National Catholic Register (organ of the Legionaries of Christ) reports on October 1, 2026, an article by Ms. Amy Smith promoting the figure of the conciliar “archbishop” Fulton Sheen, styled “Blessed” by the usurper antipope Francis, and his 1973 conferences in Dublin on St. Thérèse of Lisieux. The piece summarizes Sheen’s exposition of the “Little Way” as a simple program of self-denial and love, highlighting Sheen’s claim that Thérèse is a “modern theologian” who teaches that Christ “suffers through us” to redeem souls, and that holiness consists in “falling in love” with the Good Lord. The article concludes with Sheen’s reflection on Thérèse’s martial aspirations and humility. This article exemplifies the neo-church’s substitution of supernatural Catholic doctrine with a therapeutic, anthropocentric sentimentalism that serves to legitimize the false hierarchy occupying the Vatican and to distract the faithful from the absolute necessity of the Social Kingship of Christ and the valid Sacrifice of the Mass.
The Invalidity of the Source and the Subject: A Conciliar Echo Chamber
The source itself, the National Catholic Register, is an official organ of the Legionaries of Christ, a congregation founded by the degenerate Marcial Maciel and thoroughly integrated into the conciliar sect’s apparatus. The author, Ms. Smith, functions as a propagandist for the “neo-church,” presenting the conciliar “archbishop” Fulton Sheen (d. 1979) as a “Blessed” — a title conferred by the antipope Francis in a beatification rite devoid of canonical validity, since the post-1958 claimants to the papacy (beginning with the usurper John XXIII) have ipso facto lost all jurisdiction by manifest heresy and participation in the conciliar revolution. As St. Robert Bellarmine teaches: “A manifest heretic cannot be Pope… he 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, lib. 2, cap. 30). Sheen, a peritus at Vatican II and enthusiastic implementer of its novelties, died in communion with the apostate Montini (Paul VI); his “beatification” is a theatrical act of the paramasonic structure occupying Rome, no more binding than the “canonizations” of the heretic John Paul II or the modernist John XXIII.
Linguistic Level: The Vocabulary of Therapeutic Deism
The article’s language reveals the animus of the conciliar religion: “beautiful insights,” “road map for the Christian life,” “troubled times,” “very simple,” “fall in love,” “spiritual life will be changed.” This is the lexicon of Modernism condemned by St. Pius X in Lamentabili Sane Exitu (1907) and Pascendi Dominici Gregis (1907). Proposition 59 of Lamentabili condemns the error that “Christ did not proclaim any specific, all-encompassing doctrine suitable for all times and peoples, but rather initiated a certain religious movement, applied or applicable to different times and places.” Sheen’s presentation of Thérèse as a “modern theologian” who “digs out” a “new way” buried in Scripture for “our times” is a textbook application of this condemned Modernist principle of the evolutio dogmatum — the evolution of dogma according to the “needs of the age.” The word “simple” functions as a euphemism for reductionist; the Cross is reduced to “little trials,” the Redemption to a subjective “sharing,” the Kingship of Christ to a private “devotion to the Sacred Heart.” The absence of the terms Sacrifice, Propitiation, Transubstantiation, Papacy, Infallibility, Anathema, Hell, Judgment, Social Kingship is not an oversight — it is the systematic excision of the depositum fidei in favor of a religiosity compatible with the “spirit of the world” condemned by the Syllabus of Pius IX (Error 77: “In the present day it is no longer expedient that the Catholic religion should be held as the only religion of the State…”).
Theological Level: The “Little Way” Divorced from the “Great King”
The article presents St. Thérèse’s spirituality in a vacuum, severed from the Corpus Christi — the Mystical Body visibly united to the true Roman Pontiff and the immutable Latin Mass. Pius XI, in Quas Primas (1925), the very year of Thérèse’s canonization, instituted the Feast of Christ the King precisely to combat the “plague of secularism, so-called laicism” which “began with the denial of Christ the Lord’s reign over all nations.” The encyclical declares: “His reign encompasses not only Catholic nations… but His reign encompasses also all non-Christians, so that most truly the entire human race is subject to the authority of Jesus Christ.” Sheen’s 1973 talks, delivered in the aftermath of the liturgical revolution and the Declaration on Religious Liberty (Dignitatis Humanae), make no mention of this Social Kingship. Instead, he offers a privatized piety: “You have the world to pray for. You are continuing His redemptive work with the little trials that you have to bear.” This is a dangerous distortion. The Redemption was objectively accomplished on Calvary and is objectively applied through the Unbloody Sacrifice of the Altar by valid priests. The faithful do not “continue the redemptive work” by their sufferings ex opere operato; they unite their sufferings to the one Sacrifice made present on the altar. To suggest otherwise, as Sheen does (“Christ makes use of and says, ‘I’m suffering through you, and we are redeeming souls'”), veers toward the Patripassian heresy and the Protestant notion of subjective “co-redemption” detached from the Priesthood and the Altar.
Furthermore, the article’s emphasis on Thérèse’s “biblical scholarship” (counting 350 quotations) and her “modern theologian” status serves the Modernist agenda of Lamentabili Proposition 12: “An exegete… should especially reject any preconceived opinion about the supernatural origin of Holy Scripture, which he should interpret just like other purely human documents.” Thérèse read Scripture as a saint, under the light of the Church’s Magisterium, not as a “scholar” applying historical-critical methods. Sheen’s framing (“she did not study Scripture as the scholar does… she picked up the prophet Isaiah… and read about 50 chapters before there came to her an inspiration”) subtly promotes the private judgment and enthusiasm condemned by the Council of Trent (Sess. IV, Decree on the Canonical Scriptures).
Symptomatic Level: The Function of Conciliar “Piety” in the Great Apostasy
Why does the neo-church promote Sheen and Thérèse in 2026? Because the “Little Way” — stripped of its dogmatic, liturgical, and hierarchical context — is the perfect spirituality for the Church of the New Advent. It demands no public confession of the Faith, no resistance to the antipope, no defense of the Mass of All Time, no rejection of false ecumenism. It says: “Fall in love,” “bear trials,” “pray for the world.” It is the opium of the people administered by the “paramasonic structure” to keep the laity passive while the abomination of desolation (Matt. 24:15) stands in the Holy Place. The article’s silence on the sede vacante, the invalidity of the Novus Ordo Missae, the heresies of Vatican II, and the necessity of separating from the conciliar sect (Cum ex Apostolatus Officio of Paul IV; Canon 188.4 of the 1917 Code) is the gravissima accusatio. As Pius XI taught in Quas Primas: “When God and Jesus Christ were removed from laws and states… the foundations of that authority were destroyed… the entire human society had to be shaken.” Today, Christ the King has been removed from the Vatican itself by the usurpers. The remedy is not a “simple way” of private devotion, but the integral Catholic Faith — the profession of the Tridentine Creed, the assistance at the True Mass, the recognition of the vacancy of the Holy See, and the prayer for a true Pope who will restore all things in Christ (Instaurare omnia in Christo).
The “Blessed” Sheen was a pillar of the conciliar establishment; his “devotion” to Thérèse was the piety of a man who accepted the new Mass, the new ecumenism, the new religious liberty. To propose him as a guide today is to propose the wide gate and the broad way that leads to destruction (Matt. 7:13). True devotion to St. Thérèse requires rejecting the neo-church that exploits her name.
Source:
Blessed Fulton Sheen Reflects on St. Thérèse (ncregister.com)
Date: 01.10.2026