Conciliar Sect Appoints Another Invalid Prelate in Texas Ecclesiastical Circus
The Catholic News Agency portal (December 1, 2025) reports the appointment of Mario Avilés as “bishop” of Corpus Christi by antipope Leo XIV (Prevost). The article highlights Avilés’ Mexican birth, Oratorian affiliation, and administrative credentials while completely omitting any reference to doctrinal fidelity or defense of Catholic tradition. Brownsville “bishop” Daniel Flores praises Avilés’ “joyful presence” and “administrative skills,” reducing the episcopal office to managerial functions. The report exemplifies the conciliar sect’s substitution of sacramental validity with bureaucratic efficiency and ethnic tokenism.
Illegitimacy of Conciliar Episcopal Appointments
The very notion of antipope Leo XIV possessing authority to appoint bishops constitutes a grotesque parody of Apostolic Succession. As Pope Pius XII declared in Sacramentum Ordinis (1947), valid ordination requires not merely the outward form but adherence to the Church’s immutable sacramental theology. The post-conciliar “episcopal consecrations” – performed with invalid rites and heretical intent – lack all legitimacy. Saint Robert Bellarmine’s principle applies: “Haeretici manifesti nec possunt eligi nec etiam si electi fuissent, assumere dignitatem” (“Manifest heretics cannot be elected, nor even if elected, assume dignity”; De Romano Pontifice II.30).
Avilés’ own 1997 “ordination” occurred during the height of conciliar apostasy, using the invalid Pauline rite that omits essential sacramental form. As the Holy Office decreed under Pope Pius XII (April 18, 1958): “If the rite is changed to manifest heresy, the sacrament is null.” This pseudo-episcopal appointment continues the conciliar sect’s practice of manufacturing counterfeit shepherds who “come in through another way” (John 10:1).
Naturalistic Reduction of the Bishop’s Role
The article’s focus on Avilés’ academic credentials (“master’s degree in education administration”) and linguistic abilities reveals the conciliar sect’s complete inversion of hierarchical priorities. Contrast this with Pope Pius X’s warning: “The office of bishop is not a human institution; it is of divine origin and demands divine grace” (Editae saepe, 1910). True bishops are defined by their duty to “teach, govern, and sanctify” – not administer earthly institutions.
The praise from “bishop” Flores exposes this apostasy:
“Bishop Mario’s wise counsel and good judgment, his joyful presence in our parish communities, and his administrative skills in the service of our diocesan offices and Catholic schools.”
Not one mention of defending doctrine, sanctifying souls, or upholding Tradition. This reduction of the episcopacy to corporate management fulfills Pius XI’s condemnation: “When God and Jesus Christ are removed from laws and states, the foundations of authority are destroyed” (Quas Primas, 1925).
Oratorian Facade Masking Modernist Infiltration
The presentation of Avilés as an Oratorian serves as a cynical ploy to feign traditional continuity. The true Oratory of St. Philip Neri maintained strict adherence to Thomistic theology and liturgical tradition – both anathema to the conciliar apparatus. Avilés’ “formation” at the Pontifical Athenaeum Regina Apostolorum (notorious for its modernist curriculum) and his leadership in “Pharr Oratory Schools” demonstrate assimilation into the neo-modernist educational establishment condemned in Pius X’s Lamentabili (1907).
His episcopal motto – “Caritas Dei diffusa est in cordibus nostris” (Romans 5:5) – becomes sacrilegious irony when divorced from doctrinal truth. As Pope Leo XIII warned: “Charity without truth is but a shadow of virtue” (Libertas Praestantissimum, 1888). Nowhere does the article mention Avilés’ stance on the Immemorial Mass, Humanae Vitae, or other defining Catholic teachings – the silence itself condemns him.
Ethnic Exploitation and Ecclesial Colonization
The emphasis on Avilés’ Mexican heritage (“red roses honoring Our Lady of Guadalupe” in his crest) constitutes ethnic pandering masquerading as pastoral care. True Catholic universality transcends ethnicity, as Pope Benedict XV declared: “The Church is not a foreign body within any nation, but the most perfect civic community” (Maximum Illud, 1919). The conciliar sect instrumentalizes cultural identity to advance its anti-doctrinal agenda, just as it exploits “social justice” rhetoric to undermine supernatural faith.
This appointment continues the Bergoglian project of installing cultural revolutionaries in key dioceses. Corpus Christi’s strategic Gulf Coast location makes it critical for advancing the conciliar sect’s borderless ecclesiology – precisely why the modernist apparatus selected an immigrant-born “bishop” fluent in border-abolitionist rhetoric.
Omission as Confession: The Silent Apostasy
The article’s most damning feature is what it doesn’t say:
- No mention of combating abortion, euthanasia, or gender ideology
- No reference to upholding Thomistic theology or traditional liturgy
- No commitment to enforcing Canon Law or denying Communion to public sinners
- No invocation of the Social Kingship of Christ or consecration to the Immaculate Heart
This silence manifests the conciliar sect’s non serviam – its refusal to confess “Jesus Christ, the same yesterday, today, and forever” (Heb 13:8). As Our Lord warned: “He who is not with me is against me” (Matt 12:30). By appointing administrators instead of shepherds, the Vatican occupiers confirm they are not the Catholic Church, but what Pope St. Pius X called “the counter-Church… the new and hideous heresy that repudiates all dogma” (Notre Charge Apostolique, 1910).
Source:
Pope Leo appoints Mexican-born Oratorian as bishop of Corpus Christi, Texas (catholicnewsagency.com)
Date: 01.12.2025