Benedictine Influencer Nun Embodies Conciliar Church’s Surrender to Digital Age
Social Media Circus Replaces Monastic Silence as Neo-Church Promotes Personality Cult
EWTN News reports on Sister Marta González Cambronero, a 28-year-old perpetually professed Benedictine nun from Sahagún, Spain, who maintains massive social media followings (193,000 on TikTok, 173,000 on Instagram) under the account “@marta_osb.” The article celebrates her digital apostolate which allegedly produces religious vocations despite her admission that “I’m not going to go ‘fishing’ for vocations, because that looks very bad, it seems very old-fashioned.” The report frames parental resistance to vocations as particularly strong among weekly Mass-attenders rather than atheists, while promoting the film “Sundays” about teenage vocational discernment.
Profanation of Benedictine Spirit Through Digital Exhibitionism
The grotesque spectacle of a cloistered nun collecting YouTube plaques and planning quarterly content calendars constitutes a complete inversion of the Benedictine vow of stability (Holy Rule Chapter 58). St. Benedict warned: “The workshop where we are to toil faithfully at all these tasks is the enclosure of the monastery and stability in the community” (Rule 4:78) – not the algorithmic feeds of social platforms. Sister Marta’s claim that her digital activities align with ora et labora (“pray and work”) perverts the saint’s teaching that manual labor should be performed “at fixed times” so that “idleness is the enemy of the soul” (Rule 48), not as a means to celebrity status.
This exhibitionism directly violates Pius XII’s condemnation of those who “expose their religious life to public gaze” contrary to the Church’s wise discipline (Sponsa Christi, 1950). The 1917 Code of Canon Law explicitly forbids religious from “writing in newspapers or periodicals… without permission of the local Ordinary and their major Superior” (Canon 1386 §2). That modernist superiors permit such scandal demonstrates their apostasy from Catholic discipline.
Theological Bankruptcy of Vocational “Discernment” Methods
Sister Marta’s vocational advice reveals the neo-church’s abandonment of sacramental theology. Her recommendation to conceal vocational inclinations from parents until “a fairly clear idea” emerges contradicts the Church’s teaching that parents are primary educators in matters of faith (Pius XI, Divini Illius Magistri). The claim that weekly Mass-attending Catholics constitute the strongest opponents of vocations exposes the rotten fruits of post-conciliar catechesis which produced “signs of the decomposition of the Church… where the faithful have been deceived by a large number of pastors” (St. Pius X, Notre Charge Apostolique).
Her warning against pursuing university studies before entering religious life constitutes dangerous anti-intellectualism foreign to Catholic tradition. St. Thomas Aquinas entered the Dominicans at 19 while completing his education, and countless saints like Albertus Magnus integrated scholarship with religious vows. The true danger lies not in education but in the neo-church’s destruction of authentic formation – replacing Thomism with psychology and asceticism with “self-care” mantras.
Cinematic Propaganda and Cultural Modernism
The article’s promotion of the film “Sundays” – wherein a teenager “abandons her plans for the future to become a cloistered nun” – continues the conciliar sect’s saccharine sentimentalization of religious life. This stands in stark contrast to pre-Vatican II films like The Song of Bernadette which emphasized supernatural obedience over emotional “discernment.” The movie’s framing of vocation as “individual freedom” rather than Fiat voluntas tua (“Thy will be done”) reduces divine calling to personal preference – the very subjectivism condemned as “the synthesis of all heresies” (St. Pius X, Pascendi Dominici Gregis 39).
Sister Marta’s admission that “I’ve heard a lot about it, and, honestly, almost all of it has been positive” regarding the film demonstrates her immersion in neo-modernist culture. True brides of Christ would recall St. Paul’s warning: “Have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, but rather reprove them” (Ephesians 5:11).
Digital Occasion of Sin and Celebrity Culture
The nun’s dismissal of concerns about religious influencers abandoning their vocations – “I’m no better than them” – reveals the conciliar sect’s loss of the sensus catholicus. Holy Church has always taught that public religious figures bear greater responsibility: “To whom much is given, much will be required” (Luke 12:48). Her excuse-making for apostates (“the community itself hasn’t supported their work on social media”) ignores the wisdom of St. John Climacus: “A man who has become a stranger to obedience will never shut out the demon of self-esteem” (Ladder of Divine Ascent, Step 4).
The claim that her content pillars include “everyday life, prayer, vocation, and the Sunday Gospel reading” reduces the fullness of Catholic truth to soundbite spirituality. Contrast this with St. Benedict’s prescription that monks should “prefer nothing to the Work of God” (Rule 43) – the Divine Office, not viral videos about laundry habits. This digital circus exemplifies the “cult of man” denounced in Gaudium et Spes – where personality supersedes piety and metrics matter more than mortification.
Omission of Eucharistic Kingship and Eschatological Reality
Throughout this propagandistic piece, not once does Sister Marta mention the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass as the source and summit of religious life. Her social media content focuses on mundane trivia while ignoring the unbloody renewal of Calvary – the sole justification for monastic existence. This omission proves Benedict XVI’s admission that post-conciliar liturgy caused “a rupture in the history of the liturgy whose consequences could only be tragic” (Letter to Bishops, 2007).
The complete absence of references to final judgment, hell, or the four last things demonstrates the neo-church’s abandonment of contemptus mundi (contempt for the world). Traditional monasticism echoed St. Paul: “The world is crucified to me, and I to the world” (Galatians 6:14). By contrast, this digital nun courts worldly approval through “very few negative comments” and boasts of “messages… from people who have returned to the faith” – a Protestant notion of conversion alien to Catholic sacramental theology.
As the counterfeit church descends further into digital pandering, faithful Catholics recall Pius XI’s warning: “When nations have denied or neglected the royal prerogatives of Christ… peace will be but an empty name” (Quas Primas 18). The true monastic vocation remains what St. Benedict proclaimed: “To prefer nothing to Christ” (Rule 72) – not to TikTok trends.
Source:
Influencer nun: Parents most opposed to a religious vocation are not the most atheistic ones (ewtnnews.com)
Date: 29.01.2026