The Catholic News Agency portal (January 17, 2026) reports on a self-congratulatory study commissioned by the United States Conference of “Catholic Bishops” (USCCB) regarding their $10 million “National Eucharistic Revival.” According to the article, 83% of lay participants claim stronger faith after attending events like the 2024 National Eucharistic Congress, while 49% of “clergy” report feeling “more encouraged.” Bishop Andrew Cozzens boasts that this initiative accomplished its goal of “missionary conversion,” with plans already underway for another congress in 2029. This carnival of apostasy reveals the terminal spiritual bankruptcy of the conciliar sect’s naturalistic sacramental theater.
Sacrilegious Parody of Eucharistic Devotion
The so-called revival constitutes spiritual grand larceny, stealing the language of Catholic piety while gutting its substance. When the article states the revival’s mission was “renew the Church by enkindling a living relationship with the Lord Jesus Christ in the holy Eucharist,” it commits theological fraud. The conciliar sect’s “Eucharist” cannot enkindle anything except divine wrath, being celebrated according to the invalid Novus Ordo Missae – a fabrication that Pius XII’s Sacramentum Ordinis (1947) implicitly condemns by insisting on the essential rite of priestly ordination. As the 1917 Code of Canon Law (Canon 817) declares: “No one may licitly consecrate the Eucharist without the consecration of a bishop.” Yet the USCCB’s “bishops” lack valid episcopal consecration, their orders derived from Paul VI’s Pontificalis Romani (1968) which destroyed the sacramental form.
“70% of clergy reported a stronger ‘focus on the Eucharist in teaching [and] ministry’… 51% said their ‘time spent in personal adoration’ is stronger now.”
This statistic proves nothing except the depth of apostasy. True Eucharistic adoration presupposes faith in the ex opere operato efficacy of the sacraments – a dogma demolished by the conciliar sect’s anthropocentric liturgy. Pius XII’s Mediator Dei (1947) condemns precisely such emotionalist counterfeits: “It is not wise and prudent to neglect what is proper to the rite and introduce novel practices… drawn from the rites of heretics” (§62). The alleged increase in confession attendance (from those who never received valid absolution through formae absolutions defects) constitutes sacrilege upon sacrilege.
Naturalistic Humanism Disguised as Evangelization
Bishop Cozzens’ jubilation that participants became “50% more likely to do outreach, to share their faith, to do some act of service” exposes the operation’s true purpose: replacing supernatural faith with social activism. The Apostolic Constitution Quas Primas (1925) establishes Christ’s exclusive claim to all missionary endeavors: “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” (§19). Instead, this revival promotes the condemned error of Americanism – that temporal prosperity evidences divine favor (Leo XIII’s Testem Benevolentiae, 1899).
The study’s methodology embodies pure Modernism. Measuring faith by self-reported “importance of volunteering” and survey responses reduces religion to sociological data points. Compare this to Pius X’s condemnation in Lamentabili Sane (1907): “The dogmas which the Church proposes as revealed are not truths fallen from heaven, but a kind of interpretation of religious facts which the human mind has laboriously devised” (Proposition 22). When 79% of non-participants claim stronger faith merely through newsletter exposure, we witness the triumph of suggestion over substance – a phenomenon Pius XI diagnosed in Miserentissimus Redemptor (1928) as “religious sentiment dissociated from the integrity of doctrine.”
Satanic Mockery of True Eucharistic Reign
The planned 2029 congress completes this gnostic inversion of Catholicism. True Eucharistic devotion demands the bloodless renewal of Calvary’s sacrifice through valid priests offering the ritus antiquior. The conciliar sect substitutes entertainment spectacles that fulfill Pius IX’s prophecy in the Syllabus of Errors (1864): “The Church is incapable of effectively defending evangelical ethics because it steadfastly adheres to its views which cannot be reconciled with modern progress” (Proposition 63). Their “Eucharistic movement” aims not at adoratio in veritate but at manufacturing collective euphoria indistinguishable from Protestant revivalism.
As genuine Catholics recognize, this multimillion-dollar circus achieves precisely what St. Pius X warned against in Pascendi Dominici Gregis (1907): “The Modernist sustains and propagates a philosophy from which is excluded the idea of the supernatural” (§39). Until the USCCB structures repent of their invalid sacraments, embrace the integral Catholic faith, and recognize the sedevacantist position mandated by Canon 188.4 (automatic loss of office for public defection from faith), no “revival” can occur – only deeper descent into the abyss.
Source:
U.S. bishops say multimillion-dollar Eucharistic revival bore spiritual fruit (catholicnewsagency.com)
Date: 17.01.2026