A Shrine for Tolton: The Conciliar Sect’s Weaponization of Race Over Holiness
EWTN News reports that the Diocese of Springfield in Illinois announced plans on April 29, 2026, to create “The Shrine for Father Augustine Tolton,” honoring the first recognized Black Catholic priest in the United States. The shrine, to be located at the closed St. Boniface Church in Quincy, Illinois, is presented as a “holy site” where pilgrims can pray for Tolton’s intercession and attend daily Mass. Bishop Thomas John Paprocki and Auxiliary Bishop Joseph Perry promoted the shrine as a place of “prayer, hope, and renewal,” while fundraising efforts estimate $5 million for renovations and $5–7 million for campus expansion. Tolton, born into slavery in 1854, was ordained in Rome in 1886 after American seminaries refused him due to racism, and died in 1897. His cause for canonization, opened in 2010, advanced to “Venerable” under the antipope Francis in 2019, pending a documented miracle. This project is not merely a tribute to a holy priest but a calculated move by the conciliar sect to advance its modernist agenda, reducing the faith to naturalistic humanism and racial politics while obscuring the true supernatural mission of the Church.





