The EWTN News portal reports that the usurper Robert Prevost, styling himself “Pope Leo XIV,” has appointed the Franciscan “Cardinal” Mauro Gambetti as “Archbishop” of Chieti-Vasto, removing him from the post of “archpriest of St. Peter’s Basilica” which he held since 2021 under the previous antipope Jorge Bergoglio (“Francis”). The outgoing “Archbishop” Bruno Forte, a notorious modernist theologian well past the canonical retirement age of 75, welcomes the transfer as a “special sign of the Lord’s benevolence.” This routine rotation of personnel within the conciliar sect exposes the absolute nullity of its hierarchy and the diabolical mimicry of ecclesiastical governance.
The Usurper’s Null Act: No Authority to Appoint
The very premise of the report — that a “pope” appoints a “bishop” — is a juridical and theological fiction. Since the death of Pius XII in 1958, the See of Peter has been vacant. The line of claimants beginning with John XXIII (Angelo Roncalli) has publicly professed the heresies of Modernism condemned by St. Pius X in Lamentabili sane exitu and Pascendi Dominici gregis: the evolution of dogma, the denial of the Church’s supernatural constitution, the subjection of revelation to historical criticism. 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, lib. 2, cap. 30). This deposition is ipso facto, requiring no declaratory sentence; heretics are condemned by their own judgment (Titus 3:10-11).
Pope Paul IV’s Bull Cum ex Apostolatus Officio definitively settles the matter: if any Cardinal or even the Roman Pontiff “has defected from the Catholic Faith or fallen into some heresy,” his promotion or elevation “shall be null, void, and of no effect.” The 1917 Code (Canon 188.4) confirms that an office becomes vacant ex ipso facto by “public defection from the Catholic faith.” Robert Prevost, as a willing participant in the conciliar apostasy — embracing religious liberty, false ecumenism, and the “new mass” — is a manifest heretic. He possesses zero jurisdiction. His “appointment” of Gambetti is not merely irregular; it is a nullity, a theatrical gesture devoid of canonical efficacy, akin to a layman donning a mitre and claiming to ordain.
The Appointee: A Son of the Conciliar Revolution
Mauro Gambetti is a product of the neo-church, formed entirely within its corrupted seminaries and structures. A Conventual Franciscan, his “final vows” (1998) and “ordination” (2000) occurred under the Novus Ordo rites, which the evidence strongly suggests are invalid in form and intention, severing the sacramental chain. His “episcopal consecration” in 2020 by the antipope Bergoglio utilized the Pauline rite, which omits the essential form for the episcopate (“Comple in sacerdote tuo…“) found in the Pontificale Romanum, casting grave doubt on the validity of the orders conferred. Even if material rites were observed, the heretical intention of the consecrator (Bergoglio) and the consecrated (Gambetti, a subscriber to Vatican II) would invalidate the act.
Gambetti’s curriculum vitae reads like a resume for the revolution: “archpriest of St. Peter’s Basilica” — a title unknown to Tradition, invented to manage the Vatican Basilica as a tourist museum and stage for the “popes'” liturgical innovations; member of the “Pontifical Commission for Vatican City State” — administering the temporal remnants of the Papal States usurped by Italy, now serving the paramasonic structure occupying the Vatican. His tenure at the Basilica of St. Francis in Assisi places him at the heart of the “spirit of Assisi,” the syncretistic abomination initiated by Wojtyla (“John Paul II”) where pagan religions are equated with the Bride of Christ.
The Displaced: Forte’s Modernist Legacy
The outgoing “Archbishop” Bruno Forte, installed in 2004, is a theologian of the “hermeneutic of continuity” — the sophistry invented by Ratzinger (“Benedict XVI”) to disguise the rupture of Vatican II. Forte has championed the “dialogue” with the world condemned by the Syllabus of Pius IX (Error 55: “The Church ought to be separated from the State, and the State from the Church” — condemned; yet the conciliar sect *practices* this separation by surrendering the Kingship of Christ to secularism). Forte’s praise of the appointment as a “sign of the Lord’s benevolence” is blasphemy. God does not bless the destroyers of His vineyard. As Pius XI teaches in Quas Primas, “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, because it lacked a stable and strong foundation.” Forte and Gambetti are agents of this shaking.
The Language of Legitimization: EWTN as Propagandist
The EWTN report employs the bureaucratic, honorific language of the sect: “Cardinal,” “Archbishop,” “Holy Father,” “Vatican announced.” This is not journalism; it is propaganda. By using the titles of the usurpers without qualification, EWTN — founded by the modernist “Mother Angelica” — functions as the Pravda of the conciliar regime, acclimating the faithful to the counterfeit hierarchy. The article notes Gambetti was “named a cardinal in 2020” by Bergoglio. This “college of cardinals” is a body of heretics, canonically non-existent, created to elect further antipopes. The mention of the “Pontifical Commission for Vatican City State” highlights the sect’s preoccupation with temporal power — the “civil principality” which the Syllabus (Error 76) notes the revolutionaries seek to abolish to “contribute in the greatest degree to the liberty and prosperity of the Church,” a lie exposed by the sect’s total subservience to the Masonic world order.
The Theological Reality: Sedevacancy and the Vacant See
The appointment changes nothing. The See of Chieti-Vasto remains canonically vacant, as does every see in the conciliar sect. The faithful in that territory have no true pastor, no valid Mass, no sure sacraments. They are sheep without a shepherd, scattered by the “hirelings” (John 10:12) who have entered not by the door (Christ) but by the window of the conciliar revolution. The only remedy is adherence to the integral Catholic faith preserved by bishops and priests who never accepted the novelties of 1958 onward — those who retain the true Mass, the true doctrine, and the true jurisdiction supplied by the Church for the salvation of souls in necessity (Ecclesia supplet).
The prophecy of Lamentabili sane exitu (Prop. 52, 53) is fulfilled: “Christ did not intend to establish the Church as a community lasting for centuries on earth… The organic structure of the Church is subject to change.” This is the Modernist creed. Gambetti’s transfer is merely the rearrangement of deck chairs on the Titanic of the neo-church. The true Church, the Ecclesia militans, endures in the catacombs of Tradition, awaiting the restoration of the Kingship of Christ (Quas Primas) and a true Pope who will consecrate the world not to a Masonic “Immaculate Heart” (False Fatima file), but to the Sacred Heart of Jesus, the only source of pax Christi in regno Christi.
Conclusion: The Abomination of Desolation Advances
This personnel move is a symptom of the abomination of desolation standing in the holy place (Matt. 24:15). The conciliar sect, a “paramasonic structure” (False Fatima file), continues its mimicry of life while being spiritually dead. No “Cardinal,” no “Archbishop,” no “Pope” emerging from this structure possesses authority. They are thieves and robbers (John 10:1). The faithful must flee their voice, reject their sacraments as invalid or sacrilegious, and cleave to the Tradition of the Fathers, the Councils, and the pre-1958 Magisterium. Non praevalebunt — the gates of hell shall not prevail against the true Church, though they have prevailed against the visible structures in Rome.
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Pope Leo XIV appoints Cardinal Mauro Gambetti to lead the Archdiocese of Chieti-Vasto (ewtnnews.com)
Date: 03.10.2026