Neo-Church Exploits Mexican Youth Pilgrimage to Mask Apostasy
EWTN News reports that 70,000 Mexican youths participated in a January 31, 2026, pilgrimage to the Cubilete Hill shrine, commemorating Cristero War martyrs. Organized under the auspices of the conciliar sect’s structures, the event featured modernist rhetoric from figures such as “Archbishop” Joseph Spiteri, the Vatican’s representative in Mexico, who invoked “Pope” Leo XIV’s call to build a “kingdom of fraternity.” Participants cited motivations ranging from vocational discernment to “offering efforts” to Christ. The article frames the gathering as evidence of vibrant faith, ignoring the theological bankruptcy of the post-conciliar establishment behind it.
Naturalism Masquerading as Supernatural Piety
The pilgrimage’s emphasis on communal experience, emotional testimonials, and vague “hopes” exposes its foundation in naturalistic humanism. Phrases such as “placing yourself at the feet of the Lord” and “offering my life” lack doctrinal substance, reducing worship to sentimental gestures. Pius XI’s encyclical Quas Primas (1925) unequivocally teaches that Christ’s Kingship demands “not only private devotion but public submission of nations to His law” (¶18). Yet the event conspicuously omitted demands for Mexico’s civil authorities to renounce secularism—a silence revealing the neo-church’s surrender to modernity.
“The Church is grateful for your generosity and trusts in the strength of your witness… to build with him his kingdom of fraternity” — “Archbishop” Spiteri
This statement, applauding “fraternity” and “peace” devoid of doctrinal anchors, echoes the conciliar heresy of religious indifferentism condemned by Pius IX in Syllabus of Errors (1864): “The Roman Pontiff can reconcile himself with progress, liberalism, and modern civilization” (Proposition 80). By equating Christ’s reign with secular “fraternity,” Spiteri undermines the exclusive salvific mission of the Catholic Church, a betrayal of the Cristero martyrs who died resisting state-enforced apostasy.
Historical Revisionism and Martyr Exploitation
The article weaponizes Cristero martyrs—such as St. José Sánchez del RÃo—to legitimize the conciliar sect’s existence. This is blasphemous irony. The Cristero fighters opposed the Mexican government’s suppression of Catholicism under the 1917 Constitution, which outlawed monastic vows, confiscated Church property, and banned clerical attire (Articles 3, 5, 27, 130). Today’s Vatican collaborators, however, embrace the same secular powers the martyrs defied. The 1926–1929 martyrs recognized no “right” of states to restrict Christ’s Church—a principle anathematized by Pius IX: “The State is the source of all rights” (Syllabus, Proposition 39).
Relics of “Blessed” Miguel Pro were displayed during the pilgrimage, yet his martyrdom in 1927 directly contradicts the neo-church’s ethos. Pro ministered via clandestine Masses and sacraments, rejecting state control of worship. Meanwhile, Spiteri’s Vatican II-approved “Mass” enshrines the very liturgical abuses Pro would have abhorred: vernacularization, versus populum posture, and suppression of the propitiatory sacrifice.
Vocation Discernment in a Doctrinal Vacuum
Pilgrim Antonio Centeno Cuarenta’s quest to discern between “marriage, priesthood, or religious life” occurs in a church structure that has gutted all three vocations:
- Priesthood: The Novus Ordo “ordination” rite (1968) invalidly altered the sacramental form, rendering most post-conciliar “priests” mere laymen (Pius XII, Sacramentum Ordinis, 1947).
- Religious Life: Post-Vatican II orders discard vows, habits, and contemplative rigor, becoming NGOs (cf. Paul VI, Ecclesiae Sanctae, 1966).
- Marriage: The 1969 Ordo Celebrandi Matrimonium demotes marriage from a sacrament to a social contract, enabling annulment fraud (Cum matrimonii sacramentum, 1912).
True vocations flourish only where integral Catholic doctrine is upheld—impossible under usurpers who deny Christ’s Social Kingship.
The False “Kingdom of Fraternity”
Spiteri’s appeal to Leo XIV’s “kingdom of fraternity” exposes the conciliar sect’s apostasy. Pius XI condemned such equivocation: “When nations renounce Christ’s reign, society descends into chaos” (Quas Primas, ¶18). The “fraternity” invoked is Masonic, rooted in the 1789 Revolution’s Liberté, Égalité, Fraternité—principles anathematized by Gregory XVI (Mirari Vos, 1832) and Pius IX (Syllabus, Proposition 77). By preaching this heresy, Spiteri confirms his excommunication under Canon 188.4 (1917 Code) for public defection from the Faith.
Conclusion: A Generation Misled
The 70,000 youths, while sincere, are tragically complicit in the neo-church’s charade. Their pilgrimage, stripped of doctrinal clarity, serves only to normalize the Vatican II revolution. True Catholic youth would heed Pius X’s warning: “Modernism synthesizes all heresies” (Lamentabili, 1907). Until Mexico’s faithful reject the conciliar sect and return to unchanged Tradition—true Mass, true sacraments, true pope—their footsteps lead not to Christ the King, but to apostasy’s abyss.
Source:
What motivated 70,000 young Mexicans to make a pilgrimage to Christ the King? (ewtnnews.com)
Date: 10.02.2026