The EWTN News portal reports that the Diocese of Allentown, a structure of the conciliar sect occupying the Vatican, initiated its third annual blood drive on the feast of St. Januarius, September 19, 2026, partnering with the secular Miller-Keystone Blood Center. The “bishop,” Alfred A. Schlert, framed the act as humanitarian self-giving, while donors were enticed with a “St. Januarius medallion blessed by the bishop.” The campaign, devoid of any reference to the Holy Sacrifice, the sacraments, or the salvation of souls, runs until December 16, another date of the saint’s famous liquefaction miracle, which the article treats as a mere cultural curiosity.
Reduction of the Episcopal Office to Humanitarian Management
The cited article presents the figure of “Bishop” Schlert not as a successor of the Apostles charged with the cura animarum (care of souls), but as a coordinator of biological logistics. His statement, “Blood cannot be manufactured or replaced… It can only come from individuals willing to give of themselves for others,” is a purely naturalistic exhortation. It echoes the philanthropic rhetoric of the Red Cross, not the voice of a Catholic prelate. Where is the munus docendi? Where is the call to the Unbloody Sacrifice of Calvary, the only true fountain of supernatural life? The “bishop” of the conciliar sect functions as an NGO administrator, having abandoned the potestas ordinis and potestas jurisdictionis for a seat at the table of secular humanitarianism. This is the bitter fruit of the post-conciliar “collegiality” which dissolved the monarchical episcopate into a bureaucratic conference of social workers.
Profanation of a Saint’s Feast for Secular Publicity
The choice of the feast of St. Januarius — a true martyr and bishop of the Ecclesia Catholica — as a hook for a blood drive is a calculated profanation. The miracle of the liquefaction of his blood, a divine sign confirming the truth of the Catholic Faith and the communion of saints, is reduced in the article to a chronological bookend: “The blood drive will end on Dec. 16, one of the dates St. Januarius’ blood is venerated for its miraculous liquefaction.” The miracle is not proclaimed as a motum credibilitatis (motive of credibility) for the one true Church, but exploited as a marketing device for a secular medical campaign. The “medallion blessed by the bishop” is a grotesque simulacrum of a sacramental. Since Schlert lacks valid orders (the new ordinal of Paul VI being deficient in form and intention for the episcopate), his “blessing” is null, irritus et inanis. The faithful are thus induced to superstition, venerating a token from a false pastor, while the true relic in Naples testifies against the apostasy of the neo-church.
Total Silence on the Supernatural Order: The Gravest Accusation
The article breathes an atmosphere of laicism 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.” Here, the “Church” removes Christ from her own activity. There is not a single mention of:
- The Most Holy Sacrifice of the Mass, the fons et culmen of Christian life.
- The necessity of the state of grace for any work to be meritorious.
- The conversion of sinners, the true “blood drive” of the Church (Sanguis Christi, inebria me).
- The Final Judgment, before which blood donation avails nothing without charity.
St. Paul teaches: “If I should distribute all my goods to feed the poor… and have not charity, it profiteth me nothing” (1 Cor 13:3). The conciliar sect, having lost the Faith, substitutes caritas (supernatural love of God) with philanthropia (natural love of man). This is the heresy of humanitarianism, the religion of the Antichrist foretold by the Fathers.
The “Miracle” as Myth in the Modernist Narrative
The article notes: “According to the Diocese of Naples, Italy, the saint’s blood liquefied this year on Sept. 19 at 10:04 a.m.” This precision — 10:04 a.m. — serves a naturalistic curiosity, not faith. The conciliar “Diocese of Naples” (itself a structure of the neo-church) treats the miracle as a scheduled event, stripping it of its terrifying significance: God intervenes to confirm the Faith of the martyrs against the gates of hell. In the hands of Modernists, the miracle becomes a “cultural heritage” item, compatible with the “dialogue” with the world. St. Januarius died propter fidem (for the Faith) under Diocletian; his blood liquefies today to condemn the apostasy of those who occupy his see and the sees of the world, who have made a covenant with death (Is 28:15).
Symptomatic Level: The Neo-Church as a Branch of the Secular State
The partnership with Miller-Keystone Blood Center and the citation of Red Cross statistics (“second national blood supply crisis in history”) reveal the total integration of the conciliar structures into the temporal order. The “diocesan spokesman” boasts the campaign can “become a straightforward model other dioceses around the country could adopt.” This is the immanentization of the eschaton: the Kingdom of God reduced to a successful blood drive model. The “Church of the New Advent” does not leaven the world; it is digested by it. It adopts the world’s methods (sponsor codes, medallions, PR metrics), the world’s language (inventory, trauma season, perishable), and the world’s goals (physical survival). It is salsus insipidus (salt that has lost its savor), fit only to be cast out and trodden by men (Mt 5:13).
Canon 188.4 and the Vacancy of the See
The very existence of “Bishop” Schlert as a public figure leading this naturalistic enterprise confirms the vacancy of the See of Allentown. By Canon 188 §4 of the 1917 Code: “Every office becomes vacant by the mere fact and without any declaration… if the cleric… publicly defects from the Catholic faith.” Public defection is not merely joining a sect; it is the manifestation of heresy. The “bishop” who presides over the Novus Ordo “mass” (a Protestantized meal), who teaches religious liberty (condemned by Pius IX in the Syllabus, error 77), who participates in false ecumenism, and who now acts as a Red Cross ambassador, has ipso facto lost all jurisdiction. He is a layman in purple, a pseudo-episcopus, leading the blind into the ditch (Mt 15:14).
St. Januarius: Patron of the True Faith, Not Blood Banks
The article calls St. Januarius the “patron saint of blood banks.” This is a modern, reductive fabrication. He is the patron of Naples, invoked against volcanic eruptions and for the conversion of sinners. His blood liquefies to confirm the Catholic and Apostolic Faith, not to facilitate transfusion medicine. The conciliar sect, true to its Masonic inspiration (cf. the “Fatima” operation analyzed elsewhere), strips saints of their theological potency, turning them into mascots for secular causes. St. Januarius, who hid Christians from persecution, would today hide the faithful from the “bishops” of the neo-church who lead them not to the Catacombs for the Mass, but to the bloodmobile for a pint of O-negative.
Conclusion: Anathema to the Counterfeit Church
This blood drive is a sacrilegium in the broad sense: the holy things (the feast of a martyr, the concept of blood, the episcopal blessing) are prostituted to a purely natural end. It is a perfect icon of the conciliar sect: forma pietatis negata, virtute autem eius repudiata (having a form of godliness but denying the power thereof — 2 Tim 3:5). The true Church, the Ecclesia militans persevering in the catacombs of Tradition, offers the Unbloody Sacrifice where the Blood of Christ is truly present, non factum manibus, sed a Spiritu Sancto (not made by hands, but by the Holy Ghost). Let the dead bury their dead (Lk 9:60); the children of the Kingdom seek first the Kingdom of God and His justice (Mt 6:33), knowing that “unless you eat the flesh of the Son of man and drink his blood, you shall not have life in you” (Jn 6:54). No blood drive of the neo-church can supply that Life.
Source:
Allentown Diocese begins annual blood drive on feast of St. Januarius amid nationwide shortage (ewtnnews.com)
Date: 23.09.2026