EWTN Spain’s Pseudo-Scientific Apologetics: A Trojan Horse of Modernist Subversion
The Catholic News Agency portal (November 20, 2025) reports on José Carlos González-Hurtado, “president” of EWTN Spain, promoting his book “The Scientific Evidence that Jesus Is God” – a work claiming to prove Christ’s divinity through scientific arguments. The article details González-Hurtado’s conversion narrative, his methodological approach analyzing Christ as “myth, manipulated figure, liar, maniac, or Messiah,” and his assertion that science constitutes God’s “path for humanity today.” This theatrical reconciliation of faith and reason epitomizes the conciliar sect’s capitulation to scientism.
Theological Naturalism Masquerading as Apologetics
González-Hurtado’s entire premise constitutes theological treason. By framing Christ’s divinity as a hypothesis to be tested through scientific methodology (“Five possible options regarding Jesus Christ: myth, manipulated figure, liar, maniac, or Messiah”), he reduces the Verbum caro factum est (the Word made flesh) to a laboratory specimen. The Council of Ephesus (431 AD) anathematized all who would subject Our Lord’s divinity to human scrutiny: “If anyone does not confess that the Word of God the Father was united to flesh hypostatically and that Christ is one with His own flesh… let him be anathema” (Canon 1). True Catholic apologetics begins with divine revelation, not empirical inquiry.
“The most reasonable thing to believe is that Jesus Christ is God.”
This scandalous statement inverts the hierarchy of truth. Reason serves faith, not vice versa. Pascendi Dominici Gregis condemns precisely this modernist inversion: “They place the roots of religious sentiment in those… pious dispositions of the will… thus it follows that the religious sentiment is merely the result of a subconscious impulse” (n. 14). González-Hurtado’s “reasonableness” standard constitutes pure subjectivism. As St. Paul teaches: “For the wisdom of this world is foolishness with God” (1 Corinthians 3:19).
Eucharistic Reductionism: From Mystery to Microscopy
The author’s treatment of Eucharistic miracles reveals sacramental heresy:
“It has been scientifically proven by independent laboratories that the consecrated host has sometimes transformed into living, cardiac tissue that emanates type AB blood…”
This reduces transubstantiation – defined by Trent as “the wonderful and singular conversion of the whole substance of the bread into the Body… which conversion the Catholic Church most aptly calls transubstantiation” (Session XIII, Chapter IV) – to biological anomaly. True faith requires no microscope. The Council of Trent anathematizes those who demand visible proofs: “If anyone says that in the sacred sacrament… the only-begotten Son of God is not to be adored… let him be anathema” (Canon 6). This methodology reduces the Holy Sacrifice to forensic evidence, denying St. Thomas Aquinas’ teaching: “Faith has the character of virtue not because of the things it believes… but because it adheres to the testimony of one in whom truth is infallibly found” (De Veritate, Q14 A2).
The False Dichotomy of “Gift vs. Reason”
González-Hurtado’s distortion of St. Thomas Aquinas exposes modernist hermeneutics:
“Faith, says St. Thomas Aquinas, is a movement of the intellect instructed by the will and assisted by grace.”
He conveniently omits Aquinas’ insistence on revelation as faith’s foundation: “The believer’s intellect assents to what is believed… by the command of the will moved by God through grace. Hence faith is from God moving man inwardly through grace” (ST II-II Q6 A1). The conciliar sect’s obsession with “scientific evidence” constitutes what Pius X condemned as “agnosticism transferred to science and history” (Pascendi, n. 13). True Catholic epistemology holds: “We believe that revelation is true because God has revealed it, not because intrinsic reason convinces us of its truth” (Leo XIII, Providentissimus Deus, n. 7).
Prophecy as Parlor Trick Rather Than Divine Testimony
The treatment of Messianic prophecy epitomizes naturalism:
“One piece of evidence is the prophets, the fact it was prophesied 700, 600, 800 years before Jesus Christ what would happen with Jesus Christ…”
This transforms divine foreknowledge into evidentiary bargaining chips. The Vatican Council (1870) dogmatized: “If anyone says that divine revelation cannot be made credible by external signs… let him be anathema” (De Fide, Chapter 3). Yet Gonzalez reduces prophecy fulfillment to courtroom evidence rather than manifestations of God’s sovereign dominion over history. As St. Augustine teaches: “The prophets did not predict these things at all as if they were exercising their own minds… but as the mouth of God” (City of God, Book XVII).
The Silent Apostasy: Omission of Ecclesiology and Sacramental Economy
Nowhere does this “apologetics” mention Christ’s Mystical Body, the necessity of the Church for salvation, or the sacraments as channels of grace. González-Hurtado’s Jesus appears as a mere “God hypothesis” rather than King of Kings demanding submission from all nations (Psalm 2:10-12). Pius XI’s Quas Primas condemns this reductionism: “When once men recognize… that Christ has authority over all mankind… it will be easy for them to understand that the Church… must possess the fullest freedom” (n. 18). The article’s silence on the social reign of Christ constitutes apostasy from Catholic integralism.
Conclusion: Modernism’s Last Gasps Under Conciliar Cover
EWTN’s promotion of scientistic apologetics reveals the conciliar sect’s terminal crisis. Having abandoned the depositum fidei, it grasps at empirical straws to justify its existence. As St. Pius X warned: “The Modernists… perpetrate their mockery of religion… in the very bosom of the Church” (Pascendi, n. 39). True Catholics need no laboratory proofs – we possess the magisterium perennis which declares: “It is by faith that divine authority is to be believed… nor is revelation to be made subordinate to reason” (Vatican Council I, Session III, Chapter 3). Until Rome returns to this immutable truth, her apologists remain peddlers of what St. Paul called “knowledge falsely so called” (1 Timothy 6:20).
Source:
President of EWTN Spain: The most reasonable thing to believe is that Jesus Christ is God (catholicnewsagency.com)
Date: 20.11.2025