The EWTN News portal reports on a “Pope Night” promotion at Guaranteed Rate Field, where the Chicago White Sox baseball club honored the usurper “Pope” Leo XIV (Robert Prevost) by distributing 40,000 novelty miters and orchestrating a stadium-wide “sign of peace” led by the conciliar “priest” “Father” Tom Hurley. The event, marketed as “fun and tasteful,” reduced the sacred liturgical gesture to a sports-marketing stunt, complete with jokes about home runs and the “pope” watching over the team in October. This grotesque spectacle exposes the neo-church’s total capitulation to the spirit of the world, transforming the Vicar of Christ — or rather, the claimant to that office — into a mascot for a baseball franchise.
Prostitution of the Sacred to the Profane: The “Sign of Peace” as Marketing Gimmick
The cited article relates that “thousands of fans joined together for an impromptu ‘sign of peace,’ wearing their White Sox-branded novelty miters, fans turned to neighbors in nearby seats, exchanging handshakes, high-fives, and blessings across the concourses.” This is not a mere trivialization; it is a sacrilegious profanation of a liturgical action reserved for the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass. The pax liturgica signifies the peace of Christ, the fruit of the Redemption, communicated to the faithful *through* the Eucharist. To divorce it from the Missa and stage it in a secular stadium — sponsored by a professional sports team, initiated by a “priest” of the conciliar sect, and directed toward a lay audience indifferent to the Faith — is to make the sacred a plaything of the profane. As the Council of Trent anathematizes: “If any one saith, that the received and approved rites of the Catholic Church, wont to be used in the solemn administration of the sacraments, may be despised, or without sin be omitted at pleasure by the ministers, or be changed, by every one of them, into other new ones; let him be anathema” (Session VII, Canon 13). The “sign of peace” at the ballpark is a liturgical abuse of the highest order, a theatrical mockery of the Pax Domini.
The Antipope as Celebrity Mascot: The Ultimate Triumph of Ecclesiology of the World
The article reveals the conciliar mindset with crystalline clarity: “We wanted to do something fun and tasteful that celebrates the fact that Pope Leo is a White Sox fan.” Here the usurper of the Chair of Peter is reduced to a fan, a supporter of a sports franchise, his “papacy” validated not by the sensus fidei or the continuity of Tradition, but by his allegiance to a baseball team. The marketing director, Mike Downey, explicitly states the goal: to avoid doing “anything sacrilegious or offend people” — a telling admission that the primary concern is human respect, not divine honor. The “pope” himself is quoted (via “Father” Hurley) as wanting “a few more home runs” and desiring to see “everyone stand, find a new friend, and offer that same peace — whether they’re Catholic or not.” This is the religion of humanity par excellence: a generic, contentless “peace” stripped of the Crux, the Confession, the Sacraments, and the Extra Ecclesiam nulla salus. It is the pax mundi condemned by Our Lord: “Peace I leave with you, my peace I give unto you: not as the world giveth, do I give unto you” (John 14:27). The conciliar “pope” offers the world’s peace — a high-five in a miter — and calls it Catholic.
Collaboration with the Conciliar Clergy: The “Priest” as Event Coordinator
The article notes the White Sox marketing team “collaborated early on with Chicago priest Father Tom Hurley” to “pull off the unique promotion respectfully.” This “Father” Hurley — a “priest” of the archdiocese of Chicago, itself a pillar of the neo-church — functions here not as alter Christus, but as a liturgical consultant for a marketing campaign. His role is to sanitize the sacrilege, to provide a veneer of “Catholic” approval for a stunt that makes a mockery of the priesthood. He jokes about home runs, wears the novelty miter, and presides over the stadium “sign of peace.” This is the clericalism of the anti-Church: clerics who are not fathers of souls but functionaries of the novus ordo spectacle, eager to bless the world’s entertainments lest they be accused of “rigidity.” St. Pius X, in Pascendi Dominici Gregis, identified the Modernist priest as one who “puts his hand to the plough and looks back,” adapting the Faith to the spirit of the age. “Father” Hurley embodies this type perfectly: a “priest” who finds the “promotion” of an antipope at a baseball game a fitting apostolate.
The Neo-Church Media Machine: EWTN and the National Catholic Register as Propagandists
The article originates from the National Catholic Register, the “sister partner of EWTN News,” and is adapted by EWTN. These outlets, the flagship media of the conciliar establishment, serve as the propaganda arm of the usurpation. They report the sacrilege with enthusiasm, framing it as a heartwarming “sign of peace” and a “memorable ballpark moment.” Not a word of criticism, not a whisper of the theological absurdity of honoring a manifest heretic (Leo XIV, like his predecessors since John XXIII, professes the errors of Vatican II: religious liberty, false ecumenism, collegiality, the new Mass) with a secular spectacle. The media of the neo-church exist to normalize the abnormality, to make the faithful comfortable with the abomination of desolation standing in the holy place (Matt. 24:15). They are the ministri diaboli disguised as angels of light, feeding the faithful a diet of sentimental naturalism while the depositum fidei is dismantled.
The Theological Nullity of the “Novelty Miter”: Symbol of a Counterfeit Authority
The distribution of 40,000 “White Sox-branded novelty miters” is a potent symbol. The miter is the insignia of episcopal authority, signifying the munus docendi, sanctificandi, regendi — the duty to teach, sanctify, and govern in the name of Christ. To mass-produce it as a plastic giveaway for a sports promotion, branded with a commercial logo, is to strip the symbol of its sacramental reality and reduce it to merchandise. It signifies perfectly the conciliar “episcopate”: men who wear the miter (often invalidly consecrated in the novus ordo rite of 1968) but exercise no true authority, teach no integral doctrine, sanctify no souls through the true Sacraments, and govern not the Church of Christ but a paramasonic structure accommodating the world. The “novelty miter” is the signum of the novus ordo hierarchy: empty, commercial, profane.
The “Magic” of the Antipope: Superstition Replacing Supernatural Faith
The article concludes with the marketing director’s comment: “It seems like there’s a little magic happening on the South Side right now… Fans like to comment that we’ve got the pope on our side. My message for him is just to keep an eye out for the South Siders and say a prayer for us in October.” This is pure superstition: the antipope as a lucky charm, a spiritual mascot whose “prayers” are sought for worldly success (a World Series victory). The virtus religionis is inverted; instead of rendering to God the worship due to Him (latria), the faithful are encouraged to look to a man — a heretic, an usurper — for temporal favors. This is the cult of man prophesied by St. Paul: “They worshipped and served the creature rather than the Creator” (Rom. 1:25). The “pope on our side” is the anthem of the Church of the New Advent: a horizontal, immanentist religion where the hierarchy serves the laity’s worldly desires, and the supernatural is evaporated into “good vibes” and “magic.”
Conclusion: The Ballpark as the New Cathedral of the Neo-Church
The “Pope Night” at Guaranteed Rate Field is a perfect microcosm of the conciliar apostasy. It gathers the elements: the usurping “pope” celebrated as a celebrity; the conciliar “priest” acting as master of ceremonies for a sacrilege; the neo-church media glorifying the event; the faithful (so-called) participating in a liturgical parody; the sacred symbols commodified; the supernatural reduced to sports superstition. Lex orandi, lex credendi — the law of praying is the law of believing. When the “sign of peace” becomes a high-five in a plastic miter at a baseball game, the “faith” believed is no longer the Catholic Faith. It is the religion of the Antichrist, wearing the skin of the Church. “Beware of false prophets, who come to you in the clothing of sheep, but inwardly they are ravening wolves” (Matt. 7:15). The White Sox “Pope Night” is the wolf’s banquet, and the neo-church invites the flock to feast.
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A sign of peace at the ballpark: White Sox honor Pope Leo XIV with ‘pope night’ (ewtnnews.com)
Date: 13.08.2026