Simulated Ordinations in the Abomination of Desolation: Barron’s Novus Ordo Deacons and the Eclipse of the Priesthood
EWTN News portal reports that on October 1, 2026, the conciliar sect‘s “Bishop” Robert Barron of Winona-Rochester simulated the ordination of eighteen men from the North American College to the transitional diaconate within the walls of St. Peter’s Basilica, now the citadel of the abomination of desolation. The ceremony, celebrated according to the Novus Ordo rite of Paul VI, is presented as a “pivotal step” toward the “priesthood,” yet it constitutes nothing less than a theatrical parody of the sacrament of Holy Orders, devoid of grace, validity, and the character indelebilis that configures a man to Christ the High Priest. This spectacle in the Vatican basilica — once the heart of Christendom, now the headquarters of the Church of the New Advent — manifests the total rupture between the counterfeit hierarchy of the post-conciliar antipopes and the immutable Catholic priesthood instituted by Christ.
The Nullity of the New Rite: No Sacrament, No Priesthood, No Grace
The Novus Ordo rite of ordination, promulgated by the apostate antipope Paul VI in 1968 (Pontificalis Romani), altered the essential forma of the sacrament, excising the precise words by which the Church, for over a millennium, invoked the Holy Ghost for the specific grade of Orders. As Pope Pius XII defined in Sacramentum Ordinis (1947): “The matter of this sacrament is the imposition of hands; the form is the words which determine the matter.” The Paul VI rite replaced the traditional, definitive formulary — “Emitte in eos, quaesumus, Domine, Spiritum Sanctum…” — with a vague, equivocal “prayer of consecration” that fails to specify the sacramental grace conferred. No form, no sacrament. The eighteen men prostrated before Barron received no character, no potestas ordinis, no participation in the one Priesthood of Christ. They remain laymen, clad in stolen vestments, enacting a liturgical fiction.
The Defense of Sedevacantism file establishes the principle: “A manifest heretic cannot be Pope or a member of the Church… a non-Christian in no way can be Pope… therefore, a manifest heretic cannot be Pope.” Barron, a notorious promoter of the hermeneutic of continuity, universal salvationism, and religious indifferentism — evidenced by his “Word on Fire” apostolate which panders to the world — is a manifest heretic. He possesses no jurisdiction, no orders, no authority. As St. Robert Bellarmine teaches: “A heretic is not a member, therefore he cannot be the head of the Church… a manifest heretic cannot be Pope.” One who is outside the Church cannot communicate what he does not have: Nemo dat quod non habet. The “ordination” is a simulacrum, a Masonic pantomime performed in the ruins of the basilica.
Linguistic Engineering: The Vocabulary of the Counter-Church
The article’s language is a masterclass in Modernist newspeak. Terms like “transitional deacons,” “formation,” “journey,” “milestone,” “humble service,” “shepherds of the faith” — these are not Catholic theological categories but sociological, Protestantized, psychologized substitutes. The Council of Trent anathematized those who deny the hierarchical priesthood distinct from the common priesthood of the faithful (Session XXIII, Canon 1). The Novus Ordo vocabulary deliberately blurs this distinction, reducing the priest to a “presider,” a “facilitator,” a “servant-leader.” Barron’s homily — “Believe what you read. Teach what you believe. Practice what you preach” — is a banal moralistic platitude, stripped of the sacerdotal dimension: offerre, benedicere, praeesse, consecrare. No mention of the Unbloody Sacrifice of Calvary, the propitiatory victim, the power to forgive sins, the custody of the Eucharist. The lingua novae ecclesiae is the language of the synagogue of Satan (Apoc. 2:9), designed to efface the sacerdotium and install a ministerium of man.
Note the candidate Vande Hey’s utterance: “humbled and… hungry… for what [the Lord is] going to do in the future.” This is enthusiasm, not vocatio. Fassero speaks of “thinking as a pilgrim” — a vague, existentialist sentiment. Finnegan cites “learn to be a man in service” — naturalistic virtue, not supernatural configuratio ad Christum Sacerdotem. The article quotes Barron invoking “You are Peter, and on this rock I will build my Church” (Mt 16:18), yet the very structure in which he speaks is occupied by the antichrist (2 Thess. 2:4), the man of sin who “sitteth in the temple of God, shewing himself as if he were God.” The irony is diabolical: the words of Christ are weaponized to legitimize the usurpation of His Vicar’s seat.
Theological Bankruptcy: The North American College as Seminary of the Anti-Church
The North American College, founded by Pius IX in 1859 as a bastion of Roman fidelity, has been for decades a factory of Modernism, churning out “priests” formed in the nouvelle théologie, the historical-critical method, the hermeneutic of rupture disguised as continuity. Its “seven years of rigorous spiritual, academic, and pastoral formation” is a curriculum of apostasy: Vatican II documents, Gaudium et Spes anthropology, Dignitatis Humanae religious liberty, Nostra Aetate false ecumenism, the Novus Ordo Missae as the exclusive liturgy. The Syllabus of Errors (Pius IX, 1864) condemns proposition 80: “The Roman Pontiff can, and ought to, reconcile himself, and come to terms with progress, liberalism and modern civilization.” The NAC is the embodiment of this condemned reconciliation. Its “ordination” in St. Peter’s is the abomination of desolation standing in the holy place (Mt 24:15).
The Quas Primas encyclical of Pius XI 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 conciliar sect denies this Social Kingship by its very existence, substituting the cult of man for the cult of God. Barron’s “Word on Fire” is a strange fire (Lev. 10:1), not the fire of the Holy Ghost. The eighteen deacons are ordained not to offer sacrifice but to “preach the Gospel” in a sect that has changed the Gospel (Gal. 1:8). As St. Paul warns: “If any man preach to you a gospel besides that which you have received, let him be anathema.”
Symptomatic Analysis: The Systemic Apostasy of the Conciliar Structure
This event is not an anomaly but the modus operandi of the paramasonic structure occupying the Vatican. The False Fatima Apparitions file exposes the Masonic strategy: “Stage 3 (1958-2000): Takeover of the narrative by modernists, concealment of the Third Secret, ecumenical reinterpretation.” The “ordination” of 2026 is Stage 4: the institutionalization of a counter-priesthood to serve the counter-church. The Novus Ordo “deacons” will “assist at the altar” of the table of assembly, distribute invalid “Communion” (mere bread), witness invalid marriages, preach heresy, and lead souls to hell. This is not “sacrilege”; it is idolatry.
The Lamentabili Sane Exitu (St. Pius X, 1907) condemned the Modernist proposition: “The sacraments arose as a result of the interpretation by the Apostles or their successors of Christ’s thoughts and intentions, under the influence and encouragement of circumstances and events” (Prop. 40). The Novus Ordo rites are precisely this: human fabrications, “interpretations” of Christ’s will adapted to “modern man.” The eighteen candidates are victims of a fraudulent system that has no power to ordain. Canon 188.4 of the 1917 Code (cited in Defense of Sedevacantism) states: “Every office becomes vacant by the mere fact and without any declaration by reason of tacit resignation… if the cleric: 4. Publicly defects from the Catholic faith.” The entire conciliar hierarchy has publicly defected; their offices are vacant; their acts are null. Ipso facto.
The Duty of the Faithful: Reject the Counterfeit, Cleave to the Remnant
No Catholic may attend, support, or recognize these simulated ordinations. To do so is to participate in the great apostasy (2 Thess. 2:3). The true Church — Ecclesia militans — subsists in those bishops and priests who retain valid orders (conferred before 1968), the unchanging Mass of Trent, and the integral faith. The eighteen men in Rome are not “deacons”; they are laymen in costume, deceived by a diabolical disorientation (Sr. Lucia of Fatima, true seer, on the post-conciliar crisis). The faithful must flee from the abomination (Mt 24:16), seek out the true Mass, the true priesthood, the true bishops who do not communicate with the usurpers. “Come out of her, my people, that you be not partakers of her sins, and that you receive not of her plagues” (Apoc. 18:4).
The Syllabus condemns: “The Church ought to be separated from the State, and the State from the Church” (Prop. 55). The conciliar sect has separated the Church from Christ. Barron’s ceremony in the basilica of the Prince of the Apostles is the abomination of desolation — not the conversion of Russia, not the triumph of the Immaculate Heart, but the enthronement of the Antichrist. The only “transitional” reality here is the transition of these men from Catholic baptism into the sect of the New Advent. Deo gratias for the remnant that keeps the faith. Semper idem.
Source:
Bishop Barron Ordains 18 Deacons From the North American College in St. Peter’s Basilica (ncregister.com)
Date: 02.10.2026