Neo-Church Prelate Warns Against Sports Idolatry While Promoting False Saints and Antipope
NCR/EWTN portal reports on a reflection by “Bishop” José Ignacio Munilla of Orihuela-Alicante, delivered on his Radio María program “Sixth Continent,” ahead of the 2026 World Cup final between Spain and Argentina. The conciliar sect prelate acknowledges the “values” of soccer—family unity, social connection, shared emotions—but warns against its elevation into a “religion” and the idolatry of sports stars. He contrasts modern “saints without holiness” (athletes) with “St. John Paul II,” “St. Teresa of Calcutta,” “Blessed Carlo Acutis,” and St. Francis of Assisi, quoting antipope Francis: “You roar for a goal, yet you are unable to praise God with that same intensity?” The piece concludes with a naturalistic exhortation to sportsmanship and the claim that “only God can fill the heart forever.” This discourse, masquerading as pastoral wisdom, is a quintessential artifact of the post-conciliar apostasy: it substitutes the Social Reign of Christ the King for a vague theistic moralism, legitimizes the neo-church’s false canonizations, and quotes a manifest heretic as authoritative—all while ignoring the unbloody Sacrifice of Calvary, the necessity of grace, and the eternal damnation awaiting those who die outside the true Church.