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WATCH: The Holiness of the Church and 'Zero Marks' – WM Review on Kokx News

We discussed the visibility and holiness of the Church with Stephen Kokx from Kokx News.

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S.D. Wright
Mar 19, 2026
Cross-posted by The WM Review
"Thanks for coming on, Sean."
- Stephen Kokx

We discussed the visibility and holiness of the Church with Stephen Kokx from Kokx News.

(WM Round-Up) – On Thursday 19 March 2026, I appeared on Kokx News’s podcast Church and State with Stephen Kokx.

The conversation focused on the holiness of the Church, and the second chapter of my long article ‘Zero Marks’ – Why the Conciliar/Synodal Church is not the Catholic Church. Zero Marks is the second part of my response to Fr Thomas Crean OP’s article “The Perpetual Visibility of the Catholic Church Under the Pope.”

Topics included:

  • What is holiness?

  • I. The note of holiness

  • 1. The holiness of past members

  • Canonisations in the Conciliar/Synodal Church

  • 2. Institutes of Perfection

  • Institutes of Perfection in the Conciliar/Synodal Church

  • II. The absence of the property of holiness

  • Fr Crean as a witness to the unholiness of the Conciliar/Synodal doctrine

  • Treating that which is holy with contempt

  • Conclusions on the property of holiness

NB: Due to this video being published later in the week, we will be publishing Chapter II on Saturday instead of Friday.

You can find the full book-length article discussed here:

‘Zero Marks’ – Why the Conciliar/Synodal Church is not the Catholic Church (Reply to Fr Thomas Crean)


Articles mentioned:

  • Ted Cruz, Cardinal Billot and the Conciliar/Synodal Church

  • ‘The greatest hope of the world’ – Paul VI on the United Nations

Other parts in the Zero Marks series:

  • ‘Radically insufficient’ – Reply to Fr Crean on the Church’s visibility, Part I

  • ‘Zero Marks’ – Why the Conciliar/Synodal Church is not the Catholic Church (Reply to Fr Thomas Crean)

    • Disunited in Faith: Why the Conciliar/Synodal Church is not the Roman Catholic Church (’Zero Marks’ Ch. I)


This interview was a follow up to a previous conversation on the first part, ‘Radically insufficient’ – Reply to Fr Crean on the Church’s visibility, Part I’. Here is the first interview:

Here is the second, on the property of unity:

Thank you to Stephen for having me on again. I hope readers of The WM Review enjoy it – and give Kokx News a follow too.


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