The EWTN News portal reports on a fatal high-speed train collision near Urda, Spain, on October 28, 2026, through the testimony of Antonio García Condado, a 78-year-old pharmacist who assisted victims. The article emphasizes the naturalistic humanitarian response and the dying words of a victim — “God is good” — as a generic spiritual consolation, entirely devoid of the supernatural realities of the Holy Sacrifice, Extreme Unction, or the Social Kingship of Christ the King. This reportage epitomizes the conciliar sect’s reduction of the Catholic Faith to a vague humanitarian sentimentality that serves the religion of man.
The Factual Facade: Humanitarianism Supplants the Supernatural Order
The cited article presents a narrative centered on “faith in Christ has been and remains his greatest source of support” and the dying man’s utterance “God is good.” Nowhere does the report mention the Most Holy Sacrifice of the Mass, the Sacrament of Extreme Unction, the state of grace, or the necessity of the Catholic Church for salvation (extra Ecclesiam nulla salus). The pharmacist, a layman, acts from natural virtue — “I gathered all the medical supplies I could and mobilized my entire family” — while the true munus of the priesthood, the potestas ordinis to absolve and anoint the dying, is conspicuously absent. This is not Catholic journalism; it is a chronicle of naturalistic philanthropy masquerading as piety. The “comfort” described is purely psychological: “When believers experience traumas this great, we always turn to the same thing. I think it brings tremendous comfort. It’s the only way to keep going forward.” This is the opium of the people condemned by Pius XI in Quas Primas, where he declares: “Peace is only possible in the kingdom of Christ” — a Kingdom that is spiritual, sacramental, and hierarchical, not a vague “faith in Christ” detached from the Una, Sancta, Catholica et Apostolica Church.
Linguistic Deconstruction: The Vocabulary of the Neo-Church
The rhetoric of the article betrays its modernist provenance. Terms like “faith in Christ,” “believers,” “spiritual support,” and “comfort” replace the precise theological language of the perennial Magisterium: sanctifying grace, sacramental character, juridical mission, Social Kingship, the Rights of God. The dying man’s words — “Maite, I love you very much. Take care of the children. God is good” — are elevated to a theological summation, yet they lack any explicit confession of the Holy Trinity, the Divinity of Christ, the Real Presence, or the necessity of the Church. This is the hermeneutic of sentiment condemned by St. Pius X in Lamentabili sane exitu (prop. 26, 59, 60): “The dogmas of faith should be understood according to their practical function, i.e., as binding in action, rather than as principles of belief” and “Christ did not proclaim any specific, all-encompassing doctrine suitable for all times and peoples.” The article’s language is crafted for the homo naturaliter religiosus of the conciliar sect, not for the miles Christi of the true Church.
Theological Anathema: The Absence of the Kingship of Christ and the Rights of God
Pius XI, in Quas Primas, teaches that “the state must leave the same freedom to the members of Orders and Congregations… who contribute most to the expansion and establishment of Christ’s Kingdom” and that “rulers of states therefore not refuse public veneration and obedience to the reigning Christ.” The Syllabus of Errors (Pius IX) condemns the proposition: “The Church ought to be separated from the State, and the State from the Church” (Error 55) and “In the present day it is no longer expedient that the Catholic religion should be held as the only religion of the State” (Error 77). The EWTN report, by focusing exclusively on a private, subjective “faith” and humanitarian aid, implicitly endorses the laicism and secularism that Pius XI calls “the plague that poisons human society.” There is no call for the Consecratio Gentium to the Sacred Heart, no demand that the Spanish state publicly acknowledge Christ the King, no denunciation of the paramasonic structures that have dethroned God. The “comfort” offered is a counterfeit peace — pax non sicut mundus dat — because it is severed from the jus divinum and the regnum Christi.
Symptomatic Exposure: The Fruit of the Conciliar Revolution
This article is a symptom of the abomination of desolation occupying the Vatican. EWTN, founded by the “poor clare” Mother Angelica under the aegis of the usurper antipopes (John XXIII through Leo XIV), functions as a propaganda organ of the neo-church. Its “journalists” — Victoria Cardiel, Nicolás de Cárdenas — hold credentials in the “Social Doctrine of the Church” of the conciliar sect, which is a synthesis of all errors (Modernism) condemned by St. Pius X in Pascendi Dominici Gregis. The report’s silence on the invalidity of the new rites of ordination and consecration (post-1968), the vacancy of the Holy See since 1958, and the necessity of valid sacraments for the dying, reveals its complicity in the spiritual murder of souls. The pharmacist’s heroic natural charity is exploited to obscure the absence of the true priesthood and the True Mass. As Bellarmine teaches (De Romano Pontifice), “a manifest heretic cannot be Pope… he cannot be the head of something of which he is not a member.” The “bishops” and “priests” of the conciliar sect, having defected from the Faith (Canon 188.4), possess no jurisdiction, no potestas ordinis (if ordained in the new rite), and no power to absolve or anoint. The dying man, if attended only by such “clerics,” died without the sacraments — a tragedy infinitely greater than the train wreck itself. The article’s final words — “God is good” — become a mockery when divorced from the Extra Omnes of the True Church: “He who is not with Me is against Me; and he who does not gather with Me scatters” (Mt 12:30).
The Paramount Omission: No Salvation Outside the True Church
The gravest accusation against this article is its silence on the supernatural necessity of the Catholic Church. The Syllabus condemns: “Man may, in the observance of any religion whatever, find the way of eternal salvation” (Error 16). The EWTN narrative, by presenting a generic “faith in Christ” as sufficient comfort, propagates this condemned indifferentism. It fails to warn that outside the visible boundaries of the true Church — which subsists in the bishops and priests retaining valid orders and the integral Faith — there is no salvation. The “God” invoked by the dying man, if not the Triune God of Catholic dogma worshipped in the Tridentine Mass, is an idol. The “comfort” is a diabolical deception preparing souls for eternal loss. Quas Primas insists: “There is no other name under heaven given to men by which we must be saved” (Acts 4:12). This name is not a vague “God is good” but Jesus Christ, King of Kings, Lord of Lords (Apoc 19:16), present in the Unbloody Sacrifice of Calvary and dispensing grace through the valid sacraments of His true Church. EWTN’s report is not merely deficient; it is theologically criminal.
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Eyewitness to train accident aftermath recounts dying man’s final words: ‘God is good’ (ewtnnews.com)
Date: 29.10.2026