EWTN News portal reports that the “Dicastery for the Causes of Saints” of the conciliar sect has unanimously voted to advance the beatification cause of Joseph Walijewski, a priest of the Diocese of La Crosse who operated in Bolivia and Peru under the auspices of the post-conciliar hierarchy. The “positio” will now proceed to the “cardinals and bishops” of the dicastery for recommendation to the usurper Leo XIV (Robert Prevost), who would then declare him “venerable.” The announcement was celebrated by “Bishop” Gerard W. Battersby, who invoked the “legacy of Walijewski and the work of Casa Hogar Juan Pablo II” — an orphanage named after the arch-heretic and false “saint” John Paul II. This theatrical exercise in bureaucratic sanctification exposes the neo-church’s total substitution of supernatural holiness with naturalistic humanitarianism and administrative ritual.
The Juridical Nullity of Conciliar “Canonizations”
The entire proceeding described is void ab initio. The “Dicastery for the Causes of Saints” is an organ of the abomination of desolation occupying the Vatican, erected by the pseudo-council Vatican II and possessing no jurisdiction, no authority, and no connection to the Catholic Church instituted by Christ. Pope Pius XII, in Mystici Corporis Christi, teaches that the Church is a perfect society with a visible head; the line of true Popes ended with Pius XII (1958). Since John XXIII, every claimant to the See of Peter has been a manifest heretic, automatically deprived of office ipso facto by the very fact of heresy (Canon 188.4, 1917 Code; Bellarmine, De Romano Pontifice; Cum ex Apostolatus Officio of Paul IV). Leo XIV (Robert Prevost) is but the latest usurper in a line of antipopes. His “approval” of a beatification is no more binding than the decree of a Masonic lodge master.
“Canonizations” by antipopes are not merely irregular — they are non-existent. The Church’s infallibility in canonization protects the faithful from error; it cannot reside in a false hierarchy. The “theological congress” voting unanimously is a parody of the consensus fidelium, replaced by a consensus of Modernists. As St. Robert Bellarmine teaches: “A manifest heretic cannot be Pope… a non-Christian in no way can be Pope… he cannot be the head of something of which he is not a member” (De Romano Pontifice 2:30). The neo-church’s “saints” — John Paul II, John XXIII, Paul VI, Oscar Romero, Maximilian Kolbe (who died for a fellow prisoner, not in odium fidei), the Ulman family (unbaptized infant “canonized”) — are not saints but idols of the new religion, erected to legitimize the conciliar apostasy.
Naturalistic Humanism Masquerading as Supernatural Mission
The article’s portrayal of Walijewski’s work reveals the reduction of the Catholic mission to temporal philanthropy. He “built a parish in a jungle along with a rectory and a school,” “served the poor and operated an orphanage.” Nowhere is there mention of the Missio ad gentes in its true sense: the preaching of the Gospel for the conversion of souls, the administration of the sacraments according to the immemorial rites, the condemnation of idolatry and false religions, the establishment of the Social Reign of Christ the King over individuals and nations. Pius XI in Quas Primas (1925) declares: “His reign encompasses not only Catholic nations… but also all non-Christians, so that most truly the entire human race is subject to the authority of Jesus Christ.” The neo-church’s “missionaries” do not proclaim this Kingship; they build schools and orphanages named after false “popes” — Casa Hogar Juan Pablo II — thereby enthroning the Antichrist in the very works of mercy.
The article notes Walijewski “promised God he would serve in Latin America if he were ordained a priest.” This votive language, stripped of the context of the Traditional Latin Mass and the true priesthood, becomes mere sentimentality. The “priesthood” he received post-1968 is of doubtful validity at best, given the defect of form and intention in the Paul VI ordinal (1968), which suppressed the essential sacrificial language of the priesthood (“offer up sacrifice” replaced by “preside over the assembly”). A priest doubtfully ordained cannot validly absolve, cannot offer the Unbloody Sacrifice of Calvary, cannot be a true channel of grace. His “missionary work” is thus corporal works of mercy without supernatural life — opus mortuum.
The Theological Perversion of “Heroic Virtue” in the Conciliar Paradigm
The “positio” claims “evidence of heroic virtue, a reputation for holiness, and his intercessory power.” In the true Church, heroic virtue is measured by the theological virtues (faith, hope, charity) and the cardinal virtues (prudence, justice, fortitude, temperance) lived in union with the Traditional Magisterium and the Traditional Liturgy. In the neo-church, “heroic virtue” is redefined as social activism, ecumenical openness, and adherence to the “signs of the times” — i.e., the spirit of the world. Walijewski’s collaboration with the post-conciliar hierarchy, his operation within the structures of the “Church of the New Advent,” his acceptance of the Novus Ordo Missae (implied by his dates of service: 1977–1999), and the naming of his orphanage after John Paul II — all constitute objective adhesion to the Great Apostasy.
St. Pius X in Lamentabili Sane Exitu (1907) condemns the Modernist error: “The dogmas which the Church proposes as revealed are not truths of divine origin but are a certain interpretation of religious facts, which the human mind has worked out with great effort” (prop. 22). The neo-church’s “saints” are precisely those who embody this evolutionism. The “theological congress” voting unanimously is the collegiality of error ratifying its own product. As the Syllabus of Pius IX (1864) condemns: “The Roman Pontiff can, and ought to, reconcile himself, and come to terms with progress, liberalism and modern civilization” (prop. 80) — this is the very program the conciliar “canonization” factory executes.
The Complicity of the Laity in the Cult of False Saints
The article quotes “Bishop” Battersby inviting “the faithful to continue praying for the successful advancement of the Cause according to God’s holy will.” This is diabolical deception. The faithful of the neo-church are directed to petition an antipope for the glorification of a man who served the structures of apostasy. “You shall not take the name of the Lord your God in vain” (Ex 20:7) — to invoke God’s will for a process that is intrinsically anti-Catholic is blasphemy. The “Father Joseph Walijewski Legacy Guild” promoting the cause is a lay-led cultus bypassing all true ecclesiastical authority, typical of the democratized, Protestantized piety of the conciliar sect.
The article’s closing — a newsletter signup prompt from EWTN — reveals the commercial and propagandistic nature of the enterprise. EWTN, founded by the Modernist “Mother Angelica,” has long been the media arm of the neo-church, promoting the “saints” of the counterfeit calendar. The reporter, Tyler Arnold, boasts publications in National Review, The American Conservative, The Federalist — organs of political conservatism that have substituted Catholic integralism with Americanist naturalism. This is the “Church of the New Advent”: a religious NGO fused with right-wing politics, canonizing its own functionaries.
The Only True Path: Rejection of the Counterfeit, Adherence to Tradition
No “beatification” by Leo XIV can make Walijewski a saint. The Church’s true saints are canonized by true Popes, through a process guarded by the Promoter of the Faith (the “Devil’s Advocate”) — an office abolished by the Modernist Paul VI in 1983, removing the last safeguard against fraud. The current “process” is a rubber stamp for the heroes of the revolution.
True Catholics — those who keep the integral faith of Trent, Vatican I, and the immemorial Tradition — must reject this entire spectacle. They must pray for the conversion of those deceived by the neo-church, that they may return to the Traditional Latin Mass, the true sacraments, the true bishops and priests of the resistance who maintain epikeia and validity. The Social Reign of Christ the King will not be advanced by “orphanages named after John Paul II” but by the restoration of all things in Christ (Instaurare omnia in Christo), beginning with the papacy, the Mass, the Faith.
“He who gives the Kingdom of Heaven does not take away earthly things” (Pius XI, Quas Primas, citing hymn Crudelis Herodes). The neo-church gives earthly things — schools, orphanages, bureaucratic “sanctity” — while stealing the Kingdom of Heaven. Woe to those who call evil good, and good evil (Is 5:20).
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Vatican theologians advance sainthood cause of Wisconsin missionary priest (ewtnnews.com)
Date: 11.11.2026