The EWTN News portal, propaganda organ of the paramasonic structure occupying the Vatican, publishes a hagiographic compendium titled “Padre Pio: 13 facts about St. Pio of Pietrelcina to know and share,” originally issued by the National Catholic Register. The piece enumerates alleged prodigies—stigmata, bilocation, diabolical assaults, miraculous healings, and the “flying friar” wartime spectacle—culminating in the 2002 “canonization” by the antipope John Paul II. This celebration of a pseudo-mystic, whose phenomena bear the hallmarks of Masonic psychological operations and Jansenist rigorism, epitomizes the conciliar sect’s substitution of supernatural faith with sentimental wonder-working and its apotheosis of the creature over the Creator.
The Illegitimacy of the Conciliar Canonization Process
The article’s foundational premise—that Francesco Forgione is a “saint” canonized on June 16, 2002—rests upon a juridical and theological nullity. The “canonization” was performed by Karol Wojtyła (John Paul II), a manifest heretic who, by the very fact of his public adhesion to the errors of Vatican II (religious liberty, false ecumenism, collegiality), had ipso facto ceased to hold the papal office. As St. Robert Bellarmine teaches: “A manifest heretic cannot be Pope… he cannot be the head of something of which he is not a member” (De Romano Pontifice, II, 30). A non-pope possesses no authority to bind the Church in matters of faith, including the infallible act of canonization. The 1917 Code, Canon 188 §4, confirms that “every office becomes vacant by the mere fact and without any declaration… if the cleric publicly defects from the Catholic faith.” The “canonization” of Padre Pio is therefore a null, void act of a usurper, devoid of any guarantee of the Church’s infallibility. It is an act of the abomination of desolation (Matt. 24:15), not of the Bride of Christ.
Padre Pio: A Construct of Masonic Pseudo-Mysticism
The dossier on False Fatima Apparitions establishes a template for analyzing such phenomena: “The mortifications of the children (fasting, self-harm) bear the marks of Jansenist rigorism, not Catholic asceticism.” Padre Pio’s life—chains, cilices, self-flagellation, sleep deprivation—mirrors this Jansenist distortion. True Catholic asceticism, as taught by St. Thomas Aquinas (Summa Theologiae II-II, q. 147), is ordered to virtue under the guidance of obedience, not to spectacular self-destruction. The False Fatima analysis further notes the “Symbolism of dates: 1717 (founding of Freemasonry), 1917 (apparitions), 2017 (canonization) – ritualistic 200-year cycles.” Padre Pio received the stigmata on September 20, 1918—precisely as the Masonic operation entered its global phase. His “canonization” in 2002 fits the timeline of the conciliar sect’s consolidation. The “odor of sanctity” (Fact 4) and “bilocation” (Fact 7) are classic signa magna employed by false mystics to bypass the Church’s ordinary magisterium. St. John of the Cross warns: “The devil can transform himself into an angel of light… God does not usually grant such favors” (Ascent of Mount Carmel, II, 22). The conciliar sect, having abandoned the regula fidei, substitutes sensus fidelium with sensus sentimentalium.
The Stigmata: Diabolical Sign or Divine Seal? Theological Impossibility
The article asserts: “On Sept. 20, 1918, Padre Pio received the stigmata while praying in a church. The wounds remained visible on his body for the rest of his life.” The Church, prior to 1958, never defined stigmata as a criterion of sanctity. St. Francis of Assisi received them privately; their authenticity was discerned by the Church’s authority, not by public spectacle. Padre Pio’s wounds—visible, bleeding, photographed, exhibited for fifty years—violate the modesty of true mysticism. St. Teresa of Avila teaches: “The safest way is not to desire these favors… they are often illusions of the devil” (Interior Castle, VI, 9). Moreover, the healing without scars at death (Fact 9) contradicts the nature of true stigmata, which participate in the permanent wounds of the Risen Christ (John 20:27). A miraculous disappearance suggests a preternatural fabrication, not a divine seal. The Syllabus of Errors condemns the proposition: “Miracles are the fiction of poets” (Error 7), but equally condemns the credulity that accepts every prodigy as divine. The Holy Office under Pius X, in Lamentabili sane exitu, condemned the Modernist error: “The Resurrection… is not properly a historical fact… cannot be proven” (Prop. 36). By parity of reasoning, the conciliar sect treats stigmata as unverifiable “faith experiences,” divorcing them from objective theological criteria.
Bilocation and “Odor of Sanctity”: Sensationalism Substituting for Holiness
Fact 7 claims: “Multiple eyewitness accounts attest to the ability of Padre Pio to be in multiple places at once… ‘by an extension of his personality.'” This phrase is metaphysical nonsense. Bilocation, if genuine, is a miraculous multiplication of the body by God’s power, not an “extension of personality”—a Modernist psychologizing of the supernatural. Fact 8 recounts the “flying friar” wartime myth: “A brown-robed friar appeared before their aircraft. All attempts to release the bombs failed.” This is crude propaganda, reminiscent of the “Miracle of the Sun: mass optical manipulation… and mass panic and autosuggestion” documented in the False Fatima file. It serves to sacralize the conciliar sect’s narrative, replacing the Social Kingship of Christ (Pius XI, Quas Primas: “His reign encompasses also all non-Christians… the entire human race is subject to the authority of Jesus Christ”) with a friar-as-superhero mythos. The odor of sanctity (Fact 4) is reduced to a sensory token, divorced from the odor of virtue (2 Cor. 2:15). St. Alphonsus Liguori warns: “The devil often gives sensible consolations to draw souls to presumption” (The True Spouse of Jesus Christ, Ch. 12).
The Confessional as Spectacle: Violation of Sacramental Theology
Fact 5 boasts: “Padre Pio heard confessions 12 to 15 hours a day… could also read the hearts of penitents, reminding them of sins that were forgotten or omitted.” This transforms the tribunal of mercy into a carnival of clairvoyance. The Council of Trent defines the sacrament: “The penitent must accuse himself of all mortal sins… after a diligent examination” (Sess. XIV, Can. 7). The priest judges ex auditis; he does not read hearts—that is God’s prerogative (1 Kings 16:7). Padre Pio’s alleged “reading of hearts” usurps divine omniscience and undermines the penitent’s obligation to integral confession. His reported quote—“Confession is the soul’s bath… Even a clean and unoccupied room gathers dust”—reduces the Sacrament of Penance to a psychological hygiene routine, stripping it of its juridical character as judicium. This is the Modernist reduction of sacraments to “rites of passage” condemned in Lamentabili (Prop. 39-41): “The sacraments arose as a result of the interpretation by the Apostles… under the influence of circumstances.”
Diabolical Manifestations: Theatrics of the Damned
Fact 6 details diabolical apparitions as “naked and provocative young girls,” “big black cat,” “spiritual director,” “Jesus, the Virgin Mary, or St. Francis.” The source cited is Gabriele Amorth, the conciliar sect’s “exorcist,” whose rites were novelty-fabricated post-1968. True diabolical obsession, as taught by the Roman Ritual (pre-1952), manifests in lingua ignota, vires praeternaturales, revelatio occultorum—not in theatrical shape-shifting designed to titillate biographers. St. Pius V’s Exorcizamus te commands the demon in the name of the whole Church; the conciliar “exorcism” is a psychodrama. The False Fatima file identifies this pattern: “The devil took on the appearance of his spiritual director, or posed as Jesus, the Virgin Mary, or St. Francis”—exactly as reported here. This is the Masonic “psychological operation” signature: counterfeit mysticism to discredit the genuine.
Hospital Building: Naturalistic Humanism Replacing Supernatural Charity
Fact 12 highlights: “Casa Sollievo della Sofferenza… inaugurated on May 5, 1956… now known for its state-of-the-art facilities.” This is the conciliar sect’s “social gospel” in nuce: corporal works detached from the spiritual end of the Church. Pius XI in Quas Primas declares: “The state is happy not by one means, and man by another; for the state is nothing else than a harmonious association of men… He is the author of prosperity and true happiness for individual citizens as well as for the state.” But this prosperity flows from Christ’s Kingship acknowledged, not from a hospital built by a pseudo-stigmatic. The Syllabus condemns: “The best theory of civil society requires that popular schools… should be freed from all ecclesiastical authority” (Error 47). Here, the “hospital” becomes a monument to humanitarianism, the religion of the Cult of Man (Paul VI, Gaudium et Spes—itself heretical). True charity builds hospitals for souls first; the conciliar sect builds hospitals for bodies to legitimize its secular relevance.
Silence on the Mass, Papacy, and Dogma: The Gaping Void
The article’s 13 facts contain zero reference to the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass as propitiatory victim, zero reference to the Papacy as divinely instituted monarchy, zero reference to the necessity of the Catholic Faith for salvation (extra Ecclesiam nulla salus), zero reference to the Last Things. This silence is the gravest accusation. Lamentabili sane exitu condemns the Modernist error: “Christ did not proclaim any specific, all-encompassing doctrine suitable for all times and peoples” (Prop. 59). Padre Pio, as presented by EWTN, is a saint without doctrine—a wonder-worker for an age that has abandoned truth for experience. The Syllabus condemns: “The Church has not the power of defining dogmatically that the religion of the Catholic Church is the only true religion” (Error 21). The conciliar sect’s “saints” embody this negation.
EWTN: Propaganda Arm of the Paramasonic Structure
The article originates from the National Catholic Register / EWTN News, the media empire founded by the pseudo-nun “Mother Angelica,” a creature of the post-conciliar establishment. Its purpose is to normalize the counterfeit sanctity of the neo-church, to convince the faithful that the abomination of desolation produces holiness. By celebrating Padre Pio—a figure whose phenomena align with the Masonic operation’s “Stage 3: Takeover of the narrative by modernists, concealment of the Third Secret, ecumenical reinterpretation” (False Fatima file)—EWTN reinforces the Great Apostasy (2 Thess. 2:3). The faithful are fed signs and wonders (Matt. 24:24) to distract from the loss of the Mass, the priesthood, the papacy, and the Faith.
Conclusion: Return to the Immutable Tradition
The “13 facts” are 13 idols of the conciliar sect. Padre Pio, as canonized by the usurper Wojtyła and promoted by the paramasonic media, is a synthetic saint for a synthetic church. True Catholics, adhering to the quod ubique, quod semper, quod ab omnibus of St. Vincent of Lérins, reject this canonization as null, the stigmata as suspicious, the miracles as unverified, the bilocation as myth, and the entire narrative as a diabolical masterpiece of distraction. “In the end, Mary’s Heart will triumph”—but not through the false Fatima, nor the false Padre Pio, nor the false popes. Christus vincit, Christus regnat, Christus imperat. The triumph belongs to the King of Kings (Rev. 19:16), whose Kingdom shall have no end (Dan. 7:14; Quas Primas), and whose true vicars on earth are the bishops and priests preserving the Tradition of the Apostles without admixture of novelty. Reject the counterfeit. Cleave to the Cross.
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Padre Pio: 13 facts about St. Pio of Pietrelcina to know and share (ewtnnews.com)
Date: 23.09.2026