The EWTN News portal reports that Venezuelan opposition leader María Corina Machado, recipient of the 2025 Nobel Peace Prize, returned from exile on October 25, 2026, making her first public appearance at the Archdiocesan Shrine of the Divine Shepherdess in Barquisimeto, where she attended a “Mass” amid crowds chanting “Freedom!” The article frames this as a triumph of “reconciliation talks” brokered by the Trump administration and Secretary of State Marco Rubio, noting that interim president Delcy Rodríguez—an avowed follower of the Hindu guru Sai Baba—wrote to antipope Leo XIV requesting “canonizations.” This spectacle of naturalistic politics masquerading as Catholic piety exposes the complete subversion of the Church’s mission to the Masonic ideals of liberty, equality, and fraternity.
The Theatrics of False Worship at a Questionable Shrine
The article states Machado “attended Sunday Mass while crowds gathered inside and outside the shrine calling out, ‘Freedom!'” From the perspective of integral Catholic faith, this scene is a liturgical abomination. The “Mass” referenced is undoubtedly the Novus Ordo Missae—the fabricated “Mass of Paul VI”—which, by its very nature as a Protestantized memorial meal stripped of the propitiatory sacrifice, constitutes not worship but idolatry. As Pope Pius XII taught in Mediator Dei, the sacrifice of the altar is “the supreme act of worship” (summus cultus); the Novus Ordo, having abolished the Canon’s explicit theology of victimhood and propitiation, cannot be the Holy Sacrifice. Machado’s attendance at this pseudo-liturgy, far from being a pious act, is a public profession of communion with the conciliar sect.
The shrine itself—the “Archdiocesan Shrine of the Divine Shepherdess”—bears the hallmarks of post-conciliar devotional chaos. The article notes this devotion “every Jan. 14 draws millions of people to the streets for one of the largest religious processions in the region and the world.” This quantitative triumphalism—measuring grace by crowd size—is the hallmark of the Church of the New Advent, which has replaced lex orandi, lex credendi with lex numerandi, lex credendi. The “Divine Shepherdess” devotion, while possibly having traditional roots, has been thoroughly assimilated into the conciliar apparatus of “popular religiosity” that serves as opium for the masses while the true Faith is dismantled. No mention is made of the True Mass, the Traditional Latin Mass of St. Pius V, the only legitimate form of the Roman Rite. The silence is deafening and damning.
Political Messianism: The Nobel Peace Prize as Anti-Gospel
The article trumpets Machado as “recipient of the 2025 Nobel Peace Prize.” This detail is not incidental; it is the key to the entire narrative. The Nobel Peace Prize is a Masonic accolade, awarded consistently to agents of the New World Order—from Henry Kissinger to Barack Obama to the European Union. It rewards the advancement of pax romana without Christ, the “peace of the world” which Our Lord explicitly distinguished from His peace: “Peace I leave with you, my peace I give unto you: not as the world giveth, do I give unto you” (John 14:27). By leading with this credential, EWTN signals that the standard of value is secular recognition, not sanctity.
Machado is described as “very popular among voters” and “the power behind González.” This is pure political messianism. The article breathes not a word of the Social Kingship of Christ, the doctrine infallibly taught by Pius XI in Quas Primas: “When once men recognize, both in private and in public life, that Christ is King, society will at last receive the great blessings of real liberty, well-ordered discipline, peace and harmony.” Instead, we are fed the Masonic mantra of “free and fair election” and “enduring democracy.” As Pius XI condemned: “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 article celebrates the very destruction Pius XI anathematized.
The Sai Baba Connection: Syncretism at the Heart of Power
A staggering admission appears mid-article: “This week, interim president Delcy Rodríguez, a devoted and avowed follower of Sai Baba, an Indian spiritual guru now deceased, revealed that she had sent a letter to Pope Leo XIV…” Here the mask slips entirely. The acting president of Venezuela is a public adherent of a Hindu guru—Sathya Sai Baba, a false messiah who claimed to be the incarnation of Shiva and performed sleight-of-hand tricks as “miracles.” This is not mere “interreligious dialogue”; this is apostasy at the helm of state. And to whom does she write? To “Pope Leo XIV”—Robert Prevost, the latest usurper of the Chair of Peter, a manifest heretic who participates in pagan rituals, worships with false religions, and teaches religious liberty as a right.
The request in the letter compounds the sacrilege: Rodríguez asks for the “swift canonization of Blessed María de San José, as well as the beatification of Bishop Salvador Montes de Oca.” These “canonizations” and “beatifications” by antipopes are null and void ab initio. As the Syllabus of Errors (Pius IX) condemns: “Roman pontiffs and ecumenical councils have wandered outside the limits of their powers, have usurped the rights of princes, and have even erred in defining matters of faith and morals” (Error 23). The conciliar “canonization” factory—producing “saints” like John Paul II, John XXIII, Paul VI, Oscar Romero, and now potentially a Venezuelan bishop—is a tool of the neo-church to legitimize its false heroes and rewrite history. The faithful cannot venerate these counterfeit saints without committing idolatry.
EWTN: The Propaganda Arm of the Conciliar Sect
The source of this article—EWTN News—must be exposed for what it is: the media mouthpiece of the paramasonic structure occupying the Vatican. Founded by the charismatic “Mother Angelica” (herself a product of the post-conciliar charismatic movement, rife with false mysticism), EWTN has consistently promoted the “hermeneutic of continuity,” the legitimacy of the Novus Ordo, and the false obedience due to antipopes. The article’s bilingual byline—”Andrés Henríquez… member of the Regnum Christi Federation”—reveals the network: Regnum Christi, the lay arm of the Legionaries of Christ, the order founded by the degenerate predator Marcial Maciel, protected for decades by the conciliar hierarchy. This is the “Church” EWTN serves.
The linguistic tells are damning. The article uses the language of secular journalism: “reconciliation talks,” “political actors,” “freedoms of all sectors,” “peacefully achieve… enduring democracy.” Absent are the categories of Catholic theology: peccatum, gratia, iustitia, regnum Christi, iudicium finale. The word “sin” does not appear. “Grace” does not appear. “Hell” does not appear. “Christ the King” does not appear. This is laicism in its purest form—the very plague Pius XI instituted the Feast of Christ the King to combat: “This plague is the secularism of our times, so-called laicism, its errors and wicked endeavors… the Church’s authority to teach men, to issue laws, to govern nations… was denied.” EWTN does not deny it; it collaborates in it.
The Trump-Rubio Axis: Caesar’s False Prophets
The article cites President Trump’s vacuous remark: “I don’t know anything about it… But I think she’s a very nice woman. She gave me her Nobel Prize, so how can I say anything else?” This is the level of statesmanship the neo-church celebrates. Trump, a man who boasts of appointing “pro-life” judges while funding Planned Parenthood, who recognizes Jerusalem as Israel’s capital while ignoring the rights of the Church in the Holy Land, is held up as an ally. Secretary Rubio speaks of “the best chance Venezuela has had in thirty years to peacefully achieve not just a free and fair election but an enduring democracy.” This is the language of the Civitas Terrena utterly severed from the Civitas Dei.
Pius XI warned: “Let rulers of states therefore not refuse public veneration and obedience to the reigning Christ, but let them fulfill this duty themselves and with their people, if they wish to maintain their authority inviolate and contribute to the increase of their homeland’s happiness.” Trump and Rubio do the opposite: they broker deals with socialist regimes (the “reconciliation talks” with Delcy Rodríguez’s government), legitimize Masonic “democracy,” and ignore the Kingship of Christ. EWTN reports this treason against Christ the King as good news.
The Theological Vacuum: No Supernatural End
The gravest accusation against this article is its total silence on the supernatural order. Not a word on the state of grace, the necessity of baptism, the reality of hell, the duty of public worship of the True God, the rights of the Church jure divino, the evil of communism as intrinsically perverse (Pius XI, Divini Redemptoris), the duty of Catholics to resist tyranny for the Faith, not for “freedom.” The crowds shout “Freedom!”—Libertas!—the Masonic goddess. They do not shout “Viva Cristo Rey!” They do not demand the restoration of the Catholic confessional state. They demand “democracy,” the very system condemned by Pius IX (Quanta Cura, Syllabus Error 77: “In the present day it is no longer expedient that the Catholic religion should be held as the only religion of the State”) and Leo XIII (Immortale Dei: “The Church… cannot without grievous sin favor that liberty which leads to the contempt of the most holy laws of God.”).
The article mentions the July 28, 2024 election, the Maduro regime’s fraud, the persecution of opponents, the extraction of Machado to Oslo, the capture of Maduro by U.S. special forces (a detail that reads like fiction), the rise of Delcy Rodríguez. It reads like a geopolitical thriller. But where is the Church? Where is the Ecclesia Militans? The “Archdiocesan Shrine” hosts a political rally disguised as a liturgy. The “Mass” is a prop. The “Divine Shepherdess” is a backdrop. This is the abomination of desolation standing in the holy place (Matt. 24:15)—the substitution of the City of Man for the City of God, enacted with the full cooperation of the conciliar hierarchy.
Canon 188.4 and the Vacant See: The Root Cause
The ultimate cause of this scandal is the vacancy of the Holy See since 1958. The men occupying the Vatican—John XXIII, Paul VI, John Paul I, John Paul II, Benedict XVI, Francis, and now Leo XIV—are not popes but antipopes, having defected from the Catholic Faith by their adherence to the heresies of Vatican II: religious liberty, ecumenism, collegiality, the new ecclesiology, the new Mass. By Canon 188.4 of the 1917 Code: “Every office becomes vacant by the mere fact and without any declaration… if the cleric… publicly defects from the Catholic faith.” As the Defense of Sedevacantism file demonstrates, a manifest heretic loses office ipso facto, without need of declaration. Bellarmine teaches: “A manifest heretic cannot be Pope… he cannot be the head of something of which he is not a member.”
Therefore, the “Archdiocesan Shrine” has no legitimate archbishop. The “Mass” has no legitimate priest (the new ordinal invalidates orders). The “Pope Leo XIV” to whom Delcy Rodríguez writes is a private individual, a heretic, an antipope. The “canonizations” requested are nullities. The entire edifice of the conciliar church in Venezuela—and globally—is a paramasonic structure designed to lead souls to hell under the guise of Catholicism. EWTN’s reportage is not journalism; it is the propaganda of the Antichurch, celebrating the triumph of the Civitas Diaboli while using Catholic vocabulary to anesthetize the faithful.
Conclusion: Return to the Integral Faith
The Venezuelan crisis will not be solved by “reconciliation talks,” “free elections,” or the return of a Nobel laureate opposition leader. It will only be solved Instaurare omnia in Christo—by the restoration of all things in Christ: the Social Kingship of Christ the King, the Traditional Latin Mass, the integral Catholic Faith, the rejection of Vatican II and its antipopes, the recognition of the vacant See, and the rebuilding of the Church from the catacombs. As Pius XI commanded: “If all the faithful understood that they must fight bravely and always under the banner of Christ the King, then with apostolic zeal they will strive diligently to reconcile stray and unenlightened souls with the Lord and will stand guard so that God’s laws remain inviolate.” EWTN’s article is a clarion call to the opposite: to fight under the banner of democracy, to reconcile with the world, to guard the “freedoms” of Masonry. Non possumus. We cannot. We must not. We will not.
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Venezuelan opposition leader returns from exile and attends Mass at popular shrine (ewtnnews.com)
Date: 26.10.2026