EWTN’s Mother Angelica Award: Celebrating Conciliar Apostasy
The “Catholic News Agency” portal (December 12, 2025) reports Doug Keck’s reception of EWTN’s Mother Angelica Award, praising his leadership in expanding this conciliar media empire. The article glorifies Keck’s role in developing programs like “The World Over with Raymond Arroyo” and advancing EWTN’s global reach through television, radio, and digital platforms. Warsaw, labeled as “CEO,” commends Keck for “never compromising on sharing the truth of the Gospel for views or clicks,” while Keck himself claims their mission is “to soak the earth with the truth of the Gospel and the Catholic Church.” This celebration of media growth epitomizes the neo-church’s substitution of technological expansion for doctrinal fidelity.
Naturalistic Reduction of Evangelization to Media Metrics
The article’s triumphant language about “reaching millions of households worldwide” and becoming “the largest global Catholic media organization” exposes the conciliar sect’s obsession with quantitative growth over qualitative conversion. Pius XI’s encyclical Quas Primas explicitly condemned such naturalism: “When God and Jesus Christ are removed from laws and states… the foundations of authority are destroyed” (n. 31). Nowhere does EWTN’s mission statement mention the Social Kingship of Christ or the necessity of submitting nations to His reign – the very essence of Catholic evangelization. The Syllabus of Errors (1864) anathematizes this exact substitution of worldly success for spiritual goals: “Moral laws do not stand in need of the divine sanction… human reason suffices to secure the welfare of men” (Error 56).
Theological Vacuum in “New Evangelization” Rhetoric
Keck’s call for Catholics to “put their talents to the service of the Gospel” deliberately avoids defining which “Gospel” he promotes. The conciliar “gospel” of religious liberty directly contradicts Pius IX’s condemnation: “Every man is free to embrace and profess that religion which he shall consider true is an error” (Syllabus, Error 15). When Warsaw praises Keck for “sharing the truth” without specifying Quas Primas‘ requirement that “rulers of states must fulfill public veneration to Christ the King” (n. 39), he reduces Catholicism to Protestant-style private piety. Lamentabili Sane (1907) condemned this modernist trick: “Revelation was merely man’s self-awareness of his relationship to God” (Proposition 20).
Mother Angelica’s Compromised Legacy
The award’s namesake operated entirely within the conciliar deformation, accepting the invalid Novus Ordo rites and promoting Vatican II’s ecumenism. Her media work advanced the heresy condemned by Pius XI that “the Church must adapt to modern civilization” (cf. Quas Primas). Previous recipients like the “Capuchin” Charles Chaput personify this apostasy – a supposed “archbishop” who promoted communion for adulterers and praised the Talmudic “Pope” Francis. St. Pius X’s encyclical Pascendi identified such figures as modernists who “pervert the eternal concept of truth” (n. 39).
Omission of Necessary Warnings Against Spiritual Danger
Nowhere does the article warn viewers that EWTN systematically promotes:
- Invalid sacraments through broadcasts of Novus Ordo ceremonies lacking proper form and intention
- False obedience to antipopes who publicly deny Christ’s divinity (Bergoglio) and promote pagan worship (Benedict XVI’s Assisi abominations)
- Religious indifferentism by regularly featuring Protestant “converts” who retain heretical beliefs
The silence on these mortal dangers violates the Church’s perennial teaching that “it is unlawful to follow one opinion of Catholics while rejecting another” (Leo XIII, Sapientiae Christianae 21). Pius XII’s Mediator Dei mandates that Catholics “shun any liturgical practice which does not conform to the rubrics” (n. 61) – a command EWTN systematically flouts through its broadcasts of invalid rites.
Media Empire as Arm of Conciliar Revolution
EWTN’s “flagship programs” serve as propaganda tools for the neo-church’s agenda:
- “The Journey Home” promotes the heresy that Protestants can be “converted” while retaining false ecclesial affiliations
- “Father Spitzer’s Universe” (co-hosted by Keck) disseminates modernist scientism masked as apologetics
- “World Over” parodies Catholic journalism by treating antipopes as legitimate authorities
This conciliar media complex fulfills Pius X’s warning in Pascendi about modernists “using schools and periodicals to propagate errors” (n. 42). The Syllabus condemns such enterprises: “Catholic teachers must be strictly bound to all proposed dogmas of faith” (Error 22) – a standard EWTN routinely violates by platforming neo-modernist “experts.”
Cult of Personality Replacing Ecclesial Authority
The award ceremony’s “tributes from those whose lives have been touched by Keck” exemplifies the neo-church’s Protestant-style focus on human experience over doctrinal content. Contrast this with Pius XI’s insistence that “the entire human race is subject to the authority of Jesus Christ” (Quas Primas 31), not media personalities. The article’s glowing description of Keck’s career trajectory – from secular networks like CNBC to EWTN – reveals the conciliar sect’s embrace of worldly management techniques condemned by Pius XII as “excessive clerical busyness” (Menti Nostrae 108).
Conclusion: Soaking the Earth With Modernist Errors
When Keck boasts about “soaking the earth with the truth,” he unwittingly describes EWTN’s true function: baptizing millions in the conciliar sect’s false gospel. This media empire constitutes what Pius X called “the synthesis of all heresies” (Pascendi 39), using technological sophistication to mask apostasy. As true Catholics recall Pius XI’s warning that “the Roman Pontiff can never reconcile himself with modern civilization” (Syllabus, Error 80), they recognize EWTN not as Mother Angelica’s legacy, but as Judas’s microphone amplifying the abomination of desolation.
Source:
Doug Keck honored with 2025 Mother Angelica Award (catholicnewsagency.com)
Date: 13.12.2025