The National Catholic Register portal reports on a three-part EWTN documentary series titled *In Jesus’ Name*, streaming on the conciliar platform EWTN+, featuring “exorcist” Father Dan Reehil of the Diocese of Nashville, “archbishop” Jeffrey Grob of Milwaukee, retired “exorcist” Father Vincent Lampert, and lay apologist Charles Fraune. The series purports to explore the Church’s ministry of exorcism, the dangers of the occult, and Christ’s victory over evil, blending testimonial narratives with psychological assessment and a heavy emphasis on Marian intercession—specifically Our Lady of Guadalupe. The production epitomizes the conciliar sect’s substitution of supernatural reality with media-driven sentimentality, masking the absence of valid priesthood and true sacramental power behind a theatrical display of “spiritual warfare.”
The Conciliar Stage: Invalid Priesthood and the Void of Jurisdiction
The entire edifice of this documentary rests upon a fundamental lie: that the men presented as “exorcists”—Reehil, Lampert, Grob—possess the potestas ordinis and potestas jurisdictionis to act in the name of Christ the High Priest. Ordained in the post-1968 rites of the Montinian-Bugnini reform, their orders are at best doubtful, at worst null. Pope Pius XII, in Sacramentum Ordinis (1947), defined the matter and form of Holy Orders with dogmatic precision; the Paul VI rite of 1968 altered both, introducing ambiguity into the very words of consecration. As the Catechism of the Council of Trent teaches: “Si quis dixerit, in sacris ordinibus… non esse characterem… anathema sit” (If anyone says that in sacred orders… there is no character… let him be anathema). The conciliar “clergy” bear no certain character; they are functionaries of a paramasonic structure, not priests of the Most High.
The 1999 De Exorcismis et Supplicationibus Quibusdam, the rite these men employ, is a product of the same apostate assembly that gave the world the Novus Ordo Missae. It strips the traditional rite of its solemn imperatives, its explicit invocation of the Holy Ghost, its binding of the demon by the authority of the Sede Apostolica—an authority now vacant since 1958. Lex orandi, lex credendi: the new rite expresses a new faith, one where the devil is “not to be feared” but managed, where psychology supplants theology, where the Signum Crucis is reduced to a therapeutic gesture. The documentary showcases not the Church’s power over hell, but the neo-church’s impotence.
Psychologization of the Demonic: The Naturalist Infiltration
The article boasts that “a clinical psychologist who works for his diocese by evaluating possible candidates for major exorcism” is featured, and that “psychological assessment is always part of the process.” This is the triumph of Modernism condemned by Saint Pius X in Pascendi Dominici Gregis (1907): the reduction of the supernatural to the natural, of the preternatural to the pathological. The Holy Office, in the decree Lamentabili Sane Exitu (1907), condemned the proposition: “The Church listening cooperates in such a way with the Church teaching in defining truths of faith, that the Church teaching should only approve the common opinions of the Church listening” (prop. 6). Here, the “Church teaching” submits to the secular tribunal of psychology. The demoniac is first a patient; the exorcist, a case manager.
Father Lampert’s assertion that “the devil is real, powerful and active, but he’s so weak… If you are holy, if you are saintly, the devil is afraid of you” betrays a Pelagian anthropology. Holiness is not a human achievement that frightens demons; it is the indwelling of the Holy Ghost through sanctifying grace, conferred by valid sacraments. In the conciliar sect, where baptism is often administered with defective form (“We baptize you…”), where confession is a “reconciliation service” without absolute integrity, where the “Mass” is a Protestantized memorial, there is no sanctifying grace, no character indelebilis, no potestas ligandi et solvendi. The devil has no reason to fear a “holiness” that exists only in the imagination of the neo-church.
Marian Devotion Detached from the True Church
The series leans heavily on Our Lady of Guadalupe, citing Father Reehil’s first exorcism where he directed the afflicted woman to “turn to your Mother.” Yet this Marian piety floats in a vacuum. The true Mother of God is the Mediatrix omnium gratiarum, the Channel of all grace, inseparable from the Corpus Mysticum over which Christ reigns as King. Pope Pius XI, in Quas Primas (1925), declared: “Pax Christi in regno Christi”—the peace of Christ in the kingdom of Christ. The conciliar “Mary” is an ecumenical icon, a bridge to false religions, stripped of her role as Terribilis ut castrorum acies ordinata (terrible as an army set in battle array). The Guadalupe image, while historically miraculous, is here instrumentalized by a structure that has officially embraced religious liberty (Dignitatis Humanae), false ecumenism (Unitatis Redintegratio), and the cult of man (Gaudium et Spes). As the Syllabus of Errors (1864) condemns: “The Roman Pontiff can, and ought to, reconcile himself, and come to terms with progress, liberalism and modern civilization” (prop. 80). This “Mary” serves the neo-church’s agenda, not the Regnum Christi.
The “Victory” Narrative: Protestantized Eschatology
Paul Thigpen’s voiceover—”The devil was defeated in the cross of Christ 2,000 years ago… These are the mop-up operations. And as long as we are with Christ, who triumphed over the devil, then his victory becomes our victory”—echoes a truncated, Protestantized eschatology. The Cross is the victory, Christus vincit, Christus regnat, Christus imperat; but the application of that victory to individual souls requires the instrumenta salutis: the true Mass, the true priesthood, the true sacraments, the true jurisdiction. The conciliar sect possesses none of these. Its “victory” is a slogan; its “army” is a phantom. The Syllabus condemns the error that “the Church ought to be separated from the State, and the State from the Church” (prop. 55); the neo-church has separated itself from Christ the King, rendering its “spiritual warfare” a civil war against the Regnum Dei.
EWTN: The Media Arm of the Abomination of Desolation
EWTN, founded by Mother Angelica under the aegis of the conciliar hierarchy, has been the primary vehicle for normalizing the novus ordo, the charismatic movement, and the false apparitions (Fatima, Medjugorje) that the provided context exposes as Masonic operations. This documentary is not an apostolate; it is content for a streaming platform (EWTN+), designed to retain subscribers and donations. The “viewer discretion advised” warning, the “music reinforcing the subject matter,” the three-part episodic structure—this is Netflix theology, not Depositum Fidei. The Register author, Joseph Pronechen, boasts of his book Fruits of Fatima — Century of Signs and Wonders, cementing the portal’s allegiance to the false Fatima narrative condemned as a “Masonic psychological operation” in the provided context.
Silence on the Crisis: The Gravest Omission
Nowhere does the article, nor presumably the series, mention the vacancy of the Holy See, the invalidity of the new rites, the Great Apostasy foretold in 2 Thessalonians 2:3-10, or the necessity of adhering to the Traditio Catholica preserved by valid bishops and priests outside the conciliar structures. This silence is the argumentum ex silentio that condemns them. Qui tacet consentire videtur. By ignoring the status quaestionis—that the “Church” they represent is the abominatio desolationis standing in the holy place (Matt. 24:15)—they lead souls into a false security, offering exorcisms without power, absolution without jurisdiction, “Communion” without Transubstantiation.
Conclusion: A Theatrical Distraction from the Void
In Jesus’ Name is a spectacle of the conciliar sect’s spiritual bankruptcy. It parades invalid “clergy,” a defective rite, a psychologized demonology, and a sentimentalized Mariology to simulate the Church’s authority over the demonic. The true Church, the Ecclesia Militans, continues in the catacombs of Tradition, where valid priests wield the traditional rite of exorcism (Rituale Romanum, 1614), where the Unbloody Sacrifice of Calvary is offered daily, where the Regnum Christi is proclaimed without compromise. The neo-church’s “exorcisms” are, at best, exorcismata illusoria; at worst, they are invocations of the demon under the guise of casting him out—Satanas expellit Satanam (Mark 3:23). Flee these structures. Cleave to the Tradition. Extra Ecclesiam nulla salus.
Source:
New EWTN Exorcism Series Explores the Church’s Battle Against Satan (ncregister.com)
Date: 28.10.2026