EWTN portal reports that on June 10, 2026, the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) voted to advance the cause of beatification and canonization for Monsignor Joseph Buh, a Slovenian-born missionary priest who ministered in northern Minnesota. Bishop Daniel J. Felton presented Buh as “a remarkable example of missionary discipleship,” praising his immersion in Indigenous communities, his learning of the Ojibwe language, and his method of “presence and listening.” The article frames Buh’s cause as relevant for “the Church today” in “a missionary age.” This entire process is a theatrical farce orchestrated by the conciliar sect to fabricate saints for its apostate church, using the memory of a pre-conciliar priest whose work is now being hijacked to legitimize the very errors that have destroyed true Catholic missionary activity.
The Canonization Factory: A Machine for Manufacturing Legitimacy
The vote by the USCCB to advance Joseph Buh’s cause is not an act of piety. It is a bureaucratic maneuver within the conciliar sect’s canonization industry — an industry designed to produce “saints” who serve the ideological needs of the post-conciliar revolution. The article itself inadvertently reveals the mechanical nature of the process: “The bishops’ vote does not open the cause nor declare Buh a saint. Rather, it represents one of several preliminary steps in the canonization process.” This is the language of institutional procedure, not of faith. The conciliar sect has reduced the discernment of sanctity — which belongs to the true Church guided by the Holy Ghost — to a series of administrative steps, committee votes, and Vatican dicastery approvals.
The 1917 Code of Canon Law, under the pontificate of Benedict XV, established rigorous procedures for canonization causes precisely because the Church recognized that declaring someone a saint is an exercise of infallible judgment. The conciliar sect has emptied this process of its supernatural content. When Bishop Felton says, “I truly do believe the Holy Spirit is lifting him up in this time,” he presumes to speak for the Holy Ghost in a matter where the Holy Ghost has not spoken. The true Church does not advance causes based on what a “bishop” believes the Spirit is doing; she advances causes based on evidence of heroic virtue and miracles, judged according to immutable criteria.
The Hijacking of a Pre-Conciliar Priest’s Memory
Joseph Buh was born in 1833 and ordained in 1858 — he lived and ministered entirely within the framework of the true Catholic Church before the conciliar revolution. His missionary work among immigrant and Native American communities in Minnesota was conducted under the authority of the Catholic Church as it existed before the abomination of desolation took possession of the Vatican structures. The concilar sect now claims him as its own, and this is a fraud.
The article states that Buh “helped establish more than 50 parishes and missions” and “served as vicar general of the Diocese of Duluth.” These are facts about a priest who operated within the true Church’s missionary tradition — a tradition rooted in the conversion of souls to the Catholic faith, the administration of the sacraments, and the establishment of Catholic parishes where the Most Holy Sacrifice of the Mass would be offered. The concilar sect, which has systematically dismantled missionary activity by replacing the mandate to convert with “dialogue,” “inculturation,” and “presence,” has no right to claim Buh’s legacy.
Pius XI, in Quas Primas (1925), taught that the Church’s missionary endeavor exists “so that the Kingdom of the Bridegroom might be spread daily further and further to all lands and even to the most distant islands of the ocean.” The purpose of mission is the expansion of Christ’s Kingdom — the conversion of souls to the Catholic faith and their incorporation into the Church through baptism. The conciliar sect has replaced this with a naturalistic model of “accompaniment” and “listening” that bears no resemblance to the Church’s missionary mandate.
“Presence and Listening”: The New Evangelization’s Empty Shell
Bishop Felton’s description of Buh’s pastoral method is revealing — not of Buh, but of the conciliar sect’s theological poverty. Felton said: “He immersed himself in the communities that he served. He learned their languages, understood their customs and struggles and, most importantly, learned the language of their hearts… He began by listening after learning their language, their story, and their needs.”
This language is drawn directly from the conciliar playbook. It echoes the “New Evangelization” rhetoric of John Paul II and Francis, where “accompaniment,” “encounter,” and “listening” replace preaching, conversion, and the demand for submission to the Catholic faith. The article explicitly connects Buh’s method to modern conciliar teaching: “Felton said Buh anticipated key elements of modern Catholic teaching on evangelization.”
This is a lie by appropriation. Buh did not “anticipate” the conciliar sect’s errors. He practiced authentic Catholic missionary work, which included learning languages and understanding cultures — not as ends in themselves, but as means to bring souls to Christ and His Church. The conciliar sect takes the external form of Buh’s work and strips it of its supernatural content, reducing evangelization to a humanistic exercise in cultural sensitivity.
St. Pius X, in Lamentabili sane exitu (1907), condemned the modernist proposition that “the Church is an enemy of the progress of natural and natural sciences” (proposition 57) and that “truth changes with man, because it develops with him, in him, and through him” (proposition 58). The conciliar sect’s reinterpretation of missionary work according to the spirit of the age is precisely the kind of doctrinal corruption that St. Pius X identified as the synthesis of all errors.
The Silence About What Matters Most
The article is entirely silent about the supernatural content of Buh’s priesthood. There is no mention of his celebration of the traditional Latin Mass, no discussion of his preaching on the necessity of the Catholic faith for salvation, no reference to his administration of the sacraments according to the Church’s immutable rites, and no account of his teaching on the Four Last Things — judgment, heaven, hell, and purgatory.
This silence is not accidental. It is the defining characteristic of all conciliar-sect communications. The article reduces Buh’s priesthood to a series of naturalistic accomplishments: traveling by horseback, learning languages, establishing parishes, and showing “genuine love” for the people. These are the actions of a good social worker, not necessarily a saint. The concilar sect cannot speak of supernatural realities because it has abandoned them.
Pius IX, in the Syllabus of Errors (1864), condemned the proposition that “the Church has not the power of using force, nor has she any temporal power, direct or indirect” (proposition 24) and that “the Church ought to be separated from the State, and the State from the Church” (proposition 55). The conciliar sect’s entire missionary philosophy is built on these condemned propositions — it presents the Church’s mission as purely spiritual in the modernist sense, divorced from any claim of authority over nations, cultures, and individuals.
The Exhumation and Transfer: A Pageant of Empty Ritual
The article notes that Buh’s remains were exhumed in 2024 and transferred to the Cathedral of Our Lady of the Rosary in Duluth, where they were “formally entombed” in 2025. This is presented as a sign of devotion, but within the context of the concilar sect, it is a pageant of empty ritual. The conciliar sect has emptied the sacraments and sacramentals of their supernatural efficacy. The rites performed over Buh’s remains were conducted by men whose orders and mission are recognized by an antipope — Leo XIV (Robert Prevost) — who sits on the throne of Peter as a usurper.
The true Church teaches that the faithful departed are commended to God’s mercy through the offering of the Most Holy Sacrifice of the Mass, the recitation of the Office of the Dead, and the prayers of the faithful. The conciliar sect has replaced the traditional Requiem Mass — with its prayers for the dead, its Dies Irae, and its unambiguous teaching on judgment and purgatory — with a “Mass of Christian Death” that is indistinguishable from a celebration of earthly life. Any rites performed over Buh’s remains by the conciliar sect are devoid of the supernatural power that the true Church’s rites possess.
The “Missionary Age” Rhetoric: A Smokescreen for Apostasy
Bishop Felton’s statement that “we live in a missionary age” is conciliar code for the sect’s ongoing project of replacing Catholic missionary activity with interreligious dialogue and ecumenism. The article pairs Buh’s cause with that of John Rick Miller, described as “a layman and international missionary known as the ‘ambassador of the Virgin Mary.'” The title “ambassador of the Virgin Mary” is not a Catholic title — it is the language of private revelationism and charismatic enthusiasm, both of which the conciliar sect has embraced while suppressing authentic Catholic devotion.
The true Church’s missionary mandate was articulated with clarity by Leo XIII, whose teaching Pius XI quoted in Quas Primas: “His reign, namely, 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 missionary task is to bring all men to the recognition of Christ’s kingship and membership in His Church. The conciliar sect’s “missionary age” is an age of dialogue with false religions, “encounter” with non-Christian cultures, and the abandonment of the mandate to convert.
The Structural Illegitimacy of the Entire Process
The article describes the process in bureaucratic terms: the USCCB vote, the Vatican’s Dicastery for the Causes of Saints granting a “nihil obstat,” the title of “servant of God.” This entire structure is illegitimate. The USCCB is a conference of “bishops” who owe their authority to the conciliar sect and its antipopes. The Dicastery for the Causes of Saints is a department of the Roman Curia as restructured by Francis — an institution that serves the conciliar revolution.
The true Church’s canonization process, as codified in the 1917 Code of Canon Law and the preceding centuries of jurisprudence, was exercised by the Holy See under the authority of the Roman Pontiff. The conciliar sect’s process is exercised by men who do not hold legitimate authority in the Church. As the sedevacantist position demonstrates through the teaching of St. Robert Bellarmine, a manifest heretic loses his office ipso facto — “by that very fact.” The conciliar sect’s “popes” from John XXIII onward have promulgated heresy, and therefore they never held the authority they claimed. Their “bishops” derive their authority from usurpers and possess none themselves.
Bellarmine taught in De Romano Pontifice that “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.” Wernz and Vidal confirmed that “by notorious and publicly manifested heresy, the Roman Pontiff, should he fall into it, is deprived ipso facto of his personal jurisdiction even before any declaratory sentence by the Church.” The conciliar sect’s entire apparatus — including its canonization process — is built on a foundation of nullity.
The Exploitation of Ethnic and Cultural Sentiment
The article emphasizes Buh’s Slovenian origins and his work among immigrant communities. This is a calculated appeal to ethnic sentiment — a hallmark of the conciliar sect’s strategy of using cultural identity to maintain loyalty among immigrant-descended Catholic populations. The true Church is catholic — universal — and does not organize its missionary activity along ethnic lines. While the Church has always respected the diversity of cultures, she has never made cultural preservation a substitute for the preaching of the Gospel and the demand for conversion.
Pius IX condemned in the Syllabus of Errors the proposition that “national churches, withdrawn from the authority of the Roman pontiff and altogether separated, can be established” (proposition 37). The conciliar sect’s emphasis on Buh’s Slovenian identity and his work among specific ethnic communities mirrors the very national-church mentality that Pius IX condemned. The true Church does not have “Slovenian missions” or “Ojibwe missions” — she has Catholic missions, aimed at bringing all men to the one true faith.
Conclusion: A Saint for the Church of the New Advent
The advancement of Joseph Buh’s canonization cause is not an act of the Catholic Church. It is an act of the concilar sect — the Church of the New Advent, the paramasonic structure that occupies the Vatican and uses the external forms of Catholicism to advance a humanistic, modernist agenda. Buh himself was a priest of the true Church, but his memory is being stolen and repurposed to serve an institution that has abandoned everything he stood for.
The conciliar sect needs “saints” because it has no living tradition of sanctity. It must manufacture them from the past, carefully selecting figures whose lives can be reinterpreted to serve the sect’s ideological needs. Joseph Buh — a man who established 50 parishes, learned six languages, and spent his life bringing the Catholic faith to immigrant and Indigenous communities — is being transformed into a mascot for “presence and listening,” for “accompaniment” and “encounter,” for the very errors that have emptied the Church of her supernatural mission.
The faithful who remain in communion with the true Church — the Church that endures in those who profess the integral Catholic faith and are led by priests with valid orders and true mission — must reject this entire process. It is not the Church that acts here, but the synagogue of Satan, which “gathers its troops against the Church of Christ” (Pius IX, Syllabus of Errors, preliminary remarks). The canonization factory will continue to produce its manufactured saints, but they will be saints for the abomination of desolation, not for the Kingdom of Christ the King.
Source:
U.S. bishops approve advancing cause of Minnesota missionary priest Joseph Buh (ewtnnews.com)
Date: 10.06.2026