Conciliar Sect Parades Relics of Modernist Sheen in Sacrilegious Spectacle
The EWTN/National Catholic Register portal reports the beatification of Fulton Sheen by the conciliar sect’s antipope Leo XIV (Robert Prevost) on September 24, 2026, in St. Louis, detailing the grotesque distribution of his bodily remains — a mandible and metacarpal bones — as “first-class relics” to the Archdiocese of New York and the Diocese of Rochester. The ceremony, presided over by the modernist prefect Cardinal Luis Tagle, featured the alleged miracle recipient James Fulton Engstrom presenting the jawbone, chosen explicitly for Sheen’s “speaking prowess” and media celebrity. The relics were extracted from a decomposed corpse after 47 years, packaged into thecae with inscriptions ex ossibus Beati Fultoni Sheen, and commercialized through “donations” for second- and third-class relics. A major relic is slated for presentation to the usurper Leo XIV on October 5. This macabre theater exposes the conciliar sect’s idolatry of man, its invalid post-1958 canonization process, and its reduction of the cultus sanctorum to a propaganda tool for the novus ordo revolution.
The Invalidity of the Conciliar “Beatification” and the Usurpation of Peter’s See
The entire spectacle rests on a doctrinal nullity: no true Pope has occupied the Chair of Peter since the death of Pius XII in 1958. The line of usurpers — John XXIII, Paul VI, John Paul I, John Paul II, Benedict XVI, Francis, and now Leo XIV (Robert Prevost) — are manifest heretics who, by their public adhesion to the errors of Vatican II (religious liberty, false ecumenism, collegiality, the novus ordo missae), have ipso facto severed themselves from the Catholic Church and lost all jurisdiction. As St. Robert Bellarmine teaches: “A manifest heretic cannot be Pope… he ceases to be Pope and head, just as he ceases to be a Christian and member of the body of the Church” (De Romano Pontifice, lib. 2, cap. 30). The Bull Cum ex Apostolatus Officio of Pope Paul IV confirms that any promotion of a heretic to the papacy is “null, void, and of no effect”, regardless of unanimous cardinalitial assent. Therefore, the “beatification” by Leo XIV is a juridical nullity, a theatrical act devoid of the Church’s authority, constituting a usurpation of the divine prerogative to judge sanctity (Canon 1404, 1917 Code: “The First See is judged by no one”).
The involvement of “Cardinal” Tagle — a notorious promoter of synodality and religious indifferentism — as principal celebrant, and the planned presentation to the antipope Leo XIV, merely compounds the sacrilege. The conciliar sect’s “canonization process,” reformed by the apostate Paul VI and the heretic John Paul II, abolished the Promotor Fidei (Devil’s Advocate), eliminated the requirement of heroic virtue demonstrated over time, and reduced miracles to medically inexplicable healings devoid of moral certainty. This is not the Church’s infallible magisterium but a paramasonic fabrication designed to canonize the architects of the conciliar revolution.
Fulton Sheen: A Modernist Celebrity, Not a Saint
Fulton Sheen (1895–1979) was a quintessential figure of the pre-conciliar modernist infiltration. As auxiliary bishop of New York (1951–1966) and bishop of Rochester (1966–1969), he implemented the liturgical and pastoral innovations that paved the way for Vatican II. His “Life Is Worth Living” television program (1951–1957) projected a naturalistic, psychologized “Christianity” tailored to American bourgeois sensibilities, emphasizing self-help and positive thinking over the Crux et Dolor of the Gospel. Sheen’s theology was infected with nouvelle théologie personalism; he praised Teilhard de Chardin, promoted false ecumenism with Protestants and Jews, and endorsed the “Social Kingship of Christ” only in a vague, Masonic sense compatible with Americanism — condemned by Leo XIII in Testem Benevolentiae (1899).
The article’s emphasis on Sheen’s “speaking prowess” and the “iconic image of him writing ‘JMJ’ on the blackboard” reveals the anthropocentric criterion of the conciliar sect: sanctity is measured by media charisma and communicative skill, not by heroic virtue, contempt of the world, and conformity to Christ Crucified. The selection of the mandible — “the only moving bone in the human skull” — as the premier relic for veneration is a grotesque fetishization of human eloquence, a paganization of the cultus sanctorum that would have horrified the Church Fathers. St. Jerome warns: “We do not worship, we do not adore, lest we should bow down to the creature rather than the Creator; but we venerate the relics of the martyrs in order the better to adore Him whose martyrs they are” (Adversus Vigilantium, 6). Here, the relic is detached from the latria due to God and directed toward a modernist personality cult.
The “Miracle”: Naturalistic Anomaly, Not Supernatural Intervention
The alleged miracle — the revival of James Fulton Engstrom after 61 minutes without heartbeat — is presented as medically inexplicable. Yet the conciliar sect’s miracle commissions, staffed by modernist physicians and theologians, apply no theological criteria (exclusion of natural causes, moral certainty of divine intervention, connection to the intercessor’s sanctity). A spontaneous return of circulation after prolonged resuscitation, while rare, is documented in medical literature (the “Lazarus phenomenon”). The Syllabus of Errors (Pius IX, 1864) condemns the proposition: “Human reason, without any reference whatsoever to God, is the sole arbiter of truth and falsehood” (Error 3). The conciliar sect’s reliance on medical committees to “verify” miracles substitutes naturalistic scientism for supernatural faith. Moreover, the miracle recipient’s role as a liturgical prop — presenting the jawbone to the “cardinal” — transforms a putative divine act into a staged media event, typical of the conciliar sect’s theatrum mundi.
Commercialization of Relics: Simony and Sacrilege
The article explicitly describes a commercial enterprise: second-class relics (vestment fragments) are exchanged for “donations”; “relic cards” with taped cloth fragments are mass-produced; thecae with vestment pieces are prepared for “more generous” contributors. Msgr. Gray states: “We just ask people to make some sort of a donation because it takes us time to prepare these things.” This is simony — the buying and selling of spiritual things — condemned by the Council of Trent (Sess. 25, De invocatione sanctorum) and the 1917 Code (Canon 727). The traffic in “third-class relics” (rosaries touched to the tomb) further degrades the sacred into a pious commodity. The conciliar sect’s “Foundation” operates as a merchandising arm, distributing relics to “Catholic institutions” with episcopal testimonial letters — a bureaucratic parody of the Church’s traditional guardianship of sacred relics.
Fatima Connection: The Masonic Thread
The article notes Joseph Pronechen, the author, wrote “Fruits of Fatima — Century of Signs and Wonders.” Sheen himself was a tireless promoter of the Fatima apparitions, which the provided theological analysis demonstrates are a Masonic psychological operation (“Operation Fatima”) designed to divert attention from the modernist apostasy within the Church, promote a vague “conversion of Russia” amenable to ecumenism, and establish a false devotion centered on spectacular phenomena (the “Miracle of the Sun”) rather than the Unbloody Sacrifice of Calvary. The False Fatima Apparitions document details the ritualistic 200-year cycles (1717, 1917, 2017), the mass optical manipulation, and the disinformation strategy culminating in the ecumenical reinterpretation post-1958. Sheen’s promotion of Fatima — and the conciliar sect’s canonization of the Fatima “seers” Francisco and Jacinta (2017) — confirms his place in the neo-modernist apparatus. The jawbone relic, paraded on the feast of Our Lady of Ransom (September 24), is a deliberate substitution of the true Regnum Christi for a Masonic counterfeit.
Distribution to Modernist Strongholds: New York and Rochester
The metacarpal bones from Sheen’s right hand — chosen for the “iconic image” of his TV writing — are destined for the Archdiocese of New York (“Archbishop” Ronald Hicks) and the Diocese of Rochester (“Bishop” John Bonnici). Both sees are citadels of the conciliar revolution: New York, under the usurper’s appointees, has been a laboratory for liturgical abuse, homosexual advocacy, and financial corruption; Rochester, Sheen’s own episcopal see, witnessed his implementation of the novus ordo and his collaboration with the modernist establishment. The “gesture pointing up to heaven” cited by Bishop Tylka is not a sign of sanctity but a theatrical mannerism of a media performer. The personal delivery of relics by Tylka — a conciliar “bishop” ordained in the invalid Pontificale Romanum of 1968 — is a ritual of legitimization for the occupying structures, not an act of Catholic piety.
Theological Bankruptcy: Reduction of the Cultus Sanctorum to Anthropology
The entire enterprise manifests the conciliar sect’s anthropological inversion: the saint is no longer alter Christus, a mirror of the Unbloody Sacrifice, but a “communicator,” a “media personality,” a “healer” of bodily ailments. The Quas Primas of Pius XI (1925) declares: “Peace is only possible in the Kingdom of Christ… The state must leave the same freedom to the members of Orders and Congregations… who contribute most to the expansion and establishment of Christ’s Kingdom.” Sheen’s “kingdom” was the television studio; his “peace” was the Cold War consensus of American civil religion. The conciliar sect’s “beatification” of such a figure is a canonization of the world, a declaration that the Church’s mission is reduced to communication strategies and public relations.
The silence of the article on the Mass, the Sacraments, the state of grace, the Final Judgment, and the Social Kingship of Christ the King is the gravest accusation. Not a word of the Propitiatory Sacrifice, the Extra Ecclesiam Nulla Salus, the duty of states to profess the Catholic Faith, or the condemnation of religious liberty. Only bones, media events, and bureaucratic distribution. This is the abomination of desolation standing in the holy place (Matt. 24:15) — the cult of man replacing the cult of God.
Symptomatic Level: The Conciliar Sect’s Necrotic Ritual
The parade of Sheen’s relics is a symptom of the conciliar sect’s spiritual necrosis. Unable to produce saints through the traditional means (heroic virtue, martyrdom, miracles worked by God through the saint’s intercession), it manufactures “blesseds” from its own revolutionaries: John XXIII, Paul VI, John Paul II, John Henry Newman, Oscar Romero, and now Fulton Sheen. Each “canonization” is a political act ratifying a stage of the conciliar apostasy. The commercialization of relics, the media spectacle, the involvement of the usurper Leo XIV — all confirm that the structures occupying the Vatican are a paramasonic counter-church, the synagogue of Satan (Apoc. 2:9) foretold by Leo XIII in his Prayer to St. Michael.
True Catholics, adhering to the integral Catholic faith preserved by validly ordained bishops and priests outside the conciliar structures, must reject this entire spectacle as idolatrous and sacrilegious. The veneration of Sheen’s bones in the conciliar sect’s temples is not the dulia due to saints but superstition and idolatry (St. Thomas Aquinas, Summa Theologiae II-II, q. 92, a. 1). The faithful are warned: “Flee from idolatry” (1 Cor. 10:14). The true Regnum Christi is not advanced by jawbones on television but by the Unbloody Sacrifice of Calvary offered by true priests, the rosary of the Blessed Virgin Mary, and the uncompromising profession of the Catholic and Apostolic Faith without admixture of modernist error.
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A look at Blessed Fulton Sheen’s relics (ewtnnews.com)
Date: 25.09.2026