The Pillar Catholic portal (July 10, 2026) reports on a survey by the Center for Opinion Studies (CEO), an agency of the Catalan government, claiming a “surprising openness to Catholicism” among young adults aged 18 to 24 in Catalonia, with 40.9% identifying as Catholic compared to 34.6% of those aged 25 to 34. The article cites increased “trust in the Church,” the popularity of the charismatic music group Hakuna, the “nunmania” phenomenon sparked by a singer’s album and a film, a rise in adult baptisms in the new rite, and the massive attendance at the youth vigil during the visit of the usurper “Pope” Leo XIV (Robert Prevost) to Madrid in June 2026. This sociological snapshot measures nothing but a sentimental, naturalistic adherence to the conciliar sect, utterly devoid of the supernatural Faith, and serves as crude propaganda for the false “springtime” of the abomination of desolation occupying the Vatican.
Factual Deconstruction: Sociology Masquerading as Supernatural Life
The cited poll, conducted by a secular government agency of an autonomous community historically steeped in anti-clericalism, Masonic republicanism, and Marxist labor movements, measures self-identification and trust—categories of sociology and psychology, not theology. The article trumpets that 40.9% of young adults “identify as Catholic.” Identification is not conversion. St. Paul teaches: “He is not a Jew who is one outwardly, nor is circumcision that which is outward in the flesh; but he is a Jew who is one inwardly, and circumcision is that of the heart, in the spirit, not in the letter” (Rom 2:28-29). To equate a checkbox on a government survey with membership in the Mystical Body of Christ is the gravest category error, reducing the Church Militant to a demographic statistic.
The article highlights a rise in “adult baptisms” from 11,835 to 13,323. These baptisms, administered in the post-conciliar rite by “priests” of dubious validity (ordained in the 1968 rite of Paul VI, which removed the essential form of the Sacrament of Order), are at best doubtful, at worst invalid. As the Defense of Sedevacantism file demonstrates, a manifest heretic cannot confer valid sacraments of the living, and the ministers of the conciliar sect, formed in the novelties of Vatican II and the New Mass, lack the intention to do what the Church does. The Catechism of the Council of Trent teaches that for a sacrament to be valid, the minister must intend to do what the Church intends. The conciliar sect intends a “community celebration of initiation,” not the ex opere operato remission of Original Sin and infusion of sanctifying grace.
Furthermore, the movements cited—Hakuna, Effetá—are fruits of the Charismatic Renewal, a Protestantized, Pentecostal import condemned implicitly by the pre-conciliar Magisterium’s insistence on the sensus Ecclesiae and the liturgical life centered on the Unbloody Sacrifice of Calvary, not emotional concerts. The “nunmania” inspired by a pop singer (Rosalía) and a commercial film (Los Domingos) is sentimentalism and religious consumerism, not a vocation. True vocations are born at the foot of the Cross, in the silence of the traditional cloister, nourished by the Traditional Latin Mass and the Divine Office—not by marketing campaigns and album launches.
Linguistic Analysis: The Vocabulary of the “Church of the New Advent”
The article’s language betrays its modernist matrix. It speaks of “openness to Catholicism,” “trust in the Church,” “values and beauty of the Gospel,” and “witness… in the realm of digital media.” Nowhere does one find: state of grace, Mortal Sin, Hell, Purgatory, the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass, the Kingship of Christ the King over nations, the necessity of the Catholic Church for salvation (Extra Ecclesiam Nulla Salus), the Immaculate Conception, Papal Infallibility, or the Syllabus of Errors.
The usurper Leo XIV is quoted: “Seeing you, dear young people, filled with this enthusiasm that comes from faith, I have high hopes for your ability to bear witness to Christ in the world — including the realm of digital media — and to communicate the values and beauty of the Gospel.” This is the language of the World Council of Churches, not the Vicar of Christ. “Enthusiasm” (Greek: entheos, possessed by a god) replaces supernatural charity. “Values” replaces dogmatic truth. “Digital media” replaces the pulpit and the confessional. This is the hermeneutic of rupture perfected: the Faith reduced to a “narrative” for content creators.
The portal Religión en Libertad is cited noting the decline “had slowed, but not stopped.” Managed decline is the hallmark of the conciliar sect. The adjustment of methodology (surveying only “adult Spanish nationals” vs. “all residents”) to produce a seemingly better number is statistical manipulation worthy of a Masonic lodge, not the Bride of Christ.
Theological Condemnation: The Kingship of Christ vs. the Republic of Man
Pope Pius XI, in Quas Primas (1925), teaches authoritatively: “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 article celebrates a poll in Catalonia—a region explicitly described as having “strongly opposed General Francisco Franco,” being “heavily industrialized with strong left-wing labor movements,” and marked by “significant international immigration.” This is the description of a society structured on the principles of the Syllabus of Errors: separation of Church and State (Error 55), civil power as source of all rights (Error 39), religious indifferentism (Errors 15-18), and the removal of the Church’s teaching authority (Error 21).
The poll measures “trust” in an institution that the Catalan state tolerates as a private association. This is the liberalism condemned by Pius IX in the Syllabus (Error 80): “The Roman Pontiff can, and ought to, reconcile himself, and come to terms with progress, liberalism and modern civilization.” The conciliar sect has done exactly that. It has accepted the secular city. The “openness” of youth is an openness to a domesticated, neutered Catholicism that demands nothing of the social order, that blesses the “democratic” state, that practices false ecumenism with Islam (prevalent in Catalonia due to immigration) and Protestantism.
The Lamentabili Sane Exitu (1907) condemns the Modernist proposition: “Christ did not proclaim any specific, all-encompassing doctrine suitable for all times and peoples, but rather initiated a certain religious movement, applied or applicable to different times and places” (Prop. 59). The Hakuna phenomenon, the “nunmania,” the “digital witness”—these are the “religious movement” of Modernism, evolving, adapting, immanent. They are not the immutable deposit of Faith delivered once for all to the saints (Jude 1:3).
Symptomatic Level: The Masonic “Springtime” and the Usurper’s Propaganda
The visit of the antipope Leo XIV (Robert Prevost) to Spain, the staged vigil in Madrid’s Plaza de Lima with “more than 600,000 people,” is a media event orchestrated by the paramasonic structures occupying the Vatican. The False Fatima Apparitions file details the “Disinformation strategy: Stage 3 (1958-2000): Takeover of the narrative by modernists, concealment of the Third Secret, ecumenical reinterpretation.” We are now in Stage 4: the manufacturing of a false “youth revival” to legitimize the usurper and the conciliar sect.
The dates are telling: 2026. The article mentions the “global success of the singer-songwriter Rosalía’s album ‘Lux’.” The manipulation of popular culture to create a “Catholic aesthetic” devoid of Catholic substance is a classic Masonic tactic—simulacra replacing reality. The False Fatima file notes: “The name ‘Fatima’: a symbol of Christian-Islamic syncretism.” Catalonia, with its massive Islamic immigration, is the laboratory for this syncretism. The “openness” of youth is the openness of the syncretic neo-church.
The Defense of Sedevacantism file proves conclusively that a manifest heretic loses the papacy ipso facto (Bellarmine, De Romano Pontifice; Canon 188.4, 1917 Code; Bull Cum ex Apostolatus Officio). John XXIII, Paul VI, John Paul I, John Paul II, Benedict XVI, Francis, and now Leo XIV (Prevost) are all manifest heretics by their adherence to Vatican II (religious liberty, ecumenism, collegiality, new mass). They are not Popes. They are usurpers. The “Church” the Catalan youth “trust” is the synagogue of Satan (Apoc 2:9), the abomination of desolation standing in the holy place (Matt 24:15).
The “adult baptisms,” the “Hakuna concerts,” the “nunmania” film—these are the fruits of the poisoned tree of Vatican II. As Our Lord teaches: “By their fruits you shall know them. Do men gather grapes of thorns, or figs of thistles? Even so every good tree bringeth forth good fruit, and the evil tree bringeth forth evil fruit” (Matt 7:16-17). The fruit is naturalism, sentimentalism, religious indifferentism, and the obliteration of the Social Kingship of Christ.
There is no “springtime.” There is only the deepening winter of the Great Apostasy. The Catalan poll measures not the Faith, but the success of the conciliar sect’s suicide. True Catholics—those adhering to the integral Faith of Trent, the Traditional Latin Mass, the Syllabus, Pascendi, Quas Primas, and the valid episcopate of the sedevacantist resistance—see this report for what it is: a bulletin from the enemy’s propaganda ministry, celebrating the colonization of souls by the spirit of the world. “Woe to you when all men shall speak well of you: for according to these things did their fathers to the false prophets” (Luke 6:26).
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Catalonia poll suggests young adults are bucking secular trend (pillarcatholic.com)
Date: 10.07.2026