EWTN News, the flagship propaganda organ of the conciliar sect masquerading as the Catholic Church, published a piece by Hannah Brockhaus on August 8, 2026 (originally 2017), detailing the Dominican Order’s preference for the feast of the Translation of St. Dominic (May 24) over his principal feast (August 8). The article cites “Father” Angelo Giuseppe Urru, a functionary of the neo-Dominican structure, recounting the 1233 translation of the saint’s relics, the “sweet perfume” miracle, and boasting of “vocations” in Vietnam, Africa, and the United States. This report is a masterclass in naturalistic reductionism: it celebrates the accidents of relics and statistical metrics while the neo-Order has formally apostatized from the lex orandi, lex credendi (the law of praying is the law of believing) by embracing the Novus Ordo Missae, false ecumenism, and the Modernist heresies condemned by St. Pius X.
The Conciliar Sect’s Propaganda Organ: EWTN and the Manufacture of Consent
The source itself condemns the content. EWTN News operates as the de facto ministry of information for the usurpers occupying the Vatican since 1958. Its “Deputy Vatican Editor,” Hannah Brockhaus, functions not as a journalist but as a scribe for the paramasonic structure headquartered in Rome. The article’s tone—bureaucratic, anecdotal, devoid of any supernatural gravity—mirrors the spiritus mundi (spirit of the world) that St. John warns against (1 John 2:15-17). There is no mention of the Most Holy Sacrifice of the Mass, the sine qua non of Dominican life ad majorem Dei gloriam (for the greater glory of God), because the “Mass” celebrated at the Basilica of Santa Sabina is the Novus Ordo Missae—a Protestantized memorial service fabricated by the Freemason Bugnini under the antipope Paul VI (Montini). To report on Dominican “feasts” while ignoring the replacement of the Unbloody Sacrifice of Calvary with a cena (supper) is not journalism; it is complicity in idolatry.
The Inversion of Liturgical Priority: Translation over Dies Natalis
The article admits the August 8 feast—St. Dominic’s dies natalis (heavenly birthday), the day he entered eternal glory—is “not the primary one.” Instead, the neo-Order “celebrates more solemnly” the Translation (May 24), commemorating the physical relocation of bones in 1233. This inversion is profoundly symptomatic. The true Church honors the Saint’s triumph over the world, the flesh, and the devil on the day of his death. The conciliar counterfeit honors the corporeal remains and the ecclesiastical bureaucracy (Pope Gregory IX’s request) that moved them. It is the triumph of homo mensura (man the measure) over Deo gratias (thanks be to God). St. Dominic founded the Order ad praedicandum et ad animarum salutem (to preach and for the salvation of souls); his neo-successors celebrate the day his coffin was opened. This is the liturgical expression of a religion that has become a museum of itself.
The Idolatry of Relics and the Theft of the Sacred
Brockhaus dwells on the “sweet perfume” emanating from the coffin in 1233, quoting Blessed Jordan of Saxony. While the miracle itself is historical fact, its narration here serves a sensationalist, not sanctifying, end. The article then casually reveals a scandal: a piece of the saint’s skull resides at Santa Maria del Rosario on Monte Mario because “some students in Bologna stole it to have in their chapel.” “Father” Urru admits ignorance of the provenance but confirms the theft. Relics stolen by seminarians, tolerated by superiors, and venerated in a neo-convent: this is the perfect metaphor for the conciliar sect’s usurpation of Tradition. They possess the accidentia (accidents) of holiness—bones, breviaries, habits—while the substantia (substance), the True Faith and Valid Priesthood, has been expelled. The Council of Trent (Sess. XXV, De invocatione Sanctorum) teaches relics are to be venerated propter Deum (for God’s sake); here, they are curiosities for a travelogue.
The Novus Ordo “Mass” at Santa Sabina: Supreme Sacrilege
The article states: “Mass is celebrated at the Basilica of Santa Sabina… for this feast. The tradition is for a priest of the Order of Friars Minor… to say the Mass and preach.” This is the epicenter of the abomination. The “Mass” offered at the mother church of the Dominicans is the Bastard Rite of 1969, invalid in form and intention, celebrated by a “Franciscan” “priest” likely ordained in the invalid Pontificale Romanum of 1968. Nemo dat quod non habet (no one gives what he does not have). A “priest” formed in the conciliar seminaries, devoid of the character indelebilis of the True Priesthood (if ordained in the new rite), simulating the Sacrifice, assisted by Dominican “friars” who have abandoned the Officium Divinum for the Liturgy of the Hours—this is not worship; it is Satanic parody. The procession stops at the “Blessed Sacrament” reserved in a side chapel—a reservation rendered dubious by the invalidity of the confection. To sing the O Lumen before a piece of bread that is not the Body of Christ is the definition of idolatry.
False Vocations: Statistical Growth as a Mask for Spiritual Death
Urru’s boast—“many [provinces] are growing and are very strong, such as those in Vietnam and Africa… United States as well has seen a good number of new vocations”—is the heresy of Americanism and Modernist pragmatism quantified. Numerus non facit Ecclesiam (numbers do not make the Church). The Donatists had numbers; the Arians had numbers; the post-conciliar sect has numbers. What is the quality of these “vocations”? They are vocations to a false religion: to say the Novus Ordo, to practice false ecumenism, to accept religious liberty, to reject the Social Kingship of Christ the King (condemned by Pius XI in Quas Primas, provided in context). A Dominican “friar” in Vietnam today who accepts the “pope” Leo XIV (Prevost) and the Second Vatican Council has no vocation; he has a career in a neo-church. St. Pius X in Pascendi Dominici Gregis warned that Modernists “lay the axe to the root” of the supernatural life. These “growing provinces” are the rotten fruit of that axe.
The Franciscan-Dominican “Dialogue”: Ecumenism in the Neo-Church
The “tradition” of a “Franciscan” preaching at the Dominican mother church is hailed as a charming custom. In reality, it is institutionalized indifferentism. The true Orders, founded by St. Francis and St. Dominic, were distinct armies in the Ecclesia Militans (Church Militant), each with a specific charism for the salvation of souls. Their neo-counterparts, stripped of the True Faith, unite in a pan-religious fraternity of error. The “Franciscan” “priest” preaching to “Dominicans” signifies the dissolution of all charisms into the one-world religion of the Antichrist. There is no “Franciscan” or “Dominican” spirituality left in the conciliar sect; there is only the spiritus concilii (spirit of the Council), which is the spirit of Lucifer.
Silence on the Anti-Modernist Oath: The Smoking Gun of Apostasy
The article’s most damning feature is its total silence. Not a word on the Sacrorum Antistitum (Oath Against Modernism) mandated by St. Pius X in 1910, which every “Dominican” “priest” and “professed” religious in the neo-structures has implicitly or explicitly violated by accepting the Second Vatican Council. Not a word on the Rosary—St. Dominic’s spiritual weapon—corrupted by the “Luminous Mysteries” of the heretic Wojtyla (John Paul II). Not a word on the Summa Theologiae of St. Thomas Aquinas, the Order’s intellectual backbone, replaced by Modernist phenomenology in neo-conventual “studia.” This silence is the crimen laesae majestatis Divinae (crime against Divine Majesty). The article proves ex abundanti (from abundance) that the neo-Dominican Order is a cadaver animated by the demonic energy of the conciliar revolution.
Conclusion: The Abomination of Desolation in the Dominican Habit
EWTN’s puff piece serves one purpose: to lull the faithful remnant into believing the “Dominicans” still exist, that the Church is “vibrant,” that the “future is in the hands of God” (a Pelagian platitude divorced from gratia sanctificans). The true sons of St. Dominic are not in the basilicas of the neo-church, celebrating the translation of bones with invalid rites. They are in the catacombs, in the hidden chapels, offering the Immemorial Mass of Tradition, keeping the Officium of St. Pius V, bound by the Oath Against Modernism, awaiting the Restoration of the Papacy and the Triumph of the Immaculate Heart (not the Masonic Fatima caricature). The feast of the Translation is a feast for grave-robbers and Modernists. The true feast is the dies natalis of the Saint who crushed the Albigensian heresy—a heresy far less subtle and far less deadly than the synthesis of all heresies: Modernism—which now reigns supreme in the very Order he founded. Ecce in pulvere mortis (behold in the dust of death). Non praevalebunt (they shall not prevail).
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Why the feast of St. Dominic is not actually the Dominicans’ biggest feast day (ewtnnews.com)
Date: 08.08.2026