Vatican News Promotes Naturalistic Distortion of Religious Life
The VaticanNews portal (November 19, 2025) profiles Sr. Angela Sinopoli, a 93-year-old member of the Sisters Helpers of the Holy Souls in Purgatory, portraying her street ministry in Matera as exemplary Christian service. The article extols her “pastoral ministry of closeness” involving listening to the lonely and distressed, framed by a quote attributed to antipope Bergoglio: “No one is so poor as to have nothing to give, and no one is so rich as not to need something to receive.” Sr. Angela’s work is described through secular psychologized terms—”therapeutic moment,” “crisis of presence” (citing anthropologist Ernesto De Martino)—while her congregation’s charism of suffrages for souls in Purgatory is conspicuously absent.









