The National Catholic Register (NCR), mouthpiece of the conciliar sect, reports on September 8, 2026, the episcopal ordination of Father Andrew Ding Yang as “archbishop of Chongqing” in Communist China, the eighteenth such ordination under the secret 2018 “Provisional Agreement” between the Vatican and Beijing. The article details the machinations of the usurper “Pope” Leo XIV (Robert Prevost), who appointed Ding on July 28, 2026, and highlights the suppression of dioceses erected by Pope Pius XII, the “civil recognition” of two “underground” bishops by the atheist regime, and the unilateral installation of bishops by Chinese authorities during the interregnum following the death of the previous antipope, Francis. This sordid spectacle of collaboration with the “synagogue of Satan” (Apoc. 2:9) masquerading as a government constitutes the definitive proof that the conciliar sect has abandoned the Social Kingship of Christ for a mess of pottage with the enemies of God.
The Agreement: A Pact with Death and Hell
The 2018 “Provisional Agreement,” renewed in 2024 through 2028, is not a diplomatic triumph but a capitulation to the powers of darkness. The Syllabus of Errors of Pope Pius IX condemns as error the proposition that “The Church ought to be separated from the State, and the State from the Church” (Error 55) and that “The civil government… has a right to an indirect negative power over religious affairs” (Error 41). Yet this agreement explicitly grants the Chinese Communist Party — an atheist, materialist regime condemned by Pius XI in Divini Redemptoris as “intrinsically perverse” — the power of prior approval over episcopal appointments. The Holy See “agreed not to make episcopal appointments without the Chinese government’s prior approval.” This is the exsequatur and appellatio ab abusu condemned by Pius IX (Error 41), resurrected under the guise of “dialogue.”
Pius XI, in Quas Primas, declares: “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… the entire human society had to be shaken, because it lacked a stable and strong foundation.” The conciliar sect, by treating the Communist State as a legitimate partner in the governance of the Church, derives its authority in China not from God but from Mao’s successors. It has erected a counter-church whose bishops receive their mandate from the Dragon, not the Lamb.
The Usurper Leo XIV: Architect of the Great Apostasy in China
The article refers throughout to “Pope Leo XIV,” “the pontiff,” “the Holy See.” In reality, Robert Prevost is a manifest heretic who, by the very fact of his adherence to the conciliar errors (religious liberty, ecumenism, collegiality), has ipso facto lost all jurisdiction, as taught by St. Robert Bellarmine: “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). The “Defense of Sedevacantism” file confirms: “A manifest heretic cannot be Pope… he cannot be the head of something of which he is not a member.”
Therefore, every “appointment” made by Prevost is null, void, and of no effect (Canon 188.4, 1917 Code; Cum ex Apostolatus Officio). The ordination of Ding Yang confers no sacramental jurisdiction. He is a pseudo-bishop, a functionary of the “Chinese Catholic Patriotic Association” — the very schismatic structure erected by the Communists to replace the Church — now whitewashed with the veneer of “Vatican recognition.”
Suppression of Pius XII’s Dioceses: The Erasure of the True Church
The article casually notes: “On July 8, 2025, Leo suppressed the Dioceses of Xuanhua and Xiwanzi, which Pope Pius XII had established in 1946, and created the new Diocese of Zhangjiakou as a suffragan see of Beijing.” This is an act of ecclesiastical vandalism. Pius XII, the last true Pope, erected these dioceses to shepherd the faithful in the catacombs. The antipope suppresses them to align the ecclesiastical map with the administrative divisions of the Communist State. This is the abomination of desolation standing in the holy place (Matt. 24:15): the structures of the true Church dismantled to serve the City of Man.
The “recognition” of the “underground bishops” Ma Yanen and Cui Tai by the Communist government is not a victory but their co-optation. As the “False Fatima Apparitions” file warns regarding the “ecumenism project”: “The imprecise formulation ‘conversion of Russia’ (without specifying Catholicism) opens the way to religious relativism.” Here, the “regularization” of the underground bishops without a public abjuration of the Patriotic Association, without a condemnation of Communism, without the profession of the integral faith, is a surrender. They have been absorbed into the ecclesia peregrina of the Antichrist.
The Mechanics of the Great Deception: Secrecy and Unilateralism
The article admits: “The agreement’s full contents have never been made public.” “The Vatican generally does not announce episcopal appointments in China when they are made but instead waits until the day of the bishop’s ordination.” “During the period when the Holy See was vacant following the death of Pope Francis, Chinese authorities unilaterally selected two bishops.”
This is the modus operandi of the Masonic operation described in the “False Fatima” file: “Stage 2 (1940-1958): Globalization of the cult and control of the narrative through Lucia’s isolation. Stage 3 (1958-2000): Takeover of the narrative by modernists, concealment of the Third Secret, ecumenical reinterpretation.” The secrecy of the agreement, the retroactive validation of Communist appointments, the suppression of true dioceses — all bear the hallmarks of a psychological operation against the Church. The “underground” Church is being lured out of the catacombs into the daylight of the Patriotic Association, where it will be digested.
Reduction of the Episcopate to Civil Service
The biography of Ding Yang reads like a civil servant’s CV: Beijing seminary, Macao university, National Seminary in Beijing, Pontifical University of the Holy Cross in Rome, parish assignments in Chongqing districts. Nowhere is there mention of persecution, confession of the faith, readiness for martyrdom. The true bishops of China — like Bishop James Su Zhimin, disappeared since 1997; Bishop Cosmas Shi Enxiang, died in prison; the countless priests and laity who suffered in odium fidei — are the veri episcopi. Ding Yang is a hireling (John 10:12), appointed by an antipope, approved by the Party, ordained in a “cathedral” that serves two masters.
The article notes the “missionary outlook he developed during years of pastoral ministry” of Leo XIV. This is the heresy of activism condemned by St. Pius X in Lamentabili Sane Exitu (Prop. 59): “Christ did not proclaim any specific, all-encompassing doctrine suitable for all times and peoples, but rather initiated a certain religious movement, applied or applicable to different times and places.” The “mission” of the conciliar sect is not the salvation of souls through the Unbloody Sacrifice of Calvary and the integral profession of faith, but “dialogue,” “presence,” “accompaniment” — the vocabulary of the cult of man.
The Theological Bankruptcy of the “Provisional Agreement”
The agreement violates the ius divinum structure of the Church. Christ said to Peter: “Feed my lambs… feed my sheep” (John 21:15-17). He did not say: “Negotiate with the wolves for the right to feed the sheep on their terms.” The primacy of jurisdiction over the universal Church, defined by Vatican I (Pastor Aeternus), is immediate, ordinary, and supreme. It cannot be shared with, conditioned by, or subjected to a civil power — least of all an atheist Communist regime.
Pope Pius XII, in Ad Apostolorum Principis (1958), condemned the Patriotic Association as a schismatic organization “which has as its purpose the establishment of a national church separated from the Chair of Peter.” Today, the antipope legitimizes this very organization by making it the sine qua non of episcopal appointments. This is not “pastoral pragmatism”; it is apostasy.
The Silence of the Lambs: No Supernatural Dimension
Read the NCR article again. There is not a single mention of:
– The Holy Sacrifice of the Mass
– The salvation of souls
– The state of grace
– The Four Last Things
– The persecution of the faithful
– The Kingship of Christ over China
– The necessity of the Catholic Faith for salvation (Extra Ecclesiam Nulla Salus)
Only bureaucratic language: “bilateral agreement,” “civil recognition,” “episcopal ordination,” “suffragan see,” “interregnum,” “mechanisms established by the agreement.” This is the language of the City of Man, the “secularism of our times, so-called laicism” condemned by Pius XI in Quas Primas. The conciliar sect has become an NGO with miters, managing a religious portfolio for a totalitarian state.
Conclusion: The Church in the Catacombs Remains the True Church
The 18 “bishops” ordained under this pact are 18 witnesses against the conciliar sect. Each ordination is a fresh nail in the coffin of the claim that the Vatican II “Church” is the Catholic Church. The true Church in China remains where it has always been since 1949: in the catacombs, in the prisons, in the hearts of those who refuse the mark of the Beast (Apoc. 13:16-17).
The “Provisional Agreement” is not provisional; it is permanently damning. It will end only when the Communist regime falls or when the conciliar sect collapses into the apostasy it has embraced. Until then, the faithful Catholic knows his duty: “Non praevalebunt” (Matt. 16:18). The gates of hell — whether they bear the hammer and sickle or the broken cross of the conciliar sect — shall not prevail.
“He who gives the Kingdom of Heaven does not take away earthly things!” (Hymn Crudelis Herodes, cited in Quas Primas). The conciliar sect has given away the Kingdom of Heaven for a handful of earthly “recognitions.” Woe to them.
Source:
China Ordains 18th Bishop Under Vatican Agreement (ncregister.com)
Date: 08.09.2026