EWTN News reported on January 14, 2026, the appointment of Edwin Lopez—a veteran executive of the Eternal Word Television Network—as executive secretary of the “Catholic Bishops’ Conference of the Philippines” Commission on Social Communications. The article praises Lopez’s quarter-century experience at EWTN and quotes “Archbishop” Gilbert Garcera’s spokesperson celebrating this layman’s unprecedented elevation to an ecclesiastical role traditionally reserved for clergy. Michael Warsaw, EWTN’s CEO, lauds Lopez’s dual role while the appointee himself declares digital tools should “lead people back to relationships, communities, and the Eucharist.” The report conspicuously avoids examining Lopez’s theological formation or the doctrinal implications of his vision for Church communications.
Lay Usurpation of Ecclesiastical Offices Violates Divine Constitution
The appointment signals the conciliar sect’s systematic demolition of Holy Mother Church’s divine constitution. Christus Dominus (n. 28) explicitly reserves executive governance to bishops, while Pius X’s Vehementer Nos (1906) declares: “The Church is essentially an unequal society… comprising two categories of persons: the Pastors and the flock.” The elevation of a layman to coordinate “pastoral goals” constitutes a brazen violation of canon law (1917 CIC can. 118) and the Apostolic injunction against “lording it over the clergy” (1 Pet 5:3). This revolutionary inversion mirrors the apostate “synodal path” infecting Germany—a fact the EWTN report carefully obscures.
Lopez’s boast that “communion remains the end” thinly veils the conciliar heresy of collegiality condemned by Pius VI in Auctorem Fidei (1794). True Catholic communion flows hierarchically from Christ through Peter’s successors—not horizontally through committees of lay technocrats. The Philippine “bishops” thereby enact Luther’s egalitarian ecclesiology, fulfilling Pius X’s warning that Modernists seek “to make the laity a factor of progress in the Church” (Pascendi, 26).
EWTN’s False “Orthodoxy” Serves Neo-Modernist Agenda
The article’s fawning coverage of Lopez’s EWTN pedigree exposes the network’s role as controlled opposition. Despite superficial traditional aesthetics, EWTN platforms neo-conservative apologists like Warsaw who treat Vatican II as irreversible. Warsaw’s celebration of Lopez’s dual roles—”strengthening the Church’s communications”—ignores the inherent contradiction between serving Christ the King and collaborating with counterfeit ecclesiastical structures. As the Holy Office decreed in 1949: “Catholics may not collaborate with apostates who occupy ecclesiastical offices” (Decree against Communism).
Lopez’s statement that “digital tools can broaden contact… but cannot replace relational communion” employs the ambiguous conciliar dialectic. Contrast this with Pius XI’s unambiguous teaching: “The Church cannot communicate through neutral channels, for all instruments must serve the conquest of hearts for Christ the King“ (Quas Primas, 18). The appointee’s reduction of the Eucharist to a “relationship” goal—rather than the unbloody renewal of Calvary’s sacrifice—reveals a Protestantized sacramental theology.
Omission of Supernatural Warfare Signals Apostate Capitulation
Nowhere does the article mention the Philippine Church’s catastrophic collapse—mass church closures, 80% sacramental abandonment, or the government’s pro-abortion policies. Instead, Lopez promises to leverage “AI and digital media” while teaching at San Carlos Seminary—an institution producing clergy who celebrate clown Masses and interfaith syncretism. The report’s technocratic optimism constitutes a silent apostasy from the Church Militant’s supernatural mission.
Pius XII condemned such naturalism: “The Church cannot resign herself to the… disappearance of Catholic action in order to adopt purely natural means and criteria” (Address to Italian Catholic Action, 1952). True Catholic communications would denounce the Vatican-Philippine government accord enabling contraception distribution (2022)—a fact EWTN’s “orthodox” mouthpiece strategically ignores. Instead, the report promotes Lopez’s development communication degrees—credentials steeped in UN sustainability goals antithetical to the Social Reign of Christ.
Conclusion: Digital Scaffolding for the Abomination of Desolation
Lopez’s appointment consummates the conciliar sect’s metamorphosis into a NGO managed by media professionals. As true shepherds flee or are silenced, technicians like Lopez erect digital facades masking the eclipse of supernatural faith. This “communications” coup advances Bergoglio’s “digital synodality”—replacing Eucharistic adoration with virtual “encounter” and dogma with algorithmic consensus. Let the faithful recall Pius XI’s warning: “When piety is poisoned at its root by secularism, society becomes an anthill of conspiring apostates” (Divini Illius Magistri, 78). Until the Philippine hierarchy repudiates Vatican II and submits to the Roman Pontiff, their “communications” remain Satan’s propaganda arm.
Source:
Veteran EWTN executive appointed to Communications Commission post with Bishops’ Conference of the Philippines (ewtnnews.com)
Date: 14.01.2026