The EWTN News portal, via its ACI Africa service, reports on October 18, 2026, that a Ghanaian presbyter of the conciliar sect, Mr. David Obeng Paintsil, founder of the “Global Rosary Network,” claims to have survived a vehicle fire through the intervention of the Blessed Virgin Mary after praying the rosary, and now urges the faithful to adopt this devotion as a “powerful prayer” for encountering God. This edifying anecdote perfectly encapsulates the conciliar sect’s reduction of the Catholic religion to sentimental miracle-mongering and private piety, utterly silent on the Social Kingship of Christ and the necessity of the true Church for salvation.
The Neo-Church’s Media Machine Manufactures Sentimental Miracles
The cited article relates that Mr. Paintsil, while returning from a “pastoral assignment,” experienced a mechanical failure resulting in a conflagration. He states: “As soon as I parked the car and put off the engine, all that I saw was a huge fire. Boom! My car had caught fire.” He further claims the doors and seatbelt miraculously released after he “appealed to Our Lady.” The EWTN News apparatus, a flagship organ of the “Church of the New Advent,” uncritically amplifies this narrative, presenting a physical escape from a burning automobile as a primary motive for religious devotion. This is the naturalistic inversion of the supernatural order: the finis ultimus of man — the beatific vision attained through the state of sanctifying grace and the Sacrum Triduum of the True Mass — is replaced by the finis proximus of biological survival. The “news” value lies entirely in the sensational, the emotional, the immanent. Lex orandi, lex credendi (the law of praying is the law of believing): the prayer requested is not for the conversion of nations to the Kingship of Christ, but for the multiplication of rosary recitations as a technique for divine favor.
Reduction of the Rosary to a Talisman for Physical Survival
Mr. Paintsil declares the rosary “a really powerful prayer… through which we can encounter God.” This pragmatic, utilitarian definition strips the Holy Rosary of its doctrinal essence — the contemplation of the mysteries of the Redemption through the eyes of the Mediatrix of All Graces — and converts it into a quasi-magical talisman for temporal safety. The provided dossier on False Fatima Apparitions exposes the theological rot at the root of such “rosary spirituality”: “The efficacy of Holy Mass is diminished in favor of spectacular acts” and “The mortifications of the children (fasting, self-harm) bear the marks of Jansenist rigorism, not Catholic asceticism.” The “Global Rosary Network” founded by this presbyter is the institutionalization of this error: a para-ecclesial structure focused on a specific devotional method, detached from the una, sancta, catholica et apostolica Ecclesia and the Sacrificium Prophetiae of Malachi. The article’s silence on the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass — the actio Christi par excellence — while exalting a private revelation methodology, confirms the diversion from the apostasy within noted in the dossier: “The message focuses on external threats (communism), omitting the main danger: modernist apostasy within the Church.” Here, the external threat is a car fire; the internal apostasy — the loss of the Faith, the invalidity of the new rites, the vacancy of the See of Peter — is entirely ignored.
Silence on the Social Kingship of Christ and the True Church
The most damning indictment of this report is its total omission of the Rights of God and the Social Reign of Christ the King. Pope Pius XI, in the encyclical Quas Primas (1925), teaches with unshakeable authority: “Peace is only possible in the kingdom of Christ” and “The state must leave the same freedom to the members of Orders and Congregations… who are indeed the most valiant helpers of the Pastors of the Church and contribute most to the expansion and establishment of Christ’s Kingdom.” Furthermore, Quas Primas condemns the “secularism of our times, so-called laicism… It began with the denial of Christ the Lord’s reign over all nations.” Mr. Paintsil’s testimony, and the media platform that broadcasts it, operate entirely within this laicist framework. The “Global Rosary Network” seeks not the Restauratio Omnium in Christo (the restoration of all things in Christ) — the subjection of civil laws, education, and public life to the Divine King — but merely the aggregation of individual prayer intentions. This is the ecumenism of the trivial, the dialogue of life 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”). The article presents a “Catholic priest” (of the conciliar sect) functioning as a chaplain to a secularized society, offering spiritual anesthesia instead of the gladius Spiritus (sword of the Spirit) which is the Word of God.
The ‘Global Rosary Network’: A Modernist Parody of Catholic Action
The very name “Global Rosary Network” reeks of the novus ordo mentality: bureaucratic, horizontal, sociological. It mimics the Masonic “network” structure condemned by Leo XIII in Humanum Genus (1884) and the Syllabus (Section IV: Socialism, Communism, Secret Societies). True Catholic Action, as defined by Pius XI, is “the participation of the laity in the apostolate of the Hierarchy” for the Regnum Christi. This “Network” is a lay-led, devotion-centric NGO, typical of the post-conciliar aggiornamento which substitutes the Church Militant for a “global community of prayer.” The dossier on Lamentabili Sane Exitu (1907) condemns the modernist error: “Christ did not proclaim any specific, all-encompassing doctrine suitable for all times and peoples, but rather initiated a certain religious movement, applicable to different times and places” (Prop. 59). The “Global Rosary Network” is precisely such a “religious movement” — adaptable, non-dogmatic, focused on “bringing people together in worship of God” (the article’s phrase), which is the cult of man disguised as piety.
Invalid Orders and the Illusion of Sacramental Ministry
The article identifies Mr. Paintsil as a “Catholic priest” and “Founder Global Rosary Network.” From the perspective of integral Catholic theology, grounded in the Defense of Sedevacantism dossier, this designation is ontologically false. The “ordination” rites promulgated by “Paul VI” in 1968 are defective in form and intention, lacking the explicit signification of the sacerdotal power to offer the Propitiatory Sacrifice. As the dossier demonstrates citing Bellarmine and Canon 188.4, 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 entire hierarchy of the conciliar sect, from the usurper “Leo XIV” (Robert Prevost) down to the local “bishops” in Ghana, having adhered to the heresies of Vatican II (religious liberty, ecumenism, collegiality, new ecclesiology), have ipso facto lost all jurisdiction and orders. Mr. Paintsil, therefore, is a layman simulating the priesthood. His “pastoral assignment” was a simulation; his “prayer” was a private devotion devoid of the character indelibilis of the priesthood. The “miracle” he recounts, even if historically true as a preternatural intervention, cannot validate a false ministry. Non est potestas nisi a Deo (there is no power except from God) — and God does not delegate His priestly power through heretical rites.
Symptomatic of the Great Apostasy Foretold by Pius X
This entire episode — the car fire, the media coverage, the presbyter’s testimony, the “Network” promotion — is a symptom of the mysterium iniquitatis (mystery of iniquity) operating within the structures occupying the Vatican. St. Pius X, in Pascendi Dominici Gregis (1907) and the decree Lamentabili Sane Exitu, diagnosed the modernist method: “Under the guise of more serious criticism and in the name of historical method, they aim at such a development of dogmas as appears to be their corruption.” The corruption here is the substitution of Fides qua creditur (the faith by which we believe) with religious experience. The “rosary” becomes a technique for “encountering God” (Modernist immanentism, Lamentabili Prop. 25: “Faith, as assent of the mind, is ultimately based on a sum of probabilities”). The “Global Rosary Network” is the par excellence modernist structure: democratic, experience-based, indifferent to dogmatic definition. The Syllabus of Pius IX condemns the root error: “Human reason, without any reference whatsoever to God, is the sole arbiter of truth and falsehood” (Error 3). The article operates on pure human interest reasoning: a man survived a fire, therefore pray the rosary. The motivum credibilitatis (motive of credibility) is reduced to a anecdotal survival story, replacing the motiva credibilitatis of the Church: miracles worked in confirmation of defined dogma by canonized saints through the True Church.
Conclusion: The EWTN News report is not a “good news story”; it is a propaganda piece for the abomination of desolation. It lulls the faithful into a false security, suggesting that the conciliar sect’s clergy possess divine favor, that its devotions are efficacious apart from the True Mass and the True Faith, and that the Catholic religion consists in escaping car fires. Quas Primas thunders: “When God and Jesus Christ… were removed from laws and states… the foundations of that authority were destroyed.” Mr. Paintsil’s “Global Rosary Network” builds nothing on the Rock of Peter; it builds a sentimental shelter on the sand of human experience. Qui non est mecum, contra me est (He who is not with Me is against Me — Mt 12:30). The only escape from the fire that matters is the escape from the ignis gehennae (fire of Gehenna) through the Porta Coeli (Gate of Heaven) — the Catholic Church, outside of which there is no salvation, currently preserved only in the remnant faithful to the Tradition of 1958.
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Priest in Ghana recounts escape from car fire, urges devotion to the rosary (ewtnnews.com)
Date: 18.10.2026