NCR Peddles Bourgeois Sentimentality as Sanctity: The Martin Family Spectacle
The National Catholic Register, flagship organ of the conciliar sect in America, publishes a feature for July 12, 2026, celebrating the feast of “St. Zélie Martin,” lace-making entrepreneur and mother of St. Thérèse of Lisieux. The article, penned by senior editor Amy Smith, reduces the sublime vocation of Christian motherhood to a lifestyle brand, complete with fashion recommendations from a “Liturgical Style” consultant suggesting lace skirts, velvet blazers, and metallic brooches to commemorate the day. It recounts Zélie Martin’s commercial success — “orders coming in one after another… more than 15,000 francs” — and displays a chasuble sewn by St. Thérèse from her mother’s dress. The piece epitomizes the neo-church’s substitution of the Social Kingship of Christ the King (Quas Primas) with bourgeois sentimentality and consumerist “liturgical living.” The canonization of Zélie and Louis Martin by Antipope Francis in 2015 is canonically null and void, rendering their “feast day” a liturgical fiction of the antichurch.