Sacramentalism Without Sacraments: EWTN’s St. Benedict Medal Propaganda Exposes Neo-Church Apostasy
The EWTN News portal (July 11, 2026) publishes an article by R. Jared Staudt, Director of Content at the modernist “Exodus 90” program and a self-styled “Benedictine oblate” of the conciliar sect, promoting the St. Benedict medal as a “shield against the powers of darkness.” The piece recounts the medal’s history, the 1741 approval by Pope Benedict XIV, the 19th-century advocacy of Dom Prosper Guéranger, and the medal’s inscriptions, concluding with a commercial plug for the “EWTN Religious Catalogue.” The article treats a legitimate pre-conciliar sacramental as a standalone spiritual commodity, utterly divorced from the Una, Sancta, Catholica et Apostolica Church, the valid priesthood, and the Sacrosanctum Sacrificium — revealing the neo-church’s reduction of the supernatural order to naturalistic self-help.