The National Catholic Register — principal propaganda organ of the conciliar sect occupying the Vatican — publishes on August 18, 2026, a hagiographic profile of PGA Tour golfer Cameron Young, presenting his attendance at the Novus Ordo “Mass” and domestic routine as the summit of Catholic witness. The article, penned by freelancer Pete Janny, constructs a Potemkin village of “faith” wherein the invalid New Rite, Jesuit formation, ecumenical indifferentism toward a Protestant competitor, and naturalistic “groundedness” are paraded as the via media for the modern Catholic. This is not journalism; it is the liturgy of the neo-church: the substitution of homo religiosus for the homo Dei, of the “table of assembly” for the Unbloody Sacrifice of Calvary, of religious liberty for the Social Reign of Christ the King.
The Organ of Apostasy Masquerading as Catholic Press
The National Catholic Register operates under the direct aegis of the usurper antipope Leo XIV (Robert Prevost), the latest in the line of manifest heretics beginning with John XXIII who have ipso facto forfeited the Petrine Office by public defection from the Catholic Faith (Cum ex Apostolatus Officio; Canon 188.4, 1917 Code). As St. Robert Bellarmine teaches: “A manifest heretic cannot be Pope… he cannot be the head of something of which he is not a member” (De Romano Pontifice 2.30). Every “bishop,” “priest,” and “canonization” emanating from this paramasonic structure is null, void, and of no effect. The Register is therefore not a Catholic newspaper but the Pravda of the abomination of desolation, tasked with normalizing the novelties of Vatican II: false ecumenism, religious liberty, collegiality, and the New Mass.
The article’s very framing — “Catholic golfer,” “Catholic faith,” “Sunday Mass” — employs the vocabulary of the Faith to signify its counterfeit. This is the modus operandi of Modernism condemned by St. Pius X in Lamentabili Sane Exitu (1907): “The dogmas which the Church proposes as revealed are not truths of divine origin but are a certain interpretation of religious facts, which the human mind has worked out with great effort” (Prop. 22). The Register does not defend the Faith; it manages the transition from the Faith to a vague, therapeutic spirituality compatible with the Masonic Republic.
The Novus Ordo “Mass”: Idolatry Presented as Piety
The centerpiece of the article is Young’s fidelity to “Sunday Mass,” described as a “final blessing administered by the priest” after which “championship golf can wait.” This “Mass” is the Novus Ordo Missae of Paul VI, a fabrication of the Freemason Bugnini, stripped of the Propitiatory Sacrifice, the Real Presence, and the priesthood of the Old Law fulfilled in Christ. It is a Protestantized memorial meal, invalid in form and intention, celebrated by “priests” ordained in the invalid 1968 Rite of Ordination, under “bishops” consecrated in the invalid 1968 Rite of Episcopal Consecration. To attend it is not piety; it is participation in the abominatio desolationis foretold by Daniel and Christ (Matt. 24:15).
Pius XI, in Quas Primas (1925), teaches that Christ’s Kingship demands public worship, public law, public recognition by states: “The state must leave the same freedom to the members of Orders and Congregations… who are indeed the most valiant helpers of the Pastors of the Church and contribute most to the expansion and establishment of Christ’s Kingdom.” The Register’s “Mass” is the private hobby of a golfer, a “normal Sunday morning” routine. This is the laicism Pius XI condemns: “the denial of Christ the Lord’s reign over all nations; the Church’s authority to teach men, to issue laws, to govern nations… was denied.” Young’s “Mass” is the liturgy of the Civitas Terrena that has dethroned Christ.
Jesuit Formation: The Laboratory of Modernism
Young is a product of Fordham Preparatory School, a “Jesuit high school in the Bronx.” The Society of Jesus, once the shock troops of the Counter-Reformation, has been the vanguard of the Modernist infiltration since the 19th century, culminating in the General Congregation 32 (1974-75) which declared “the service of faith” inseparable from “the promotion of justice” — i.e., Marxist liberation theology. The Syllabus of Pius IX (1864) condemns the proposition: “The Church not only ought never to pass judgment on philosophy, but ought to tolerate the errors of philosophy, leaving it to correct itself” (Prop. 11). The Jesuits have done worse: they have become the errors. A “Catholic” formed by post-conciliar Jesuits is formed in the nova theologia of Rahner, de Lubac, Congar — the architects of Vatican II. Young’s “faith” is the fruit of a poisoned tree.
Ecumenical Indifferentism: The “Christian” Scottie Scheffler
The article explicitly links Young to Scottie Scheffler, “an outspoken Christian who sits atop the world golf rankings,” praising both for “honor[ing] their Redeemer at every turn.” Scheffler is a Protestant. The Register here commits the heresy of indifferentism, condemned by Pius IX: “Protestantism is nothing more than another form of the same true Christian religion, in which form it is given to please God equally as in the Catholic Church” (Syllabus, Prop. 18). And by Pius XI in Mortalium Animos (1928): the unity of Christians cannot be fostered by “a certain union… which would be based on a common profession of faith… but which would leave intact the differences of doctrine.” The Register’s “common Redeemer” rhetoric is the ecumenism of the return — but the return is to the neo-church, not to the One, Holy, Catholic, Apostolic Church.
This is the heresy of Americanism condemned by Leo XIII in Testem Benevolentiae (1899): the illusion that the Church can accommodate herself to the “genius” of a nation, that “faith and career success don’t have to be mutually exclusive.” The true Catholic knows that non possumus — we cannot serve God and Mammon, the True Mass and the Novus Ordo, the Catholic Church and the conciliar sect.
Naturalistic “Groundedness” vs. Supernatural Sanctity
The article’s lexicon is tellingly devoid of the supernatural: “habits,” “routine,” “grounded,” “humble,” “selfless,” “family,” “supportive household.” Not a word of sanctifying grace, the state of grace, mortification, the Four Last Things, the Social Kingship of Christ, the necessity of the Church for salvation (extra Ecclesiam nulla salus). This is the naturalism of the Syllabus: “Moral laws do not stand in need of the divine sanction… the science of philosophical things and morals and also civil laws may and ought to keep aloof from divine and ecclesiastical authority” (Props. 56-57). Young is presented as a “good man” — the Pelagian ideal of the neo-church — not as a son of God by adoption fighting the world, the flesh, and the devil.
The father’s quote — “He got up, went to church, had breakfast, and did all the things he would normally do on a Sunday morning” — reduces the Lord’s Day to a time-slot in a scheduler. The Third Commandment demands worship, not “routine.” The Catechism of the Council of Trent teaches that the Sabbath is kept by “abstaining from servile works” and “giving oneself to the divine worship.” The Novus Ordo “Mass” followed by a golf tournament is the precise inversion: servile work (professional sport) sanctified by a brief stop at the “table of assembly.”
The Political Theater: Trump, Doral, and the “Catholic” Laity
The article notes Young’s victory at Trump National Doral, “as his family and President Donald Trump watched.” This is the Catholic Action of the neo-church: photo-ops with political power, the civitas of man replacing the Civitas Dei. Pius XI in Quas Primas warns: “When God and Jesus Christ… were removed from laws and states and when authority was derived not from God but from men, the foundations of that authority were destroyed.” The Register celebrates the very confusion of orders it should anathematize. The “laity” of the neo-church are not the milites Christi extending the Kingship of Christ, but celebrities legitimizing the Masonic order.
The Silence That Condemns
What the article omits is its loudest accusation. No mention of:
- The Sede Vacante since 1958 — the Chair of Peter empty, the true Church persecuted, the true Mass preserved only in the catacombs of Tradition.
- The invalidity of the Novus Ordo and the New Rites of Ordination/Consecration — the causa sine qua non of the current apostasy.
- The heresies of Vatican II: Dignitatis Humanae (religious liberty), Nostra Aetate (false ecumenism), Lumen Gentium (collegiality, subsistit in), Gaudium et Spes (worldliness).
- The duty of the laity to reject the neo-church, assist at the True Mass, profess the integral Faith, and work for the Restoration.
- The condemnation of Freemasonry — the invisible hand guiding the “psychological operation” of the conciliar revolution (cf. the False Fatima Apparitions analysis: “Masonic Operation ‘Fatima'”).
This silence is not oversight; it is disciplina arcani of the neo-church: the concealment of the apostasy behind a veneer of “normalcy.” The Register’s Young is the homo novus of the Antichrist: successful, likeable, “spiritual,” and utterly severed from the Vine (John 15:5).
Conclusion: The Bread and Circuses of the Abomination
This article is a masterpiece of diabolical pedagogy. It takes a young man, formed in the Modernist seminary-system, worshipping at the invalid altar of the neo-church, practicing a naturalistic virtue signaling, and presents him as the ideal Catholic for the 21st century. The message to the faithful in the pews of the conciliar structures is clear: Stay. Be “grounded.” Attend the “Mass.” Raise a nice family. Ignore the heresies. Ignore the vacant See. Ignore the True Mass. The Church is fine; look at Cameron Young.
But the true Catholic, adhering to the quod semper, quod ubique, quod ab omnibus of St. Vincent of Lérins, sees the trap. “The faith teaches us and human reason demonstrates that a double order of things exists… to God is given what is God’s, and because of God to Caesar what is Caesar’s” (Syllabus, Intro). The Register renders to Caesar (the PGA Tour, the Novus Ordo, the Masonic Republic) what belongs to God, and to God a “routine” that is an insult to His Majesty.
Non praevalebunt. The gates of hell shall not prevail against the true Church — the Church of the catacombs, the Church of the True Mass, the Church of the sedevacantist bishops and priests who keep the Faith whole and inviolate. Cameron Young’s “faith” is the faith of the world; the Catholic’s faith is the Faith of the Martyrs. “You are Christ the King of glory!” sang the crowds at the Nicaea centenary (Quas Primas). The Register sings: “You are a nice golfer who goes to church.” Deus non irridetur.
Source:
How Mass and Family Keep PGA Tour Winner Cameron Young Grounded on the Course (ncregister.com)
Date: 18.08.2026