The EWTN News portal reports that the Episcopal Conference of El Salvador, during their ad limina visit to Rome from September 7–11, 2026, petitioned the usurper “Pope” Leo XIV (Robert Prevost) to declare the liberation theology architect Óscar Arnulfo Romero a Doctor of the Church and to visit the country to venerate his tomb. The request was allegedly received with a “very positive and welcoming attitude” by the antipope, who claimed personal devotion to Romero, carrying a holy card and third-class relic. The Salvadoran “bishops” presented a first-class relic to the claimant of the Holy See. Romero, assassinated in 1980 while celebrating the Novus Ordo service, was “canonized” by the antipope Francis in 2018. This maneuver confirms the conciliar sect’s determination to enshrine Marxist-inspired liberation theology as official doctrine through the counterfeit magisterium of the usurpers occupying the Vatican.
Usurpation of Papal Authority and the Nullity of Conciliar “Canonizations”
The entire premise of this report rests upon the grievous delusion that the claimants to the papacy since 1958 possess legitimate authority. The line of usurpers began with the Modernist Angelo Roncalli (John XXIII) and continues through Robert Prevost (“Leo XIV”). As St. Robert Bellarmine teaches in De Romano Pontifice: “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”. The “canonization” of Romero by the antipope Francis in 2018 is null, void, and of no effect (nulla, irrita, et invalida), lacking the protection of infallibility which belongs solely to the true Roman Pontiff. The 1917 Code of Canon Law, Canon 188.4, declares that an office becomes vacant ipso facto by “public defection from the Catholic faith”. The conciliar “popes,” by their public adherence to the heresies of Vatican II — religious liberty, ecumenism, collegiality — have automatically lost all jurisdiction before any declaratory sentence. Therefore, any “doctor of the Church” proclaimed by Leo XIV would be a fabrication of a paramasonic structure, not a recognition of sanctity by the Church of Christ.
Romero: Martyr of Liberation Theology, Not of the Faith
The article presents Romero as a “martyred archbishop” assassinated “while celebrating Mass.” It suppresses the theological reality of his assassination. Romero was not killed in odium fidei (out of hatred for the Catholic Faith), but in odium iustitiae socialis — in the context of a political conflict fueled by his promotion of liberation theology, a synthesis of Marxism and Christianity explicitly condemned by Pius XI in Divini Redemptoris (1937) and by the Holy Office under Pius XII. The Syllabus of Errors of Pius IX condemns the proposition that “the Church ought to be separated from the State, and the State from the Church” (Error 55). Romero’s “option for the poor” was a theological perversion substituting class struggle for the supernatural order, reducing the Kingship of Christ to temporal revolution. The Lamentabili Sane Exitu (1907) condemns the Modernist error that “Christ did not proclaim any specific, all-encompassing doctrine suitable for all times and peoples, but rather initiated a certain religious movement” (Prop. 59). Romero’s theology is precisely this: a political messianism denying the regnum Christi as “not of this world” (John 18:36).
The “Doctor of the Church” Title Prostituted to Serve the Neo-Church’s Agenda
The article explains the title “Doctor of the Church” requires “evident holiness… eminence in doctrine… and a formal declaration by the Church”. In the hands of the conciliar sect, this title has become a political instrument to legitimize Modernist theologians. The recent “doctorate” granted to the heretic John Henry Newman by the same usurping line — a convert from Anglicanism whose Essay on the Development of Christian Doctrine provided the blueprint for the evolutionist heresy condemned by St. Pius X in Pascendi Dominici Gregis — proves the pattern. To propose Romero, whose writings are saturated with liberationist rhetoric and devoid of systematic Catholic theology, is to mock the very concept of doctrinal eminence. The true Doctors of the Church — Athanasius, Augustine, Thomas Aquinas, Teresa of Avila — defended the depositum fidei against heresy. Romero is the patron of the heresy that destroys the deposit.
Relic Worship as Theatrical Legitimation of the Usurper
The exchange of relics — the antipope’s third-class relic and holy card for the “bishops'” first-class relic — is a liturgical farce staging communion where none exists. The Council of Trent (Sess. XXV) teaches that relics are to be venerated because the bodies of saints are “living members of Christ” and “temples of the Holy Ghost”. But no true saint exists outside the true Church. The “canonizations” of the conciliar sect are non-existent in the eyes of God. The veneration of Romero’s relics by the claimant of the papacy constitutes idolatry — the worship of a false saint by a false pope. As 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, by creating its own pantheon of “saints” (Kolbe, Teresa of Calcutta, Romero, Newman), constructs a counterfeit Church where the cultus due to God’s friends is diverted to servants of the Revolution.
EWTN: Propaganda Arm of the Conciliar Sect
The source, EWTN News (ACI Prensa), functions as a disinformation outlet for the neo-church. Its reporting adopts the lingua novitata — “Holy Father,” “Pontiff,” “canonized,” “doctor of the Church” — normalizing the usurpation and anesthetizing the faithful against the reality of the vacancy. The article’s tone — “marked by closeness, fraternity, and the paternal character” — is sentimental manipulation replacing theological truth. The omission of any reference to Romero’s liberation theology, his links to Marxist guerrillas, or the dubia of faithful theologians regarding his “martyrdom” exposes the deliberate concealment of truth. This is the modus operandi of the synagoga Satanae denounced by Pius IX: “deceiving many with astute frauds… triumphs as a powerful master”.
The Social Kingship of Christ vs. the Revolutionary “Saint”
Pius XI in Quas Primas (1925) instituted the Feast of Christ the King to combat “the secularism of our times, so-called laicism”, declaring: “When God and Jesus Christ were removed from laws and states… the foundations of that authority were destroyed”. Romero’s entire pastoral program — echoed by the conciliar “bishops” petitioning the usurper — subordinates the Kingship of Christ to political liberation. The article’s silence on the Social Kingship of Christ, on the rights of God over nations, on the duty of states to profess the Catholic Faith (condemned as error by the Syllabus, Prop. 77), reveals the naturalistic core of the conciliar project. They do not seek a Doctor to “instruct men in the truths of faith” (Pius XI), but a patron saint for the Masonic “civilization of love” — the civitas diaboli masquerading as the Kingdom of God.
Conclusion: Return to the Catacombs, Reject the Counterfeit
This petition, this meeting, this exchange of relics — all are acts of the Great Apostasy foretold by St. Paul (2 Thess. 2:3). The faithful must recognize the vacancy of the Holy See, reject the sacraments and “saints” of the conciliar sect as simulacra of the true, and adhere to the immutable Tradition preserved by bishops and priests of valid orders and uncorrupted faith. “You were bought with a price; do not become slaves of men” (1 Cor. 7:23). The true Church does not negotiate with usurpers, does not beg Doctors from Modernists, does not venerate revolutionaries. “Christus vincit, Christus regnat, Christus imperat” — and His Kingdom is not of this world, nor of the neo-church occupying Rome.
Source:
Bishops of El Salvador ask Pope Leo to proclaim Saint Óscar Romero a Doctor of the Church (ewtnnews.com)
Date: 09.10.2026