s Kingship over “individuals, families, and states” who must “fulfill this duty themselves and with their people… to contribute to the increase of their homeland’s happiness” through obedience to His Law.
Nowhere does the conciliar sect’s outlet mention:
– The necessity of sacramental grace (especially Confession and Eucharist) amid suffering
– Calls for national consecration to Christ the King or reparation for Jamaica’s apostasy
– The Church’s uncompromised social doctrine requiring charitable works to manifest supernatural faith (James 2:14-26)
Instead, Owens speaks of “prayers” as private sentiment divorced from action, exemplifying the modernist heresy condemned in Pius X’s Lamentabili Sane (Proposition 25): “Faith… is ultimately based on a sum of probabilities.”
Ecumenical Syncretism in “One Love” Rhetoric
The fundraiser’s branding—
“Reggae music will fill the building as a small part of the town transforms into a piece of Jamaica”
—promotes cultural syncretism antithetical to Catholic missions. St. Pius X’s Editae Saepe (1910) rebukes such compromises: “The Church… has never lowered herself to the wretched means of accommodating herself to the wishes of those who are not Catholic.”
The invocation of Bob Marley’s pan-religious “One Love” philosophy directly contradicts the Syllabus of Errors (Proposition 16-18), which anathematizes the notion that “man may, in the observance of any religion whatever, find the way of eternal salvation” or that Protestantism is “another form of the same true Christian religion.”
Omission of the Church’s Exclusive Role in Salvation
Psychological trauma is framed as the
“big tsunami coming”
requiring secular psychiatry, rejecting the Church’s teaching that grace alone heals souls. The Catechism of the Council of Trent declares: “The first and greatest care of pastors should be… to teach that the calamities which oppress us occur by divine appointment.”
The article’s endorsement of UK government medical teams and Spanish field hospitals ignores the Church’s condemnation of state usurpation of her spiritual mission (Syllabus of Errors, Proposition 39-42). Pius IX’s Quanta Cura anathematizes those who “falsely assert that the salvation of souls can be better provided for” by secular authorities.
Symptomatic Apostasy of the Conciliar Sect
This report exemplifies the neo-church’s apostasy foretold in Pius X’s Pascendi: “The Modernist substitutes for the divine reality a reality purely human.” By directing funds to NGOs rather than traditional religious orders, the “One Love Supper” accelerates what Pius XI called “the plague of indifferentism” (Syllabus, Proposition 79).
The silence on Jamaica’s 86% Protestant/irreligious population’s need for conversion reveals the conciliar sect’s abandonment of extra Ecclesiam nulla salus, defined infallibly at Florence (1442): “No one remaining outside the Catholic Church… can become partakers of eternal life.” True charity demands the bonum spirituale (spiritual good) of souls above material comforts—a truth sacrificed by the Vatican II sect’s humanist revolution.
Source:
Jamaican expat in Florida raises funds for hurricane-hit nation (vaticannews.va)
Date: 18.11.2025