EWTN News reports on alleged spiritual renewal at France’s Shrine of Our Lady of Montligeon, framing increased pilgrim numbers – particularly among youth – as evidence of authentic Catholic revival. The December 9, 2025 article credits this purported resurgence to the shrine’s focus on prayer for the dead, while noting concurrent restoration of its physical structures and broader increases in French adult baptisms. Such naturalistic metrics conceal the conciliar sect’s abandonment of lex orandi, lex credendi (the law of prayer is the law of belief).
Purgatory Distorted into Sentimental Therapy
The article celebrates how pilgrims “light candles, enroll loved ones in Masses, and pray for the souls of the dead — and, increasingly, to seek hope for themselves.” This inversion of priorities epitomizes the neo-church’s corruption of suffragial theology. The Council of Trent definitively taught that purgatory exists “to satisfy divine justice” (Session XXV), yet “Mr. Denizot” reduces it to psychological comfort:
“Believing that there is a way for them to help their deceased through prayer brings them hope in a seemingly hopeless world.”
This therapeutic approach mirrors Modernism’s subjectivization of religion, condemned by St. Pius X as making “experience and religious feeling the only criteria of faith” (Lamentabili, 3). The shrine’s alleged success in attracting “the non-baptized” and “lapsed believers” confirms its function as a counterfeit spiritual refuge – offering sentimental rituals devoid of the ex opere operato grace found solely in valid sacraments administered by priests upholding Catholic doctrine.
Architectural Restoration Masks Doctrinal Collapse
While the conciliar sect spends €3.6 million restoring slate roofs and stained glass, it systematically demolishes the Church’s immutable teachings. The article’s boast of France’s 45% increase in adult baptisms (10,384 in 2025) proves nothing but quantitative growth in heresy when the rite itself violates Pope Paul IV’s ex cathedra decree that “heretics cannot obtain jurisdiction in the Church” (Cum ex Apostolatus Officio). These neo-catechumens are initiated into Bergoglio’s synodal church – a Masonic construct diametrically opposed to the extra ecclesiam nulla salus (no salvation outside the Church) dogma defined at Lateran IV.
The shrine’s international fundraising success exposes the conciliar sect’s global operation: A counterfeit church maintaining physical structures to simulate Catholicism while propagating apostasy. As Pope Pius XI warned, “When God and Jesus Christ are removed from laws and states, society’s foundations are destroyed” (Encyclical Ubi Arcano). This applies equally to ecclesiastical structures divorced from Catholic truth.
“Heaven’s Pilgrimage” Earthbound Naturalism
Nowhere does the article mention the Most Holy Sacrifice of the Mass as the sole propitiatory act for souls in purgatory. Instead, it promotes a “Heaven’s Pilgrimage” devoid of doctrinal substance – precisely the “spectacular acts” denounced in the False Fatima Apparitions analysis as diminishing the Mass’s efficacy. The shrine’s November pilgrimages reduce suffrages to communal therapy sessions, ignoring St. Augustine’s teaching that “prayers for the dead are not effective unless offered by holy Church through Christ’s spotless Victim” (Enchiridion, CX).
Cardinal Bustillo’s presence at the closing “Mass” compounds the sacrilege. As a conciliar “cardinal,” he participates in invalid sacraments while professing heresies condemned by the Syllabus of Errors, particularly the notion that “Protestantism is another form of the same true Christian religion” (Error 18). His liturgical presidency constitutes simulated worship – the abomination of desolation standing where it ought not (Mark 13:14).
Youth “Revival” as Apostasy Thermometer
The article’s celebration of young people “rediscovering the Catholic Church” reveals the depth of doctrinal bankruptcy. Mr. Denizot identifies two motives: “a need for identity… and a need for hope.” This Freudian reduction of religion to psychological need constitutes Modernism’s essential error – condemned as “placing the roots of faith in human feeling rather than divine revelation” (St. Pius X, Pascendi Dominici Gregis, 6).
Authentic Catholic identity flows from submission to Christ the King’s social reign (Pius XI, Quas Primas), not emotional fulfillment. The conciliar sect’s youth attraction proves only their success in pandering to naturalism – creating a church of self-affirmation where, as St. Pius X warned, “Christ is not found because He is lost the moment He is separated from divine truth” (Notre Charge Apostolique).
This Normandy charade epitomizes the conciliar sect’s modus operandi: Maintain architectural facades and devotional veneers while eviscerating doctrine. As workers replace the basilica’s roof, the Vatican II antipopes dismantle the Church’s theological roof – the depositum fidei – leaving souls exposed to the tempests of hell. Only restoration of the Mass as immemorial Sacrifice and uncompromising adherence to pre-1958 doctrine can end this spiritual catastrophe.
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At a French shrine for the dead, a quiet revival among the living (catholicnewsagency.com)
Date: 09.12.2025