EWTN News portal reports on the appointment of Robert Boxie III as auxiliary “bishop” of the Archdiocese of Washington by the usurper antipope Leo XIV (Robert Prevost), ordained by the modernist “Cardinal” Robert McElroy. The article frames Boxie’s trajectory from corporate law to the Novus Ordo priesthood as a vocational success story, highlighting his racial identity, youth outreach, and alleged “kindredness” with the antipope based on shared Creole ancestry. This puff piece exemplifies the conciliar sect’s reduction of the episcopate to a managerial position for social engineering and identity politics, utterly divorced from the supernatural mission of the Church.
The Manufacture of a Modernist “Bishop”: Invalid Rites and Usurped Authority
The article states that “Pope Leo XIV appointed Boxie an auxiliary bishop of Washington. Cardinal Robert McElroy ordained him into the order of bishops at the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception on July 8.” This single sentence encapsulates the total bankruptcy of the post-conciliar hierarchy. First, Robert Prevost (“Leo XIV”) is a manifest heretic who, by the very fact of his public adhesion to the errors of Vatican II — religious liberty, false ecumenism, collegiality, the new Mass — has ipso facto lost any claim to the papacy, as taught by St. Robert Bellarmine: “A manifest heretic cannot be Pope… he cannot be the head of something of which he is not a member” (De Romano Pontifice, II, 30). Second, McElroy is a notorious modernist, a proponent of the “LGBT” agenda and communion for adulterers, ordained and consecrated in the novus ordo rite of 1968, which Archbishop Lefebvre himself declared “doubtfully valid” due to its defective form and intention. An ordination performed by a heretic using a Protestantized rite confers no sacramental character. Boxie is not a bishop; he is a layman in vestments, a functionary of a paramasonic structure occupying the Vatican.
Linguistic Engineering: The Vocabulary of the “Church of the New Advent”
The rhetoric deployed is revealing. Boxie speaks of “minister and evangelize young Catholics and the U.S. Black Catholic community,” “discernment,” “vocation retreat,” “chaplain at Howard University,” “smell of the sheep,” “in the trenches with folk.” Not once does he mention the Missio Divina: the salvation of souls through the Sacrificium Laudis, the administration of the true sacraments, the preaching of Extra Ecclesiam Nulla Salus, the condemnation of error, the defense of the Social Reign of Christ the King. The language is purely sociological, therapeutic, and horizontal. “Evangelize” has been emptied of its doctrinal content — “Go ye into the whole world, and preach the gospel to every creature. He that believeth and is baptized shall be saved; but he that believeth not shall be condemned” (Mk 16:15-16) — and replaced with “accompaniment” and “dialogue.” This is the hermeneutic of rupture in action: the lex orandi of the Novus Ordo has produced a lex credendi of functional Protestantism.
Theological Bankruptcy: Identity Politics Supersedes the Kingship of Christ
The article’s theological core is the exaltation of racial identity as a quasi-soteriological category. Boxie declares: “There has been a fraught history within the Catholic Church when it comes to Black people… African Americans were relegated as second-class citizens in the Church and in the house of God.” He speaks of “healing that has to take place” and “Black Catholic faith, Black spirituality in general, is one where you can find joy and suffering.” This is Liberation Theology — condemned by the Holy Office under Pius XII and reiterated by the true Magisterium — baptized in Novus Ordo vernacular. The Church knows no “Black spirituality” or “White spirituality”; she knows only the Una Fides, the Unum Baptisma, the Unus Dominus (Eph 4:5). Pius XI in Quas Primas teaches: “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.” The conciliar sect replaces the Social Kingship of Christ with the social justice of man. Boxie’s “ministry” at Howard University — a secular, historically Protestant institution — is not Catholic apostolate but interreligious dialogue disguised as chaplaincy, forbidden by Mortalium Animos (Pius XI) and the Syllabus of Pius IX (Error 16: “Man may, in the observance of any religion whatever, find the way of eternal salvation”).
The Antipope’s “Encyclical” and the Myth of “African Ancestry”
Boxie gushes: “Pope Leo has African ancestry in his blood… I’m also part of that Creole community… I feel a kindredness with the pope… his recent statement in Magnifica Humanitas, his first encyclical, apologizing for the sin of slavery… I’m so grateful for that.” This is a triple fraud. First, “Leo XIV” is a usurper; his “encyclicals” are private opinions of a heretic, devoid of magisterial authority. Second, the “apology for slavery” is a Masonic tactic: the Church has always condemned the abusive slave trade (Gregory XVI, In Supremo Apostolatus, 1839) but never apologized for the institution regulated by natural and divine law (St. Thomas, Summa Theologiae II-II, q. 57, a. 3). Third, “kindredness” based on blood (caro et sanguis) is the religion of the Synagogue of Satan (Jn 8:44), not the Communio Sanctorum founded on gratia et veritas (Jn 1:17). The Syllabus condemns: “The Roman Pontiff can, and ought to, reconcile himself, and come to terms with progress, liberalism and modern civilization” (Error 80). Prevost’s “Magnifica Humanitas” is the manifesto of the Civitas Diaboli.
Symptomatic of the Great Apostasy: The “Bishop” as Corporate Manager
Boxie’s resume — Vanderbilt (chemical engineering, music), Harvard Law, clerkship, D.C. law firm — is presented as praeparatio evangelica. “I had a great clerkship… making some good money, living in a great part of town, really living the D.C. life… I felt as though I’d worked so hard to achieve this and wanted to see that to its natural end.” This is the spiritus mundi canonized. The true vocation is a call to crucem, not cursum honorum. St. Paul: “But the things that were gain to me, those I counted loss for Christ… I count all things to be but loss for the excellent knowledge of Jesus Christ my Lord” (Phil 3:7-8). Boxie’s “discernment” is a bourgeois career pivot. His “flexibility to be out with the people” — “working on the Hill, or in law firms, or lobbying groups” — reveals the conciliar sect’s true god: Mammon and Potestas. The “youngest U.S. bishop” metric is pure worldly vanity; the true Church measures bishops by sanctitas and doctrina, not age or demographics.
EWTN: The Propaganda Arm of the Neo-Church
The source, EWTN News, is the media mouthpiece of the conciliar sect, founded by the modernist “Mother” Angelica (a pseudo-mystic of the charismatic movement). Its uncritical hagiography of Boxie, Prevost, and McElroy demonstrates its role in fabricating consensus for the usurpation. The article concludes with a subscription pitch: “I agree to receive communications from EWTN.” Simony and merchandising of the faith. The true Church “freely you have received, freely give” (Mt 10:8).
Conclusion: Return to the Catacombs of Tradition
This article is a snapshot of the abomination of desolation standing in the holy place (Mt 24:15). A false “bishop,” ordained by a false “cardinal,” appointed by a false “pope,” celebrated by a false media outlet, preaching a false gospel of racial reconciliation and naturalistic activism. No salvation is found here. The faithful must “come out from among them, and be ye separate” (2 Cor 6:17), cleaving to the Traditio Catholica preserved by true bishops and priests maintaining the Missale Romanum of St. Pius V, the Catechism of Trent, and the Syllabus of Pius IX. “For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine; but according to their own desires, they will heap to themselves teachers, having itching ears” (2 Tim 4:3). That time is now. Non praevalebunt (Mt 16:18).
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Bishop Boxie shares faith journey from practicing law to becoming youngest U.S. bishop (ewtnnews.com)
Date: 22.08.2026