The EWTN News article from June 24, 2026, reports the Vatican’s promotion of the “Peter’s Pence” collection, scheduled for June 28. It presents this collection as a traditional act of charity and communion with the “Holy Father,” in this case, the usurper Leo XIV. The article details the collection’s history, its modern revival around 1870, and its current use, noting that in 2024, the majority of the 58.5 million euros collected funded the “broader apostolic mission” and Vatican dicasteries, with only 13.3 million euros going directly to charitable projects. The piece is a public relations exercise for the conciliar sect, soliciting funds for an antipope and his modernist administration under the guise of tradition and care for the needy.
The Collection’s Modernist Purpose
The article’s description of how funds are used reveals the true nature of the post-conciliar church. It states that the majority of the 2024 collection, 61.2 million euros, supported “essential activities carried out by Vatican dicasteries and offices, including evangelization efforts, support for local churches in difficulty, formation of priests and seminarians, diplomatic work… education, and the promotion of integral human development and peace.” This is a bureaucratic and naturalistic description of a vast administrative and political apparatus. The language of “integral human development” and “peace” is the sterile dialect of modernist and Masonic humanitarianism, not the supernatural language of sanctification and salvation. The funds are used to sustain the global operations of the abomination of desolation, paying the salaries of bureaucrats, diplomats, and “formators” who are actively dismantling whatever remains of Catholic doctrine from within. The article omits any mention of supporting the true Mass, funding traditional seminaries for validly ordained priests, or propagating the Social Kingship of Christ, which is the only true mission of the Church.
A Heretical Definition of the Church’s Mission
The article defines the first purpose of Peter’s Pence as supporting “the mission of the Holy Father, which extends to the entire world through the proclamation of the Gospel, the promotion of integral human development, education, peace, and fraternity among peoples.” This is a heretical and modernist distortion. The mission of the Church, as defined by Our Lord Jesus Christ, is to “teach all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost” (Matthew 28:19). It is a mission of supernatural salvation, not a program for naturalistic “human development” and global “fraternity” apart from the Catholic Faith. Pope Pius XI, in his encyclical *Quas Primas*, explicitly condemns this separation, lamenting that “the hope of lasting peace will not yet shine upon nations as long as individuals and states renounce and do not wish to recognize the reign of our Savior.” The article’s definition of mission is the very error condemned in *Lamentabili sane exitu*, which rejects the notion that the Church’s role is reduced to a purely natural, philanthropic one.
The Historical Lie and the Usurper on Peter’s Throne
The article provides a sanitized history of Peter’s Pence, claiming it began in the 7th century and was revived in 1870 after the end of the Papal States. This historical narrative is a deliberate obfuscation. The true Peter’s Pence was a collection for the Roman Pontiff, the true successor of Peter, to be used for the propagation of the Faith and the defense of Christendom. The modern revival in 1870 was a collection for the prisoner of the Vatican, Pius IX, who was already a victim of the Masonic Italian revolution. Today, the collection is for an antipope, a manifest heretic and apostate. According to the theological opinion of St. Robert Bellarmine, a “Pope who is a manifest heretic, by that very fact ceases to be Pope and head.” The funds collected do not go to the Holy See in its Catholic sense, but to a counterfeit, modernist structure that has occupied the Vatican since the death of Pope Pius XII. The article’s reference to “love and trust in the Holy Father” is a blasphemous lie, as the occupant of the See is not a father in the supernatural order but a usurper who has publicly defected from the Catholic faith.
The Cult of the Antipope and Globalist Financing
The article’s promotion is a cult of personality centered on Leo XIV. It quotes the Peter’s Pence Office: “It doesn’t matter whether you can offer a grain of sand or a mountain; what truly matters is participating and giving what is within your means.” This is the language of a multi-billion-dollar corporation seeking donations, not the language of the Church soliciting alms for the poor. The article’s mention of a Supreme Court case regarding the collection further exposes its nature as a corporate entity entangled in secular legal battles, not a spiritual society above the judgment of civil courts. The entire operation is a sophisticated fundraising mechanism for a globalist, modernist political entity. The faithful are being financially fleeced to support the very system that has dismantled the Most Holy Sacrifice of the Mass, promulgated the heresies of religious liberty and ecumenism, and led countless souls into perdition. The true alms of the faithful must be directed to the true Church and her validly ordained priests, not to the enemies of Christ operating out of the Vatican.
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Vatican promotes Peter’s Pence 2026 collection (ewtnnews.com)
Date: 24.06.2026