The EWTN News portal reports on the conclusion of the fifth annual EWTN Summer Academy in Rome, held from June 22 to July 1, 2026, where 43 young media professionals from 26 countries were trained in journalism, video editing, and storytelling at the Pontifical Urban University under the gaze of the Vatican’s occupied structures. The program, directed by Anthony Johnson, explicitly invokes the “mission of proclaiming Jesus Christ” and the call of the usurper “Pope” Leo XIV (Robert Prevost) for journalists to be “peacemakers” in a world of “polarization, war, and fake news.” Participants praised the experience as faith-filled formation in the “heart of the Church,” citing the view of St. Peter’s Square, the beauty of Roman art, and the imperative to “convey truth.” This spectacle of bureaucratic piety, masquerading as Catholic formation, is in reality a finishing school for the neo-church’s propaganda apparatus, training a new generation of lay collaborators in the great apostasy.
The Usurper’s “Beatitude”: Naturalistic Peace as Substitute for Christ’s Kingship
The article’s theological centerpiece is a quote attributed to the antipope Leo XIV:
“In the Sermon on the Mount, Jesus proclaimed: ‘Blessed are the peacemakers’ (Mt 5:9). This is a beatitude that challenges all of us, but it is particularly relevant to you [journalists].”
Here the conciliar sect’s false pontiff weaponizes Scripture to legitimize a Masonic pacifism utterly foreign to Catholic doctrine. Pax Christi in regno Christi (The peace of Christ in the Kingdom of Christ) — this is the only peace the Church knows, as Pope Pius XI defined infallibly in Quas Primas (1925): “Peace is only possible in the kingdom of Christ.” The “peace” Leo XIV preaches is the pax romana of the United Nations, the ecumenical dialogue of Assisi, the irenicism that sacrifices dogma on the altar of human fraternity. It is the peace of Laudato Si’ and Fratelli Tutti, not the peace of the Social Reign of Christ the King. By invoking Mt 5:9 without reference to the necessity of the Catholic Faith, the Sacraments, and the conversion of nations, the antipope reduces the Beatitudes to a humanitarian slogan. This is the heresy of naturalism condemned by Pius IX in the Syllabus (Error 55: “The Church ought to be separated from the State, and the State from the Church”) and by St. Pius X in Pascendi: the Modernist substitution of the supernatural order by a purely immanent “religious experience.”
EWTN: The Media Arm of the Abomination of Desolation
Mother Angelica’s network, founded in 1981 — fifteen years after the close of the Robber Council — has never been a bastion of Tradition but the primary instrument for domesticating the faithful into the novus ordo religion. The Summer Academy is not “Catholic journalism training”; it is ideological formation for the paramasonic structure occupying the Vatican. Anthony Johnson’s rhetoric — “100% bought into the mission [of proclaiming Jesus Christ]” — is a calculated ambiguity. Which Christ? The Christ of Quas Primas, King of nations, Judge of the living and the dead, whose rights are violated by every secular state? Or the “Christ” of the conciliar “new evangelization,” who “dialogues,” “accompanies,” and never condemns? The article’s silence on dogma, the Mass of the Ages, the necessity of the Church for salvation (Extra Ecclesiam nulla salus), the Social Kingship of Christ, the condemnation of religious liberty, the duty of states to profess the Catholic Faith — this silence is the gravest accusation. As St. Pius X taught in Lamentabili sane exitu (1907), the Modernist “does not deny, he ignores; he does not condemn, he reinterprets.” EWTN’s “journalism” is the propaganda of the Great Apostasy, training young Catholics to be effective collaborators in the auto-demolition of the Church (Paul VI’s phrase, unintentionally prophetic).
The Pontifical Urban University: A Seminary for the Neo-Church
The venue — the Centro Internazionale di Animazione Missionaria on the campus of the “Pontifical Urban University” — is emblematic. This institution, once the Collegium Urbanum for the formation of missionaries to convert the nations, has been perverted into a factory for ecumenical dialogue and inculturation, the very negation of the missio ad gentes defined by Pius XI in Rerum Ecclesiae (1926) and Pius XII in Evangelii Praecones (1951). The participants’ awe at the “view of St. Peter’s Square” and the “beauty of Michelangelo, Bernini, Raphael” is aestheticism substituting for supernatural faith. Kevin Mario’s testimony — “beauty has always been one of the Church’s greatest evangelists” — echoes the Modernist error condemned in Lamentabili (Prop. 65): “Contemporary Catholicism cannot be reconciled with true knowledge without transforming it into a certain dogmaless Christianity.” Beauty detached from dogmatic truth is idolatry; the neo-church’s basilicas are museums of a dead faith, visited by tourists of the spirit.
“Truth” Without Dogma: The Modernist Trap
Jonél Roos declares:
“The whole point of all of this is to convey truth to people and to allow people to be guided towards the truth.”
George Cuesta adds:
“Forming young Catholic creators in [the journalistic] realm is extremely important because that’s really the language that the faithful are using to communicate.”
This is the phenomenology of Modernism: “truth” becomes subjective communication, “faith” becomes “sharing,” “evangelization” becomes content creation. The Depositum Fidei is reduced to “storytelling.” The Magisterium is replaced by “Vatican journalists, clergy, producers, and art historians.” Where is the Censura of the Holy Office? Where is the Imprimatur? Where is the condemnation of the errors of Russia, of Communism, of Freemasonry, of Liberalism, of Americanism — all condemned by the pre-1958 popes? The article mentions “fake news” and “polarization” — the secular categories of the world — but never mentions heresy, schism, apostasy, the Antichrist, the Last Judgment, Hell. This is the religion of humanity wearing a Catholic skin.
The Sedevacantist Criterion: No Mission Outside the True Church
From the perspective of integral Catholic faith — the faith of the Fathers, the Councils, the pre-1958 Magisterium — there is no canonical mission, no jurisdiction, no grace of state in the conciliar sect. As St. Robert Bellarmine teaches (De Romano Pontifice, cited in the Defense of Sedevacantism): “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.” The line of usurpers from John XXIII to Leo XIV are manifest heretics by their adherence to Vatican II’s heresies (religious liberty, ecumenism, collegiality, new mass). Therefore, EWTN operates without any canonical legitimacy. Its “academy” is a usurpation of the Church’s teaching office, a crime of usurpation (Canon 188.4, 1917 Code: “Every office becomes vacant by the mere fact… if the cleric publicly defects from the Catholic faith”). The participants, however sincere, are being formed for a non-existent mission. They are building on sand (Mt 7:26).
Fatima, Masonry, and the “Peace” Narrative
The article’s obsession with “peace” and “journalists as peacemakers” mirrors the Masonic Fatima operation exposed in the theological objections: “The centralized role of the Church and the sacraments is undermined by the demand for ‘hyper-acts’ of worship… The efficacy of Holy Mass is diminished in favor of spectacular acts.” EWTN’s media spectacle — the Summer Academy, the “view of St. Peter’s,” the “beauty” tours — is precisely this: a spectacular act substituting for the Unbloody Sacrifice of Calvary. The “consecration of Russia” narrative has morphed into the “consecration of the media.” The symbolism of dates (1917, 2017, 2026) suggests the same ritualistic cycles. The “peace” they promise is the pax masonica, not the Pax Christi.
Conclusion: A Call to Exit the Neo-Church’s Propaganda Machine
The EWTN Summer Academy is not a “blessing for the Church.” It is a recruitment drive for the army of the Antichrist, training young Catholics to be competent functionaries in the structures of the Great Apostasy. Qui non est mecum, contra me est (He who is not with Me is against Me — Mt 12:30). There is no neutrality. Every “Catholic journalist” formed in this academy who does not publicly denounce the usurpers, the false council, the new mass, the heresies of Vatican II becomes an accomplice in the spiritual murder of souls. The only true “peacemaker” is the Catholic who proclaims the Social Kingship of Christ, denounces the antichurch, and labors for the restoration of the True Hierarchy and the Mass of All Time. EWTN is part of the problem, not the solution. Vade retro, Satana (Mt 16:23).
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Training journalists to be peacemakers: EWTN Summer Academy concludes in Rome (ewtnnews.com)
Date: 07.07.2026