Conciliar Sect’s Colorado Appointment Exposes Apostate Machinery
Vatican News portal (February 7, 2026) announces that antipope Leo XIV has accepted the “resignation” of Denver’s conciliar sect leader Samuel Joseph Aquila, replacing him with James R. Golka from Colorado Springs. The report details Golka’s career: born 1966, philosophy degree from Creighton University, “ordained” in 1994, held various sectarian positions before being consecrated as “bishop” of Colorado Springs in 2021. This bureaucratic reshuffling exposes the conciliar sect’s relentless propagation of apostasy through invalid sacraments and pseudo-hierarchical structures.
Illegitimate Authority Masquerading as Ecclesiastical Governance
The very notion of antipope Leo XIV possessing jurisdiction to appoint bishops constitutes doctrinal sabotage. As Pius IX solemnly taught in the Syllabus Errorum (1864), the proposition that “the Roman pontiff can, and ought to, reconcile himself, and come to terms with progress, liberalism and modern civilization” ranks among the principal errors of modernity (Proposition 80). The conciliar sect’s claim to govern the Church while embracing religious liberty (contrary to Quanta Cura) and ecumenism (condemned in Mortalium Animos) renders its appointments canonically void.
St. Robert Bellarmine’s De Romano Pontifice establishes that manifest heretics automatically forfeit office without declaration. Since John XXIII’s initiation of the conciliar revolution through heretical acts like convening Vatican II against Pius XII’s deathbed prohibition, the Vatican occupiers have operated as an antipapal committee. Leo XIV’s appointment ritual continues this 68-year tradition of sacrilege, being no more valid than Henry VIII’s self-appointment as head of the Anglican sect.
Sacramental Nullity in Post-Conciliar “Orders”
Golka’s alleged 1994 “priestly ordination” occurred under Paul VI’s invalid rites promulgated through the apostolic letter Pontificalis Romani (1968). As demonstrated by Cardinals Ottaviani and Bacci’s Critical Study of the New Order of Mass, the new rites “represent, both as a whole and in their details, a striking departure from the Catholic theology of the Mass as it was formulated in Session XXII of the Council of Trent.” The defect extends to Holy Orders, where the deliberate omission of proper sacramental form invalidates consecrations.
Pius XII’s apostolic constitution Sacramentum Ordinis (1947) dogmatically defined that the priesthood’s essence requires the unambiguous conferral of sacerdotal power through the words “da, quaesumus, omnipotens Pater, in hunc famulum tuum presbyterii dignitatem.” The conciliar sect replaced this with ambiguous formulas that could signify mere “presidency of the community” rather than sacrificial priesthood. Consequently, Golka and Aquila lack valid orders, rendering their “ministries” spiritually barren theatrical performances.
Erosion of Apostolic Succession Through Naturalist Criteria
The portal’s biography highlights Golka’s academic credentials and administrative experience while omitting any reference to doctrinal orthodoxy or pastoral zeal for souls. This reflects the conciliar sect’s systematic preference for bureaucratic managers over shepherds. As Pius X warned in Pascendi Dominici Gregis (1907), modernists reduce religion to “a kind of longing for the indeterminate” (Proposition 22), prioritizing organizational efficiency over supernatural truth.
Golka’s trajectory from parish vicar to “bishop” exemplifies the sect’s Protestantized ecclesiology. True apostolic succession requires not merely historical laying-on-of-hands (itself absent in invalid rites), but doctrinal continuity with the depositum fidei. The Colorado appointment demonstrates the conciliar sect’s complete rupture from the Church’s divine constitution, having become what St. Pius X called “a pernicious error which maintains that the Church’s office is not to guard the revealed deposit, but to accommodate itself to the philosophical opinions of the age” (Pascendi, Proposition 26).
Silence on Salvation Doctrine Reveals Apostate Priorities
Nowhere does the announcement mention Golka’s duty to combat heresy or proclaim extra ecclesiam nulla salus – the very raison d’être of episcopal office. This omission proves the conciliar sect’s abandonment of the Great Commission. Contrast this with Pius XI’s encyclical Quas Primas (1925), which instituted Christ the King’s feast precisely to combat secularism’s encroachment: “When once men recognize… that Christ has authority over society… it will at last be possible to heal our ruined society.”
The mechanical reshuffling of invalid “bishops” serves only to maintain the illusion of ecclesiastical continuity while advancing the conciliar revolution. As Our Lord warned of such false shepherds: “All whatsoever they bid you observe, observe and do; but do not ye after their works: for they say, and do not” (Matthew 23:3). Traditional Catholics must recognize these appointments as Satanic counterfeits and cleave to true priests preserving the Apostolic Succession outside the conciliar structures.
Source:
Pope appoints James Golka as new Archbishop of Denver, Colorado (vaticannews.va)
Date: 07.02.2026