Catholic News Agency portal reports (January 9, 2026) on plans for a “National Eucharistic Pilgrimage” themed “One Nation Under God,” ostensibly celebrating America’s 250th anniversary and the 75th year since the Knights of Columbus succeeded in adding “under God” to the Pledge of Allegiance. The procession will follow the “St. Frances Xavier Cabrini Route” from Florida to Philadelphia, passing through 18 dioceses with public events culminating in adoration at the National Shrine of “St.” John Neumann. Jason Shanks, president of the National Eucharistic Congress, claims this represents “an invitation to realign our lives under the sovereignty of Jesus Christ,” while invoking the USCCB’s consecration of America to the Sacred Heart.
Patriotic Syncretism Replaces Christ the King
The pilgrimage’s thematic foundation constitutes blasphemous equivalence between the Eucharistic Lord and American civil religion. Pius XI’s Quas Primas (1925) established that Christ’s Kingship demands “not only that individuals must obey, but that rulers and governments are bound to give public honor and obedience to Christ” (n.32). By contrast, this procession reduces the King of Kings to a prop in nationalist pageantry. The phrase “One Nation Under God”—crafted by Freemason-infiltrated Knights of Columbus—embodies the naturalist heresy condemned in Pius IX’s Syllabus of Errors: “The State must not acknowledge any religious cult as superior” (Error 77). This sacrilegious equivalence ignores St. Augustine’s distinction between the City of God and City of Man, instead promoting the modernist lie that democratic constitutions can substitute for the Social Reign of Christ.
Invalid Sacraments and Canonical Farce
The pilgrimage’s sacramental foundation crumbles under doctrinal scrutiny. The “Eucharist” processed will be consecrated using the invalid Novus Ordo rite—a table fellowship meal stripped of propitiatory sacrifice as documented in the Holy Office’s Lamentabili Sane (1907): “The sacraments arose from interpretations by the Apostles…under influence of circumstances” (Proposition 40). Similarly, the concluding Mass at Philadelphia’s “Cathedral Basilica” will employ vernacular rubrics that St. Pius X condemned as “subverting the essence of the Mass as sacrifice” (Sacrorum Antistitum, 1910). Participants risk idolatry by adoring what may be mere bread, given widespread invalid ordinations since Paul VI’s heretical Pontificalis Romani (1968).
Counterfeit Saints and Historical Revisionism
The route’s dedication to “St.” Frances Cabrini exposes post-conciliar canonizations as theatrical fraud. Canonized by the antipope Pacelli (Pius XII) in 1946—already during the modernist infiltration era—her cult embodies the “evolutionary view of sanctity” condemned in Lamentabili (Proposition 54). The pilgrimage’s starting point at Our Lady of La Leche Shrine compounds this heresy by equating America’s first valid Tridentine Mass (1565) with the invalid ceremonies to be performed there in 2026. This historical revisionism fulfills St. Pius X’s warning against “recasting the eternal concepts of truth” to suit contemporary tastes (Pascendi Dominici Gregis, 26).
USCCB’s False Consecration
Shanks’ appeal to the USCCB’s consecration of America to the Sacred Heart constitutes spiritual fraud. The post-conciliar “bishops”—most invalidly consecrated using the 1968 rite—lack jurisdiction as public heretics per Canon 188.4 (1917 Code). Their consecration holds no more validity than Luther nailing theses to Wittenberg’s door. True consecration requires Catholic rulers acting through legitimate pastors, as performed by Louis XIV in 1689 at Paray-le-Monial—not bureaucratic resolutions by excommunicated modernists.
Omission of the Kingship Crisis
The pilgrimage’s most damning silence concerns the abdication of Christ’s Social Reign. While processing through Philadelphia—birthplace of Masonic-inspired religious indifferentism—organizers omit that the U.S. Constitution remains an unconsecrated document elevating freedom of error above truth. Pius IX’s Quanta Cura (1864) explicitly condemned such “liberty of perdition” as the “freedom which the Church cannot approve”. No procession can mask this structural apostasy, which renders America fundamentally incompatible with the Regnum Christi demanded in Quas Primas.
This sacrilegious spectacle—blending invalid sacraments, counterfeit saints, and Masonic-inspired patriotism—epitomizes the conciliar church’s betrayal. As Pius XI warned: “When God and Christ are removed from laws and states, human society totters to ruin” (Quas Primas, 18). Until America repudiates its godless constitution and embraces the true Social Kingship, such processions remain empty theater—spiritual whitewash on a sepulcher of apostasy.
Source:
‘One Nation Under God:’ 2026 National Eucharistic Pilgrimage inspired by 250th anniversary of U.S. (catholicnewsagency.com)
Date: 09.01.2026