EWTN Executive’s Philippine Appointment Advances Conciliar Apostasy
Catholic News Agency reports on January 14, 2026, the appointment of Edwin Lopez—EWTN’s Asia-Pacific regional manager—as executive secretary of the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of the Philippines (CBCP) Commission on Social Communications. Lopez, a married layman, retains his EWTN role while assuming this position, succeeding “Father” Ildefonso Dimaano, now spokesperson for CBCP president “Archbishop” Gilbert Garcera. EWTN CEO Michael Warsaw praised Lopez’s “leadership” and “experience,” while Lopez asserted digital tools must serve “relational communion” rather than replace it, claiming technology should lead people to “the Eucharist.”
Lay Usurpation of Ecclesiastical Authority
The appointment of a layman to oversee communications for the Philippine “bishops” epitomizes the conciliar sect’s destruction of hierarchical order. Quod non est in tradizione, non est in mundo (What is not in tradition does not exist in the world). Pius XII’s Mediator Dei (1947) condemned the error that “the sacred liturgy is a kind of ‘community activity’” to be directed by laity. The 1917 Code of Canon Law (Can. 118) reserved ecclesiastical offices requiring jurisdiction to clerics. This innovation—a layman coordinating “pastoral goals”—constitutes blasphemous parity between the sacerdotal and lay states, reducing the Church to a NGO.
EWTN: Propaganda Arm of the Conciliar Sect
Michael Warsaw’s celebration of Lopez serving dual roles exposes EWTN’s true function: a global apparatus normalizing apostasy. Warsaw—whose organization promotes “canonizations” of modernists like John Paul II—declares Lopez’s work will strengthen “the Church’s communications.” Yet which “church”? The true Church transmits doctrine; the conciliar sect markets heresy. As Pius XI warned in Quas Primas (1925), when Christ is dethroned as King, societies substitute “human institution[s]” for divine authority. EWTN’s merger with CBCP structures confirms its role in advancing the “abomination of desolation” (Dan. 12:11) occupying Vatican territories.
Digital Syncretism Masks Eucharitic Desecration
Lopez’s statement—“Digital tools can broaden contact… but they cannot replace relational communion”—conceals diabolical disorientation. His dichotomy between “means” (technology) and “end” (communion) ignores the sine qua non of true communion: valid sacraments administered by priests with recta intentio. The “Eucharist” he references is likely the invalid Novus Ordo meal, declared by “Cardinal” Ottaviani’s 1969 Critical Study to be “a striking departure from Catholic theology.” When Lopez claims God “sent himself—in person,” he omits that Christ instituted the Mass as the unbloody renewal of Calvary’s sacrifice (Trent, Session XXII), not as a “relationship-building” exercise.
Omissions Expose Modernist Apostasy
The article’s silence speaks volumes:
1. No mention of combating heresy—Lopez’s graduate “theology” from modernist institutions (untouched by Thomism) aligns with Pius X’s condemnation in Lamentabili Sane (1907) of those who treat dogma as “interpretation[s] of religious facts.”
2. No defense of Christ’s Social Kingship—Unlike Pius XI’s mandate that states must “obey” Christ the King, the CBCP collaborates with Manila’s anti-Catholic regime.
3. No distinction between true and false church—The CBCP, created post-Vatican II, issues anathema by its very existence against Boniface VIII’s Unam Sanctam (1302).
Garcera’s “Synodality” Completes the Betrayal
That Lopez succeeds a priest appointed as spokesperson for “Archbishop” Garcera—a promoter of the heretical “synodality” condemned in Pius IX’s Syllabus of Errors (Prop. 19)—reveals the CBCP’s revolutionary program. As St. Pius X warned in Pascendi Dominici Gregis (1907), modernists reduce the Church to a “vital principle” evolving with society. Garcera’s “synodal church” replaces the magisterium with lay committees, fulfilling Freemason Albert Pike’s vision of a “universal religion” void of dogma.
Source:
Catholic bishops of the Philippines tap veteran EWTN executive for communications post (catholicnewsagency.com)
Date: 14.01.2026