The EWTN News article dated April 8, 2026, reports a surge in adult conversions to the post-conciliar structure, quoting JonMarc Grodi of The Coming Home Network. Grodi attributes this to a desire for “a right relationship to truth” and the “renewed visibility of Catholic identity,” while praising the witness of “Pope Leo XIV.” The article presents these developments as a positive revival, omitting any reference to the doctrinal, liturgical, and ecclesiastical revolution that defines the modern “Church.” This narrative is a profound spiritual fraud, presenting entry into the conciliar abomination as a return to the one true Church.
The Naturalistic “Truth” of the Conciliar Sect
The article’s central theme is a desire for “a right relationship to truth.” This phrasing, devoid of supernatural context, is pure naturalism, condemned by Pope Pius IX in the Syllabus of Errors. The Syllabus anathematizes the proposition that “Human reason, without any reference whatsoever to God, is the sole arbiter of truth and falsehood” (Error 3) and that “All the truths of religion proceed from the innate strength of human reason” (Error 4). Grodi’s language reduces the Catholic Faith, a supernatural deposit revealed by God, to a philosophical search for “truth” accessible to natural reason alone. This is the very “moderate rationalism” (Errors 8-14) and “indifferentism” (Errors 15-18) that the Church has always condemned. The true Catholic knows that truth is a Person—Our Lord Jesus Christ (John 14:6)—and that the “right relationship” to that truth is one of supernatural faith, hope, and charity, lived within the Mystical Body, not a subjective quest for intellectual coherence. The article’s silence on the necessity of sanctifying grace, the theological virtues, and the hierarchical constitution of the Church is the gravest accusation; it preaches a religion of man, not of God.
The Sacramental Lie: Presence Without Sacrifice
Grodi states people are “looking for the sacraments… where he promises to show up and be with us.” This reflects the post-conciliar reduction of the sacraments from ex opere operato causes of grace to mere symbolic “encounters.” It completely omits the core Catholic doctrine, defined by the Council of Trent, that the Holy Mass is the unbloody Sacrifice of Calvary, a propitiatory offering for sin. The conciliar sect’s “Eucharist,” celebrated versus populum with a new, invalid rite, is not the sacrifice of the Law of the Gospel but a memorial meal. To seek “the sacraments” in such a context is to seek a counterfeit. Pius XI in Quas Primas teaches that Christ’s kingdom “encompasses all men” and that His royal authority contains His priestly office: “since Christ as Redeemer acquired the Church with His Blood, and as Priest offered Himself as a sacrifice for our sins… who is to deny that His royal authority contains both these offices?” The article’s sacramental language, stripped of its sacrificial and redemptive essence, is an idolatrous sham, leading souls to believe they receive grace while participating in a liturgical innovation that is, at best, invalid and at worst, sacrilegious.
The False Hierarchy and the Usurper “Pope”
The article explicitly praises “Pope Leo XIV” (Robert Prevost), the current head of the conciliar sect. From the perspective of integral Catholic faith, this man is an antipope, a member of the “synagogue of Satan” (Apoc. 2:9; 3:9) occupying the See of Peter. The entire post-1958 hierarchy, from “John XXIII” through “Francis” to “Leo XIV,” is part of the “abomination of desolation” standing in the holy place (Matt. 24:15). To speak of “conversions” to a church governed by such men is to speak of souls being incorporated into a structure that is, according to the Definitive Conclusions of the False Fatima Apparitions file, “theologically contradictory to Catholic doctrine” and “a tool to divert attention from modernism.” The article presents this modernized, ecumenical, and naturalistic sect as the Catholic Church. This is the ultimate deception: leading souls into formal communion with apostasy. As St. Pius X taught in Pascendi Dominici Gregis (echoed in Lamentabili Sane Exitu), Modernism is the “synthesis of all heresies.” To enter into communion with it is to assent to that synthesis.
The Omission of the Social Kingship of Christ
The article’s focus on individual “relationship to truth” and personal sacramental desire is a studied omission of the Social Kingship of Our Lord Jesus Christ, the central doctrine of Quas Primas. Pius XI established the feast of Christ the King precisely to combat the “secularism of our times, so-called laicism.” He declared that “the entire human society had to be shaken, because it lacked a stable and strong foundation” when “God and Jesus Christ were removed from laws and states.” The article celebrates conversions while the conciliar sect actively promotes the exact opposite: religious liberty (condemned in Syllabus Error 15), separation of Church and state (Error 55), and the dignity of the human person as the foundation of society—all modernism. A true conversion must entail the rejection of these errors and the desire for the public reign of Christ the King over all nations and all aspects of life. The article’s silence on this is a silent endorsement of the very secularism Pius XI condemned.
The “Conversions” Are a Pastoral Tragedy
What is presented as a “great rise” and “joyful” news is, in reality, a pastoral catastrophe. These “converts” are being received into a church that:
1. Teaches that the “Church of Christ subsists in” the conciliar sect, effectively denying the identity of the Catholic Church (cf. Lumen Gentium 8, a Modernist proposition).
2. Promotes ecumenism and religious indifference, contrary to the exclusive claims of the Catholic Faith (Syllabus Errors 16-18).
3. Has a nullified and sacrilegious liturgy, especially the “Novus Ordo Missae,” which is a “perversion of the Catholic Mass” (as recognized by traditional Catholic theologians).
4. Is governed by a line of antipopes and heretical bishops, from “Roncalli”/“John XXIII” onward, who have propagated the errors of Modernism.
Therefore, these “conversions” are not ingress into the Ark of Salvation but enlistment in the army of the Antichrist. They are souls being confirmed in error, receiving invalid sacraments (except perhaps baptism and, conditionally, marriage), and being taught a religion of naturalism and sentimentality. The true Catholic must pray for these deluded souls and work for their extraction from the conciliar structures, not celebrate their incorporation into them. The article is a piece of propaganda for the “paramasonic structure” occupying the Vatican, using the language of “truth” and “sacraments” to mask a profound and damning apostasy.
Source:
Catholic Church sees increase in conversions as more people desire a ‘relationship to the truth’ (ewtnnews.com)
Date: 08.04.2026