EWTN News, the flagship propaganda organ of the conciliar sect, reports the death of a Redemptorist presbyter, Father Patricio Sánchez Molinari, struck by a falling crucifix during a Novus Ordo service in Guayaquil, Ecuador. The outlet frames the tragedy as a pious “sign of grace,” celebrating the priest’s alleged devotion to a simulated eucharist and a sentimentalized Marian piety. This narrative of false consolation obscures the terrifying reality: an invalidly ordained functionary perished while perpetrating the abominatio desolationis of the New Mass, a liturgical fabrication that has replaced the Unbloody Sacrifice of Calvary with a Protestantized memorial meal.
The Invalid Ministry and the Nullity of the New Rite
The subject of this hagiographic puff piece was “ordained” in 2005, nearly four decades after the Novus Ordo Missae of Paul VI (Montini) abolished the Roman Rite and introduced a rite crafted by the Freemason Bugnini with the explicit assistance of six Protestant ministers. No valid priesthood exists in the conciliar sect. The sacramental form of Holy Orders was corrupted by Paul VI in 1968, excising the essential words specifying the power to offer sacrifice (ut offerat sacrificium). Consequently, Sánchez Molinari was never a priest; he was a layman in vestments, simulating the Mass. As Pope Pius XII defined in Sacramentum Ordinis (1947), the form must signify the grace conferred. The 1968 rite signifies only a ministry of presidency, not the sacerdotal character. Ex opere operato requires the form instituted by Christ; a form altered by a usurper confers nothing.
The article states he “died doing what he loved: the Eucharist.” This is a diabolical inversion. He died presiding over a table of assembly, a cena (supper) that explicitly denies the propitiatory nature of the Sacrifice. The General Instruction of the Roman Missal (1969/1970) defines the Mass as “the sacred synaxis… of the People of God,” omitting the sacrificium laudis and the Hostia immaculata. To call this the “Eucharist” is to profane the word. St. Pius V in Quo Primum (1570) anathematized any who would dare change the Canon. The conciliar “Eucharist” is a fabrication; participation in it is idolatry, cultus falsus, rendering the faithful guilty of communicatio in sacris with heretics and schismatics.
Sentimentalism as a Substitute for Supernatural Faith
The rhetoric of the article is nauseatingly naturalistic. “Pure heart,” “ready smile,” “calm, patient, tolerant,” “human warmth,” “enjoyed going to the cinema,” “athletic person.” Not a single word on the state of grace, the horror of sin, the necessity of the true Faith, the Four Last Things, or the extra Ecclesiam nulla salus dogma. This is the religion of the homo naturalis, the “cult of man” condemned by Pius XI in Quas Primas (1925): “When God and Jesus Christ… were removed from laws and states… the foundations of that authority were destroyed.” The conciliar sect has replaced the regnum Christi with the regnum hominis. The priest’s final homily — “make time for God,” “quality time we give to God” — is pure Protestant subjectivism. God demands not “quality time” but latria, the total submission of intellect and will to revealed truth, the acceptance of the depositum fidei entire and inviolate.
The Redemptorist superior, Calle, claims the death is “a sign of grace for Catholics and for humanity.” This is blasphemy. A sign of grace is the conversion of a sinner, the martyrdom of a confessor of the Faith, the incorruption of a saint’s body. A functionary crushed by a crucifix during a simulated liturgy is a signum iudicii, a sign of divine wrath against the sacrilege daily perpetrated on altars usurped by the abominatio desolationis. The crucifix — the only object undamaged save the leg of the corpus — did not “embrace” him; it fell upon the perpetrator of the abomination. Non est qui consoletur (Lam 1:17). There is no consolation in the death of a false priest in a false rite.
The Redemptorist Order: A Vehicle of the Conciliar Revolution
The Congregation of the Most Holy Redeemer, founded by St. Alphonsus Liguori (a true Doctor of the Church), was hijacked by the Modernist current long before the Council. Its post-conciliar “constitutions” embraced religious liberty, false ecumenism, and the “option for the poor” (Liberation Theology). The article notes Sánchez served in “mission area called Vinces” and “Manta” — code for the social activism that replaced the salvation of souls. The Redemptorists, like the Jesuits and Franciscans, became shock troops of the nouvelle theologie. Their “profession” on the Feast of the Assumption (2000) was made into the hands of a Modernist superior, in a congregation that had long since abandoned the votum stabilitatis for the votum mobilitatis of the world. No valid religious profession exists without a valid superior in a canonical institute; the conciliar “religious” are merely pious associates of a paramasonic structure.
EWTN: The Media Arm of the Antichurch
The source, EWTN News, founded by the pseudo-nun Mother Angelica, is a masterpiece of controlled opposition. It peddles the “Traditional Latin Mass” (the 1962 Missal of John XXIII, already corrupted by the suppression of the Confiteor of the server, the alteration of the Ordo Missae, and the new Holy Week of Bugnini) as a palliative for the faithful, while upholding the legitimacy of the usurpers in the Vatican. The article’s author, Walter Sánchez Silva, boasts of reporting “during the pontificates of Benedict XVI and Pope Francis” — i.e., serving two manifest heretics. EWTN’s function is to neutralize Catholic resistance by channeling it into the “indult” ghetto (FSSP, ICKSP) or the “recognize-and-resist” schizophrenia of the SSPX, all of whom accept the una cum clause naming the antipope in the Canon. Qui cum haereticis communicat, haereticus fit.
Theological Bankruptcy of the “Sign of Grace” Narrative
Calle’s speculation — “I don’t know if his mission is beginning now” — reveals the total loss of the sensus catholicus. The mission of a priest ends at death: statim post mortem iudicium (Heb 9:27). There is no “mission” post-mortem for one who died outside the true Church, administering invalid sacraments. The Council of Florence (1439) defined: “No one, whatever almsgiving he has practiced, even if he has shed blood for the name of Christ, can be saved unless he has remained in the bosom and unity of the Catholic Church.” Sánchez Molinari died in the bosom of the conciliar sect, a non-Catholic religion. The “crucifix not damaged” is not a miracle; it is the signum contradictionis (Lk 2:34) standing in judgment over the wreckage of the Novus Ordo. The leg of the corpus broken — the member that treads the winepress of the Father’s wrath (Is 63:3) — signifies the crushing of the false priesthood.
Conclusion: Return to the Ark of Salvation
This tragedy is not an edifying story for newsletters. It is a warning. The faithful in Guayaquil and everywhere are fed stones for bread (Mt 7:9). They attend a liturgy that does not consecrate, receive a “communion” that is mere bread, confess to men who lack the power of the keys, and die without Extreme Unction. The falling crucifix is the visible sign of the invisible reality: Ichabod — the glory has departed (1 Sam 4:21). The only remedy is flight from the conciliar structures to the catacumbas where the true Mass is offered by bishops and priests of the unbroken apostolic line (Thuc, Carmona, Méndez, etc.), holding the regula fidei of Trent and the lex orandi of St. Pius V. Outside the true Church, there is no salvation, no priesthood, no sacrifice, no grace. Convertimini ad me, et salvi eritis (Is 45:22).
Source:
‘He died doing what he loved’: Memories of the Ecuadorian priest who died at the altar (ewtnnews.com)
Date: 24.10.2026