The EWTN News portal reports on a Venezuelan lawyer, Kamar Galíndez, who survived the catastrophic June 24, 2026 earthquakes in La Guaira by attributing his deliverance to the Miraculous Medal and the “Divine Mercy” devotion of the condemned pseudo-mystic Faustina Kowalska. The account, originally published by ACI Prensa, frames the survivor’s subjective emotional experience as miraculous proof of Marian intercession, entirely devoid of sacramental theology, the necessity of the state of grace, or the Social Kingship of Christ. This narrative serves as a quintessential specimen of the conciliar sect’s substitution of true supernatural religion with naturalistic sentimentality and condemned private revelations.
The Neo-Church Media Apparatus Manufactures Piety
The source of this account—EWTN News and its Spanish-language arm ACI Prensa—is an organ of the novus ordo establishment, founded by the Franciscan “Mother” Angelica and wholly integrated into the post-conciliar structures occupying the Vatican. Its reporting consistently advances the agenda of the usurping antipopes (John XXIII through Leo XIV) by promoting a domesticated, therapeutically oriented “spirituality” that flatters modern man’s anthropocentrism. The article’s byline, Andrés Henríquez, is identified as a member of the “Regnum Christi Federation,” the lay branch of the Legionaries of Christ, an order founded by the serial predator Marcial Maciel Degollado, long protected by the conciliar hierarchy. This provenance alone renders the report suspect as a vehicle for the spiritus mundi masquerading as Catholic journalism.
Condemned Private Revelations as the New Magisterium
The theological centerpiece of Galíndez’s testimony is his invocation of the “merciful Christ” as He allegedly appeared to St. Faustina Kowalska on Feb. 22, 1931. This reference is not incidental; it is the hallmark of the Bergoglian “mercy” paradigm that has displaced the Lex Credendi of the Church. As documented in the Lamentabili Sane Exitu decree of St. Pius X (1907), the Modernist error holds that “Revelation was merely man’s self-awareness of his relationship to God” (Prop. 20) and that “The dogmas which the Church proposes as revealed are not truths of divine origin but are a certain interpretation of religious facts” (Prop. 22). The “Diary” of Faustina Kowalska was placed on the Index Librorum Prohibitorum by the Holy Office in 1959 for its theological deviations and its role in the charismatic infiltration of the Church—an infiltration the provided context identifies as a “crypto-masonic” operation orchestrated by her confessor, Fr. Michał Sopoćko. To present this condemned mysticism as the catalyst for a miracle is to elevate private judgment and false revelation above the Depositum Fidei.
The Miraculous Medal Reduced to a Talisman
The article’s climax—the “inexplicable” appearance of the broken Miraculous Medal in the survivor’s zippered pocket—exposes the superstitious degradation of sacramentals in the neo-church. The Miraculous Medal, originating from the Rue du Bac apparitions (1830) to St. Catherine Labouré, is a legitimate sacramental when used with the disposition of faith and within the unity of the Church. However, the narrative treats the medal as a mechanical charm, a physical object whose displacement in rubble constitutes the “proof” of salvation. This is the error of magical thinking condemned by the Council of Trent (Sess. VII, Can. 11 on Sacraments): “If anyone says that sacraments of the New Law are not necessary for salvation but… that without them… men obtain from God the grace of justification… let him be anathema.” The survivor’s “I haven’t the slightest doubt” that the medal “saved me” reveals a faith anchored in a material token, not in the Unbloody Sacrifice of Calvary or the absolution of a valid priest.
Total Silence on the Supernatural Order
“I remember thinking of the merciful Christ and praying, ‘Lord, have mercy,’… ‘OK, Father God, help me get out of here. Keep me calm’ was the first thing I prayed. ‘Keep me calm and tell me what I need to do.'”
This interior monologue, presented as the height of piety, is a catalogue of naturalistic petitions. There is no act of perfect contrition (contritio caritate), no desire for the Last Rites (Extreme Unction), no invocation of the Holy Name of Jesus as King of Kings, no thought of the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass. The “God” addressed is a therapeutic deity whose function is to manage fear and facilitate physical escape. This is the practical atheism of Gaudium et Spes and the “anonymous Christianity” of Karl Rahner: God is reduced to a resource for psychological coping. As Pius XI thundered in Quas Primas: “When God and Jesus Christ… were removed from laws and states and when authority was derived not from God but from men, the foundations of that authority were destroyed.” Here, God is removed from the very moment of death’s approach, replaced by a “merciful” abstraction.
The Liturgical Vacuum and the Feast of St. John the Baptist
The disaster occurred on June 24, the Solemnity of the Nativity of St. John the Baptist, a feast of the highest rank in the traditional calendar, commemorating the Forerunner who proclaimed “Ecce Agnus Dei” and demanded repentance: “Do penance: for the kingdom of heaven is at hand” (Matt. 3:2). The article mentions the date only as a “national holiday commemorating the anniversary of the decisive Battle of Carabobo,” stripping it of all liturgical significance. This erasure of the Ordo Kalendar in favor of civic secularism is the precise fruit of the liturgical revolution of 1969. The true Church would have seen in this timing a divine admonition: the voice crying in the wilderness is silenced by the neo-church’s preference for nationalistic memory over the Memoria Passionis.
Venezuela: A Nation Under Judgment, Not “Mercy”
The report notes the death toll: 3,535 dead, 16,740 injured, tens of thousands missing. It quotes Galíndez: “who does not abandon Venezuelans, especially during times of greatest suffering.” This sentimentality obscures the theological reality. Venezuela has been ruled for decades by a socialist regime (Chávez, Maduro) that persecutes the Church, promotes abortion, gender ideology, and Freemasonry. The Syllabus of Errors (Pius IX, 1864) condemns the proposition: “The civil government… has a right to an indirect negative power over religious affairs” (Prop. 41) and “The Church ought to be separated from the State” (Prop. 55). The earthquakes are not random “natural disasters” but flagella Dei—scourges permitted by Divine Providence to awaken a nation hardened in sin. The neo-church’s “mercy” narrative anesthetizes the faithful against the call to conversio, offering false consolation where the Paraclesis of the Holy Ghost demands “Unless you shall do penance, you shall all likewise perish” (Luke 13:3).
The Structural Apostasy of the “Survivor” Narrative
The article functions as a fabula for the conciliar sect’s anthropology: man as autonomous subject, God as optional accessory, salvation as physical survival. It mirrors the False Fatima Apparitions critique provided in the context: “The efficacy of Holy Mass is diminished in favor of spectacular acts… The idea of ‘national conversion without evangelization’ contradicts Catholic ecclesiology.” Galíndez’s “miracle” requires no conversion, no confession, no incorporation into the Corpus Christi Mysticum via valid sacraments. It is a gnostic redemption—knowledge (the medal in the pocket) saves, not grace. The “Light-Life” movement (Oaza) of the crypto-mason Fr. Franciszek Blachnicki, referenced in the context as a “Polish Bugnini,” operates on this same principle: emotional experiences substituting for the Opera Operata of the Priesthood.
Conclusion: The Abomination of Desolation in the Newsroom
This EWTN report is not a testimony to the power of the Blessed Virgin; it is a document of the Great Apostasy. It proves that the structures occupying the Vatican, and their media arms, propagate a religio naturalistica where condemned mystics (Faustina), sacramentals used superstitiously (Medal), and therapeutic deism (“keep me calm”) replace the Una, Sancta, Catholica et Apostolica Faith. As St. Robert Bellarmine teaches (De Romano Pontifice), a manifest heretic loses all jurisdiction ipso facto. The “bishops”ishops”ishops and “p”riests of the neo-church who promote this piety are not shepherds but lupi rapaces (Matt. 7:15). The true faithful, adhering to the Traditio of 1958, must reject this narrative as a snare of the Adversary, knowing that “Salus extra Ecclesiam non est” and that the only “Miraculous Medal” that avails is the Signum Crucis borne in suffering for the Regnum Christi, administered by valid priests in the catacombs where the True Church endures.
Source:
Earthquake survivor in Venezuela: ‘The Miraculous Medal saved me’ (ewtnnews.com)
Date: 08.07.2026