The Catholic News Agency (CNA) portal reports the death of Paul Badde, former journalist for “Die Welt” and Vatican correspondent, framing him as an authoritative Catholic voice. The obituary highlights his books on Benedict XVI and the Veil of Manoppello devotion, his collaboration with EWTN and CNA Deutsch, and his role in founding “Vatican Magazine.” The article presents these as unqualified merits, omitting any doctrinal evaluation of his associations with conciliarism.
Collaboration with Apostate Structures
The CNA obituary lauds Badde’s work for outlets directly implementing the conciliar revolution’s errors. EWTN propagates the lex orandi of the Novus Ordo Missae – a liturgical rupture condemned by Cardinal Alfredo Ottaviani’s 1969 Intervention as representing “a striking departure from the Catholic theology of the Mass as formulated in Session XXII of the Council of Trent.” Badde’s role as founding editor of “Vatican Magazine” served the image-building of the post-conciliar antipopes, contrary to St. Pius X’s condemnation in Pascendi Dominici Gregis (37): “To maintain and defend these institutions, they do not hesitate to declare openly that their remarks are meant to benefit the Church.”
Theological Vacuum in Devotional Promotion
Badde’s book “The Face of God” promoted the Manoppello image without critical examination of its theological implications. This devotion exemplifies the subjectivist pietism condemned in Pius X’s Lamentabili Sane (58): “Truth changes with man, because it develops with him, in him, and through him.” The silence on whether this image aligns with the Church’s traditional understanding of acheiropoieta (icons not made by human hands) reveals modernist tendencies. Pius XII’s Mediator Dei (62) warned against “arbitrary and undirected supernaturalism” in devotional practices – a censure applicable here.
Omissions That Condemn
The obituary’s glaring silence speaks louder than its content:
“Benedict Up Close” chronicled Joseph Ratzinger’s career without addressing his fundamental role in implementing Vatican II’s errors. As prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, Ratzinger advanced the heresy of religious liberty condemned in Pius IX’s Syllabus of Errors (77-79). His 1986 Assisi interreligious meeting fulfilled Gregory XVI’s warning in Mirari Vos (13) about “that absurd and erroneous proposition which claims that liberty of conscience must be maintained for everyone.”
No mention is made that Badde’s Roman posting coincided with John Paul II’s 1983 Code of Canon Law – which codified conciliar heresies by removing the Church’s coercive power (Canon 1311 vs. 1917 Code Canon 2254). This omission illustrates the conciliar sect’s systematic dismantling of the Church’s juridical framework upholding doctrinal purity.
False Obedience to Usurpers
Badde’s journalistic career operated within the conciliar sect’s false paradigm of “continuity.” Pius VI’s Auctorem Fidei (78) anathematized those claiming “the obedience due to the Apostolic See… could be refused without sin and without loss of Catholic communion.” By treating post-conciliar antipopes as legitimate, Badde participated in the “abomination of desolation” (Daniel 9:27) occupying the Vatican. His reporting never questioned the validity of conciliar “sacraments” – despite Paul VI’s Missale Romanum introducing invalid matter (versus Pius XII’s Sacramentum Ordinis) and defective form in Holy Orders.
Naturalism Replaces Supernatural Faith
The obituary’s secular framing of Badde’s life (“veteran contributor,” “beloved Manoppello“) exemplifies the naturalism condemned in Pius IX’s Syllabus (58): “Moral laws do not stand in need of the divine sanction.” Where are the De Profundis prayers for his soul? The omission reflects the conciliar sect’s abandonment of the ars moriendi tradition, reducing death to a biographical footnote rather than the soul’s final confrontation with Divine Judgment.
Conclusion: A Warning Against Conciliar “Catholic Journalism”
Paul Badde’s career trajectory – from secular media to conciliar apologetics – manifests the “evolution of dogma” condemned in St. Pius X’s Pascendi (26). His works served the neo-modernist project described in Pius XII’s Humani Generis (17): “They hold that the mysteries of faith are never expressed by truly adequate concepts but only by approximate and ever changeable notions.” The true Catholic journalist would have followed St. Maximilian Kolbe’s example: using media to expose errors, not normalize them. Instead, Badde’s legacy exemplifies the warning in Pius XI’s Quas Primas (18): “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.” By failing this standard, his work perpetuated the conciliar captivity of the Church.
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Journalist and author Paul Badde dies following long illness (catholicnewsagency.com)
Date: 10.11.2025