EWTN News reports that the Women in the Vatican Association (DIVA) has welcomed the appointment of Maria Montserrat Alvarado as the new prefect of the Dicastery for Communication. The appointment, made by the usurper Leo XIV, marks a historic first: a laywoman who is neither consecrated nor a religious sister has been placed at the head of a Vatican dicastery. This is not merely an administrative novelty; it is a deliberate, calculated step in the systematic dismantling of the hierarchical constitution of the Church of Christ, replacing the sacred order established by God with the egalitarian chaos of the conciliar sect.
The Appointment: A Triumph of the Conciliar Revolution
The facts are presented with celebratory fanfare by EWTN News, which itself is a propaganda arm of the structures occupying the Vatican. Maria Montserrat Alvarado, president and chief operating officer of EWTN News since 2023, has been named prefect of the Dicastery for Communication. She will assume the post on November 1, 2026, at the age of 40. The article notes her connections to both Latin America and the United States, having been born in Mexico City and educated in the U.S.
The response from the Women in the Vatican Association is a textbook example of the modernist ecclesiology that has infected the post-conciliar structures. The association’s president, Margarita Romanelli, stated: “Our purpose is to create an increasingly constructive and fruitful network of knowledge, friendship, and solidarity among all members, to promote their professional, human, and spiritual growth.” This language is not Catholic; it is the jargon of corporate human resources and secular NGOs. The Church is not a “network” for “professional growth”; she is the Mystical Body of Christ, established by Our Lord Jesus Christ as a perfect society with the mission of saving souls through the preaching of the Gospel and the administration of the sacraments.
Theological Subversion: The Church as a Humanitarian NGO
The DIVA statement continues with a revealing passage: “To respond to our vocation as women, our model is Mary, Mother of the Church, who urges us to make the most of all that femininity encompasses and signifies, striving to be witnesses of sisterhood as daughters of the one Father, and looking to the future as women of authentic Christian hope.”
This is a masterclass in modernist equivocation. Mary, the Mother of God and Mother of the Church, is reduced to a mere “model” for feminist self-actualization. The phrase “make the most of all that femininity encompasses and signifies” is pure gender ideology, imported directly from secular culture. It has nothing to do with the Catholic understanding of womanhood, which is rooted in the virtues of humility, obedience, and maternal sacrifice, as exemplified by the Blessed Virgin Mary in her Fiat (“Be it done unto me according to thy word” – Luke 1:38).
The invocation of “sisterhood as daughters of the one Father” is a deliberate echo of the pan-religious, ecumenical spirit that denies the exclusive salvific mission of the Catholic Church. It is the language of the “Church of the New Advent,” where all religions are paths to the same God, and the unique role of the Catholic Church as the one true ark of salvation is denied. This is precisely the error condemned by Pope Pius XI in *Mortalium Animos* (1928), where he taught that the unity of the Church is not a federation of different religious groups but the unity of faith, sacraments, and governance under the Vicar of Christ.
The Dicastery for Communication: A Ministry of Disinformation
The Dicastery for Communication itself is a creation of the post-conciliar revolution, established by the usurper Francis in 2015 to centralize control over the Vatican’s media apparatus. Its purpose is not to communicate the unchanging truths of the Catholic faith but to manage the narrative of the conciliar sect, promoting its modernist agenda and suppressing dissent.
Placing a laywoman at its head is not a sign of “progress” but of the complete inversion of the divine order. In the true Church, the communication of the faith is the sacred duty of the hierarchy—the pope, bishops, and priests—who have received the mandate from Christ to “teach all nations” (Matthew 28:19). The laity are called to receive this teaching and to live it out in their families and communities, not to govern the Church’s institutions.
This appointment follows the pattern established by the usurper Francis, who systematically placed laypeople, including women, in positions of authority within the Roman Curia. It is a direct assault on the hierarchical constitution of the Church, which is of divine institution. As Pope Leo XIII taught in *Satis Cognitum* (1896), the Church is not a democracy but a monarchy, with Christ as its head and the pope as His visible representative on earth. The laity have no jurisdiction in the Church; their role is to be governed, not to govern.
The Silence on Supernatural Realities
Perhaps the most damning aspect of the EWTN News article and the DIVA statement is what they omit entirely. There is no mention of the state of the Church in the modern world, no reference to the crisis of faith, the loss of vocations, the emptying of the sacraments, or the apostasy that has consumed the post-conciliar structures. There is no call to prayer, no exhortation to penance, no warning about the dangers of modernism and secularism.
Instead, we are offered a vision of the Church as a professional networking organization, where women “collaborate” and “promote their growth.” This is the naturalistic, horizontal ecclesiology of the conciliar sect, which has replaced the supernatural, vertical ecclesiology of the true Church. It is the ecclesiology of the Antichrist, who seeks to destroy the Church from within by emptying her of her divine content and reducing her to a mere human institution.
The Example of the Saints: A Contrast with Modernist Feminism
The true model for Catholic women is not the feminist ideal of “making the most of femininity” but the example of the saints, who consecrated themselves entirely to God and His Church. Consider St. Catherine of Siena, who dared to rebuke the popes of her day and call them to reform. Consider St. Teresa of Avila, who reformed the Carmelite order through prayer and penance. Consider St. Thérèse of Lisieux, who offered her life for the salvation of souls.
These women did not seek positions of power or prestige within the Church. They sought only to love God and to serve His Church through prayer, sacrifice, and obedience. They understood that true greatness lies not in worldly achievement but in holiness, and that the greatest service one can render to the Church is to save one’s own soul and to pray for the salvation of others.
The modernist feminists of the DIVA association, by contrast, seek to remake the Church in their own image, imposing their secular ideology on the sacred institution established by Christ. They are not daughters of the Church but daughters of the world, and their “sisterhood” is not the sisterhood of the saints but the sisterhood of Babel.
Conclusion: The Abomination of Desolation
The appointment of Maria Montserrat Alvarado as prefect of the Dicastery for Communication is not a cause for celebration but for mourning. It is yet another sign of the deepening apostasy of the concilar sect, which continues to distance itself from the teaching and practice of the true Church. It is a deliberate provocation, a slap in the face of the faithful who still cling to the unchanging truths of the Catholic faith.
Let us pray for the true Church, which endures in the hearts of the faithful who profess the integral Catholic faith and are led by bishops with valid sacraments and validly ordained priests. Let us pray for the conversion of those who have been led astray by the modernist revolution. And let us pray for the restoration of the true Church, when the usurpers are cast out and the Vicar of Christ once again occupies the throne of Peter.
As Pope Pius XI taught in *Quas Primas* (1925), peace is only possible in the kingdom of Christ. The concilar sect, by rejecting the kingship of Christ and replacing it with the reign of man, has brought only division, confusion, and apostasy. May God in His mercy bring an end to this abomination and restore His Church to her former glory.
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Women in the Vatican welcome Montserrat Alvarado as new prefect for communication (ewtnnews.com)
Date: 06.06.2026