The EWTN News portal reports on the sixth episcopal ordination under the usurper “Pope” Leo XIV (Robert Prevost) within the framework of the secret Vatican-Beijing agreement, detailing the appointment of Paolo Liu Honggang to the Diocese of Datong and the suppression of dioceses erected by Pius XII. This report exposes the complete subservience of the conciliar sect to the atheistic Chinese Communist Party, masquerading as pastoral governance. The orchestrated installation of state-vetted functionaries as “bishops” by a manifest heretic occupying the Vatican constitutes not pastoral care but the final institutionalization of the abomination of desolation in China.
The Usurpation of Jurisdiction: Nullity of the Antipope’s Acts
The cited article treats the actions of Robert Prevost (“Leo XIV”) as if they possessed canonical force, noting he “appointed Liu bishop of Datong on Aug. 10 after approving his candidacy under the mechanisms established by the Vatican’s agreement with Beijing.” From the perspective of integral Catholic faith, this is a radical impossibility. Since the death of Pius XII in 1958, the See of Peter has been vacant. The line of claimants—John XXIII, Paul VI, John Paul I, John Paul II, Benedict XVI, Francis, and now Leo XIV—are manifest heretics who, by their public adhesion to the Modernist synthesis condemned by St. Pius X in *Pascendi Dominici Gregis* and *Lamentabili Sane Exitu*, have ipso facto severed themselves from the Mystical Body of Christ.
As St. Robert Bellarmine teaches in *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 *Defense of Sedevacantism* file confirms this principle: “By notorious and publicly manifested heresy, the Roman Pontiff… is deprived *ipso facto* of his personal jurisdiction even before any declaratory sentence by the Church.” Furthermore, Pope Paul IV’s Bull *Cum ex Apostolatus Officio* dogmatically defines that the promotion of a heretic to the papacy is “null, void, and of no effect” regardless of unanimous cardinal consent. Therefore, Prevost possesses zero jurisdiction. His “appointments,” “suppressions,” and “erections” are juridical nullities, mere theatrical gestures within a paramasonic structure occupying the Vatican.
The Secret Pact with the Dragon: Betrayal of Libertas Ecclesiae
The article reveals the sordid mechanics of the “Provisional Agreement”: “The Holy See, meanwhile, has agreed not to make episcopal appointments without prior consultation with the Chinese government.” This is the essence of the error condemned by Pius IX in the *Syllabus* (Props. 19, 20, 41, 42, 44, 55): “The Church is not a true and perfect society, entirely free… but it appertains to the civil power to define what are the rights of the Church” (Prop. 19); “The ecclesiastical power ought not to exercise its authority without the permission and assent of the civil government” (Prop. 20); “The Church ought to be separated from the State, and the State from the Church” (Prop. 55).
By signing a secret concordat with a regime that enforces atheism, persecutes the faithful, and controls the “Chinese Catholic Patriotic Association” (a schismatic entity created to replace the Church), the conciliar sect has formally surrendered the *Libertas Ecclesiae*. Pius XI, in *Quas Primas*, thundered: “The Church, established by Christ as a perfect society, demands for itself by a right belonging to it, which it cannot renounce, full freedom and independence from secular authority.” The “agreement” is a pact with the “synagogue of Satan” (Apoc. 2:9), explicitly denounced by Pius IX as the source of the “ferocious war on the Church… the frauds and machinations of these sects… whether they be called masonic or bear another name.” The text’s admission that “The full text of the agreement has never been made public” confirms its nefarious nature: occulta opera tenebrarum (hidden works of darkness).
Dismantling the Work of Pius XII: Suppression of True Dioceses
A detail of staggering gravity appears almost parenthetically in the report: “On July 8, 2025, Leo suppressed the Dioceses of Xuanhua and Xiwanzi, which had been established by Pope Pius XII in 1946, and erected the new Diocese of Zhangjiakou as a suffragan see of Beijing.” Here the revolutionary nature of the neo-church is laid bare. Pius XII was the last true Roman Pontiff. His acts—erecting dioceses, appointing bishops—possessed the guarantee of the Petrine charism. The antipope Leo XIV abolishes the canonical work of a true Pope to replace it with a configuration pleasing to the Communist Party (a single diocese, Zhangjiakou, suffragan to Beijing, aligning ecclesiastical borders with civil administrative divisions).
This is the practical application of the heresy of “Collegiality” and “Episcopal Conferences” invented at Vatican II: the Church becomes a federation of national churches subject to civil boundaries. It fulfills the *Syllabus* condemnation (Prop. 37): “National churches, withdrawn from the authority of the Roman pontiff and altogether separated, can be established.” The suppression of Pius XII’s dioceses is an act of spiritual vandalism, erasing the last canonical landmarks of the true Church in China to build the “Church of the New Advent” on the ruins.
Simulated Sacraments and Invalid Orders: The Farce of “Episcopal Consecrations”
The article enumerates “17 Catholic bishops… ordained in China under the Provisional Agreement.” It describes Liu Honggang’s formation: “National Seminary in Beijing,” “ordained a priest for the Diocese of Datong on Nov. 24, 1996.” These are not Catholic bishops. They are functionaries ordained in the Novus Ordo rite of 1968, a rite stripped of the sacrificial language and *forma* necessary for the validity of Holy Orders (as demonstrated by the defect of intention and form in the Pauline rite). Even if the rite were valid, the consecrators are “bishops” of the conciliar sect, men who profess the Modernist faith, participate in the “ecumenical” betrayal, and recognize the usurpers in Rome. They possess no jurisdiction, no mission, no sacramental power from Christ.
Canon 188.4 of the 1917 Code (cited in the *Defense of Sedevacantism* file) states an office becomes vacant by “public defection from the Catholic faith.” The “bishops” of the Patriotic Association—and now those “recognized” by the Vatican deal—have publicly defected by adhering to a schismatic structure controlled by the State and by recognizing the antipopes. Their “ordinations” are sacrilegious simulations, ludibria sacra (mockeries of the sacred). The faithful in Datong, Fuzhou, Zhangjiakou, Bameng, Chifeng, Shanghai, and Xinxiang are not receiving the Sacrament of Order; they are witnessing a political installation ceremony.
The “Patriotic Association” as the True Hierarchy: Schism Institutionalized
The article notes: “Chinese Catholics subsequently became divided between the state-controlled Chinese Catholic Patriotic Association and an underground Catholic community that remained loyal to Rome.” The “agreement” does not heal this division; it legitimizes the schism. By demanding “civil recognition” for its appointees (e.g., Lin Yuntuan “granted civil recognition,” Wu Jianlin “elected by an assembly of priests and laypeople” during the *sede vacante*), the conciliar sect admits that the true “ordinary” in China is the Communist Party.
The “underground” community—those few who may still retain the True Faith and valid sacraments via pre-1958 lines—are now betrayed into the hands of the “recognized” hierarchy. The article admits Chinese authorities “unilaterally selected two bishops during the *sede vacante*… for a diocese already headed by a bishop recognized by the Holy See.” This chaos—two “bishops” for one see, one appointed by the Party, one “approved” later by the antipope—is the fruit of the loss of the Papacy. Ubi Petrus, ibi Ecclesia; where Peter is not, there is only dispersio and schisma.
Naturalistic Diplomacy Replaces Supernatural Mission
Read the article closely. There is not a single mention of the salvation of souls, the State of Grace, the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass, the Sacraments, the conversion of China to the True Faith, or the Kingship of Christ. The vocabulary is entirely secular: “dialogue,” “mechanisms,” “civil recognition,” “bilateral agreement,” “diplomatic relations,” “pastoral service” (reduced to administrative posts: “pastor of Zhangguantun,” “diocesan administrator”).
This is the heresy of “Integral Humanism” and “Secularism” condemned by Pius XI in *Quas Primas*: “This plague is the secularism of our times, so-called laicism… It began with the denial of Christ the Lord’s reign over all nations.” The conciliar sect has reduced the Episcopate to a diplomatic corps. The “bishop” Liu is presented as a bureaucrat: “bachelor’s degree in theology,” “served as diocesan administrator since 2005.” His “ordination” is a civil investiture dressed in liturgical vestments. The “Miracle of the Sun” at Fatima (exposed in the *False Fatima Apparitions* file as a “mass optical manipulation… Masonic psychological operation”) finds its parallel here: a mass psychological operation convincing the world that the Church lives in the structures of the Antichrist.
EWTN: The Propaganda Arm of the Neo-Church
The source, EWTN News (ACI Prensa), functions as the official propaganda organ of the conciliar sect. Its “journalist,” Victoria Cardiel, “specialized in social and religious news,” reports the usurper’s acts with the neutrality of a state news agency. By translating and adapting the Spanish service, EWTN English normalizes the apostasy for the English-speaking world. It presents the suppression of Pius XII’s dioceses as an administrative update (“Leo suppressed… and erected”). It presents the Communist veto (“prior consultation with the Chinese government”) as a “mechanism.” It hides the theological nullity of the entire enterprise behind a veneer of “pastoral care.”
This is the “False Ecumenism” and “Religious Liberty” condemned by the pre-conciliar Magisterium, now bearing its rotten fruit: a “Church” that negotiates with Caesar for the right to exist, rendering unto Caesar the things that are God’s (the governance of souls, the erection of dioceses, the appointment of shepherds). Non possumus. We cannot recognize, we cannot accept, we cannot remain silent. The true Church of Christ endures in catacumbis, in the hands of bishops and priests who retain the True Faith, the True Mass, and the True Jurisdiction derived from the last true Pope, Pius XII, awaiting the restoration of all things in Christ. Regnavit a ligno Deus (God has reigned from the wood of the Cross)—not from the conference tables of Beijing or the apartments of the Domus Sanctae Marthae.
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Sixth Chinese bishop ordained under Pope Leo XIV (ewtnnews.com)
Date: 31.08.2026