The EWTN News portal reports on the centenary of Pope Pius XI’s consecration of six Chinese bishops in 1926, contrasting it with the current “provisional agreement” between the Holy See and Beijing, renewed in 2024 until 2028 under the usurper “Leo XIV” (Robert Prevost). The article cites “Cardinal” Parolin’s defense of the deal granting the “pope” final say, while critics like Nina Shea and Benedict Rogers expose the Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP) de facto control over episcopal appointments, the “Sinicization” of doctrine, and the decimation of the underground faithful. The piece highlights the transfer of Bishop Shen Bin by state authorities without Vatican consent, subsequently “regularized” by “Leo XIV,” and the recent consecration of “Father” Ignatius Ding Zuyao as the 19th state-approved bishop. This reportage, steeped in diplomatic euphemisms, masks the catastrophic reality: the conciliar sect has formally capitulated to an atheist totalitarian regime, delivering the Chinese faithful into schism and apostasy.
The Historical Abyss: From Maximum Illud to the Abomination of Desolation
The article juxtaposes the 1926 consecrations with the current farce, yet fails to grasp the ontological chasm separating the two events. Pope Pius XI, a true Vicar of Christ, acted in the fullness of his supreme apostolic authority (plenitudo potestatis) to erect a native hierarchy sub Petro, explicitly rejecting the French protectorate’s “spiritual colonies” as documented by Fr. Lebbe. His 1919 Apostolic Letter Maximum Illud and 1926 Encyclical Rerum Ecclesiae commanded the formation of an indigenous clergy loyal to Rome, not to the nation-state. As Pius XI thundered in Quas Primas (1925): “The state must leave the same freedom to the members of Orders and Congregations… who contribute most to the expansion and establishment of Christ’s Kingdom… The annual celebration of this solemnity will also remind states that not only private individuals, but also rulers and governments have the duty to publicly honor Christ and obey Him.” The 1926 bishops were consecrated in St. Peter’s, by the Pope, for the Kingdom of Christ.
Today, the “bishops” are “elected” by “official assemblies” of the Chinese Catholic Patriotic Association (CCPA) — a Masonic-Communist front organ — and merely “approved” by the antipope. This is not communio; it is servitus. The Syllabus of Pius IX condemns as error the proposition that “The civil government, even when in the hands of an infidel sovereign, has a right to an indirect negative power over religious affairs” (Error 41) and that “In the case of conflicting laws enacted by the two powers, the civil law prevails” (Error 42). The Vatican-China deal institutionalizes precisely these condemned errors. The “secret text” of the agreement — hidden from the faithful — is the signature of a conspiracy against the Divine Constitution of the Church.
The Theological Impossibility: A Heretic Cannot Govern the Church
The article treats “Leo XIV” (Prevost) as a legitimate authority capable of “approving” bishops. From the perspective of integral Catholic faith, this is the primary delusion. As St. Robert Bellarmine teaches (De Romano Pontifice, lib. 2, cap. 30), “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.” The line of usurpers from John XXIII onward has publicly professed the heresies of Vatican II: religious liberty (Dignitatis Humanae), false ecumenism (Unitatis Redintegratio), collegiality subverting papal primacy, and the “hermeneutic of continuity” masking rupture. “Leo XIV,” by endorsing the China deal, ratifies the subjection of the Church to the CCP, embodying the error condemned by Pius IX: “The Roman Pontiff can, and ought to, reconcile himself, and come to terms with progress, liberalism and modern civilization” (Syllabus, Error 80).
Furthermore, Canon 188 §4 of the 1917 Code (binding divine law) declares an office vacant ipso facto upon public defection from the faith. The “consecrations” performed under the new rite (post-1968) by “bishops” of doubtful orders and manifest heretical intention lack the sacramental form and intention required for validity (ex opere operato requires intentio faciendi quod facit Ecclesia). The “bishops” thus produced are not successors of the Apostles but functionaries of the “paramasonic structure” occupying the Vatican. The article’s mention of “canonical irregularity” regarding Shen Bin’s transfer is a cruel joke; the entire structure is canonically null and theologically non-existent.
The Linguistic Camouflage: “Dialogue,” “Healing,” “Pastoral” — The Vocabulary of Betrayal
The article’s language — and that of its quoted sources — reeks of the bureaucratic newspeak of the neo-church. “Cardinal” Parolin speaks of “progressive healing of the wounds inflicted on ecclesial communion” and “small achievements.” Fr. Paul Han praises a “workable framework” avoiding “divisions.” This is the rhetoric of politique, not theology. It echoes the Modernist error condemned by St. Pius X in Lamentabili Sane Exitu: “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 “deal” is a pragmatic accommodation to the world, a modus vivendi with the enemies of God.
Note the semantic inversion: the “underground” Church — the true Church in China, faithful to Tradition, suffering persecution — is pressured to “come above ground” into the CCPA schism. The article notes Yang’s observation: “The secret agreement since 2018 has pressed underground Catholics to go above ground, so that no new underground bishops have been consecrated.” This is the extirpatio of the remnant. The “Sinicization” policy, admitted by Shea, demands “Catholic teaching and evangelization must conform to Chinese Communist Party doctrine.” This is the abomination of desolation standing in the holy place (Matt 24:15): the substitution of the Law of God for the law of the Antichrist-state.
The Symptomatic Level: The Fruit of the Conciliar Revolution
This capitulation is not an accident; it is the necessary fruit of Vatican II’s Gaudium et Spes and Dignitatis Humanae. By proclaiming the “autonomy of the temporal order” and the “right to religious freedom” (condemned by Pius IX, Syllabus Error 15, 77), the conciliar sect stripped the Church of her potestas indirecta in temporalia and her duty to demand the public confession of Christ the King by states. Quas Primas declared: “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 entire human society had to be shaken.” The China deal is the logical terminus: the “Church” begs a totalitarian state for crumbs of “visibility,” surrendering the libertas Ecclesiae bought with the blood of martyrs.
The article mentions “Cardinal” Stephen Chow of Hong Kong welcoming “steadily increasing number of episcopal ordinations, all approved by the Holy Father.” This is the coup de grâce: the Hong Kong diocese, once a bastion of resistance, now celebrates the production of state bishops. The “two mainland bishops” attending a “Vatican meeting convened by Leo XIV” are Potemkin villagers paraded to legitimize the farce.
The Silence of the Damned: No Supernatural Horizon
Nowhere in the article — nor in the statements of the conciliar hierarchy — is there mention of the salus animarum, the Social Reign of Christ the King, the Four Last Things, or the necessity of the Catholic Faith for salvation (Extra Ecclesiam nulla salus). The “critics” (Shea, Rogers) appeal to “human rights,” “release of prisoners,” “criteria for renewal” — purely naturalistic, humanitarian metrics. They do not demand the conversion of China to the Catholic Faith, the consecration of the nation to the Sacred Heart (as Pius XI commanded in Quas Primas and Miserentissimus Redemptor), or the condemnation of Communism as intrinsically perverse (Pius XI, Divini Redemptoris). This silence is the loudest condemnation: the conciliar sect has ceased to be a supernatural society; it is an NGO managing a controlled decline.
Conclusion: The True Church Endures in the Catacombs
The centenary of 1926 does not mark a continuity but a rupture. The true Catholic Church in China persists in the catacombs — the “underground” faithful who reject the CCPA, the “deal,” and the antipope. They hold fast to the teaching of Pius XII in Ad Apostolorum Principis (1958): “No one can be a bishop who is not united with the Roman Pontiff… The consecration of a bishop without papal mandate is a grave crime.” The “bishops” of the deal are intruders, thieves entering not by the door (John 10:1). The faithful must “have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, but rather reprove them” (Eph 5:11). The Kingship of Christ is not negotiated; it is proclaimed. Regnavit a ligno Deus — God has reigned from the wood of the Cross, not from the signing table of a Masonic concordat.
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A century after Pius XI ordained 6 Chinese bishops, who chooses China's bishops? (ewtnnews.com)
Date: 28.10.2026