The EWTN News portal reports on a short documentary titled “The Dating Project”, streaming on the conciliar sect’s on-demand platform EWTN+, produced by Family Theater Productions. The film follows four demographics — college students immersed in “hookup culture,” a woman in her twenties, a career-obsessed woman in her thirties, and a man nearing forty — all struggling to find a spouse. Boston College professor Kerry Cronin serves as guide, famous for her “Dating Assignment” requiring students to ask someone out face-to-face. The article cites the demographic milestone that singles now outnumber the married in America for the first time, framing the crisis as a failure of social skills and cultural support systems rather than a catastrophic collapse of Catholic morality. The piece concludes with promotional language about “hope, inspiration, and tools for navigating the relationship landscape” and a companion YouTube series “Dating Decoded.” This documentary epitomizes the conciliar sect’s reduction of the supernatural sacrament of Matrimony to a mere naturalistic project of self-fulfillment and social engineering.
The Anthropocentric Inversion: Marriage as Human Project Rather Than Divine Vocation
The very title “The Dating Project” reveals the fundamental apostasy of the conciliar mindset: Holy Matrimony, instituted by Christ as a sacramentum — a sacred sign conferring grace — is reconceived as a human “project” to be managed, optimized, and “decoded.” The article’s language is tellingly managerial: “navigating the relationship landscape,” “tools for navigating,” “re-prioritize the ‘big deals’,” “Dating Decoded.” This is the vocabulary of technocratic Pelagianism, not Catholic theology. Lex orandi, lex credendi (the law of praying is the law of believing); the language of the conciliar sect’s media betrays a faith that has evaporated into therapeutic self-help.
Pius XI, in Casti Connubii (1930), thundered against precisely this naturalistic inversion: “Those who hold that matrimony is not a sacrament, but a mere contract, fall into the error of the Naturalists” (Denzinger 2230). The Council of Trent, Session XXIV, canon 1, anathematizes anyone who says “matrimony is not truly and properly one of the seven sacraments of the evangelical law… but a mere human invention” (Denzinger 974). The documentary’s silence on the sacramental character of marriage, its indissolubility, its primary end — proles (offspring) — and its secondary end — mutuum adiutorium (mutual help) and remedium concupiscentiae (remedy for concupiscence) — is not an omission; it is a positive denial of the Catholic doctrine of marriage.
The “Hookup Culture” as Fruit of Conciliar Capitulation to the Sexual Revolution
The film laments the “collegiate hookup culture” as an external sociological force, a “demographic red flag.” Nowhere does it identify the true authors of this moral catastrophe: the conciliar hierarchy itself, which since Gaudium et Spes (1965) has peddled the personalist heresy that marriage is primarily an “intimate partnership of life and love” (Gaudium et Spes, 48), subordinating the finis primarius (procreation) to the finis secundarius (conjugal love). This inversion, championed by Wojtyła in Love and Responsibility and enshrined in the 1983 Code (canon 1055), severed marriage from its divine teleology and opened the floodgates to the contraceptive mentality, which is the causa proxima of the “hookup culture.”
Pius XII, in his Allocution to Midwives (1951), declared with apostolic authority: “The primary end of marriage is the procreation and education of children… The secondary ends, mutual help and the remedy of concupiscence, are subordinate to the primary end.” The documentary’s silence on openness to life, on Castitas, on the sixth and ninth commandments, exposes its complicity with the culture of death. It treats fornication as a “dating failure” rather than a mortal sin crying to heaven for vengeance (Genesis 4:10; 18:20-21).
Boston College and the Jesuit Laboratory of Modernism
That the film’s “tour guide” is Kerry Cronin of Boston College — a Jesuit institution that has been a primary vector of Modernist contamination since the 1960s — is no accident. The Society of Jesus, once the militia Christi, became after Vatican II the avant-garde of the conciliar revolution. Cronin’s “Dating Assignment” — asking someone for coffee for a passing grade — reduces the discernment of a lifelong, indissoluble, sacramental bond to a classroom icebreaker. This is the pedagogy of the absurd, worthy of the theater of the absurd that the post-conciliar liturgy has become.
St. Pius X, in Pascendi Dominici Gregis (1907), condemned the Modernist method of “vital immanence” — reducing religion to subjective experience and felt needs. Cronin’s approach is pure immanentism: “inner desire for the professor’s view,” “overflowing lecture hall,” “hope, inspiration.” The supernatural virtue of faith, the gift of counsel, the role of parental authority (Canon 1013, 1917 Code), the necessity of the state of grace — all are conspicuously absent. Silentium est confessio (silence is confession).
EWTN: The Propaganda Arm of the Paramasonic Structure
EWTN, founded by the “Mother Angelica” (Rita Rizzo), a Poor Clare nun who never condemned the Vatican II apostasy but built a media empire within the conciliar sect, functions as the opiate for the conservative wing of the neo-church. It provides a simulacrum of orthodoxy — “holy Catholic marriage” mentioned once by a “priest” in the prologue — while systematically suppressing the integral Catholic truth: that the conciliar “popes” from John XXIII to Leo XIV (Robert Prevost) are manifest heretics who have lost their office ipso facto (St. Robert Bellarmine, De Romano Pontifice, Lib. II, Cap. 30; Wernz-Vidal, Ius Canonicum, n. 398; Canon 188.4, 1917 Code).
The article’s provenance — “first published by Angelus News… adapted by EWTN News” — reveals the incestuous media ecosystem of the antichurch. Angelus News is the outlet of the Archdiocese of Los Angeles, the epicenter of liturgical abuse and doctrinal corruption under “Archbishop” Gómez (and previously Mahony). This is not Catholic journalism; it is brand management for the abomination of desolation (Matthew 24:15).
The Demographic Catastrophe as Divine Chastisement
The article cites the statistic that “for the first time in American history, more people are single than married” as a “demographic red flag.” From the perspective of the integral Catholic faith, this is not a sociological puzzle to be solved by YouTube series and “Dating Decoded.” It is the manifest judgment of God upon a nation — and a “Church” — that has legalized the slaughter of the innocents (abortion), enshrined sodomy as a “right” (Obergefell), and replaced the Social Kingship of Christ with the laicism 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 documentary’s proposed remedy — “getting back to basics,” “face-to-face” asking, “cup of coffee” — is the therapeutic placebo offered by the conciliar sect to distract from the only true remedy: conversion to the Catholic Faith, rejection of the conciliar apostasy, reception of the true sacraments from validly ordained priests, and the restoration of Christ the King over individuals, families, and nations. As Pius XI taught: “Peace is only possible in the Kingdom of Christ” (Quas Primas, 1925). There is no peace — no marital peace, no social peace — in the kingdom of the Antichrist that now occupies the Vatican.
Conclusion: A “Project” of the Damned
“The Dating Project” is a document of the spiritual bankruptcy of the conciliar sect. It takes the sacrament of the New Law, the great mystery of Christ and the Church (Ephesians 5:32), and reduces it to a lifestyle accessory for the anxious bourgeois. It replaces gratia sanans (healing grace) with “tools,” vocatio divina (divine calling) with “assignment,” sacramentum fidei (sacrament of faith) with “decoding.” The “priest” in the prologue who “prays for young men and women to find one another for a holy Catholic marriage” prays in vain within the conciliar structures, for “he who has not the Church for his mother cannot have God for his father” (St. Cyprian, De Unitate Ecclesiae, 6). The true Dating Project for a Catholic is the discernment of a vocation to Holy Matrimony under the guidance of a valid priest, in the state of grace, with the intention of fulfilling the divine mandate crescite et multiplicamini (Genesis 1:28), in a society ordered to the Kingship of Christ. Everything else is vanity of vanities (Ecclesiastes 1:2) — and a trap set by the paramasonic structure to keep souls enslaved in the Church of the New Advent until the dies irae.
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Whatever happened to dating? New film tackles America’s relationship crisis (ewtnnews.com)
Date: 07.11.2026