Antichurch Deepens Pact with Communist Beijing: Invalid Episcopal Ordinations Multiply Under Usurper Leo XIV
The National Catholic Register (NCR), the flagship organ of the EWTN/ACI Prensa neo-conservative apparatus, reports that the usurper Robert Prevost (“Pope” Leo XIV) has confirmed a second Chinese “bishop” in a single week, advancing the clandestine 2018 “provisional agreement” between the Vatican structures and the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). On July 29, 2026, “Father” Francis Xavier Duan Yongkun was ordained “coadjutor bishop” of Bameng (Inner Mongolia), following the June 15 appointment; days prior, “Father” Joseph Chang Yanfeng was ordained “bishop” of Chifeng. The article frames this as “cooperation” and “healing divisions,” noting that 16 “bishops” have now been ordained under this pact. It reveals that during the recent interregnum, the CCP unilaterally installed its own candidates—Wu Jianlin in Shanghai and Li Jianlin in Xinxiang (usurping the “underground” Bishop Zhang Weizhu)—signaling that a vacant “papal see” would not hinder the Party’s control. The usurper Leo XIV is portrayed as actively managing this “process,” suppressing historic dioceses (Xuanhua, Xiwanzi) erected by Pius XII to create a new Party-aligned see (Zhangjiakou). This report documents not the governance of the Church, but the final liquidation of the Church’s liberty in China, orchestrated by a manifest heretic occupying the Roman See, rendering every such “appointment” canonically null and spiritually lethal.