Relic Cardinal May 2026

He did the only thing a rational priest could do. He radioed the Vatican. “We have a situation.”

By midnight, a team from the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith arrived: two exorcists, a canon lawyer, and a cardiologist (for irony, Alistair suspected). They sealed the chapel. They recorded the finger’s movements. They transcribed its prophecies—a coming civil war within the Church, a false pope, a city of bones rising from the Tiber. relic cardinal

Alistair watched in horror as Dr. Amara’s eyes turned solid red. The mummified finger crumbled to dust. And the thing that wore the doctor’s body smiled with too many teeth. He did the only thing a rational priest could do

“Watch.”