EWTN’s Hagiography of Wojtyła: Canonizing the Architect of Apostasy
EWTN News portal reports on the twenty-seventh anniversary of the election of Karol Wojtyła, recycling the by now standard conciliar hagiography that presents the arch-heretic of the Second Vatican Council as a “saint” who “changed the Catholic Church forever.” The article enumerates five supposed achievements: the geopolitical dismantling of communism, an industrial output of “canonizations,” a revolution in papal travel and the invention of World Youth Days, a voluminous magisterium capped by the Catechism of the Catholic Church and the “Theology of the Body,” and a putative revitalization of the Church in Africa. This panegyric, stripped of all supernatural density, reveals its true nature in the final citation of Cardinal Gantin: the “living parts of the Church” are those that have accepted the “magisterium … as the authentic interpretation of Vatican II.” The article thus unwittingly confesses that the “Church” of Wojtyła is not the Catholic Church, but the conciliar sect erected upon the ruins of Tradition, whose “saints” are the canonized architects of its own apostasy.