Catholic News Agency reports on a Pew Research study examining religious retention, emphasizing sacramental participation as key to keeping Catholics in the “Church.” The article quotes Tom Nash, a Catholic Answers apologist, claiming that increased access to “sacraments” like the Novus Ordo Mass and Eucharistic adoration will fulfill “spiritual needs.” The piece cites John Paul II and promotes “St.” Padre Pio as models of sacramental ministry, framing confession and Eucharist as tools for ecclesiastical retention rather than supernatural realities.
Naturalization of Supernatural Order
The conciliar sect’s fixation on “spiritual needs” (cited 7 times) betrays its anthropological inversion of true worship. Pius XI condemned this inversion in Quas Primas, declaring: “When once men recognize, both in private and in public life, that Christ is King, society will at last receive the great blessings of real liberty, well-ordered discipline, peace and harmony” (1925). By contrast, the article reduces the Mass – the unbloody re-presentation of Calvary – to a sociological retention tool, committing the very error condemned in the False Fatima Apparitions document: “the efficacy of Holy Mass is diminished in favor of spectacular acts.”
Nash’s prescription for “sacramental encounters” constitutes sacrilege when applied to the invalid Novus Ordo rite. The Lamentabili Sane decree explicitly anathematizes those who claim “the sacraments arose as a result of the interpretation by the Apostles or their successors of Christ’s thoughts and intentions” (Proposition 40). When the article states “receiving the Eucharist at Mass [is] fundamental,” it blasphemously equates the true Sacrifice with the Protestantized meal instituted by Paul VI’s illegitimate commission.
Demonstration of Invalid Sacraments
The conciliar sect’s sacramental claims collapse under theological scrutiny:
1. Invalid Ordinations: Post-1968 ordinations follow the defective Pontificalis Romani rite, which omits the essential form for priesthood (“ut offeringas“). Pius XII’s Sacramentum Ordinis (1947) dogmatically defined the required form, rendering modern “ordinations” canonically invalid (Canon 188.4).
2. Invalid Eucharist: The Novus Ordo’s Institutio Generalis (1969) redefines Mass as “cena dominica” (Lord’s Supper), abrogating the propitiatory sacrifice. This violates Trent’s anathema: “If anyone says that in the Mass a true and proper sacrifice is not offered to God…let him be anathema” (Session 22, Canon 1).
3. Dangerous Adoration: Eucharistic adoration without valid consecration constitutes idolatry. The Syllabus of Errors condemns those who believe “the Church is incapable of effectively defending evangelical ethics” (Proposition 63) – precisely demonstrated when the conciliar sect promotes false worship.
Heretical Figures Cited
The article’s reference to “John Paul II” constitutes material cooperation with heresy. As the Defense of Sedevacantism document proves through Bellarmine and Pius XII’s Canon 188.4, manifest heretics automatically lose office. Wojtyła’s Assisi abominations (1986) and Ut Unum Sint (1995) constitute public apostasy, fulfilling Paul IV’s Cum Ex Apostolatus clause: “should he fall into heresy, [he] is deprived ipso facto of his office without any declaration.”
Similarly, the promotion of “St. Padre Pio” exposes the conciliar sect’s diabolical inversion. The Capuchin’s stigmata – never properly investigated – coincide with his defiance of Holy Office prohibitions against public ministry (1923-1933). His association with the invalid Novus Ordo rite (he died in 1968) mirrors the “suspicious practices” documented in the False Fatima Apparitions file regarding manipulated visionaries.
Naturalism Masquerading as Sociology
The Pew Research methodology embodies the condemned modernist principle that “human reason is the sole arbiter of truth” (Syllabus of Errors, Proposition 3). By treating apostasy as a marketing problem rather than doctrinal failure, the conciliar sect fulfills Pius X’s warning in Pascendi: “Modernists place the foundation of religious philosophy in that doctrine which is commonly called Agnosticism” (1907).
Nowhere does the article mention:
– The necessity of ex opere operato sacramental validity
– The dogmatic definition of Extra Ecclesiam Nulla Salus
– The mortal sin of participating in invalid liturgies
This omission constitutes material heresy by the Lamentabili standard: “Silence about supernatural matters…is the gravest accusation.” The conciliar sect’s sacramental theater serves not Christ the King, but what Pius XI called “the plague of anti-clericalism whose first effect is to deprive Jesus Christ…of the whole of human society” (Quas Primas).
True Sacraments Versus Conciliar Counterfeits
Authentic Catholic life flourishes only where valid priests offer the Tridentine Mass under bishops preserving apostolic succession. The article’s proposal to “open parish doors for adoration several nights a week” while maintaining invalid liturgies constitutes spiritual fraud. As the False Fatima Apparitions analysis warns: “Private revelations (even approved ones) do not have the guarantee of the Church’s infallibility” – a principle that applies doubly to post-conciliar innovations.
The path to genuine sacramental life requires:
1. Rejection of conciliar sect structures
2. Seeking valid priests ordained in the pre-1958 rite
3. Embracing the Integral Catholic Faith professed before the Vatican II revolution
Until the conciliar sect repudiates its heresies and returns to Catholic Tradition, its “sacramental encounters” remain what St. Cyprian called “diabolus per mimicam” – the devil’s mimicry of holy things.
Source:
Sacramental encounters will help people stay in Church, fulfill spiritual needs, apologist says (catholicnewsagency.com)
Date: 18.12.2025