EWTN News portal reports on a deadly train collision near Urda, Spain, on October 28, 2026, framing the humanitarian response of a conciliar “priest” and the condolences of Antipope Leo XIV as exemplary Christian witness. The article details how “Father” José Miguel Fernández, parish “priest” of Urda, spent hours embracing survivors and comforting relatives in a makeshift field hospital, while the usurper in Rome dispatched a telegram of “prayer” and “apostolic blessing” through his Secretary of State, “Cardinal” Pietro Parolin. This report epitomizes the conciliar sect’s reduction of the Church’s divine mission to mere naturalistic philanthropy, utterly devoid of the supernatural realities of judgment, grace, and the absolute necessity of the sacraments for salvation.
Naturalistic Humanitarianism Masquerading as Priestly Ministry
The cited article presents a tableau of pure naturalism masquerading as Catholic priesthood. The conciliar “priest” Fernández describes his ministry thus: “I said to myself, well, this is how you can draw near today: by giving a hug. So that’s what I spent the entire morning doing while I was at ground zero, holding people’s hands and giving them a hug.” Nowhere does the account mention the administration of Extreme Unction, Confession, or Viaticum — the sacramenta propter mortuos instituted by Christ for the salvation of souls in danger of death. The Council of Trent anathematizes those who deny that Extreme Unction is a true and proper sacrament instituted by Christ (Session XIV, Canon 1). The “priest” offers embraces instead of absolution, human comfort instead of divine grace. This is the heresy of humanitarianism condemned by Pope St. Pius X in Pascendi Dominici Gregis: the substitution of the City of God for the city of man.
The Silence of the Sacraments: Gravest Accusation Against the Conciliar Sect
The article’s total silence on the sacraments is the most damning indictment. Sixty-nine souls perished in an instant, many trapped in mangled wreckage. Where was the Conditional Absolution for the dying? Where was the Oil of the Infirm? The “priest” admits “we are priests, of course, but we are human, and the pain and sorrow of our brothers and sisters affect us too” — sentimentalism replacing the virtus ordinis. A true priest of the Ordo Melchisedech, facing mass death, knows his munus is not to weep with the world but to offer the Unbloody Sacrifice and channel grace through valid sacraments. The conciliar “priesthood,” derived from the invalid Pontificale Romanum of 1968 (promulgated by the apostate Montini), lacks the character indelebilis and the potestas ordinis to confect the Eucharist or absolve sins. Their “ministry” is simulacrum and sacrilege.
Antipope Leo XIV: The Usurper’s Telegram of Nullity
The article cites a telegram from “Pope” Leo XIV (Robert Prevost), signed by his Secretary of State “Cardinal” Pietro Parolin, offering “prayers for the eternal repose of the deceased” and an “apostolic blessing… as a sign of hope in the risen Lord.” This is a document of nullity from a usurper. As demonstrated by the theological principles in Cum ex Apostolatus Officio (Paul IV) and the teaching of St. Robert Bellarmine (De Romano Pontifice), a manifest heretic ipso facto loses all jurisdiction and membership in the Church. The line of usurpers beginning with John XXIII has publicly professed the heresies of Vatican II: religious liberty (Dignitatis Humanae), false ecumenism (Unitatis Redintegratio), collegiality subverting papal primacy (Lumen Gentium). Leo XIV, by accepting and promulgating these errors, is a manifest heretic and therefore not Pope. His “blessing” is nulla, irrita, et invalida — worse than worthless, it is a diabolical counterfeit offering false hope to the damned.
EWTN: Propaganda Arm of the Conciliar Revolution
The source, EWTN News, is a primary instrument of the conciliar sect’s disinformation. Founded by the “Mother Angelica” (Rita Rizzo), a “nun” of the post-conciliar order, EWTN has ceaselessly promoted the Novus Ordo religion, the false “saints” of the antipopes (John Paul II, John XXIII, Paul VI), and the hermeneutic of continuity that whitewashes the rupture of Vatican II. This article’s framing — “The pope’s affection… spiritual closeness… heartfelt apostolic blessing” — is calculated to legitimize the usurper and normalize the conciliar sect as the Catholic Church. The journalists, Victoria Cardiel and Nicolás de Cárdenas, are functionaries of this paramasonic structure, their “qualifications in Social Doctrine of the Church” being formation in the ersatz theology of the neo-church.
The Theological Bankruptcy of “Accompaniment” Without Truth
The “priest” tells desperate relatives: “What matters is hope. Have hope. Trust in God, for God is good.” This is a lie against the Holy Ghost. Hope is a theological virtue ordered to eternal beatitude through the means Christ established — the Church, the sacraments, obedience to the Commandments. To offer “hope” to those outside the state of grace, without urging conversion, confession, and baptism of desire (for the unbaptized), is presumption — a sin against the Holy Ghost. St. Augustine teaches: “God who created you without you, will not save you without you” (Sermon 169). The conciliar “mercy” is cruelty — it leaves souls to perish in mortal sin while whispering sweet nothings of a “good God” who supposedly saves everyone regardless of faith, repentance, or sacramental union with Christ.
Symptomatic of the Abomination of Desolation
This incident — the disaster, the conciliar response, the media amplification — is a perfect microcosm of the abominatio desolationis standing in the holy place (Matt. 24:15). The structures occupying the Vatican, the cathedrals, the parishes, are filled with invalid clergy offering invalid sacraments to a laity schooled in heresy. The “Spanish Bishops’ Conference” mentioned in related articles is a collegium of heretics with no canonical mission. The “Archbishop” Francisco Cerro Chaves, who called the “priest,” is a layman in episcopal vestments, consecrated in the invalid 1968 rite by a lineage of dubious validity. Extra Ecclesiam nulla salus — outside the true Church (the remnant holding the integral faith and valid sacraments), there is no salvation. The 69 dead, the injured, the relatives — all were abandoned by the very structures claiming to be their “Church.”
Conclusion: Return to the Ark of Tradition
The EWTN article is not a testimony of Catholic faith but a manifesto of the counter-church: humanitarianism without dogma, “blessings” from an antipope, “priests” without orders, “hope” without grace. Non est hic Christus, neque ibi (Matt. 24:23). The faithful seeking true succor in catastrophe must flee the conciliar sect and cleave to the valid bishops and priests of Tradition who preserve the Mass of All Time, the traditional rites of Extreme Unction, and the integral Catechism. Only there is found the vera spes — the true hope anchored in the Sanguis Christi and the potestas clavium exercised by true successors of the Apostles. Quo vadis? The answer is not Urda’s sports hall, nor the Vatican of the usurpers, but the catacumbas where the verus Sacerdos offers the Hostia immaculata for the living and the dead.
Source:
‘Father, give me a hug, I’m alive’: A priest’s testimony of the train collision in Spain (ewtnnews.com)
Date: 29.10.2026