The National Catholic Register (November 19, 2025) reports that the Vatican’s “Dicastery for the Causes of Saints” granted its nihil obstat for the canonization cause of Ruth Pakaluk (1957-1998), a Harvard-educated convert described as a pro-life activist and mother of seven children. The article extols her neighborhood charity work, leadership in defeating Planned Parenthood initiatives, and purported heroic virtues during her breast cancer ordeal. The Worcester Diocese will now conduct a formal inquiry into this “servant of God” promoted by figures including “Bishop” Richard Reidy and Opus Dei associates.
Illegitimate Authority Masquerading as Church
The very premise of this canonization process constitutes sacrilegious parody. The conciliar sect’s “Dicastery for the Causes of Saints” operates under the 1983 Normae Servandae – modernist legislation that gutted the Church’s immemorial canonization procedures codified by Pope Benedict XIV in De Servorum Dei Beatificatione et Beatorum Canonizatione (1734-1738). Where the pre-1958 process demanded “rigorous examination of miracles by teams of physicians hostile to the cause” (Benedict XIV) and decades-long scrutiny, the post-conciliar machine manufactures “saints” through bureaucratic expediency. This corruption fulfills Pius X’s warning in Pascendi Dominici Gregis: “Modernists substitute for divine authority the working of the individual conscience” (n. 13).
The usurpers occupying Rome since 1958 possess no jurisdiction to investigate causes or declare sanctity. As St. Robert Bellarmine establishes in De Romano Pontifice: “A manifest heretic is ipso facto deposed from papal authority without any declaratory sentence” (II.30). The conciliar antipopes’ embrace of religious liberty (Dignitatis Humanae), false ecumenism, and novel sacraments constitutes public heresy, rendering all subsequent acts null. The “nihil obstat” issued by Marcello Semeraro – a Bergoglian appointee who promotes pagan worship in the Vatican – carries less spiritual weight than a parking ticket.
Naturalistic Virtues Replacing Supernaturally-Grounded Holiness
The article reduces Pakaluk’s alleged sanctity to bourgeois moralism: baking brownies, organizing neighborhood activities, and political activism. Her “heroic virtues” include managing a school board campaign and climbing Mount Washington while ill – human accomplishments utterly divorced from the supernatural martyrdom or mystical graces that characterize true saints. This aligns perfectly with the conciliar sect’s anthropocentric shift described by Pius XI in Quas Primas: “When once men recognize, both in private and in public life, that Christ is King, society will at last receive the great blessings of real liberty, well-ordered discipline, peace and harmony” (n. 19). By omitting Pakaluk’s adherence to integral Catholic doctrine (if any existed), the profile exemplifies the neo-church’s substitution of natural virtue for supernatural holiness.
Her association with Opus Dei – a group accepting Vatican II’s heresies and the invalid Novus Ordo rite – further invalidates claims of heroic faith. St. Pius X condemned such compromises in Lamentabili Sane: “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” (Proposition 6). A woman actively participating in the conciliar revolution cannot simultaneously embody pre-1958 Catholic sanctity.
Pro-Life Activism as Conciliar Distraction
While opposing abortion remains obligatory, the article’s celebration of Pakaluk’s pro-life work within post-conciliar structures exposes the movement’s co-option. Massachusetts Citizens for Life operates as a naturalistic NGO rather than a militant Catholic force, seeking legislative compromise rather than demanding society’s submission to Christ the King. Contrast this with St. Joan of Arc’s motto: “Men fight and God gives the victory.” The conciliar sect reduces pro-life work to political activism severed from its dogmatic foundations – precisely the error Pius XI condemned: “When the State lays claim to the whole man, it leaves nothing for the sovereignty of God and the authority of the Church” (Divini Redemptoris, n. 31).
Canonical and Theological Absurdities
The cause commits multiple canonical violations:
1. Invalid postulator: Dwight Duncan, described as a “friend of the family,” lacks the requisite theological credentials mandated by Benedict XIV’s procedures.
2. Third-class relics manufactured pre-causa: Michael Pakaluk’s creation of relics by touching prayer cards to his wife’s body constitutes superstition, condemned by the Council of Trent (Session XXV).
3. Unapproved devotion: Promoting her as a saint without Church approval violates Canon 1399 of the 1917 Code.
Theologically, the cause exemplifies the conciliar corruption of hagiography. Pakaluk’s reported “acceptance of suffering” appears stoic rather than supernatural – worlds apart from St. Thérèse’s “I will spend my heaven doing good on earth” or St. Paul’s “I fill up in my flesh what is lacking in the afflictions of Christ” (Col 1:24). Her alleged deathbed suggestion that her husband marry Catherine Hardy – framed as virtuous practicality – contradicts St. Monica’s example of securing Augustine’s conversion through tears and prayer.
Silence Speaks Louder Than Brownies
The article’s glaring omissions condemn this cause more than its content:
– No mention of adherence to traditional sacraments: Did Pakaluk attend the Novus Ordo or the Tridentine Mass? Receive invalid sacraments from conciliar “priests”?
– No evidence of doctrinal orthodoxy: Where are her writings defending the Immaculate Conception, Papal Infallibility, or other contested dogmas?
– No supernatural phenomena: Unlike true mystics (e.g., St. Padre Pio’s stigmata, St. Catherine Labouré’s miracles), Pakaluk’s profile rests on baked goods and cancer endurance.
This manufactured cause serves the conciliar agenda to replace saints who defied worldly powers (Thomas More, Joan of Arc) with “saints” who normalize apostasy through suburban domesticity. As Pius XII warned: “The worst enemies of the Church will be her unfaithful pastors” (Vision of Pope Leo XIII). Until true hierarchical authority is restored, all conciliar canonizations remain satanic counterfeits.
Source:
Vatican says sainthood cause for American mom of 7 can move forward (catholicnewsagency.com)
Date: 19.11.2025