The cited article from EWTN News reports that “Archbishop” Ronald Hicks, appointed by antipope “Pope” Leo XIV to head the Archdiocese of New York, has begun hosting a weekly radio program on SiriusXM’s Catholic Channel. The show, co-hosted by “Father” Dave Dwyer, promises “faith-based dialogue” and discussion of “real-world issues…through a Catholic lens,” featuring conversations “rooted in Church teachings and lived pastoral experience.” This presentation of a post-conciliar prelate engaging in media outreach epitomizes the modernist abandonment of the Catholic Church’s divinely mandated mission to proclaim the exclusive reign of Christ the King over all individuals, families, and nations.
The Naturalistic Reduction of the Church’s Mission
The program’s stated purpose—to discuss “real-world issues” and “everyday life” through a “Catholic lens”—reveals a fundamental shift from the supernatural end of the Church. Pope Pius XI, in his encyclical Quas Primas, instituted the feast of Christ the King precisely to combat the “secularism of our times, so-called laicism,” which “denied Christ the Lord’s reign over all nations.” The encyclical declares that the “plague” infecting society began with the denial that “the Church’s authority to teach men, to issue laws, to govern nations…was denied.” The “dialogue” model promoted by Hicks and Dwyer treats the Church as one voice among many in a public square of competing opinions, directly contradicting the Catholic doctrine that Christ’s kingship demands the submission of all human authority to divine law. Pius XI warns that when “God and Jesus Christ…were removed from laws and states…the foundations of that authority were destroyed.” A radio show that offers “conversation” rather than authoritative proclamation of the Social Reign of Christ is not a remedy but a symptom of this apostasy.
Omission of the Supernatural and the Final Judgment
The article’s entire focus on “dialogue,” “pastoral experience,” and “transformation of society through evangelization” is glaringly silent on the non-negotiable supernatural truths that define the Catholic faith. There is no mention of the necessity of the Catholic Church for salvation (extra Ecclesiam nulla salus), the duty of states to recognize the Catholic religion as the sole true religion (condemned by the Syllabus of Errors, propositions 77-78), or the terrifying reality of the Final Judgment where Christ will severely avenge the insult of being “cast out of the state, but also forgotten and ignored through contempt” (Quas Primas). This silence is not benign; it is the hallmark of the “naturalistic” and “immanentist” Modernism condemned by St. Pius X in Pascendi Dominici gregis and Lamentabili sane exitu. Proposition 58 of the Syllabus explicitly condemns the error that “all the rectitude and excellence of morality ought to be placed in the accumulation and increase of riches…and the gratification of pleasure.” By reducing faith to a “lens” for discussing worldly issues, the show promotes the very “moderate rationalism” (Syllabus, propositions 8-14) that subordinates theology to human experience and excludes the binding force of divine law from public life.
Linguistic Symptoms of Theological Decay
The vocabulary employed is meticulously crafted to convey a sense of openness and relevance while evacuating all doctrinal certainty. Phrases like “faith-based dialogue,” “through a Catholic lens,” and “lived pastoral experience” are modernist code. They imply that Catholic teaching is a subjective perspective rather than objective, immutable truth. The term “dialogue” (dialogus) in post-conciliar parlance signifies a partnership with error, a direct violation of the Church’s duty to condemn false religions. Pope Pius IX’s Syllabus, in proposition 15, condemns the error that “every man is free to embrace and profess that religion which, guided by the light of reason, he shall consider true.” By hosting a show that presumably engages with a pluralistic audience without unequivocally denouncing false religions, Hicks participates in the “indifferentism” Pius IX anathematized. The show’s description avoids any language of judgment, conversion, or the exclusive sovereignty of Christ, mirroring the “hermeneutics of continuity” that seeks to synthesize Catholic truth with the principles of the French Revolution.
Complicity in the Conciliar Apostasy
The article presents Hicks as a legitimate “Archbishop” and Dwyer as a legitimate “Father,” yet both operate within the “conciliar sect” that has repudiated the immutable Catholic faith. Their very presence on a platform called the “Catholic Channel” is a deception, for the channel’s ecumenical and naturalistic programming aligns with the errors of Vatican Council II. The show’s premise—that “real-world issues” can be discussed apart from the uncompromising demands of the Social Kingship of Christ—is a direct fruit of the “errors concerning civil society” condemned by Pius IX (Syllabus, propositions 39-55). Proposition 40 states: “The teaching of the Catholic Church is hostile to the well-being and interests of society.” This is the exact opposite of the truth. The Church’s teaching is *essential* for societal well-being because it subordinates all temporal affairs to the law of God. A “Catholic” show that does not begin with this principle, and that does not demand the public recognition of the Catholic religion by the state, is not Catholic at all but an instrument of the “abomination of desolation” standing in the holy place.
Contrast with True Catholic Action
True Catholic engagement with society, as taught by pre-1958 Pontiffs, is not “dialogue” but authoritative proclamation and, when necessary, confrontation. Pope Leo XIII in Immortale Dei commands: “The Church…has the duty to teach all nations…and to bring them to the obedience of the faith.” He adds that the State must “not only be not hostile to the Church, but must be favorable to her.” Pius XI in Quas Primas states that rulers “ought to publicly honor Christ and obey Him,” and that the feast of Christ the King is established “to remind states that…they have the duty to publicly honor Christ and obey Him.” Where is this duty proclaimed on Hicks’s show? Where is the call for the conversion of the United States to the Catholic faith? The program’s content, as described, is a watered-down, humanistic chat that caters to the “laziness and timidity of the good” lamented by Pius XI, who said this allows “the enemies of the Church to act with greater audacity.”
The Sedevacantist Reality
The entire framework of the article is built on a lie: the assumption that Hicks is a legitimate archbishop and that the entity occupying the Vatican since John XXIII is the Catholic Church. From the perspective of integral Catholic faith, Hicks is an impostor occupying a see that has been vacant since the death of the last true Pope, Pius XII, in 1958. The “usurpers” from John XXIII through “Leo XIV” have systematically dismantled the Church’s teaching authority, as foretold by St. Pius X regarding the “enemies within.” The very existence of a “Catholic Channel” that promotes such naturalistic dialogue is proof of the “paramasonic structure” now controlling the Vatican. The show is not a sign of vitality but a symptom of the “spiritual bankruptcy” of the post-conciliar hierarchy, which has exchanged the “sweet yoke of Christ” for the “yoke…of the world” (Quas Primas).
Conclusion
The article describes a perfectly ordinary event in the life of the conciliar sect: a modernist prelate using modern media to propagate a naturalistic, dialogue-centric version of “Catholicism” that is utterly devoid of the supernatural authority and exclusive truth claims of the one, true Church. This is not evangelization; it is the “dilution of the faith” condemned by the Syllabus (proposition 21) and the “synthesis of all errors” that is Modernism. The only “Catholic lens” through which to view such an activity is that of the unchanging faith: it is an act of apostasy, a participation in the “public apostasy” of secularism, and a refusal to acknowledge that “there is no power in us that is exempt from this reign” of Christ the King (Quas Primas). The faithful are not called to listen to such “dialogue” but to reject it absolutely and to pray for the restoration of the true hierarchy and the public triumph of the Social Reign of Christ the King over all nations.
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Archbishop Hicks hosts SiriusXM radio show (ewtnnews.com)
Date: 03.03.2026