Conciliar Sect Rushes Manufactured Sainthood for Modernist Sheen
National Catholic Register portal reports on the beatification of Fulton Sheen by the conciliar sect on September 24, 2026, and speculates on an unusually rapid canonization within three years due to six alleged miracles occurring during the seven-year delay between the 2019 beatification decree and the actual ceremony. The article cites the current usurper antipope Leo XIV (Robert Prevost) expressing personal affinity for Sheen, whom he watched on television in his youth, and notes the procedural technicality allowing pre-beatification miracles to count toward canonization. This spectacle exposes the neo-church’s assembly-line fabrication of “saints” to bolster its crumbling legitimacy.
The Nullity of Conciliar “Canonizations” and the Usurper’s Complicity
The very premise of the article — that a “canonization” by the structures occupying the Vatican possesses any supernatural efficacy — rests upon the heretical assumption that the post-conciliar hierarchy retains the Petrine charism. As St. Robert Bellarmine teaches in De Romano Pontifice, a manifest heretic “by that very fact ceases to be Pope and head, just as he ceases to be a Christian and member of the body of the Church.” The line of usurpers beginning with John XXIII has publicly professed the errors of Modernism condemned by St. Pius X in Pascendi Dominici Gregis and Lamentabili Sane Exitu: religious liberty, false ecumenism, collegiality, and the evolution of dogma. By the Bull Cum ex Apostolatus Officio of Pope Paul IV, any promotion of a heretic to the papacy is “null, void, and of no effect” ipso facto, without need of declaration. Therefore, the “beatification” by the antipope Francis (Bergoglio) and any future “canonization” by the antipope Leo XIV (Prevost) are juridically null and supernaturally void, mere theatrical productions of a paramasonic structure.
The article’s mention that Leo XIV “grew up watching him on TV with his family” and “rejoices at the beatification of his fellow countryman” reveals the purely naturalistic, sentimental, and nationalistic criteria governing the neo-church’s “sanctity.” This is the cult of man denounced by Pius XI in Quas Primas: “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 conciliar sect replaces the heroic virtue required for true sanctity with media celebrity and institutional utility.
Sheen: Architect of the Conciliar Revolution, Not a Saint
Fulton Sheen was not a victim of the conciliar revolution but one of its principal architects and propagandists. As a peritus at Vatican II, he championed the aggiornamento that dismantled the Church’s liturgical, doctrinal, and disciplinary walls. His “Life is Worth Living” television program, praised by the article, served as a vehicle for democratizing the Faith, reducing the depositum fidei to palatable soundbites for a Protestantized audience. Sheen’s “evangelization through media” anticipated the neo-church’s substitution of sacramental grace with psychological manipulation and public relations.
The article’s silence on Sheen’s doctrinal deviations is deafening. It omits his promotion of false ecumenism, his ambiguous theology of the priesthood, and his accommodation to the world — the very “secularism” and “laicism” Pius XI identified as “the plague that poisons human society.” A true saint confirms the brethren in the Faith (Luke 22:32); Sheen prepared them for the apostasy.
The “Miracle” Factory: Naturalism Masquerading as Supernatural
The report of “six purported miracles” — “Stage 4 cancer that resolved itself instantaneously” and “hypoxic ischemic encephalopathy” healed — illustrates the medicalization and naturalization of the miraculous characteristic of the conciliar process. The “seven doctors” who “determine whether there might be a natural explanation” operate on the Modernist principle condemned in Lamentabili (prop. 36): “The Resurrection of the Savior is not properly a historical fact, but belongs to the purely supernatural order. For this reason, it is not proven, cannot be proven…” The neo-church demands scientific verification of the supernatural, thereby subjecting God’s free action to the judgment of natural reason — the very rationalism anathematized by the Syllabus of Errors (props. 3, 4, 9).
Moreover, true miracles cannot be worked in favor of a false sect. As St. Augustine teaches, extra Ecclesiam nulla salus — outside the Church there is no salvation, and consequently no authentic miraculous confirmation of falsehood. The “healings” attributed to Sheen’s intercession, if genuine preternatural events, would be diabolical signs to confirm the faithful in error (2 Thess. 2:9-10); if natural, they are mere coincidences exploited by a bureaucratic machine. The seven-year “gap” exploited by the “obscure rule” (Regulation of Postulators, 75a) reveals the positivist legalism that has replaced the sensus fidelium and the Church’s infallible judgment.
The Procedural Farce: Bureaucracy Replaces Sanctity
The article’s detailed exposition of the “multiyear process” — diocesan investigation, three Roman panels (doctors, theologians, cardinals), final papal approval — lays bare the mechanical, administrative nature of conciliar “canonization.” This is not the Church’s solemn exercise of the keys, but a paramasonic quality-control procedure. The “Dicastery for the Causes of Saints” is a modernist invention, unknown to the immemorial tradition where the vox populi confirmed by episcopal authority and the Roman See declared sanctity. The “Regulation of the Postulators” cited by the article is a novelty of the 1983 Code, itself a product of the conciliar revolution, having no binding force on the true Church.
The “canon law professor” David Long’s observation that “the extraordinary factual situation… potentially reaches more than seven years” underscores the arbitrariness of positive law detached from divine law. In the true Church, sanctity is recognized by the consensus fidelium and the fama sanctitatis sustained by miracles manifestly supernatural, not by dossier management.
Symptomatic of the Abomination of Desolation
This entire spectacle — the delayed “beatification,” the retroactive miracle-hunting, the antipope’s personal endorsement, the media campaign — is a symptom of the Great Apostasy foretold by St. Paul (2 Thess. 2:3-4). The conciliar sect, occupying the visible patrimony of the Church, mimics her external forms while emptying them of substance. It manufactures “saints” as it manufactures “sacraments” — invalid rites, novel doctrines, and false worship — to maintain the illusion of continuity.
The faithful attached to Tradition must reject this simulated canonization as they reject the Novus Ordo Missae, the false ecumenism, and the heretical magisterium of the usurpers. As Pius IX teaches in the Syllabus (prop. 23), “Roman pontiffs and ecumenical councils have wandered outside the limits of their powers, have usurped the rights of princes, and have even erred in defining matters of faith and morals” — a condemnation that applies a fortiori to the antipopes and their pseudo-councils. The only “head start” Sheen has is toward the judgment seat of Christ, where no conciliar decree, no media acclaim, and no bureaucratic miracle-dossier will avail.
Christus vincit, Christus regnat, Christus imperat. The Kingship of Christ, proclaimed by Pius XI in Quas Primas, admits no rival, no compromise, and no counterfeit sanctity. The neo-church’s “saints” are the citizens of the city of man, canonized by the prince of this world for service to his kingdom. True Catholics await the restoration of the Church’s visible hierarchy, when the true successors of Peter will judge the living and the dead — and the fabricated “saints” of the conciliar sect will be exposed as the tares among the wheat (Matt. 13:24-30).
Source:
A Head Start to Sainthood? Why Newly Blessed Fulton Sheen Could Be Canonized Quickly (ncregister.com)
Date: 26.09.2026