The EWTN News portal reports that on November 5, 2026, the usurper antipope Leo XIV (Robert Prevost) addressed a conference at the Pontifical Urban University titled “The Universal Face of the Church in China,” commemorating the centenary of Pope Pius XI’s consecration of six Chinese bishops in 1926. The event, attended by the conciliar sect’s Secretary of State “Cardinal” Pietro Parolin, “Cardinal” Luis Antonio Tagle, “Cardinal” Stephen Chow Sau-yan, and the regime-approved “Bishop” Ignazio Ding Zuyao, served as a platform to praise the so-called “Vatican-China deal.” Parolin admitted the agreement’s “imperfections” while insisting the “path is open.” Most scandalously, the regime’s “Bishop” Joseph Li Shan of Beijing declared the CCP’s “Sinicization” campaign— the forced subordination of religion to the atheist party— an “expression of authentic catholicity,” while Zuyao perverted Our Lord’s words to render unto Caesar what belongs to God. This spectacle is not a celebration of the Faith but the public ratification of the conciliar sect’s apostasy, prostituting the Social Kingship of Christ the King—proclaimed by the very Pius XI they invoke—to the service of the Antichrist’s earthly kingdom.
The Farce of Commemoration: Prostituting Pius XI to the Service of the Antichrist
The cynicism of the conciliar sect knows no bounds. They invoke Pope Pius XI—the Pope of Quas Primas, the Pope who instituted the Feast of Christ the King precisely to combat the “plague… of secularism, so-called laicism” (Quas Primas)—to legitimize a “deal” that hands the governance of souls over to an atheist, totalitarian, Communist regime. Pius XI taught with unshakeable authority: “Let rulers of states therefore not refuse public veneration and obedience to the reigning Christ… For what we wrote at the beginning of Our Pontificate about the diminishing authority of law and respect for power, the same can be applied to the present times: ‘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’” (Quas Primas).
The 1926 consecration in St. Peter’s Basilica was an act of extending the Regnum Christi into the heart of the Middle Kingdom, an assertion of the Church’s libertas against the claims of the State. Today, the antipope Leo XIV stands before the world and praises “unity” with a regime that demands the Church “sinicize”—that is, apostatize. The Syllabus of Pius IX condemns as error the proposition that “The Church ought to be separated from the State, and the State from the Church” (Error 55), and that “The civil government… has a right to an indirect negative power over religious affairs” (Error 41). The “Vatican-China deal” is the practical application of these condemned errors: a secret concordat with the “synagogue of Satan” (Pius IX, Allocution Quibus quantisque), granting the CCP the very exsequatur and control over episcopal appointments that the Syllabus anathematizes.
“Sinicization”: The Apotheosis of Modernist Indifferentism and Idolatry
The linguistic perversion on display is diabolical. “Bishop” Joseph Li Shan declares:
“The ‘Sinicization of Catholicism’ is not a departure from Catholic tradition but an expression of authentic catholicity.”
This is the voice of the Lamentabili sane exitu condemned proposition: “Christian doctrine was initially Jewish, but through gradual development, it became first Pauline, then Johannine, and finally Greek and universal” (Prop. 60), mutated now into “finally Chinese and Communist.” It is the evolution of dogma condemned by St. Pius X: “Truth changes with man, because it develops with him, in him, and through him” (Prop. 58). To call the forced Marxist rewriting of the Gospel “authentic catholicity” is to define the Church not as Una, Sancta, Catholica, Apostolica, but as a nationalistic sect subordinate to the State—the very definition of the Old Catholic and Gallican heresies condemned by Vatican I and Pius IX’s Etsi Multa.
“Bishop” Zuyao compounds the blasphemy by twisting the words of the Incarnate Wisdom:
“Sinicization is… a faithful implementation of Christ’s command ‘Render unto Caesar what is Caesar’s and unto God what is God’s.’”
This is the hermeneutic of the Masonic lodge, not the Catholic Church. Pius XI explicitly rejected this naturalistic reading: “Anyone who would deny Christ, as Man, authority over any temporal matters would be greatly mistaken, for Christ received from the Father unlimited right over all that is created, so that all is subject to His will” (Quas Primas). Caesar has no rights against God. The CCP, which denies God’s existence, persecutes the faithful, and enforces atheism, has zero legitimate authority over the Church of Christ. To “render” the Church’s hierarchy, doctrine, or liturgy to the CCP is to render to Caesar what belongs to God alone—it is the sin of idolatry, the worship of the Beast.
The “Vatican-China Deal”: A Concordat with the Powers of Darkness
“Cardinal” Parolin’s admission—“All agreements are imperfect, including the one on China… However, the path is open. So we move forward trying to perfect what is imperfect”—reveals the purely pragmatic, Masonic logic of the conciliar sect. There is no supernatural faith here, only geopolitical calculation. The 2018 agreement, kept secret from the faithful, violates the divine constitution of the Church. Pope Pius IX, quoting the Apostolic Letter Ad Apostolicae, taught that the Church is “a true and perfect society, entirely free… endowed with proper and perpetual rights of her own, conferred upon her by her Divine Founder” (Syllabus, Error 19). She cannot cede the right of episcopal appointment—ius devolvendi—to a Godless State without committing treason against Christ the King.
Furthermore, the “bishops” produced by this deal are canonically null and void. Pope Paul IV’s Bull Cum ex Apostolatus Officio declares that any promotion of a heretic—or one appointed by a heretical power—is “null, void, and of no effect”. The 1917 Code (Canon 188 §4) states that an office becomes vacant ipso facto by “public defection from the Catholic faith.” Collaboration with the CCP’s “Sinicization”—which demands the Church replace Christ with Xi Jinping as the ultimate authority—is public defection. The “bishops” Ding Zuyao and Li Shan, even if validly ordained (doubtful under the new rite), possess zero jurisdiction. They are functionaries of the Great Harlot, not successors of the Apostles.
The Usurper’s “Communion”: A Counterfeit Unity
Antipope Leo XIV speaks of “communion with the successor of Peter” and quotes Benedict XVI on “legitimate pastors who have preserved intact apostolic succession.” This is the supreme irony. From the perspective of integral Catholic theology, the line of true Popes ended with Pius XII. John XXIII inaugurated the conciliar apostasy. As St. Robert Bellarmine teaches (De Romano Pontifice), “A Pope who is 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 “Cardinals” Parolin, Tagle, Chow, and the “bishops” Li Shan and Zuyao are members of a sect that has officially embraced religious liberty (Dignitatis Humanae), false ecumenism (Unitatis Redintegratio), and the collegiality that subverts the Papal Primacy—all heresies condemned by the Syllabus, Quas Primas, Pascendi, and Mortalium Animos.
Their “communion” is not the unity of the Faith (unitas fidei), but the unity of the synagoga Satanae. The true Church in China is not the “Patriotic Association” nor the “underground” clergy who have accepted the “deal” or recognized the conciliar hierarchy. The true Church is the Ecclesia militans adhering to the immutable Tradition, the Mass of Trent, and the Social Kingship of Christ, suffering persecution from both the CCP and the conciliar sect that has betrayed them.
Symptomatic Silence: The Erasure of the Supernatural Order
The gravest accusation against this conference is its total silence on the supernatural. There is no mention of the status gratiae, the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass (the Unbloody Sacrifice of Calvary), the necessity of Baptism for salvation (Extra Ecclesiam nulla salus), the reality of Hell, or the Final Judgment. Pius XI taught that the Kingdom of Christ “is primarily spiritual and relates mainly to spiritual matters… men who wish to belong to it prepare themselves through repentance, but cannot enter except through faith and baptism” (Quas Primas). The conference reduces the Church to an NGO negotiating “space” with a totalitarian State. This is the laicism Pius XI condemned: “the divine religion should be replaced by a natural religion, a natural inner impulse… states that thought they could do without God and that their religion was impiety and contempt for God.”
The “Cardinal” Chow’s worry—“We wonder how come the Church… in China for so many years is still seen as a foreign Church”—reveals the naturalistic complex: they desire the world’s approval, not God’s. They have forgotten the words of Christ: “If the world hate you, know ye that it hath hated me before you” (John 15:18). The true Church is a “sign of contradiction” (Luke 2:34), not a “universal face” palatable to Communists.
Conclusion: The Abomination of Desolation Standing in the Holy Place
The centenary of the 1926 consecration has been turned into a sacrilegious farce. The conciliar sect, occupying the Vatican, uses the memory of a true Pope—Pius XI, the Pope of Christ the King—to legitimize the enthronement of the Antichrist in the heart of the Church’s mission in China. The “Vatican-China deal” is not an “imperfect agreement” to be perfected; it is a covenant with death and hell (Isaiah 28:15). The “Sinicization” praised by Li Shan is the spiritual rape of the Chinese faithful.
True Catholics must reject this entire theater. We adhere to the teaching of Pius XI: “If rulers and legitimate superiors will have the conviction that they exercise authority not so much by their own right as by the command and in the place of the Divine King, everyone will notice how religiously and wisely they will use their authority.” The CCP exercises authority in defiance of the Divine King. The conciliar hierarchy collaborates with that defection. Therefore, they have no authority. Non possumus. We await the true Rex Regum who will crush the head of the serpent and restore all things in Christ.
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Pope Leo XIV praises Chinese Catholics for unity 100 years after consecration of their first bishops (ewtnnews.com)
Date: 05.11.2026