The National Catholic Register portal reports on the beatification ceremony of Fulton Sheen, presided over by the antipope Leo XIV (Robert Prevost) on September 24, 2026, in St. Louis, narrated through seven vignettes by the modernist commentator Father Raymond J. de Souza. The article exults in the pageantry of the event—the translation of relics, the unveiling of a portrait with a chalk prop, the convergence of conciliar bishops—presenting it as a triumph of divine Providence. **This spectacle is not a glorification of God, but a meticulously staged legitimization of the conciliar sect’s usurped authority, a sacrilegious parody of Catholic sanctity performed by men who have abandoned the Faith.**
The Nullity of the Act: No Authority, No Sanctity, No Beatification
The entire edifice of this celebration rests on a single, fatal defect: **the man who signed the decree, “Pope” Leo XIV, is a manifest heretic and therefore an antipope, devoid of all jurisdiction.** As St. Robert Bellarmine teaches, “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” (De Romano Pontifice). The Defense of Sedevacantism file confirms that Bellarmine’s fifth opinion—accepted by the universal consensus of theologians—holds that a Pope who falls into manifest heresy loses his office ipso facto, without need of any declaratory sentence. Robert Prevost, as a cardinal and now “pope” of the Vatican II sect, publicly professes the heresies of religious liberty, ecumenism, and collegiality condemned by the Syllabus of Errors and Quanta Cura. He is a haereticus manifestus. His signature on a beatification decree is null, void, and of no effect—worse than waste paper, for it is an instrument of deception.
Canon 188.4 of the 1917 Code, still binding in principle, declares that an office becomes vacant ipso facto and without declaration if a cleric “publicly defects from the Catholic faith”. Pope Paul IV’s Bull Cum ex Apostolatus Officio dogmatically establishes that the promotion of a heretic to the papacy is “null, void, and of no effect” even if unanimous. The “beatification” of September 24, 2026, is therefore a juridical nullity, a simulacrum enacted by a paramasonic structure occupying the Vatican. The article’s breathless description of “Providence” working through “holy coincidences”—Bishop Barres baptized by Sheen, the feast day alignment with St. Juan Diego—is the rhetoric of synchronicity, not Catholic theology. It is the language of the New Age, baptized for consumption by the neo-church.
The Theatrics of the Mandible: Relic Worship Divorced from the Cultus of Saints
The article highlights the “striking” relic: Sheen’s entire lower jaw, complete with teeth, chosen to represent “Sheen the preacher.” **This is not the veneration of a saint’s relic; it is the fetishization of a media personality.** The true cult of relics (cultus sanctorum) presupposes the heroic virtue and glorification of a soul united to Christ in the true Church. Here, the relic is paraded in a stadium—”The Dome at America’s Center”—before a congregation that recognizes a false hierarchy and assists at an invalid Novus Ordo service. The mandible becomes a talisman of the conciliar sect’s founding myth: the “Golden Age” of American Catholicism before the deluge, a nostalgic idol for those who refuse to see that Sheen himself, for all his orthodoxy in words, never broke with the apostasy unfolding around him, dying in 1979 fully embedded in the post-conciliar structure.
The comparison to St. Anthony’s tongue is blasphemous. St. Anthony’s tongue was found incorrupt, a miracle confirming his sanctity and the truth of his preaching. Sheen’s mandible is a skeletal fragment retrieved from a coffin during a canonical process that is itself invalid. To display it with theatrical flair—”more obviously part of a human skeleton,” “suitably dramatic for a beatus as theatrical as Sheen”—is necromancy disguised as piety. It violates the decree of the Council of Trent (Sess. XXV), which commands that relics be venerated with due modesty and only after authentic verification by legitimate authority. There is no legitimate authority here.
The “Storyteller of Jesus”: Reduction of the Priesthood to Performance
Cardinal Tagle’s epithet—”Storyteller of Jesus”—and the portrait with a piece of chalk in the right hand expose the anthropocentric core of this false cult. **The priest is alter Christus, a victim offering the Unbloody Sacrifice of Calvary; he is not a “storyteller” with a chalk prop.** The chalk references the television show Life Is Worth Living, a naturalistic enterprise that brought a watered-down Catholicism into living rooms, devoid of the cross, the altar, and the necessity of the Church for salvation. The article admits Sheen “never got chalk dust on his fine clerical cassock”—a telling detail. It signifies a priesthood sanitized, aestheticized, and detached from the sacrum.
Pius XI in Quas Primas teaches that Christ’s Kingdom is “primarily spiritual” and that “men who wish to belong to it prepare themselves through repentance, but cannot enter except through faith and baptism.” Sheen’s media apostolate, celebrated here as his crowning glory, operated on the contrary principle: the Gospel as content for mass consumption, the Faith as a “story” to be improved in the telling. This is the hermeneutic of continuity applied to Modernism: the substance is evacuated, the form is preserved for effect. The “God Love You” salutation replaces Pax Christi; sentiment replaces dogma.
Marian Sentimentalism as a Substitute for the Social Kingship of Christ
The article obsesses over Marian calendar coincidences: the feast day of December 9 (St. Juan Diego), the decree signed on July 16 (Our Lady of Mount Carmel), the “trio of Marian feasts” in December. **This is the piety of the False Fatima Apparitions file’s “ecumenism project”—an imprecise, emotional Mariology that displaces the Kingship of Christ.** The file on False Fatima warns that the “imprecise formulation ‘conversion of Russia’ (without specifying Catholicism) opens the way to religious relativism.” Here, the imprecise formulation “Marian devotion” serves the same end: it unites the faithful of the neo-church in a vague spirituality that demands nothing of the social order, nothing of the State, nothing of the public confession of Christ the King.
Peace is only possible in the kingdom of Christ (Pius XI, encyclical Quas Primas).
The article mentions the “Pontifical Mission Societies” and the “bishops of Peoria, Rochester and New York… together at the altar.” This is the communio of the conciliar sect: a horizontal fellowship of functionaries managing a religious NGO. The true Church, as Pius XI teaches, “demands for itself by a right belonging to it, which it cannot renounce, full freedom and independence from secular authority.” The beatification ceremony, held in a civic stadium, presided over by a delegate of an antipope who dialogues with the world’s powers, is the very image of the Church subjected to Caesar—Error 55 of the Syllabus: “The Church ought to be separated from the State, and the State from the Church.” The neo-church has not separated; it has surrendered.
The Legal Battle for the Corpse: Simony and Civil Courts
The article casually recounts the “legal battle in the civil courts” between the Archdiocese of New York and the Diocese of Peoria for possession of Sheen’s body. **The bodies of the faithful belong to the Church, not to the State. To drag a bishop’s remains before a secular tribunal is a scandal crying to heaven.** It manifests the total subjection of the conciliar hierarchy to the civil power—Error 42 of the Syllabus: “In the case of conflicting laws enacted by the two powers, the civil law prevails.” The fact that Peoria “obtained” the body via civil litigation, and that this is reported as a triumph of Providence, shows that the neo-church operates entirely within the secular legal order. It has no forum ecclesiasticum, no canonical justice, no independence. It is a department of the Masonic State.
The Silence on Dogma: The Gravest Accusation
Nowhere in the seven vignettes is there a mention of:
– The Holy Sacrifice of the Mass (the Novus Ordo “Mass of thanksgiving” is not the Mass);
– The state of grace, mortal sin, or the necessity of the Sacraments;
– The Final Judgment, Hell, or the salvation of souls;
– The Social Kingship of Christ over nations;
– The condemnation of Modernism, Liberalism, or Communism.
**This silence is the signature of the Antichurch.** As the False Fatima Apparitions file notes, the Fatima message (which the neo-church promotes) “focuses on external threats (communism), omitting the main danger: modernist apostasy within the Church.” The Sheen beatification follows the same pattern: it celebrates a “communicator” who spoke to millions, while the neo-church he served has lost the Faith. The article is a hagiography of a functionary of the Great Apostasy.
Conclusion: A Beatification for the Kingdom of Man
The beatification of Fulton Sheen by Leo XIV is a non-event in the order of grace. It is a major event in the order of the mysterium iniquitatis: the consolidation of the counter-church’s liturgical calendar, the canonization of its own history, the creation of saints who mirror its own image—media-savvy, ecumenical, silent on the rights of Christ the King. The mandible, the chalk, the stadium, the civil lawsuit, the antipope’s decree—these are the signs of a religion that has “removed Jesus Christ and His most holy law from their customs, from private, family, and public life” (Pius XI, Quas Primas).
True Catholics, adhering to the immutable Tradition and the Sede Vacante, recognize this ceremony for what it is: **idolatry in the precincts of the abomination of desolation.** We do not venerate the mandible of a man who died in the communion of the conciliar sect. We await the restoration of the true Hierarchy, the true Mass, and the true Canonization of saints—those who “deny themselves and carry their cross” (Quas Primas), not those who tell stories on television.
Source:
7 Memorable Moments From Fulton Sheen’s Beatification (ncregister.com)
Date: 01.10.2026