The National Catholic Register, a portal long since captured by the conciliar sect, reports on the first anniversary of the election of the usurper Robert Prevost, who has taken the name Leo XIV. The article, sourced from CNA/EWTN — itself a mouthpiece of the post-conciliar apparatus — presents a video message from various American “bishops” recounting their “shock” and “excitement” at the election of a fellow American to the papal throne. Archbishop Mitchell Rozanski of St. Louis admitted he “had to do a double take, because conventional wisdom has been that there will never be a pope from the United States.” Cardinal Blase Cupich of Chicago boasted of a “double sense of pride” that “Chicago produced a pope.” Bishop Robert McClory of Gary, Indiana, described “a tremendous kind of excitement and joy,” while Bishop Douglas Lucia of Syracuse recalled the bewildered reaction of his staff: “Who’s that?” The entire spectacle is a textbook display of the nationalist, worldly, and fundamentally anti-Catholic spirit that animates the conciliar sect — a spirit that has nothing whatsoever to do with the supernatural mission of the Roman Pontiff and everything to do with the geopolitical machinations of the abomination of desolation occupying the Vatican.
The Papal Office Reduced to a National Trophy
The most immediately striking feature of this article is the reduction of the Supreme Pontificate — the Vicar of Christ, the visible head of the Mystical Body, the successor of St. Peter — to a matter of national pride. Cardinal Cupich declares: “Being from Chicago, we also have a double sense of pride. After all, we like to say that Chicago produced a pope, and that we take great pride in.” Bishop McClory echoes: “Never in my lifetime did I think we would have a pope from the United States.”
Let us be absolutely clear: the Catholic Church is not a national institution. The Pope is not an American, not a Frenchman, not an Italian. He is the Universal Pastor, the Bishop of Rome, the head of a Church that is catholic — that is, universal — by divine constitution. The very notion that the election of a pope should be a source of national pride is a profanation of the papal office. It reveals a mentality that has substituted the supernatural reality of the Church with the naturalistic categories of secular nationalism.
Pius XI, in the encyclical Quas Primas (1925), established the Feast of Christ the King precisely to combat the error that the Church and her head should be subordinated to temporal, national, or secular interests. He wrote: “His reign, namely, extends not only to Catholic nations or to those who, by receiving baptism according to law, belong to the Church, even though their erroneous opinions have led them astray or discord has separated them from love, but His reign encompasses also all non-Christians, so that most truly the entire human race is subject to the authority of Jesus Christ.” The reign of Christ — and by extension, the authority of His Vicar — knows no national boundaries. To celebrate the election of a pope because he is “one of us” is to deny the very universality of the Church.
The “Shock” That Reveals a Conciliar Formation
The repeated emphasis on “shock” and “surprise” at the election of an American is revealing. Archbishop Rozanski stated: “I really had to do a double take, because conventional wisdom has been that there will never be a pope from the United States.” Bishop Paprocki, Bishop Hicks, Bishop Etienne — all express variations of the same astonishment.
But why should this be shocking? The answer lies in the geopolitical calculations of the conciliar sect. The structures occupying the Vatican have, for decades, pursued a deliberate policy of globalization and democratization of the Church — a policy that mirrors the Masonic and secularist agenda condemned by Pius IX in the Syllabus of Errors. The election of a pope from the Global South, from Africa or Asia, has long been the darling of the liberal press. The election of an American — from the heart of the world’s foremost secularist and capitalist power — was, in the calculus of the conciliar strategists, supposedly “impossible.” That it happened anyway reveals either that the strategists have lost control of their own apparatus, or that the election was engineered precisely to consolidate American hegemony over the conciliar structures.
In either case, the “shock” of these “bishops” is not the shock of faith. It is the shock of political operatives whose expectations have been upended. There is not a single word in the entire article about the spiritual significance of the papal election, about prayer, about the guidance of the Holy Ghost, about the supernatural mission of the Church. The entire narrative is framed in terms of national identity, political surprise, and institutional pride.
The Silence About Heresy and Apostasy
Perhaps the most damning feature of this article is what it does not say. Not a single one of these “bishops” raises the question that any Catholic faithful to the perennial Magisterium would consider the essential question: Is Robert Prevost a valid pope?
The answer, based on the unchanging teaching of the Church, is no. As St. Robert Bellarmine teaches in De Romano Pontifice (II, 30): “A manifest heretic, by that very fact ceases to be Pope and head, just as he ceases to be a Christian and member of the body of the Church.” Wernz and Vidal confirm: “By notorious and publicly manifested heresy, the Roman Pontiff, should he fall into it, is deprived ipso facto of his personal jurisdiction even before any declaratory sentence by the Church.”
The entire line of usurpers beginning with John XXIII has been composed of men who have publicly embraced, promoted, and institutionalized the very errors condemned by the perennial Magisterium. The Second Vatican Council — the founding charter of the conciliar sect — promulgated documents that directly contradict defined Catholic doctrine on religious liberty (Dignitatis Humanae vs. Syllabus of Errors, props. 77-79), on the nature of the Church (Lumen Gentium vs. Pius XII’s Mystici Corporis), and on ecumenism (Unitatis Redintegratio vs. Pius XI’s Mortalium Animos). Every “pope” since John XXIII has ratified, implemented, and expanded these errors. Robert Prevost — Leo XIV — is a product of this system, formed entirely within it, and his election is a continuation of it.
The “bishops” quoted in this article do not raise this question because they cannot raise it. To raise it would be to acknowledge that they themselves are part of a structure that has departed from the Catholic faith. Their silence is the silence of men who have made their bargain with the abomination of desolation and who cannot, without destroying their own positions, acknowledge the truth.
The EWTN/CNA Apparatus: A Mouthpiece of the Sect
It is worth noting the source of this article: CNA (Catholic News Agency), distributed through EWTN. These are not independent Catholic media. They are integral components of the conciar propaganda apparatus. EWTN, despite its occasional use of pre-conciliar imagery and its nominal attachment to the Traditional Latin Mass, has consistently recognized the legitimacy of every usurper from John XXIII onward. Its founder, Mother Angelica, repeatedly affirmed her submission to the “popes” of the conciliar sect. CNA functions as a wire service for the Vatican’s press office, distributing the official narrative of the conciar structures without critical examination.
The article in question is a perfect example of this function. It presents the “bishops'” reactions as though they were newsworthy, as though their “excitement” and “pride” were spiritually significant. There is no critical analysis, no doctrinal examination, no reference to the perennial teaching of the Church. The article is pure institutional public relations — the conciar sect celebrating itself.
The Cult of Personality and the Democratization of the Church
The article’s focus on the personal reactions of individual “bishops” — their surprise, their pride, their joy — reflects the broader conciliar project of democratizing the Church. In the pre-conciliar Church, the election of a pope was understood as an act of the Holy Ghost, guided by divine Providence. The cardinals were instruments of the Holy Ghost, not political actors. The faithful received the news with prayer and submission to the divine will, not with “excitement” and “national pride.”
The conciliar sect has systematically replaced this supernatural understanding with a secular, political model. Papal elections are covered like American presidential elections — with punditry, speculation, exit polls, and “reactions.” The “bishops” are treated like political operatives, their “testimonies” gathered and packaged for public consumption. The entire spectacle is a media event, not a supernatural reality.
This is precisely the error condemned by St. Pius X in Pascendi Dominici Gregis (1907), where he identified the Modernist tendency to reduce the supernatural to the natural, the divine to the human: “The sacraments merely serve to remind man of the presence of the ever-benevolent Creator” (condemned proposition 41). The conciliar sect has applied this same reductionism to the papacy itself: the Pope is no longer the Vicar of Christ, guided by the Holy Ghost, but a leader, a figurehead, a symbol — and, in this case, a national symbol.
The American Dimension: A Masonic Triumph?
The election of an American to the papal throne of the conciar sect cannot be understood apart from the broader geopolitical context. The United States has been, since its founding, a Masonic republic — a nation built on the principles of religious indifferentism, secular governance, and the separation of Church and state, all of which were condemned by Pius IX in the Syllabus of Errors (props. 15, 18, 55, 77-79). The fact that the conciar sect has now elected a pope from the heart of this Masonic republic is not coincidental. It is the logical culmination of a process that began with the capture of the Vatican by Modernist forces in the early 20th century.
The “bishops” quoted in this article are, whether they know it or not, celebrating the triumph of the very forces that have destroyed the Catholic Church from within. Their “pride” is the pride of men who have been co-opted by the enemy. Their “excitement” is the excitement of those who have forgotten — or never knew — what the Catholic Church actually is.
Conclusion: The Abomination of Desolation Continues
The first anniversary of the election of Leo XIV is not a cause for celebration. It is a cause for mourning. The abomination of desolation continues to occupy the place that should be sanctified by the presence of the true Vicar of Christ. The conciar sect continues to propagate its errors, to destroy souls, and to advance the agenda of the enemies of the Church.
The “bishops” quoted in this article are not shepherds. They are wolves in sheep’s clothing, leading their flocks to perdition with their “excitement” and their “national pride.” The faithful who wish to remain Catholic — truly Catholic, in communion with the perennial Magisterium — must reject this entire apparatus, must refuse to recognize the legitimacy of the usurpers, and must hold fast to the unchanging faith of the Church: Extra Ecclesiam nulla salus — outside the Church, there is no salvation. And the Church is not the conciar sect. The Church is the Mystical Body of Christ, founded on the Rock of Peter, guided by the Holy Ghost, and destined to endure until the end of time — not the abomination of desolation that currently occupies the Vatican.
Source:
US Bishops Recount Year Since Pope Leo XIV’s Election (ncregister.com)
Date: 07.05.2026