The Trivialization of St. Charles Borromeo’s Legacy in Conciliar Hagiography
Portal Catholic News Agency reports on St. Charles Borromeo (Nov. 4, 2025) while engaging in characteristic conciliar reductionism, framing this Counter-Reformation giant through modernist lenses of therapeutic spirituality and historical ambiguity. The article speculates about his alleged patronage for obesity (“probably wasn’t obese”) yet omits his radical combat against heresy (militans contra haeresim) that defined his episcopacy.









