The National Catholic Register, propaganda organ of the conciliar sect, publishes a puff piece profiling Major League Baseball players from the Milwaukee Brewers and Tampa Bay Rays who attribute their athletic success to vague theistic sentiment and devotion to local Marian titles—Our Lady of the Rosary of Chiquinquirá (“la Chinita”) and Our Lady of Coromoto—while explicitly acknowledging the usurper “Pope Leo XIV” (Robert Prevost) as “Holy Father.” This article epitomizes the post-conciliar reduction of the Catholic Faith to a therapeutic, performance-enhancing spirituality devoid of the Cross, the Sacraments, the necessity of the state of grace, and the Social Kingship of Christ the King.
The Theatrics of Naturalistic Piety
The cited article presents a tableau of superstitious transactionalism masquerading as piety. Jackson Chourio, the 22-year-old Venezuelan outfielder, declares: “It’s thanks to him that I am here, and he fills me with so many blessings. How could I not believe?” This is not the language of a son of the Church militant, but of a pagan client-patron relationship: the deity as a dispenser of “blessings” (read: home runs, health, contracts). The devotion to “la Chinita” is explicitly utilitarian: “She is always in my prayers; I ask her for so much, that she grant me good health and continue to bestow so many blessings upon me.” The Virgin Mother of God, Mediatrix of All Graces, is reduced to a celestial trainer ensuring buena salud for a nine-inning effort.
William Contreras kneels at home plate—a liturgical gesture profaned into a stadium spectacle—and exclaims, “Thank you, Papa God!” The familiarity is blasphemous; the Holy Name is invoked not in timor Domini but in the euphoria of a playoff sweep. He admits: “Throughout these playoffs, I’ve been talking a lot with God, asking him to keep me healthy for the games.” The petition is entirely temporal. There is zero reference to the salvation of his soul, the avoidance of mortal sin, the obligation of Sunday Mass (which these men likely miss due to travel), or the reception of the Most Holy Sacrifice. Antonio Senzatela’s testimony—“Life has taken things away from me. He has taken things away; my mom and dad are no longer with me, but I have a wife who loves me and wonderful children”—is pure Stoic resignation baptized in sentimentalism, utterly lacking the Catholic doctrine of redemptive suffering (Col 1:24) or the hope of the Resurrection.
Linguistic Decay: The Vocabulary of the Neo-Church
The rhetoric of the article—and the players—reveals the lex orandi, lex credendi of the conciliar sect. Terms like “faith journey,” “spirituality,” “blessings,” “connection,” “surrender” dominate. The word grace appears only in the generic Protestant sense of “favor,” never as gratia sanctificans. The Virgin Mary is stripped of her titles—Co-Redemptrix, Mediatrix, Queen of Heaven and Earth—and refashioned as a national mascot: “patroness of Venezuela,” “patroness of Zulia.” This is idolatria gentium: the Mother of God pressed into service for nationalist sentiment.
The most damning linguistic tell is the reference to “Pope Leo XIV” as “the Holy Father” recovering “extraordinarily well from his recent surgery.” The article states: “Contreras also mentioned the health of Pope Leo XIV, expressing his joy that the Holy Father is recovering extraordinarily well from his recent surgery.” This single sentence exposes the entire edifice as a construct of the paramasonic structure occupying the Vatican. Robert Prevost is a manifest heretic, a usurper of the See of Peter, an antipope whose “recovery” is of zero supernatural significance. To call him “Holy Father” is to participate in the great delusion (2 Thess 2:11). The conciliar sect’s media apparatus (EWTN, National Catholic Register) functions precisely to normalize this usurpation by embedding it in human-interest fluff.
Theological Bankruptcy: Christ the King Absent, Secularism Enthroned
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 entire human society had to be shaken, because it lacked a stable and strong foundation.” The article before us is a microcosm of this societal shake. Christ is not King here; Baseball is King. The World Series is the de facto liturgical calendar. The players’ “faith” is a private hobby, explicitly separated from the public order. The Syllabus of Errors (Pius IX, 1864) condemns the proposition: “The Church ought to be separated from the State, and the State from the Church” (Error 55). The conciliar sect has not only accepted this separation but celebrates it. These athletes render to Caesar (MLB, the Commissioner, the television contracts) the things that are God’s—public witness, the lordship of time, the very definition of success—and to God they render only the leftovers: a quick prayer for health.
The “conversion” narrative of coach Néstor Corredor—“until recently, he ‘called himself an atheist’… ‘I did not have a complete faith'”—is presented as a triumph. But what is the content of this “faith”? “Every time you wake up in the morning, you have to thank God… the first words I speak… are directed to God. Knowing that he is listening… and that when you surrender yourself to him, you will be blessed; and in 2026, I have been quite blessed.” This is Moralistic Therapeutic Deism, the de facto religion of the neo-church. No mention of Baptism, Confession, the Holy Eucharist, the Ten Commandments, the Four Last Things. “Blessed” equals a World Series ring. This is the abomination of desolation standing in the holy place: a false religion using Catholic vocabulary to sanctify worldly ambition.
The Marian Deviation: Local Cults as Syncretic Idols
The devotion to Our Lady of Coromoto and Our Lady of the Rosary of Chiquinquirá is treated as cultural heritage, not as the veneration of the one Mother of God under specific titles approved by true Popes. The article notes Chourio hails from Maracaibo, “one of the Venezuelan cities most devoted to the Blessed Virgin.” This geographical determinism of grace is Pelagian. The Virgin of Coromoto is invoked because “She’s the one my mom mentions the most.” Tradition is reduced to matrilineal folklore.
Worse, the conciliar sect’s ecumenical agenda uses these local devotions to bridge the chasm to schism and heresy. The “Virgin Chinita” is a point of contact with a Venezuelan culture steeped in syncretism (Santería, Espiritismo). The article’s silence on the uniqueness of the Catholic Church (Extra Ecclesiam nulla salus) and the necessity of explicit faith in Christ (Acts 4:12) is deafening. As Pius XI taught: “His reign encompasses also all non-Christians, so that most truly the entire human race is subject to the authority of Jesus Christ.” These players, by their public platform, have a duty to confess that Kingship. They confess only a generic “God” and a localized “Virgin.”
Symptomatic Analysis: The Conciliar Sect’s “Sports Evangelization” Strategy
This article is not journalism; it is psychological warfare waged by the Church of the New Advent. EWTN (Mother Angelica’s legacy, now fully co-opted) and the National Catholic Register function as the propaganda fide of the antichurch. Their strategy:
- Celebrity Endorsement: Use athletes as “influencers” to sell a watered-down, feel-good Catholicism.
- Legitimize the Usurper: Casually insert “Pope Leo XIV” into the narrative to cement the false papacy in the faithful’s imagination.
- Erase the Supernatural: Replace grace with “blessings,” the Cross with “overcoming adversity,” the Mass with “faith.”
- Nationalize the Virgin: Turn the Universal Queen into a tribal totem, facilitating false ecumenism and religious indifferentism.
The Syllabus condemns: “In the present day it is no longer expedient that the Catholic religion should be held as the only religion of the State, to the exclusion of all other forms of worship” (Error 77). The conciliar sect lives this error. It presents a “Catholicism” that is perfectly compatible with the Masonic order of professional sports—gambling, Sabbath violation, corporate idolatry, the cult of the body. The players are not called to convert the world; they are used to bless the world as it is.
The Verdict: Idolatry in Pinstripes
The faith on display in this article is not the Catholic Faith. It is a ersatz religion crafted by the conciliar revolution to anaesthetize the faithful while the neo-church completes its demolition of the City of God. The players—Chourio, Contreras, Senzatela, Mesa Jr.—are not witnesses to Christ the King; they are unwitting (or witting) actors in a Masonic passion play where the “Virgin Mary” blesses the games of the New World Order.
True Catholic piety demands: “Seek ye first the Kingdom of God and His justice” (Matt 6:33). It demands the public confession of the Social Kingship of Christ, the rejection of the antipope, the refusal to profane the Lord’s Day for Mammon, and the understanding that “You were redeemed not with corruptible gold or silver… but with the precious blood of Christ” (1 Pet 1:18-19), not with a nine-figure contract.
The National Catholic Register and EWTN, by publishing this drivel, confirm their status as organs of the abomination of desolation. They offer the faithful panem et circenses—bread and circuses—while the True Mass is suppressed, the true Papacy is vacant, and souls perish for lack of knowledge. Let the Catholic reader flee this sentimentalism. Let him cleave to the Tradition of the Fathers, the Mass of All Time, and the Kingship of Christ, who will judge the living and the dead—not by their batting average, but by their adherence to His Law.
Source:
World Series Stars Share How God and the Virgin Mary Sustain Their Careers (ncregister.com)
Date: 27.10.2026