Adore Movement: Eucharistic Piety in the Shadow of Apostasy
EWTN News reports that “Deacon” Steve Greco, director of evangelization for the Diocese of Orange, has launched the Adore Movement to promote Eucharistic adoration. The movement includes a website with an adoration finder tool and a forthcoming film, Adore Him, featuring speakers like Chris Stefanick and “Fr.” Donald Calloway. Greco cites a Pew survey showing only 31% of Catholics believe in the Real Presence, framing the movement as a response to this crisis. Operating under “Bishop” Kevin Vann and “Bishop” Timothy Freyer, the initiative partners with eCatholic, a tech firm serving 40% of U.S. parishes, and invokes the intercession of Carlo Acutis. Thus, the Adore Movement, while promoting a traditionally praiseworthy practice, does so within the framework of the conciliar apostasy, ignoring the fundamental issues of sacramental validity and hierarchical legitimacy, thereby perpetuating the errors of Modernism.
Promotion of Adoration Within an Apostate Hierarchy
The Adore Movement is explicitly under the auspices of the Diocese of Orange and its bishops, “Bishop” Kevin Vann and “Bishop” Timothy Freyer. From the perspective of integral Catholic faith, this is a fatal flaw. The hierarchy of the post-conciliar church is not legitimate because it stems from a line of apostate pontiffs beginning with Angelo Roncalli (“John XXIII”). As the Defense of Sedevacantism file demonstrates, a manifest heretic loses his office ipso facto, citing St. Robert Bellarmine: “a Pope who is a manifest heretic, by that very fact ceases to be Pope and head, just as he ceases to be a Christian and member of the body of the Church.” The current occupant of the Vatican, “Pope” Leo XIV (Robert Prevost), and all bishops in communion with him, hold office invalidly because they propagate Modernist errors condemned by St. Pius X in Lamentabili sane exitu and Pius IX in the Syllabus of Errors. Therefore, any ecclesiastical act—including the promotion of Eucharistic adoration—undertaken under their authority is null and void, as it proceeds from a paramasonic structure that has usurped the place of the true Church. The movement’s reliance on these false shepherds makes it an instrument of the abomination of desolation, offering a facade of piety while reinforcing the apostate system.
The Crisis of Faith: Symptoms Without Diagnosis
Greco correctly identifies a crisis, citing the 2019 Pew survey: “only 31% of Catholics believe that the bread and wine at Mass ‘actually become’ the body and blood of Jesus.” However, the Adore Movement treats this as a mere lack of devotion, not as the necessary consequence of apostasy. The Syllabus of Errors condemns the notion that “the faith of Christ is in opposition to human reason” (Proposition 6) and that “Protestantism is nothing more than another form of the same true Christian religion” (Proposition 18)—errors now universally embraced in the conciliar church. The real cause of the Pew statistic is the invalidity of the sacraments and the heresy of the clergy. The post-conciliar Mass, as a non-sacrificial banquet, cannot confect the Eucharist. Without a valid sacrifice, there is no Real Presence to adore. The movement’s silence on this is deceitful; it addresses the symptom (lack of adoration) while ignoring the disease (the apostate church’s destruction of the Mass). This is classic Modernist tactics: promote peripheral devotions while undermining doctrine, as condemned by Pius X: “They aim at such a development of dogmas as appears to be their corruption” (Lamentabili, I).
Omission of Sacramental Validity and the Real Presence
The Adore Movement assumes the existence of a valid Eucharist to adore. Yet, the theology of the Mass has been radically altered. Pre-1958, the Mass is the unbloody sacrifice of Calvary, with the priest acting in persona Christi using the precise form and intention to confect the Eucharist. The post-conciliar rite, however, emphasizes a “supper” and “memorial”, destroying the sacrificial nature. As the Defense of Sedevacantism file notes, a manifest heretic cannot hold jurisdiction—therefore, the ministers of the new rite lack the authority and intention to offer sacrifice. Consequently, the “Blessed Sacrament” displayed for adoration is often merely bread and wine. Adoring it is idolatry, not piety. The movement’s failure to address this is a sin of omission of the gravest order. Pius XI in Quas Primas declares Christ’s kingdom encompasses all, but only through the valid sacraments: “His reign encompasses all men… He is the author of prosperity and true happiness for individual citizens as well as for the state.” Without valid sacraments, there is no kingdom. The Adore Movement’s silence on sacramental validity renders it a dangerous deception, leading souls to worship a piece of bread.
Reliance on Post-Conciliar ‘Saints’ and Technologies
The movement invokes Carlo Acutis as a patron saint. Acutis was beatified by “Pope” Francis in 2020—an act null and void because Francis is a manifest heretic (cf. Defense of Sedevacantism). Thus, Acutis is not a saint of the true Church, but a figure of the conciliar cult. Furthermore, the partnership with eCatholic reduces evangelization to a technological enterprise, embodying the Modernist error that “the Church ought to tolerate the errors of philosophy, leaving it to correct itself” (Syllabus, Proposition 11). Technology is used not to foster silence and contemplation, but to create a “living, breathing, evergreen organism”—a naturalistic, corporate approach utterly alien to the asceticism of the true faith. The Syllabus condemns the idea that “the civil power may interfere in matters relating to religion” (Proposition 44); here, the church’s mission is outsourced to a tech company, reflecting the post-conciliar church’s collusion with the world. This is not revival but reinvention of Catholicism into a user-friendly product.
Naturalistic Optimism vs. Supernatural Reality
The article’s tone is relentlessly upbeat: “major success,” “excited to be part of,” “hope the Adore Movement will help Catholics nationwide.” This naturalistic optimism is a hallmark of Modernism, which reduces religion to human experience and social improvement. Pius XI in Quas Primas warns that when “God and Jesus Christ were removed from laws and states… the entire human society had to be shaken.” The Adore Movement ignores the social reign of Christ, focusing only on private devotion. It says nothing of the need for public confession of Christ as King over all institutions, as demanded by the Syllabus (Proposition 77) and Quas Primas. There is no call to reject the errors of Modernism, no mention of the final judgment, no emphasis on mortification or combatting sin. This is the spiritual bankruptcy of the conciliar church: a piety without doctrine, a movement without truth, a revival that leaves the soul in mortal sin because it adores an invalid sacrament and obeys false pastors.
Conclusion: A Movement That Perpetuates Apostasy
The Adore Movement is a symptom of the conciliar apostasy. It uses the language of tradition to promote a practice that, divorced from valid sacraments and legitimate authority, becomes an instrument of idolatry and deception. By operating under modernist bishops, partnering with a tech firm, and invoking a false blessed, it reinforces the very errors it claims to combat. The true Catholic response is not to join such movements but to flee the conciliar sect and adhere to the immutable faith of pre-1958. As St. Pius X declared in Pascendi Dominici gregis: “The Modernists… seek to dazzle the people by a new and more brilliant method of teaching.” The Adore Movement is precisely that—a brilliant facade covering a void of truth. Catholics must reject it and seek the Unbloody Sacrifice of Calvary offered only in the traditional Latin Mass by validly ordained priests in communion with the true Church, which endures in the faithful who profess the integral faith outside the abomination of desolation.
Source:
Deacon launches Adore Movement to spark adoration revival (ewtnnews.com)
Date: 28.02.2026