Neo-Church Advances Fake Canonization of Mystic to Legitimize EWTN Propaganda Machine
The National Catholic Register — flagship publication of the EWTN media empire — reports that the “canonization cause” for American mystic Rhoda Wise has cleared a “key milestone at the Vatican” before the “Dicastery for the Causes of Saints.” The article, authored by EWTN’s own Managing Editor of Digital Assets Alyssa Murphy, trumpets the “deep connection” between Wise and Mother Angelica (Rita Rizzo), claiming the teenage Rizzo was miraculously healed of a stomach ailment after a novena to Wise in the late 1930s. “If it weren’t for Rhoda Wise, there would be no EWTN,” declares Michael O’Neill, the self-styled “Miracle Hunter” and frequent EWTN personality. The piece drips with sentimentality, noting how EWTN correspondent Mark Irons named his daughter Rhoda after visiting the “Rhoda Wise House and Grotto” in Canton, Ohio. The article cites “documentation from physicians” and claims “clinical research has failed to replicate such physical manifestations through non-supernatural means,” presenting this as evidence of Vatican “rigor.” This grotesque spectacle of pseudo-sanctity manufactured by the conciliar sect serves one purpose: to baptize the EWTN propaganda apparatus with a veneer of heavenly approval, distracting the faithful from the abomination of desolation occupying the Vatican since 1958.