Conciliar Sect’s ‘Sign of Peace’ Farce Exposes Liturgical Ruin and Idolatry of Man
The National Catholic Register, flagship organ of the conciliar sect’s conservative wing, publishes a piece by Zelda Caldwell dated September 8, 2026, lamenting the “awkwardness” of the post-COVID sign of peace in the Novus Ordo Missae. The article centers on a stadium spectacle — “Pope Hat Night” at a Chicago White Sox game — where a “priest” of the archdiocese, Father Tom Hurley, leads 40,000 novus ordites wearing black-and-gold cardboard mitres in a mass handshake, framed as a winsome witness to the world. Caldwell contrasts this manufactured joviality with the current parish reality of nods, bows, and “peace signs,” quoting modernist theologians Tim O’Malley and “Father” Andrew Menke of ICEL to normalize the liturgical chaos. The thesis is clear: the conciliar church’s manufactured rite of peace, born of Vatican II’s anthropocentric revolution, has collapsed into a chaotic, hygienic, and utterly profane gesture — a fitting symbol of a religion that has replaced the Pax Christi with the peace of the world.