On June 26, 2026, EWTN News reported that 97-year-old Cardinal Ernest Simoni, a man who suffered under Albania’s communist regime, climbed Apparition Hill in Medjugorje on June 23. The article describes how assisted by members of the Cenacolo Community, he was carried in a litter, blessed those present, prayed the rosary beside the statue of the Virgin, and blessed water. The piece presents this as an act of great devotion and highlights his clandestine Masses and imprisonment under Enver Hoxha. It further notes that in 2024, the Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith approved a document, *The Queen of Peace*, acknowledging spiritual fruits and finding no obstacles in the messages, while making no pronouncement on the supernatural nature of the phenomena. Simoni was created a cardinal by Jorge Mario Bergoglio (Francis) in 2016 and later met with “Pope” Leo XIV (Robert Prevost).
The entire event is a public spectacle of the conciliar revolution’s embrace of a demonic false apparition, dressed in the garments of suffering and perseverance. The ascent of Apparition Hill is not an act of Catholic devotion but a liturgical act within the abomination of desolation that is the post-conciliar neo-church. Medjugorje is condemned by the unchanging teaching of the Church and the explicit warnings of prior Magisterium regarding false mysticism and the evolution of doctrine through “private revelations.”
The Apparition Itself: A Condemned Foundation
The article states that “six young people claimed to have seen the Virgin Mary for the first time on June 24, 1981… Since then, some of those visionaries say they still receive messages from the Mother of God on a daily basis.” This description omits the decisive judgment of the Catholic Church prior to 1958: private revelations cannot be imposed on the faithful, and the Church’s infallibility does not extend to the approval of new manifestations that propose novel doctrines or ecumenical projects. The messages of Medjugorje, with their vague “peace” rhetoric and daily “urges,” are a textbook case of the evolution of dogma through the backdoor, condemned by Pius X in *Lamentabili sane exitu*:
“The progress of sciences requires a reform of the concept of Christian doctrine concerning God, creation, Revelation, the Person of the Incarnate Word, and Redemption.” (Lamentabili, 64)
This modernist proposition is precisely what Medjugorje embodies: a continuous “revelation” that adapts doctrine to the spirit of the age, promoting a naturalistic peace without conversion to the Catholic Faith. The 2024 Dicastery document, *The Queen of Peace*, acknowledges “spiritual fruits” and finds “no obstacles” in the messages while refusing to affirm their supernatural character. This is the language of indifferentism and religious relativism condemned by the *Syllabus of Errors*:
“Protestantism is nothing more than another form of the same true Christian religion, in which form it is given to please God equally as in the Catholic Church.” (Syllabus, 18)
The “Queen of Peace” title, detached from the Social Reign of Christ the King, is a modernist substitute for the Catholic dogma that peace is only possible through the conversion of nations to the true Church. As Pius XI taught in *Quas Primas*:
“The hope of lasting peace will not yet shine upon nations as long as individuals and states renounce and do not wish to recognize the reign of our Savior.” (Pius XI, Quas Primas, 1)
Medjugorje’s “peace” is a naturalistic, horizontal peace that ignores the necessity of submission to the Kingship of Christ and the conversion of Russia to Catholicism—a point explicitly condemned in the analysis of the Fatima deception. The Dicastery’s refusal to condemn the messages is a manifest act of complicity with the modernist project.
The Cardinal: A Trophy of the Conciliar Sect
The article presents Cardinal Simoni as a “living martyr” who endured torture and two death sentences under Enver Hoxha. It recounts his clandestine Masses and priestly ministry in secret. However, the crucial omission is that Simoni was created a cardinal by the usurper Jorge Mario Bergoglio in 2016 and subsequently met with the current antipope, Leo XIV. His entire post-conciliar “career” is a validation of the neo-church’s claim to continuity with the pre-conciliar martyrs, while simultaneously embracing the very errors for which the communists persecuted him.
Simoni’s ascent of Apparition Hill is not an act of fidelity to Tradition but a public endorsement of the conciliar revolution’s false ecumenism and religious relativism. The article notes that he “blessed those present” and “blessed water” at the site of the alleged apparition. This is a liturgical act within a structure that has abandoned the true Mass and the true sacraments. The “Masses” he celebrated clandestinely were the Traditional Latin Mass, the unchanging Roman Rite. Yet, by accepting a cardinalate from an antipope and participating in the structures of the neo-church, he has lent his credibility to the very system that has destroyed that Mass and replaced it with the Protestantized *Novus Ordo Missae*.
The article’s reference to his meeting with “Pope Francis” in 2016 and his presentation of a relic of Albanian martyrs to Leo XIV further demonstrates his full integration into the paramasonic structure. The “relic” is a tool of the cult of man, a veneration of “martyrs” detached from the Catholic doctrine that martyrdom is suffered for the Faith, not merely for political resistance. The article’s silence on the necessity of the Social Reign of Christ the King and the conversion of nations is deafening. Simoni’s suffering under communism is presented as a naturalistic triumph of the human spirit, not as a supernatural witness to the Kingship of Christ over all regimes.
The Cenacolo Community: A Modernist Religious Order
The article mentions that Simoni was assisted by “young people from the Cenacolo Community,” who carried him in a litter. The Cenacolo Community is a post-conciliar “religious” association, a product of the conciliar era’s false mysticism and emotionalism. Its involvement in this spectacle is a clear indication of the syncretistic and naturalistic character of the entire event. The use of a litter to carry the cardinal is a symbolic representation of the neo-church’s reliance on human means and emotional spectacle rather than the supernatural power of the true sacraments and the intercession of the true saints.
The Dicastery’s Document: A Modernist Manifesto
The 2024 Dicastery document, *The Queen of Peace*, is a culmination of the modernist strategy outlined in the analysis of the Fatima deception: Stage 3 (1958-2000), the takeover of the narrative by modernists, concealment of the Third Secret, and ecumenical reinterpretation. The document’s refusal to affirm the supernatural nature of the phenomena while acknowledging “spiritic fruits” is a direct application of the modernist hermeneutic condemned by St. Pius X in *Pascendi Dominici Gregis*:
“The Church listening cooperates in such a way with the Church teaching in defining truths of faith, that the Church teaching should only approve the common opinions of the Church listening.” (Lamentabili, 6)
This is the democratization of doctrine, the subversion of the hierarchical teaching authority of the Church. The “spiritual fruits” are the fruits of naturalistic humanitarianism, not of the Holy Ghost. The document’s title, *The Queen of Peace*, is a direct assault on the dogma that Christ must reign over all nations, as taught by Pius XI in *Quas Primas*:
“The Kingdom of our Redeemer encompasses all men… it matters not whether individuals, families, or states, for men united in societies are no less subject to the authority of Christ than individuals.” (Pius XI, Quas Primas, 5)
Medjugorje’s “peace” is a peace without Christ the King, a peace of coexistence with error and heresy. The Dicastery’s approval is a formal act of apostasy from the Social Kingship of Christ.
The Omission of the True Supernatural: The Gravest Accusation
The entire article is a masterpiece of naturalistic journalism. It presents Simoni’s suffering as a psychological and political triumph, not as a participation in the Cross of Christ for the salvation of souls. There is no mention of the state of grace, the necessity of the true sacraments, the reality of final judgment, or the obligation of nations to submit to the Kingship of Christ. The “rosary” prayed on Apparition Hill is a talisman of the neo-church, not the true Rosary of the Virgin Mary, which is a meditation on the Incarnation and the Redemption.
The article’s silence on the true nature of the Mass is particularly criminal. Simoni’s clandestine Masses were the Traditional Latin Mass, the Unbloody Sacrifice of Calvary. Yet, the article never mentions that the neo-church has effectively suppressed this Mass, replacing it with a Protestantized rite that is not a true propitiatory sacrifice. The cardinal’s ascent of Apparition Hill is a public repudiation of the true Mass and the true Church, a liturgical act within the synagogue of Satan.
Conclusion: A Public Spectacle of Apostasy
The ascent of Cardinal Ernest Simoni to Apparition Hill in Medjugorje is not an act of Catholic devotion but a public spectacle of the conciliar revolution’s embrace of a demonic false apparition. It is a validation of the modernist project of false ecumenism, religious relativism, and the democratization of doctrine. The cardinal, whatever his personal sufferings, has lent his credibility to the very system that has destroyed the true Mass, suppressed the true sacraments, and abandoned the Social Reign of Christ the King.
The Dicastery’s document, *The Queen of Peace*, is a formal act of apostasy, a refusal to condemn error and a promotion of naturalistic humanitarianism as the “spiritual fruits” of a false apparition. The entire event is a call to reject the true Catholic Faith and embrace the neo-church of the Antichrist. The faithful must reject Medjugorje, reject the conciliar sect, and return to the immutable Tradition of the Church, which alone guarantees the true peace of Christ the King.
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97-year-old cardinal, tortured under communism, climbs Medjugorje’s Apparition Hill (ewtnnews.com)
Date: 26.06.2026