EWTN News reports on the upcoming “ordination” of eight men to the “priesthood” by the usurper Leo XIV in St. Peter’s Basilica on April 26, 2026. The article presents sentimental testimonies of the ordinandi, including Christian Sguazzino, who recounts being “kicked out of Mass as a mischievous child” for causing “chaos” during liturgical celebrations. The piece promotes the conciliar sect’s narrative of vocational discernment, featuring stories influenced by the Neocatechumenal Way, World Youth Day experiences, and personal dissatisfaction with secular success. What the article presents as heartwarming vocation stories are, in reality, symptoms of the neo-church’s complete inversion of the sacred — where the profanation of the House of God becomes a stepping stone to “holy orders” in the temple of the Antichrist.
The Profanation of the Sacred as Vocational Genesis
The central figure of this hagiographic piece, Christian Sguazzino, recounts with a smile how he was expelled from the “Mass” by an assistant pastor for causing “chaos” — and yet, he says, “even then — despite everything — I felt the joy of being in church; I loved looking at the altar and the tabernacle.” This anecdote is not merely a charming childhood memory. It is a revelation of the spiritual state of the conciliar sect, where the House of God has been so thoroughly desacralized that children can treat it as a playground, and this profanation is reframed as a sign of divine calling.
The priest who expelled young Sguazzino threatened him with “excommunication” — a penalty that, in the true Church, carries the gravest spiritual consequences. Yet in the neo-church, this threat is wielded frivolously against children for mere mischief, demonstrating that even the concept of excommunication has been emptied of its supernatural meaning. The conciliar sect has reduced the sacred to the sentimental, and now it reaps the fruit: men who “feel joy” in environments where the Most Blessed Sacrament is treated with less reverence than a soccer ball.
St. Pius X, in Lamentabili sane exitu (1907), condemned the modernist proposition that “the Church is an enemy of the progress of natural and natural sciences” (proposition 57) and that “truth changes with man, because it develops with him, in him, and through him” (proposition 58). The entire vocational narrative presented in this article is built upon this modernist foundation — subjective feelings, personal experiences, and emotional satisfaction replace the objective call of God transmitted through the Church’s immutable discipline. Sentire cum Ecclesia — to think and feel with the Church — has been replaced by sentire cum ego — to think and feel with oneself.
The Neocatechumenal Way: A Factory of Vocations for the Conciliar Sect
Among the ordinandi, Antonino Ordine explicitly attributes his “vocation” to the Neocatechumenal Way — the faith formation program known as the Neocatechumenal Way. This movement, founded by Kiko Argüello and Carmen Hernández, has been repeatedly criticized for its heterodox practices, its parallel ecclesial structure, and its role as a primary recruitment mechanism for the post-conciliar church. The Neocatechumenal Way operates as a church within a church, creating its own liturgical rites, its own catechesis, and its own ecclesial identity — all under the guise of “evangelization.”
Pius XI, in Quas Primas (1925), established the Feast of Christ the King precisely to combat the “secularism of our times, so-called laicism, its errors and wicked endeavors.” The Neocatechumenal Way, far from restoring Christ’s reign, has become an instrument of the conciar revolution — producing “priests” who are formed not in the immutable Tradition of the Church but in the novelties of post-conciliar experimentation. The “missionary families” and “priests” whom Ordine encountered in Sweden were not ambassadors of Christ the King but agents of the neo-church’s ecumenical and modernist agenda.
The Syllabus of Errors of Pius IX (1864) condemned the proposition that “the Church has not the power of defining dogmatically that the religion of the Catholic Church is the only true religion” (proposition 21). The Neocatechumenal Way, with its emphasis on dialogue with non-Catholics and its relativistic approach to doctrine, embodies this condemned error. To present a “vocation” born within this movement as a work of the Holy Spirit is to blaspheme against the Holy Spirit — the Spirit of Truth, not the spirit of confusion.
World Youth Day: The Carnival of False Vocations
Guglielmo Lapenna recounts that his decision to enter the seminary came during World Youth Day 2016 in Kraków. This admission alone should give any faithful Catholic pause. World Youth Day is not a Catholic institution — it is a neo-church spectacle, a carnival of emotional manipulation, rock music, and false ecumenism that has nothing to do with the formation of true priests. It is the conciar sect’s answer to the Church’s traditional methods of vocational discernment: instead of prayer, sacrifice, and the guidance of a wise spiritual director, young men are subjected to mass emotional experiences designed to produce a “decision for Christ” that is, in reality, a decision for the conciliar revolution.
The Syllabus of Errors condemned the proposition that “the Roman Pontiff can, and ought to, reconcile himself, and come to terms with progress, liberalism and modern civilization” (proposition 80). World Youth Day is precisely this reconciliation with modernity — a spectacle that mimics the forms of secular entertainment while claiming to be an expression of Catholic faith. That a “vocation” to the “priesthood” should emerge from such an environment is not a sign of the Holy Spirit’s action but of the neo-church’s success in confusing the faithful.
The “Priesthood” of the Conciliar Sect: Sacramental Invalidity and Spiritual Ruin
The article speaks of “ordination” and “priesthood” as if these terms retained their Catholic meaning. They do not. The post-conciliar “Mass” is not the Most Holy Sacrifice of the Calvary — it is a memorial meal, a Protestant-inspired “Eucharistic celebration” that denies the propitiatory nature of the sacrifice. The post-conciliar “priesthood” is not the sacramental character conferred by the true rite of ordination — it is a functional role within a paramasonic structure.
The theological objections to the conciliar “sacraments” are not merely academic. As the file on the False Fatima Apparitions notes, “the efficacy of Holy Mass is diminished in favor of spectacular acts.” The neo-church has replaced the Unbloody Sacrifice with emotional experiences, and it has replaced true priests with men who “feel happy” in seminary environments that bear no resemblance to the formation of St. John Vianney or St. Charles Borromeo.
The file on the Defense of Sedevacantism establishes that a manifest heretic loses his office ipso facto — by the very fact of his heresy. The usurper Leo XIV, as a product and promoter of the conciliar revolution, is a manifest heretic. His “ordinations” are not valid sacraments but empty rituals performed by a man who has no authority from Christ. The men he “ordains” are not priests of the Catholic Church — they are functionaries of the abomination of desolation that occupies the Vatican.
The Omission of the Supernatural: Silence as Apostasy
What is most striking about this article is not what it says but what it omits. There is no mention of the state of grace, no mention of the final judgment, no mention of the real presence of Christ in the Most Blessed Sacrament. The “joy” that Sguazzino feels is not the joy of sanctifying grace — it is the natural satisfaction of a man who has found a comfortable role within a corrupt institution. The “vocation” stories are not accounts of supernatural calling — they are human interest stories, designed to elicit emotional responses from readers who have been conditioned by the neo-church to value sentiment over truth.
Pius XI, in Quas Primas, warned that “when God and Jesus Christ — as we lamented — were removed from laws and states and when authority was derived not from God but from men, the foundations of that authority were destroyed.” The same is true of the neo-church’s “priesthood.” When the supernatural is removed from the concept of vocation, what remains is merely human ambition dressed in ecclesiastical vestments.
Conclusion: The Abomination of Desolation Continues
The “ordination” of these eight men is not a cause for celebration — it is a cause for mourning. It is another step in the neo-church’s systematic destruction of the Catholic priesthood and its replacement with a counterfeit that serves the agenda of the Antichrist. The men being “ordained” are not victims to be pitied — they are willing participants in a system that has abandoned the faith of their fathers.
The true Church endures — in the faithful who profess the integral Catholic faith, in the priests who offer the true Mass, in the bishops who guard the deposit of faith against all innovation. The conciliar sect, with its sentimental vocational narratives and its empty rituals, is the synagogue of Satan that Pius IX warned against in the Syllabus of Errors. Let us pray for the true restoration of the Catholic priesthood — not the farce being staged in St. Peter’s Basilica, but the reality of men who offer the Unbloody Sacrifice of Calvary with the authority of Christ and the sanctity of the saints.
Ad maiorem Dei gloriam — not the glory of the conciliar revolution.
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Kicked out of Mass as a mischievous child, Pope Leo will ordain him Sunday (ewtnnews.com)
Date: 24.04.2026