The EWTN News portal (October 31, 2026) reports on the Albanian “Cardinal” Ernest Simoni, a nonagenarian figure paraded by the Bergoglian sect as a “living martyr” for having offered the Novus Ordo service for the soul of President John F. Kennedy in 1963, enduring subsequent communist imprisonment. The article functions as a hagiographic press release for the conciliar establishment, highlighting Simoni’s alleged lack of resentment, his call to pray for enemies “to see them all in heaven,” and his elevation to the “College of Cardinals” by the usurper Francis in 2016. This narrative exposes the complete substitution of the supernatural mission of the Church for a naturalistic humanitarianism that knows neither the Social Kingship of Christ nor the necessity of the Catholic Faith for salvation.
The Manufacture of “Martyrs” by the Antichurch: Legitimizing the Usurpation
The very premise of the report rests upon the invalid elevation of Simoni by “Pope” Francis (Robert Prevost, the current usurper Leo XIV, continuing the line of antipopes from John XXIII). As the Bull Cum ex Apostolatus Officio of Pope Paul IV infallibly teaches, a manifest heretic cannot be validly elected to the papacy, nor can he confer any jurisdiction or dignity: “his promotion or elevation, even if it shall have been uncontested and by the unanimous assent of all the Cardinals, shall be null, void, and of no effect.” Since the conciliar “popes” from John XXIII onward have publicly professed the heresies of religious liberty, false ecumenism, and collegiality—condemned by the Syllabus of Pius IX and Quas Primas of Pius XI—they possess no authority to create cardinals, bishops, or priests. Simoni’s “cardinalate” is a theatrical costume in a paramasonic pageant, devoid of sacramental reality. The 1917 Code (Canon 188.4) confirms that public defection from the faith vacates office ipso facto; the conciliar hierarchy, having defected in bloc at Vatican II, holds no office to bestow.
The Novus Ordo “Mass” for Kennedy: A Propitiatory Sacrifice Denied
The article states Simoni was arrested for “celebrating a Mass for the late U.S. President John F. Kennedy.” In 1963, this would have been the traditional Roman Rite, yet the context implies the subsequent life of Simoni unfolded within the conciliar revolution. The critical omission is what “Mass” Simoni celebrates today. The EWTN piece carefully avoids the word “sacrifice.” The conciliar “Mass” (Novus Ordo Missae), fabricated by the freemason Bugnini and promulgated by the apostate Paul VI, is a Protestantized memorial meal that denies the propitiatory nature of the Sacrifice of Calvary, the Real Presence, and the sacerdotal priesthood. Quas Primas teaches that Christ the King “offered Himself as a sacrifice for our sins and eternally offers it” and that His royal authority “contains both these offices [Priest and King] and shares in them.” To celebrate the Novus Ordo is to participate in a rite that has emptied the Cross of its efficacy, reducing the King of Kings to a mere spiritual leader. Simoni’s “daily Mass” in prison, if celebrated according to the new rite, was an act of adherence to the lex orandi of the neo-church, not the lex credendi of the Catholic Church.
Universalism and the Denial of Extra Ecclesiam Nulla Salus
The most theologically lethal statement in the report is attributed to Simoni: “We are required to pray for every enemy, that God has mercy, to see them all in heaven, because Christ has shed his blood for us all.” This is rank universalism, the heresy condemned by Pius IX in the Syllabus (Error 16: “Man may, in the observance of any religion whatever, find the way of eternal salvation”) and by the Fourth Lateran Council: “Una est fidelium universalis Ecclesia, extra quam nullus omnino salvatur” (There is one universal Church of the faithful, outside of which no one at all is saved). The phrase “see them all in heaven” presupposes the salvation of those who die in false religions, communism, or unbelief—precisely the “ecumenism project” condemned in the False Fatima Apparitions document as opening “the way to religious relativism.” True charity demands the conversion of the erring to the one Ark of Salvation, not a sentimental assurance that all paths lead to heaven. This is the “cult of man” denounced by Pius XI: “When God and Jesus Christ… were removed from laws and states… the foundations of that authority were destroyed.”
The Silence on the Social Kingship of Christ: Quas Primas Betrayed
Nowhere does the article mention the Social Kingship of Christ the King, instituted by Pius XI in Quas Primas (1925) as the remedy for the “plague… of secularism, so-called laicism.” Pius XI declared: “His reign encompasses not only Catholic nations… but His reign encompasses also all non-Christians, so that most truly the entire human race is subject to the authority of Jesus Christ.” The conciliar narrative replaces this divine right with a vague “Gospel to all people” and “prayer for world leaders.” The Syllabus (Error 55) condemns the separation of Church and State; Quas Primas demands that “rulers of states… fulfill this duty themselves and with their people, if they wish to maintain their authority inviolate.” Simoni’s imprisonment by atheistic communists is presented as a mere human rights tragedy, not as the inevitable fruit of a society that has dethroned Christ. The article’s framing—celebrating a Mass for a temporal ruler (Kennedy) without reference to his duty to govern sub Christi Regnum—exemplifies the conciliar surrender to the “civil power” condemned in the Syllabus (Errors 39-42).
EWTN: The Propaganda Arm of the Neo-Church
The source, EWTN News, is a flagship media outlet of the conciliar sect, founded by the “Mother Angelica” figure within the structures of the “bishop” of Birmingham. It functions to normalize the usurpation by presenting the neo-hierarchy’s ceremonies, appointments, and “saints” as legitimate. The article’s tone—reverential toward the antipope Francis (“Pope Francis was moved… named him… described him as ‘a living martyr'”)—is the modus operandi of the great apostasy: manufacturing consent for the abomination of desolation standing in the holy place (Matt 24:15). The intern author, Emma R.C. Lyons, product of “Benedictine College” (a conciliar institution), exemplifies the formation of a generation ignorant of Quanta Cura, Pascendi, and the Syllabus.
Symptomatic Level: The “Living Martyr” as Icon of the New Religion
The label “living martyr” applied by the antipope to Simoni reveals the anthropocentric inversion of the conciliar religion. True martyrdom is testimonium fidei—witness to the Faith unto death, for the confession of the true God and the Catholic Church. The conciliar “martyr” is redefined as one who suffers for “human dignity,” “religious freedom,” or “dialogue”—virtues of the Masonic “Rights of Man,” not the Rights of God. The False Fatima document correctly identifies the Fatima apparatus (which the conciliar church promotes) as a “Masonic psychological operation” diverting attention from “modernist apostasy within the Church.” Simoni’s story, stripped of the Kingship of Christ, the necessity of the Church, and the reality of Hell, serves the same function: a pious distraction from the fact that the Vatican is occupied by heretics who have abolished the Holy Sacrifice and the Papacy.
Conclusion: No Communion with the Usurpers
The faithful Catholic, adhering to the immutable Magisterium of Pius IX, Leo XIII, St. Pius X, and Pius XI, must reject this entire spectacle. “Cardinal” Simoni is a functionary of the neo-church; his “Mass” is the rite of the new religion; his “martyrdom” is exploited by the enemies of Christ the King to legitimize their reign. As St. Robert Bellarmine teaches (De Romano Pontifice), a manifest heretic “ceases to be Pope and head… by which things he may be judged and punished by the Church.” The line of antipopes from John XXIII to Leo XIV has judged itself by its own heresies. The true Church endures in catacumbis, among bishops and priests retaining valid orders and the traditional Mass, professing the integral Faith, awaiting the restoration of all things in Christ (Instaurare omnia in Christo). The EWTN report is not news; it is the liturgy of the Counter-Church.
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Cardinal Simoni says faith sustained him through death sentence for Mass honoring President Kennedy (ewtnnews.com)
Date: 31.10.2026