Sentimental Naturalism Masquerades as the Cross in Conciliar Caregiving Narrative
The National Catholic Register portal (July 26, 2026) publishes a feature by James Maldonado Berry, lay “dean of formation” at the conciliar “Aquinas Academy” in Menomonee Falls, Wisconsin. The piece narrates the author’s disruption of personal real-estate plans to house his 90-year-old grandmother suffering from dementia, framing the caregiving burden as a divine invitation to “give more, to love more — and ultimately to trust Him more.” It recounts “priest friends” bringing “Holy Communion” and anointing in the hospital, family Rosary recitation, a Sacred Heart image, and relics used as spiritual props during a sleepless night. This sentimental narrative reduces the Kingship of Christ to private caregiving sentimentality, validates the simulated sacraments of the vacant See, and epitomizes the conciliar sect’s substitution of supernatural charity with naturalistic humanitarianism.