The EWTN News portal reports that on June 13, 2026, the city of Derry in Northern Ireland hosted a “worldwide coordinated Marian Eucharistic procession,” involving over 550 parishes and 15 Marian shrines across six continents. Organized by Barry Mallett of the “Guardians of the Faith,” the event was framed as an act of devotion to the Immaculate Heart of Mary, linked to the feasts of Our Lady of Fátima and St. Anthony of Padua. Participants included Father Roland Colhoun, who spoke of “contemplative peace,” and Father Patrick Desmond, OP, who expressed excitement about the “renewal of the Church.” The procession concluded at the Long Tower Church, associated with the “Servant of God” Sister Clare Crockett. What appears as a triumph of Catholic piety is, upon rigorous examination, a textbook manifestation of the post-conciliar apostasy — a syncretistic, modernist spectacle that substitutes true devotion for emotional nationalism, false ecumenism, and the veneration of unapproved apparitions, all under the banner of a Church that has long since abandoned its divine mission.
The Cult of Unapproved Apparitions: Fátima and the Poison of False Private Revelations
The article explicitly links this global event to “Our Lady of Fátima,” citing the Coimbra convent where “Our Lady is believed to have appeared to Sister Lucia.” This is not a neutral historical reference; it is an endorsement of the Fátima apparitions, which, as documented in the False Fatima Apparitions file, are riddled with theological contradictions, logical inconsistencies, and hallmarks of a Masonic psychological operation. The message of Fátima — with its conditional promises (“if you consecrate Russia…”) juxtaposed with unconditional guarantees (“in the end, Mary’s Heart will triumph”) — lacks the consistency demanded of authentic divine communication. Moreover, the emphasis on the “Immaculate Heart of Mary” and the “Sacred Heart of Jesus” in this context echoes the very devotional shifts that Pius XI warned could obscure the primacy of Christ the King’s social reign.
Pius XI, in his encyclical Quas Primas (1925), established the Feast of Christ the King precisely to combat the secularism and laicism that remove God from public life. Yet here, in a so-called “Marian” procession, there is no mention of Christ’s royal authority over nations, no call for the submission of states to divine law, no condemnation of modern errors. Instead, the focus is on emotional, sentimental piety — rosaries, processions, and “peace” — divorced from the unyielding demands of Catholic dogma. This is not the faith of the martyrs; it is the religion of the lukewarm, condemned in the Apocalypse (Apoc. 3:16).
The “Renewal of the Church” Heresy: Vatican II’s False Pentecost
Father Patrick Desmond, OP, declares: “The Lord is going to renew the Church in the world in his way and in his time, and it’s happening. It’s very exciting to be at the heart of it.” This language is unmistakably modernist. The “renewal” he celebrates is none other than the conciliar revolution itself — the demolition of the Traditional Latin Mass, the embrace of religious liberty, the false ecumenism that treats heretics and schismatics as brethren. St. Pius X, in Pascendi Dominici Gregis (1907), condemned the modernist notion that “the organic structure of the Church is subject to change” (Proposition 53) and that “Christian doctrine was initially Jewish, but through gradual development, it became first Pauline, then Johannine, and finally Greek and universal” (Proposition 60). Desmond’s enthusiasm for a “renewal” that aligns perfectly with the post-1958 apostasy reveals him not as a shepherd of souls, but as a hireling leading the flock into the abyss.
Furthermore, the article notes that Archbishop Eamon Martin “reconsecrated Ireland to the Sacred Heart of Jesus” and “to the Immaculate Heart of Mary.” Such acts, while sounding pious, are theologically suspect when performed by prelates who have not only tolerated but actively promoted the conciliar errors. A consecration made by a manifest heretic — one who denies the Church’s exclusive claim to truth, who participates in interreligious dialogue with pagans, who upholds the sacrilegious Novus Ordo Missae — is not only invalid but blasphemous. As St. Robert Bellarmine taught, a manifest heretic ceases to be a member of the Church and loses all jurisdiction (De Romano Pontifice, II, 30). Thus, any “reconsecration” by such a figure is an empty ritual, if not an outright sacrilege.
The Veneration of Uncanonized “Servants of God”: Sister Clare Crockett and the New Hagiography
The procession culminated at the Long Tower Church, described as the “home parish church of Servant of God Sister Clare Crockett.” The title “Servant of God” is a post-conciliar invention used to promote candidates for canonization within the structures of the neo-church. Sister Crockett died in an earthquake in Ecuador at age 33 — a tragic death, but one that does not constitute martyrdom, which requires death in odium fidei (in hatred of the faith). Maximilian Kolbe, often cited as a model for such causes, did not die for the faith but for a fellow prisoner; his “canonization” by John Paul II, a heretic and apostate, is null and void.
The elevation of figures like Crockett serves a dual purpose: it provides emotional fuel for the modernist narrative of “holiness in everyday life,” and it distracts from the true saints — those canonized by the pre-conciliar Church, whose intercession is guaranteed by the Church’s infallible judgment. The post-conciliar “canonizations” are not acts of the Catholic Church but of a counterfeit institution that has forfeited its authority.
The Illusion of “World Peace” Without Christ the King
Father Colhoun proclaimed that the procession was “making our contribution to world peace,” invoking “the Prince of Peace.” But what kind of peace is this? Not the peace of Christ the King, who demands the submission of all nations to His divine law. Pius XI was unequivocal: “The hope of lasting peace will not yet shine upon nations as long as individuals and states renounce and do not recognize the reign of our Savior” (Quas Primas). The “peace” promoted by the conciliar sect is the peace of the world — the peace of indifferentism, where all religions are treated as equally valid paths to God. This is the very error condemned by Pius IX in the Syllabus of Errors (Proposition 15: “Every man is free to embrace and profess that religion which, guided by the light of reason, he shall consider true”) and by Vatican I, which declared that “there is no salvation outside the Church” (Extra Ecclesiam Nulla Salus).
The procession’s route — following the path of the 1972 Bloody Sunday march — further reveals its political, naturalistic character. While the suffering of Catholics during the Troubles is real, the Church’s mission is not to sanctify political movements but to lead souls to eternal salvation. By aligning the procession with a secular civil rights march, the organizers reduce the faith to a tool of social activism — a hallmark of the modernist “Option for the Poor” that replaced the supernatural charity of the Gospel with Marxist liberation theology.
The EWTN Machine: Manufacturing Consent for the Conciliar Apostasy
The article originates from EWTN, the global media arm of the post-conciliar establishment. EWTN does not report news; it manufactures consent for the neo-church. By presenting this event as a triumph of Catholic piety, it obscures the fundamental truth: the structures occupying the Vatican are not the Catholic Church. They are, as the False Fatima Apparitions file argues, a “paramasonic structure” engaged in a “disinformation strategy” to consolidate modernist control. The participation of “Marian shrines” such as Fátima, Lourdes, and Knock — all of which have been co-opted by the conciliar sect — demonstrates how even authentic sites of pre-conciliar devotion have been hollowed out and repurposed as instruments of the apostasy.
Conclusion: The Abomination of Desolation in the Holy Place
This “worldwide Marian Eucharistic procession” is not a sign of Catholic revival but of deepening apostasy. It is a spectacle devoid of doctrinal content, saturated with sentimentalism, and aligned with the political and religious errors of the age. It promotes unapproved apparitions, celebrates the “renewal” of a Church that has renounced its divine mandate, and substitutes naturalistic activism for supernatural faith. As Pius IX warned, “the masonic associations are anathematized… not only in Europe but also in America and wherever they may be in the whole world” (Syllabus of Errors, Allocution Acerbissimum). The faithful must reject this false piety and return to the immutable Tradition — the Mass of All Time, the Social Reign of Christ the King, and the unchanging doctrine of the pre-conciliar Church. Only thus can they escape the snares of the modernist antichrist and attain eternal salvation.
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Northern Ireland city leads first coordinated worldwide Marian Eucharistic procession (ewtnnews.com)
Date: 15.06.2026