EWTN News portal (July 8, 2026) reports that the Speaker of the United States House of Representatives, Mike Johnson, addressed a formal letter of welcome to Mr. Gabriele Giordano Caccia, appointed “apostolic nuncio” to the United States by the usurper Robert Prevost, who styles himself “Pope Leo XIV.” Johnson’s letter, dripping with the syrupy language of Masonic indifferentism, congratulates the envoy of the Vatican sect on the occasion of the 250th anniversary of the Masonic Declaration of Independence, praising the “principles of human dignity and religious liberty” enshrined in that revolutionary document and citing the arch-heretic of Americanism, John Carroll, as a model of Catholic civic engagement. This sordid spectacle of a putatively Catholic politician legitimizing the diplomatic envoy of a manifest heretic and usurper of the Chair of Peter perfectly crystallizes the unio mystica between American political liberalism and the Roman apostasy: two wings of the same Masonic bird flying against the Social Kingship of Christ the King (Pax Christi in Regno Christi – Peace of Christ in the Kingdom of Christ).
The Linguistic Camouflage of Apostasy: “Goodwill,” “Friendship,” and “Religious Liberty”
The linguistic veneer of Johnson’s letter is the classic bureaucratic Newspeak of the novus ordo sect: “In a spirit of goodwill,” “deep friendship,” “human dignity,” “religious liberty.” These are not Catholic concepts; they are the shibboleths of the Syllabus errors. Pius IX, in the Syllabus of Errors (1864), explicitly condemns as error the proposition that “In the present day it is no longer expedient that the Catholic religion should be held as the only religion of the State, to the exclusion of all other forms of worship” (Error 77) and that “The Roman Pontiff can, and ought to, reconcile himself, and come to terms with progress, liberalism and modern civilization” (Error 80). Johnson’s letter is the practical application of Error 80: the Speaker of the House, a putative Catholic, officially recognizes and “welcomes” the envoy of the “pontiff” who embodies reconciliation with liberalism.
The phrase “religious liberty” is the summa heresis of the Americanist heresy, condemned by Leo XIII in Testem Benevolentiae Nostrae (1899) as the confusion of license with liberty. Johnson cites the Declaration of Independence – a Masonic manifesto declaring independence from Christ the King (Non serviam) – as the shared heritage of the “Holy See” and the United States. This is the civitas terrena exalting itself against the Civitas Dei. As Pius XI teaches in Quas Primas (1925): “When God and Jesus Christ… were removed from laws and states and when authority was derived not from God but from men, the foundations of that authority were destroyed.” Johnson’s letter celebrates the destruction of those foundations.
The Sedevacantist Reality: The See is Vacant, the “Nuncio” is a Layman
The entire farce rests on the metaphysical impossibility that Robert Prevost (“Leo XIV”) is the Roman Pontiff. As demonstrated by the immutable principles of Catholic ecclesiology, a manifest heretic ipso facto loses the papacy. St. Robert Bellarmine teaches: “A Pope who is 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” (De Romano Pontifice, lib. 2, cap. 30). Wernz and Vidal confirm: “By notorious and publicly manifested heresy, the Roman Pontiff… is deprived ipso facto of his personal jurisdiction even before any declaratory sentence by the Church.”
Prevost, as a cardinal of the Vatican II sect, publicly professes the heresies of religious liberty, ecumenism, collegiality, and the new ecclesiology – heresies formally condemned by the Syllabus, Quanta Cura, Pascendi, and Mortalium Animos. By Canon 188 §4 of the 1917 Code (binding divine law), “Every office becomes vacant by the mere fact and without any declaration… if the cleric… publicly defects from the Catholic faith.” Fr. McDevitt clarifies: “Joining… a non-Catholic sect is not required to establish the publicity which the canon demands.” Public profession of Modernist heresy is public defection.
Furthermore, Pope Paul IV’s Bull Cum ex Apostolatus Officio (1559) declares the promotion of a heretic “null, void, and of no effect” even if “uncontested and by the unanimous assent of all the Cardinals.” The 1917 Code references this Bull 19 times in its marginal notes, confirming its perennial legal force. Therefore, Prevost’s “appointment” of Caccia is a nullity. Caccia is not an Archbishop; he possesses no episcopal character if consecrated in the Novus Ordo rite (Paul VI’s invalid rite of 1968), and even if validly ordained sede vacante, he holds zero jurisdiction. He is a private individual, an agent of a paramasonic structure occupying the Vatican. Johnson’s letter addresses a phantom.
The Heresy of Americanism: John Carroll as Model
Johnson’s invocation of John Carroll – “our nation’s first Catholic bishop” – as a patron of Catholic integration into American civil religion is a deliberate invocation of the condemned heresy of Americanism. Carroll was the architect of the “American Church” accommodating the Republic; his episcopal consecration in 1790 was facilitated by the suppression of the Jesuits and the tolerance of the Masonic Enlightenment. Leo XIII condemned the phantom of Americanism: “The underlying principle of these new opinions is that… the Church should shape her teachings more in accord with the spirit of the spirit of the age” (Testem Benevolentiae).
Johnson boasts: “nearly 150 members of Congress and six of our nine justices on the U.S. Supreme Court are Catholic.” This is not a triumph of the Church; it is the triumph of the spirit of the world. As Pius XI warns in Quas Primas: “Let rulers of states therefore not refuse public veneration and obedience to the reigning Christ… For when God and Jesus Christ… were removed from laws and states… the foundations of that authority were destroyed.” These “Catholic” politicians and justices uphold the Roe/Casey regime (even in its post-Dobbs permutations), the Obergefell abomination, and the entire edifice of legal positivism. They are Catholics only in the sense condemned by St. Pius X: “Catholics who… would have the Church adapt herself to the modern world” (Pascendi). Their presence in power is the abomination of desolation in the holy place – the leaven of the Pharisees leavening the whole lump.
The “Holy See” of the Syllabus: A Diplomatic Fiction
Johnson speaks of the “Holy See’s role in promoting peace, human dignity, and care for vulnerable communities.” This “Holy See” is the entity condemned in the Syllabus (Errors 19-38): “The Church is not a true and perfect society… it appertains to the civil power to define what are the rights of the Church” (Error 19); “The ecclesiastical power ought not to exercise its authority without the permission and assent of the civil government” (Error 20). The Vatican II sect is the realization of these errors. It has surrendered the jus publicum ecclesiasticum to the Masonic state. It has no temporal power, no libertas Ecclesiae, and seeks only a modus vivendi with the powers of this world.
The “nuncio” Caccia, previously “permanent observer to the United Nations,” is the perfect functionary of this surrender. The UN is the Masonic Tower of Babel, the political arm of the Antichrist’s kingdom. Caccia’s “mission” is not the missio ad gentes (Docete omnes gentes… baptizantes eos, Mt 28:19), but the management of NGO relations, climate accords, and “interreligious dialogue” – the syncretistic worship condemned by Pius XI in Mortalium Animos: “The Apostolic See cannot take part in… assemblies of non-Catholics… The true Church of Christ is one… Those who hold otherwise fall into open Modernism.” Johnson’s “friendship” is the friendship of the world, which St. James calls “enmity with God” (inimicitia Dei, Jas 4:4).
The Symptomatic Level: The Two Horns of the Beast
This event – a Republican Speaker, darling of the “conservative” wing of the neo-church (EWTN, the “Catholic” media apparatus), welcoming the envoy of the Modernist antipope – reveals the modus operandi of the Great Apostasy. The “Right” wing of the Masonic dialectic (political conservatism, religious liberty, national sovereignty) embraces the “Left” wing of the ecclesiastical revolution (social justice, ecumenism, synodality). They converge in the cult of man.
EWTN, the propaganda organ of the neo-church founded by the modernist Mother Angelica (herself a promoter of the false Fatima apparitions and the charismatic movement), frames this as “heartfelt congratulations” and “warmest welcome.” This is the lingua novus ordo: sentimentalism replacing dogma, diplomacy replacing the potestas iurisdictionis. The “semiquincentennial” (250 years of 1776) is the celebration of the Revolution. That the “nuncio” of the “pope” attends this jubilee is the final seal on the Concordat with the Devil.
As St. Pius X warned in Pascendi: “The Modernist… knows that in the Church there is no authority but that of the majority… Hence they demand that the Church should be democratic.” Johnson, the “Catholic” Speaker, represents the democratic principle; Prevost, the “synodal” antipope, represents the democratized Church. They recognize each other as legitimate because both derive authority from vox populi, not vox Dei.
Conclusion: Non Possumus – Return to the King
The only Catholic response to this grotesque pantomime is the Non Possumus of the martyrs. We do not recognize the usurper Prevost. We do not recognize his envoy Caccia. We do not recognize the legitimacy of the Masonic United States regime founded on the Declaration of Independence from Christ. We recognize only Christ the King, whose “kingdom shall have no end” (Quas Primas, citing Dan 7:14), and the Sede Vacante Church persevering in the catacombs, holding fast to the Tradition (Tradidi quod et accepi).
As Pius XI commanded: “If rulers of states… wish to maintain their authority inviolate and contribute to the increase of their homeland’s happiness, let them fulfill this duty… of public veneration and obedience to the reigning Christ.” Mike Johnson, Robert Prevost, and Gabriele Caccia have chosen Barabbas. The true Church chooses Christ. Christus vincit, Christus regnat, Christus imperat.
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U.S. House speaker welcomes apostolic nuncio in formal letter (ewtnnews.com)
Date: 08.07.2026