NCR portal reports that antipope Leo XIV (Robert Prevost) has appointed seven new members to the so-called Apostolic Signatura, the purported highest tribunal of the conciliar sect, including “Archbishop” Salvatore Cordileone of San Francisco, “Bishop” Edward Lohse of Kalamazoo, and a coterie of Opus Dei and Jesuit canonists. This latest stacking of the pseudo-tribunal confirms the neo-church is merely a juridical facade for the Masonic occupation of the Vatican, staffed by Modernist functionaries to legitimize the Great Apostasy.
The Antipope’s Juridical Farce: A Tribunal Without Authority
The reported appointment of seven new “members” to the so-called Apostolic Signatura by the antipope Leo XIV (Robert Prevost) is not an act of governance but a farcical consolidation of the Masonic occupation of the Vatican. The conciliar sect’s “highest court” is a juridical fiction erected by the usurpers who have occupied the Holy See since the usurpation of John XXIII (Angelo Roncalli) in 1958. As Pope Pius IX infallibly condemned in the Syllabus of Errors (Error 35): “There is nothing to prevent the decree of a general council, or the act of all peoples, from transferring the supreme pontificate from the bishop and city of Rome to another bishop and another city.” — Condemned. The very notion that a manifest heretic can appoint judges to a tribunal of the Church is a juridical monstrosity. St. Robert Bellarmine, the Doctor of the Church whom the sedevacantist position follows faithfully, teaches definitively: “A manifest heretic cannot be Pope… he ceases by that very fact to be Pope and head, just as he ceases to be a Christian and a member of the body of the Church” (De Romano Pontifice, lib. 2, cap. 30). Since the antipope Leo XIV (Robert Prevost) is a manifest adherent of the Vatican II heresies — religious liberty, ecumenism, collegiality, the new ecclesiology — he ipso facto lost all jurisdiction ab ipso facto, without any declaratory sentence, as Bellarmine, Wernz-Vidal, and Canon 188 §4 of the 1917 Code unequivocally teach. His “appointments” to the Signatura are null, void, and of no effect (nulla, irrita, et inania), exactly as Pope Paul IV defined in Cum ex Apostolatus Officio: “his promotion or elevation… shall be null, void, and of no effect.”
Opus Dei and the Jesuits: The Masonic Fifth Column in the Neo-Church
The appointment of two Opus Dei operatives — “Bishop” Juan Ignacio Arrieta Ochoa de Chinchetru and “Father” Eduardo Baura de la Peña — alongside the Jesuit “Father” Ulrich Rhode, exposes the true nature of the conciliar sect’s governance. Opus Dei, the personal prelature erected by the antipope John Paul II (Karol Wojtyła) in 1982, has functioned as the financial and juridical engine of the Vatican II revolution, managing the Vatican Bank (IOR) reform and drafting the neo-code of 1983 which codified the heresies of collegiality and religious liberty. The appointment of Arrieta, former secretary of the “Dicastery for Legislative Texts” (the body that produced the neo-code), and Baura, professor at the “Pontifical University of the Holy Cross” (Opus Dei’s Roman academic fortress), signals the consolidation of the Masonic-Opus Dei axis controlling the pseudo-tribunals. The Jesuit Rhode, professor at the Gregorian University — the epicenter of Modernist theological formation since the suppression of the Society by Clement XIV and its restoration by the Masonic Pius VII — represents the theological engine of the New Theology condemned by Pius XII in Humani Generis. As the Syllabus of Errors condemns (Error 13): “The method and principles by which the old scholastic doctors cultivated theology are no longer suitable to the demands of our times and to the progress of the sciences.” — Condemned. The Jesuit-Modernist axis has been the spearhead of the destruction of scholastic theology and the imposition of the nouvelle théologie that birthed Vatican II.
Cordileone and Lohse: The “Conservative” Fig Leaves of the Antichurch
The appointment of “Archbishop” Salvatore Cordileone of San Francisco and “Bishop” Edward Lohse of Kalamazoo serves as the classic conciliar tactic of co-opting “conservative” credentials to legitimize the neo-church. Cordileone, praised by the NCR portal for his “public defense of contested Catholic teachings, including the Church’s teaching on marriage,” is a quintessential pseudo-traditionalist — one of those pretending to be traditional Catholics who recognize the validity of the Novus Ordo Missae, the 1983 Code, and the magisterium of the antipopes, thereby recognizing the very authority that has destroyed the Faith. His appointment to the “U.S. Religious Liberty Commission” in 2025 (as the article notes) is the smoking gun: religious liberty is the heresy condemned by Pius IX (Syllabus, Error 15), Leo XIII (Libertas Praestantissimum), and Pius XI (Quas Primas), which teaches that “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.” Religious liberty is the corpus delicti of the Masonic revolution; Cordileone’s collaboration with the U.S. government’s “Religious Liberty Commission” is formal cooperation with the Masonic state’s usurpation of Christ’s Kingship over society. Pius XI in Quas Primas thundered: “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.” Cordileone’s participation in a secular “Religious Liberty Commission” is the practical denial of the Social Kingship of Christ the King.
Lohse, a canonist formed at the Gregorian and former official at the “Congregation for the Clergy” (2010–2015), represents the technocratic bureaucrat class that administers the destruction of the priesthood via the neo-code’s novel “canons” on incardination, laicization, and the “presbyteral council” — all innovations of the conciliar revolution. His appointment as “apostolic administrator” of Steubenville (a diocese ravaged by the homoheresy scandal under the “bishop” Monforton) is the fox guarding the henhouse.
The “Apostolic Signatura”: A Masonic Tribunal for the Abomination of Desolation
The article describes the Signatura as “the Catholic Church’s highest court” overseeing “the proper administration of justice throughout the Catholic Church.” This is the language of the abomination of desolation standing in the holy place (Matt 24:15). The true Apostolic Signatura, the supreme tribunal of the Catholic Church, ceased to function canonically with the death of Pius XII in 1958. The current structure, reconstituted by the antipope Paul VI (Giovanni Montini) in 1967 (Regimini Ecclesiae Universae) and modified by the antipope John Paul II (Karol Wojtyła) in 1988 (Pastor Bonus), is an organ of the conciliar sect, designed to process annulments (the “Catholic divorce” industry), suppress traditional communities (via the “Ecclesia Dei” commissions), and legitimize the Novus Ordo liturgy and the 1983 Code. Its prefect, “Cardinal” Dominique Mamberti, announced the election of the antipope Leo XIV — a fact the NCR article proudly notes — confirming that this tribunal is the judicial arm of the usurpation. As Pope Pius IX condemned (Syllabus, Error 24): “The Church has not the power of using force, nor has she any temporal power, direct or indirect.” — Condemned. The neo-Signatura wields the coercive power of the Vatican City State (a Masonic construct of the 1929 Lateran Treaty with Mussolini) to enforce the novelties of Vatican II.
The Theological Bankruptcy of the Conciliar “Canon Law”
The appointees are uniformly “canon law experts” — doctors of the 1983 Code, which is not a code of the Catholic Church but a revolutionary charter of the neo-church. It enshrines the heresy of collegiality (canon 336), religious liberty (canon 748 §2), the new ecclesiology of “People of God” (canon 204), and the validity of the Novus Ordo Missae (canon 897). The 1917 Code, the last true Code of the Church, was abrogated by the antipope John Paul II (Wojtyła) in 1983 — an act of supreme usurpation, for a manifest heretic cannot legislate for the Church. St. Pius X condemned the Modernist method of “living tradition” that evolves dogma and law (Pascendi Dominici Gregis, 1907). The 1983 Code is the juridical embodiment of that Modernist evolution. The appointment of canonists like Arrieta, Baura, Rhode, and Montini — all professors at the “Pontifical” universities that teach this neo-law — ensures that the pseudo-tribunal will continue to render judgments that bind no Catholic conscience, for “a heretic… cannot have jurisdiction… because he is not a member of the Church” (Bellarmine, De Romano Pontifice 2.30, citing St. Cyprian, St. Ambrose, St. Jerome).
Fatima, Opus Dei, and the Masonic Blueprint
The prominent role of Opus Dei in this appointment recalls the Masonic operation “Fatima” documented in the theological objections: the name “Fatima” as a “symbol of Christian-Islamic syncretism,” the 1717–1917–2017 Masonic cycles, and the infiltration of the seer Lucia’s environment. Opus Dei’s founder, Josemaría Escrivá, was “canonized” by the antipope John Paul II in record time (2002), and his prelature has been the juridical vehicle for the Novus Ordo establishment’s control over the “traditional” flank. The appointment of two Opus Dei canonists to the Signatura is the continuation of the Stage 3 (1958–2000) disinformation strategy: “Takeover of the narrative by modernists, concealment of the Third Secret, ecumenical reinterpretation.” The neo-Signatura is the court that legitimizes the ecumenical reinterpretation of the Faith.
Christ the King vs. the Antipope’s Court
Pius XI in Quas Primas instituted the Feast of Christ the King precisely to combat the “secularism of our times, so-called laicism, its errors and wicked endeavors” — the very errors embodied in the conciliar sect’s “Apostolic Signatura” and its “Religious Liberty Commission” collaborators like Cordileone. The encyclical declares: “His reign extends not only to Catholic nations… 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 antipope Leo XIV’s tribunal claims authority over the “Catholic Church” but in reality exercises a usurped jurisdiction in service of the Masonic City of Man. The true Church, the Ecclesia Militans, subsists in the bishops and priests who preserve the 1917 Code, the Tridentine Mass, and the unchanging Magisterium — those who recognize that the See of Peter has been vacant since 1958 (Sede Vacante). No appointment by a manifest heretic can confer jurisdiction; excommunicatus vitandus, haereticus manifestus, non est Christianus, ergo non est Papa (a manifest heretic, avoided by excommunication, is not a Christian, therefore not Pope).
Conclusion: The Tribunal of the Antichrist
This appointment is not a renewal of justice but a consolidation of the paramasonic structure occupying the Vatican. The “Archbishop” Cordileone, the “Bishop” Lohse, the Opus Dei canonists, the Jesuit Modernist — they are the functionaries of the abomination of desolation. True Catholics, adhering to the integral Catholic faith of the pre-1958 Magisterium, recognize no authority in these appointments, no jurisdiction in this tribunal, and no legitimacy in the antipope who made them. “The prayer prescribed by the Church is the rule of faith” (Quas Primas, citing the ancient axiom) — and the lex orandi of the neo-church (Novus Ordo, 1983 Code, religious liberty) proves its lex credendi is the faith of the Antichrist. Sede Vacante 1958. Non praevalebunt.
Source:
San Francisco Archbishop Among New Members of Vatican’s Highest Court (ncregister.com)
Date: 27.07.2026