The EWTN News portal (Catholic News Agency) reports on Jared Plasberg, a 23-year-old graduate of the neo-church’s Christendom College, who ran 3,000 miles across the United States pushing an 80-pound stroller to raise $20,000 for the Front Royal Pregnancy Center, and now intends to enter the Carthusian monastery of the Grande Chartreuse in France as a postulant. The article frames this feat of physical endurance as a “spiritual journey” and “prayerful pilgrimage” inspired by the pseudo-saint Pier Giorgio Frassati and the apostate “Pope” Benedict XVI, culminating in a vocational discernment entirely within the conciliar sect’s structures. This report exemplifies the neo-church’s substitution of the supernatural Catholic mission with naturalistic humanitarian activism and subjective spiritualities, utterly devoid of the Social Kingship of Christ and the necessity of the True Mass and True Faith for salvation.
The Naturalistic Reduction of the Church’s Mission to NGO Humanitarianism
The cited article relates that Plasberg’s run was motivated because “the pro-life cause is something dear to my heart because every human life has inherent dignity and worth.” Here lies the theological bankruptcy of the entire conciliar “pro-life” movement: it grounds the defense of the innocent not in the Divine Positive Law (“Thou shalt not kill”), not in the Social Kingship of Christ the King (Quas Primas: “His reign encompasses also all non-Christians… the entire human race is subject to the authority of Jesus Christ“), but in a vague, Masonic “inherent dignity” derived from the 1948 Universal Declaration of Human Rights. This is the error of naturalism condemned by Pope Pius IX in the Syllabus of Errors (Prop. 55: “The Church ought to be separated from the State”) and by Pope Pius XI in Quas Primas: “When God and Jesus Christ… were removed from laws and states… the foundations of that authority were destroyed.” The Front Royal Pregnancy Center operates as a private charity begging alms from a secularized populace, implicitly accepting the laicist separation of Church and State which Quas Primas calls a “plague” (laicism). No mention is made of the duty of the State to criminalize abortion as a crime against the King of Kings; only the language of “support,” “awareness,” and “ministry” — the lexicon of the Protestantized, democratized neo-church.
False Authorities: The Antipope Ratzinger and the Pseudo-Saint Frassati
Plasberg explicitly cites two pillars of the neo-church’s false magisterium: “Pope Benedict XVI” and “St. Pier Giorgio Frassati.” Joseph Ratzinger (“Benedict XVI”) was a manifest heretic who, as peritus at Vatican II, architected the novus ordo missae, taught the heresy of religious liberty (Dignitatis Humanae), and practiced false ecumenism. According to the theological principles of St. Robert Bellarmine (De Romano Pontifice) and Canon 188.4 of the 1917 Code, a manifest heretic ipso facto loses all jurisdiction and membership in the Church; he cannot be Pope. Quoting him as “Pope” is a formal act of communion with the Great Apostasy. Pier Giorgio Frassati, canonized by the antipope John Paul II in 1990, is a false “saint” of the counter-church. His motto “Verso l’alto” (to the heights) is a mountaineering slogan baptized as spirituality, perfectly embodying the Modernist immanentism condemned by St. Pius X in Lamentabili Sane (Prop. 58: “Truth changes with man… develops with him”) and Prop. 59 (“Christ did not proclaim any specific, all-encompassing doctrine… but initiated a certain religious movement”). The article’s reliance on these figures proves the subject operates entirely within the paramasonic structure occupying the Vatican, not the Catholic Church.
The “Carthusian” Vocation: Flight into Schismatic Solitude
The article describes Plasberg’s intended entry into the Grande Chartreuse as a “contemplative vocation” where “silence and solitude are not meant as an escape from the world but as a way of dedicating oneself entirely to prayer for the Church and the salvation of souls.” This is a diabolical simulacrum of religious life. The modern Carthusians, like all “orders” in the conciliar sect, have accepted the novus ordo (or the 1962 Missal una cum the usurpers), the heretical Vatican II decrees, and the false “popes.” They possess no valid jurisdiction, no valid superior, no canonical mission. As Cardinal Billot (De Ecclesia Christi) teaches regarding Nestorius: “he who has departed from the faith… cannot depose or remove anyone.” A superior who recognizes the antipope Leo XIV (Robert Prevost) as head of the Church is a hidden heretic at best, a manifest one at worst, and communicates no authority. To enter such a house is not to enter religion (religare — to bind back to God), but to enter a schismatic sect within a schismatic sect, a “schism within a schism of the neo-church.” The article’s description of the Carthusian life — “spiritual reading,” “work,” “liturgical prayers” — is stripped of the essential: the Unbloody Sacrifice of Calvary (True Mass) offered by a validly ordained priest for the propitiation of sins (propter peccata). Without the True Mass, there is no Christian priesthood, no victim, no redemption applied. It is idolatry — the worship of a “community” and “silence” divorced from the Cross.
Subjectivist Piety vs. Dogmatic Certainty: The Modernist “Journey”
The linguistic level of the article reeks of Modernist vital immanence. Plasberg speaks of “discernment,” “spiritual journey,” “intentions,” “providence,” “holiness starts with allowing God to love us as we are in our brokenness.” This is the heresy of “faith as sentiment” condemned in Lamentabili Sane (Prop. 25: “Faith… is ultimately based on a sum of probabilities“; Prop. 26: “Dogmas… as binding in action, rather than as principles of belief“). There is zero mention of: the True Faith (the Credo), the True Mass, the Sacraments (Baptism, Confirmation, Extreme Unction), the State of Grace, Mortal Sin, Hell, Particular Judgment, Extra Ecclesiam Nulla Salus, the Social Kingship of Christ, the Sedevacancy, or the invalidity of the Novus Ordo. The “stroller” becomes a sacramental sign of “solidarity” — a purely horizontal, humanitarian symbol. The “hermitess Amma Chiara” who “radiated joy, peace, and holiness” is the criterion of truth: phenomenology replaces dogma. This is the abomination of desolation standing in the holy place: religious experience substituting for Divine Revelation.
Systemic Symptom: The “Conservative” Incubator of the Neo-Church
Plasberg is a product of Christendom College, a flagship institution of the “conservative” wing of the conciliar sect. These colleges exist to channel traditionalist instincts into safe, canonical dead-ends — recognizing the usurpers, attending the una cum Masses (whether Novus Ordo or 1962), and directing “vocations” to compromised orders (FSSP, Institute of Christ the King, or here, the Carthusians). The run across America is a media stunt worthy of the Church of the New Advent: it generates “content” for EWTN/CNA, inspires “donations” to an NGO, and produces a “feel-good” narrative of “greatness” (Ratzinger) and “heights” (Frassati) that requires zero supernatural faith, zero sacramental grace, zero doctrinal purity. It is the perfect religion of the Antichrist: man running for man, “carried by God” in a vague providentialism, entering a monastery that prays for a “Church” that has defected from the Faith. St. Pius X warned in Pascendi: “They aim at such a development of dogmas as appears to be their corruption.” Here, the dogma of the Church’s mission is corrupted into a marathon; the dogma of Religious Life is corrupted into a private discernment in a schismatic hermitage; the dogma of the Papacy is corrupted into quoting an antipope.
Conclusion: A Soul Lost in the Labyrinth of the Counter-Church
Jared Plasberg’s run is a metaphor for the neo-church itself: immense energy, miles of pavement, heavy burdens pushed, media acclaim — but no arrival at the Truth. He ends in the Atlantic Ocean, pointing to heaven, yet entering a structure that has broken the connection with Heaven by severing communion with the True Papacy (vacant since 1958) and the True Sacrifice. “Unless the Lord build the house, they labour in vain that build it” (Ps 126:1). The $20,000 raised for the pregnancy center is mammon given to a work that ignores the King. The “vocations” to the Grande Chartreuse are vocations to nowhere. The only true “heights” (Verso l’alto) are the Heights of Calvary, accessed solely through the True Mass of the True Priesthood in the True Church (the remnant faithful adhering to the integral Faith and valid Sacraments). All else is strenuous vanity, a running “not as one who beats the air” (1 Cor 9:26), but as one who runs outside the stadium of the Faith, destined for the outer darkness. Quas Primas declares: “There is no other name under heaven given to men by which we must be saved” (Acts 4:12). That Name is not “Benedict,” not “Frassati,” not “Carthusian,” not “Pro-Life.” It is Jesus Christ the King, whom this article, this portal, this college, this run, and this monastery crucify afresh by their silence.
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He ran across the U.S. to support pregnant women; now he’s off to be a monk (ewtnnews.com)
Date: 04.07.2026