On June 18, 2026, the structures occupying the Vatican announced that the usurper Robert Prevost, styling himself “Pope Leo XIV,” signed a decree recognizing the so-called “heroic virtue” of Mary Teresa Tallon, an American religious foundress, along with several others, advancing them along the path toward the conciliar sect’s counterfeit canonization process. EWTN News reports that Tallon, born in 1867 in New York to Irish immigrants, joined the Sisters of the Holy Cross in 1887, taught in Catholic schools for 33 years, and in 1920 founded the Parish Visitors of Mary Immaculate with the motto “Make every soul count.” She died in 1954, and her cause was opened in 2013. The same decree declared venerable two Italian religious sisters, a Spanish nun, and a Belgian missionary, while recognizing the alleged “martyrdom” of Juan Torres Torres and 19 companions killed during the Spanish Civil War. This announcement, issued through the Dicastery for the Causes of Saints under Cardinal Marcello Semeraro, represents yet another operation of the post-conciliar apparatus to fabricate a counterfeit hagiography for the neo-church of the Antichrist.
The Counterfeit Canonization Industry of the Conciliar Sect
The machinery of “canonization” as operated by the post-conciliar structures is not the authentic process of the Catholic Church. It is a bureaucratic apparatus designed to populate the neo-church’s calendar with figures who serve the ideological purposes of Modernism. The true Church canonized saints through a process governed by the most rigorous investigation of miracles and virtues, conducted under the authority of the Sovereign Pontiff acting in his capacity as Universal Doctor and Vicar of Christ. What the conciliar sect practices is an industrialized assembly line of “saints” manufactured to legitimize the revolution.
Mary Teresa Tallon died in 1954 — four years before the death of the last valid Pope, Pius XII. Her cause was opened in 2013 by the Bergoglio apparatus, and is now being advanced by the Prevost usurper. The timing itself is revealing: the conciliar sect accelerates these causes not out of devotion to authentic holiness, but to create a veneer of sanctity over structures that are fundamentally opposed to the Faith. Tallon’s founding of the Parish Visitors of Mary Immaculate in 1920, her involvement with the Confraternity of Christian Doctrine — an organization that would later be thoroughly modernized and captured by the progressives — and her entire religious life unfolded within congregations that would eventually be gutted by the post-conciliar revolution. The Sisters of the Holy Cross, the congregation to which she belonged for 33 years, was among those most devastated by the Modernist takeover after 1958, losing its religious habit, its authentic charism, and its fidelity to the Church’s tradition. That the neo-church now claims one of its former members as “venerable” is not a vindication of that congregation’s original spirit but a co-optation of its memory.
The Fraud of “Heroic Virtue” Without the True Faith
The concept of “heroic virtue” in Catholic theology has a precise and unambiguous meaning. It refers to the exercise of the theological virtues — faith, hope, and charity — and the cardinal virtues — prudence, justice, fortitude, and temperance — to a degree that is extraordinary and sustained, and always in the state of sanctifying grace. As St. Thomas Aquinas teaches, without charity, no virtue is truly virtuous, and without the true Faith, there can be no merit before God. The Council of Trent, Session VI, Chapter 7, declares anathema upon anyone who says that the righteous sin in every good work, or that the works of the justified are sins — but this presupposes that the works are performed within the true Church, with true faith, and under the governance of legitimate authority.
The post-conciliar structures have systematically abandoned the teaching that the Catholic Church is the only ark of salvation. The decree Dignitatis Humanae of the robber council declared religious liberty — condemned by Pope Pius IX in the Syllabus of Errors (propositions 77-78) and by Pope Gregory XVI in Mirari Vos. The entire theological framework within which the conciliar sect operates denies the necessity of the Catholic Faith for salvation, denies the duty of states to recognize the reign of Christ the King, and denies the Church’s exclusive right to public worship. How then can any person operating within these structures, professing the “faith” of this counterfeit church, be said to possess “heroic virtue” in the theological sense? The virtue of faith itself — the foundation of all other virtues — requires the firm assent to all that God has revealed and proposes through His one, holy, catholic, and apostolic Church. The faith of the conciliar sect is not this faith. It is, as Pope St. Pius X declared in Pascendi Dominici Gregis (1907), the “synthesis of all heresies” — Modernism.
The Martyrdom Claim: Exploiting the Spanish Civil War
The recognition of the so-called “martyrdom” of Juan Torres Torres and 19 companions killed during the Spanish Civil War deserves particular scrutiny. The article states they were killed “in odium fidei” (“in hatred of the faith”). The Catholic understanding of martyrdom is precise: it is the voluntary suffering or endurance of death for the sake of the faith, at the hands of an adversary who acts out of hatred for the faith. The Church has always required rigorous proof both that the deceased was killed expressedly because of the Catholic faith, and that the person died in the state of grace, professing the true faith.
The Spanish Civil War (1936-1939) was a complex conflict in which thousands of clergy and religious were indeed murdered by Republican forces animated by Masonic and Communist hatred of the Catholic Faith. Many of these were authentic martyrs, and the pre-conciliar Church recognized their witness. However, the post-conciliar structures have a documented pattern of instrumentalizing these deaths for political and ecumenical purposes. The conciliar sect has shown itself willing to advance “martyrdom” causes not out of fidelity to the truth, but to serve its narrative of reconciliation and its ecumenical agenda. Moreover, the sheer volume of “martyrdom” recognitions from this period by the post-conciliar apparatus raises questions about the rigor of the investigations. The true Church was cautious and deliberate; the neo-church is hasty and politically motivated.
It must also be noted that the Spanish Civil War was, as the False Fatima Apparitions file documents, a conflict exploited by the forces of Freemasonry and Communism — the very forces that would later seize control of the Vatican itself in 1958. That the usurpers in Rome now claim to “canonize” victims of those same forces, while simultaneously advancing the ecumenical and modernist agenda that those forces desired, is a grotesque irony that should not escape the attentive observer.
The Dicastery for the Causes of Saints: A Modernist Tribunal
The article mentions that “Leo XIV” met with Cardinal Marcello Semeraro, prefect of the Dicastery for the Causes of Saints, before signing the decree. This dicastery is the successor of the Sacred Congregation of Rites, which was itself reformed and modernized after the robber council. The reforms introduced by Paul VI in 1983 through the apostolic constitution Divinus Perfectionis Magister dramatically streamlined the canonization process, reducing the role of the “devil’s advocate” (promotor iustitiae) and making it far easier to advance causes. This reform was not a development of doctrine but a disciplinary change that opened the floodgates to the mass production of conciliar “saints.”
Cardinal Semeraro is a creature of the post-conciliar establishment. His role is not to defend the deposit of faith against error but to serve the ideological machinery of the neo-church. The very existence of a “Dicastery for the Causes of Saints” operating under the authority of a usurper antipope is illegitimate. As the Defense of Sedevacantism file establishes through the authority of St. Robert Bellarmine, Wernz and Vidal, John of St. Thomas, Pope Celestine I, and the 1917 Code of Canon Law (Canon 188.4), a manifest heretic loses his office ipso facto — by the very fact of his manifest heresy — even before any declaration by the Church. The post-conciliar occupants of the Vatican have professed heresy publicly and persistently: religious liberty, ecumenism, the collegiality that undermines papal primacy, the new ecclesiology that denies the Church’s exclusive identification with the Roman Catholic Church. These are not private opinions; they are public, authoritative, and irreformable acts of the conciliar sect. They are, by that very fact, incapable of holding any ecclesiastical office, and therefore incapable of legitimately advancing any cause of canonization.
The Motto “Make Every Soul Count” — Catholic Charitable Work Co-Opted
The article highlights the motto of Tallon’s congregation: “Make every soul count.” On its surface, this appears to echo the Catholic concern for the salvation of souls — the very purpose for which the Church exists. Our Lord Jesus Christ declared: “For what doth it profit a man, if he gain the whole world, and suffer the loss of his own soul?” (Matthew 16:26). The salvation of souls is the finis operis of the Church’s entire mission.
However, in the context of the post-conciliar revolution, this motto takes on a fundamentally different character. The conciliar sect has redefined the “salvation of souls” in naturalistic terms. For the neo-church, “making every soul count” means social activism, interreligious dialogue, ecological concern, and humanitarian work — all stripped of the supernatural context of grace, the sacraments, and the necessity of conversion to the Catholic Faith. The Parish Visitors of Mary Immaculate, whatever their original charism, now operate within a Church that has effectively abandoned the missionary mandate to convert all nations, substituting it with a “dialogue” that treats all religions as equally valid paths to God. Pope Leo XIII, in the Encyclical Quas Primas (1925), taught that the reign of Christ the King extends over all men — “not only to Catholic nations or to those who, by receiving baptism according to law, belong to the Church, even though their erroneous opinions have led them astray or discord has separated them from love, but His reign encompasses also all non-Christians, so that most truly the entire human race is subject to the authority of Jesus Christ.” The conciliar sect has explicitly repudiated this teaching.
The Silence That Condemns: What the Article Omits
The EWTN News article is a masterpiece of omission. It says nothing about the state of the Catholic Faith in the United States or anywhere else. It says nothing about the necessity of the sacraments for salvation. It says nothing about the Four Last Things — death, judgment, heaven, and hell. It says nothing about the obligation of the faithful to resist the conciliar apostasy. It says nothing about the invalidity of the post-conciliar “Mass” and the absolute obligation of Catholics to seek the true Most Holy Sacrifice from validly ordained priests in communion with the true Church.
This silence is not accidental. It is the defining characteristic of the post-conciliar media apparatus. The neo-church communicates in a language carefully constructed to avoid any supernatural reality. Its “saints” are presented as social workers, educators, and humanitarians — never as miracle-workers, never as mystics who saw the face of God, never as witnesses who shed their blood rather than deny a single article of faith. The article’s tone is bureaucratic and promotional, indistinguishable from a press release from any secular nonprofit organization. This is exactly what the conciliar revolution has produced: a Church that speaks the language of the world, for the world, and about the world — while remaining utterly silent about the things of God.
The True Church Endures
The Catholic Church, the one founded by Our Lord Jesus Christ upon the Rock of Peter, endures. It endures not in the marble halls of the Vatican, now occupied by the abomination of desolation, but in the hearts of the faithful who profess the integral Catholic Faith, who receive the true sacraments from validly ordained priests, and who refuse to bow before the idols of Modernism. Pope Pius IX, in the Syllabus of Errors (1864), 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). The post-conciliar structures have done precisely this — and in doing so, they have demonstrated that they are not the Catholic Church but its counterfeit.
The faithful are called not to despair but to fidelity. The true Church has survived persecution from without — from the Roman empires, from the Islamic conquests, from the French Revolution, from Communism. She will survive this persecution from within, this Great Apostasy foretold by St. Paul (2 Thessalonians 2:3). Let the neo-church manufacture its “saints.” The true saints — those canonized by the authority of the pre-conciliar Church, those whose miracles were investigated with rigor, whose virtues were tested by fire, and whose intercession is rooted in the true Faith — these remain the models and protectors of the faithful. “Jesus Christ, yesterday, and today, and the same forever” (Hebrews 13:8). The conciliar sect changes with every passing season. The Catholic Church is immutable.
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Pope Leo XIV declares American religious founder Mary Teresa Tallon venerable (ewtnnews.com)
Date: 18.06.2026