The conciliar sect’s Peoria diocese, under the direction of its installed “bishop” Lou Tylka, has announced a gala spectacle for September 25, 2026 — the “First Annual Sheen Awards” — timed to coincide with the anticipated beatification of Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen by the usurper “Pope” Leo XIV (Robert Prevost) the previous day in St. Louis. The event, hosted at the Peoria Civic Center and broadcast on the conciliar propaganda outlet EWTN, will feature as headliners the “bishop” Robert Barron of Winona-Rochester and Jonathan Roumie, the actor who portrays a sentimentalized, Protestantized Christ in the television series The Chosen. Also slated to appear are the “apostolic nuncio” Gabriel Caccia, the “Pontifical Mission Societies” director Roger Landry, Hallow CEO Alex Jones, and media personality Katie Prejean McGrady. This assembly of conciliar celebrities constitutes a public ratification of the novus ordo’s replacement of the supernatural mission of the Church with a naturalistic cult of media influence and celebrity endorsement.
The Beatification of a Conciliar Architect as Validation of the New Order
The very premise of the “Sheen Awards” — celebrating the beatification of Fulton Sheen by an antipope — exposes the theological bankruptcy of the entire enterprise. Sheen, for all his rhetorical gifts, was a principal architect of the conciliar revolution: an enthusiastic participant in the Second Vatican Council, a promoter of religious liberty and ecumenism, and a media figure who acclimated the faithful to the idea that the Church’s mission could be reduced to “communication” and “cultural engagement.” His beatification by the false pope Leo XIV is not a recognition of heroic virtue but a political act canonizing the aggiornamento itself. As Pius XI taught in Quas Primas, “the hope of lasting peace will not yet shine upon nations as long as individuals and states renounce and do not wish to recognize the reign of our Savior” — a reign Sheen’s conciliar theology effectively surrendered to secularism under the guise of “dialogue.” The Syllabus of Pius IX condemns the proposition that “the Roman Pontiff can, and ought to, reconcile himself, and come to terms with progress, liberalism and modern civilization” (Error 80). Sheen’s career was a sustained attempt at precisely that reconciliation; his “beatification” seals the sect’s commitment to it.
Robert Barron: The “Bishop” of Social Media Modernism
Robert Barron, founder of the “Word on Fire” ministry and hailed by the secular Wall Street Journal as the “bishop of Catholic social media,” epitomizes the conciliar substitution of apostolatus with mediatizatio. His “Catholicism” documentary series presents a Christianity stripped of dogmatic rigor, sacramental centrality, and the extra Ecclesiam nulla salus imperative, replacing them with aesthetic appreciation and vague “spirituality.” Barron has publicly defended religious liberty, praised non-Catholic “traditions,” and minimized the necessity of explicit conversion to the Catholic Church for salvation — positions directly condemned by Pius IX (Quanta Cura, Syllabus Errors 15-18) and Pius XII (Mystici Corporis, Humani Generis). His elevation as a “successor to Sheen’s legacy” confirms that the legacy in question is the demolition of the Church’s exclusive claim to truth. A true bishop, as St. Robert Bellarmine teaches (De Romano Pontifice), must be a member of the Church to be its head; a manifest heretic “ceases to be Pope and head, just as he ceases to be a Christian and member of the body of the Church.” Barron’s adherence to the conciliar magisterium places him outside the Church, rendering his “episcopacy” null and his public acts devoid of sacramental efficacy.
Jonathan Roumie and The Chosen: A Protestantized Christ for the Masses
Jonathan Roumie’s portrayal of Jesus in The Chosen has been lauded by the conciliar establishment precisely because it empties the Incarnate Word of His divine majesty, judicial authority, and exclusive salvific mediation. The series presents a “relatable” Jesus — a therapeutic companion rather than the Rex Regum before Whom every knee must bend (Phil 2:10). This is the “cult of man” denounced by St. Pius X in Pascendi Dominici Gregis and Lamentabili Sane Exitu: “Christ did not proclaim any specific, all-encompassing doctrine suitable for all times and peoples, but rather initiated a certain religious movement” (Lamentabili, Prop. 59). Roumie’s own statement — “how much work there is for me to do to try to aspire to the reach and impact he had on culture” — reveals the purely naturalistic metric: cultural reach, not supernatural conversion. The “deep Catholic faith” attributed to him by “Bishop” Tylka is a faith that coexists comfortably with a production that blurs the distinction between the true Church and sectarian communities, that omits the necessity of baptism, the reality of Hell, and the kingship of Christ over nations. As Pius XI declared: “He who gives the Kingdom of Heaven does not take away earthly things!” (Quas Primas, citing hymn Crudelis Herodes). The Chosen gives earthly things — emotional resonance, production values, ecumenical palatability — while suppressing the Kingdom.
The “Sheen Awards”: Idolatry of Media Influence
The stated purpose of the awards — “recognize individuals whose work in media, evangelization, mission, and liturgy continues his mission of bringing Christ to the world with creativity, conviction, and joy” — inverts the Church’s true mission. The Church does not “bring Christ to the world” by media campaigns; she brings the world to Christ by the preaching of the Gospel, the administration of the sacraments, and the exercise of binding and loosing authority. The categories — “media, evangelization, mission, and liturgy” — are tellingly disordered: liturgy, the supreme act of divine worship, is reduced to one item on a list alongside “media.” The inclusion of Hallow CEO Alex Jones (a tech entrepreneur profiting from a prayer app) and “media personality” Katie Prejean McGrady confirms the commercial and celebrity-driven nature of the enterprise. This is the “secularism of our times, so-called laicism” Pius XI condemned in Quas Primas: “the Church’s authority to teach men, to issue laws, to govern nations… was denied. And then, slowly, the Christian religion began to be equated with other false religions and shamelessly placed in the same category.” The “Sheen Awards” celebrate precisely this equating: a gala where Catholic identity is performed for cameras, validated by secular media accolades, and presided over by men who have abandoned the potestas iurisdictionis for the potestas influentiae.
The Presence of the “Nuncio”: Diplomatic Recognition of the Usurpation
The attendance of “Archbishop” Gabriel Caccia, the “apostolic nuncio” of the antipope Leo XIV, signifies the diplomatic corps of the paramasonic structure occupying the Vatican lending its prestige to this spectacle. Caccia represents a claimant to the papacy who, by his public profession of the conciliar errors (religious liberty, ecumenism, collegiality, the new mass), has ipso facto severed himself from the Church, as taught by Bellarmine, John of St. Thomas, and the Canon 188.4 of the 1917 Code: “Every office becomes vacant by the mere fact and without any declaration… if the cleric publicly defects from the Catholic faith.” The “nuncio’s” presence does not “show the importance of the beatification for the Church”; it demonstrates the conciliar sect’s determination to manufacture consent for its counterfeit sanctity through pageantry and media saturation.
EWTN: The Propaganda Arm of the Abomination
The broadcast of the gala on EWTN — the “Eternal Word Television Network” — completes the circuit. EWTN, founded under the aegis of the conciliar hierarchy, has for decades served as the primary instrument for normalizing the novelties of Vatican II: the new mass, the new ecumenism, the new “saints,” the new “catechism.” Its coverage of the “Sheen Awards” will present the event as a triumph of Catholic culture, while in reality it is a celebration of the abomination of desolation standing in the holy place (Matt 24:15). The faithful who consume this content are not being formed in the faith; they are being anesthetized into accepting the conciliar counter-church as the Catholic Church.
Conclusion: A Gala for the Kingdom of Man
The “First Annual Sheen Awards” is not a Catholic event. It is a conciliar gala celebrating the replacement of the Regnum Christi with the regnum hominis — a kingdom built on media metrics, celebrity endorsements, diplomatic photo-ops, and the sentimentalized “Jesus” of a television drama. It honors a conciliarizer (Sheen) via an antipope (Leo XIV), headlined by a heretical “bishop” (Barron) and a Protestantized actor (Roumie), broadcast by a propaganda network (EWTN), and blessed by a “nuncio” of a vacant see. As Pius XI warned: “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 “Sheen Awards” are a monument to those destroyed foundations — and to the men who profit from the ruins.
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Jonathan Roumie, Bishop Robert Barron to Headline First Annual ‘Sheen Awards’ (ncregister.com)
Date: 03.09.2026