Neo-Church Distorts Charity into Naturalistic Social Service
The EWTN News portal reports on a message from “Pope” Leo XIV (Robert Prevost) for the 34th World Day of the Sick, issued under the title “The Compassion of the Samaritan: Loving by Bearing Another’s Pain.” The text urges Catholics to “rediscover the beauty of charity” through “concrete gestures,” using the parable of the Good Samaritan as a model for “fraternal” action in a society marked by “haste and indifference.” The principal observance will occur in Chiclayo, Peru, where the antipope previously served as “bishop.” The message insists that “love is not passive” but must manifest through “authentic worship” expressed in social service, drawing heavily on Bergoglio’s Fratelli Tutti to frame compassion as a collective responsibility. The apostate John Paul II—originator of this annual observance—is cited without critique, while the “Virgin Mary under her title Health of the Sick” is invoked superficially. This modernist distortion reduces charity to a horizontal act of human solidarity, evacuating it of supernatural purpose.