USCCB Election Exposes Conciliar Sect’s Apostasy

VaticanNews portal reports on the election of Archbishop Paul S. Coakley of Oklahoma City as president and Bishop Daniel E. Flores of Brownsville as vice president of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) during their 10-13 November 2025 plenary assembly in Baltimore. The article highlights Coakley’s request for prayers to be “a wise servant of unity and communion with our Holy Father, Pope Leo” and Cardinal Christophe Pierre’s exhortation to embrace Vatican II and synodality as the Church’s future path. This grotesque spectacle demonstrates the conciliar sect’s complete submission to the anti-Roman agenda.

Illegitimate Election in an Illegitimate Structure

The very notion of a “USCCB president” constitutes rebellion against Quas primas (1925), where Pius XI declared that “the Church, established by Christ as a perfect society, demands for itself by a right belonging to it, which it cannot renounce, full freedom and independence from secular authority.” The USCCB operates as a bureaucratic arm of the American state apparatus, having signed the 1992 Joint Declaration on Church Abuse with federal prosecutors – an act of surrender to secular power condemned by Pius IX in the Syllabus of Errors (1864): “Civil authority can interfere in matters relating to religion, morality and spiritual government” (Error #44).

Coakley’s acceptance speech exposes the bankruptcy of conciliar ecclesiology: “Put out into the deep” (Luke 5:4) becomes twisted into a rallying cry for deeper immersion in apostasy. His plea for unity with “Pope Leo” (the antipope Robert Prevost) constitutes formal adherence to schism, violating Canon 2314 of the 1917 Code which mandates excommunication for “those who adhere to a schism or publicly doubt the Roman Pontiff’s legitimacy.” The so-called “bishops” Coakley and Flores lack jurisdiction, their “episcopal consecrations” being invalidated by the 1945 decree Sacramentum Ordinis, which requires explicit intention to confer the priesthood of the New Testament – an intention absent in post-conciliar rites.

Vatican II: The Poisoned Wellspring

Cardinal Pierre’s address reveals the conciliar sect’s theological DNA: “Vatican II remains the key to understanding what kind of Church we are called to be today.” This directly contradicts St. Pius X’s condemnation in Lamentabili (1907): “The dogmas which the Church proposes as revealed are not truths of divine origin but are a certain interpretation of religious facts” (Proposition 22). The Nuncio’s reference to “synodality” embodies the modernist heresy condemned in Pius VI’s Auctorem Fidei (1794), which anathematized those who “prefer the authority of the national church to that of the Roman Pontiff.”

The invocation of Francis’ Evangelii Gaudium confirms the sect’s revolutionary program:

“attention to the sensus fidei, especially in its most authentic and inclusive forms, such as popular piety; loving care for the least and the rejected; courageous and trusting dialogue with the contemporary world”

This triad reduces Catholicism to social work and pagan sentimentalism, abandoning the Church’s true mission defined by Pius XI: “The Church gives birth to and raises up ever new ranks of holy men and women, and Christ does not cease to call to happiness in the heavenly Kingdom those who were faithful and obedient subjects to Him in the earthly Kingdom” (Quas primas). The deliberate omission of conversion, sacrifice, and the Four Last Things exposes the conciliar sect’s naturalistic apostasy.

Pseudo-Magisterium of an Antipope

The article’s repeated references to “Pope Leo” constitute scandalous adherence to the counterfeit hierarchy. Benedict XV’s Ad Beatissimi Apostolorum (1914) established that “no one can be in the Church of Christ unless they recognize and accept the Supreme Pontiff’s authority.” Since the antipope Prevost professes heresy by upholding Vatican II’s religious liberty (contrary to Pius IX’s Quanta cura), his “pontificate” is null per Canon 188.4: “Every office becomes vacant by the mere fact of public defection from the Catholic faith.” Coakley’s promise of communion with this usurper makes him, in Bellarmine’s words, “a manifest heretic who cannot be a member of the Church, let alone her prelate” (De Romano Pontifice).

Theological Decomposition in Biographical Details

The profiles of the newly elected leaders reveal the sect’s intellectual decay:

  • Coakley’s “licentiate in sacred theology” derives from post-conciliar institutions that reject Thomism, violating Pius X’s Pascendi mandate that “philosophy must be taught according to the method and principles of the Angelic Doctor.“
  • Flores’ role in the “Synod on Synodality” implements the condemned modernist ecclesiology of Alfred Loisy, who held that “the Church must evolve like any human society” (Proposition 54 of Lamentabili).
  • Flores’ doctorate from the modernist-infested Gregoriana renders him incompetent to teach theology per Pius X’s Sacrorum Antistitum oath against modernism.

Their election continues the USCCB’s legacy of apostasy: from promoting heretical translations in the “New American Bible” to distributing communion to pro-abortion politicians in defiance of Canon 855’s requirement that recipients be “in state of grace.”

Omissions That Scream Apostasy

The article’s silence speaks volumes:

  • No mention of the Mass – the true sacrifice abolished in their Novus Ordo ceremonies.
  • No reference to combating heresy, converting non-Catholics, or upholding moral theology.
  • No expression of loyalty to immutable doctrine – only bureaucratic “unity” with other apostates.

This reflects Paul IV’s warning in Cum ex Apostolatus Officio (1559): “Prelates who defect from the Faith before their elevation invalidate all subsequent acts.” When Coakley speaks of “stewardship,” he channels Judas’ false concern for the poor (John 12:4-6) while betraying the deposit of faith.

The conciliar sect’s elections are not ecclesiastical acts but political maneuvers within a counter-church that has “a form of godliness but denies its power” (2 Timothy 3:5). Until true bishops with valid orders and Catholic faith restore the hierarchical structure, the only proper response is that of St. Paul: “Avoid them” (Romans 16:17).

Source:
New USCCB President Archbishop Coakley 'humbled,' prays to promote unity   (vaticannews.va)
Date: 12.11.2025