The EWTN News portal publishes a hagiographic piece on the feast of St. John Vianney (d. 1859), canonized by Pope Pius XI in 1925, explicitly framing the Curé of Ars as a “model for all priests” through the lens of the antipope John XXIII and his 1959 encyclical Sacerdotii Nostri Primordia. This exercise in neo-church propaganda instrumentalizes a true saint of the Catholic Church—sanctified by the Traditional Latin Mass and the unchanging doctrine of the pre-1958 Magisterium—to drape the counterfeit “presbyterate” of the conciliar sect in a mantle of borrowed holiness, thereby obscuring the total rupture between the priesthood of the Council of Trent and the Protestantized ministry of the Novus Ordo.
The Usurper’s Voice: John XXIII as False Authority
The article’s theological center of gravity is not the saint, but the citation of Angelo Roncalli (“Pope John XXIII”) as a legitimate doctrinal source. From the perspective of integral Catholic theology, Roncalli was a manifest Modernist who, by convoking the Second Vatican Council and initiating the conciliar revolution, publicly defected from the Catholic faith and thereby lost all jurisdiction ipso facto without need of declaration, in accordance with the teaching of St. Robert Bellarmine (De Romano Pontifice II, 30) and Canon 188.4 of the 1917 Code: “Every office becomes vacant by the mere fact and without any declaration… if the cleric publicly defects from the Catholic faith”. As Wernz and 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” (Defense of Sedevacantism file). To cite his “encyclical” as authoritative teaching is to cite a private theologian—indeed, a heretic—as the voice of the Magisterium. This is the modus operandi of the conciliar sect: legitimize the revolution by ventriloquizing the saints through the mouths of the usurpers.
Equivocation on the Priesthood: Sacerdos vs. Presbyter
The article speaks of a “model for all priests,” blurring the ontological chasm between the Catholic priesthood—sacerdos alter Christus, constituted for the Unbloody Sacrifice of Calvary (Council of Trent, Sess. XXII, can. 1)—and the “presbyteral ministry” of the neo-church, engineered by the Freemason Bugnini (Annibale Bugnini) and promulgated by the antipope Paul VI in 1968 via the invalid Pontificale Romanum. St. John Vianney’s entire sanctity flowed from his identification with the Victim on the altar of the Traditional Mass, offering himself hostia viva, sancta, Deo grata (Rom 12:1). The “priests” of the conciliar sect, ordained in a rite that excised the essential sacrificial language and intention, possess no priestly character and offer no propitiatory sacrifice. As Leo XIII defined in Apostolicae Curae (1896) regarding Anglican orders—a fortiori applicable to the Novus Ordo rite—“the form… was not sufficient for the validity of the sacrament” because it signified a ministry of presidency over a communal meal, not the power of consecrating and sacrificing. To propose Vianney as a model for these functionaries is a cruel mockery of his heroic fidelity to the Missale Romanum of St. Pius V.
The Theological Bankruptcy of “Evangelical Counsels” Detached from the Sacrifice
The article highlights Vianney’s poverty, chastity, and obedience, quoting Roncalli: “His example in the various works of priestly asceticism still points out the safest path to follow.” This is a classic Modernist reduction: abstracting the effects of grace (virtues) from their cause (the Sacrifice of the Mass and the sacramental priesthood). St. Pius X condemned this evolutionary error in Lamentabili Sane Exitu (1907), rejecting the proposition that “Dogmas, sacraments, and hierarchy… are merely modes of explanation and stages in the evolution of Christian consciousness” (Prop. 54). Vianney’s mortifications—“restraining himself from food, sleep, and other personal belongings”—were not generic “asceticism” but the co-redemptive participation of a victim-priest in the Hostia pro peccatis. The neo-church, having abolished the Mass propitiatory (Quas Primas: “Christ as Redeemer acquired the Church with His Blood, and as Priest offered Himself as a sacrifice for our sins and eternally offers it”), renders such mortifications unintelligible, reducing them to psychological self-improvement or Pelagian effort. The article’s silence on the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass—the very center of Vianney’s life—is the gravissima omissio that exposes its naturalistic, anthropocentric framework.
False Obedience: Submission to the Revolution
Roncalli praises Vianney’s obedience: “He regarded pastoral duties as a very heavy burden… but he still remained obedient to his bishops.” This is a pernicious manipulation. True obedience (obsequium religiosum) is owed to legitimate authority in sacris—bishops validly consecrated in the apostolic succession sine interruptione and adhering to the integral faith. The “bishops” of the conciliar sect, consecrated in the doubtful 1968 rite and professing the heresies of Vatican II (religious liberty, ecumenism, collegiality), possess no jurisdiction and command no obedience. St. Robert Bellarmine teaches: “A manifest heretic cannot be Pope… he cannot be the head of something of which he is not a member” (Defense of Sedevacantism file). By extension, a manifest heretic cannot be a bishop. Vianney’s obedience was to the Roman Pontiff (Pius IX) and the Cura of Ars under the Canons of 1917, not to the architects of the Nouvelle Théologie. To invoke his name to demand submission to the “bishops” of the abomination of desolation is the argumentum ad verecundiam of the Antichurch.
The Neo-Church’s Canonization Factory vs. The True Sanctity of the Curé
The article originates from EWTN, a media arm of the conciliar sect, which promotes the “saints” of the neo-church: the pseudo-mystic Faustina Kowalska (diary on the Index, condemned by Pius X’s Lamentabili as “theological reflections… devoid of historical truth”), the “saint” John Paul II (apostate, kisser of the Koran, assassin of the Mass), the “saint” John XXIII (the very usurper cited herein). St. John Vianney was canonized by Pope Pius XI—the Pope of Quas Primas (1925), who proclaimed the Social Kingship of Christ over all nations: “His reign encompasses also all non-Christians, so that most truly the entire human race is subject to the authority of Jesus Christ”. The neo-church, under Roncalli and his successors, abdicated this Kingship at Vatican II (Dignitatis Humanae, Gaudium et Spes), embracing the very laicism and secularism Pius XI condemned as “the plague that poisons human society” (Quas Primas). To use the saint of Pius XI to adorn the church of the Syllabus errors (Pius IX, Prop. 55: “The Church ought to be separated from the State, and the State from the Church”—condemned) is the supreme act of theological identity theft.
Conclusion: A Saint Kidnapped for the Synagogue of Satan
The Curé of Ars wept for the salvation of souls, spending 16 hours daily in the confessional administering the Sacrament of Penance instituted by Christ: “Receive the Holy Ghost: whose sins you shall forgive, they are forgiven them” (Jn 20:22-23)—a sacrament the Modernists of Lamentabili (Prop. 47) denied was instituted by those words. The conciliar sect has emptied the confessionals, replaced auricular confession with “penance services,” and denied the necessity of the sacrament for salvation. The article’s final prayer—“May that flame which comes from the Holy Spirit reach those of us who have been raised to the priesthood of Jesus Christ and consume us too”—is blasphemy when spoken over the invalid orders of the Novus Ordo. The true flame of the Holy Ghost dwells only in the True Church, persevering in the catacombs of Tradition, where bishops with valid orders and priests of the Traditional Mass keep the depositum fidei intact. St. John Vianney belongs to that Church, not to the paramasonic structure occupying the Vatican. Ecclesia semper reformanda? No. Ecclesia semper eadem. The gates of hell shall not prevail against Her (Mt 16:18), though they have prevailed against the counterfeit edifice in Rome.
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Why St. John Vianney is a model for all priests (ewtnnews.com)
Date: 04.08.2026