The National Catholic Register portal reports on the ordination of Father Paolo Liu Honggang as bishop of Datong on August 31, 2026, the sixth episcopal consecration executed under the auspices of the usurper antipope Leo XIV (Robert Prevost) within the framework of the secret Vatican-Beijing agreement. The article details the suppression of dioceses erected by Pope Pius XII in 1946, the unilateral selection of candidates by the atheist Chinese Communist Party during the recent sede vacante, and the subsequent rubber-stamping of these choices by the conciliar sect’s hierarchy. Seventeen bishops have now been manufactured under this accord since 2018. This spectacle manifests the total capitulation of the conciliar sect to the Marxist state, reducing the divine institution of the episcopacy to a department of the United Front Work Department.
The Illegal Suppression of Pius XII’s Ecclesiastical Architecture
The cited article casually notes that on July 8, 2025, the antipope Leo XIV “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.” This act alone constitutes a crime of lese-majesty against the Kingship of Christ. Pope Pius XII, the last true Roman Pontiff before the great apostasy, erected these sees by the potestas iurisdictionis (power of jurisdiction) received from Christ the King (Quas Primas, Denzinger 3677). The conciliar “pope” possesses no authority to dismantle what a true Vicar of Christ established for the salvation of souls. As Pius XI teaches in Quas Primas: “The state must leave the same freedom to the members of Orders and Congregations… who are indeed the most valiant helpers of the Pastors of the Church and contribute most to the expansion and establishment of Christ’s Kingdom”. The suppression of legitimate dioceses to create administrative units pleasing to the Communist Party is the abomination of desolation standing in the holy place (Matt. 24:15). It fulfills the Syllabus of Errors, condemned proposition 37: “National churches, withdrawn from the authority of the Roman pontiff and altogether separated, can be established.” Here, the “national church” is the Chinese Catholic Patriotic Association, and the conciliar sect acts as its facilitator.
The Secret Agreement: A Covenant with Death and Hell
The article admits: “The full text of the agreement has never been made public.” This secrecy is the hallmark of conspiratio iniquitatis (conspiracy of iniquity). The Syllabus of Errors (prop. 19, 20, 21, 24, 27, 39, 40, 42, 55) condemns precisely this subjection of the Church to the civil power: the state defining the Church’s rights (19), ecclesiastical power requiring civil permission (20), the Church lacking the power to define the true religion (21), exclusion of clergy from temporal affairs (27), the state as source of all rights (39), civil law prevailing over canon law (42), and separation of Church and State (55). The “Provisional Agreement” institutionalizes every one of these errors. It grants the atheist regime de facto veto power over episcopal appointments (“prior consultation”) while the conciliar sect surrenders the ius commissionis (right of mission) to the Communist Party. As Cardinal Billot teaches, cited in the Defense of Sedevacantism file: “If he who is not in the Church cannot have power in the Church, and a hidden heretic can have it… it clearly follows that a hidden heretic is not yet cut off from the body of the Church.” Here, the Chinese Communist Party—open enemies of God, the Church, and the supernatural order—exercise power over the Church’s hierarchy. This is not “dialogue”; it is high treason against Christ the King.
Episcopal Consecrations Without Mission: Null and Sacrilegious
The article enumerates six consecrations under Leo XIV, including two candidates “initially selected unilaterally by Chinese authorities during the sede vacante” and later “approved” by the antipope. Canon 188.4 of the 1917 Code, cited in the Defense of Sedevacantism file, declares: “Every office becomes vacant by the mere fact and without any declaration by reason of tacit resignation… if the cleric: … 4. Publicly defects from the Catholic faith.” Participation in a rite orchestrated by the Communist Party, accepting a mandate from the atheist state, constitutes public defection from the Catholic faith. The Cum ex Apostolatus Officio of Pope Paul IV, confirmed by the 1917 Code, declares that any promotion of a heretic—or one who defects from the faith—is “null, void, and of no effect” (irritum, vanum, et nullum). These men receive not the character episcopalis and potestas ordinis et iurisdictionis from Christ through a true Pope, but a simulacrum of orders conferred in a schismatic, heretical, and idolatrous context. They are episcopi vagantes of the neo-church, devoid of canonical mission (missio canonica), and their ministries are invalid for the salvation of souls. St. Robert Bellarmine, cited in the Defense of Sedevacantism file, states: “A manifest heretic cannot be Pope… a non-Christian in no way can be Pope… he cannot be the head of something of which he is not a member.” The same principle applies to bishops: one who derives his “mandate” from the Communist Party is not a member of the Catholic Church, but of the synagogue of Satan (Apoc. 2:9).
The Language of the World: “Dialogue,” “Recognition,” “Provisional”
The article’s vocabulary reveals the naturalistic, modernist mentality of the conciliar sect. Terms like “dialogue between Rome and Beijing,” “civil recognition,” “provisional agreement,” “mechanisms established by the agreement”—this is the language of diplomacy, not of the Ecclesia militans. Lamentabili Sane Exitu (1907) condemns the modernist error: “The Church is an enemy of the progress of natural and theological sciences” (prop. 57) and “Truth changes with man, because it develops with him, in him, and through him” (prop. 58). The “provisional” nature of the agreement embodies this evolutionist heresy: truth and jurisdiction are treated as negotiable, evolving variables. The Syllabus (prop. 80) condemns: “The Roman Pontiff can, and ought to, reconcile himself, and come to terms with progress, liberalism and modern civilization.” Leo XIV’s continuation of this pact is the fulfillment of this condemned proposition. The article notes the agreement was “renewed every two years until 2024, when the two sides extended it for four years, through 2028.” This temporal limitation of the Church’s divine constitution is blasphemous. Christ’s Kingdom “shall have no end” (Dan. 7:14; Quas Primas). To treat the Church’s freedom as a lease renewable by the Communist Party is to deny the potestas spiritualis conferred by Christ.
The Fruit of Vatican II’s False Ecumenism and Religious Liberty
This Chinese tragedy is the inevitable fruit of the conciliar revolution. Dignitatis Humanae (Vatican II) proclaimed a right to religious freedom based on human dignity, severing the social kingship of Christ taught by Pius XI in Quas Primas: “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 Vatican-Beijing agreement is the practical application of Dignitatis Humanae and Gaudium et Spes: the Church becomes an NGO negotiating “space” within a totalitarian state. The False Fatima Apparitions file correctly identifies this dynamic: “The message focuses on external threats (communism), omitting the main danger: modernist apostasy within the Church.” The conciliar hierarchy, having embraced the modernist apostasy, now collaborates with the external threat. The “underground” faithful in China—those who refuse the Patriotic Association—are betrayed by the very “pope” who should confirm them in the faith. As Pius IX wrote in the Syllabus context: “It is from them [the sects] that the synagogue of Satan, which gathers its troops against the Church of Christ, takes its strength.” The Masonic-Communist alliance finds its perfect instrument in the conciliar sect.
No Salvation Outside the True Church: The Sedevacantist Imperative
The Defense of Sedevacantism file provides the theological key: “A Pope-manifest heretic loses his office automatically.” John XXIII, Paul VI, John Paul I, John Paul II, Benedict XVI, Francis, and now Leo XIV—all have publicly professed heresies (religious liberty, ecumenism, collegiality, evolution of dogma, new mass, etc.). By Canon 188.4 and Cum ex Apostolatus Officio, they lost the papacy ipso facto. The See of Peter is vacant. The Chinese “bishops” ordained under this antipope have no jurisdiction. The true Church persists in the remnant of bishops and priests retaining valid orders and the integral faith, outside the structures occupying the Vatican. Quas Primas commands: “Let rulers of states therefore not refuse public veneration and obedience to the reigning Christ.” The Chinese state refuses; the conciliar sect obeys the state. Extra Ecclesiam nulla salus. The conciliar sect is not the Church. Its “bishops” are not Catholic bishops. Its “pope” is not the Pope. Return to Tradition. Reject the neo-church. Adhere to the true bishops of the Catholic resistance. Christus vincit, Christus regnat, Christus imperat.
Source:
Sixth Chinese Bishop Ordained Under Pope Leo XIV (ncregister.com)
Date: 31.08.2026