New York “Archbishop” Ronald Hicks completed the final 62 miles of the Camino de Santiago, celebrating a Novus Ordo “pilgrim’s Mass” at the Cathedral of Santiago de Compostela on October 11, 2026. The EWTN News report details his homily, delivered in Spanish and English, wherein he wore a baseball cap bearing the image of the usurper “Pope” Leo XIV (Robert Prevost), invoked the heretical “Pope Francis” and his “everyone, everyone, everyone” ecumenical slogan, and reduced the supernatural finality of pilgrimage to a vague “journey with Jesus toward heaven.” The “archbishop” was encouraged in this undertaking by his predecessor, “Cardinal” Timothy Dolan. This public spectacle manifests the total substitution of the Catholic religion by a naturalistic, man-centered parody.
The False Shepherd and His Masonic Badge
The most visually arresting and theologically damning detail of the report is the admission that Hicks wore a baseball cap “featuring a photo of our Holy Father, Pope Leo” to show “I am Catholic and am walking with him and the Church.” This single act encapsulates the entire conciliar apostasy. The “pope” referenced is Leo XIV (Robert Prevost), the latest in the line of usurpers beginning with John XXIII, who occupy the Vatican structures while having defected from the Catholic Faith. As St. Robert Bellarmine teaches, “A manifest heretic cannot be Pope… he cannot be the head of something of which he is not a member” (De Romano Pontifice, II, 30). By publicly displaying the image of an antipope as a badge of Catholic identity, Hicks confirms his communion with the secta conciliaris, the counter-church erected in opposition to the Mystical Body of Christ.
The “Cardinal” Dolan’s encouragement — “Do it, do it, do it” — further seals the conspiracy. These men are not successors of the Apostles but functionaries of a paramasonic structure. The 1917 Code, Canon 188.4, declares that an office becomes vacant ipso facto by “public defection from the Catholic faith”. The public adhesion to the Novus Ordo sect, its false popes, and its heretical doctrines constitutes precisely this defection.
Ecumenism as the New Gospel: The “Everyone, Everyone, Everyone” Blasphemy
Hicks explicitly invokes the false “Pope Francis” and his infamous slogan: “Pope Francis said that the Catholic Church is ‘everyone, everyone, everyone.’ When we are gathered together, Jesus is with us.” This is the heresy of universal salvation and the denial of Extra Ecclesiam Nulla Salus dressed in sentimental language. The Syllabus of Pius IX condemns the proposition: “Man may, in the observance of any religion whatever, find the way of eternal salvation” (Error 16). The “Church” of Francis is not the Una, Sancta, Catholica, et Apostolica but a Masonic “parliament of religions” where Christ is reduced to one “spiritual master” among many.
Hicks’ statement “When we are gathered together, Jesus is with us” perverts Matthew 18:20 (“Where there are two or three gathered together in my name, there am I in the midst of them”). The condition in nomine meo (in My name) requires unity of Faith, not mere physical proximity. The gathering at Compostela included pilgrims “from all over the world” with no unity of profession, no rejection of error, no sacramental confession — a conventiculum of religious indifference. This is the ecumenism condemned by Pius XI in Mortalium Animos (1928): a “federation of Christians” based on the lowest common denominator, which is the negation of the Kingship of Christ.
Reduction of the Supernatural to the Psychological
The homily’s anthropology is purely naturalistic. Hicks reveals he walked “With my prayers, with my problems, with my thoughts.” The pilgrimage, historically a penitential exercise for the remission of temporal punishment due to sin, for the conversion of sinners, and for the exaltation of the Church, is reduced to a therapeutic walk. The “problems” and “thoughts” of the pilgrim replace the Poenitentiam agite (Do penance) of the Baptist and the Co-redemptive suffering of the true Catholic spirituality.
The “archbishop” states: “Our journey is with Jesus toward heaven, toward eternal life.” This vague eschatology omits the necessary means: the state of sanctifying grace, the Sacraments (validly administered), the observance of the Commandments, the hatred of sin. It is the Protestant “personal relationship with Jesus” masquerading as Catholicism. The Council of Trent anathematizes those who say that justifying faith is nothing else but “confidence in the divine mercy pardoning sins for Christ’s sake” (Sess. VI, Can. 12). Hicks’ “journey” lacks the via crucis, the imitatio Christi in suffering, the doctrinal content of the Credo.
The Marian Apparition as Ecumenical Tool
Hicks references Our Lady of the Pillar, claiming “She wants us to know her Son and to find salvation through, in, and with her Son Jesus Christ.” While the formula sounds orthodox, in the mouth of a conciliar “bishop” it serves the ecumenical agenda. The context of the “Hispanic world” patroness is used to legitimize a false unity between the conciliar sect and the remnants of Catholic culture in Spain and Latin America. The true Our Lady of the Pillar appeared to St. James to strengthen him for the conversion of Spain to the Catholic Faith, not for a generic “knowledge of Jesus” compatible with religious liberty.
Moreover, the acceptance of private revelations (even approved ones) without the guarantee of infallibility is a theological minefield exploited by Modernists. As the provided context on False Fatima Apparitions notes: “Private revelations (even approved ones) do not have the guarantee of the Church’s infallibility… The centralized role of the Church and the sacraments is undermined by the demand for ‘hyper-acts’ of worship.” The conciliar hierarchy uses Marian devotion as a sentimental glue for their ecumenical project, stripping it of its doctrinal content: the necessity of the Church, the Papacy, the Sacraments, and the Social Kingship of Christ.
The Pilgrimage as Liturgical Act of the Counter-Church
The “pilgrim’s Mass” celebrated at the Cathedral is the Novus Ordo Missae — a fabrication of the Freemason Bugnini, lex orandi of the new religion. It is not the Sacrificium Propitiatorium of the Council of Trent but a “memorial meal” centered on the “assembly.” Hicks’ “disconnection from social media” is a modern asceticism substitute, replacing the traditional statio, fasting, and abstinence. The report notes he “picked up his phone again to share that he had felt the Lord’s companionship” — the religion of experience and sentiment, the Gefühlsreligion condemned by St. Pius X in Pascendi as the hallmark of Modernism: “Faith, as assent of the mind, is ultimately based on a sum of probabilities” (Lamentabili, Prop. 25).
The very concept of a “Jubilee Year in perpetuity” for Santiago de Compostela, alongside Jerusalem and Rome, is invoked to lend canonical prestige to a pilgrimage that serves the tourism industry and the conciliar narrative of “dialogue.” The true Jubilee is the remission of penalties granted by a true Pope under the usual conditions (Confession, Communion, Prayer for the Pope’s intentions, detachment from sin). Under a false “pope,” there is no jurisdiction, no indulgence, no spiritual fruit — only simulacrum.
Symptomatic Analysis: The Abomination of Desolation in Action
This event is not an anomaly; it is the modus operandi of the ecclesia novae adventus. The “archbishop” of the “Archdiocese of New York” — a see once graced by true princes like Hughes, McCloskey, and Spellman — now stages media events for EWTN, the propaganda arm of the conciliar establishment. The “Camino” becomes a metaphor for the synodal path: walking together, listening, accompanying, but never converting, never defining, never condemning error.
The silence on sin, hell, judgment, the Social Kingship of Christ, the rights of the true Church over the State, the condemnation of Freemasonry, the necessity of the Traditional Latin Mass — this silence is the loudest condemnation. As Pius XI taught in Quas Primas: “When God and Jesus Christ… were removed from laws and states… the foundations of that authority were destroyed.” Hicks’ pilgrimage is a public act of laicism: religion as a private hobby, a cultural heritage walk, a “spiritual journey” devoid of the jus publicum of Christ the King.
The “Cardinal” Dolan’s regret at never doing the Camino reveals the clericalism of the new religion: the “bishop” as celebrity pilgrim, the “faithful” as audience. The true shepherd lays down his life for the sheep (Io 10:11); the hireling flees because he is a hireling and cares not for the sheep. The hirelings today wear baseball caps with antipope faces and preach a Christ without a Cross, a Church without walls, a Heaven without Hell.
Conclusio: Return to the Immutable Tradition
The article from EWTN News is not a report of a Catholic event; it is a bulletin from the occupation government. The “Archbishop” Hicks, the “Cardinal” Dolan, the “Pope” Leo XIV — these are the ministri diaboli transforming themselves into ministers of justice (II Cor 11:15). The faithful Catholic, adhering to the quod semper, quod ubique, quod ab omnibus, must reject this entire theater. The true Camino is the via crucis of fidelity to Tradition, the Mass of the Ages, the doctrine of the Popes before 1958, and the resistance to the abominatio desolationis standing in the holy place (Mt 24:15). Non praevalebunt (They shall not prevail).
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Archbishop Hicks recounts pilgrimage to Santiago de Compostela (ewtnnews.com)
Date: 12.10.2026