The National Catholic Register — the flagship organ of the conciliar sect’s English-speaking propaganda — publishes a feature by Solène Tadié, Europe Correspondent for the neo-church’s media outlet EWTN, extolling the Basilica of Our Lady of Victories in Paris as a beacon of “enduring faith” ahead of the antipope Leo XIV’s (Robert Prevost) scheduled September visit to France. The article catalogues 37,000 marble ex-votos, name-drops the pseudo-saint John Henry Newman alongside the true St. Thérèse of Lisieux, and celebrates the “first Augustinian pope in history” as if the usurpation of the Chair of Peter were a historical curiosity rather than the apocalyptic crime of the ages. This puff piece is not a report on Catholic piety; it is a staged distraction, a Potemkin village of marble plaques masking the total apostasy of the structures occupying the Vatican and the spiritual desolation of France, the “eldest daughter of the Church” now reduced to a mission field for the paramasonic sect.
The Antipope’s Itinerary: A Triumph of Laicism Disguised as Piety
The article opens by framing the antipope’s “apostolic trip” — solemn vespers at the “newly restored Notre-Dame de Paris Cathedral” followed by a weekend in Lourdes — as a “spiritual focus” offering an “opportunity to draw attention to other major sites of Marian devotion.” This language is the bureaucratic newspeak of the novus ordo establishment. There is nothing “apostolic” about the travels of a manifest heretic who, by the very fact of his public adhesion to the conciliar errors (religious liberty, false ecumenism, collegiality, the New Mass), has ipso facto severed himself from the Body of Christ and lost all jurisdiction. As St. Robert Bellarmine teaches, “a manifest heretic, by that very fact ceases to be Pope and head, just as he ceases to be a Christian and member of the body of the Church” (De Romano Pontifice, Bk. 2, Ch. 30). The “restoration” of Notre-Dame de Paris, funded by globalist billionaires and overseen by a secular French state that officially laicized the building in 1905, is a monument to the laïcité condemned by Pius IX in the Syllabus (Error 55: “The Church ought to be separated from the State, and the State from the Church”) and by Pius XI in Quas Primas: “When God and Jesus Christ… were removed from laws and states… the foundations of that authority were destroyed.” The antipope’s presence there is not a consecration; it is a ratification of the Masonic conquest of France.
The Linguistic Camouflage: “Pope,” “Saint,” “Father” — The Vocabulary of Usurpation
Tadié’s prose is a masterclass in the linguistic engineering of the conciliar sect. She writes of “Pope Leo XIV,” “St. John Henry Newman,” “Father Antoine d’Augustin,” and “Benedictine Sisters” without a single qualification. This is not journalistic neutrality; it is theological fraud. Per the unchanging discipline of the Church, names and titles within post-conciliar structures must always be enclosed in quotation marks (e.g., “pope,” “bishop,” “saint,” “father”) to signify their lack of canonical reality. Robert Prevost is “Leo XIV,” a usurper in the line of John XXIII. John Henry Newman, the architect of the “development of doctrine” condemned by St. Pius X in Lamentabili Sane Exitu (Prop. 22: “The dogmas which the Church proposes as revealed are not truths of divine origin but are a certain interpretation of religious facts…”) and Pascendi Dominici Gregis, was “canonized” by the antipope Bergoglio; he is no saint, but a beacon of the Modernist synthesis. “Father Antoine d’Augustin” is a functionary of the invalid novus ordo rite of ordination (1968), devoid of sacramental priesthood and the power to offer the Unbloody Sacrifice of Calvary. The “Benedictine Sisters” operate under the “Code of Canon Law” 1983, a legislative act of an antipope, rendering their profession canonically null. To print these titles without scare quotes is to collaborate in the great lie that the abomination of desolation standing in the holy place (Matt. 24:15) is the Catholic Church.
The Theological Bankruptcy of “Answered Prayers” without the Social Kingship of Christ
The article’s central motif — the 37,000 ex-votos testifying to “answered prayers” — reduces the Mother of God to a dispenser of temporal favors, a celestial vending machine for the bourgeoisie. This is the piety of the petits pères stripped of the Counter-Reformation theology that built the church. The article notes the church was named for Louis XIII’s victory over the Protestant stronghold of La Rochelle (1628). That was a victory for the Social Kingship of Christ, for the Catholic State wielding the temporal sword in defense of the Faith. Today, the same basilica stands in a Republic that legalizes abortion, “gay marriage,” and euthanasia, where the “eldest daughter” has become the whore of Babylon. The ex-votos multiply while the Faith evaporates. Pius XI in Quas Primas warns: “The state is happy not by one means, and man by another; for the state is nothing else than a harmonious association of men… Let rulers of states therefore not refuse public veneration and obedience to the reigning Christ.” The article is silent on this duty. It speaks of “conversion of sinners” (the Archconfraternity founded by Fr. Desgenettes in 1836) but omits that true conversion requires entrance into the one Ark of Salvation — the Catholic Church outside of which there is no salvation — not merely a return to the conciliar sect’s “parish life.” The “stream of pilgrims” is a stream of the blind led by the blind, comforting themselves with marble receipts while the Kingship of Christ is publicly denied by the very “pope” the article celebrates.
The Newman Anomaly: A Heretic Enshrined in a Marian Sanctuary
The article states: “St. John Henry Newman himself visited the church to give thanks after his conversion.” This is a calculated insertion. Newman’s “conversion” (1845) was a passage from Anglican heresy to a Roman Catholicism he immediately set about corrupting with his theory of doctrinal evolution — the very engine of Modernism. St. Pius X condemned the proposition that “Christian doctrine was initially Jewish, but through gradual development, it became first Pauline, then Johannine, and finally Greek and universal” (Lamentabili, Prop. 60). Newman is the father of this error. His presence in the article, honored as a “saint” alongside St. Thérèse (canonized 1925, true Saint), is the signature of the conciliar sect: the juxtaposition of Truth and Error to legitimize the latter. The true St. Thérèse, who saw the Virgin smile at Notre-Dame des Victoires, lived and died in the integral Faith, submitting to the Magisterium of Pius X. Newman died in 1890, but his spirit animates the “Church of the New Advent.” To cite him as a pilgrim to this shrine is to claim the shrine for the Revolution.
The Symptomatic Level: The “Augustinian Pope” and the Mockery of Religious Life
The article concludes with a flourish: “the first Augustinian pope in history… against the backdrop of a Catholic revival that is as unexpected as it is profound.” This is the ultimate blasphemy. Robert Prevost, an Augustinian friar by profession in the post-conciliar order (itself a ruin of the Rule), parades as “pope” while the true Augustinian Order — like the Discalced Augustinians (petits pères) who built this basilica and were expelled by the Masonic Revolution — has been eclipsed. The “revival” is a statistical mirage: a few “vocations” to the neo-church’s religious institutes, which possess neither valid sacraments nor the charism of tradition. The Benedictine Sisters of the Sacred Heart of Montmartre, the current custodians, are the fruit of the “Springtime of the Council” — a winter of infidelity. The article mentions Mozart saying his rosary here in 1778. Mozart, a Freemason, died impenitent in a Masonic lodge; his “rosary” at Notre-Dame des Victoires was the gesture of a man straddling two altars. The article sanitizes this, just as it sanitizes the antipope’s visit. The basilica’s survival through the Revolution, the Lottery, and the Stock Exchange is presented as a “story of victories won against all odds.” The true victory would be the restoration of the Catholic Monarchy and the Social Reign of Christ the King. The current “victory” is the occupation of a baroque shell by a sect that denies the very doctrines for which the stones were laid.
Conclusion: A Whited Sepulchre for the Conciliar Age
The Basilica of Our Lady of Victories, once a fortress of the Counter-Reformation, has been reduced by the conciliar sect to a museum of sentimentality. The 37,000 plaques are not trophies of grace but indictments of a people who ask for miracles while rejecting the Miracle of Miracles: the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass and the Kingship of Christ. The article by Tadié and the Register is a dispatch from the enemy’s press office, designed to lull the faithful into believing that the “pope’s” visit, the “saints” of the neo-church, and the “revival” of Marian piety are signs of life. They are signs of the abomination of desolation. “There is no other name under heaven given to men by which we must be saved” (Acts 4:12) — not “Leo XIV,” not “St. John Henry Newman,” not the “Benedictine Sisters” of the new code, and not a devotion to the Immaculate Heart severed from the Sacred Heart’s demand for public reparation and the conversion of nations. The true Our Lady of Victories awaits the day when France, repentant, crowns Her Son as King. Until then, the plaques are merely marble, and the “pope” is a wolf in white.
Source:
Paris’ Other Notre Dame: The Shrine With 37,000 Answered Prayers (ncregister.com)
Date: 16.08.2026