The National Catholic Register portal reports on a weeklong pilgrimage organized by the Fulton Sheen Movement culminating in the scheduled beatification of Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen on September 24, 2026, by the current usurper on the Chair of Peter, “Pope” Leo XIV (Robert Prevost). The article details a curated itinerary tracing Sheen’s life from El Paso, Illinois, to Peoria and St. Louis, featuring reflections by Peter Howard, a theologian formed at the “Pontifical University of St. Thomas Aquinas” (Angelicum), and a conference with speakers like Harvard professor Arthur Brooks, “Msgr.” Roger Landry of the “Pontifical Mission Societies USA,” and “Auxiliary Bishop” Joseph Coffey. The pilgrimage centers on Sheen’s “Eucharist, Holy Hour, and Our Lady” spirituality and his celebration of both Roman and Byzantine rites, framed as “both lungs” of the Church. This orchestrated media event is a calculated propaganda exercise by the conciliar sect to canonize a Vatican II celebrity and legitimize its counterfeit hierarchy through emotional manipulation and historical revisionism.
The Invalidity of the Beatification: A Null Act by an Antipope
The entire edifice of this pilgrimage rests on the forthcoming “beatification” by “Pope” Leo XIV. From the perspective of integral Catholic faith, the See of Peter has been vacant since the death of Pius XII in 1958. John XXIII, Paul VI, John Paul I, John Paul II, Benedict XVI, Francis, and now Leo XIV are manifest heretics who, by their public adhesion to the errors of Vatican II — religious liberty, ecumenism, collegiality, the new Mass — have ipso facto severed themselves from the Church and lost all jurisdiction. As St. Robert Bellarmine teaches, “a Pope who is a manifest heretic, by that very fact ceases to be Pope and head, just as he ceases to be a Christian and member of the body of the Church” (De Romano Pontifice). The “Defense of Sedevacantism” file confirms: “A manifest heretic cannot be Pope. It cannot be objected that the character remains in him, because if he remained Pope because of the character, since it is indelible, he could never be deposed.” Therefore, any beatification or “canonization” performed by these usurpers is null, void, and of no effect — a theatrical gesture devoid of the Church’s infallible authority. The faithful who participate in this pilgrimage are not venerating a future “Blessed” of the Catholic Church; they are participating in a liturgical simulacrum staged by the abomination of desolation occupying the Vatican.
Fulton Sheen: A Man of the Conciliar Revolution, Not of Tradition
The article portrays Sheen as a theological giant and master evangelizer. The reality is that Sheen was a principal architect of the pre-conciliar softening that paved the way for Vatican II. He was a media personality who used the nascent television medium to promote a sentimentalized, psychologized version of Catholicism stripped of extra ecclesiam nulla salus and the social reign of Christ the King. His “Life is Worth Living” program presented the faith as a self-help philosophy compatible with Americanism — the very heresy condemned by Leo XIII in Testem Benevolentiae. Sheen enthusiastically embraced the “aggiornamento” of John XXIII, served as a Council Father at Vatican II, and never publicly resisted the novelties that destroyed the liturgy, doctrine, and discipline of the Church. His promotion of the “both lungs” ecumenism with the Byzantine rite, highlighted in the pilgrimage, is a direct application of the conciliar decree Unitatis Redintegratio, which treats schismatics as separated brethren rather than as those outside the Ark of Salvation. The Syllabus of Pius IX condemns the proposition: “Protestantism is nothing more than another form of the same true Christian religion, in which form it is given to please God equally as in the Catholic Church” (Error 18). Sheen’s “East and West” rhetoric is a betrayal of the Church’s unity, which is not a duality of rites but the una, sancta, catholica, et apostolica unity of faith under the Roman Pontiff.
The “Holy Hour” and Eucharistic Devotion: Stripped of Propitiatory Sacrifice
The article emphasizes Sheen’s daily Holy Hour before the Blessed Sacrament as the “source of his holiness.” Yet in the conciliar sect, the “Mass” has been reduced to a “table of assembly” where the propitiatory sacrifice of Calvary is obscured by a communal meal narrative. The “Eucharist” adored in the Novus Ordo context is often the product of an invalid form (the new “Eucharistic Prayers” lacking the clear sacrificial intent of the Roman Canon) and celebrated by “priests” ordained in the invalid 1968 rite of Paul VI, or by valid priests who have defected to the neo-church. Lamentabili Sane Exitu condemns the modernist error: “The sacraments merely serve to remind man of the presence of the ever-benevolent Creator” (Proposition 41). Sheen’s Eucharistic piety, however sincere subjectively, was exercised within and for a structure that officially teaches the heresy of the “Paschal Mystery” as a communal celebration rather than the unbloody renewal of the Sacrifice of the Cross. True Eucharistic devotion is inseparable from the Missale Romanum of St. Pius V and the theology of the Council of Trent. The pilgrimage’s “Mass at Sacred Heart Church” and “private prayer at his tomb” are acts of idolatry if performed in communion with the antipope and his false hierarchy.
False Ecumenism and the “Both Lungs” Heresy
The pilgrimage’s visit to St. John the Baptist Parish in Bradford for Byzantine Vespers with “Father” Thomas Loya epitomizes the conciliar error of false ecumenism. The article quotes Howard: “He truly is a Catholic bishop… He’s East and West; he’s everything that the Church needs right now.” This is the language of the Balmetto declaration and the Assisi meetings — a denial of the necessity of the Catholic Church for salvation. The Schismatic Orthodox lack the filioque, papal primacy, and the Immaculate Conception; they are not a “lung” of the Church but a separated body. Pius XI in Quas Primas teaches that “His reign encompasses also all non-Christians, so that most truly the entire human race is subject to the authority of Jesus Christ” — not that schismatics share in the Church’s life. The “both lungs” metaphor, popularized by John Paul II, is a theological fraud designed to legitimize schism and prepare the one-world religion. The pilgrimage’s participation in schismatic vespers (communicatio in sacris) is explicitly forbidden by divine and canon law (Canon 1258, 1917 Code). It is not piety; it is apostasy.
A Gallery of Modernist Collaborators
The conference speakers read like a roster of the neo-church establishment. Arthur Brooks, a Harvard professor and “Catholic author,” is a proponent of “happiness economics” and the “culture of encounter” — pure naturalism baptized with Christian vocabulary. “Msgr.” Roger Landry, national director of the “Pontifical Mission Societies USA,” represents the post-conciliar perversion of the Propagation of the Faith, which has replaced the conversion of nations to the Catholic Church with “interreligious dialogue” and humanitarianism. The Syllabus condemns: “The Church ought to be separated from the State, and the State from the Church” (Error 55) — yet these structures operate as NGOs within the Masonic world order. “Auxiliary Bishop” Joseph Coffey of the “Archdiocese for the Military Services” represents the military chaplaincy that blesses unjust wars and enforces the Novus Ordo on soldiers. Chris Stefanick of EWTN is the face of the “New Evangelization” — a marketing campaign for the conciliar sect. Peter Howard himself, with his doctorate from the Angelicum (a hotbed of Modernism since the 1960s) and his “Catholic Patriot” podcast, is a professional apologist for the usurpers. None of these men defend the integral faith; they manage the controlled opposition.
The Masonic Strategy: Manufacturing “Saints” for the New Age
The “False Fatima Apparitions” file exposes the Masonic modus operandi: “Stage 3 (1958-2000): Takeover of the narrative by modernists, concealment of the Third Secret, ecumenical reinterpretation.” The beatification of Sheen follows the same pattern. Sheen was a promoter of the Fatima message (itself a Masonic psychological operation per the file), using it to bolster anti-communism while ignoring the “main danger: modernist apostasy within the Church.” His beatification now serves to canonize the “spirit of Vatican II” — the very revolution that implemented the Masonic goal of destroying the Church from within. The pilgrimage’s structure — “orientation,” “reflections,” “conference,” “virtual pass,” “EWTN coverage” — mimics secular corporate retreats. It is a product, not a pilgrimage. The faithful are being sold a saint who will not judge them, but affirm them in their comfortable neo-Catholicism.
Silence on the Social Kingship of Christ: The Gravest Omission
Nowhere in the article — nor in Sheen’s televised corpus — is there a call for the public recognition of Christ the King over nations, the restoration of the Catholic confessional state, or the condemnation of religious liberty as a “pest” (Pius IX, Syllabus Error 77). Pius XI in Quas Primas declares: “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.” Sheen, a darling of American bishops and politicians, never challenged the Masonic foundation of the United States Constitution. His “beatification” is the consecration of Americanism. The pilgrimage’s visit to the “Gateway Arch” and “Old Cathedral” in St. Louis — symbols of westward expansion and civil religion — is telling. They walk in the footsteps of a man who blessed the American empire, not the City of God.
Conclusion: Flee the Conciliar Spectacle
This pilgrimage is a snare. It invites Catholics to invest their piety, time, and money in a counterfeit sanctity manufactured by the enemies of Christ the King. The true Church, the Ecclesia Militans, exists only where the integral faith of Trent and the Mass of St. Pius V are preserved without compromise — outside the structures of the neo-church. Qui non est mecum, contra me est (He who is not with Me is against Me). The beatification of Fulton Sheen by an antipope is not a “launch point” for renewal; it is a seal on the apostasy. True Catholics must reject this spectacle, adhere to the immutable Tradition, and pray for the restoration of a true Pope who will condemn the errors of the last seventy years ex cathedra. Viva Cristo Rey!
Source:
Walk in the Footsteps of Soon-to-Be-Blessed Fulton Sheen (ncregister.com)
Date: 31.08.2026