The EWTN News portal reports on the 234th Círio de Nazaré in Belém, Brazil, where an estimated 2.3 million people participated in a five-hour procession honoring “Our Lady of Nazareth,” presided over by the “Archbishop” Julio Akamine Endi and “Auxiliary Bishop” Paulo Andreolli. The event featured an “Evangelical” fulfilling a vow to the Blessed Virgin, “Masses” bookending the procession, and rhetoric emphasizing “walking together” and “shared journey” toward salvation. This massive public spectacle manifests not Catholic piety but the triumph of the conciliar counter-church: a syncretistic, naturalistic theater where invalid sacraments, false ecumenism, and Modernist anthropology replace the Kingship of Christ and the necessity of the one true Church for salvation.
The Conciliar Hierarchy: Usurpers Presiding Over Invalid Rites
The article centers on “Archbishop” Julio Akamine Endi and “Auxiliary Bishop” Paulo Andreolli. These men, ordained and consecrated in the post-1968 rites of the novus ordo, possess no valid orders. Pope Pius XII, in Sacramentum Ordinis (1947), defined the matter and form for Episcopal consecration; the rite promulgated by “Paul VI” in 1968 altered both, rendering it doubtful at best, invalid at worst. As the Defense of Sedevacantism file demonstrates, a manifest heretic cannot hold office: “A non-Christian in no way can be Pope… he who is not a Christian is not a member of the Church, and a manifest heretic is not a Christian… therefore, a manifest heretic cannot be Pope” (St. Robert Bellarmine, De Romano Pontifice 2:30). The same principle applies to bishops. The “archbishop” and “bishop” here are functionaries of the conciliar sect, occupying the visible structures of the Church in Brazil while severed from the True Church by their adherence to the heresies of Vatican II: religious liberty, false ecumenism, collegiality, and the new ecclesiology.
The “Masses” celebrated at the cathedral and the basilica are the Novus Ordo Missae, a rite fabricated by the Freemason Annibale Bugnini and his commission, which “represents a striking departure from the Catholic theology of the Mass” (Cardinals Ottaviani and Bacci, Short Critical Study, 1969). It is not the Unbloody Sacrifice of Calvary but a Protestantized memorial meal. The millions attending participate in idolatry, worshipping a false liturgy that denies the propitiatory nature of the Sacrifice and the Real Presence as defined by the Council of Trent (Session XXII, Canons 1-3).
Linguistic Subversion: “Walking Together” as the Gospel of Synodality
The “archbishop’s” homily is a masterpiece of Modernist rhetoric. He speaks of a “shared journey toward Christ,” a “pace… because we don’t want to leave anyone behind,” and “evangelizing and missionary work” defined as “walking together.” This is the vocabulary of the Synod on Synodality, the culminating project of the apostate “pope” Francis (Bergoglio) and his successor, the antipope Leo XIV (Prevost). It replaces the Catholic dogma Extra Ecclesiam Nulla Salus with a vague, immanentist “journeying.”
Pius XI, in Quas Primas (1925), 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 “archbishop” inverts this: salvation becomes a collective human project (“we want to walk together”), not the supernatural gift of grace mediated exclusively by the True Church. The phrase “the leading role always belongs to God” is a pious platitude masking the Pelagian reality: the “journey” is horizontal, sociological, devoid of the Cross, the necessity of Baptism of water, the state of grace, and the Final Judgment.
False Ecumenism in Action: The Evangelical “Votary”
The article highlights Fabrício Corrêa, a self-declared “Evangelical” who made a vow to “Our Lady” for his mother’s healing and fulfilled it by processing on his knees. The “archbishop” and the EWTN reporter present this as edifying. It is, in fact, the condemnation of the entire enterprise.
Pope Pius IX, in the Syllabus of Errors (1864), condemned the proposition: “Protestantism is nothing more than another form of the same true Christian religion, in which form it is given to please God equally as in the Catholic Church” (Error 18). The Syllabus further condemns: “Every man is free to embrace and profess that religion which, guided by the light of reason, he shall consider true” (Error 15) and “Man may, in the observance of any religion whatever, find the way of eternal salvation” (Error 16).
Here, a heretic (the “Evangelical”) engages in Catholic Marian devotion qua heretic, is celebrated by the “hierarchy,” and held up as a model of faith. This is practical religious indifferentism, the “ecumenism of the blood” so dear to Bergoglio. It denies the necessity of fides catholica and formal entry into the Church for salvation. The “archbishop’s” silence on the man’s need for conversion, abjuration of heresy, and conditional Baptism is treason against the Divine Mandate (Mt 28:19-20).
Marian Devotion Corrupted: The “Berlinda” as Idol of Natural Religion
The procession of the image on the berlinda (ceremonial carriage), pulled by a rope grasped by devotees, walking on knees, carrying crosses, performing ballet, even blindfolded—these external acts, however materially pious, are vitiated by their context. St. Pius X, in Lamentabili Sane Exitu (1907), condemned the Modernist error: “The dogmas of faith should be understood according to their practical function, i.e., as binding in action, rather than as principles of belief” (Proposition 26). The Círio has become a civic festival of natural religion, where the supernatural end (glory of God, salvation of souls through the True Church) is eclipsed by the immanent ends: community cohesion, cultural identity, psychological comfort, tourism.
The fire trucks cooling the crowd, the viral social media video, the “volunteers distributing water”—the article reads like a travelogue. The Quas Primas encyclical warns that feasts are instituted “when the people were to be strengthened in common danger or confirmed against the snares of heretical errors.” This feast strengthens the conciliar sect, confirms the faithful in the error that the “Church” is this visible, heretical structure, and diverts attention from the apostasy within—the very diversion the False Fatima Apparitions file identifies: “The message focuses on external threats (communism), omitting the main danger: modernist apostasy within the Church.”
Symptomatic Level: The Neo-Church as “Abomination of Desolation”
This event is the modus operandi of the paramasonic structure occupying the Vatican: massive, media-friendly spectacles that simulate Catholic vitality while the supernatural organism dies. EWTN/ACI Digital, the “neo-conservative” propaganda arm, legitimizes the usurpers by reporting their acts as “Catholic news.” The “archbishop” Akamine is a “bishop” of the novus ordo; his “Mass” is invalid; his jurisdiction is null (Cum ex Apostolatus Officio, Canon 188.4). The 2.3 million souls are sheep without a true shepherd, fed pabulum instead of the Bread of Life, led in a procession that goes nowhere because it is not anchored in the Cathedra Petri of the true Popes.
The Syllabus condemns: “The Church ought to be separated from the State, and the State from the Church” (Error 55). In Brazil, the “Church” is a department of state, tolerated and promoted because it poses zero threat to the Masonic world order. It preaches a “Kingdom” that is “not of this world” only to abandon the Social Kingship of Christ (Quas Primas) in the public square. The “archbishop” says: “He is the Savior of all… it is by obeying God that we actively collaborate in the salvation of humanity.” This is humanistic synergism. The true Church teaches: Salus extra Ecclesiam non est. The conciliar sect teaches: “Walk together.”
Conclusion: Flee the Whore of Babylon
The Círio de Nazaré 2026 is not a triumph of faith but a diabolical masterpiece of deception. It uses the language of Mary, the imagery of tradition, and the mass of bodies to cloak the abomination of desolation standing in the holy place (Mt 24:15). The true faithful in Brazil—those few adhering to the integral Faith, the valid Mass, the true bishops (if any remain)—must flee these assemblies (Apoc 18:4). They are not “processions of faith” but parades of apostasy. Quas Primas declares: “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 offers no Kingdom, only a “shared journey” into the abyss. Non praevalebunt—but not through this spectacle.
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More than two million people participate in procession in Brazil (ewtnnews.com)
Date: 14.10.2026