Eucharistic Desecration in Spain: Symptom of Conciliar Apostasy
Catholic News Agency reports (January 2, 2026) that perpetrators forcibly opened the tabernacle at Holy Thorn Monastery in Valladolid, Spain, stealing the Blessed Sacrament while leaving other valuables untouched. The article notes this follows a similar March 2025 desecration at Our Lady of the Meadow church. Luis Argüello, identified as “archbishop of Valladolid,” will lead an “act of reparation” on January 3. The archdiocesan statement calls the theft an “offense of exceptional gravity” and urges prayers “to safeguard the Eucharist.”
Desecration’s Gravity Minimized by Post-Conciliar Language
The report acknowledges the crime’s sacrilegious nature but omits the canonical consequences mandated by Catholic doctrine. Canon 2320 of the 1917 Code imposes latae sententiae excommunication on those who steal consecrated hosts, stating: “Those who throw away the consecrated species or take or retain them for sacrilegious purposes incur ipso facto excommunication.” This silence reflects the conciliar sect’s systematic downplaying of sin’s eternal consequences.
The term “act of reparation” used by Argüello stands in stark contrast to the Church’s traditional response to Eucharistic sacrilege. Pope Pius XI’s Miserentissimus Redemptor (1928) prescribed solemn Expositiones et Benedictiones and the Votive Mass of Reparation for such crimes – liturgical acts requiring valid priests. Argüello’s undefined “act” suggests ritual ambiguity symptomatic of the Novus Ordo’s destruction of sacramental theology.
Conciliar Prelate’s Empty Gestures
Argüello’s involvement constitutes spiritual fraud. As a member of the Spanish “bishops'” conference that permits Communion for adulterers and heretics (contrary to Canon 855 §5), his supposed concern for Eucharistic reverence rings hollow. The article’s description of the Eucharist as “the real presence… transformed into his body and blood after the consecration” dangerously implies transfinalization – the Protestant heresy condemned by Pius XII in Mediator Dei (1947).
The archdiocesan statement urges prayer but avoids demanding the perpetrators’ conversion or warning of hellfire – a hallmark of the conciliar sect’s naturalism. Compare this to St. Pius X’s response to the 1907 theft of a ciborium in Venice: “Let public prayers be offered to appease divine anger… that the guilty may be struck with salutary fear and return the sacred particles.”
Post-Conciliarism’s Poisoned Fruits
This sacrilege manifests the inevitable fruits of Vatican II’s liturgical revolution. The Institutio Generalis Missalis Romani (1969) reduced the Mass to a “banquet” (n. 48), while Paul VI’s Missale Romanum abolished the Prayers After Mass that included the Adoro Te Devote – precisely the Eucharistic devotion whose loss enables such crimes.
The monastery’s preservation of Christ’s Crown of Thorns relic becomes tragic irony when the living Christ in the Eucharist is discarded. As Pius XI declared in Quas Primas (1925): “When once men recognize… that Christ is King… they will realize that the Church must likewise be accorded… the right to live her own life.” The conciliar sect’s refusal to condemn religious liberty (contrary to Syllabus of Errors n. 77) created societies where sacrilege becomes commonplace.
Omission of Supernatural Warfare
Nowhere does the article mention Satan’s role in Eucharistic attacks – a truth affirmed by Leo XIII’s exorcism prayer: “The Most Sacred Heart of Jesus is despised in the Holy Eucharist… the devil’s wickedness has changed into hatred against the Eucharist.” This silence reflects Modernism’s denial of spiritual warfare, condemned in Pius X’s Lamentabili (n. 58) as “moral evolutionism.”
The monastery’s plea for Catholics to “not remain indifferent” rings futile without the Church’s traditional weapons: exorcisms, Forty Hours’ Devotion, and solemn interdicts. Instead, the conciliar sect offers empty ceremonies led by prelates who themselves perpetrate the greater sacrilege of invalid masses and Communion to public sinners.
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Tabernacle forced open, Blessed Sacrament stolen from monastery in Spain (catholicnewsagency.com)
Date: 02.01.2026