Consecration of the Nation to the Sacred Heart: A Modernist Ritual Devoid of Catholic Substance
EWTN News reports that on June 11, 2026, the bishops of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) consecrated the United States to the Sacred Heart of Jesus at the Basilica of the National Shrine of Mary, Queen of the Universe in Orlando, Florida, during the nation’s 250th anniversary year. Archbishop William Lori of Baltimore presided over the homily, while Archbishop Paul Coakley of Oklahoma City led the prayer of consecration, explicitly linking the act to Pope Leo XIII’s 1900 consecration of the human race. The event included Eucharistic adoration, benediction, and veneration of relics of St. Margaret Mary Alacoque. Archbishop Alexander Sample cited the modernist antipope Francis’ encyclical Dilexit Nos, and Archbishop Bernard Hebda invoked the heretic John Henry Newman. President Donald Trump issued a message praising the consecration as “a powerful moment in our national story.” What appears on the surface as a pious Catholic act is, upon rigorous examination through the lens of integral Catholic theology, a hollow modernist ceremony that substitutes naturalistic psychologizing, ecumenical indifferentism, and political theater for the supernatural reality of the Kingship of Christ and the true doctrine of consecration.


