EWTN News reports that on June 10, 2026, the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) voted to advance the beatification cause of John Rick Miller, a lay businessman and missionary associated with “For the Love of God Worldwide,” an organization promoting consecration to the Sacred Heart of Jesus and the Immaculate Heart of Mary. Archbishop Thomas Wenski of Miami presented the cause, emphasizing Miller’s “deep conversion” in 1988, his devotion to the “three hearts” (Sacred Heart, Immaculate Heart, and the chaste heart of St. Joseph), and his global evangelization efforts across Mexico, Colombia, Ecuador, and India. Wenski cited “St. John Paul II” and the conciliar document Lumen Gentium to justify the cause, framing Miller as a model of lay holiness. This decision reveals the conciliar sect’s continued manufacture of “saints” to legitimize its modernist agenda, substituting authentic Catholic sanctity with naturalistic activism and false devotion.
The Manufacture of “Holiness” in the Conciliar Sect
The advancement of John Rick Miller’s cause exemplifies the conciliar sect’s systematic replacement of true Catholic holiness with a naturalistic, activist caricature. Archbishop Wenski’s presentation highlights Miller’s “deep conversion” in 1988, his “intense Marian devotion,” and his global apostolate—yet nowhere is there mention of the supernatural foundations of sanctity: heroic virtue, martyrdom, or miracles wrought by God. Instead, the criteria are reduced to human activity: founding associations, promoting consecrations, and evangelizing across nations. This is not holiness; it is busy-ness dressed in religious language.
The conciliar sect’s “saints” are not canonized for their union with God but for their utility to the modernist project. As the False Fatima Apparitions document notes, the post-conciliar church has reinterpreted private revelations to serve ecumenical and naturalistic ends. Miller’s cause, with its emphasis on “lay vocation” and “temporal affairs,” aligns perfectly with the conciliar distortion of sanctity outlined in Lamentabili sane exitu (1907), which condemned the proposition that “the Church is an enemy of the progress of natural and theological sciences” (proposition 57) and that “Christian doctrine was initially Jewish, but through gradual development, it became first Pauline, then Johannine, and finally Greek and universal” (proposition 60). The conciliar sect has embraced this evolution, reducing sanctity to a function of social engagement.
The Heresy of “Lay Holiness” and the Democratization of Sanctity
Archbishop Wenski explicitly cited Lumen Gentium, the conciliar document that proclaimed the “universal call to holiness” and elevated the laity’s role in the Church. This is a direct assault on the Catholic understanding of holiness, which has always been rooted in objective sanctifying grace, sacramental life, and heroic virtue—not in subjective “vocations” or “apostolates.” The true Church teaches that holiness is not a “call” but a demand of baptism, as Pope Pius XI declared in Quas Primas (1925): “Men, redeemed by His most precious Blood, have been subjected, as it were, to new laws of His reign.”
The conciliar sect’s emphasis on “lay models of holiness” is a symptom of its democratization of the Church, where the hierarchical constitution established by Christ is replaced by a horizontal, egalitarian community. As the Defense of Sedevacantism document argues, a manifest heretic loses his office ipso facto (St. Robert Bellarmine, De Romano Pontifice). The bishops who voted for Miller’s cause are themselves suspect of heresy, having embraced the conciliar innovations condemned by St. Pius X in Pascendi Dominici gregis (1907) as “the synthesis of all errors.” Their authority to advance any cause is, at best, null and void.
The “Three Hearts” Devotion: A Modernist Synthesis
Miller’s devotion to the “three hearts”—the Sacred Heart of Jesus, the Immaculate Heart of Mary, and the chaste heart of St. Joseph—is presented as the “hallmark of his apostolate.” Yet this devotion, while containing elements of authentic Catholic piety, has been co-opted by the conciliar sect to promote a syncretistic, emotional spirituality detached from the rigors of Tradition. The False Fatima Apparitions document warns that the “hyper-acts of worship” demanded by false revelations (e.g., consecration of Russia) undermine the centralized role of the Church and the sacraments. Similarly, the “three hearts” devotion, as promoted by Miller and his associates, risks becoming a cult of sentimentality, replacing the propitiatory sacrifice of the Mass with a focus on personal “entrustment” and “filial devotion.”
Moreover, the invocation of St. Joseph’s “chaste heart” is a novelty with no basis in the Church’s traditional devotion. The true Church has always honored St. Joseph as the Guardian of the Redeemer and Patriarch of the Universal Church, but the specific devotion to his “heart” is a modern invention, likely influenced by the same sentimentalism that produced the false apparitions of Fatima. As Pope Pius IX declared in the Syllabus of Errors (1864), “Truth changes with man, because it develops with him, in him, and through him” (proposition 58, condemned). The conciliar sect has embraced this evolution, manufacturing new devotions to suit its modernist agenda.
The Usurpation of Canonization: A Paramasonic Ritual
The conciliar sect’s canonization process is a paramasonic ritual, designed to legitimize its apostasy by creating a roster of “saints” who embody its errors. John Rick Miller joins 87 other U.S. Catholics on the “official path to sainthood,” alongside 11 already “canonized” by the usurpers in Rome. These include figures like John Paul II, a heretic and apostate who embraced religious liberty, false ecumenism, and the evolution of dogma. As the Facts and Myths section notes, John Paul II was never a valid pope, and his “canonizations” are null and void.
The true Church has always required miracles as proof of sanctity, wrought by God to confirm the Church’s judgment. The conciliar sect, however, has reduced canonization to a bureaucratic process, where “evidence of holiness” is gathered from “multiple nations” and “recognized by bishops and archbishops”—many of whom are themselves modernists. This is not the Church of Christ; it is the abomination of desolation (Matthew 24:15), a counterfeit institution masquerading as the Bride of Christ.
The Silence on Supernatural Realities
Perhaps the most damning omission in the EWTN News article is the complete silence on supernatural realities. There is no mention of Miller’s state of grace, his reception of the sacraments, or his final judgment. Instead, the focus is on his “apostolic initiatives,” “Marian shrines,” and “consecrations.” This is the language of naturalistic humanism, not Catholic theology. As Pope Pius XI warned in Quas Primas, “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 conciliar sect’s “saints” are not intercessors in heaven but icons of the modernist revolution. They are held up as models not because they lived in union with God but because they advanced the agenda of the Church of the New Advancement. John Rick Miller, with his “three hearts” devotion and global apostolate, is merely the latest in a long line of such figures—a lay activist elevated to the altars of a false church.
Conclusion: Reject the Conciliar Counterfeit
The advancement of John Rick Miller’s cause is not a step toward holiness but a step deeper into apostasy. The conciliar sect, having rejected the immutable Tradition of the Church, now manufactures its own “saints” to legitimize its errors. The faithful must reject this counterfeit and return to the true Church, which endures in those who profess the integral Catholic faith and are led by bishops with valid sacraments and validly ordained priests. As St. Robert Bellarmine taught, a manifest heretic cannot be Pope, and his acts are null and void. The conciliar sect’s canonizations are not merely illicit but invalid, and the faithful must have no part in them.
The true path to holiness lies not in “lay apostolates” or “Marian consecrations” but in obedience to the commandments of God, frequent reception of the sacraments, and union with the Sacred Heart of Jesus through the Most Holy Sacrifice of the Mass. Let us pray for the deliverance of the Church from the modernist pest and the restoration of Christ’s reign over all nations, as Pope Pius XI implored in Quas Primas: “May it come to pass, Venerable Brethren, that those who do not belong to the Church may desire and accept for their own salvation the sweet yoke of Christ, and that all of us, who by the merciful Providence of God are His household, may bear this yoke not sluggishly, but zealously, willingly, and holy.”
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U.S. bishops vote to advance beatification cause for Catholic layman John Rick Miller (ewtnnews.com)
Date: 10.06.2026