The National Catholic Register (NCR) portal, operating as the English-language arm of the EWTN media conglomerate, reports on October 27, 2026, that the United States Conference of “Catholic” Bishops (USCCB) will bestow its “Encuentros Award” upon José Gomez, the “archbishop” of Los Angeles, during its November plenary assembly in Baltimore. The accolade, conferred by the USCCB’s Subcommittee on Hispanic/Latino Affairs, praises Gomez for decades of “advocacy” and for being a “tireless champion” of “Hispanic Catholics,” highlighting the “gifts that they bring to the Church in the United States.” The article recounts Gomez’s trajectory: birth in Monterrey, Mexico; “ordination” in 1978 as a “priest” of Opus Dei; doctorate from the University of Navarra; appointments by the antipopes John Paul II and Benedict XVI; and his tenure as president of the USCCB (2019–2022), noted as the first “Hispanic” and first immigrant to head the U.S. “episcopate.” This celebration of ethnic demographic management as the pinnacle of ecclesiastical achievement exposes the conciliar sect’s total substitution of the social reign of Christ the King for a baptized sociology of identity politics.
The USCCB: A Conciliar Fiction Usurping the Church’s Divine Constitution
The very entity bestowing this award—the USCCB—is a canonical monstrosity unknown to the Church before the Vatican II revolution. Quas Primas teaches that the Church, founded by Christ as a perfect society (societas perfecta), possesses by divine right full freedom and independence from secular authority and a hierarchical constitution established by Christ Himself, not by national episcopal conferences. Pope Pius IX, in the Syllabus of Errors, condemns the proposition that “National churches, withdrawn from the authority of the Roman pontiff and altogether separated, can be established” (Error 37) and that “The civil power may prevent the prelates of the Church and the faithful from communicating freely and mutually with the Roman pontiff” (Error 49). The USCCB, a national conference claiming legislative and pastoral authority over the “Church in the United States,” functions as a de facto national church, inserting a collegial intermediary between the “pope” and the local “bishops” that contradicts the monarchical constitution of the Church (Lumen Gentium notwithstanding, which itself is a modernist document). The “Subcommittee on Hispanic/Latino Affairs” is a bureaucratic artifact of this usurped structure, reducing the una, sancta, catholica et apostolica Ecclesia to a federation of ethnic interest groups.
José Gomez: A Creature of the New Ordinal and the Antipopes
The article presents Gomez’s curriculum vitae as a series of legitimate elevations: “ordained a priest of the Prelature of Opus Dei on Aug. 15, 1978,” appointed “auxiliary bishop of Denver by Pope John Paul II,” “archbishop of San Antonio” by the same, “coadjutor archbishop of Los Angeles by Pope Benedict XVI.” From the perspective of integral Catholic faith, every step is null and void.
- Invalid Orders: The “ordination” of 1978 utilized the Pontificale Romanum of Paul VI (1968), which excised the essential form for the priesthood (“Receive the power to offer sacrifice…”) and the episcopate, rendering it invalid per the constant teaching of the Church on sacramental form (Council of Trent, Sess. VII, Can. 11). Gomez has never received the character indelebilis of the priesthood or episcopate.
- Appointments by Antipopes: John Paul II (Wojtyła) and Benedict XVI (Ratzinger) were manifest heretics who, by their public adherence to the false religions (Assisi 1986, 2002), religious liberty (Dignitatis Humanae), and collegiality, lost the papacy ipso facto without need of declaration (St. Robert Bellarmine, De Romano Pontifice, lib. 2, cap. 30; Canon 188.4, 1917 Code). As the Defense of Sedevacantism file demonstrates, “A manifest heretic cannot be Pope… a non-Christian in no way can be Pope… because he cannot be the head of something of which he is not a member” (Bellarmine). Therefore, Gomez holds no jurisdiction, no office, and no mission. He is a layman at the head of a lay-run corporation.
- Opus Dei: The article touts his Opus Dei affiliation as a credential. Opus Dei, founded in 1928 but fully integrated into the conciliar apparatus, is a personal prelature—a novelty of the 1983 Code—designed to clericalize the laity and laicize the clergy, blurring the divina constitutio of the hierarchy (Lumen Gentium 28). Its “sanctification of work” doctrine often degenerates into a naturalistic Pelagianism, ignoring the primacy of grace and the necessitas mediis of the sacraments.
The “Encuentros Award”: Canonizing the Heresy of Ethnic Ecclesiology
The award recognizes “significant contributions to Hispanic/Latino ministry.” This phraseology reveals the theological bankruptcy of the conciliar sect. Quas Primas declares: “His reign encompasses not only 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” (citing Leo XIII, Annum Sacrum). The Church knows no “Hispanic ministry,” no “Black ministry,” no “Youth ministry” as distinct ecclesial categories. She knows only the cura animarum for the salvation of souls, irrespective of race, language, or nationality. Galatians 3:28: “There is neither Jew nor Greek… for you are all one in Christ Jesus.”
The “Encuentros” process (Encuentro I, II, III, etc.) is a pastoral program born of the hermeneutic of rupture, treating the faithful as demographic segments to be “engaged,” “empowered,” and “celebrated” rather than souls to be converted, baptized, confessed, and sanctified. Bishop Cantú’s praise—that Gomez “highlighted the gifts that they bring”—is pure anthropocentrism. The only “gift” the Church demands from any nation or culture is subjection to Christ the King (Quas Primas: “Let rulers of states therefore not refuse public veneration and obedience to the reigning Christ… if they wish to maintain their authority inviolate”). To fragment the Church’s mission along ethnic lines is to deny her catholicity (universality) and to capitulate to the Masonic ideal of a “parliament of religions” condemned by Pius IX (Syllabus, Error 18: “Protestantism is nothing more than another form of the same true Christian religion”—here applied to cultures).
Linguistic Deconstruction: The Vocabulary of the “Church of the New Advent”
The article’s language is a litany of modernist shibboleths:
- “Advocated for the Hispanic community” — Political lobbying language. The Church does not “advocate”; she teaches, governs, sanctifies (munus docendi, regendi, sanctificandi).
- “Tireless champion” — Secular hagiography. The true champion is Christus Vincit, Christus Regnat, Christus Imperat.
- “Gifts that they bring” — The theology of the people of God (LG 12) replacing the theology of the Mystical Body. It implies the Church is enriched by cultures rather than cultures being baptized and purified by the Church.
- “First Hispanic and first immigrant to assume leadership” — Identity politics elevated to ecclesiastical merit. St. Pius X, Lamentabili Sane Exitu, condemns the modernist error: “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” (Prop. 59). The conciliar sect applies this to demographics: a different “church” for every ethnicity.
- “Polish saint” — Referring to John Paul II. An antipope “canonized” by an antipope (Francis/Bergoglio). The Defense of Sedevacantism file cites Bellarmine: “A heretic is not a member, therefore he cannot be the head of the Church.” Wojtyła’s public heresies (kissing the Quran, Assisi, denial of extra ecclesiam nulla salus in Redemptoris Missio 10) place him outside the Church.
The Symptomatic Level: The “Abomination of Desolation” in Los Angeles
Gomez presides over the largest “diocese” in the conciliar sect, a territory where the Traditional Latin Mass—the Mass of the Ages, the Unbloody Sacrifice of Calvary—is ruthlessly suppressed under Traditionis Custodes (Francis) and local norms, while “Masses” in Spanish, Tagalog, Vietnamese, and English proliferate as community gatherings. The article mentions his “Mass at the Basilica of Our Lady of Guadalupe in Mexico City” (2018). This shrine is the epicenter of the Guadalupanism that often substitutes Marian devotion for the worship of the Triune God, and the “Miracle of the Sun” at Fatima (cited in the False Fatima Apparitions file as a “mass optical manipulation… and mass panic and autosuggestion” orchestrated by Masonic forces) finds its parallel in the emotional manipulation of millions at Tepeyac. The “Encuentros Award” is the conciliar sect’s seal of approval on this pastoral strategy: manage the demographics, ignore the dogma, suppress the Tradition.
EWTN/NCR: The Propaganda Arm of the Neo-Church
The source, EWTN News / National Catholic Register, is the mouthpiece of the “conservative” wing of the conciliar sect. It legitimizes the usurpers by calling them “Pope,” “Bishop,” “Archbishop” without qualification. It celebrates the “first Hispanic president of the USCCB” as a milestone of progress, mirroring the secular media’s celebration of “firsts.” This is the heresy of Americanism condemned by Leo XIII (Testem Benevolentiae, 1899): the adaptation of the Church to the spirit of democracy, pluralism, and ethnic identity politics. The article’s final line—“This story was first published by EWTN News Español… translated and adapted by EWTN News English”—reveals the bilingual, bicultural machinery manufacturing consent for the paramasonic structure occupying the Vatican.
Conclusion: No Salvation in the Conciliar Sect
The “Encuentros Award” ceremony in Baltimore will be a gathering of men who have “defected from the Catholic Faith” (Cum ex Apostolatus Officio, Paul IV) and who exercise a “jurisdiction… null, void, and of no effect” (ibid.). They honor a layman-administrator for his success in managing the Hispanic demographic transition of a Protestantized nation. The true Church, the Ecclesia militans, remains where it has always been: in the catacombs of the sedevacantist resistance, celebrating the Tridentine Mass, holding the Syllabus, Quas Primas, Pascendi, and Lamentabili as her battle standards, awaiting the restitutio in integrum. Non praevalebunt.
Source:
Archbishop Gomez to Be Recognized for His Work in US Hispanic Ministry (ncregister.com)
Date: 27.10.2026