The National Catholic Register (CNA) reports that on September 26, 2026, the conciliar “Bishop” Louis Tylka of Peoria, Illinois, announced the erection of the first parish in the world named after the newly “beatified” Fulton Sheen, merging the parishes of St. Mary in El Paso (where Sheen was baptized) and St. John in Benson. The “beatification” was performed two days prior by the antipope Leo XIV (Robert Prevost) in St. Louis before a crowd of 50,000. The article celebrates this as a “remarkable week of firsts” for the “universal Catholic Church,” highlighting Sheen’s media fame, his Illinois roots shared with the antipope, and the immediate canonical erection of the parish. This spectacle is not a triumph of sanctity but the theatrical culmination of a Masonic media operation that substitutes the lex orandi, lex credendi (the law of prayer is the law of belief) with the law of publicity and demographic marketing.
The Antipope’s Null “Beatification”: A Juridical Impossibility
The entire edifice of this “first parish” rests on the null and void “beatification” by the antipope Leo XIV. As the Defense of Sedevacantism documentation demonstrates, a manifest heretic loses the papacy ipso facto (by that very fact) without need of declaration. St. Robert Bellarmine teaches: “A Pope who is 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 heresies of Vatican II: religious liberty, ecumenism, collegiality, and the new ecclesiology. Leo XIV, as a willing participant in this apostasy, possesses zero jurisdiction to beatify, canonize, or erect parishes. His “decree” is waste paper. Canon 188.4 of the 1917 Code confirms: “Every office becomes vacant by the mere fact and without any declaration… if the cleric publicly defects from the Catholic faith.” The conciliar “bishops” like Tylka and Barres, ordained in the invalid new rite and appointed by antipopes, are laymen masquerading as hierarchy, incapable of any ecclesiastical act.
Fulton Sheen: The Prototype of the Modernist Media Cleric
The article lauds Sheen’s “ability to use the new forms of media… to proclaim the Catholic faith” through Life Is Worth Living. This is a diabolical inversion. Sheen was the architect of the aggiornamento that paved the way for Vatican II. He embraced the hermeneutic of accommodation, watering down doctrine for mass appeal. His “television apostolate” was the precursor to the conciliar sect’s obsession with “communication” over traditio (handing down). The Syllabus of Errors (Pius IX) condemns the proposition: “The Roman Pontiff can, and ought to, reconcile himself, and come to terms with progress, liberalism and modern civilization” (Error 80). Sheen did precisely this, making the Faith palatable to the world, contra Christ’s words: “My kingdom is not of this world” (John 18:36). The article’s emphasis on his “humble origins,” “farm-boy-turned-mass-media star,” and the antipope’s shared “Midwesterner” identity reveals the purely naturalistic, tribal criteria of this counterfeit sanctity. There is no mention of the Cross, mortification, or the imitatio Christi—only worldly success metrics.
The Parish Erection: Juridical Farce and Idolatry
“Bishop” Tylka claims a parish cannot be named after a person until they are “proclaimed ‘blessed’ by the Church.” Since the “Church” he refers to is the conciliar sect occupying the Vatican, and the “blessed” is a product of an antipope’s null act, the decree erecting “Blessed Fulton Sheen Parish” is canonically nonexistent. The buildings retain their names (St. Mary, St. John), but the “parish” entity is a novel juridical fiction of the neo-church. This mirrors the Masonic “Fatima Operation” strategy documented in the context: “Stage 2 (1940-1958): Globalization of the cult and control of the narrative through Lucia’s isolation… Stage 3 (1958-2000): Takeover of the narrative by modernists, concealment of the Third Secret, ecumenical reinterpretation.” Here, the “cult” of Sheen is globalized instantly via media, controlled by the conciliar hierarchy, and reinterpreted as a symbol of “American Catholicism.” The faithful are seduced into venerating a false blessed, rendering dulia (veneration due to saints) to a man who died in the conciliar apostasy. This is idolatry, not piety.
Silence on the Supernatural: The Gravest Accusation
Read the CNA article closely. There is not a single word on: the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass (the Unbloody Sacrifice of Calvary), the Sacraments, the state of grace, the Four Last Things (Death, Judgment, Heaven, Hell), the Social Kingship of Christ the King, or the duty of nations to recognize Christ’s reign. Pius XI in Quas Primas thundered: “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 article speaks only of “pride,” “connection,” “faith witnessed,” “evangelization” (understood as marketing), and “immensely recognizable Catholic figures.” This is the religion of man, the cult of man condemned by Pius XI as the plague of laicism. The “feast day” of December 9 is not a liturgical celebration of the Sanctoral Cycle but a calendar event for brand loyalty.
The “Two Lucies” of the Conciliar Sect: Sheen and the Antipope
The False Fatima document analyzes the “Two Lucia Sisters” theory—suspicions of a replaced visionary. The conciliar sect operates similarly: it presents a counterfeit continuity. Sheen, the “media bishop” of the 1950s, is now “beatified” by the “media pope” of 2026, both Illinoisans, both products of the Americanist heresy condemned by Leo XIII (Testem Benevolentiae). The article explicitly links them: “Pope Leo XIV, a fellow Midwesterner and a fellow Illinois native.” This is tribal nepotism elevated to “sanctity.” The true Church canonizes those who imitated Christ crucified, not those who imitated Christ on television. The Lamentabili Sane Exitu (St. Pius X) condemns the modernist error: “Christ did not proclaim any specific, all-encompassing doctrine suitable for all times and peoples, but rather initiated a certain religious movement” (Prop. 59). Sheen’s “message” was precisely this: a movement, a mood, a media brand—not the immutable Deposit of Faith.
Symptomatic Level: The Conciliar Sect’s Death Rattle
This event is a symptom of the abomination of desolation (Matt. 24:15). The conciliar sect, having demolished the Mass, the priesthood, doctrine, and discipline, now manufactures “saints” and “parishes” at industrial speed to simulate vitality. The 50,000 at the Dome in St. Louis are the populus conciliaris, the “church of the New Advent,” gathering not around the Altar of God but around the altar of celebrity. The “first parish named for Blessed Fulton Sheen” is a Potemkin village erected on the ruins of St. Mary’s and St. John’s—parishes that likely haven’t heard a true Mass or true doctrine in decades. As Pius XI warned in Quas Primas: “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 conciliar sect has no pastors, no Kingdom, no Christ—only a parody.
Conclusion: Return to the Catacombs, Not the Cathedral of Celebrity
The erection of “Blessed Fulton Sheen Parish” is a sacrilegious farce perpetrated by usurpers upon a deceived laity. It possesses no supernatural validity, no canonical force, no spiritual merit. It is a Masonic-style media operation designed to anchor the faithful in the counterfeit church. True Catholics—those adhering to the integral Faith of the Fathers, the Mass of All Time, and the Sede Vacante—must flee these structures as they would a plague. Extra Ecclesiam nulla salus (Outside the Church there is no salvation). The Church is not in the Dome at America’s Center, nor in the chancery of Peoria, nor in the Vatican of the antipopes. She is where the true Mass is offered, where the true Faith is preserved, where the true bishops (if any remain) govern. Let the dead bury their dead (Matt. 8:22). We await the Parousia of the true King, Christ Jesus, King of Kings and Lord of Lords (Apoc. 19:16), not the next media event of the antichurch.
Source:
Illinois Bishop Announces First-Ever Parish to Be Named After Blessed Fulton Sheen (ncregister.com)
Date: 26.09.2026