The Three Kings Spectacle: A Post-Conciliar Distortion of Epiphany
Catholic News Agency reports nearly two million participants will join Poland’s Three Kings Procession across 941 locations on January 6, 2026. The event features costumed parades, paper crowns, and carol singing, broadcast internationally by EWTN Poland. Organizers distributed 600,000 crowns and 200,000 stickers, framing the spectacle under the slogan “Rejoice in Hope” – a deliberate alignment with the Vatican’s “Pilgrims of Hope” jubilee theme. Polish president Karol Nawrocki praised the procession’s message of “reconciliation” and “mutual solidarity.” What began as a Warsaw school project in 2009 has become a state-sponsored religious performance, revealing the neo-church’s abandonment of supernatural faith for naturalistic pageantry.