The National Catholic Register portal reports on the publication of On the Demonic: Spiritual Warfare in the Modern World, a compilation of Archbishop Fulton Sheen’s unpublished notes assembled by Father Dave Tomaszycki. The article enumerates twelve “key takeaways” ranging from the devil’s “strategy of invisibility” and the “death of Christendom” to the efficacy of the “Holy Hour” and Marian devotion. The piece functions as a promotional vehicle for a posthumous product marketed under the imprimatur of the conciliar sect’s media apparatus (EWTN, St. Paul Center), presenting a figure beatified by the usurper Benedict XVI as a prophetic voice for the current crisis.
The Rehabilitation of a Conciliar Architect as “Prophet”
The article’s foundational premise is the rehabilitation of Fulton Sheen (1895–1979) as a “new Blessed” whose writings are “more urgent today than when Sheen first spoke them.” From the perspective of integral Catholic faith, Sheen is not a beacon of orthodoxy but a principal architect of the conciliar revolution. He was the media face of the Americanist adaptation of the Church to the world, a tireless promoter of the “aggiornamento” that culminated in the Second Vatican Council. His “Life is Worth Living” television program served as the soft-power preparation for the demolition of the integral Catholic confession, accustoming millions to a Catholicism stripped of its social reign and reduced to a benign moral therapy.
The article notes Sheen announced his intention to write a book on the devil in 1974 — five years after the promulgation of the Novus Ordo Missae, five years into the pontificate of Paul VI, the destroyer of the Mass and the faith. That Sheen died in 1979 without completing the work, yet remained in full communion with the usurpers, confirms his integration into the novus ordo establishment. His beatification in 2012 by Benedict XVI (Joseph Ratzinger), a peritus of the Council and architect of the “hermeneutic of continuity,” seals his status as a saint of the counter-church, not the Catholic Church. To present him as a “warning” against the demonic is to invite the wolf to guard the sheepfold.
The “End of Christendom” Heresy vs. The Social Kingship of Christ
The second takeaway cites Sheen’s 1974 radio address The End of Christendom, distinguishing “Christendom” (the “political, legal, moral, and social life of a nation inspired by the Gospel ethic”) from “Christianity.” This distinction is a hallmark of modernist defeatism. Pius XI, in Quas Primas (1925), teaches the exact opposite: “His reign extends not only to Catholic nations… but His reign encompasses also all non-Christians, so that most truly the entire human race is subject to the authority of Jesus Christ.” The encyclical institutes the Feast of Christ the King precisely to combat the “plague… of secularism, so-called laicism,” declaring that “when God and Jesus Christ were removed from laws and states… the foundations of that authority were destroyed.”
Sheen’s “end of Christendom” thesis capitulates to the very error Pius XI anathematized: the separation of the temporal order from the Kingship of Christ. It echoes the Syllabus of Errors (Pius IX, 1864), proposition 55: “The Church ought to be separated from the State, and the State from the Church.” By declaring Christendom dead, Sheen — and Tomaszycki following him — surrenders the social kingship of Christ to the Masonic city of man. The “actual, real solutions” Tomaszycki proposes are not the restoration of the Regnum Christi but a retreat into privatized piety, a ghetto Catholicism compatible with the secular order. This is not spiritual warfare; it is spiritual surrender.
The “Counter-Church” Inversion: The Conciliar Sect as the Ape of the Church
Takeaway six cites Sheen’s Communism and the Conscience of the West (1948) on the “Mystical Body of the Antichrist,” a “Counter-Church” which “will have all the notes and characteristics of the Church, but in reverse and emptied of its divine content.” The article presents this as a prophecy of external enemies (communism, secularism). From the sedevacantist perspective, this description fits the post-conciliar structures occupying the Vatican with terrifying precision.
The “Church” of the New Advent — born of the Second Vatican Council — possesses the externals: hierarchy, sacraments (simulated), liturgy (fabricated), canon law (revolutionized), but is emptied of divine content. It teaches religious liberty (Dignitatis Humanae), false ecumenism (Unitatis Redintegratio), and collegiality (Lumen Gentium) — doctrines condemned by the Syllabus and Pascendi Dominici Gregis. Its “popes” (John XXIII through Leo XIV) are manifest heretics who, by the principle ipso facto (St. Robert Bellarmine, De Romano Pontifice; Canon 188.4, 1917 Code; Cum ex Apostolatus Officio, Paul IV), have lost all jurisdiction. The “Counter-Church” is not a future threat; it has been the occupying power in Rome since 1958. Sheen, dying in communion with Paul VI, was a member of this Counter-Church, not its prophetic opponent.
Fatima, the “Holy Hour,” and the Masonic Diversion
While the article does not explicitly name Fatima in the twelve points, Sheen’s entire demonology is inextricably linked to the Fatima apparatus (the “consecration of Russia,” the “First Saturdays,” the “Third Secret”). The provided context file False Fatima Apparitions demonstrates conclusively that Fatima is a “Masonic ‘psychological operation’ against the Church” — “theologically contradictory to Catholic doctrine… a tool to divert attention from modernism.” The “Miracle of the Sun” is dismissed as “mass optical manipulation… and mass panic and autosuggestion.” The “conversion of Russia” without specification of the Catholic Faith opens the door to ecumenism with schismatic Orthodoxy.
Sheen’s promotion of the “Holy Hour” (takeaway twelve) as the “ultimate defense” is, in this light, a diversion. The article quotes Sheen: “It is the only way we can pray today because it takes that long to divest ourselves of the world.” This reduces the Most Holy Sacrifice — the Unbloody Sacrifice of Calvary, the center of Catholic life — to a backdrop for a devotional exercise. True spiritual warfare is the Holy Mass offered by valid priests in communion with the true hierarchy, not a Eucharistic adoration hour promoted by a conciliar “archbishop” within the structures of the abomination of desolation. St. Pius X in Lamentabili Sane Exitu (1907) condemned the Modernist error that “The Church is incapable of effectively defending evangelical ethics, because it steadfastly adheres to its views, which cannot be reconciled with modern progress” (prop. 63). Sheen’s “Holy Hour” strategy is precisely this: a privatized, psychological substitute for the Church’s public, liturgical, and juridical battle for the Kingship of Christ.
The Gerasene Demoniac and the “Schizophrenic Culture”: A Naturalistic Reading
Takeaway four presents Sheen’s exegesis of the Gerasene demoniac (Mark 5) as a sociological diagnostic: “love of nudity,” “violence,” “loss of identity / schizophrenic culture.” Father Tomaszycki exclaims: “Wow, they got the signs of the demonic in spades.” This is a naturalistic reading of Scripture, typical of the Modernist method condemned in Lamentabili (prop. 12-14: Scripture interpreted as purely human document; Evangelists reporting “what they thought would be of greater benefit… even if it were false”).
The Gospel account is a historical reality of possession, not a metaphor for cultural trends. To reduce the demonic to “cultural signs” is to empty the supernatural order of its ontological reality. It transforms spiritual warfare into culture war commentary. The true “schizophrenic culture” is the conciliar sect itself: claiming to be the Catholic Church while teaching heresy; claiming to worship God while offering a Protestantized “memorial meal”; canonizing “saints” (John Paul II, John XXIII, Paul VI, Kolbe, Newman, Faustina, Ulma family) who are either heretics, non-martyrs, or products of Masonic fabrication (as detailed in the Facts and Myths section of the framework). The “loss of identity” is the post-conciliar clergy who no longer know what a priest is (sacerdos vs. presbyter), and the laity who no longer know what the Mass is (Sacrifice vs. Supper).
Literature over Magisterium: The Modernist Method
Takeaway five reveals Sheen’s reliance on Dostoevsky, Benson, and Solovyov — “artists capture spiritual realities before philosophers do.” This subordination of the Authentic Magisterium to literary imagination is the essence of Modernism. Lamentabili Sane Exitu condemns the proposition: “The dogmas which the Church proposes as revealed are not truths of divine origin but are a certain interpretation of religious facts, which the human mind has worked out with great effort” (prop. 22). Sheen’s “prophetic lens” is the Modernist preference for vital immanence and religious experience over the depositum fidei. Vladimir Solovyov’s Short Tale of the Antichrist — a work of fiction by a Russian philosopher who died in schism — becomes a theological source superior to the defined dogmas of the Church. This is the “evolution of dogma” in action: the novelist replaces the Doctor of the Church.
The “Traps of Worldliness” and the False Equivalence of Sides
Takeaway seven warns that “Satan’s main objective for believers is simply to induce spiritual neglect and worldliness” and that “he’s got traps for all of us.” Father Tomaszycki warns against “self-righteousness.” This language of “traps,” “worldliness,” and “self-righteousness” is the therapeutic jargon of the conciliar sect, replacing the categorical language of mortal sin, heresy, apostasy, and anathema. The Syllabus condemns the error that “Moral laws do not stand in need of the divine sanction… it is not at all necessary that human laws should be made conformable to the laws of nature and receive their power of binding from God” (prop. 56).
The article’s framing — “diabolical traps are subtle and not reserved solely for one side of a cultural debate” — implies a false equivalence between the defenders of Tradition and the agents of the revolution. It silences the reality that the primary “trap” today is the conciliar hierarchy itself, leading souls into the “Counter-Church” via the Novus Ordo, false ecumenism, and religious liberty. The “worldliness” to be feared is not generic distraction but the specific spirit of the world incarnated in the Second Vatican Council and its fruits.
The “Mimicry” of Spiritual Weapons: Name, Blood, Mary — Divorced from the True Church
Takeaways ten and eleven list the “Three Primary Spiritual Counter-Weapons”: the Holy Name of Jesus, the Precious Blood, and the Virgin Mary. Sheen is quoted: “Mary, the Mother of God, whom Almighty God appointed to crush the head of the serpent.” These are truths of the Faith. However, in the mouth of a conciliar “blessed” promoted by the counter-church, they become magical talismans> divorced from the necessary means of salvation: the True Mass, the True Sacraments, the True Hierarchy, and the True Faith in its integrity.
The “Mary” of the conciliar sect is the “Mother of the Church” of Lumen Gentium, ecumenically diluted, stripped of her unique role as Co-Redemptrix and Mediatrix of All Graces (doctrines suppressed post-conciliar). The “Name of Jesus” is invoked by “priests” whose ordinations are doubtful (new rite, 1968) and whose “bishops” are heretics. The “Blood of Jesus” is “celebrated” in a rite that denies the Propitiatory Sacrifice. As the framework stipulates: “Sacraments and religious practices are true only in communion with the true Church… Other pseudo-Catholic and modernist practices… are hidden or overt religious syncretism, idolatry, and Satanism.” To prescribe these devotions within the conciliar structure is to prescribe poison in a chalice of gold.
The “Angry Letter” vs. The Kingship of Christ: Depoliticizing the Faith
Takeaway eight quotes Sheen: “Talk, talk, talk… When we lack an interior life, we engage in a lot of talk. Poor, talkative Christianity… When we lose the spiritual vision, we get into politics.” Father Tomaszycki adds: “Do you think an angry letter is going to change the devil’s mind? If the devil is hating on the Eucharist, our response is we need to love the Eucharist — get on our knees in adoration.”
This is the classic quietist trap. It opposes political action (understood as the Catholic duty to order society to Christ the King) to interior life, as if they were mutually exclusive. Pius XI in Quas Primas teaches: “Let rulers of states therefore not refuse public veneration and obedience to the reigning Christ… for men united in societies are no less subject to the authority of Christ than individuals.” The Syllabus condemns: “The civil government… has a right to an indirect negative power over religious affairs” (prop. 41) and “The best theory of civil society requires that popular schools… should be freed from all ecclesiastical authority” (prop. 47).
Sheen’s “spiritual vision” excludes the Social Kingship of Christ. His “Holy Hour” replaces the Crusade. The “angry letter” straw man dismisses the duty of the laity to resist unjust laws, to protest abortion legislation, to defend the true Mass — duties that are political in the highest, Aristotelian sense (polis = city of God). The devil is not “changed” by adoration alone; he is defeated by the Church Militant wielding the two swords (spiritual and temporal) in subordination to Christ the King. The conciliar “adoration” is often idolatry before a invalidly confected Host; the true Eucharist exists only where the true Mass is offered.
Conclusion: The Spectacle of the “New Blessed”
The article concludes with Father Tomaszycki’s summary: “He was always going right back to Jesus, always going to Jesus.” This sentimental reductionism is the hallmark of the counter-church’s “spirituality.” It offers a Jesus without the Cross, a Church without the Papacy, a Mass without the Sacrifice, a Mary without the Immaculate Conception (as dogma, not sentiment), and a Devil without the reality of Hell (which the conciliar sect effectively denies by universal salvationism).
The “12 Things” are a marketing brochure for a product of the paramasonic structure. They expose the theological bankruptcy of the conciliar “spiritual warfare” industry: it fights phantoms (secular culture) while embracing the reality (the conciliar sect) which is the Mystical Body of the Antichrist foretold by the very authors they cite. The only true spiritual warfare today is the profession of the integral Faith, the rejection of the usurpers, the defense of the True Mass, and the restoration of the Social Kingship of Christ — Instaurare omnia in Christo. Everything else is “talk, talk, talk” in the service of the “abomination of desolation standing in the holy place” (Matt. 24:15).
Source:
12 Things Blessed Fulton Sheen Taught About the Devil and Spiritual Warfare (ncregister.com)
Date: 27.09.2026