The Guadalupan Novena: A Case Study in Conciliar Apostasy and the Hijacking of Marian Devotion
EWTN News reports that the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) discussed their engagement with the “Intercontinental Guadalupan Novena” at their spring plenary session in Orlando, Florida, on June 11, 2026. This novena, called for by the antipope Francis in 2022, anticipates the 500th anniversary of the apparition of Our Lady of Guadalupe in 2031. The article details a multi-phase plan for pastoral activity, including the distribution of replica “tilmas” to be treated as third-class relics and integrated into various “missionary” and “Eucharistic” events. The entire initiative, steeped in the language of “inculturation,” “missionary activity,” and “dialogue,” is a textbook example of how the conciliar sect co-opts authentic Catholic devotion to serve its modernist agenda of religious indifferentism and social activism, completely devoid of any call for conversion or the salvation of souls.


