Syncretic Spectacle Masquerading as Catholic Piety in Poland’s “Three Kings Procession”
The EWTN News portal (January 5, 2026) reports that nearly 2 million people will participate in the “Three Kings Procession” across 941 Polish cities, describing it as one of Europe’s largest Catholic celebrations. Participants dress as biblical characters, wear paper crowns, and sing carols while following actors portraying the Magi to public Nativity scenes. The event, broadcast by EWTN Poland, claims this year’s theme “Rejoice in Hope” aligns with the conciliar sect’s “jubilee year.” Polish president Karol Nawrocki praises the procession’s message of “reconciliation” and “solidarity,” while organizers boast of distributing 600,000 crowns and 200,000 stickers. The article acknowledges the event’s incorporation of elements from Spanish and Mexican traditions alongside native Polish customs.
Naturalistic Reduction of Supernatural Mystery
The spectacle reduces the mysterium tremendum of Epiphany – which commemorates Christ’s manifestation as God-King to the Gentiles – to a carnivalesque parade. Nowhere does the article mention the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass, the only true worship pleasing to God, nor the Adoration of the Magi as a prefigurement of the munera (gold, frankincense, myrrh) offered in the Eucharistic liturgy. Instead, we find a Protestant-style emphasis on external pageantry devoid of sacramental substance. As Pius XI warned in Quas Primas: “When once men recognize, both in private and in public life, that Christ is King, society will at last receive the great blessings of real liberty, well-ordered discipline, peace and harmony” – conditions glaringly absent in this politicized event promoting worldly “solidarity” rather than metanoia (conversion).
Omission of Christ’s Social Kingship
President Nawrocki’s message epitomizes the naturalistic inversion permeating the event:
“May the image of three monarchs who […] pursued their goal — peace and reconciliation — inspire us all to build relationships based on mutual solidarity, understanding, and respect”
This humanitarian drivel ignores the Magi’s true mission – to worship the Divine King (Matthew 2:2). The procession’s organizers commit heresy by omission, failing to proclaim the Unam Sanctam doctrine (Boniface VIII) that outside Christ’s Church there is no salvation. Nowhere do they demand the conversion of Poland’s Muslims, Protestants, and atheists who participate in this syncretic farce. Contrast this with Pius IX’s condemnation in the Syllabus of Errors: “The Church ought to be separated from the State, and the State from the Church” (Error 55).
Ecumenical Subversion Through Folkloric Syncretism
The admission that organizers incorporate “elements from similar Epiphany parades in Spain and Mexico” exposes the event’s modernist core. Spanish processions often feature blasphemous pasos (statues) contrary to Catholic sensibilities, while Mexican traditions frequently descend into indigenous pagan syncretism. This violates the First Commandment and echoes the “False Fatima Apparitions” analysis which warns: “The name ‘Fatima’: a symbol of Christian-Islamic syncretism.” The procession’s paper crowns symbolize not Christ’s eternal diadem but the democratization of worship condemned in Pius X’s Lamentabili Sane: “The Church is incapable of effectively defending evangelical ethics because it steadfastly adheres to its views which cannot be reconciled with modern progress” (Error 63).
Conciliar Apostasy in “Jubilee” Packaging
This year’s theme “Rejoice in Hope” – tied to the conciliar sect’s “Pilgrims of Hope” jubilee – constitutes theological treason. True Christian hope resides solely in “Christ in you, the hope of glory” (Colossians 1:27), not in the anthropocentric utopianism promoted by Vatican II. The 200,000 distributed stickers and 600,000 paper crowns symbolize the neo-church’s replacement of sacramental grace with cheap emotionalism. As the Defense of Sedevacantism document proves: “A manifest heretic cannot be Pope or a member of the Church” (St. Robert Bellarmine). Thus any “jubilee” declared by antipopes lacks validity and constitutes spiritual fraud.
EWTN’s Complicity in Apostasy
EWTN’s decision to broadcast this sacrilegious spectacle “in English for the first time” reveals its role as propagandist for the conciliar revolution. By presenting this syncretic parade as authentically Catholic, the network violates Canon 188.4 of the 1917 Code (automatic loss of office for public defection from faith). The article’s statistic that “50,000 participants marched in Warsaw alone” demonstrates the neo-church’s obsession with quantitative growth over qualitative sanctity – a Marxist infiltration condemned in Pius XI’s Divini Redemptoris: “The first and most fundamental principle […] must be to re-establish Christian morals.”
Source:
Nearly 2 million people to march in Poland for Three Kings Procession (ewtnnews.com)
Date: 05.01.2026