The Vatican News portal (January 23, 2026) publishes a hagiographic obituary for journalist John Allen Jr., presenting him as an authoritative interpreter of conciliar sect affairs while omitting his complicity in normalizing doctrinal corruption.
Naturalistic Reduction of Ecclesial Reality
The article praises Allen for allegedly “combining rigor and careful attention to sources with interpretive frameworks,” yet this purported objectivity served to legitimize revolutionary changes in conciliar structures. The Syllabus of Errors condemned the notion that “the Roman Pontiff can, and ought to, reconcile himself, and come to terms with progress, liberalism and modern civilization” (Proposition 80), precisely the narrative Allen advanced through decades of coverage presenting antipopes as legitimate successors of Peter. His biography of Ratzinger – published five years before the latter’s election as antipope Benedict XVI – exemplifies this subversive technique of preemptive normalization of modernists.
Complicity in Covering Up Apostasy
Nowhere does the obituary mention Allen’s systematic silence on:
- The conciliar sect’s destruction of the sacramental system through invalid rites
- Theological contradictions between pre-1958 magisterium and post-conciliar pronouncements
- Canonical crimes of antipopes against Catholic doctrine
Pius X’s Lamentabili Sane Exitu condemned the modernist error that “truth changes with man, because it develops with him, in him, and through him” (Proposition 58), which became the unspoken premise of Allen’s journalism. His “ability to build relationships and contacts with people at every level of the Church” actually meant fraternizing with those implementing the “synthesis of all heresies” (Pascendi Dominici Gregis 39).
Theological Omissions as Dogmatic Betrayal
The article highlights Allen’s coverage of “the emergence of the scandal of abuse of minors,” while ignoring how he:
never connected this crisis to the liturgical devastation wrought by the Novus Ordo service, the collapse of priestly formation, or the heretical anthropology propagated through conciliar documents like Gaudium et Spes.
Pius XI’s Quas Primas reminds us that Christus Vincit, Christus Regnat, Christus Imperat – Christ must reign not through journalistic “interpretive frameworks,” but through the uncompromising proclamation of His Social Kingship. Allen’s “skill as a speaker” served not the immutable Faith, but the accommodationist agenda of the “abomination of desolation” occupying Vatican premises.
False Obituary for a False Church
The tearful description of Allen “fighting cancer for four years” typifies the conciliar sect’s sentimentalism, which replaces concern for the state of souls with worldly compassion. Nowhere does the piece mention whether Allen died:
- In possession of valid sacraments from priests ordained in pre-1968 rites
- Publicly recanting his years of propagandizing for antipopes
- Reconciled with the true Church outside the conciliar structures
As the Dogmatic Constitution on the Church of Christ (1870) teaches, “outside the Church there is no salvation” – a truth Allen spent his career obscuring through nuanced analyses of the Vatican’s diplomatic games. His legacy constitutes not journalistic excellence, but perfected modernism: “the enemy of the Church and the synthesis of all heresies” (St. Pius X, Pascendi 39).
Source:
John Allen, the journalist who explained the Vatican with expertise and wit (vaticannews.va)
Date: 23.01.2026