The EWTN News portal reports that Chicago iconographer Joseph Malham produced an icon of Our Lady of Good Counsel for the usurper “Pope” Leo XIV (Robert Prevost) within a single week, facilitated by Chicago attorney Michael Airdo during a private audience at the Vatican. The antipope allegedly expressed being “moved” and intends to place the image on a shelf in his bedroom for personal prayer. Malham corresponded with the claimant to the See of Peter, speaking of shared vocational struggles and the “communion of saints.” This transaction exposes the conciliar sect’s reduction of sacred art to diplomatic gift-giving and its simulation of papal piety within the abomination of desolation occupying the Vatican.
The Manufacture of Icons for a Usurper: Sacred Art Prostituted to the Antichurch
The very premise of the report — an iconographer racing to complete a sacred image for the “Holy Father” in seven days — reveals the thoroughly naturalistic and bureaucratic mentality of the conciliar sect. Sacred iconography, traditionally governed by canons of the Seventh Ecumenical Council (Nicaea II) and the theology of the icon as “theology in color” (theologia in coloribus), requires fasting, prayer, and doctrinal fidelity from the iconographer, not a sprint to meet a diplomatic deadline. Malham’s boast — “I’m single so who cares if I don’t sleep and don’t eat for a week” — reduces the ascetic discipline of the iconographer to a secular work ethic, stripping the labor of its liturgical and soteriological dimension. The icon becomes a commodity, a “special gift” procured by an attorney for a VIP, not a window into heaven crafted in obedience to the Church’s lex orandi, lex credendi.
The Augustinian Pretext: Instrumentalizing Tradition for Legitimacy
The article emphasizes the “Augustinian roots” of the antipope and the devotion to Our Lady of Good Counsel “entrusted to the Augustinians” at Genazzano. This is a calculated deployment of traditional nomenclature to legitimize a false hierarchy. The Augustinian Order in the conciliar sect is not the Order of St. Augustine; it is a religious congregation incorporated into the novus ordo structure, its members formed in the seminaries of the revolution, celebrating the invalid Novus Ordo Missae, and bound by obedience to the usurpers in Rome. The pilgrimage of the antipope to Genazzano after his “election” was a media stunt, a photo-op designed to signal continuity with a Tradition that the conciliar sect has systematically dismantled since 1958. As Pius XI teaches in Quas Primas: “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 antipope’s “prayer” before the image at Genazzano is the prayer of a private individual usurping the Petrine office, not the prayer of the Vicar of Christ.
The “Private Audience”: Simulation of Jurisdiction and the Theft of Peter’s Honor
The description of the “private audience in his library” where the antipope “held the icon presented to him” is a theatrical simulation of papal jurisdiction. Canon 188.4 of the 1917 Code — binding until a legitimate Pope abrogates it — declares that an office becomes vacant ipso facto by “public defection from the Catholic faith.” The line of claimants from John XXIII onward has publicly defected by promulgating the heresies of Dignitatis Humanae (religious liberty), Nostra Aetate (false ecumenism), Lumen Gentium (collegiality subverting primacy), and the Novus Ordo Missae (protestantized liturgy). As Bellarmine teaches (De Romano Pontifice, lib. 2, cap. 30): “A manifest heretic cannot be Pope… he cannot be the head of something of which he is not a member.” The “audience” is therefore a meeting between a layman and a public heretic occupying the Vatican palaces, not a Petrine act. The icon placed on the bedroom shelf of Robert Prevost is no more honored by heaven than an icon in the room of any other apostate bishop.
The Correspondence: False Communion and the Language of the Neo-Church
Malham’s letter to the antipope — “We’re all together. It’s the communion of saints” — and the reply requesting mutual prayers, manifest the ecclesiology of the conciliar sect: a horizontal “communion” of vocational peers replacing the hierarchical Church founded by Christ. The true communio sanctorum is the unity of the faithful with the true hierarchy under the true Roman Pontiff, in the unity of faith, sacraments, and governance. Malham’s “bonding” with the antipope over shared “difficulty” of vocation is a sentimental substitution for the supernatural bond of jurisdiction and grace. The antipope’s request for prayers — “asked the iconographer to keep him in his prayers as well” — places the usurper on the level of a fellow pilgrim, obscuring the fact that he bears the guilt of usurping the Chair of Peter, confirming the faithful in heresy, and leading souls to hell. As St. Pius X condemned in Lamentabili Sane Exitu (prop. 55): “The organic structure of the Church is subject to change… like the human community, is subject to continuous evolution.” This evolutionist ecclesiology is precisely what Malham’s words instantiate.
EWTN and CNA: Propaganda Organs of the Abomination
The source of this report — EWTN News / Catholic News Agency — functions as the official propaganda apparatus of the conciliar sect. Its “staff reporter” Francesca Pollio Fenton frames the event as a heartwarming human-interest story, employing the language of the revolution: “Holy Father,” “vocation,” “sacred connection,” “journey with it in his prayer life.” Not a word about the Cum ex Apostolatus Officio of Paul IV, not a word about the ipso facto loss of office for heresy, not a word about the invalidity of the new rites of ordination and consecration that produce the “clergy” of the neo-church. The portal’s related articles — “Pope Leo on AI art,” “Parish pays tribute to Annunciation shooting” — confirm its total immersion in the naturalistic, humanitarian, and technological agenda of the Church of the New Advent. It is the synagogue of Satan (Apoc. 2:9) masquerading as Catholic media.
Our Lady of Good Counsel: A Title Profaned by False Shepherds
The devotion to Our Lady of Good Counsel at Genazzano is ancient and legitimate. But the Mother of Good Counsel does not counsel rebellion against Her Son’s Vicar, nor does She shelter usurpers. The image in the basilica, entrusted to the true Augustinians of the past, now receives the homage of a false pope and his false religious. This is the abomination of desolation standing in the holy place (Matt. 24:15). The true faithful, adhering to the integral Catholic faith of the pre-1958 Magisterium, must recognize that no grace flows through the sacraments or sacramentals administered by the ministers of the conciliar sect, for they lack missio canonica and intentio faciendi quod facit Ecclesia. The icon in the antipope’s bedroom is a religious object in the hands of an apostate, stripped of its sacramental efficacy by the very fact of its possession by one who has publicly defected from the faith (Canon 188.4).
Conclusion: The Icon as Symbol of the Great Apostasy
This episode — a rushed icon, an attorney-courier, a bedroom shelf, a mutual prayer pact between artist and antipope — is a perfect microcosm of the post-conciliar catastrophe. Sacred art reduced to gift-giving. The Petrine office reduced to a “vocation” shared with laymen. The Mother of God reduced to a decorative element in an apostate’s private quarters. The media of the sect celebrating it all as “good news.” Non est hic Deus (Judges 6:13) — God is not in this. The true Church, the Ecclesia militans, endures in the catacombs of the faithful who reject the conciliar sect, its antipopes, its false sacraments, and its simulated piety. Sede vacante — the See is vacant, and the icons of the Mother of Good Counsel await a true Pope to venerate them.
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Chicago artist creates Marian icon for Pope Leo XIV, who will keep the image in his bedroom (ewtnnews.com)
Date: 22.10.2026