Cultural Syncretism Masquerading as Sanctity in Bowman Canonization Push
The “Diocese” of Jackson, Mississippi, concluded the diocesan phase for the “canonization” of “Servant of God” Mary Thea Bowman, a Methodist convert promoted for advancing “Black Catholic” ministries. “Bishop” Joseph Kopacz presided over the February 9 ceremony, claiming Bowman “inspires faith, hope, and joy” beyond the diocese. Bowman joined the Franciscan Sisters of Perpetual Adoration at 15, earned a doctorate from The “Catholic” University of America, co-founded the National Black Sisters’ Conference, and contributed to the 1987 Lead Me, Guide Me hymnal. Her 1989 address to the U.S. “bishops” included singing the Negro spiritual Motherless Child while declaring, “Jesus told me that the Church is my home.” She died in 1990 and was buried in a secular cemetery.
Theological Subversion Through Racial Essentialism
The Bowman cause exemplifies the conciliar sect’s systematic replacement of Catholic universality with ethnic tribalism. Mystici Corporis Christi (Pius XII, 1943) unequivocally teaches: “Not diversity of members… but unity of the Body is the Church’s hallmark.” By contrast, Bowman’s National Black Sisters’ Conference institutionalizes racial division, directly contradicting Galatians 3:28 (“neither Jew nor Greek”) and the Council of Florence’s condemnation of “particular churches” (Session 11, 1442). Her work on a racially segregated hymnal further fractures liturgical unity, violating Pius X’s condemnation of “adapting the Church to modern tastes” (Pascendi Dominici Gregis, 1907, §3).
Naturalism Disguised as Evangelization
Bowman’s celebrated 1989 performance before the “bishops” reveals a naturalistic reduction of evangelization to sociological activism. Her blending of Protestant spirituals with Catholic teaching constitutes forbidden communicatio in sacris, condemned by Pius XI in Mortalium Animos (1928): “Union can only be fostered by promoting return to the one true Church.” The spectacle of a religious sister entertaining prelates with vernacular music—while discussing “racial injustice”—reduces the episcopal office to a theater of human respect, abandoning their duty to “teach all nations” (Matthew 28:19).
Omission of Supernatural Finality
Notably absent from Bowman’s hagiography is any emphasis on personal sanctity, sacramental grace, or the Four Last Things. The Syllabus of Errors (Pius IX, 1864) condemns the proposition that “the Church ought to adapt her doctrines to modern civilization” (§80). Yet Bowman’s legacy is framed entirely through temporal activism—”speaking truth about racial injustice”—while omitting her fidelity to Catholic asceticism. Authentic saints like St. Benedict Joseph Labré pursued holiness through contemptus mundi, not sociological analysis. The cause’s promoters substitute Marxist critical theory for the via purgativa, revealing their adherence to the Modernist tenet that “truth changes with man” (Lamentabili Sane, §58).
Illegitimacy of the Canonization Process
This cause originates from structures lacking any jurisdiction. As Pius XII established in Sacramentum Ordinis (1947), post-1968 “ordinations” follow invalid rites, rendering Kopacz’s episcopacy illegitimate. The 1983 “Code of Canon Law”—a modernist fabrication—cannot govern causes of canonization. True saints are recognized through universal acclamation by the faithful, not bureaucratic processes overseen by apostates. Bowman’s burial in a non-Catholic cemetery further demonstrates indifference to Ecclesiastical Law (1917 CIC §1205), which reserves Catholic burial for those “not deprived of ecclesiastical funeral rites by law.”
Symptomatic of Conciliar Apostasy
The Bowman cause epitomizes the “anthropocentric turn” of the Vatican II sect. Contrast this with Pius XI’s encyclical Quas Primas (1925): “Christ’s kingship demands not racial advocacy but submission of all nations to His sceptre.” Where true missionaries like St. Peter Claver evangelized through sacraments and martyrdom, Bowman’s legacy promotes identity politics—a heresy foreseen in the Syllabus (§65) as “equating Catholic doctrine with human philosophies.” The cause’s advancement confirms the conciliar sect’s complete capitulation to cultural Marxism.
Source:
Mississippi diocese advances canonization cause of Sister Thea Bowman (ewtnnews.com)
Date: 10.02.2026