National Catholic Register portal reports that EWTN Spain has announced its expansion to 24/7 programming on digital terrestrial television, a move timed to coincide with the visit of the antipope Leo XIV to Spain in June 2026. EWTN Spain president José Carlos González-Hurtado stated that this expansion allows them to “walk with people throughout their day, offering a constant point of encounter with Christ,” while EWTN CEO Michael Warsaw claimed this builds on founder Mother Angelica’s legacy “to proclaim the Gospel without compromise.” The network, founded in 2020, previously broadcast only four hours daily and now claims to more than double its viewership capacity, with all future content to be produced specifically for Spanish audiences. This expansion reveals the conciliar sect’s strategy of using modern media to propagate its modernist agenda while preparing the faithful for the reception of an antipope.
The Illusion of Catholic Media in the Conciliar Wilderness
The announcement by EWTN Spain presents itself as a triumph of Catholic evangelization, yet a careful examination reveals it to be yet another instrument of the post-conciliar revolution. González-Hurtado’s statement that “faith cannot be confined to a single moment — it must be present in all of them” sounds pious, but what faith does EWTN actually promote? The faith of the Council of Trent, or the faith of Vatican II? The faith that produced martyrs, or the faith that produces ecumenical handshakes with heretics and schismatics?
EWTN, despite its outward appearance of Catholicity, has consistently operated within the framework of the conciar sect since its inception. Founded by Mother Angelica in 1981, the network emerged during the pontificate of John Paul II, that arch-heretic and apostate who canonized the likes of Maximilian Kolbe (who died not for the faith but for a fellow prisoner) and promoted the false apparitions of Fatima. Mother Angelica herself, while perhaps personally pious in some respects, operated within the structures of the post-conciliar church, recognizing the legitimacy of antipopes from John XXIII onward. Her “legacy” is not one of uncompromising Catholic truth but of accommodation with modernism, wrapped in traditional aesthetics.
Warsaw’s claim that this expansion builds on Mother Angelica’s vision “to proclaim the Gospel without compromise” is particularly offensive. The Gospel proclaimed by EWTN is a compromised Gospel, one that accepts the religious liberty of Dignitatis Humanae, the ecumenism of Unitatis Redintegratio, and the liturgical revolution of Paul VI’s Novus Ordo Missae. This is not the Gospel of Our Lord Jesus Christ but the gospel of the conciliar sect, which Pius XI warned against in Quas Primas: “the plague that poisons human society… the secularism of our times, so-called laicism, its errors and wicked endeavors.”
Preparation for the Antipope’s Visit: A Modernist Pilgrimage
The timing of this expansion is explicitly linked to the visit of Leo XIV (Robert Prevost) to Spain, described as “the first papal visit to the country since Pope Benedict XVI visited in 2011.” The very language reveals the conciliar mindset: Leo XIV is referred to without qualification as “Pope,” when in truth he is an antipope, a usurper of the Chair of St. Peter. Since John XXIII convoked the Vatican II council, the occupants of the Vatican have been manifest heretics who, by that very fact, have ceased to be Pope and head of the Church, as St. Robert Bellarmine teaches: “a Pope who is 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” (De Romano Pontifice).
Leo IV, like his predecessors from John XXIII onward, has defected from the Catholic faith through public, manifest, and notorious heresy. Canon 188.4 of the 1917 Code of Canon Law states that “every office becomes vacant by the mere fact and without any declaration by reason of tacit resignation… if the cleric publicly defects from the Catholic faith.” The entire line of antipopes has publicly defected from the Catholic faith through their embrace of modernist errors condemned by St. Pius X in Pascendi Dominici Gregis and Lamentabili Sane Exitu. Therefore, Leo XIV has no authority, no jurisdiction, and no right to visit Spain or any other country as “Pope.”
EWTN’s preparation for “comprehensive coverage” of this visit is not journalism but propaganda. It is the preparation of the faithful to receive an antipope with the honors due to the Vicar of Christ, which constitutes participation in the sin of scandal and the propagation of the conciliar sect’s legitimacy. The faithful who follow this coverage will be led to believe that Leo XIV is the true Pope, that his visit is a blessing, and that the conciliar sect is the true Church. This is a diabolical deception of the worst kind.
The Language of Modernism: “Encounter with Christ” Without the Sacraments
González-Hurtado speaks of “offering a constant point of encounter with Christ,” but what does this encounter consist of? In the conciliar sect, “encounter with Christ” has been stripped of its supernatural content and reduced to a naturalistic, sentimental experience. The true encounter with Christ occurs in the Most Holy Sacrifice of the Mass, in the sacraments, in the preaching of the immutable truths of faith. But EWTN promotes the Novus Ordo “Mass,” which Paul VI himself admitted was not a sacrifice but a “supper,” and which the Ottaviani Intervention correctly identified as “a striking departure from the Catholic theology of the Holy Mass.”
The “encounter with Christ” offered by EWTN is an encounter with the conciliar Christ, the Christ of ecumenism, the Christ of religious liberty, the Christ who approves of all religions as paths to salvation. This is not the Christ of the Gospels, who said “I am the way, the truth, and the life: no man cometh unto the Father, but by me” (John 14:6). This is the Christ condemned by Pius IX in the Syllabus of Errors, Proposition 17: “Good hope at least is to be entertained of the eternal salvation of all those who are not at all in the true Church of Christ.”
Warsaw’s reference to Mother Angelica’s 103rd birthday as “a power sign” is particularly revealing. The conciliar sect is obsessed with signs, symbols, and sentimental gestures, while neglecting the substance of the faith. The true sign of God’s favor is not the expansion of a media network but the preservation of the true Mass, the true sacraments, and the true doctrine. As Our Lord said: “An evil and adulterous generation seeketh after a sign; and there shall no sign be given to it, but the sign of the prophet Jonas” (Matthew 16:4).
The Duplicity of “Serving the Church in Spain”
González-Hurtado claims that this expansion “strengthens our ability to serve the Church in Spain.” But which Church? The true Church of Christ, which endures in the faithful who profess the integral Catholic faith and are led by bishops with valid sacraments? Or the conciliar sect, the “Church of the New Advent,” the “paramasonic structure” that occupies the Vatican?
Spain, once a bastion of Catholic orthodoxy under Isabel the Catholic and St. Pius X’s condemnation of modernism, has been devastated by the conciliar revolution. The “profound questions surrounding the dignity of life and participation in the Church” that Warsaw references are not being answered by EWTN but perpetuated by it. The conciar sect promotes abortion, divorce, contraception, and the dissolution of the family through its acceptance of modernist principles. EWTN’s “clarity and hope of the Gospel” is the false clarity of naturalistic humanism, which Pius IX condemned in the Syllabus of Errors, Proposition 40: “The teaching of the Catholic Church is hostile to the well-being and interests of society.”
The true Church in Spain, the remnant that preserves the faith of their fathers, does not need EWTN’s 24/7 programming. They need the true Mass, the true sacraments, and the true doctrine. They need priests who preach against modernism, not media executives who promote the conciliar agenda. As St. Pius X warned in Pascendi: “the office committed to the pastors of the Church is to safeguard the deposit of faith and to guard it from all error… The Church has no right to innovate in matters of faith.”
The Strategy of Saturation: Occupying the Airwaves
The expansion to 24/7 programming is a strategic move to saturate the Spanish media landscape with conciliar content. This is the modernist strategy of occupation: occupy the media, occupy the schools, occupy the governments, occupy the churches. The goal is to leave no space for the true faith, no alternative to the conciliar sect.
Pius XI, in Quas Primas, warned against the secularism that removes Christ from public life: “When God and Jesus Christ were removed from laws and states and when authority was derived not from God but from men, the foundations of that authority were destroyed.” EWTN’s expansion is not a restoration of Christ’s reign but a further entrenchment of the conciliar revolution, which has replaced the supernatural order with the natural order, the kingdom of God with the kingdom of man.
The faithful must reject EWTN and all conciar media. They must seek out the true sources of Catholic doctrine: the councils, the encyclicals, the catechisms, the writings of the saints. They must attend the true Mass, receive the true sacraments, and follow the true pastors. As St. Paul warned: “If any man preach to you a gospel, besides that which you have received, let him be anathema” (Galatians 1:9).
Conclusion: The Antipope’s Advance Guard
EWTN Spain’s expansion to 24/7 programming is not a victory for the Catholic faith but a further advance of the conciar sect’s apostasy. It is the advance guard for the antipope’s visit, preparing the faithful to receive a heretic and usurper as the Vicar of Christ. It promotes a “Gospel without compromise” that is, in reality, a Gospel of total compromise with modernism.
The true faithful must see through this deception and reject EWTN, the conciar sect, and all its works. They must cling to the immutable Tradition of the Church, the true Mass, the true sacraments, and the true doctrine. They must pray for the restoration of the papacy and the destruction of the conciliar revolution. As Pius XI declared in Quas Primas: “The Kingdom of our Redeemer encompasses all men… His reign extends not only to Catholic nations but also to all non-Christians, so that most truly the entire human race is subject to the authority of Jesus Christ.”
Let us reject the false reign of the conciar sect and proclaim the true reign of Christ the King, who alone has the right to rule over all nations, all peoples, and all hearts. Adveniat regnum tuum — Thy kingdom come.
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EWTN Spain Expands to 24/7 Programming, Setting Stage for Papal Visit (ncregister.com)
Date: 20.04.2026