Emmaus Journey: Post-Conciliar Commentary Erases the Supernatural and Reduces Faith to Sentiment
VaticanNews portal (April 18, 2026) publishes a Gospel commentary for the Third Sunday of Easter by “Fr.” Luke Gregory, OFM, of the Custody of the Holy Land, reflecting on the Road to Emmaus narrative. The piece, while ostensibly meditative in tone, systematically strips the Gospel account of its supernatural and doctrinal content, replacing it with a naturalistic, horizontal, and sentimentalized spirituality characteristic of post-conciliar catechesis. What presents itself as a reflection on hope and recognition is, upon closer examination, a textbook example of the modernist reduction of divine mystery to human experience, omission of the necessity of grace, and implicit denial of the sacrificial nature of the Holy Eucharist.







