The National Catholic Register, a portal long since co-opted by the conciliar sect, presents its weekly television programming guide for EWTN, the global propaganda arm of the post-conciliar apostasy. The article, dated April 18, 2026, prominently features the “Apostolic Journey of the Holy Father to Angola and Equatorial Guinea” by the current usurper of Peter’s throne, Leo XIV (Robert Prevost), following his visits to Algeria and Cameroon. The piece is a litany of the conciliar sect’s characteristic distractions: from the heretical “consecration” of St. Louis Marie de Montfort (a figure whose private revelations lack the Church’s infallible guarantee and whose “total consecration” piety often obscures the necessity of the Church’s sacramental system and the authority of the true Magisterium) to the glorification of American military prowess and the trivialities of pizza chain rivalries. This is the spiritual fare offered to the faithful by the structures occupying the Vatican: a nauseating blend of naturalism, militarism, and theological confusion, all while the true Church, the Ark of Salvation, is abandoned by those who should be her shepherds. The article’s very existence and content are a testament to the complete capitulation of these institutions to the spirit of the world, a stark illustration of the “abomination of desolation” foretold by Our Lord (Mt 24:15).
The Usurper’s “Apostolic Journey”: Evangelization or Ecumenical Tourism?
The article’s centerpiece is the “Apostolic Journey of the Holy Father to Angola and Equatorial Guinea,” a carefully orchestrated media event designed to project an image of global relevance and spiritual authority for Leo XIV. The language used — “saying Mass and proclaiming the Gospel” — is a masterclass in conciarist doublespeak. What “Mass” is being offered? It is certainly not the Most Holy Sacrifice of the Mass, the Unbloody Sacrifice of Calvary, offered *in persona Christi* according to the immutable Roman Rite, which is the true propitiatory sacrifice for the living and the dead. Instead, it is the “Novus Ordo Missae,” a fabricated rite born of the modernist liturgical revolution, a “table of assembly” that often obscures the sacrificial nature of the Mass and opens the door to all manner of abuses and Protestant influences. To call this “proclaiming the Gospel” is a blasphemy against the true Gospel, which demands the conversion of all nations to the one true Catholic Faith, not a vague, ecumenical “dialogue” that treats all religions as equally valid paths to God.
Pius XI, in his encyclical *Quas Primas*, unequivocally stated that Christ’s reign “extends not only to Catholic nations or to those who, by receiving baptism according to law, belong to the Church, even though their erroneous opinions have led them astray or discord has separated them from love, but His reign encompasses also all non-Christians, so that most truly the entire human race is subject to the authority of Jesus Christ.” The mission of the Church is not to “dialogue” with error, but to “teach all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost” (Mt 28:19). This usurper’s journeys are not acts of true evangelization, but rather a form of religious tourism, designed to foster the false ecumenism condemned by St. Pius X in *Pascendi Dominici gregis* as the “synthesis of all errors.” The true Gospel is not “proclaimed” by a figure who, by his very position as an antipope, embodies the rejection of the Church’s immutable teaching and authority.
EWTN: The Conciliar Sect’s Global Propaganda Machine
The article’s source, EWTN, is not a Catholic network in the true sense. It is the primary media arm of the post-conciliar establishment, a sophisticated apparatus for disseminating the errors of Modernism and the “spirit of Vatican II” to a global audience. Its programming, as evidenced by this very article, is a carefully curated mix of superficial piety, theological ambiguity, and outright worldly distractions. The inclusion of shows like “The Food That Built America” (celebrating capitalist innovation and consumerism) and “Navy SEALs: America’s Secret Warriors” (glorifying military violence and American imperialism) alongside purportedly “Catholic” content reveals the true nature of this network: it is a tool for the “democratization” of the Church, reducing her supernatural mission to the level of secular entertainment and nationalistic pride.
The “In Concert: An Evening in Barcelona” program, featuring the Berlin Philharmonic in the Sagrada Familia Basilica, is a prime example of this syncretistic approach. While sacred music has its place in the Church, the use of a basilica — even one as architecturally dubious as Gaudi’s — for a secular concert, especially one that likely features non-liturgical or even profane compositions, is a desecration of a sacred space. It reflects the conciliar sect’s blurring of the sacred and the profane, a direct consequence of the modernist error that “all things are God” (Pantheism, condemned in *Syllabus of Errors*, Proposition 1). The Church has always taught the absolute distinction between the Creator and creation, and the proper use of sacred spaces for divine worship, not for worldly entertainment.
The “Consecration” of St. Louis Marie de Montfort: A Dangerous Distraction
The article highlights a docudrama on “Jesus Living in Mary: The Consecration of St. Louis Marie de Montfort.” While St. Louis Marie de Montfort was a pre-conciliar figure, his private revelations, like all private revelations, do not carry the guarantee of the Church’s infallible Magisterium. The emphasis on “total consecration to Jesus through Mary” can, in the current climate of conciliarist confusion, become a dangerous distraction from the essential truths of the Faith. It can foster a subjective, sentimental piety that bypasses the objective means of grace: the sacraments, the true Mass, and the authoritative teaching of the Church. The true path to Jesus is through His Church, not through private devotions, however pious they may seem, especially when those devotions are promoted by a network (EWTN) that simultaneously undermines the Church’s true doctrine and authority.
The *Syllabus of Errors* of Pius IX condemned the idea that “human reason, without any reference whatsoever to God, is the sole arbiter of truth and falsehood, and of good and evil; it is law to itself, and suffices, by its natural force, to secure the welfare of men and of nations” (Proposition 3). The Montfortian “consecration,” when divorced from the fullness of Catholic truth and the authority of the true Magisterium, can easily devolve into a form of self-centered spirituality, where the individual’s “relationship” with Mary and Jesus takes precedence over the objective demands of the Faith and the Church’s mission to teach, govern, and sanctify.
The Silence of Supernatural Realities: A Symptom of Apostasy
Perhaps the most damning aspect of this article, and of EWTN’s programming in general, is its profound silence on the supernatural realities that should be at the heart of any truly Catholic media. There is no mention of the state of grace, the necessity of confession, the reality of hell, the urgency of conversion, the dangers of modernism, or the absolute primacy of God’s law over human law. Instead, we are offered “euthanasia and dying well” (a topic that, while important, is often framed in a naturalistic, humanistic way by conciarist “scholars”), the history of pizza chains, and the exploits of Navy SEALs. This is the “bread of stones” (Mt 4:3) offered by the conciarist structures in place of the “Bread of Life” (Jn 6:35).
The *Lamentabili sane exitu* of St. Pius X condemned the modernist error that “the Church is an enemy of the progress of natural and theological sciences” (Proposition 57) and that “truth changes with man, because it develops with him, in him, and through him” (Proposition 58). EWTN’s programming, with its embrace of secular entertainment and its avoidance of hard doctrinal truths, embodies this modernist spirit. It presents a “Catholicism” that is comfortable with the world, that seeks to “reconcile itself, and come to terms with progress, liberalism and modern civilization” (Proposition 80, *Syllabus of Errors*), rather than one that calls all men and nations to repentance and submission to Christ the King.
The “Clergy” and Their Complicity in Spiritual Ruin
The article mentions “EWTN theology adviser Noah Lett and Scripture scholar Brant Pitre” in the context of “The Case for Jesus” series. These individuals, operating within the conciarist framework, are part of the problem, not the solution. Their “mining” of Catholic teaching, the Bible, and history is inevitably filtered through the lens of the “hermeneutics of continuity,” a modernist fabrication designed to reconcile the irreconcilable: the pre-conciliar Church with the post-conciliar abomination. They are “clerics” who, by their very position and the content they produce, lend credibility to the structures of the Antichrist, obscuring the true nature of the crisis in the Church and leading the faithful further into error.
The true “case for Jesus” is not made by those who deny His Church’s authority, who offer a “Mass” that is not a true sacrifice, or who promote a “Gospel” that does not demand the conversion of all nations to the Catholic Faith. The true “case for Jesus” is made by the unchanging Magisterium, by the saints who shed their blood for the Faith, and by the faithful who, in spite of the apostasy of their shepherds, cling to the immutable truths of the Church. The “clergy” of EWTN, like all those who serve the conciliar sect, are guilty of the spiritual ruin of the faithful, a ruin foretold by Our Lord: “The harvest indeed is great, but the labourers are few. Pray ye therefore the Lord of the harvest, that he would send forth labourers into his harvest” (Mt 9:37-38). But these are not true labourers; they are “thieves and robbers” (Jn 10:8) who have entered not by the door of the true Church, but by another way.
Conclusion: The Call to Reject the Abomination
This article from the National Catholic Register, promoting EWTN’s programming, is a microcosm of the post-conciliar apostasy. It showcases the “pope” (antipope) as a global celebrity, the “Mass” as a media event, and the “Gospel” as a message of worldly accommodation. It is a call to spiritual suicide, a siren song leading the faithful away from the Ark of Salvation and into the turbulent seas of modernism, naturalism, and indifferentism.
The faithful must reject this abomination. They must turn away from the structures occupying the Vatican, from the “clergy” who serve them, and from the media that propagandizes for them. They must return to the immutable Tradition of the Church, to the true Mass, to the sacraments administered by validly ordained priests in communion with the true Church, and to the unchanging teaching of the pre-conciliar Magisterium. As Pius XI declared, “The state must leave the same freedom to the members of Orders and Congregations, both male and female, who are indeed the most valiant helpers of the Pastors of the Church and contribute most to the expansion and establishment of Christ’s Kingdom.” But these “Orders and Congregations” must be truly Catholic, not the corrupted, modernist entities that now populate the conciliar landscape.
The “peace” offered by EWTN and the conciliar sect is not the “peace of Christ” but the “peace of the world” (Jn 14:27), a false peace built on the ruins of true doctrine and the abandonment of the Church’s supernatural mission. The true peace, the “peace of Christ in the Kingdom of Christ” (*Quas Primas*), can only be found in the integral Catholic Faith, in submission to the true authority of the Church, and in the unwavering commitment to the public reign of Christ the King over all nations and every aspect of human life. This is the only path to salvation, and it is a path that the conciliar sect, with all its “tv picks” and “apostolic journeys,” seeks to obscure and destroy.
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ON EWTN: Watch More of Pope Leo’s Travels in Africa, Plus Other Good Viewing (ncregister.com)
Date: 18.04.2026