The EWTN News portal reports the death of a Novus Ordo presbyter, Father Patricio Alfredo Sánchez Molinari, crushed by a massive crucifix collapsing upon him during the celebration of the invalid Novus Ordo service in Guayaquil, Ecuador. Another conciliar “priest,” Father Juan Carlos Vásconez, rector of a church dedicated to the founder of Opus Dei, Josemaría Escrivá, immediately rushes to the microphones to dismiss the event as divine punishment, preferring a naturalistic reading of the Tower of Siloam (Luke 13:4-5) and pivoting swiftly to bureaucratic demands for structural safety inspections. This incident is not a tragic accident but a terrifying manifestation of Ira Dei (God’s Wrath) against the abomination of the New Mass, and the conciliar clergy’s reaction exposes their total apostasy from the supernatural order.
The Invalid Ministry and the Simulated Sacrifice
The article identifies the victim as a “Redemptorist priest” celebrating “Mass.” From the perspective of integral Catholic theology, there is no priesthood and no Mass in the conciliar sect. The sacramental form of Holy Orders was substantially corrupted by Paul VI’s 1968 Pontificale Romanum, rendering the ordinations doubtful at best, null at worst. The “Mass” celebrated by Sánchez Molinari was the Novus Ordo Missae, a Protestantized memorial service fabricated by the Freemason Annibale Bugnini, which suppresses the Propitiatory Sacrifice, the Real Presence as defined by Trent, and the priesthood ordered to the altar. When the cross fell, it did not interrupt the Unbloody Sacrifice of Calvary; it crushed a man simulating the sacred mysteries in a structure that has usurped the title of “Catholic church.” The very architecture — a cross suspended precariously over the “presider” — serves as a physical metaphor for the crushing weight of lex orandi, lex credendi: the law of prayer has been perverted, and the law of belief has collapsed with it.
Opus Dei and the Escrivá Connection: A Badge of the Neo-Church
The commentator, Vásconez, is explicitly identified as rector of “St. Josemaría Escrivá Church.” This detail is not incidental; it is diagnostic. Josemaría Escrivá de Balaguer, “canonized” by the antipope John Paul II in record time, is the architect of a spirituality perfectly suited to the Masonic infiltration of the Church: sanctification of the world in the world, effectively dissolving the distinction between the City of God and the City of Man. Opus Dei has functioned as a quinta columna (fifth column) within the structures, promoting the heresy of religious liberty, the dignity of the secular state, and the “theology of the laity” that undermines the hierarchical priesthood. That a “rector” of an Escrivá-dedicated edifice is the one denying divine punishment confirms the continuity of the modernist project: the Cross is reduced to a falling object, a hazard for OSHA compliance, not the Signum Salvatoris (Sign of the Savior) demanding conversion.
Perverting the Gospel: The Tower of Siloam as Excuse for Impenitence
Vásconez cites Luke 13:4-5: “Or those eighteen upon whom the tower in Siloam fell and killed them, do you think that they were worse offenders than all the others who dwelt in Jerusalem? I tell you, No; but unless you repent you will all likewise perish.” The conciliar “priest” quotes the first half — “they were not worse sinners” — to silence the faithful’s instinctive sense of the numinous, the mysterium tremendum. He weaponizes Christ’s words against the very call to repentance they contain. Christ did not say “accidents happen, check your masonry.” He said: Nisi poenitentiam egeritis, omnes similiter peribitis (Unless you repent, you will all likewise perish). The falling tower was a signum, a warning. The falling cross in Guayaquil is a signum magnum (great sign). By reducing the event to a “call to repentance” stripped of the specific judgment on the false worship occurring beneath that cross, Vásconez commits the sin of the prophets denounced by Jeremiah: Sanaverunt contritionem filiae populi mei leviter, dicentes: Pax, pax; et non est pax (They have healed the wound of my people lightly, saying: Peace, peace; and there is no peace — Jer 6:14).
The Silence on the Nature of the “Mass”: Complicity in Sacrilege
The article states: “The Mass is the sacrifice of Christ on Calvary, and it is the greatest thing we Christians have here on earth.” This is the most blasphemous sentence in the report. The Novus Ordo is not the Sacrifice of Calvary. It is a community meal, a “memorial of the Lord’s Supper,” where the “presider” faces the people, the Canon is optional, the words of Consecration are embedded in a narrative, and the theology of transubstantiatio is replaced by “transignification” or “transfinalization.” Pope Pius XII in Mediator Dei (1947) teaches that the Sacrifice is the “clean oblation” foretold by Malachi, offered by a valid priest. The Council of Trent anathematizes anyone who says the Mass is only a sacrifice of praise or a bare commemoration (Session XXII, Can. 1, 3). By calling the Novus Ordo “the Sacrifice of Christ on Calvary,” Vásconez bears false witness and leads souls into idolatry, worshipping bread and wine that remain bread and wine because the form and intention of the Church are absent. The cross fell upon this simulation. Deus non irridetur (God is not mocked — Gal 6:7).
Naturalism and Bureaucracy: “Safety Inspections” as Pastoral Theology
The article concludes with Vásconez calling for “inspection of objects installed within churches,” checking “ceiling lights,” and treating the event as a “safety matter.” This is the perfect summary of the conciliar religion: pure naturalism. No mention of Missa pro defunctis, no call for the Commendatio Animae, no warning about the state of grace, the reality of Hell, or the necessity of the True Mass for the repose of the soul. The “priest” functions as a facilities manager. Curatus animarum (cure of souls) has been replaced by curator aedificiorum (caretaker of buildings). This is the fruit of Vatican II’s Gaudium et Spes: the Church turned inward toward the world, obsessed with temporal security, indifferent to eternal salvation. St. Pius X condemned this in Pascendi Dominici Gregis: the Modernist “eliminates the supernatural… and reduces everything to the natural order.”
The “Vocation” Talk: Recruiting for the Abomination
Vásconez hopes the death “will serve as a seed, inspiring [more men] to also want to dedicate themselves.” Dedicate themselves to what? To the Novus Ordo priesthood? To a “ministry” that invalidly confects the Eucharist, invalidly absolves sins, and leads the faithful into the “abomination of desolation standing in the holy place” (Mt 24:15)? This is not a vocation to the priesthood of Christ; it is recruitment for the counter-church. The blood of Sánchez Molinari — if he died in the external forum of the sect, without the benefit of true Extreme Unction administered by a valid priest — cries out not for more vocations to the neo-church, but for the restoration of the True Mass and the True Priesthood. Sanguis martyrum, semen christianorum (The blood of martyrs is the seed of Christians) — but Sánchez was not a martyr for the Faith; he was a victim of the structural collapse of the counterfeit temple.
EWTN: The Propaganda Arm of the Usurpers
The source, EWTN News, is the media flagship of the conciliar establishment, founded by the “nun” Mother Angelica, a darling of the John Paul II regime. It functions to normalize the novelties, sanitize the heresies, and present a “conservative” face for the revolution. The article’s tone — “shock,” “grief,” “safety reminders” — is calibrated to manage the emotions of the laity, preventing them from asking the terrible question: Why did God allow the Cross to crush the celebrant of the false Mass? The answer is written in the rubble: Quia detestabile est apud Deum, qui facit sacrilegium (Because he who commits sacrilege is detestable to God — cf. Ecclus 9:10).
Conclusion: The Cross Stands, The Counterfeit Falls
The cross that fell was a physical object, likely poorly maintained by a sect that spends its resources on “synodality” and “dialogue” rather than the cultus Dei. But the True Cross — the Cross of Christ the King, whose Social Reign Pius XI proclaimed in Quas Primas (1925) — remains erect. It is the Cross before which every knee must bend, in heaven, on earth, and under the earth (Phil 2:10). The conciliar “priests” flee from it, explaining it away with sociology and safety codes. The true faithful, the remanentes (remnant), see in this event a divine irony: the instrument of salvation becoming the instrument of judgment upon the simulacrum. Non est aliud nomen sub caelo datum hominibus, in quo oporteat nos salvari (There is no other name under heaven given to men whereby we must be saved — Acts 4:12). That name is not “safety inspection.” It is Jesus Christ, crucified, offered daily on the altars of the True Church by valid priests, outside of which there is no salvation.
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Falling cross that killed priest a punishment from God? A priest reflects (ewtnnews.com)
Date: 20.10.2026