The EWTN News portal reports on the “Syro26” jubilee convention held July 9–12, 2026, at Chicago’s McCormick Place, celebrating the 25th anniversary of the erection of the St. Thomas Syro-Malabar Catholic Eparchy of Chicago by antipope John Paul II (Karol Wojtyła) in 2001. The gathering, attended by over 3,500 faithful, featured “Holy Qurbana,” “Eucharistic adoration,” cultural performances including Bollywood dance and a “saree draping class,” a “Singles Mixer,” and a keynote address by the local ordinary of the Chicago archdiocese, “Cardinal” Blase Cupich, who praised the community as a “sign of hope” and a “witness to all Catholics.” The article frames the event as a triumph of unity after the 2025 liturgical disputes in India which nearly provoked a formal schism within the Syro-Malabar structure. This celebration of “unity” with the conciliar hierarchy is not a triumph of Catholicity, but the public ratification of apostasy, a festive sealing of the Syro-Malabar structure’s incorporation into the abomination of desolation occupying the Vatican.
The Farce of “Unity” with the Abomination of Desolation
The article beams with pride over “unity as a church and with Rome.” This phrase exposes the theological bankruptcy of the entire enterprise. The “Rome” with which the Syro-Malabar structure boasts communion is not the Roma Aeterna of Peter, but the Roma perdita of the antipopes — the seat of the abominatio desolationis spoken of by Daniel (Dan 9:27) and confirmed by Christ (Mt 24:15). Since the usurpation of the papal throne by the Modernist Angelo Roncalli (John XXIII) in 1958, the structures occupying the Vatican have constituted a secta conciliaris, a counter-church erected in opposition to the Ecclesia Catholica.
Pope Pius IX, in the Syllabus Errorum (1864), condemned the proposition that “The Church ought to be separated from the State, and the State from the Church” (Error 55), and that “The Roman Pontiff can, and ought to, reconcile himself, and come to terms with progress, liberalism and modern civilization” (Error 80). The Syro26 convention, presided over by a “Cardinal” of the conciliar sect and celebrated with “Bollywood dance” and “Singles Mixers,” is the ludibrium of Error 80 made manifest: a “reconciliation” with the world, the flesh, and the devil, baptized with Eastern liturgical vesture. As Pope Pius XI thundered in Quas Primas: “Peace is only possible in the kingdom of Christ… When God and Jesus Christ… were removed from laws and states… the foundations of that authority were destroyed” (Encyclical Ubi Arcano, cited in Quas Primas). The “unity” celebrated in Chicago is the unity of the Civitas Diaboli, a unity forged in the rejection of the Social Kingship of Christ the King.
“Cardinal” Cupich: Legate of the Usurper, Enemy of the Kingship of Christ
The presence of “Cardinal” Blase Cupich — appointed by the antipope Francis (Jorge Bergoglio) and retained by the current usurper Leo XIV (Robert Prevost) — as the keynote “Catholic” authority exposes the farce. According to the unchanging doctrine of the Church, a manifest heretic loses all jurisdiction ipso facto, ante omnem sententiam declaratoriam. St. Robert Bellarmine teaches: “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 a member of the body of the Church” (De Romano Pontifice, lib. 2, cap. 30). Wernz-Vidal confirm: “By notorious and publicly manifested heresy, the Roman Pontiff… is deprived ipso facto of his personal jurisdiction even before any declaratory sentence by the Church” (Ius Canonicum, II, n. 453).
“Cardinal” Cupich is a notorious public heretic: a promoter of the Amoris Laetitia adultery license, a defender of the LGBT agenda, a concelebrant of the invalid Novus Ordo service, and a participant in the idolatrous Pachamama rites. By the Bull Cum ex Apostolatus Officio of Pope Paul IV, his “promotion… shall be null, void, and of no effect.” Canon 188 §4 of the 1917 Code confirms: “Every office becomes vacant by the mere fact and without any declaration by reason of tacit resignation… if the cleric… publicly defects from the Catholic faith.” Fr. McDevitt clarifies: “Joining… a non-Catholic sect is not required to establish the publicity which the canon demands.” Public defection via heresy suffices.
Therefore, Cupich holds no jurisdiction. He is a layman, a wolf in purple, an agent of the synagoga Satanae (Apoc 2:9). His “warm affirmation” of the Syro-Malabar structure is the kiss of Judas. The Syro-Malabar “Eparch” and his “priests,” by receiving him as a superior and concelebrating with him (or submitting to his “fraternal” oversight), incur the guilt of communicatio in sacris with heretics and schismatics, forbidden by divine and ecclesiastical law (Canon 1258, 1917 Code; Pope Pius XI, Mortalium Animos).
The “Holy Qurbana”: A Simulacrum of the Unbloody Sacrifice under Invalid Orders
The article highlights “daily prayer and Holy Qurbana (the Syro-Malabar liturgy).” From the perspective of integral Catholic theology, this is the most grievous aspect of the report. The validity of the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass requires a validly ordained priest, acting in persona Christi, with the intention of doing what the Church does, using valid matter and form.
The Syro-Malabar hierarchy derives its orders from the “ordination” rites of the conciliar sect. The “Sacrament” of Holy Orders was mutilated by the antipope Paul VI (Giovanni Montini) in 1968 (Pontificalis Romani), stripping the form of the essential signification of the sacerdotal power to offer the Sacrifice and the power to absolve. As Abp. Marcel Lefebvre (though himself compromised by recognition of the antipopes) correctly identified, the new rite is “doubtful” at best, invalid at worst, rendering the “priests” ordained therein mere laymen. Even if the Syro-Malabar retained an older Pontifical, their bishops were consecrated within the communion of the conciliar sect, by “bishops” whose own orders derive from the Novus Ordo rite or who explicitly accept the Novus Ordo missae and the Vatican II heresies. Communicatio in sacris with heretics vitiates the intention. As Pope Leo XIII declared in Apostolicae Curae (1896), Anglican orders are “absolutely null and utterly void” due to defect of form and intention; a fortiori, the orders of the conciliar sect, which explicitly rejected the sacerdotium and propitiatory Sacrifice in favor of the “presbyterate” and “memorial,” are null.
Therefore, the “Holy Qurbana” in Chicago was, at best, a pious simulacrum; at worst, an idolatrous service offered by invalid ministers in communion with the Antichrist. The “Eucharistic adoration” that followed was the adoration of mere bread — idolatria pura. St. Paul warns: “The things which the heathens sacrifice, they sacrifice to devils, and not to God: and I would not that you should be made partakers with devils” (1 Cor 10:20).
Inculturation as Idolatry: Bollywood, “Singles Mixers,” and the Denial of the Cross
The linguistic and cultural texture of the article reveals the animus of the conciliar religion: homo centricus, not Deo centricus. “Bollywood dance,” “saree draping class,” “Pietra Fitness workout,” “Syro Shark Tank business startup summit,” “21+ rooftop social,” “singles mixer,” “dodgeball tournament,” “World Cup Soccer watch party.” This is not a Catholic convention; it is a Catholic-themed ethnic festival, a celebration of homo naturalis in ethnic costume.
Pope Pius XI in Quas Primas institutes the Feast of Christ the King precisely to combat this: “The annual celebration of sacred mysteries is far more effective than even the most serious proofs of the teaching Church… these speak to men once, those annually and eternally, so to speak; the former affect primarily the mind, the latter the mind and heart, and thus exert a salutary influence on the whole man.” The Syro26 convention inverts this: it uses the “feast” to distract the mind and heart with worldly vanities. The “theatrical productions” of St. Thomas become mere entertainment, stripping the Apostle’s martyrdom of its crucis signatio.
The Syllabus of Pius IX condemns: “The civil government… has the right to make enactments regarding the administration of the divine sacraments, and the dispositions necessary for receiving them” (Error 44), and “Catholics may approve of the system of educating youth unconnected with Catholic faith and the power of the Church… primarily the ends of earthly social life” (Error 48). The Syro26 program — “college admissions,” “financial literacy,” “skin care,” “professional networking” — is precisely this: the reduction of the Regnum Christi to a civitas terrena, the sanctification of worldly success under a veneer of piety. It is the laicism condemned in Quas Primas: “The secularism of our times, so-called laicism, its errors and wicked endeavors… began with the denial of Christ the Lord’s reign over all nations.”
The “Unity” of 2025: Healing Schism by Cementing Apostasy
The article references the “historic agreement in July 2025 to keep the church united rather than enter into schism.” This refers to the liturgical dispute between the “uniform” Mass (versus populum) and the traditional East-facing celebration. The “unity” achieved was a capitulation to the Modernist Rome. The Syro-Malabar Major Archbishop (a “patriarch” recognized by the antipopes) enforced the Novus Ordo orientation, crushing the traditionalist resistance.
This is the pattern of the conciliar sect: “unity” means submission to the novus ordo and the hermeneutica continuitatis; “schism” means adherence to Tradition. Pope Pius IX condemned: “National churches, withdrawn from the authority of the Roman Pontiff and altogether separated, can be established” (Error 37). The Syro-Malabar structure, while claiming “communion with Rome,” functions as a ecclesia nationalis (ethnically Indian) submitting not to the Roman Pontiff (who is vacant), but to the Modernist Synod. Their “unity” is the unity of the synagoga haereticorum.
St. Cyril of Alexandria, cited in the Defense of Sedevacantism regarding Nestorius, teaches that a heretical bishop “cannot depose or remove anyone” from the moment he preaches heresy. The faithful who fled Nestorius before any papal condemnation were the true Catholics. So too, the Syro-Malabar faithful who resisted the liturgical revolution were the true Catholics; the “agreement” of 2025 was the final seal of their incorporation into the counter-church.
EWTN: The Propaganda Organ of the Neo-Church
The source, EWTN News, is the media arm of the “Eternal Word Television Network,” founded by the late “Mother” Angelica (Rita Rizzo), a Poor Clare nun who fully embraced the conciliar revolution, accepted the Novus Ordo, and promoted the “charismatic renewal” (a Masonic-Pentecostal infiltration condemned by the Holy Office pre-1958). EWTN functions as the Pravda of the antichurch, normalizing the antipopes, canonizing their “saints” (Wojtyła, Montini, Roncalli, Bergoglio), and presenting the abominatio desolationis as the “Catholic Church.” Its reporting on Syro26 is not journalism; it is hagiography for the counter-church.
Quas Primas vs. The “Cultural Festival”: Christ the King vs. Christ the Mascot
Pope Pius XI teaches: “Christ reigns in the minds of men… because He Himself is Truth… He reigns in the wills of men… because He inclines our free will and conquers it with His inspiration… Christ the Lord is King of hearts because of His charity.” (Quas Primas). He possesses potestas legislativa, iudicialis, executiva. “His reign encompasses also all non-Christians, so that most truly the entire human race is subject to the authority of Jesus Christ.”
The Syro26 convention acknowledges no such Kingship. It acknowledges the “Cardinal” of Chicago, the “Eparch” of the diaspora, the “marketplace” (Shark Tank), the “body” (skin care, fitness), and the “world” (Bollywood, soccer). It is the anti-Quas Primas. It proclaims: “We have no King but Caesar” (Jn 19:15) — Caesar being the Modernist hierarchy and the secular culture it baptizes.
Syllabus Errors Embodied: The Syro-Malabar Structure as a Microcosm of the Conciliar Apostasy
The entire enterprise condemns itself by the Syllabus Errorum:
* **Error 15/16/17/18 (Indifferentism/Latitudinarianism):** “Every man is free to embrace… that religion which… he shall consider true… Man may in the observance of any religion whatever find the way of eternal salvation.” The “interfaith” implicit in the “cultural festival” open to all, the “Singles Mixer” as evangelization, the reduction of faith to “heritage.”
* **Error 19/20/21 (Rights of the Church/State):** “The Church is not a true and perfect society… it appertains to the civil power to define what are the rights of the Church.” The Syro-Malabar structure in the US operates as a 501(c)(3) religious non-profit, fully subject to the IRS and the USCCB (the conciliar bishops’ conference), renouncing the libertas Ecclesiae.
* **Error 55:** “The Church ought to be separated from the State, and the State from the Church.” The convention is a civic event at McCormick Place, sanctioned by the secular state, blessed by the secular “Cardinal.”
* **Error 77/78/79/80 (Modern Liberalism):** “In the present day it is no longer expedient that the Catholic religion should be held as the only religion of the State… The Roman Pontiff can, and ought to, reconcile himself… with progress, liberalism and modern civilization.” The Syro26 is the imago of this reconciliation: a “Catholic” event indistinguishable from a secular ethnic convention, blessed by the “Pontiff” of the New Advent.
The Syro-Malabar “Jubilee” is not a celebration of 25 years of the Kingship of Christ in Chicago. It is a celebration of 25 years of the Syro-Malabar structure’s integration into the counter-church of the Antichrist. It is a public profession of faith in the “pope” of the New Advent, a public rejection of the Social Kingship of Christ the King, and a public desecration of the Holy Mysteries by invalid ministers in communion with heretics. Ichabod — the glory has departed (1 Sam 4:21). The true St. Thomas Christians, if any remain, are those who have fled this structure to preserve the Traditio and the Sacerdotium intact, adhering to the vacant See of Peter and the bishops validly consecrated in the old rite, awaiting the restoration of the Roma Aeterna.
Source:
Syro-Malabar Church in the U.S. gathers for joyful celebration of unity (ewtnnews.com)
Date: 13.07.2026