Conciliar Sect Manufactures ‘American Martyr’ for Vocations Propaganda
The National Catholic Register portal (August 22, 2026) reports on the premiere of the film American Martyr: The Stanley Rother Story, featuring “Archbishop” Paul Coakley of Oklahoma City extolling the “blessed” Stanley Rother, beatified by the antipope Francis in 2017. Coakley recounts his personal devotion to Rother since seminary days, framing the murdered priest as an “ordinary yet heroic” role model who “cultivated his gifts” among the Tz’utujil in Guatemala before his 1981 killing. The “archbishop” admits the film aims to make Rother “more widely known” and advance his canonization cause, hoping viewers realize “all of us are called to holiness.” This spectacle exposes the conciliar sect’s replacement of supernatural martyrdom with naturalistic humanitarianism, its invalid post-1968 sacraments and ordinations, and its exploitation of sentimentality to mask the vacuum of the true Faith.