Post-Conciliar Obituaries Conceal Apostasy Crisis

Catholic News Agency’s December 31, 2025 article “Rest in peace: Looking back at notable Catholics who passed away in 2025” exemplifies the neo-church’s systematic whitewashing of doctrinal deviations. The portal commemorates figures complicit in the conciliar revolution while omitting any supernatural judgment on their souls or fidelity to immutable Catholic truth.

“The Holy Father, Pope Francis, passed away… led the Catholic Church for a little more than 12 years.”

The fraudulent title “Holy Father” applied to Bergoglio constitutes blasphemy against Christ’s promise to protect His Church. As Quas Primas declares: “Nations will be reminded by the annual celebration of this feast that not only private individuals but also rulers and princes are bound to give public honor and obedience to Christ” (Pius XI, 1925). The article’s canonization-by-obituary of this usurper ignores his documented heresies – from Amoris Laetitia’s sacrilegious communion guidelines to the Pachamama idolatry – which automatically deposed him under Canon 188.4 (1917 Code).

“Francis led the Church through significant canonical and catechetical reforms, urging the faithful to reach out and minister to those on the margins of society.”

This naturalistic reduction of the Church’s mission to social work epitomizes the conciliar betrayal. Pius IX’s Syllabus of Errors condemned the proposition that “the Church is an enemy of the progress of natural and theological sciences” (Error 57), yet Bergoglio’s entire “reform” program elevated humanistic activism over the munera docendi et sanctificandi. The article praises this destruction while silencing his systematic dismantling of Mass sacrality – from restricting the Traditional Latin Mass to promoting Communion for adulterers.

Neo-Church’s Canonization Factory

The obituary list reveals the conciliar sect’s canonization criteria:

• Mabel Landry Staton served as “Eucharistic minister” – a lay function Pius XII restricted in Mediator Dei (1947) as potentially causing “confusion of roles.” Her athletic achievements receive more coverage than her spiritual state.
• Alasdair MacIntyre, hailed as “the most important modern Catholic philosopher,” promoted virtue ethics divorced from Thomistic metaphysics – a Trojan horse for moral relativism condemned in St. Pius X’s Pascendi (1907).
• Sister Jean Dolores Schmidt’s basketball chaplaincy epitomizes the desacralization of religious life. Pius XII warned in Sponsa Christi (1950) that nuns engaged in external works risk “losing sight of the primary duty of contemplation.”

Most egregious is the treatment of Thomas A. Nelson, founder of TAN Books. While publishing traditional works, Nelson operated within the conciliar structures, exemplifying the “indult Catholicism” that recognizes the legitimacy of modernist usurpers. The article omits how post-1968 publications lack nihil obstat/imprimatur validity due to doubtful holy orders.

Systematic Omission of Supernatural Reality

The obituaries commit seven deadly silences:

1. No mention of whether deceased received Last Rites from validly ordained priests
2. No distinction between actual sacraments and post-conciliar simulacra
3. No warning about receiving ‘communion’ in invalid liturgies constituting sacrilege
4. No critique of religious sisters abandoning habits and cloister
5. No examination of doctrinal fidelity beyond sentimental humanism
6. No reference to Four Last Things – Death, Judgment, Heaven, Hell
7. No differentiation between pre-and post-1958 saints

Sister JoAnn Persch’s activism for illegal immigrants exemplifies this horizontalist heresy. Pius XI’s Quas Primas reminds us “the entire government of public schools… may and ought to appertain to the civil power” (Error 45) – yet the article praises subversive resistance to lawful border enforcement as “Gospel witness.”

Ecumenical Apostasy in Royal Garb

The Duchess of Kent’s 1994 “conversion” receives uncritical celebration despite its Anglican contamination. Leo XIII’s Apostolicae Curae (1896) definitively declared Anglican orders “absolutely null and utterly void.” Her statement that “the Catholic Church offers you guidelines” reduces dogma to self-help advice – precisely the religious indifferentism condemned in Pius IX’s Syllabus (Errors 15-18).

“Sister Mary Michael of the Eucharistic Heart of Jesus… was the last of the original five nuns who, along with EWTN foundress Mother Angelica…”

EWTN’s destruction of Catholic media merits its own treatise. Mother Angelica’s acceptance of Vatican II compromises rendered her network a neo-conservative operation. As the Holy Office decreed in Lamentabili (1907): “Ecclesiastical judgments… prove that the faith… is contrary to history” (Proposition 3) – precisely EWTN’s method of “dialogue” with modernism.

The Burial of Catholic Truth

Paul Badde’s hagiographies of Benedict XVI continue the Ratzingerian poison of “hermeneutic of continuity.” His Benedict Up Close whitewashes the apostate’s role in liturgical destruction and ecumenical betrayals. Meanwhile, James Hitchcock’s historical works ignore the subversion chronicled in Fr. Ralph Wiltgen’s The Rhine Flows Into the Tiber.

Frank Caprio’s “nicest judge” persona masks the naturalism infecting Catholic jurisprudence. The Syllabus condemns the notion that “moral laws do not stand in need of the divine sanction” (Error 56), yet Caprio’s mercy-without-repentance model fulfills this error.

“May the souls of the faithful departed, through the mercy of God, rest in peace.”

This empty prayer formula – devoid of requirements for state of grace or suffrages from valid Masses – encapsulates the article’s theological bankruptcy. As true Catholics, we must pray: Si vere beati Francisci et aliorum nominatorum animae in Domino quieverunt – “If the souls of the named ‘blessed’ Francis and others truly rest in the Lord” – for we cannot assume salvation where apostasy reigned.

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Source:
Rest in peace: Looking back at notable Catholics who passed away in 2025   (catholicnewsagency.com)
Date: 31.12.2025