Jane Austen’s Anglican Piety: The Conciliar Sect’s Latest Opium for the Laity
The National Catholic Register, propaganda organ of the conciliar sect headed by antipope Leo XIV (Robert Prevost), publishes a piece by its senior editor Amy Smith entitled “Have a Jane Austen Summer, One Prayer at a Time” (July 18, 2026). The article proposes a summer spirituality built on rereading the novels of Jane Austen — an Anglican heretic — decorating with flowers, eating scones, and reciting Austen’s own composed prayers, which are generic theistic petitions devoid of the Holy Sacrifice, the Blessed Virgin, the Saints, the Papacy, the Sacraments, or the Cross. Smith favorably cites the conciliar apologist Peter Kreeft as a philosophical compatriot. This article epitomizes the conciliar sect’s substitution of the Social Kingship of Christ the King with bourgeois Anglican sentimentalism, offering the faithful stones for bread.