The Pillar portal reports that the usurper “Pope” Leo XIV (Robert Prevost) is allegedly contemplating the elevation of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church’s Major Archbishop Sviatoslav Shevchuk to the dignity of a patriarch, a move framed as a response to the ongoing war but revealing, in its very DNA, the conciliar sect’s irreversible capitulation to ecumenism and naturalistic geopolitics. This maneuver is not a restoration of order but a further dissolution of the Church’s divine constitution into a confederation of nationalistic rites servicing the religion of man.
The Usurper’s Juridical Nullity and the Impossibility of Legitimate Elevation
The article operates on the foundational lie that Robert Prevost, styling himself “Leo XIV,” possesses the authority to erect patriarchates or confirm elections. As St. Robert Bellarmine teaches, “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). The line of antipopes beginning with John XXIII has publicly professed the heresies of religious liberty, ecumenism, and collegiality—condemned by the Syllabus of Pius IX and Pascendi Dominici Gregis of St. Pius X. Consequently, any act of governance, including the erection of a patriarchate, is ipso facto null, void, and of no effect (Cum ex Apostolatus Officio, Pope Paul IV). The “Dicastery for Eastern Catholic Churches” cited as studying this prospect is a department of a paramasonic structure, not a Roman Congregation of the Catholic Church. Its deliberations have no more canonical weight than the resolutions of a Masonic lodge.
Ecumenism: The Condemned Engine of the “Patriarchal” Project
The article explicitly admits that the patriarchate was blocked historically “because of concerns that the idea would be offensive to the Orthodox Patriarch of Moscow, with whom the Church hoped to deepen ecumenical relations.” Here is the smoking gun: the divine right of the Church to establish her hierarchy is subordinated to the sensitivities of schismatics. This is the practical application of the heresy condemned by Pius IX in the Syllabus (Error 55): “The Church ought to be separated from the State, and the State from the Church”—here mutated into: “The Church ought to be subordinated to the ecumenical sensitivities of heretics and schismatics.”
Pius XI, in Quas Primas, declares with unshakeable authority: “His reign encompasses also all non-Christians, so that most truly the entire human race is subject to the authority of Jesus Christ.” The Kingship of Christ admits no veto from the Patriarch of Moscow. The conciliar sect’s “ecumenical wisdom” is nothing but human respect elevated to a theological principle, a direct violation of the First Commandment and the dogmatic definition of Vatican I on the necessity of the Church for salvation (extra ecclesiam nulla salus). The article’s admission that “immediate hopes for better ecumenical relationships with Patriarch Kirill in Moscow seem to be waning” as a catalyst for the move proves the purely political, naturalistic calculus: when the schismatic partner refuses dialogue, the sect creates facts on the ground to appease its own nationalist constituency.
The “Major Archbishop” Fiction: A Conciliar Novelty Without Foundation
The article notes that the title “Major Archbishop” was invented by Paul VI for Slipyj “a new phrase which seemed designed mostly to denote that he was patriarchish, without being a patriarch.” This admission exposes the juridical chaos of the neo-church. Canon 188.4 of the 1917 Code states that an office becomes vacant by tacit resignation recognized by the law itself if a cleric publicly defects from the Catholic faith. The invention of novel titles (“Major Archbishop,” “Dicastery,” “Synodality”) to accommodate ecumenical compromise is the legislative fingerprint of a body that has defected from the faith. True Eastern Catholic patriarchates (if any validly exist in the catacombs) derive from the immutable right of the Church to govern her children for salvation, not from “codified legislation” drafted to signal “maturity” to a modernist bureaucracy.
Shevchuk’s “Code of Canons”: Legalism as a Substitute for Sanctity
The article quotes Shevchuk: “This Code of Canons is a sign of our Church’s maturity… a sign that our Church has taken another decisive step toward the development of patriarchal structures.” This is Pharisaism in its purest form. St. Paul condemns those “having a form of godliness but denying the power thereof” (2 Tim 3:5). The true marks of the Church are one, holy, catholic, apostolic—not “codified,” “mature,” or “patriarchal structures.” The obsession with canonical codes (the 1983 Code, the 1990 CCEO, now a particular Ukrainian code) is the hallmark of the conciliar sect: lex orandi, lex credendi has been replaced by lex scribendi, lex regnandi. As Pius X condemned in Lamentabili (Prop. 53): “The organic structure of the Church is subject to change, and the Christian community… is subject to continuous evolution.” Shevchuk’s code is the positive law of a false church evolving into a national religious corporation.
The Union of Brest and the Tragedy of False Unionism
The article traces the patriarchal desire to the 1596 Union of Brest-Litovsk. While the union itself was a historical event, the modern “Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church” is its counterfeit continuation. The article reveals the ecumenical motive: “Both Orthodox and Catholic bishops agreed then that recognizing a patriarchate in Kiev could be a source of unity in the Church, with the move conferring some certainty that the Vatican would not impose a kind of Latinization.” This “unity” is the unity of the synagogue of Satan (Apoc 2:9)—a unity of rites without unity of faith, a unity that preserves Byzantine externals while embracing the Modernist errors of the “Church of the New Advent.” True union requires the conversion of the schismatic to the integral Catholic faith, not the creation of a parallel structure that validates the schismatic’s claim to be a “sister Church.” The “Latinization” fear is a red herring; the real Latinization was the imposition of the Novus Ordo and the conciliar deformations on the Eastern rites, which the “Major Archbishop” Shevchuk accepts without murmur.
Geopolitics as Theology: The Zuppi Mission and the “Peace” Idol
The dispatch of Cardinal Zuppi (a conciliar “cardinal”) on a “peace mission” frames the patriarchal question within the religion of pax humana. Pius XI in Quas Primas warns: “When God and Jesus Christ… were removed from laws and states… the foundations of that authority were destroyed… the entire human society had to be shaken.” The neo-church’s “peace missions” are the diplomatic corps of the Antichrist, seeking a temporal ceasefire that leaves souls in the bondage of schism, heresy, and the Novus Ordo. The article’s focus on “500,000 lives,” “displaced millions,” “prisoner exchange” reveals a purely humanitarian, naturalistic horizon. Quas Primas demands: “Let rulers of states therefore not refuse public veneration and obedience to the reigning Christ… if they wish to maintain their authority inviolate.” The “patriarchate” offer is a bribe to Ukrainian nationalism to keep the faithful inside the conciliar enclosure, distracting them from the abomination of desolation standing in the holy place (Matt 24:15).
The Canonical Illusion: “Few Differences” Between Patriarch and Major Archbishop
The article states: “Practically speaking, there are few differences between an Eastern Catholic patriarch and a ‘major archbishop’… the election of a major archbishop… must be confirmed by the pope, and a patriarch does not need that confirmation.” This minimization is deliberate deception. In the true Church, a Patriarch possesses ordinary and immediate jurisdiction over his territory by divine right (canon 155 §1 1917 Code), subject only to the Roman Pontiff. The “Major Archbishop” is a pure creature of positive conciliar law, dependent on papal confirmation for his very election—a vicarius papae in a novel sense, stripping the Eastern hierarchy of its traditional autonomy. The “few differences” are the difference between a father and a hired steward. But since the “pope” confirming the election is an antipope, the confirmation is null, and the “Major Archbishop” holds his office from a usurper—a fortiori, a “Patriarch” erected by him would be a schismatic intruder.
Sedevacantist Verdict: The Catacombs Alone Preserve the Patriarchal Principle
From the perspective of the integral Catholic faith, the only valid hierarchy in Ukraine today consists of those bishops and priests who reject the conciliar sect entirely, maintain the traditional Byzantine rite untouched by the 1996 “reforms,” and recognize no authority above them but the papacy as it existed before 1958. The “Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church” of Shevchuk is a department of the neo-church, its “patriarchal dignity” a theatrical prop in the Masonic psychodrama directed from the occupied Vatican. As the False Fatima Apparitions document exposes, the conciliar apparatus uses “messages,” “secrets,” and now “patriarchates” to divert attention from the modernist apostasy within. The true remedy for Ukraine is not a new title for a conciliar functionary, but the Social Reign of Christ the King proclaimed by Pius XI: “The state must leave the same freedom to the members of Orders and Congregations… who are indeed the most valiant helpers of the Pastors of the Church and contribute most to the expansion and establishment of Christ’s Kingdom.” Until the antipope is rejected and the true Mass restored, every “elevation” is a deeper descent into the abyss.
Non est alia salus nisi in Ecclesia Catholica; extra eam nemo salvetur. The “patriarchate” of the neo-church is a gilded cage for souls. Flee it.
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Leo and the patriarchy (pillarcatholic.com)
Date: 25.07.2026