The NCRegister portal reports on the upcoming beatification of Fulton Sheen, scheduled for September 24, 2026, in St. Louis. Bishop Louis Tylka of Peoria, author of the commentary, presents Sheen as a model evangelist whose legacy of “clarity in confusion, hope in anxiety, truth spoken with love” is needed today. The article highlights Sheen’s media prowess—his radio program The Catholic Hour and the television show Life Is Worth Living, which allegedly reached 30 million viewers—as well as his denunciations of communism and consumerism. It emphasizes his personal piety, specifically his daily Holy Hour, and notes his role in converting prominent figures like Clare Boothe Luce and Henry Ford II. Bishop Tylka frames the beatification, which requires two miracles, as a milestone for the American Church, coinciding with the papacy of Leo XIV, the first American antipope. The commentary concludes by inviting the faithful to the celebration, where Cardinal Luis Tagle will serve as papal representative.
This beatification is not a triumph of the Faith, but a calculated maneuver by the conciliar sect to canonize the very modernist spirit that has devastated the Church, using a man whose later silence and complicity enabled the triumph of the Antichrist within the Vatican.
The Veneer of Orthodoxy Hiding Modernist Capitulation
Fulton Sheen is presented as a stalwart defender of the faith, a man who “courageously denounced global attacks on human dignity and the evils of collectivism.” Bishop Tylka praises Sheen’s refusal to “seek office” and his willingness to “disagree with powerful figures.” Yet, this hagiography conveniently omits the most critical test of Sheen’s orthodoxy: his reaction to the destruction of the Church from within. Where was the “trusted voice of truth” when the modernists, whom St. Pius X called the “synthesis of all errors,” hijacked the Church during the Second Vatican Council? Sheen did not cry out in the wilderness against the apostasy; he accommodated it. He participated in the very revolution that gutted the sacred liturgy and opened the doors to religious indifferentism. To canonize a man who swam in the waters of conciliarism, rather than anathematizing the heresies it produced, is to canonize the spirit of the Council itself.
As St. Pius X warned in Pascendi Dominici Gregis, the modernists are the “most pernicious” of enemies because they work from within, using “theological, historical, philosophical, and critical” weapons to corrupt the faith. Sheen’s later career, particularly his acceptance of the new liturgical reforms and his silence on the mass apostasy that followed, marks him not as a defender of the Faith, but as a useful idiot for the modernist agenda. The conciliar sect loves Sheen because his media-friendly, personality-driven Catholicism is the perfect antidote to the “ghetto Catholicism” of the past. He is the patron saint of the “Spirit of Vatican II”—a Catholicism focused on “dialogue” and “relevance” rather than the uncompromising demands of the Gospel.
The Idolatry of the “First American Pope”
Bishop Tylka notes with pride that this beatification occurs “poignantly during the papacy of our first American pope.” This is a glaring exposure of the author’s allegiance to the conciliar sect. Leo XIV (Robert Prevost) is not a pope; he is an antipope, a usurper of the Chair of Peter, a manifest heretic who has continued the modernist revolution of his predecessors. To celebrate a “saint” under the auspices of an antipope is a grotesque parody of the Church’s sanctifying office. As the great Doctor of the Church, St. Robert Bellarmine, taught, a manifest heretic ceases to be Pope and head, just as he ceases to be a Christian and member of the body of the Church. Therefore, any “beatification” performed under the authority of Leo XIV is null and void, a theatrical farce designed to lend sanctity to a bankrupt institution.
The article’s reference to the “first American pope” reveals the true nature of the conciliar sect: it is a nationalist, democratic institution, not a divine one. The Church is not a corporation to be managed by regional representatives, but the Kingdom of Christ on earth, governed by the Vicar of Christ. The emphasis on Sheen as the “first American native-born bishop” to be beatified is a further manifestation of the Americanist heresy, condemned by Pope Leo XIII, which seeks to adapt the Church to the spirit of the world rather than converting the world to Christ.
The Fraud of Conciliar “Miracles”
The article cites the “miracle” attributed to Sheen’s intercession: the recovery of a stillborn baby named James Fulton in 2010. This alleged miracle is presented as proof of Sheen’s sanctity. However, the faithful must ask: what kind of “sanctity” is validated by a sect that has itself lost the faith? The conciliar sect, having abandoned the true Mass and the sacraments as efficacious means of grace, is desperate for supernatural validation of its own legitimacy. By “canonizing” Sheen, the sect hopes to create a bridge between the pre-conciliar Church and the post-conciliar abomination, suggesting that the “holy” Sheen would have embraced the new order.
Moreover, the reliance on a single, medically inexplicable event to prove sanctity is fraught with danger. Our Lord warned that false prophets would arise and show “great signs and wonders” to deceive, if possible, even the elect. The faithful are not bound to accept the “miracles” of a sect that has canonized manifest heretics like John Paul II and the Ulma family (who were not martyrs, as they did not die in odium fidei). The true Church, which endures in the faithful who profess the integral Catholic faith, does not need the validation of a sect that has lost the true faith.
The Silence on the True Crisis
Bishop Tylka laments the “confusion” and “anxiety” of the modern world, but he offers no true remedy. He speaks of “truth spoken with love,” but he does not define that truth. Is it the truth of the Syllabus of Errors, which condemns the idea that the Church should reconcile herself with “progress, liberalism, and modern civilization”? Is it the truth of Quas Primas, which demands the public reign of Christ the King over all nations? No. The “truth” of the conciar sect is a watered-down, naturalistic humanism that seeks to make the Church “relevant” to a world that is hastening toward damnation.
The article’s silence on the true crisis of the Church—the loss of faith, the destruction of the liturgy, the spread of heresy—is deafening. Instead of calling for a return to Tradition, Bishop Tylka invites the faithful to celebrate a man who, whatever his personal piety, ultimately served the interests of the modernist revolution. The world does not need Fulton Sheen; it needs the uncompromising truth of the Catholic Faith, as taught by the Church before the modernist hijacking of 1958. It needs the true Mass, the true sacraments, and the true doctrine of the Church, not the nostalgic idolatry of a media personality.
The Beatification as a Tool of the Antichrist
The beatification of Fulton Sheen is not a cause for celebration, but a cause for mourning. It is a brazen attempt by the conciar sect to co-opt the memory of a man who, in his early years, did preach against the errors of communism and secularism. By beatifying Sheen, the sect seeks to legitimize its own modernist agenda, suggesting that the “holy” Sheen would have embraced the new order. This is a lie. Sheen’s early denunciations of collectivism and relativism are incompatible with the conciliar sect’s embrace of religious liberty, ecumenism, and the “dialogue” with the world.
The faithful must reject this beatification as a fraud. They must recognize that the conciliar sect, having abandoned the true faith, has no power to make saints. As the Canon Law of 1917 states, every office becomes vacant by the mere fact and without any declaration if the cleric publicly defects from the Catholic faith. The conciliar “bishops” and “popes” have publicly defected from the faith, and therefore their acts—including beatifications and canonizations—are null and void. The true Church, which endures in the faithful who profess the integral Catholic faith, does not need the validation of a sect that has lost the true faith.
In conclusion, the beatification of Fulton Sheen is a triumph of the conciliar apostasy, a brazen attempt to canonize the spirit of Vatican II and to legitimize the modernist revolution. The faithful must reject this fraud and cling to the unchanging truth of the Catholic Faith, as taught by the Church before the modernist hijacking of 1958. They must pray for the restoration of the true Church and the true Mass, and they must resist the lies of the conciar sect with all their strength. As St. Paul wrote, “Stand fast, and hold the traditions which you have been taught, whether by word or our epistle.” The world does not need Fulton Sheen; it needs Jesus Christ, the King of kings and Lord of lords, and His one, holy, catholic, and apostolic Church.
Source:
The World Needs Fulton Sheen (ncregister.com)
Date: 08.05.2026