EWTN’s “Joyful” Podcast Masks Conciliar Apostasy
The EWTN portal announces a new podcast titled “Catholics & Cappuccinos,” hosted by actress Siobhan Fallon Hogan, featuring interviews with celebrities like Jonathan Roumie (known for portraying Christ in “The Chosen”), Patricia Heaton, and Kevin James, alongside religious figures such as Sister Mary Gabriel and Fr. Michael Duffy. The program claims to showcase “the joy of being Catholic” through humor and personal faith journeys. This initiative, part of EWTN’s new streaming platform, exemplifies the conciliar sect’s reduction of the Faith to therapeutic entertainment, devoid of doctrinal substance and supernatural purpose.
Naturalism Disguised as Evangelization
The podcast’s premise—“blending humor, celebrity interviews, and faith”—betrays a fundamental error: the equating of Catholic life with worldly sentimentality. Nowhere does the article mention the sine qua non of true Catholic joy: repentance, sacrifice, or the unbloody renewal of Calvary’s Sacrifice. Instead, Hogan reduces the Faith to a self-help commodity, stating she wants listeners to feel “inspired and given hope and joy,” echoing the cult of man condemned by Pius X in Pascendi Dominici Gregis (1907). The Syllabus of Errors explicitly rejects such naturalism: “Divine revelation is imperfect, and therefore subject to a continual and indefinite progress, corresponding with the advancement of human reason” (Error 5). By prioritizing celebrity anecdotes over catechism, EWTN propagates this heresy.
Democratization of the Sacred
Placing actors like Roumie (whose portrayal of Christ in “The Chosen” reduces the God-Man to a sentimental protagonist) alongside clergy erases the hierarchical distinction between laity and ordained ministers. Sister Mary Gabriel’s inclusion alongside comedians like Kevin James implies religious life is merely one “faith journey” among many—a direct assault on the Church’s divine constitution. Pius IX’s Syllabus condemns this flattening of authority: “The Church is not a true and perfect society, entirely free” (Error 19). EWTN’s framing suggests the Church exists to validate personal experiences rather than to “teach all nations” (Matthew 28:19) the unchanging truths of salvation.
The False Joy of Apostasy
Hogan’s emphasis on “great joy” in Catholicism omits the Cross entirely, reducing the Faith to emotional gratification. Contrast this with Pius XI’s encyclical Quas Primas (1925): “The Kingdom of our Savior… requires its followers not only to renounce earthly riches… but also to deny themselves and carry their cross.” The podcast’s guests—particularly Roumie, whose show promotes ecumenical indifferentism—exemplify the conciliar sect’s inversion of priorities. True Catholic joy flows from adherence to dogma, not coffee-chat testimonials.
EWTN: Missionaries of Modernism
Peter Gagnon, president of EWTN Studios, boasts that the platform delivers “vibrant, entertaining, and deeply meaningful” content. This language exposes the operation’s core: using modern media to normalize apostasy. The simultaneous launch of “Seeking Beauty,” which explores “culture, architecture, food, art, and music” as paths to the divine, further dilutes Revelation into a vague spiritual quest. Pius X’s Lamentabili Sane (1907) anathematizes such subjectivism: “Faith, as assent of the mind, is ultimately based on a sum of probabilities” (Error 25). By avoiding doctrinal precision, EWTN+ becomes a Trojan horse for religious indifferentism.
Omissions That Condemn
The article’s silence on key Catholic realities is damning:
– No mention of sanctifying grace, without which no true joy exists.
– No warning that receiving “Communion” in post-conciliar structures—where the Mass has been gutted into a communal meal—constitutes idolatry.
– No distinction between authentic Catholic witness (e.g., martyrs who died for the Mass) and celebrity testimonials.
As Pius XI warned in Quas Primas, societies that reject Christ’s kingship “contribute to the delay in the reconciliation of peoples.” EWTN’s podcast accelerates this rebellion by peddling a counterfeit Catholicism stripped of its crown.
Source:
New EWTN+ podcast ‘Catholics & Cappuccinos’ aims to show joy of being Catholic (ewtnnews.com)
Date: 05.02.2026