John Allen Jr.’s Journalism: Chronicler of Conciliar Apostasy
The Catholic News Agency portal (January 22, 2026) reports the death of John Allen Jr., describing him as a “prolific author and longtime Vatican reporter” who covered “multiple pontificates” while working for National Catholic Reporter (1997-2014) and later founding the Crux outlet. The obituary praises his “insider feel” and “nuanced reports” while emphasizing his acceptance across “ideological divides,” with EWTN’s Vatican editor Francis X. Rocca calling him “very effective on the air” and “a master of the thoughtful soundbite.” The article avoids any substantive theological evaluation of Allen’s decades-long normalization of conciliar revolution.
Servant of the Neo-Modernist Apparatus
Allen’s career trajectory exposes his fundamental alignment with the conciliar sect’s destruction of Catholic journalism. His tenure at the National Catholic Reporter – a publication condemned by Bishop Charles Helmsing in 1968 for its “poisonous character” and “systematic attacks on Catholic dogma” – reveals his deliberate choice to serve structures openly hostile to immutable doctrine. The claim that his work was “admired across ideological divides” constitutes damnatio memoriae against true Catholic journalism, which by definition “cannot be reconciled with true knowledge without transforming it into a certain dogmaless Christianity” (Lamentabili Sane Exitu, Proposition 65).
Allen’s 2008 privilege of questioning Benedict XVI – the modernist usurper who declared Vatican II’s hermeneutic of rupture “authoritative” – exemplifies the conciliar sect’s co-option of pseudo-traditional voices. The description “this man needs no introduction” aboard the apostate’s aircraft mirrors the diabolical inversion foretold in Quas Primas: “When God and Jesus Christ were removed from laws and states… the entire human society had to be shaken” (Pius XI). True Catholic journalists like Louis Veuillot or G.K. Chesterton would have used such access to denounce conciliar errors, not normalize them.
Theological Omissions as Dogmatic Complicity
The obituary’s silence regarding Allen’s role in promoting the conciliar sect’s false ecumenism reveals his fundamental apostasy. Nowhere does the article mention his countless violations of Syllabus of Errors Proposition 16 (“Man may find the way of eternal salvation in the observance of any religion whatever”), particularly through his sympathetic coverage of:
“dialogue with schismatic Orthodoxy” (False Fatima Apparitions File)
and
“religious relativism” (False Fatima Apparitions File)
Allen’s biographies of Benedict XVI and Timothy Dolan whitewashed their public heresies against Extra Ecclesiam Nulla Salus and the Social Kingship of Christ – doctrines definitively proclaimed in Mortalium Animos (Pius XI) and Quas Primas. The claim that Crux maintained “editorial independence” after its Boston Globe launch constitutes journalistic fraud: No outlet recognizing conciliar antipopes can claim autonomy from the “sects, whether called masonic or bearing another name” which Pius IX condemned for wageing “ferocious war on the Church” (Syllabus of Errors).
Symptomatic Praise from Modernist Wolves
EWTN editor Francis X. Rocca’s tribute – calling Allen’s work “enriching and enlivening what had been a stodgy beat” – exposes the depth of apostasy within neo-conservative Catholic media. This disdain for the “stodgy” pre-conciliar press (which upheld Humani Generis‘ condemnation of novelty) confirms EWTN’s complicity in the conciliar revolution.
The obituary’s celebration of Allen’s appearances in New York Times and NPR – organs of “secularism, so-called laicism, its errors and wicked endeavors” (Quas Primas) – constitutes public admission that his journalism advanced the naturalistic humanism condemned in Syllabus Proposition 39 (“The State is the origin and source of all rights”). True Catholic journalists like Fr. Félix Sardà y Salvany would have denounced these outlets as enemies of Christendom, not sought their approval.
Postmortem Canonization of Neo-Modernism
The article’s hagiographic tone – describing Allen as “the best Anglophone Vatican reporter ever” – completes his transformation into conciliar sectarian saint. This reflects the conciliar inversion whereby “the holiness which should adorn the Church is replaced by the theatrical canonization of apostates” (Lamentabili Sane Exitu analysis).
No mention is made of Allen’s systematic silence regarding:
The abomination of desolation in sanctuaries
Sacrilegious “communions” invalidly administered by conciliar “priests”
Bergoglio’s Pachamama idolatries
His career exemplifies the warning in Pascendi Dominici Gregis: “The Modernist journalist makes himself the apostle of his own ideas” while feigning objectivity. The cancer that killed him serves as apt metaphor for the spiritual malignancy he chronicled without critique for three decades – a malignancy now metastasizing through the hollowed-out structures occupying Vatican hill.
Source:
John Allen Jr., author and longtime Vatican reporter, dies at 61 (catholicnewsagency.com)
Date: 22.01.2026