The National Catholic Register (EWTN News) reports that on June 28, 2026, Argentinians gathered at the “basilica and national shrine of Our Lady of Luján” for a Novus Ordo service offered by the “archbishop of Mercedes-Luján,” Jorge Eduardo Scheinig, for victims of a devastating earthquake in Venezuela. The “archbishop” delivered a homily centered on “reexamining priorities,” putting “God first” to “bring order to your life,” and avoiding “desensitization” to suffering, framing the Catholic response as a matter of proper life-management and emotional equilibrium. This report epitomizes the anthropocentric, therapeutic deformation of the Gospel that defines the conciliar sect.
The entire exercise is a liturgical and theological fraud: a simulated sacrifice offered by a false prelate in a structure usurped from the Church, peddling a Christless humanism that ignores the Social Kingship of Christ, the necessity of the True Faith for salvation, and the reality of divine chastisement for unrepented sin.
The Simulated Sacrifice and the Usurped Hierarchy
The article describes a “Mass offered for the earthquake’s victims” by “Archbishop Jorge Scheinig.” From the perspective of integral Catholic theology, this is a pseudo-Mass celebrated by a manifest heretic who holds no jurisdiction in the Catholic Church. Since the usurpation of the Holy See by John XXIII in 1958, the See of Peter has been vacant (sede vacante), and all subsequent “ordinations” and “consecrations” in the new rite are at best doubtful, at worst invalid. As St. Robert Bellarmine teaches, “a manifest heretic… by that very fact ceases to be Pope and head, just as he ceases to be a Christian and member of the body of the Church” (De Romano Pontifice). The “archbishop” Scheinig, a product of the post-conciliar formation, professes the errors of Vatican II — religious liberty, ecumenism, collegiality — which constitute formal heresy. He therefore possesses no authority to offer the Holy Sacrifice, and the “consecration” he attempts is a sacrilegious simulation. The faithful present are not assisting at the Unbloody Sacrifice of Calvary but at a Protestantized assembly service (cena), devoid of propitiatory value.
The venue, the “basilica and national shrine of Our Lady of Luján,” has been transformed into a den of Modernism. Once a center of authentic Marian piety, it now serves the ecclesia novae adventus, the “Church of the New Advent,” which St. Pius X condemned as the “synthesis of all heresies” (Pascendi Dominici Gregis). The very act of gathering there under the auspices of the false hierarchy constitutes participation in the abomination of desolation foretold by Daniel and Christ (Matt. 24:15).
Therapeutic Deism Replaces the Kingship of Christ
The homily attributed to Scheinig is a masterpiece of naturalistic Pelagianism. He urges the faithful to “reexamine priorities,” stating: “If you have the right priorities, you are at peace. But if you choose your priorities poorly, it causes confusion and anguish… Jesus helps us order our priorities… Put God first, and you won’t regret it.” This is not Catholic preaching; it is self-help psychology baptized with religious vocabulary. Christ is reduced to a life-coach who assists in “ordering priorities” for personal tranquility.
Pope Pius XI, in Quas Primas (1925), thundered against this very error: “When God and Jesus Christ… 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 entire human society had to be shaken, because it lacked a stable and strong foundation.” The encyclical establishes that the remedy for societal collapse is the public recognition of Christ’s Kingly rights over nations, not individual “priority management.” Scheinig’s silence on the Social Kingship of Christ — the duty of Venezuela, Argentina, and all nations to confess Christ publicly, to order their laws by His Commandments, to render public worship — is a de facto denial of Christ’s regal authority. It is the error condemned by Pius IX in the Syllabus (Error 77): “In the present day it is no longer expedient that the Catholic religion should be held as the only religion of the State.” The conciliar sect has made this error its operating principle.
Horizontal Solidarity Substitutes for Supernatural Charity
The “archbishop” frames the response to the catastrophe as “standing in solidarity… through prayer,” “show solidarity, to give money and goods,” because “your heart is rightly ordered; it is with God.” This is horizontal humanitarianism, indistinguishable from Red Cross or UN rhetoric. True Catholic charity (caritas) flows from the love of God for His sake and seeks the eternal salvation of souls. It demands the conversion of the infidel and the heretic, the administration of the True Sacraments (Baptism, Extreme Unction), and prayer for the dead in the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass. The article mentions none of this. There is no call for the conversion of Venezuela to the integral Catholic Faith, no mention of the Sacraments for the dying, no reference to Purgatory or the suffrage of souls. The “prayer” offered is vague, addressed to a generic “God and the Virgin,” stripped of the Communion of Saints, the Mediatrix of All Graces, and the Royal Priesthood of the faithful united to the True Altar.
St. Pius X in Lamentabili Sane Exitu (1907) condemned the Modernist proposition that “The dogmas of faith should be understood according to their practical function, i.e., as binding in action, rather than as principles of belief” (Prop. 26). Scheinig’s homily operationalizes this condemnation: doctrine is dissolved into “priorities” and “life order.” The Credo is replaced by a curriculum vitae of good feelings.
Naturalistic Reading of Providence: “Strange Mix” Instead of Divine Chastisement
Scheinig reflects: “Just look at how strange the world is… Life is that strange mix of very beautiful things and deeply painful things.” This is practical atheism. The Catholic Faith teaches that earthquakes, wars, and plagues are divine chastisements for sin (flagella Dei), permitted by God’s Justice to awaken sinners to repentance. The Council of Trent (Sess. XIV, Ch. 5) teaches that “God does not always remit the whole punishment… but sometimes requires satisfaction.” The Venezuelan catastrophe is not a “strange mix” but a call to penance: “Unless you shall do penance, you shall all likewise perish” (Luke 13:3, 5). By refusing to name sin as the cause of suffering, and penance as the remedy, the false prelate betrays the munus docendi and leaves the faithful in the darkness of naturalism.
The Syllabus of Pius IX condemns the proposition: “Moral laws do not stand in need of the divine sanction… it is not at all necessary that human laws should be made conformable to the laws of nature and receive their power of binding from God” (Error 56). Scheinig’s “priorities” are precisely such autonomous moral laws, detached from the lex aeterna and the lex ecclesiastica.
The World Cup Analogy: Trivializing the Passion of Christ
The homily’s reference to the Argentina World Cup match — “we see a little boy crying… Yet, a short while later, we’re watching the Argentina match” — is a calculated trivialization. It equates the suffering of the damned and the chastised with a sporting event, suggesting the solution is merely “not getting desensitized.” This is the laicism Pius XI condemned: “the secularism of our times, so-called laicism, its errors and wicked endeavors… the Church’s authority to teach men… was denied.” The true shepherd would cry out: “Be converted! Do penance! The Kingdom of Heaven is at hand!” not “keep your priorities straight so you can enjoy the game guilt-free.”
EWTN and the Propaganda Apparatus of the Anti-Church
The article originates from ACI Prensa / EWTN News, the media arm of the conciliar sect. Its function is to normalize the novus ordo hierarchy, the false “saints” (John Paul II, etc.), and the humanitarian gospel. By translating and adapting this report for English consumption, the National Catholic Register reinforces the Great Apostasy foretold by St. Paul (2 Thess. 2:3). The “antipope” Leo XIV (Robert Prevost) presides over this paramasonic structure, which occupies the Vatican. Every “bishop,” “cardinal,” and “priest” cited in such reports is a usurper of an office they do not hold, leading souls not to Christ but to the synagogue of Satan (Apoc. 2:9; 3:9).
Conclusion: No Salvation Outside the True Church and True Sacrifice
The Venezuelan dead need not “solidarity” or “priority ordering” but the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass offered by valid priests in the Roman Rite of St. Pius V, the Sacraments, and the prayers of the Church Militant united to the True Pope (whoever he may be, canonically elected). The Argentinians at Luján were led by a blind guide (Matt. 15:14) into a liturgical and doctrinal void. As St. Cyprian teaches: “He cannot have God for his Father who has not the Church for his mother.” The conciliar sect is not the Church. Its “Masses” are abominations. Its “bishops” are hirelings (John 10:12). Its “charity” is Philanthropy. Extra Ecclesiam nulla salus. Let the faithful flee these structures, adhere to the Tradition of the Fathers, the Magisterium of Pius IX, Leo XIII, St. Pius X, Pius XI, Pius XII, and seek out the true Mass and true Sacraments wherever valid bishops and priests preserve them sine ulla novitate. The “priorities” of Scheinig lead to hell; the Priority of the First Commandment — to adore the Triune God in Spirit and Truth through the Catholic Church — leads to Heaven.
Source:
Argentinians Join in Prayer for Earthquake-Shattered Venezuelans (ncregister.com)
Date: 30.06.2026