The EWTN News portal, a principal propaganda organ of the conciliar sect occupying the Vatican, reports on the Major League Baseball World Series between the Milwaukee Brewers and Tampa Bay Rays, parading Venezuelan and Cuban athletes who offer generic, sentimental testimonies about “God” and the “Virgin Mary” while explicitly acknowledging the usurper “Pope” Leo XIV (Robert Prevost) as “Holy Father.” This article is not a witness to the Catholic faith; it is a staged spectacle of naturalistic religiosity, meticulously crafted to legitimize the paramasonic structures of the New Advent and to substitute the Social Kingship of Christ the King for a vague, therapeutic deism compatible with the apostasy of the post-conciliar era.
Reduction of the Supernatural to Psychological Therapy
The cited article relates how outfielder Jackson Chourio attributes his success to “blessings” and health granted by a generic deity, asking the Virgin of Chiquinquirá (“la Chinita”) for “good health and continue to bestow so many blessings upon me.” Catcher William Contreras kneels at home plate exclaiming “Thank you, Papa God!”—an appellation of irreverent familiarity utterly foreign to the timor Domini (fear of the Lord) which is the beginning of wisdom (Ps 110:10). He speaks of “talking a lot with God, asking him to keep me healthy for the games.” Pitcher Antonio Senzatela reduces Providence to a ledger of temporal losses and gains: “Life has taken things away from me… but I have a wife who loves me and wonderful children. I feel grateful to God for everything he gives me.”
This is not the language of the Catholicus sensus. It is the language of Moralistic Therapeutic Deism, the de facto religion of the conciliar sect. There is zero mention of the Most Holy Sacrifice of the Mass, the Sacrament of Penance, the state of sanctifying grace, the necessity of the Catholic Church for salvation (extra Ecclesiam nulla salus), or the Kingship of Christ over temporal society. The “faith” on display is entirely immanent, utilitarian, and anthropocentric—precisely the laicism condemned by Pius XI in Quas Primas: “When God and Jesus Christ… were removed from laws and states… the foundations of that authority were destroyed.” These athletes, promoted by EWTN, are unwitting actors in the demolition of those foundations.
Mariolatry Stripped of Christological Center
The article highlights devotion to Our Lady of the Rosary of Chiquinquirá and the Virgin of Coromoto. While these titles refer to historically approved images, the modus of devotion presented here is severed from its theological root. Chourio treats “la Chinita” as a celestial dispenser of athletic longevity: “She is always in my prayers; I ask her for so much, that she grant me good health.” Contreras notes the Virgin of Coromoto is “the one my mom mentions the most”—a cultural habit, not a theological act of hyperdulia ordered to the latria of the Trinity.
True Marian piety, as defined by the immutable Magisterium, is Ad Iesum per Mariam. It leads inevitably to the Eucharistic Sacrifice and the confession of the Faith entire. The conciliar sect, however, exploits these devotions as cultural talismans to maintain a veneer of Catholicism while denying the Social Reign of Christ. The article’s focus on “Venezuelan cities most devoted to the Blessed Virgin” serves a nationalist, naturalistic narrative, not the Regnum Christi. It is the ecumenism of the peoples condemned by Pius XI: “The Church… demands for itself… full freedom and independence from secular authority.” Here, the Church’s authority is replaced by the athletes’ personal testimonies, validated by a Masonic media apparatus.
Legitimization of the Usurper: The “Pope Leo XIV” Reference
In a calculated move to bind the faithful to the antipope, the article inserts a gratuitous reference to Robert Prevost (“Pope” Leo XIV): “Contreras also mentioned the health of Pope Leo XIV, expressing his joy that the Holy Father is recovering extraordinarily well from his recent surgery.”
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 operation. A true Catholic, formed by the Syllabus of Errors (prop. 77, 80) and Cum ex Apostolatus Officio, knows that a manifest heretic—who professes the false religions of Vatican II, religious liberty, and ecumenism—cannot be Pope. St. Robert Bellarmine teaches: “A manifest heretic… by that very fact ceases to be Pope and head, just as he ceases to be a Christian.” By calling Prevost “Holy Father,” Contreras and EWTN commit a public act of schism and idolatry, rendering homage to the abomination of desolation standing in the holy place (Matt 24:15). The article uses the athletes’ simplicity to manufacture consent for the Great Apostasy.
The “Atheist to Believer” Narrative: Conversion Without Dogma
Coach Néstor Corredor provides the quintessential conciliar conversion testimony: he “called himself an atheist” but now “sought to understand God’s presence in his life.” His prayer life consists of thanking God “before checking my phone, before talking to my wife… knowing that he is listening, wherever it may be.” Note the phrase “wherever it may be”—a practical denial of the Real Presence and the Incarnation, reducing God to a vague cosmic force. He concludes: “when you surrender yourself to him, you will be blessed and in 2026, I have been quite blessed.”
This is Pelagianism disguised as grace: salvation as a transaction for temporal success (“blessed in 2026”). There is no mention of baptism of desire, explicit faith in the Trinity and Incarnation, rejection of sin, or submission to the Roman Pontiff (the true one). It is the fides qua creditur reduced to subjective religious experience, exactly the Modernist error condemned in Lamentabili Sane Exitu (prop. 25, 26): “Faith… is ultimately based on a sum of probabilities… dogmas… as binding in action, rather than as principles of belief.” Corredor’s “faith” is a psychological crutch, not the virtus theologica.
Cuban “Faith” as Existential Fatalism
Outfielder Víctor Mesa Jr. offers the most revealing testimony: “Since I arrived here I believe more… Everything happens for a reason and thank God because look what more beautiful reason is this.” This is Stoic fatalism, not Christian hope. “Everything happens for a reason” denies the permissive will of God distinct from His positive will, and ignores the reality of sin, the Cross, and the necessity of suffering for the Kingdom. It is the “religion of the heart” divorced from the “religion of the intellect,” the very essence of the Modernist synthesis condemned by St. Pius X in Pascendi Dominici Gregis.
EWTN: The Propaganda Arm of the Neo-Church
The source, EWTN News (Spanish and English), founded by the late Mother Angelica but long since co-opted by the conciliar establishment, functions here as a laundering mechanism for false piety. The author, Andrés Henríquez, identified as a “member of the Regnum Christi Federation” (a Legionaries of Christ offshoot, itself a fruit of the conciliar revolution), frames this naturalistic sentimentality as “Catholic sports coaching.” The related articles link to “Spain’s soccer coach presents World Cup to Virgin” and “World Cup: bishop warns against…”—further evidence of the sect’s obsession with sports idolatry as a substitute for the Crusade.
Pius XI in Quas Primas instituted the Feast of Christ the King precisely to combat this: “The annual celebration of this solemnity will also remind states that not only private individuals, but also rulers and governments have the duty to publicly honor Christ and obey Him.” The conciliar sect, via EWTN, replaces the public, social, liturgical reign of Christ with private, athletic, sentimental testimonies. It offers the faithful circenses (games) instead of the Sacrum.
Theological Verdict: Idolatry of the Natural Order
This article constitutes a grave scandal. It presents the faithful with a counterfeit Catholicism where:
- The True Mass is absent; the “World Series” is the liturgy.
- The True Pope is denied; the antipope Leo XIV is honored.
- The True Faith (objective, dogmatic, exclusive) is replaced by subjective “blessings” and “reasons.”
- The True Mediator (Christ the King) is sidelined for Marian cultural icons used as lucky charms.
As the Syllabus of Pius IX condemns (prop. 77): “In the present day it is no longer expedient that the Catholic religion should be held as the only religion of the State…” EWTN and its athletes implicitly confess this error: their “faith” fits comfortably within the secular stadium, the secular media, and the secular narrative of “inspiration.” It demands nothing of the social order, challenges no law contrary to God, anathematizes no heresy. It is salt that has lost its savor (Matt 5:13), fit only to be cast out and trodden underfoot by men—specifically, by the paramasonic structures that produce this propaganda.
Catholics must reject this spectacle entirely. True devotion to Our Lady of Chiquinquirá or Coromoto demands the rejection of the conciliar sect, the recognition of the Vacant See, and the fight for the Social Kingship of Christ the King—not a home run trot for a “blessing” from the usurper’s media machine.
Source:
World Series stars share how God and the Virgin Mary sustain their careers (ewtnnews.com)
Date: 27.10.2026