The National Catholic Register — the flagship organ of the EWTN empire and a primary mouthpiece of the conciliar sect — reports on the testimony of Bonnie Engstrom regarding the alleged “miracle” attributed to the arch-modernist Fulton J. Sheen, which the usurping structures in Rome have accepted as the requisite supernatural sign for his “beatification.” The article recounts a 2010 home birth in Illinois where the infant James Fulton, strangled by a true knot in the umbilical cord, remained pulseless for 61 minutes before a spontaneous return of cardiac activity, followed by a complete neurological recovery. The parents, having named the child after Sheen, invoked his intercession throughout the ordeal. Following the standard theatrical investigation by the Congregation for the Causes of Saints under the antipope Francis (Jorge Bergoglio), the cure was declared “scientifically inexplicable” and supernaturally caused by Sheen. Engstrom has now published a memoir, 61 Minutes to a Miracle, via EWTN Religious Catalogue, cementing the narrative. This orchestrated spectacle exposes the neo-church’s reliance on sensationalized prodigies to manufacture sanctity for its architects of apostasy, substituting the signa credibilitatis of true doctrine with the signa mendacia of the counterfeit church.
The Nullity of the “Beatification” Process Under Usurped Authority
The entire edifice of this “miracle” rests upon the juridical and theological nullity of the post-1958 claimants to the papacy. As St. Robert Bellarmine teaches in De Romano Pontifice, a manifest heretic ipso facto ceases to be Pope and head of the Church, “just as he ceases to be a Christian and member of the body of the Church.” The line of usurpers beginning with John XXIII (Angelo Roncalli), continuing through Paul VI (Giovanni Montini), John Paul I (Albino Luciani), John Paul II (Karol Wojtyla), Benedict XVI (Joseph Ratzinger), Francis (Jorge Bergoglio), and now Leo XIV (Robert Prevost), has publicly professed the heresies of religious liberty, ecumenism, collegiality, and the new ecclesiology condemned by the Syllabus of Pius IX and the encyclicals of St. Pius X (Pascendi Dominici Gregis) and Pius XI (Quas Primas). Consequently, the “Congregation for the Causes of Saints” possesses no canonical mission, no judicial authority, and no charism of infallibility. Its decrees are nulla, irrita, et inanis (null, void, and empty). The “beatification” of Fulton Sheen is not an act of the Church’s Magisterium but an administrative act of a paramasonic structure occupying the Vatican, designed to canonize the very revolution that destroyed the Church’s visibility.
Fulton Sheen: Architect of the “New Evangelization” and Precursor of Vatican II
The article presents Sheen as a holy intercessor, omitting entirely his role as a primary propagandist for the novelties that culminated in the Second Vatican Council. Sheen was the darling of the Americanist hierarchy, a media celebrity who utilized the nascent television medium to promote a watered-down, sentimentalized Catholicism palatable to Protestants and the secular world. He championed the “psychological” approach to faith, the dignity of man divorced from the regnum Christi, and the ecumenical spirit later enshrined in Unitatis Redintegratio. His “Life of Christ” and television discourses emphasized a “Christ without a Cross,” a King without a Kingdom — the very laicism Pius XI condemned in Quas Primas: “When God and Jesus Christ… were removed from laws and states… the foundations of that authority were destroyed.” Sheen never publicly resisted the liturgical revolution, the new Mass, or the doctrinal deviations of Paul VI. To propose him as a model of sanctity is to canonize the transition from Tradition to Modernism.
The Theological Impossibility of “Miracles” Validating the Conciliar Sect
Catholic theology teaches that miracles are motiva credibilitatis — motives of credibility — which confirm the truth of the Catholic Faith and the mission of the true Church. They cannot, ex natura rei, confirm a false sect or a heretic. The “miracle” attributed to Sheen, even granting the medical facts as reported by the secular press (Fox News, cited by the Register), proves nothing regarding his sanctity. God permits “signs and lying wonders” (signa et prodagia mendacia, 2 Thess 2:9) in the time of the Great Apostasy to test the elect. The sudden return of a heartbeat after prolonged asystole, while medically rare, falls within the realm of the praeternatural or the unexplained natural, not necessarily the supernatural stricte dicto. More critically, the “investigation” was conducted by doctors and theologians appointed by the antipope, operating under a false premise: that the post-conciliar “Church” is the Catholic Church. A miracle worked to confirm a lie becomes a diabolical counterfeit. As the Syllabus of Errors condemns the proposition that “the Church is not a true and perfect society… but it appertains to the civil power to define what are the rights of the Church” (Error 19), so the neo-church uses these fabricated “miracles” to assert its false legitimacy before the world.
The Sentimentalization of the Supernatural: Linguistic Decay as Symptom
The Register’s prose — “joyful anticipation,” “harrowing moments,” “astounding miracle,” “divine intervention surpassed all human expectation” — reveals the phenomenological and sentimentalist epistemology of the New Theology. There is no mention of the Social Reign of Christ the King, the necessity of the Traditional Latin Mass, the state of grace, the Four Last Things, or the Extra Ecclesiam Nulla Salus. The “emergency baptism” by the father is mentioned as a pious detail, stripped of its dogmatic gravity: “Unless a man be born again of water and the Holy Ghost, he cannot enter into the kingdom of God” (Jn 3:5). The article frames the event as a human-interest narrative, a “milestone for the universal Church” (meaning the conciliar sect), reducing the economy of salvation to a feel-good story for EWTN radio listeners. This is the cult of man Pius XI warned against: “The state is happy not by one means, and man by another… For what we wrote at the beginning of Our Pontificate about the diminishing authority of law… the same can be applied to the present times.”
The EWTN Industrial Complex: Merchandising the Counterfeit Miracle
The article concludes with a commercial plug: “61 Minutes to a Miracle by Bonnie Engstrom is available at EWTNRC.com.” This exposes the mercantile motive driving the neo-church’s hagiography industry. The “miracle” is a product, the “blessed” a brand, the mother a spokesperson. Mother Angelica’s network has long served as the propaganda arm of the Americanist wing of the conciliar revolution, promoting the Charismatic Renewal, the Novus Ordo, and the false apparitions of Medjugorje (condemned by the local Ordinary and the CDF under Ratzinger). The publication of this book completes the cycle: fabricate the miracle, validate the modernist, sell the book, fund the structure. It is the simonia of the spiritual life, where grace is packaged and retailed by the abomination of desolation standing in the holy place (Mt 24:15).
Silence on the True Crisis: The Diversion from Apostasy
The gravest accusation against this article is its total silence regarding the apostasy of the hierarchy. While the Engstroms prayed to a deceased modernist archbishop, the true Church — the Ecclesia militans adhering to the immutable Tradition of the Fathers, the Tridentine Mass, and the Sede Vacante — suffers the passion of Christ in Gethsemane. The article serves as a distraction, a “Fatima-like” psychological operation (as detailed in the theological objections to false apparitions) directing the faithful’s gaze toward external prodigies and away from the internal ruin of the Faith. It ignores the warning of St. Pius X against the “enemies within” who “lay the axe not to the branches and shoots, but to the very root.” The “miracle” of James Fulton is the opiate administered to the faithful to keep them asleep in the pews of the Novus Ordo, believing the Church lives on in the “pope” and his “blesseds,” while the Ark of the Covenant has been removed to the wilderness (Apoc 11:19; 12:6).
Conclusion: Return to the Immutable Criterion
From the perspective of integral Catholic faith, this article is not a testimony to grace but a document of the Great Deception. It exhibits the modus operandi of the Church of the New Advent: manufacture emotional narratives, exploit medical anomalies, invoke the authority of a usurping “pope,” and canonize the destroyers of the liturgy and doctrine. The faithful are called not to “pray without ceasing” to a false “blessed,” but to stand fast and hold the traditions (2 Thess 2:14) received from the true Popes before 1958. The Kingship of Christ (Quas Primas) demands the rejection of every counterfeit, every “miracle” of the sect, and every “saint” of the revolution. There is no salvation in the neo-church; there is no grace in its sacraments simulated by invalid rites; there is no truth in its “miracles.” Non est aliud nomen sub caelo datum hominibus in quo oporteat nos salvari (Acts 4:12) — outside the true Church, the one, holy, catholic, and apostolic Church enduring in the catacombs of Tradition, there is only the synagoga Satanae.
Source:
‘Pray Without Ceasing’: Bonnie Engstrom Recounts the 61-Minute Miracle That Saved Her Son (ncregister.com)
Date: 24.09.2026