The EWTN News portal, operating under the National Catholic Register banner, 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 for four years until October 2028 under the reigning antipope Leo XIV (Robert Prevost). The article cites “Cardinal” Pietro Parolin defending the deal’s “small achievements,” “Cardinal” Stephen Chow expressing happiness at increasing episcopal ordinations, and various academics and activists debating the degree of “freedom” afforded the Church under the Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP) “Sinicization” policy. It notes the unilateral transfer of Bishop Joseph Shen Bin by Beijing in 2023, subsequently “rectified” by “Francis,” and the recent “election” of candidates by state-controlled assemblies approved by Leo XIV. The thesis is inescapable: the conciliar sect has not merely capitulated to a godless regime but has canonized its own subservience, transforming the Petrine mandate into a department of the United Front Work Department.
The Historical Inversion: From Maximum Illud to Minimum Fidelitas
The article frames the 1926 consecrations as a response to “French interference” and a desire for “indigenization,” citing Fr. Lebbe’s critique of “spiritual colonies.” This is a half-truth weaponized to justify the current betrayal. Pope Pius XI, in Rerum Ecclesiae (1926), demanded a native clergy precisely to strengthen the Church’s independence from secular powers, not to deliver it into the hands of a Marxist-Leninist dictatorship. The article quotes Anthony Clark stating the 1926 bishops were consecrated “not to separate those bishops from the Holy See.” Today, the “bishops” are chosen by the schismatic Chinese Catholic Patriotic Association (CCPA) — an entity explicitly condemned by Pius XII in Ad Apostolorum Principis (1958) as “a society… which has broken away from the Chair of Peter” — and merely rubber-stamped by the Vatican. This is not indigenization; it is nationalization, the very error Pius XII anathematized: “a national Church… separated from the Chair of Peter.”
Linguistic Engineering: “Nominate” vs. “Choose,” “Dialogue” vs. Capitulation
The missionary Fr. Gianni Criveller inadvertently exposes the fraud: “The pope can nominate the bishops, but he can hardly choose them.” In the theology of the Church, the Roman Pontiff provides (providere) for the episcopate; he does not merely “nominate” candidates pre-selected by the Synagogue of Satan (Apoc. 2:9). The article’s vocabulary — “provisional agreement,” “workable framework,” “progressive healing,” “Sinicization” — is the Newspeak of the novus ordo religion. “Sinicization” means the subordination of divine revelation to Marxist ideology. The “underground” faithful, the true confessors, are pressured “to go above ground,” i.e., to register with the CCPA, rendering the catacombs empty and the martyrdom of decades meaningless. This is the hermeneutic of rupture codified as diplomacy.
Theological Bankruptcy: Quas Primas vs. The Kingship of Caesar
Pius XI’s encyclical Quas Primas (1925), issued the year before the 1926 consecrations, declares unequivocally: “His reign encompasses also all non-Christians, so that most truly the entire human race is subject to the authority of Jesus Christ.” The encyclical condemns “the secularism of our times, so-called laicism… the Church’s authority to teach men, to issue laws, to govern nations… was denied.” The Vatican-China deal is the institutionalization of that denial. By recognizing the CCP’s right to veto or pre-select bishops, the conciliar sect affirms Error 39 of the Syllabus: “The State, as being the origin and source of all rights, is endowed with a certain right not circumscribed by any limits.” It affirms Error 55: “The Church ought to be separated from the State, and the State from the Church.” It affirms Error 80: “The Roman Pontiff can, and ought to, reconcile himself, and come to terms with progress, liberalism and modern civilization.”
The “deal” is a practical denial of the Social Kingship of Christ. As Pius XI teaches: “When God and Jesus Christ… were removed from laws and states… the foundations of that authority were destroyed.” The conciliar sect has not only removed Christ from the Chinese state; it has signed a concordat with His executioners.
The Invalidity of the “Bishops” and the Vacancy of the See
The article mentions 19 bishops “selected under the deal.” Canonically and theologically, these men are intruders (intrusi). Pius XII, in Ad Apostolorum Principis, declared consecrations without papal mandate “null and void” and the participants excommunicated ipso facto. The current “mandate” comes from an antipope. The Defense of Sedevacantism file establishes, citing St. Robert Bellarmine and Cum ex Apostolatus Officio, that a manifest heretic loses the papacy ipso facto. “Francis” (Bergoglio) and “Leo XIV” (Prevost) are manifest heretics (religious liberty, false ecumenism, communion with heretics, idolatrous Pachamama rites, etc.). Therefore, they possess zero jurisdiction. Their “approval” is null, void, and of no effect. The “bishops” ordained under this regime are laymen in episcopal vestments, wolves in sheep’s clothing, appointed by the Great Whore (Apoc. 17) to administer the abomination of desolation in the land of the martyrs.
The Silence on the Martyrs: The Gravest Accusation
The article is silent on the blood of the martyrs. It speaks of “healing wounds” and “reconciliation” but omits the bishops and priests who died in laogai rather than join the CCPA. It omits the faithful who worship in basements today, refusing the “official” sacraments administered by state functionaries. This silence is the argumentum ex silentio of the damned. The true Church, as Pius XI says, “gives birth to and raises up ever new ranks of holy men and women.” The conciliar sect produces only diplomats and collaborators. Nina Shea’s warning — “Pope Leo should support the Catholic underground” — is a plea to a usurper who is the underground’s primary persecutor via his “agreement.”
Symptomatic Level: The Fruit of Vatican II’s Dignitatis Humanae and Ostpolitik
This agreement is the inevitable fruit of the heresy of religious liberty (Vatican II, Dignitatis Humanae), condemned by Gregory XVI (Mirari Vos), Pius IX (Quanta Cura, Syllabus), Leo XIII (Libertas), and Pius XI (Quas Primas). If the State has no duty to profess the true Faith, then the Church has no right to demand freedom from the State; she becomes a supplicant. The “Ostpolitik” of the 1960s (Casaroli) sought “dialogue” with Communist regimes; the 2018 deal is its consummation. The Lamentabili Sane Exitu condemnation of Modernism (Prop. 54, 55, 58, 59) foresaw this: “The organic structure of the Church is subject to change… Dogmas… are merely modes of explanation and stages in the evolution of Christian consciousness.” The “evolution” has reached its terminus: the Church is the State’s religious affairs bureau.
Conclusion: Non Praevalebunt
The article ends with a poignant quote from Pius XI to the 1926 bishops: “Please come to Rome more often, as traveling is getting easier.” Fr. Criveller notes: “After 100 years, Chinese bishops cannot freely travel to Rome.” They cannot travel to Rome because Rome is occupied. The Chair of Peter is vacant. The structures in the Vatican are the paramasonic structure foretold by La Salette (true prophecy) and enacted by the Masonic “Fatima” operation (false apparition analyzed in the provided file). The “Sino-Vatican Agreement” is not a pastoral strategy; it is a sacrilegious pact with the Prince of this World. The true Chinese Church remains in the catacombs, united to the true Pope (whoever he may be, hidden in the munus of Peter), awaiting the Rex Regum who will “rule from sea to sea” (Ps. 71:8) and break the rods of iron (Ps. 2:9). Viva Cristo Rey!
Source:
A Century After Pius XI Ordained 6 Chinese Bishops, Who Chooses China's Bishops? (ncregister.com)
Date: 28.10.2026