The article from EWTN News (March 1, 2026) reports the ordination of 26-year-old Father Erlin Pérez Vásquez in the Prelature of Yauyos, Peru, by Bishop Ricardo García, and highlights that Pérez was confirmed in 2017 by then-Bishop Robert Prevost—now the antipope “Leo XIV.” It presents a narrative of a youthful, zealous vocation nurtured by family and parish life, culminating in a moving ordination experience and a commitment to the confessional and the Mass. The piece implicitly legitimizes the entire post-conciliar hierarchical structure, from the “pope” down to the local “bishop,” and portrays the sacramental life within this structure as valid and desirable. The underlying thesis is that the modernized “Church” continues to produce authentic priests and foster genuine piety. This is a profound deception, a perfect illustration of the apostasy described by St. Pius X and Pope Pius IX, masking the total theological and sacramental bankruptcy of the conciliar sect.
The Invalid Hierarchy: A Chain of Usurpers
The article’s foundational error is its acceptance of the legitimacy of “Pope Leo XIV” (Robert Prevost) and “Bishop Ricardo García.” From the perspective of integral Catholic faith, which holds that a manifest heretic loses all ecclesiastical office ipso facto, this is a fatal flaw. St. Robert Bellarmine, the definitive authority on the papacy, teaches: “A manifest heretic… by that very fact ceases to be Pope and head, just as he ceases to be a Christian and member of the body of the Church.” The “Leo XIV” and his “bishops” are manifest heretics, as evidenced by their public adherence to the errors of Vatican II and their subsequent teachings and actions that contradict the immutable faith. Therefore, Prevost had no authority to confirm Pérez, and García had no power to ordain him. The ordination is null and void. Canon 188.4 of the 1917 Code of Canon Law, which remains the definitive law for a valid hierarchy, states that an office is vacated by “publicly defects from the Catholic faith.” The “conciliar church” is a paramasonic structure occupying the Vatican; its ministers are mere laymen simulating sacred orders. Pérez is not a priest; he is a layman playing a role in a religious drama.
Naturalistic Humanism Replacing Supernatural Salvation
The article’s tone is one of sentimental naturalism, focusing on human elements: rural upbringing, family bonds, personal feelings (“I felt like the Holy Spirit completely filled my soul”), and pastoral efficiency (“I have to attend to him right away; everything else can wait”). This is the precise “cult of man” condemned by Pope Pius IX in the Syllabus of Errors (Proposition 80: “The Roman Pontiff can, and ought to, reconcile himself, and come to terms with progress, liberalism and modern civilization”). The article is utterly silent on the supernatural purpose of the priesthood: the offering of the Unbloody Sacrifice of Calvary for the remission of sins, the absolute necessity of being in a state of grace to receive sacraments, and the ultimate goal of leading souls to eternal happiness in Heaven. The “Mass” Pérez celebrated is the invalid “Novus Ordo,” a Lutheran-style communion service that destroys the theology of the propitiatory sacrifice. His “confession” is a psychological counseling session, lacking the essential form and intention required for the Sacrament of Penance. The article reduces the priesthood to a nice career and community service, a “job” where “everything else can wait” for a parishioner’s request. This is the “secularism” or “laicism” that Pope Pius XI, in Quas Primas, identified as the plague poisoning society: the removal of Christ and His law from public and private life. Here, Christ is removed from the sanctuary itself, replaced by a nice young man in a stole.
The Omission of Christ the King and the Rejection of Papal Teaching
The article never mentions Christ the King. This is not an accident but a symptom of the modernist infection. Pope Pius XI, in Quas Primas, instituted the feast precisely to combat the error that “the Church’s authority to teach men, to issue laws, to govern nations… was denied.” The modernists, including “Leo XIV” and his “bishops,” have fully embraced this error, promoting the separation of Church and State and the false dignity of “religious freedom.” Pérez’s ministry, as described, is confined to the sacristy and the confessional (in its invalid form), with no hint of the social reign of Christ. There is no call for the conversion of Peru and its government to the Social Kingship of Our Lord Jesus Christ. The article’s silence on this non-negotiable Catholic dogma is a damning indictment. It promotes a “spiritualized,” privatized religion that is useless for the restoration of Catholic society, exactly what the Syllabus condemned (Propositions 77, 78, 79).
The Profanation of Sacred Things and the Cult of Modernist “Saints”
Pérez claims inspiration from “St. John Paul II.” This is a supreme scandal. John Paul II was a notorious heretic who promoted religious liberty, kissed the Koran, and scandalized the world. His “canonization” by the antipopes is null and void. To hold up such an apostate as a model for a young priest is to poison his soul with Modernism. The article also mentions “Our Lady of Fair Love,” a devotion that, while not intrinsically evil, is presented in the context of an invalid Mass and a false hierarchy. True devotion to the Mother of God requires being in the true Church, which the conciliar sect is not. The image is used as a sentimental backdrop, not as the object of true Catholic veneration which demands orthodoxy and communion with the legitimate hierarchy (which does not exist today). The “first Mass” is described with emotion (“My hands were trembling”), but this is the emotion of a layman participating in a sacrilegious ceremony, not the sacred awe of a priest offering the true sacrifice. The article profanes the Most Holy Sacrifice by presenting its simulation as the real thing.
The “Vocation” Narrative as a Tool of Apostasy
The story’s emphasis on Pérez’s rural background, his father’s support, and his “discovery” in the seminary is designed to evoke sympathy and validate the conciliar system’s ability to produce “good priests.” This is a lie. The system is designed to produce apostates. The “seminary” he attended is a factory of Modernism, where the true faith is suppressed and the errors of Vatican II are taught. His “vocation” was not a call from God to the Catholic priesthood, but an attraction to a role within a false religious organization. The article quotes him saying, “Let yourself be loved by Jesus Christ, let yourself be shaped by him.” But the “Jesus Christ” of the Novus Ordo and the conciliar theology is a Christ of the “historical-critical” method, a Christ reduced to a good man, not the God-Man of Catholic dogma. This is the “Christ” of the Modernist, described by St. Pius X in Pascendi Dominici gregis and Lamentabili sane exitu—a Christ who is a “myth” (Proposition 7), whose divinity is not proven by the Gospels (Proposition 27), and whose resurrection is “not properly a historical fact” (Proposition 36). Pérez is being shaped by this false Christ.
Conclusion: A Snare for Souls
This article is not a joyful account of a vocation; it is a documented case of a soul being lured into the service of the Antichurch. The “ordination” is invalid. The “sacraments” administered are null. The “priest” is a layman. The “pope” who confirmed him is an antipope. The entire narrative is a naturalistic, sentimental fabrication designed to make the faithful believe that the post-conciliar structure is Catholic. It is a psychological operation, as described in the file on the “False Fatima Apparitions,” but here applied to the clergy. It diverts attention from the apostasy within the Church—the total abandonment of Tradition since 1958—by focusing on a feel-good story of a young man in a cassock. The only “mission” Pérez has is to lead souls to hell, not heaven, because he possesses no power to absolve sins or offer the true sacrifice. The true Catholic response is to reject this article, reject the conciliar sect, and pray for the conversion of Pérez and his family to the una sancta catholica et apostolica ecclesia that exists outside the walls of the Vatican II abomination.
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Meet the priest who grew up in the Peruvian Andes and was confirmed by Pope Leo XIV (ewtnnews.com)
Date: 01.03.2026