The EWTN News portal (via its Spanish-language service ACI Prensa) reports the death of a conciliar “priest,” Patricio Alfredo Sánchez Molinari, a member of the Redemptorist order, who was struck by a falling crucifix during a Novus Ordo service in Guayaquil, Ecuador, on October 17, 2026. The coverage, signed by Walter Sánchez Silva, presents a spectacle of sentimental naturalism: the “Archdiocese” issues a communiqué signed by the usurper “Cardinal” Luis Cabrera declaring the deceased has “departed for the Father’s House to enjoy His presence,” while lay commentators speculate on “accidents” and “honorable departures.” This reportage exposes the theological vacuum at the heart of the conciliar sect, where the Unbloody Sacrifice of Calvary has been replaced by a community meal, the priesthood by a pastoral function, and the reality of Particular Judgment by a universalist presumption of immediate salvation.
The Invalid ‘Mass’ and the Null ‘Priesthood’ in the Conciliar Sect
The central fact omitted by the EWTN report is the ontological invalidity of the rite being celebrated. The “Mass” during which the accident occurred was not the Sacrificium Laudis, the Unbloody Sacrifice of the Cross instituted by Christ and codified infallibly by the Council of Trent (Session XXII, Canon 1: “If anyone says that in the Mass a true and proper sacrifice is not offered to God… let him be anathema”), but the Novus Ordo Missae fabricated by the Freemason Bugnini under the usurper Montini (Paul VI) in 1969. This rite, by its very definition as a “memorial of the Lord’s Supper” and its systematic excision of the propitiatory nature of the Sacrifice (propitiatorium), constitutes a protestantized fabrication that cannot confect the Eucharist.
Consequently, the “priest” Sánchez Molinari, ordained in the post-1968 rite of ordination — which altered the essential form (“Receive the Holy Spirit…”) and intention (removing the explicit power to offer sacrifice and forgive sins) — lacked the sacerdotal character. He was a functionary of the ecclesia nova, a “presider” at a Protestantized assembly. As Pope Pius XII taught in Mediator Dei (1947), the priest acts in persona Christi primarily in offering the Sacrifice; where the Sacrifice is denied, the priesthood is null. The Redemptorist order, long since corrupted by Modernism (its “theology” of the “Mystical Body” divorced from the visible, hierarchical Church), provided the institutional framework for this simulation.
The Usurper Hierarchy: ‘Cardinal’ Cabrera and the Vacant See
The statement signed by “Cardinal” Luis Cabrera is an act of a manifest heretic exercising jurisdiction he does not possess. Since the death of Pius XII (1958), the See of Peter has been vacant (Sedes Vacans). The line of usurpers — Roncalli (John XXIII), Montini (Paul VI), Luciani (John Paul I), Wojtyła (John Paul II), Ratzinger (Benedict XVI), Bergoglio (Francis), and now Prevost (Leo XIV) — have all publicly professed the heresies of Vatican II: religious liberty (Dignitatis Humanae), false ecumenism (Unitatis Redintegratio), collegiality subverting papal primacy (Lumen Gentium), and the “subsists in” ecclesiology.
St. Robert Bellarmine, the Church’s doctor on the Roman Pontiff, teaches unequivocally: “A Pope who is a manifest heretic, by that very fact ceases to be Pope and head… he ceases to be a Christian and member of the body of the Church” (De Romano Pontifice, Lib. II, Cap. 30). Wernz and Vidal confirm: “By notorious and publicly manifested heresy, the Roman Pontiff… is deprived ipso facto of his personal jurisdiction even before any declaratory sentence by the Church” (Ius Canonicum, n. 396). Canon 188.4 of the 1917 Code (binding divine/ecclesiastical law) declares an office vacant ipso facto upon “public defection from the Catholic faith”. “Cardinal” Cabrera, by adhering to the conciliar sect and exercising “authority” within it, is a layman usurping ecclesiastical office. His “blessing” and “prayer for eternal rest” carry no supernatural weight; they are the words of a private individual.
Sentimental Universalism vs. Catholic Eschatology: The Linguistics of Apostasy
The linguistic register of the article and the quoted reactions is strikingly devoid of Catholic eschatological terminology. There is no mention of:
- The Particulare Iudicium (Particular Judgment) immediately following death (Council of Lyons II, 1274; Benedict XII, Benedictus Deus, 1336).
- The reality of Purgatorium and the suffragia (Masses, indulgences, alms) owed by the Church Militant to the Church Suffering (Council of Trent, Session XXV, Decree on Purgatory).
- The possibility of damnatio for those dying in mortal sin or without the Sacraments.
Instead, we read: “departed for the Father’s House to enjoy His presence and His glory” (Cabrera); “already enjoying the presence of God” (Salesians); “rejoicing with God” (Mari Pérez); “honor to depart… while celebrating Holy Mass… reflection of Jesus… now in heaven” (Carlos Alberto Pastrello). This is the heresy of universal salvation — the “anonymous Christianity” of Karl Rahner — masquerading as piety. It is the practical denial of extra Ecclesiam nulla salus and the necessity of the state of grace. The “Salesians” (another conciliar order) canonize their colleague by sentiment, usurping the prerogative of God the Judge.
Pius XI in Quas Primas (1925) warns that “when God and Jesus Christ were removed from laws and states… the foundations of that authority were destroyed”. Here, God the Just Judge is removed from the moment of death, replaced by a benevolent grandfather figure. This is the laicism of the soul: the secularization of eschatology.
The Falling Crucifix: A Sign Ignored by the Blind Guides
The physical event — a crucifix detaching and striking the “celebrant” — is treated by the conciliar media and commentators as a mere “accident” requiring “greater care… when positioning religious images” (Mari Pérez). This is the naturalistic reductionism condemned by the Syllabus of Pius IX (1864): “No other forces are to be recognized except those which reside in matter… Right consists in the material fact” (Errors 58, 59).
From the perspective of Divine Providence — which governs all things “fortiter et suaviter” (Wisdom 8:1) — the collapse of the image of the Crucified upon the simulator of His Sacrifice during the very act of simulation is a terrifying signum. The Crucifix represents the Victima; the Novus Ordo table represents the rejection of the Victima. The “priest” stands versus populum, turning his back on the Cross (often literally, as the crucifix is often moved to the side or removed entirely in the new rite). The Cross falls upon him.
St. Alphonsus Liguori, founder of the Redemptorists (whose true spirit the conciliar order has betrayed), wrote in The True Spouse of Christ: “God sometimes chastises in this life those whom He loves, that they may not be condemned with the world” (1 Cor 11:32). But for a manifest heretic outside the Church, such a chastisement is a praenuntiatio iudicii, a foretaste of the ira Dei. The silence of the “hierarchy” and the “faithful” on this supernatural dimension — preferring the language of “tragedy,” “shock,” and “legacy” — confirms the total naturalization of the conciliar religion. They have eyes but see not (Psalm 113:16).
The Conciliar Sect as the ‘Abomination of Desolation’ in the Holy Place
The article notes the “Mass” took place in the “Church of Our Lady of Perpetual Help.” This building, once a Catholic church, has been usurped by the paramasonic structure occupying the Vatican. The “Redemptorists” occupying it are the legitimate heirs of St. Alphonsus only in name; their Constitutions have been rewritten to conform to Perfectae Caritatis (Vatican II), embracing religious liberty and the “world.”
The Lamentabili Sane Exitu (1907) of St. Pius X condemned the Modernist proposition: “The sacraments arose as a result of the interpretation by the Apostles or their successors of Christ’s thoughts and intentions, under the influence and encouragement of circumstances and events” (Prop. 40). The Novus Ordo is the liturgical fruit of this condemned evolutionism. The “priest” Sánchez Molinari spent his life administering invalid sacraments (baptism with defective matter/form/intent, “absolution” without jurisdiction, “anointing” without sacramental grace, “Eucharist” without Transubstantiation). Souls were deceived, left in original sin or mortal sin, deprived of the channels of grace.
The “consecration of Ecuador to the Sacred Heart” mentioned in the related links is a farce. Pius XI in Quas Primas instituted the Feast of Christ the King precisely to combat “the secularism of our times, so-called laicism”, demanding “the public veneration and obedience to the reigning Christ” from “rulers of states”. The conciliar sect, by contrast, promotes the “separation of Church and State” (Syllabus, Error 55) and “religious liberty” (Syllabus, Error 15), rendering any “consecration” a purely private, sentimental act devoid of the jus publicum of Christ the King.
EWTN: The Propaganda Arm of the Neo-Church
The source, EWTN (Eternal Word Television Network), founded by the “Mother Angelica” (a Poor Clare nun who accepted the Novus Ordo and the usurpers), functions as the media wing of the conciliar establishment. Its reporter, Walter Sánchez Silva, boasts of covering events “during the pontificates of Benedict XVI and Pope Francis” — i.e., serving two manifest heretics. The article’s framing — translating and adapting a Spanish report for English consumption — is designed to normalize the false church, presenting its clergy as “priests,” its hierarchy as “Cardinals,” its services as “Mass,” and its funerals as Catholic rites.
The related links — “Pope Leo XIV to Ecuadorian Catholics: Keep…”, “Ecuador to renew its consecration to the Sacred…” — confirm the agenda: legitimize the antipope Prevost (Leo XIV) and the conciliar “consecrations” which are acts of idolatry (worship offered to a false conception of God/Church).
Conclusion: The Mercy of Truth vs. The Cruelty of False Consolation
The death of Patricio Sánchez Molinari is a tragedy — not because a “priest” died “at the altar,” but because a soul likely perished outside the Ark of Salvation, having spent a lifetime in a sect that denies the Faith necessary for salvation (“He who believes and is baptized shall be saved; but he who does not believe shall be condemned”, Mark 16:16). The “comfort” offered by the conciliar media — “he is in heaven,” “enjoying delights” — is the cruelest lie. It denies the soul the suffragia of the true Mass (the Missale Romanum of St. Pius V), the prayers of the true faithful, and the intercession of the true Saints.
True charity demands the truth: “If the blind lead the blind, both fall into the pit” (Matt 15:14). The crucifix fell. The Novus Ordo continues. The usurpers reign in the Vatican. But “Christ the King… shall reign until He has put all His enemies under His feet” (1 Cor 15:25; Quas Primas). The faithful remnant, adhering to the Sedes Vacans and the immutable Tradition, prays De profundis for the soul of the deceased, knowing that only the True Sacrifice of the True Priesthood avails before the Divine Majesty. Requiem aeternam dona ei, Domine; et lux perpetua luceat ei. But this prayer is offered at the true Altar, by a true priest, in the true Church — not in the Guayaquil assembly, nor in the EWTN studio, nor in the Vatican of the antipopes.
Source:
Catholics in Ecuador mourn death of priest struck by falling crucifix during Mass (ewtnnews.com)
Date: 19.10.2026