Conciliar Sect Celebrates Vocational Statistics While the Vineyard Lies Desolate
The EWTN News portal reports that three dioceses in the United States—Charlotte, Wichita, and Arlington—are boasting increased numbers of ordinations to the “priesthood” in 2025 and 2026, attributing this growth to “vibrant faith life,” “Eucharistic adoration,” and the work of the “Holy Spirit” within the structures of the neo-church. The cited “bishops” and vocation directors speak of “cultures of vocations” and “healthy, holy” presbyterates as evidence of divine favor. This statistical triumphalism masks the metaphysical reality: these ordinations, conferred in the invalid Pauline rite by men lacking valid episcopal orders, produce not priests of the Most High but functionaries of the abomination of desolation.
The Invalidity of the New Rite: No Priesthood, No Sacrifice, No Church
The entire edifice of the article rests upon the unspoken, false premise that the sacramental order persists in the conciliar sect. The “ordinations” celebrated in Charlotte, Wichita, and Arlington are administered according to the Pontificale Romanum of 1968, a rite fabricated by the freemasonic architect Annibale Bugnini and his Modernist cohorts, which deliberately excised the essential form and intention for the Sacrament of Holy Orders. Pope Pius XII, in Sacramentum Ordinis (1947), defined the matter and form of the priesthood with dogmatic precision: the imposition of hands by the bishop and the specific consecratory preface “Grant, we beseech Thee, Almighty Father, to this Thy servant the dignity of the Priesthood…”. The 1968 rite replaces this with a vague “prayer of consecration” that asks God to “renew within them the Spirit of holiness,” a formula compatible with Protestant ministry but destructive of the Catholic priesthood, which is a participation in the one Priesthood of Christ the High Priest, sacerdos in aeternum secundum ordinem Melchisedech (a priest forever according to the order of Melchizedek).
Since the “bishops” conferring these orders—Michael Martin, the “bishop” of Wichita, Michael Burbidge—were themselves “consecrated” in this same defective rite (or by men who were), the chain of Apostolic Succession is canonically and sacramentally broken. No valid bishop, no valid priest, no valid Mass. The “priests” ordained in these ceremonies receive neither the character of the priesthood nor the power to confect the Eucharist or absolve sins. They are laymen vested in stolen vestments, performing a Masonic parody of the Actio Christi.
The “Holy Spirit” of the Neo-Church: Spirit of the World, Not of God
The refrain of the vocation directors—“It’s always the Holy Spirit”, “God gave the growth”—constitutes a blasphemous invocation of the Third Person of the Trinity to legitimize the operations of the synagoga Satanae. St. Paul warns: “For such false apostles are deceitful workmen, transforming themselves into the apostles of Christ. And no wonder: for Satan himself transformeth himself into an angel of light” (2 Cor 11:13-14). The “growth” celebrated in the article is the growth of the mysterium iniquitatis, the great apostasy foretold by St. Paul (2 Thess 2:3) and the Apocalypse (Apoc 13). The “Holy Spirit” invoked by Father Eckert and “Bishop” Martin is not the Spirit of Truth who guides the Church into all truth (John 16:13), but the spirit of the world, which the world receives because it sees Him not, neither knows Him (John 14:17).
The article notes the “evangelical Bible-belt roots” of Charlotte, joking it is “Billy Graham territory.” This admission is damning. The conciliar sect’s “vocations” flourish precisely where Catholic doctrine has been most diluted by Protestant subjectivism and emotionalism. The “vibrant faith life” praised by the vocation director is a naturalistic enthusiasm devoid of the virtus infusa of Faith, Hope, and Charity. As Pius XI teaches in Quas Primas, “Peace is only possible in the kingdom of Christ”—the true Kingdom, not the counterfeit “kingdom of man” erected by the conciliar revolution. The “peace” and “joy” reported in these dioceses are the fruits of a false consolation, the “opium of the people” administered by the neo-church to anaesthetize souls against the horror of their spiritual destitution.
Eucharistic Adoration in the Service of Idols
The directors of Wichita and Arlington cite “perpetual adoration” and “40 hours” as engines of vocations. But adoration of what? In the conciliar sect, the “host” exposed in the monstrance is, in the vast majority of cases, mere bread, the product of an invalid “Mass” celebrated by a layman simulating the priesthood. To adore this bread as God is idolatry pure and simple, a violation of the First Commandment. The Council of Trent anathematizes those who deny that the true Body of Christ is present only after valid consecration by a validly ordained priest (Sess. XIII, can. 1). The “vocations” fostered before this false presence are vocations to serve the idol, to perpetuate the sacrilege. As the Prophet Isaiah declares: “They have sacrificed unto devils, not to God” (Deut 32:17). The “Holy Spirit” cannot operate through idolatry; the devil operates through it to ensnare souls of good will.
The Antipope Leo XIV and the False Magisterium
The article references “Pope Leo XIV” (Robert Prevost) addressing vocation ministers in June 2025, urging them to form men “capable of loving, listening, praying, and serving as a community.” This is the language of the civitas terrena, of Masonic humanitarianism, not of the Civitas Dei. The true Pope, the Vicar of Christ, teaches that the priest is alter Christus, configured to Christ the Victim and Priest, destined for the altar and the confessional, for the gloria Dei and the salus animarum. The “pope” of the neo-church speaks of “community” and “listening”—the buzzwords of the Second Vatican Council’s Gaudium et Spes, the pastoral constitution that inaugurated the cult of man. Since John XXIII, every claimant to the See of Peter has publicly professed the heresies of religious liberty, ecumenism, and collegiality, thereby separating themselves from the Catholic Church ipso facto (Bellarmine, De Romano Pontifice, lib. 2, cap. 30). Leo XIV is not the Pope; he is the head of the paramasonic structure occupying the Vatican. His “emphasis on vocations” is the emphasis of the Antichrist’s forerunner, gathering ministers for the false worship of the beast.
The Theological Bankruptcy of “Culture of Vocations”
The article’s methodology—analyzing “family support,” “seminary programs,” “St. Andrew dinners,” “Quo Vadis camps”—reveals the purely sociological, naturalistic mindset of the neo-church. The vocation is reduced to a career choice facilitated by marketing strategies and peer pressure. Father Morey’s baseball analogy—families as “starting pitchers,” priests as “middle relievers,” vocation director as “closer”—is a grotesque trivialization of the divine call “Come, follow Me” (Matt 4:19). The Council of Trent teaches that the priesthood is a sacramentum ordinis, a sacrament instituted by Christ, not a human resource management pipeline (Sess. XXIII, cap. 1). The “quality” Father Morey speaks of is not the sanctitas measured by the imitatio Christi, but the “quality” of a good functionary in the NGO of the neo-church.
The Silence on Dogma: The Gravest Accusation
Nowhere in the article is there mention of the Tridentine Mass, the Roman Catechism, the Syllabus of Errors, the Oath Against Modernism, the Kingship of Christ over nations (Quas Primas), the necessity of the Catholic Church for salvation (Extra Ecclesiam nulla salus), or the reality of Hell and the Last Judgment. The “bishops” and “priests” quoted speak only of “growth,” “community,” “discernment,” and “accompaniment.” This silence is the argumentum ex silentio that condemns them. As St. Pius X condemned in Lamentabili Sane Exitu (prop. 59): “Christ did not proclaim any specific, all-encompassing doctrine suitable for all times and peoples, but rather initiated a certain religious movement…” This is the Modernist heresy lived out in the daily operation of the conciliar sect. The “vocations” are vocations to this heresy.
The Global Context: Africa and Asia as Demographic Pawns
The article notes “significant declines in Europe and the Americas, though Africa and Asia saw notable increases.” This demographic shift is hailed by the neo-church as a sign of vitality. In reality, it marks the completion of the Masonic plan: the destruction of the Faith in its historic heartlands (Christendom) and its replacement by a vague, inculturated “spirituality” in the Global South, devoid of dogmatic rigor and easily assimilated into the one-world religion. The “ordination numbers” in Africa and Asia are inflated by the same invalid rites and the same false “bishops.” Quantity without quality—without veritas—is the signature of the Antichurch.
Conclusion: The Harvest is Ripe for the Fire
The EWTN article is a propaganda piece for the abominatio desolationis. It presents the outward flourishing of the counterfeit priesthood as a sign of God’s blessing, thereby deceiving the faithful who still seek Christ in the structures that have expelled Him. The “ten young men ordained” in Charlotte, the “six” in Wichita, the “seven” in Arlington—these are not sacerdotes Dei. They are the ministri Antichristi, prepared to offer the “sacrifice” of the new covenant of the neo-church, which is the sacrifice of abomination. Let the faithful flee these structures. Let them seek the true Mass, the true priesthood, the true bishops who preserve the depositum fidei intact, outside the camp, bearing His reproach (Heb 13:13). The statistics of the neo-church are the accounting of souls lost; the only “vocation” that matters is the vocation to remain Catholic, cost what it may.
Source:
‘It’s always the Holy Spirit’: Meet 3 dioceses seeing large numbers of priestly ordinations (ewtnnews.com)
Date: 16.08.2026