The National Catholic Register — a flagship organ of the conciliar sect — publishes a puff piece on its celebrity “priest,” Mike Schmitz, who concludes his “Parables” tour at Radio City Music Hall. The article, dated November 14, 2026, frames Schmitz as a guru for lonely young adults, offering sociological tips for dating — get out of apartments, read social cues, frequent “third spaces” like gyms and parish wine-and-cheese mixers — while gushing over the prospect of meeting the antipope Leo XIV (Robert Prevost) because they share a Chicago accent and a fondness for The Office. The piece epitomizes the conciliar sect’s reduction of the supernatural mission of the Church to a therapeutic, cultural, and celebrity-driven enterprise.
The Theological Vacuum: Where Is Christ the King?
The cited article relates not a single word of Our Lord Jesus Christ, His Kingship, the state of grace, the Sacraments, or the Four Last Things. Instead, it serves up a purely naturalistic anthropology: loneliness statistics from a secular insurance conglomerate (Cigna), “risk aversion” psychology, and “social awareness” tactics. This is the “cult of man” 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.” Schmitz’s advice — “step up,” “take that step,” “be open to risk” — is Pelagian self-help masquerading as Catholic ministry. Sine gratia non possumus (without grace we can do nothing). The article’s silence on sanctifying grace, the necessity of the Traditional Latin Mass, the duty to marry in the true Church for the procreation and education of children in the Faith, is not an omission; it is a positive profession of Modernism: religion reduced to “a certain religious movement, applied or applicable to different times and places” (condemned in Lamentabili Sane Exitu, prop. 59).
The Antipope as Celebrity: Idolatry of the Usurper
Schmitz’s excitement over meeting “Pope Leo” — “it’d be cool to meet the Pope” — exposes the idolatry of the person that replaces the adoration of the Divine Majesty. He fawns over shared cultural touchstones: a Chicago accent, the TV show The Office, the ease of English conversation. This is the “democratization of the Church” and the “cult of personality” that St. Pius X warned against in Pascendi: the Modernist “makes the religious sentiment the ultimate criterion of truth,” displacing the Depositum Fidei with subjective experience. The antipope Leo XIV (Robert Prevost) is a manifest heretic who participates in the false religions of the world, endorses the Masonic “human fraternity” document, and presides over the abomination of desolation in the Vatican. To desire a “personal conversation” with him is to desire communion with the synagogue of Satan (Apoc. 2:9). Cum ex Apostolatus Officio (Pope Paul IV) declares that any prelate who has “defected from the Catholic Faith or fallen into some heresy” — before promotion or assumption of office — incurs nullity ipso facto, “null, void, and of no effect.” Schmitz’s gushing legitimizes the usurpation.
The “Parables” Tour: Bread and Circuses for the Apostasy
The “Parables” tour — sold-out arenas, Radio City Music Hall, celebrity “priest” headlining — is the apotheosis of the conciliar “new evangelization”: entertainment substituting for the Unbloody Sacrifice of Calvary. Schmitz draws “decades of experience working with students from middle school to medical school” — a resume of the novus ordo youth ministry industrial complex. The article notes “a noticeable revival of young adults filling Catholic pews in cities like New York.” Filling pews of the false “Mass” — the “table of assembly” — is not conversion; it is spiritual suicide. St. Pius X in Lamentabili condemned the proposition: “The Church listening cooperates… that the Church teaching should only approve the common opinions of the Church listening” (prop. 6). The conciliar sect measures “success” by attendance metrics, not by souls saved from hell through the Traditional Latin Mass and the unadulterated Faith.
Naturalistic “Third Spaces” vs. The Supernatural Society
Schmitz urges singles to physically show up in “third spaces — places outside of work and home where people gather around shared interests, such as a gym or coffee shop, and of course the perennial place of Catholic connection, a local parish.” Note the equivalence: gym = coffee shop = “parish.” The “parish” of the conciliar sect is a paramasonic structure where the “Mass” is a Protestantized meal, the “priest” is invalidly ordained (post-1968 rite), and the “faithful” are fed a diet of religious liberty, ecumenism, and “dialogue.” Quas Primas teaches: “The Church, established by Christ as a perfect society, demands for itself by a right belonging to it… full freedom and independence from secular authority.” The conciliar “parish” is a branch office of the Masonic world order, not the Kingdom of Christ. Schmitz’s “wine and cheese afterwards” is the agape of the early Christians stripped of the Eucharist — a social club for the Church of the New Advent.
The Linguistic Decay: Therapeutic Jargon Replaces Theological Language
The article’s vocabulary is revealing: “lonely,” “isolated,” “risk-averse,” “digital isolation,” “social cues,” “basic interactions,” “thriving young-adult scenes,” “optimism,” “personal excitement,” “cultural shorthand,” “shared cultural touchstones,” “neat,” “cool.” Not one theological term: no gratia, no peccatum, no virtus, no sanctitas, no judicium. This is the lingua novus ordo: the language of psychology, sociology, and marketing. Lamentabili prop. 26: “The dogmas of faith should be understood according to their practical function, i.e., as binding in action, rather than as principles of belief.” Schmitz’s “advice” is pragmatism elevated to magisterium. The “Register” calls him “Father” — a title he holds only in the conciliar sect, conferred by invalid ordination in the Paul VI rite, which defects in form and intention for the priesthood of the Traditional Roman Rite.
The Symptomatic Level: Fruits of the Conciliar Revolution
This article is a perfect symptom of the systemic apostasy inaugurated by the false “pope” John XXIII and the Robber Council Vatican II. The “priest” is a celebrity; the “pope” is a fellow Midwesterner to bond with over Netflix; the “Church” is a dating pool; the “Faith” is a lifestyle accessory. The Syllabus of Pius IX condemns: “The Roman Pontiff can, and ought to, reconcile himself, and come to terms with progress, liberalism and modern civilization” (prop. 80). Schmitz and the Register are that reconciliation. They have “come to terms” with the world, the flesh, and the devil. The antipope Leo XIV’s “encyclical addressing artificial intelligence” is praised — the “pope” of the neo-church pronounces on algorithms while the Social Kingship of Christ is trampled. Quas Primas: “It would, of course, be the task of Catholics to prepare and hasten this return through their work and activity; however, many of them do not hold the position in so-called social life, nor do they have the significance that those who carry the torch of truth should have. This unfavorable situation may perhaps be attributed to the laziness and timidity of the good.”
Sedevacantist Certainty: The Only Remedy
The integral Catholic Faith — the only criterion — demands the rejection of the entire conciliar edifice. Robert Prevost is not the Pope; he is a layman, a heretic, an antipope. Mike Schmitz is not a priest; he is a layman performing a simulation of ministry. The National Catholic Register is not a Catholic newspaper; it is a propaganda organ of the paramasonic structure occupying the Vatican. The “young adults filling pews” are being led to hell by wolves in sheep’s clothing. Extra Ecclesiam nulla salus — outside the true Church (the remnant holding the Traditional Latin Mass, the Sede Vacante position, the unadulterated Magisterium up to Pius XII) there is no salvation. The article’s final line — “it’d be cool to meet the Pope” — is the cry of the damned preferring the city of man to the City of God. Non praevalebunt (Mt 16:18) — but not for the conciliar sect. Their “gates of hell” are the very structures they build.
Christus vincit, Christus regnat, Christus imperat. The Kingship of Christ is not a “cultural touchstone.” It is the only reality that matters. The conciliar sect, its “popes,” its “priests,” its “Register,” its “tours,” and its “dating advice” will be swept away like chaff (Ps 1:4). Viva Cristo Rey!
Source:
Father Mike Schmitz Offers Tips for Dating — and Why ‘It’d Be Cool to Meet the Pope’ (ncregister.com)
Date: 14.11.2026