The National Catholic Register portal (August 17, 2026) publishes an EWTN News explainer detailing the industrial process for manufacturing altar breads in the conciliar sect, citing the 1983 Code of Canon Law, the 2004 instruction Redemptionis Sacramentum, and quoting a Benedictine nun involved in low-gluten host production. The article notes a recent shortage in Cuba alleviated by shipments from Panama and Puerto Rico, and features a photograph of the antipope Leo XIV (Robert Prevost) simulating the elevation in Cameroon. This focus on the material composition of wafers for the Novus Ordo “Mass” exposes the conciliar sect’s obsession with legalistic rubricism while the forma of the sacrament has been destroyed, rendering the entire enterprise a sacrilegious simulation of the Unbloody Sacrifice of Calvary.
The Invalidity of the Novus Ordo Rite Nullifies All Subsequent “Matter”
The article operates on the fatal assumption that the “Mass” celebrated in the structures occupying the Vatican is the Missale Romanum of the Council of Trent. It is not. The Novus Ordo Missae, promulgated by the antipope Paul VI in 1969, altered the forma of the consecration — substituting “for all” (pro multis) for the words of Christ “for many” — and shifted the theological intent from propitiatory sacrifice to communal meal. As Pope Pius XII taught in Mediator Dei (1947), the sacrifice of the altar is “the unbloody renewal of the sacrifice of the Cross.” The Novus Ordo, by its very structure, denies this. Therefore, no matter how scrupulously the wheat-and-water hosts are baked, they are destined for a rite that cannot confect the Eucharist. The “source and summit” cited from Vatican II’s Lumen Gentium is a modernist fabrication; the true source and summit is the Traditional Latin Mass, preserved only by bishops and priests retaining valid orders and the true rite.
Canon 924 of the 1983 Code: A Law of the Schismatic Structure
The article cites “Canon 924” of the 1983 Code of Canon Law as the governing norm. This code has no binding force on Catholics. It was promulgated by the antipope John Paul II as part of the conciliar revolution. The true canonical legislation remains the 1917 Code, which in Canon 806 §2 required wheat bread, unleavened, recently made — but within the context of a Church that still possessed the potestas ordinis and potestas iurisdictionis. The 1983 Code legislates for a counterfeit church. To cite it as authoritative is to recognize the usurpers’ legislative power, a direct violation of Cum ex Apostolatus Officio (Paul IV, 1559), which declares that any promotion of a heretic to the papacy is “null, void, and of no effect.” The line of usurpers begins with John XXIII; Leo XIV is merely the latest manifest heretic occupying the See of Peter ipso facto vacant since 1958.
Redemptionis Sacramentum: Modernist Discipline for a Protestantized Rite
The article references Redemptionis Sacramentum (2004), issued by the “Congregation for Divine Worship” under the antipope John Paul II. This document attempts to regulate abuses in the Novus Ordo but implicitly validates the rite itself. Its insistence that bread be made by those “distinguished by their integrity” is Pharisaical attention to the outside of the cup while the inside is full of robbery and excess (Matt. 23:25). The true integrity required is the intentio faciendum quod facit Ecclesia — the intention to do what the Church does — which is impossible in a rite that has abandoned the Church’s definition of the Mass as a propitiatory sacrifice (Council of Trent, Sess. XXII, Can. 1). The instruction’s concern for “suitable tools” and “skilled” bakers is a grotesque parody of the reverence due to the matter of the Most Holy Sacrifice, now reduced to quality control for a Protestant communion service.
The Low-Gluten Host Innovation: Materialism Supplanting Sacramental Theology
The article highlights the production of “low-gluten hosts” as a Vatican-approved novelty. This is a capitulation to the naturalistic mindset that reduces the sacrament to its material constituents. The Church has never defined a minimum gluten percentage because the question never arose — the matter is wheaten bread, panis triticeus, and the Church’s tradition, guided by the Holy Ghost, never countenanced chemical manipulation of the matter to accommodate medical conditions. The introduction of low-gluten hosts (first approved by the antipope Benedict XVI in 2003) reflects the conciliar sect’s anthropocentric inversion: the sacrament must adapt to man, not man to the sacrament. This is the same spirit that produced “Communion in the hand,” standing reception, and lay “extraordinary ministers” — all designed to desacralize the Eucharist and destroy faith in the Real Presence.
The Cuba Shortage Narrative: A Distraction from the True Famine
The article recounts the host shortage in Cuba and the emergency shipments from Panama and Puerto Rico as a logistical triumph. This is a Potemkin village of sacramental care. The true famine in Cuba — and everywhere the conciliar sect holds sway — is the absence of the True Mass and valid priesthood. The “Discalced Carmelites” producing hosts in Cuba operate within a structure that has accepted the Novus Ordo, religious liberty, and false ecumenism. Their hosts, even if materially perfect, are consecrated (or rather, simulated) by “priests” ordained in the invalid 1968 rite of Paul VI, which removed the essential form for the conferral of the priesthood (Accipe Spiritum Sanctum… replaced by “Receive the Holy Spirit…”). As Archbishop Lefebvre — himself compromised by his recognition of the usurpers — admitted, the new ordinal “does not make priests.” The shipment of 335,000 wafers to Cuba is not a restoration of the Bread of Life; it is the distribution of unconsecrated bread for a blasphemous parody.
Antipope Leo XIV: The Face of the Abomination of Desolation
The article includes a photograph of “Pope Leo XIV” (Robert Prevost) elevating a host in Cameroon (April 16, 2026). This image is the visual summary of the Great Apostasy foretold by St. Paul (2 Thess. 2:3-4). A manifest heretic, elected by a college of cardinals created by heretics, simulating the papal Mass in a land evangelized by true missionaries, now subjected to the “Church of the New Advent.” The elevation of a wafer in the Novus Ordo is not the elevation of the Body of Christ; it is the elevation of the abominatio desolationis in the holy place. The faithful in Cameroon, like those in Cuba, are being fed stones for bread (Matt. 7:9). The article’s casual identification of Prevost as “Pope” without qualification is complicity in the usurpation.
Silence on the Supernatural: The Grave Omission
Nowhere in the article is there mention of the state of grace, the necessity of confession before Communion, the propitiatory nature of the Mass, the Real Presence as defined by Trent (Sess. XIII, Can. 1), or the final judgment. The entire discourse is horizontal: supply chains, gluten percentages, baking machines, dampeners, cutters. This silence is the loudest condemnation. The conciliar sect has no vocabulary for the supernatural because it has lost the supernatural. It is a purely naturalistic NGO managing the logistics of a religious commodity. As Pius XI declared in Quas Primas (1925), “When God and Jesus Christ were removed from laws and states… the foundations of that authority were destroyed.” The same applies to the liturgy: when the Kingship of Christ is removed from the Mass, the Mass becomes a human fabrication.
The Benedictine Sisters of Perpetual Adoration: Adoration of What?
The article quotes Sister Ruth Starman of the “Benedictine Sisters of Perpetual Adoration” in Clyde, Missouri. Adoration in the Novus Ordo context is idolatry if the “Host” adored was not validly consecrated. The 1969 rite’s defect of form and intention means that the “Blessed Sacrament” reserved in their chapels is, in the vast majority of cases, mere bread. Their “perpetual adoration” becomes a perpetual offense to the Majesty of God, worshipping a creature instead of the Creator (Rom. 1:25). The fact that they were “the first U.S. producer approved by the Vatican to make low-gluten hosts” is a badge of collaboration with the revolution, not a mark of fidelity. True religious orders were destroyed by the conciliar reforms; what remains are institutional shells preserving the name while denying the charism.
Conclusion: Return to the Unbloody Sacrifice of Calvary
The article is a masterpiece of rearranging deck chairs on the Titanic. It discusses the geometry of wafers while the ark of the Covenant is lost. The only solution to the “host shortage” — and the famine of grace — is the restoration of the Traditional Latin Mass, the valid priesthood, and the Catholic hierarchy, which subsist in the remnant faithful adhering to the integral Faith of the Fathers, outside the structures of the conciliar sect. As St. Robert Bellarmine teaches (De Romano Pontifice), a manifest heretic is not the head of the Church. The usurpers in the Vatican have no authority to legislate on matter, form, or discipline. Their canons, instructions, and “approvals” are null, void, and of no effect. Catholics must seek the true Mass where the forma is intact, the materia is wheaten bread, and the minister is a validly ordained priest — una cum the true Vicar of Christ, whoever he may be, for the See is vacant, but the Church is indefectible.
Source:
EWTN News Explains: How Is Catholic Communion Bread Made? (ncregister.com)
Date: 17.08.2026