EWTN News portal reports that as the usurper “Pope” Leo XIV (Robert Prevost) recovers from lung cancer surgery at Rome’s Gemelli Hospital, Catholics are being directed to invoke St. Peregrine Laziosi, the 14th-century Servite priest canonized in 1726, as the “patron of cancer patients.” The article recounts Peregrine’s conversion from an anti-papal partisan, his miraculous healing from a cancerous foot the night before scheduled amputation, and the modern devotion centered at the National Shrine in Chicago — the very city where the antipope was born. This pious narrative serves as a diabolical parody of Catholic intercession, harnessing a true saint of the pre-conciliar Church to legitimize the false papacy of the conciliar sect and reduce the mystery of redemptive suffering to a transactional plea for physical cure.
The Usurper’s Illness as Propaganda for the Counterfeit Church
The article opens with the Holy See Press Office — the propaganda organ of the paramasonic structure occupying the Vatican — confirming the diagnosis of “non-small cell lung cancer.” This medical bulletin is instantly weaponized by EWTN, the media flagship of the Church of the New Advent, to manufacture a spectacle of “universal prayer” for the antipope. The faithful are manipulated into spiritual communion with a manifest heretic who occupies the Chair of Peter ipso facto vacated by his adherence to the synthesis of all heresies: Modernism (St. Pius X, Pascendi Dominici Gregis).
St. Robert Bellarmine teaches with absolute clarity: “A manifest heretic cannot be Pope… a non-Christian in no way can be Pope… he cannot be the head of something of which he is not a member” (De Romano Pontifice, II, 30). Robert Prevost, as “Leo XIV,” publicly professes the conciliar errors of religious liberty, false ecumenism, and the collegiality that subverts the monarchical constitution of the Church — errors condemned by Pius IX (Quanta Cura, Syllabus Errorum), Pius X (Pascendi), and Pius XI (Mortalium Animos, Quas Primas). By inviting prayer for him as “Pope,” EWTN coerces the faithful into implicit recognition of his usurped authority, violating the divine law that “he who is not with Me is against Me” (Mt 12:30).
St. Peregrine: A True Saint Abducted by the Neo-Church
St. Peregrine Laziosi (d. 1345), canonized by Benedict XIII in 1726, belongs to the Church Triumphant in the unbroken continuity of Tradition. His life — conversion through the patience of St. Philip Benizi, the Servite charism of penance (“for 30 years he never sat down”), the miraculous healing by Christ Crucified — radiates the sanctity of the Cross. But the article strips this sanctity of its theological architecture: the imitatio Christi unto death, the merit of suffering united to the Unbloody Sacrifice of Calvary, the final end of eternal salvation.
Instead, the Servite priest is reduced to a “cancer saint” — a celestial specialist in oncology, a thaumaturgic functionary for bodily health. The EWTN novena and Father Lovasik’s booklet are marketed as spiritual pharmaceuticals. This is the Pelagianism of the conciliar age: grace as a vending machine, the saints as intercessory technicians, the Cross emptied of its propitiatory power. Pius XI warned 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, because it lacked a stable and strong foundation.” Here, the saint is removed from the Kingdom of Christ the King and installed in the kingdom of man — the anthropocentric cult of the Church of the New Advent.
The Chicago Connection: Geography as False Providence
The article notes with calculated sentimentality that the National Shrine of St. Peregrine sits in Chicago, “the city where Leo was born.” This geographic coincidence is presented as a sign of divine favor upon the antipope, a subtle signum that the usurper’s hometown saint watches over him. In reality, it exposes the naturalistic religion of the neo-church: God’s providence reduced to ZIP codes and demographic accidents. The true Catholic sees Chicago not as the birthplace of “Leo XIV” but as a stronghold of the conciliar revolution — the see of the “Cardinal” Cupich, the laboratory of the “synodal” farce, the graveyard of the Mass of Ages. St. Peregrine’s shrine there stands as a signum contradictionis: a true saint imprisoned in a false structure, his intercession hijacked for the consolation of the enemies of Christ the King.
The Linguistic Camouflage: “Pope,” “Holy See,” “Catholics”
Every sentence of the article drips with the Newspeak of the conciliar sect. “Pope Leo XIV” — the title of the Vicar of Christ applied to a layman elevated by a conclave of heretics. “Holy See Press Office” — the voice of the Roman Curia usurped by the synagogue of Satan (Apoc 2:9). “Catholics around the world are praying for him” — the populus fidelium redefined as the congregants of the Novus Ordo sect. “Vatican” — metonymy for the abomination of desolation standing in the holy place (Mt 24:15).
The article uses “we” and “our” (EWTN News Staff) to create a false communion between the reader and the neo-church hierarchy. This is the hermeneutic of rupture disguised as continuity: the vocabulary of Tradition emptied of its substance, filled with the spiritus mundi of Vatican II. St. Pius X condemned this method in Lamentabili Sane Exitu (prop. 59): “Christ did not proclaim any specific, all-encompassing doctrine suitable for all times and peoples, but rather initiated a certain religious movement…” The article proclaims a “movement” of prayer for a false pope, not the doctrine of the Faith.
The Theology of Suffering: From Redemption to Therapy
The account of Peregrine’s healing — Christ reaching from the Cross to touch the cancerous foot — is the theological heart the article eviscerates. In the integral Catholic faith, this miracle signifies the victory of the Crucified over death and sin, a foretaste of the Resurrection granted to a soul conformed to the Victim of Calvary. Peregrine’s 30 years of standing, his preaching, his confession ministry — these are the meritorious cause (under grace) of the miracle. The miracle serves the glory of God and the salvation of souls.
The conciliar narrative inverts this: the miracle becomes a precedent for physical healing on demand. The novena is a technique. The “cancer saint” is a patron for patients, not for penitents. The article mentions “prayers” and “novena” but never mentions the Most Holy Sacrifice, the state of grace, sacramental confession, indulgences, or the final judgment. This silence is the gravissima accusatio. It reveals the practical atheism of the neo-church: God exists to service human health; the saints are celestial nurses; the Cross is a metaphor for resilience.
Pius XII, in Mystici Corporis Christi (1943), teaches: “The sufferings of the members of the Mystical Body… contribute to the redemption of souls.” The article offers no hint of this co-redemptive theology. It offers only the therapeutic deism of the post-conciliar world.
EWTN: The Propaganda Arm of the Abomination
EWTN, founded by the “Mother” Angelica (a religious of the conciliar order), is the Fox News of the counterfeit church — a media empire built on the Novus Ordo liturgy, the false ecumenism of “Eternal Word Television Network,” the promotion of “charismatic” excesses, and the relentless legitimization of every usurper since John XXIII. Its “news staff” in Washington and Rome, its bureaus in Kenya, Germany, Peru, Brazil, Italy — this global infrastructure serves the synchronization of the neo-church narrative worldwide.
The article’s closing — a newsletter signup form, a privacy policy link, “Related Articles” on the antipope’s doctor and his “break with secrecy” — exposes the commercial and bureaucratic nature of this apostolate. It is not apostolatus; it is negotiatus. The salus animarum is replaced by click-through rates.
Systemic Apostasy: The Symptom and the Cause
This article is not an anomaly; it is the quintessence of the conciliar revolution. It demonstrates how the Church of the New Advent:
- Usurps the saints of Tradition to decorate its novel religion.
- Reduces the supernatural to the natural (healing > sanctification).
- Exploits human suffering to manufacture consent for the false hierarchy.
- Erases the Social Kingship of Christ (Pius XI, Quas Primas) by presenting a “pope” who reigns only by medical bulletins and media management.
- Enforces the hermeneutic of continuity lie by using pre-1958 canonizations (Peregrine, 1726) to validate post-1958 usurpations.
The true Catholic, adhering to the quod semper, quod ubique, quod ab omnibus of St. Vincent of Lérins, sees through this theatrum mundi. He knows that “the Church, established by Christ as a perfect society, demands for itself by a right belonging to it… full freedom and independence from secular authority” (Pius XI, Quas Primas). The conciliar sect has surrendered that freedom to the world, to the media, to the oncologists, to the “cancer saint” industry.
Conclusion: No Communion in Sacrilege
To pray for “Pope Leo XIV” as pope is to participate in the great lie of the end times. To invoke St. Peregrine through the mediation of EWTN and the conciliar structures is to profane the communion of saints. The true faithful, the remanentes who keep the depositum fidei intact, pray for the conversion of Robert Prevost and all ensnared in the neo-church — outside the counterfeit liturgy, outside the false obedience, outside the manufactured “novena” of the abomination. They unite their sufferings, their cancers, their deaths to the Unbloody Sacrifice of Calvary offered by valid priests in the catacombs of Tradition, where Christ the King still reigns, and His Mother crushes the serpent’s head (Gen 3:15), not in the shrine of a “cancer saint” commodified by the servants of the Antichrist.
Source:
Who is St. Peregrine, the ‘cancer saint’ Catholics are invoking for Pope Leo XIV? (ewtnnews.com)
Date: 13.10.2026