The EWTN News portal reports on the Canadian Catholic News’ “God in the City: Catholic Journalism Summer Seminar,” scheduled for August 9–15, 2026, in Toronto. The program, coordinated by Laura Ieraci and staffed by “instructors” including “Father Haig Chahinian” (listed as “instructor and chaplain”), Barb Fraze, and Paul Schratz, purports to offer a “crash course in faith-based reporting” combined with “daily Mass, daily prayer, reflection.” Participants like Charlotte Taillon describe it as a supportive environment to pursue a “dream” of journalism “from a Catholic point of view.” The seminar teaches “the fundamental skills for journalism — making sure they have a basic skill set, how to write a news story, how to do interviews, along with the ethics of journalism,” explicitly eschewing “an explicit faith formation component.” This operation is not a revival of Catholic journalism but a sophisticated propaganda arm of the conciliar sect, training scribes to legitimize the abomination of desolation occupying the Vatican while ignoring the vacant See, the invalidity of the new rites, and the absolute Kingship of Christ over all temporal affairs.
The Neo-Church’s Propaganda Apparatus Masquerading as Journalism
The cited article reveals the conciliar sect’s insidious strategy: co-opting the language of professional journalism to serve the Church of the New Advent. The seminar’s coordinator, Laura Ieraci, admits the program grew from online classes where a student wished for “classes like this in person.” This “newsroom experience” is designed to forge a corps of writers who will report on “the Church, or a Church organization, or a Church apostolate, or some issue of importance to the Church” — but the “Church” in question is the paramasonic structure erected after 1958, not the Una, Sancta, Catholica et Apostolica Ecclesia. The article notes participants “go out in the city and find stories on the Church… and bring those stories back and report on them.” This is not journalism; it is intelligence gathering for the occupation government. The “ethics of journalism” taught are severed from the lex aeterna and the lex naturalis, reduced to secular professional standards baptized with holy water. As Pius XI teaches in Quas Primas, “the teaching of the Catholic Church is hostile to the well-being and interests of society” is a condemned error (Syllabus, 40); yet here the sect teaches its novices to operate within the very secular framework that Quas Primas condemns: “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 Invalid “Mass” and Sacrilegious “Chaplaincy”
The article casually mentions “daily Mass, daily prayer, reflection, a chapel on-site” overseen by “Father Haig Chahinian (instructor and chaplain).” This “Mass” is the Novus Ordo Missae, the fabricated liturgy of Paul VI, which is not the Most Holy Sacrifice of Calvary but a Protestantized memorial meal, invalid in form and intention, promulgated by a manifest heretic who had ipso facto lost the papacy. St. Robert Bellarmine teaches: “A manifest heretic… by that very fact ceases to be Pope and head… he cannot be the head of something of which he is not a member” (De Romano Pontifice). Paul VI, John XXIII, and all subsequent claimants — including the current usurper “Leo XIV” (Robert Prevost) — are antipopes, having defected from the Faith by promulgating the conciliar errors condemned by Lamentabili Sane Exitu and Pascendi Dominici Gregis. “Father Chahinian,” ordained in the new rite of ordination (1968), lacks valid orders; his “Mass” is a sacrilege and idolatry, not the Unbloody Sacrifice. The seminar’s “chapel” is a synagogue of Satan (Apoc. 2:9), where the abominatio desolationis (Matt. 24:15) is celebrated daily. To call this “faith formation” is blasphemy; it is formation in apostasy.
Reduction of the Kingship of Christ to “Faith-Based Reporting”
Ieraci states: “How will you interview someone as a Catholic journalist? What kind of questions might you ask in that context of a faith-based reporter? Because that’s what we’re doing… We’re doing faith-based reporting, and our particular faith is Catholic.” This phrase — “faith-based reporting” — is the linguistic signature of Modernism. It reduces the Social Kingship of Christ, defined dogmatically by Pius XI in Quas Primas (“His reign encompasses also all non-Christians, so that most truly the entire human race is subject to the authority of Jesus Christ”), to a subjective niche perspective. The seminar teaches students to view the Catholic religion as one “faith-based” option among others, implicitly accepting the condemned error of indifferentism (Syllabus, 15-18): “Every man is free to embrace and profess that religion which, guided by the light of reason, he shall consider true.” True Catholic journalism does not “report from a Catholic point of view”; it proclaims the Kingship of Christ over the city, the nation, the media, the laws, denouncing the “secularism of our times, so-called laicism, its errors and wicked endeavors” (Quas Primas). The seminar’s silence on the duty of the State to profess the Catholic Faith (Syllabus, 77-78 condemned) and on the nullity of Canada’s hate crime laws removing religious exemptions (mentioned in the article’s “Related Articles”) exposes its complicity with the Civitas Diaboli.
The Modernist Mentality: Naturalism in Ecclesiastical Disguise
The article reveals the naturalistic core of the operation. Ieraci says the seminar “does not include an explicit faith formation component… but we encourage people to be formed in their faith and practice it.” This is the Modernist separation of faith from life, condemned by St. Pius X in Lamentabili: “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 — condemned). The seminar teaches “how to write a news story, how to do interviews, along with the ethics of journalism” — a purely technical, naturalistic curriculum. There is no mention of theologia, philosophia perennis, the Summa Theologiae, the Catechism of Trent, the refutation of errors (communism, liberalism, feminism, sodomy, abortion), the sedevacantist thesis, or the necessity of the Traditional Latin Mass for salvation. The “daily prayer” and “reflection” are subjectivist piety, divorced from the lex orandi, lex credendi of the immemorial Roman Rite. As the Syllabus condemns: “The method and principles by which the old scholastic doctors cultivated theology are no longer suitable to the demands of our times and to the progress of the sciences” (Prop. 13). This seminar embodies that condemned proposition.
Silence on the Vacant See and the True Crisis
The article’s most damning feature is its total silence on the catastrophic crisis of the Church. Not a word on the vacancy of the Holy See since 1958, the invalidity of the conciliar “popes,” the destruction of the Mass, the new code of canon law (1983) legitimizing heresy, the “canonizations” of heretics (John Paul II, John XXIII, Paul VI, John Henry Newman), the ecumenical apostasy with false religions, the Masonic infiltration documented in the Fatima operation (see False Fatima Apparitions file: “Masonic Operation ‘Fatima’ — Stage 3 (1958-2000): Takeover of the narrative by modernists”). The seminar trains journalists to report on “Church organizations” and “apostolates” of the neo-church — the very structures canonically null by Cum ex Apostolatus Officio (Paul IV): “if any… Roman Pontiff… has defected from the Catholic Faith or fallen into some heresy: (i) his promotion or elevation… shall be null, void, and of no effect.” Every “bishop,” “priest,” “diocese,” “parish” of the conciliar sect is juridically non-existent. To report on them as “Catholic” is to bear false witness (Ex. 20:16). The participant Charlotte Taillon’s testimony — “God was gently reminding me that he has bigger plans for me” — is private revelation enthusiast emotionalism, the falsa mystica condemned by Lamentabili (Props. 20, 21), substituting sentiment for the Credo.
Complicity in the Great Apostasy
EWTN News, the publisher of this article, is a flagship media organ of the conciliar sect, founded by the “Mother Angelica” who accepted the new Mass and the conciliar “popes.” Its “senior editor Daniel Payne” uncritically amplifies this seminar. The “Catholic Media Conference in Atlantic City” where instructors gathered is a synod of the neo-church. The article’s “Related Articles” sidebar — “Canada enacts hate crime law that removes long-standing religious exemption” — shows the fruit of Vatican II’s Dignitatis Humanae: the State, freed from the Kingship of Christ (Quas Primas), now persecutes the true Faith. The seminar does not teach its students to denounce this law as null and tyrannical (St. Pius X: “The civil government… has a right to an indirect negative power over religious affairs” — Syllabus, 41, condemned); it teaches them to navigate it as “journalists.” This is the spiritual bankruptcy of the conciliar sect: it forms collaborators, not martyrs; scribes of the Antichrist, not heralds of Christ the King. Non possumus. The only true “Catholic journalism” today is the denunciation of the usurpers, the defense of the vacant See, the proclamation of the Traditional Latin Mass as the only valid worship, and the call to convert to the integral Faith preserved by true bishops and priests sine missione canonica but cum missione divina. This seminar is a trap for souls. Qui non est mecum, contra me est (Matt. 12:30).
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In Canada, intensive summer seminar trains journalists to report Catholic news (ewtnnews.com)
Date: 06.07.2026