The EWTN News portal (via the National Catholic Register) reports that the “Archbishop” of Denver, James Golka, has commanded “Father” Chad Ripperger — a media-savvy exorcist and founder of the “Society of the Most Sorrowful Mother” (Doloran Fathers) — to observe a one-year “fast” from public speaking and podcast appearances. Ripperger, who has cultivated a massive following through secular platforms like Tucker Carlson and Shawn Ryan discussing demons, UFOs, alien abductions, Jeffrey Epstein, and firearms, complied readily. The “Archdiocese” frames this as an opportunity for Ripperger to focus on his “community,” while carefully avoiding the term “disciplinary.” This theatrical muzzling of a celebrity “exorcist” by a false shepherd lays bare the utter bankruptcy of the conciliar sect’s claim to jurisdiction and its reduction of the spiritual combat to sensationalist entertainment.
The Illusion of Jurisdiction: A False Shepherd Governing a False Flock
The entire spectacle rests upon the fundamental lie of the conciliar sect: that it possesses legitimate hierarchy and jurisdiction. “Archbishop” Golka is a creature of the usurper antipope Leo XIV (Robert Prevost), part of the unbroken line of false popes beginning with John XXIII. As the Defense of Sedevacantism documentation demonstrates, a manifest heretic ipso facto loses all jurisdiction and membership in the Church (Canon 188.4; St. Robert Bellarmine, De Romano Pontifice). The “Archdiocese of Denver” is not a particular Church of Christ but an administrative district of the paramasonic structure occupying the Vatican. Consequently, Golka’s “request” carries zero canonical weight; it is merely an internal management directive within a human institution that has defected from the Faith. Ripperger’s “ready agreement” signifies not obedience to Christ, but submission to the bureaucratic apparatus of the abomination of desolation. True obedience (obsequium) is due only to legitimate pastors teaching the integral Faith; there is no obedience owed to those who have publicly defected from the Catholic faith by adhering to the heresies of Vatican II (religious liberty, ecumenism, collegiality).
Simulated Exorcism: Theatrics Without Sacramental Reality
The office of Exorcist requires jurisdiction from a valid Ordinary (Canon 1172 §1, 1917 Code). In the conciliar sect, there are no valid Ordinaries — the new ordinal of 1968 is deficient in form and intention, rendering “consecrations” doubtful at best, and the “bishops” manifestly heretical. Therefore, the “exorcisms” performed by Ripperger and his ilk are simulations devoid of sacramental efficacy, or worse, diabolical mockeries. St. Pius X in Lamentabili sane exitu condemned the Modernist error that “The sacraments merely serve to remind man of the presence of the ever-benevolent Creator” (Prop. 41). The conciliar “exorcist” treats the rite not as a judicial act of the Church Militant binding Satan by divine authority, but as content for podcasts. When Ripperger tells Tucker Carlson that Christians denying the devil undermine Christ’s mission, he speaks a truncated truth stripped of its sacramental root: there is no mission of Christ outside the visible, hierarchical Church (Quas Primas: “His reign encompasses also all non-Christians… the entire human race is subject to the authority of Jesus Christ”). A “priest” operating outside that authority, under false bishops, acts sine missione.
Sensationalism Over Salvation: UFOs, Firearms, and the Cult of the Preternatural
The article reveals the naturalistic, phenomenological obsession driving this pseudo-apostolate. Ripperger’s four-hour discourse with Shawn Ryan on “UFOs and alien abductions” — stripping the “veneer” to find “just demons” — alongside speculation on Epstein’s island and the brandishing of a rifle on air, constitutes a grotesque caricature of Catholic demonology. This is not the spiritual combat of St. Paul (Eph 6:12), but a descent into crypto-ufology and conspiracy entertainment. The “Register” feature cited admits the danger: “sensational talk about demons can frighten people and take the focus away from Christ.” It takes the focus away from the Unbloody Sacrifice of Calvary, the Sacraments, the state of grace, and the Final Judgment. Pius XI taught in Quas Primas that Christ’s Kingdom is “primarily spiritual… men who wish to belong to it prepare themselves through repentance, but cannot enter except through faith and baptism.” Ripperger’s media persona offers spiritual titillation without the necessity of conversion, feeding the Modernist appetite for religious experience divorced from dogma and the lex orandi. The “exorcist” becomes a celebrity shaman for the neo-pagan age.
The Pseudo-Traditionalist Trap: Legitimizing the Usurpers
Ripperger and his “Society of the Most Sorrowful Mother” (founded 2012, well within the conciliar epoch) represent the quintessential pseudo-traditionalist phenomenon: those pretending to be traditional Catholics who continuously acknowledge the validity of the usurpers in the Vatican. Like the Lefebvrians before them, they operate within the conciliar sect’s “Ecclesia Dei” / “Summorum Pontificum” framework, accepting the new Code of Canon Law, the new catechism, and the legitimacy of the false hierarchy — differing only in aesthetic preference for the usus antiquior. This is the error of schism within schism. By submitting to Golka’s “fast,” Ripperger publicly ratifies the authority of the false hierarchy. He thereby confirms the analysis of the Syllabus of Errors (Prop. 55): “The Church ought to be separated from the State, and the State from the Church” — here applied perversely: the pseudo-traditionalist accepts the separation of the true Church from the visible structures, content to play-act Tradition inside the neo-church. There is no “traditionalist” life in communion with Modernism; Communicatio in sacris with heretics is forbidden (Canon 1258, 1917 Code).
Symptomatic Rot: The Inevitable Fruit of Vatican II
This episode is not an anomaly; it is the necessary fruit of the conciliar revolution. The “Archdiocese” statement’s bureaucratic language — “ministry,” “community,” “review the arrangement,” “generous spirit” — betrays the corporate, managerial mentality of the Church of the New Advent. The removal of Msgr. Rossetti in Washington for similar “UFO” comments shows a system policing its own performers, not guarding the Deposit of Faith. The Syllabus (Prop. 80) condemned the idea that “The Roman Pontiff can, and ought to, reconcile himself… with progress, liberalism and modern civilization.” The conciliar “exorcist” on Tucker Carlson is the reconciliation with modern civilization: a priest packaged for secular consumption, discussing aliens and guns, stripped of the sensus catholicus. The silence on the Holy Mass, the Rosary, the Immaculate Heart (untainted by Fatima’s Masonic distortions), the necessity of the state of grace — this silence is the gravest accusation. Lex orandi, lex credendi: their worship (podcasts, media stunts) reveals their faith (naturalism, sensationalism). The true remedy is not a “fast from speaking” but a return to the Catacombs — adherence to the immutable Tradition, the true Mass, and the true bishops holding the sede vacante position, awaiting the restoration of all things in Christ the King (Quas Primas: “Peace is only possible in the Kingdom of Christ”).
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Exorcist Father Ripperger agrees to 1-year ‘fast’ from public speaking (ewtnnews.com)
Date: 19.10.2026