The National Catholic Register portal, the English-language mouthpiece of the EWTN neo-church media empire, reports on a conference held September 16 at the Basilica of St. Mary Queen of Apostles in Rome commemorating the tenth anniversary of the death of Father Gabriele Amorth. The event, organized by the modernist rag Famiglia Cristiana, the Society of St. Paul (founded by the pseudo-beatified James Alberione), and the International Association of Exorcists (a neo-church bureaucracy founded by Amorth himself in 1994), featured a lineup of neo-clerics: “Father” Francesco Bamonte, “Father” Marcello Lanza, “Father” Aldo Buonaiuto, and “Father” Stefano Stimamiglio. They extolled Amorth’s “humanity,” “spirituality,” and “communication skills,” framing his exorcism ministry as an “act of charity” rather than the exercise of Christ’s royal authority over the powers of darkness. This hagiographic whitewash of a post-conciliar functionary exposes the neo-church’s total substitution of the supernatural order for naturalistic humanitarianism.
The Neo-Church’s Counterfeit Canonization Factory
The very structure of this conference manifests the lex orandi lex credendi (the law of prayer is the law of belief) of the conciliar sect: a mutual admiration society of invalidly ordained men celebrating one of their own functionaries. “Cardinal” Ugo Poletti — a creature of the Montinian and Wojtylan apostasy — appointed Amorth exorcist of the Diocese of Rome in 1985. Amorth trained under “Venerable” Candido Amantini, a Passionist of the neo-church whose cause for “sanctity” is processed by the same counterfeit Congregation for the Causes of Saints that “canonized” the Freemason-linked Fatima seers and the evolutionist heretic Newman. The International Association of Exorcists, founded by Amorth in 1994, is a canonical fiction erected under the 1983 Code — a legislator of the anti-church — and possesses no jurisdiction in the true Church, which subsists only in bishops and priests retaining valid orders and the integral faith prior to 1958.
Reduction of Exorcism to Humanitarian “Charity”
The speakers repeatedly characterized exorcism as an “act of charity” and emphasized Amorth’s “attentiveness to those who suffered.” This language betrays a theological inversion of the first order. Exorcism is not a work of social welfare; it is the imperium of Christ the King exercised through His minister: Exorcizo te, omnis spiritus immunde, in nomine Dei… et in virtute Crucis Domini nostri Iesu Christi (I exorcize you, every unclean spirit, in the name of God… and by the power of the Cross of our Lord Jesus Christ). By reducing the rite to “charity,” the neo-clerics strip it of its juridical and regal character — the authority of the Rex Gentium (King of Nations) binding the demonic powers. Pius XI taught in Quas Primas: “Christ received from the Father unlimited right over all that is created, so that all is subject to His will… His reign encompasses all men… not only Catholic nations… but also all non-Christians”. The devil fears not “charity” but the authority of the King whom the neo-church has dethroned by its doctrine of religious liberty and false ecumenism.
Fatima Operative’s Disciple and the Masonic Psy-Op
Amorth was a notorious promoter of the Fatima apparitions — exposed in theological analysis as a Masonic psychological operation utilizing 200-year ritual cycles (1717, 1917, 2017), the “Miracle of the Sun” as mass optical manipulation, and a three-stage disinformation strategy culminating in the ecumenical reinterpretation of the “Third Secret” by modernists. The Fatima message demands “hyper-acts” of worship (consecration of Russia) that undermine the centralized role of the Church and the sacraments, promotes “national conversion without evangelization” contrary to Catholic ecclesiology, and uses imprecise formulation (“conversion of Russia” without specifying Catholicism) to legitimize dialogue with schismatic Orthodoxy. Amorth’s devotion to this Masonic construct renders his entire ministry suspect in radice (suspect at the root). The neo-church’s celebration of him confirms its complicity in the operation.
The Society of St. Paul: Media Arm of the Abomination
The conference co-organizer, the Society of St. Paul, was founded by James Alberione — “beatified” by the apostate Wojtyla in 2003. Alberione’s “Pauline” spirituality is steeped in the hermeneutic of continuity with the world, using modern media not to proclaim Extra Ecclesiam nulla salus but to accommodate the Gospel to the “modern mentality.” Famiglia Cristiana, their flagship publication, has for decades disseminated Modernism, religious indifferentism, and the “cult of man” condemned by St. Pius X in Pascendi Dominici Gregis and Lamentabili Sane Exitu. The Syllabus of Pius IX condemns the error that “the Roman Pontiff can, and ought to, reconcile himself, and come to terms with progress, liberalism and modern civilization” (Error 80). The Society of St. Paul embodies this condemned proposition.
Absence of the Supernatural: Silence as Accusation
The article’s vocabulary — “humanity,” “spirituality,” “communication,” “suffering,” “vulnerability,” “formation,” “theological criteria” — is entirely naturalistic. Nowhere appears: state of grace, Mortal Sin, Hell, Final Judgment, Social Kingship of Christ, Cum Ex Apostolatus Officio, Canon 188.4, valid orders, una cum schism. This silence is the gravest accusation. A true exorcist knows that the primary door for demonic entry is mortal sin, and the primary remedy is sacramental confession and the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass — the Unbloody Sacrifice of Calvary. The neo-church’s “Mass” (Novus Ordo) is a Protestantized memorial meal, its “priests” lack valid orders (post-1968 ordinal), its “confessions” are often invalid due to defective form and intent. Amorth operated within this sacramental void. His “exorcisms” were at best psychological theater; at worst, they invoked the name of a “Christ” whom the neo-church has redefined into a mere religious leader among many.
Symptomatic Level: The Neo-Church’s Self-Justification
This conference is a symptom of the conciliar revolution’s terminal phase. Having abandoned the integral faith, the neo-church must manufacture “saints” and “heroes” from its own functionaries to simulate vitality. Amorth — a man who accepted the usurpers from Roncalli to Bergoglio, who never denounced the New Mass, who never applied Canon 188.4 to the manifest heretics occupying the Vatican, who promoted the Masonic Fatima operation — is elevated as a model. The parallel drawn with “Father” Oreste Benzi (founder of the “Pope John XXIII Community,” named after the anti-pope who convened the Robber Council) seals the indictment: two men who “certainly did not know diplomacy” — i.e., who never resisted the apostasy in any doctrinal sense, but only performed charitable works within the neo-structure.
Conclusion: Return to the King, Reject the Counterfeit
The veneration of Amorth is the veneration of the neo-church itself: a simulacrum of piety devoid of the sacerdotium and the regnum. As St. Robert Bellarmine teaches, a manifest heretic loses office ipso facto; the line of usurpers from John XXIII to Leo XIV (Prevost) are not popes but antipopes. Their “bishops” and “priests” have no jurisdiction. The true Church endures in the catacombs of Tradition, where valid bishops and priests offer the True Mass, uphold the Social Kingship of Christ, and exorcize in the name of the King of Kings — not as “charity workers” but as ministers of His potestas ligandi et solvendi. Non praevalebunt (they shall not prevail).
Source:
Father Gabriele Amorth Remembered as Exorcist, Spiritual Guide, and Communicator (ncregister.com)
Date: 18.09.2026