The EWTN News portal reports that on September 25, 2026, one day after the invalid “beatification” of Archbishop Fulton Sheen by the usurping antipope, the conciliar sect inaugurated the “Sheen Awards” in Peoria, Illinois. The ceremony, attended by the sect’s local “bishops” Louis Tylka, John Barres, and Robert Barron, alongside secular entertainers like Jonathan Roumie — the Protestantized actor portraying Christ in *The Chosen* — bestowed a posthumous “Lifetime Achievement Award” upon Mother Angelica, foundress of the EWTN media conglomerate. The event epitomizes the conciliar sect’s reduction of the supernatural mission of the Church to a naturalistic media enterprise, celebrating “innovation,” “digital impact,” and “streaming” as substitutes for the salvation of souls through the unadulterated Catholic Faith.
The Invalid “Beatification” and the Cult of False Saints
The entire spectacle orbits the pretended “beatification” of Fulton Sheen, a man who died in 1979 fully embedded in the conciliar revolution, having implemented the Novus Ordo Missae and the liturgical destruction mandated by the antipope Paul VI. The “beatification” was decreed by the current usurper, “Pope” Leo XIV (Robert Prevost), who possesses no authority whatsoever to bind the faithful. As Pope Pius XII taught in *Mystici Corporis Christi*, the Church’s juridical acts require a true Roman Pontiff; a manifest heretic ipso facto loses all jurisdiction (Canon 188 §4, 1917 Code). The “beatification” is therefore a nullity, a theatrical gesture by a paramasonic structure to canonize its own architects of apostasy.
Mother Angelica, née Rita Rizzo, built EWTN as a flagship of the “Charismatic Renewal” — a movement condemned by the Holy Office under Pius XII for its Protestantized emotionalism and false mysticism. Her “legacy” is the global propagation of the Novus Ordo religion, the “Mass” of Paul VI, which Cardinal Ottaviani and Cardinal Bacci declared in their 1969 *Critical Study* to represent “a striking departure from the Catholic theology of the Mass.” To honor her with a “Lifetime Achievement Award” in Sheen’s name is to crown the institutionalization of the Great Apostasy in electronic media.
False “Bishops” and the Extinction of Hierarchy
The presence of “Bishop” Louis Tylka, “Bishop” John Barres, and “Bishop” Robert Barron exposes the total collapse of the sacramental priesthood in the conciliar sect. All three received “episcopal consecration” via the Paul VI rite of 1968, which Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre himself — despite his grievous errors — acknowledged as dubious in validity due to its defective form and intention. The 1917 Code (*Canon 2370*) and the immutable teaching of Pius XII in *Sacramentum Ordinis* (1947) require the traditional Pontificale Romanum for valid orders. The “bishops” of the neo-church are, at best, laymen in purple; at worst, they are ministers of a false religion. Their participation confers no ecclesiastical legitimacy — it merely manifests the abomination of desolation standing in the holy place (Matt. 24:15).
The Chosen: Protestantized Celluloid Christ
Jonathan Roumie, honored with the “Television and Streaming Impact Award,” stars in *The Chosen*, a series produced by Evangelical Protestants (VidAngel) that reimagines Christ as a relatable, joking companion, stripping Him of His divine majesty and the horror of the Cross. The series omits the dogmatic reality of the Hypostatic Union, the necessity of the Church for salvation (*Extra Ecclesiam nulla salus*), and the propitiatory nature of the Sacrifice. Roumie, a “Catholic” only in the conciliar sense, accepts an award from a “Catholic” network for a Protestant product — the perfect symbol of the ecumenical syncretism condemned by Pius XI in *Mortalium Animos* (1928): “The union of Christians can only be promoted by promoting the return to the one true Church of Christ.”
EWTN: The Propaganda Arm of the Neo-Church
EWTN, described in the article as the “world’s largest Catholic media organization,” is in truth the most effective instrument for the dissemination of the conciliar errors. It broadcasts the invalid Novus Ordo “Mass” daily, promotes the false “Divine Mercy” devotion (condemned by the Holy Office in 1959), and provides a platform for every modernist “bishop” and “theologian” who denies the Social Kingship of Christ. Mother Angelica’s “pioneering use of television” served not Christ the King (Pius XI, *Quas Primas*, 1925), but the reign of man — the very laicism Pius XI identified as “the plague that poisons human society.” The network’s “proud” airing of Sheen’s *Life Is Worth Living* — a program that, in its later years, accommodated the new theology — only underscores the continuity of error.
Worldly Awards for a Worldly Religion
The categories themselves — “Innovation Impact Award” (to Hallow, a meditation app), “Digital Creator Impact Award,” “Mission and Humanitarian Impact Award” (to the “Pontifical Mission Societies,” now mere NGOs) — reveal the total naturalization of the supernatural. The language is corporate, not Catholic: “impact,” “innovation,” “creator,” “humanitarian.” There is no mention of sanctifying grace, the state of grace, the Four Last Things, the Social Kingship of Christ, or the necessity of the Traditional Latin Mass. As Pius XI warned in *Quas Primas*: “When God and Jesus Christ were removed from laws and states… the foundations of that authority were destroyed.” The Sheen Awards celebrate the ruins.
The “Canonization” Trap
Michael Warsaw’s hope that Mother Angelica “might be numbered among the saints” is a diabolical deception. The conciliar “canonization” process, invented by the antipope John Paul II (who abolished the Promoter of the Faith and reduced miracles to medical anomalies), produces false saints for a false church. Maximilian Kolbe (died for a fellow prisoner, not in odium fidei), John Paul II (arch-heretic of *Assisi*, *Dignitatis Humanae*, *Ecclesia Dei*), and now Mother Angelica — these are idols of the neo-church, erected to legitimize the Vatican II revolution. True canonization requires a true Pope; the last was Pius XII.
Symptomatic Conclusion: The Religion of Man
The Sheen Awards are not an anomaly; they are the logical fruit of the conciliar apostasy. The sect occupying the Vatican has replaced the Unbloody Sacrifice of Calvary with a “table of assembly,” the priesthood with “presiders,” the Magisterium with “dialogue,” and evangelization with “media impact.” Mother Angelica and Fulton Sheen, whatever their personal intentions, became the media architects of the Great Whore (Apoc. 17), clothing the paramasonic structure in a veneer of piety. The faithful who seek Christ must flee these structures (Matt. 24:16), adhere to bishops with valid orders and the Traditional Latin Mass, and reject every “award,” “beatification,” and “canonization” of the antichurch. Non praevalebunt — the gates of hell shall not prevail against the true Church, which subsists in the catacombs of Tradition, not in the studios of EWTN.
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Inaugural edition of Sheen Awards honors Mother Angelica (ewtnnews.com)
Date: 04.10.2026