The National Catholic Register, organ of the conciliar sect’s propaganda apparatus, publishes a bureaucratic instruction manual detailing how the faithful of the neo-church are to venerate the newly minted “Blessed” Fulton Sheen, a product of the counterfeit sanctity assembly line operating under the usurper “Pope” Leo XIV (Robert Prevost). The article reduces the supernatural economy of the Communion of Saints to a procedural flowchart of “indults,” “dicastery confirmations,” “diocesan calendars,” and “relic distribution,” exposing the complete substitution of lex orandi, lex credendi (the law of prayer is the law of belief) with the positive law of a paramasonic structure occupying the Vatican.
The Usurpation of Judicial Authority: A Manifest Heretic Cannot Canonize
The entire edifice of this “veneration” rests on the premise that the man occupying the See of Peter — here identified as “Pope Leo” — possesses the authority to beatify. From the perspective of integral Catholic theology, this premise is not merely false; it is theologically impossible. 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 heresies of religious liberty, false ecumenism, and collegiality — condemned by the Syllabus of Pius IX and Pascendi Dominici Gregis of St. Pius X. Consequently, they have lost the office ipso facto, without need of declaratory sentence (Canon 188.4, 1917 Code; Cum ex Apostolatus Officio, Pope Paul IV).
The Register’s Msgr. Gray states:
“With the beatification of Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen, the faithful may now publicly venerate Blessed Fulton Sheen within the Diocese of Peoria, and Masses may be celebrated in his honor according to the liturgical provisions granted for his beatification…”
This “beatification” is a nullity. A non-pope cannot bind the Church in matters of faith and worship. The “Dicastery for Divine Worship” cited in the article is a department of the Roman Curia of the antichurch, devoid of jurisdiction. As Pope Celestine I taught regarding Nestorius, a heretical prelate “had already brought the divine judgment upon himself” and “could not remove anyone by sentence who himself had already shown that he must be removed.” The “faculties” granted by Leo XIV are as void as the “ordination” rites of the new rite which produced the “bishops” like Tylka and the “priests” like Gray.
Bureaucracy as Idolatry: The Legalistic Substitution for Holiness
The article reads like a civil service manual. It speaks of “directives,” “protocols,” “general practices,” “submission to the Dicastery,” “indults,” and “national calendars.” There is not a whisper of the sanctitas required by the Church’s immemorial tradition: heroic virtue verified by a legitimate Pontiff, miracles wrought by God alone as the digitus Dei (finger of God), and the sensus fidelium rooted in the immutable Faith. Instead, we read:
“The cultus of the saint or blessed must exist in a significant number of dioceses throughout the country before the saint or blessed may be proposed for inclusion on the national calendar … to demonstrate that the saint or blessed is of significance to the entire country.”
Here is the democratization of sanctity: popularity metrics replace miracles. “Significance to the entire country” is a sociological category, not a theological one. The article boasts of Sheen’s “television shows, radio programs, speaking engagements and voluminous writings,” noting his fame among “Protestants and Jews.” This is the cult of man condemned by Pius XI in Quas Primas: “When God and Jesus Christ… were removed from laws and states… the foundations of that authority were destroyed.” The neo-church canonizes celebrity, not sanctity. The “feast day” set for December 9 is a mere administrative notation on a calendar of a sect that has abolished the Kingship of Christ over society.
The Theatrics of “Public” vs. “Private” Veneration: A Novelty Unknown to Tradition
The article’s distinction between “public” and “private” veneration of a “Blessed” is a canonical fiction of the 1917 Code (Canon 1277 §2), weaponized by the conciliar sect to control the narrative. The Register explains:
“‘Public veneration’ in this use of the term doesn’t mean that it is done in public; rather, that it is an act done by the clergy, or delegated laity, in the name of the Church (Mass, Divine Office, images in churches etc.), even if done in private.”
This legal hair-splitting serves to legitimize a false cult. In the true Church, the veneration of the Saints is a public act of the Ecclesia docens and Ecclesia discens united, authorized by the Roman Pontiff exercising the potestas iurisdictionis infallibly in canonization, and with moral certainty in beatification. Here, the “bishop of each diocese must approve the request that is then submitted to the Dicastery… for confirmation.” Jurisdiction is fragmented, delegated, and contingent on the whim of a “Dicastery” headed by a Cardinal appointed by an antipope. The article admits that without an “indult,” public veneration is “illicit and even harms the possibility for canonization.” This is positive law gone mad: the salvation of souls and the honor of the Saints held hostage to bureaucratic permits from a false hierarchy.
The Relic Trade and the Parish of a “Blessed”: Simony and Novelty
The article reveals the commercial underbelly:
“We are diligently working to provide relics to dioceses, churches and ecclesiastical institutions. Those requests have to be in writing and can be made through CelebrateSheen.com.”
The distribution of “second- and third-class relics” (objects touched to the tomb) via a website is a scandalous profanation, reminiscent of the indulgences traffic that provoked Luther, but worse — for the “relics” derive from a “beatification” that is sacrilegious in its origin.
Furthermore, the erection of “Blessed Fulton Sheen Parish” — merging two existing parishes under the patronage of a “Blessed” — is a liturgical abuse without precedent in the Church’s history. Parishes are erected under the title of the Holy Trinity, Christ the King, the Blessed Virgin, or canonized Saints. To name a parish after a “Blessed” (let alone a pseudo-blessed) is to impose a non-definitive, potentially reversible cult on the parochial structure, confusing the faithful and trivializing the patronage of the Saints. Bishop Tylka’s “first in the world” is a badge of novelty, the hallmark of Modernism condemned by St. Pius X: “The pursuit of novelty… leads to deplorable consequences, abandoning all restraint” (Lamentabili sane exitu).
The Fatima Connection: A Masonic Thread
The author, Joseph Pronechen, is identified as the author of Fruits of Fatima — Century of Signs and Wonders. This is no coincidence. The “Fatima” apparatus — the “consecration of Russia,” the “Third Secret,” the “Miracle of the Sun” — has been exposed as a Masonic psychological operation designed to divert attention from the modernist apostasy within the Church (see False Fatima Apparitions dossier). The same neo-church that promotes the Fatima myth manufactures “blesseds” like Sheen, who was a darling of the Americanist establishment, a promoter of the “Judeo-Christian” synthesis, and a figure of the pre-conciliar liberalism that paved the way for Vatican II. The veneration of Sheen is thus part of the same disinformation strategy: Stage 3 — “Takeover of the narrative by modernists, concealment of the Third Secret, ecumenical reinterpretation.”
Silence on the Supernatural: The Gravest Accusation
Nowhere in the Register’s explainer is there mention of the state of grace, the Most Holy Sacrifice of the Mass as propitiatory victim, the necessity of the Traditional Latin Mass (the only valid rite of the Roman Church), the reality of Hell, the Last Judgment, or the Social Kingship of Christ. The “veneration” proposed is entirely horizontal: “seek his intercession,” “pray for his canonization,” “look to the witness of his life,” “deeper relationship with Jesus Christ” (a vague, subjective phrase devoid of sacramental theology). This is laicism masquerading as piety. As Pius XI warned: “The state must leave the same freedom to the members of Orders… 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 neo-church offers only a “relationship” managed by bureaucrats.
Conclusion: Return to the Catacombs of Truth
The “veneration of Blessed Fulton Sheen” is an act of communion with the abomination of desolation standing in the holy place. It recognizes the jurisdiction of an antipope, the validity of a neo-pentecostal “beatification” rite, the authority of a “Dicastery” of the counter-church, and the legitimacy of a “bishop” (Tylka) and “priest” (Gray) formed in the crucible of Vatican II. True Catholics, adhering to the quod semper, quod ubique, quod ab omnibus (what has been believed always, everywhere, and by all), must reject this fabrication. They must cleave to the true Mass, the true Sacraments, the true Bishops (validly ordained in the traditional rite before 1968), and the true Saints canonized by true Popes before 1958. Non praevalebunt (they shall not prevail) — the gates of Hell shall not prevail against the Church of Christ, which subsists not in the Vatican structures, but in the remnant faithful who keep the depositum fidei entire and inviolate.
Source:
How Blesseds, Including Fulton Sheen, Can Be Venerated (ncregister.com)
Date: 14.10.2026