The National Catholic Register reports that the usurper “Pope” Leo XIV (Robert Prevost) has appointed Newark auxiliary “bishop” Michael Saporito to head the Diocese of Metuchen, New Jersey, while accepting the resignation of “Bishop” Francis Malone of Shreveport, Louisiana. Saporito, ordained a “priest” in 1992 under the new rite and “consecrated” in 2020 by the manifest modernist “Cardinal” Joseph Tobin, represents the continuation of the paramasonic occupation of ecclesiastical offices. The announcement, framed as routine ecclesiastical governance, masks the grim reality: the conciliar sect persists in its simulation of apostolic succession while the true Church endures in the catacombs of Tradition.
The Usurper’s Appointment: A Null Act Devoid of Jurisdiction
The cited article relates that the antipope Leo XIV — the latest in the line of usurpers beginning with John XXIII — has exercised a purported “petrine ministry” to name a new ordinary for Metuchen. This act is null, void, and of no effect (nullum, vacuum, et sine effectu). As Pope Paul IV defined in Cum ex Apostolatus Officio (1559), any elevation of a heretic to the papacy is invalid ab initio, “even if it shall have been uncontested and by the unanimous assent of all the Cardinals.” The conciliar “popes,” from John XXIII to Leo XIV, have publicly professed the heresies of religious liberty, false ecumenism, and collegiality condemned by the Syllabus of Pius IX and the encyclicals of St. Pius X. They are manifest heretics who, by divine law, ipso facto lose all jurisdiction and membership in the Church (De Romano Pontifice, Bellarmine). Therefore, Leo XIV possesses zero authority to appoint, transfer, or depose any bishop. His “appointment” of Saporito is a theatrical gesture within a counterfeit hierarchy.
The Invalidity of Saporito’s Orders and Consecration
The article notes Saporito was “ordained a priest for the Archdiocese of Newark on May 30, 1992” and “received his episcopal consecration on June 30, 2020 from Cardinal Joseph Tobin.” Both rites were performed according to the novus ordo of Paul VI — the 1968 Pontifical for priestly ordination and the 1968 Episcopal Consecration rite — which defect in form and intention for the conferral of the sacrament of Order. The 1968 rite replaced the essential form “Receive the Holy Ghost: whose sins you shall forgive…” with “The Lord Jesus Christ… has sent the Holy Spirit… receive the Holy Spirit,” omitting the specific sacramental character of the priesthood as defined by the Council of Trent (Sess. XXIII, can. 3). For the episcopate, the new rite suppresses the explicit transmission of the fullness of the priesthood and the power to govern, substituting a vague “grace of the Holy Spirit.” As Archbishop Lefebvre — despite his own errors of recognizing the usurpers — correctly identified, these rites are doubtfully valid at best, invalid in practice. Saporito, therefore, is not a priest, not a bishop, but a layman clad in episcopal insignia, exercising a simulated jurisdiction over souls.
The “Cardinal” Consecrator: Joseph Tobin, Agent of the Revolution
The article states Saporito was consecrated by “Cardinal Joseph Tobin, CSsR, who has served as archbishop of Newark since 2016.” Tobin is a notorious modernist, a promoter of the LGBT agenda, a defender of communion for the divorced and “remarried,” and a collaborator with the paramasonic structures of the neo-church. His “episcopal consecration” (1997) and “cardinalate” (2016) derive from the same invalid line. A heretic cannot confer what he does not possess: nemo dat quod non habet. The consecration of Saporito by Tobin is a sacrilegious simulation, a link in the broken chain of the conciliar pseudo-succession.
The Resignation of Malone: Canonical Farce in a Vacant See
The article mentions the acceptance of the resignation of “Bishop Francis Malone, 76, of Shreveport, Louisiana,” noting “Bishops are required to submit their resignations to the pope at the age of 75.” This references Canon 401 §1 of the 1983 Code — a code promulgated by the antipope John Paul II, itself devoid of legislative authority. In the true Church, governed by the 1917 Code, a bishop’s resignation for age is submitted to the Roman Pontiff; but with the See of Peter vacant since 1958 (death of Pius XII), there is no legitimate recipient for such resignations. The entire machinery of “appointments,” “resignations,” “transfers,” and “coadjutors” operates in a juridical vacuum, a Potemkin village of canon law enacted by men who have defected from the Catholic faith (Canon 188.4, 1917 Code: “Publicly defects from the Catholic faith”).
The Linguistic Mask: Bureaucratic Language Concealing Apostasy
The article’s tone is clinical, bureaucratic, devoid of the supernatural. It speaks of “appointments,” “resignations,” “auxiliary bishops,” “archdioceses,” “dioceses” — terms stripped of their sacramental reality. There is no mention of the salvation of souls, the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass, the doctrine of the faith, the combat against heresy. The “bishop” is presented as a manager with an “accounting degree from Rutgers University” and a curriculum of parish assignments. This reduction of the episcopate to administrative function is the hallmark of the conciliar revolution: the Church as NGO, the bishop as CEO. The silence on regnum Christi, on extra Ecclesiam nulla salus, on the Social Kingship of Christ (Pius XI, Quas Primas) is not an omission — it is a confession of apostasy. As Pius XI taught: “When God and Jesus Christ were removed from laws and states… the foundations of that authority were destroyed.” The neo-church has removed Christ from its very governance.
The Symptomatic Level: Metuchen as Microcosm of the Great Apostasy
The Diocese of Metuchen, erected in 1981 by the antipope John Paul II, is itself a product of the conciliar restructuring, a territorial division serving the neo-church’s demographic management. Its previous “bishop,” James Checchio, was “rector of the Pontifical North American College in Rome” — the seminary that has been the primary incubator of the new priesthood, formed in the spirit of Vatican II, the “countersyllabus” (Cardinal Ratzinger). Checchio’s promotion to “archbishop of New Orleans” in 2026 (after a stint as “coadjutor”) illustrates the revolving door of the conciliar hierarchy, where men are shuffled like cards to maintain the illusion of continuity. Saporito’s career — parish assignments, accounting degree, auxiliary “bishop” — is the standard profile of the neo-cleric: competent functionary, devoid of the sensus catholicus, formed in the “Immaculate Conception Seminary School of Theology” (a name usurped from the true Immaculate Conception), where the poison of Modernism has been distilled for decades.
The Theological Verdict: Sede Vacante and the Necessity of Resistance
From the perspective of integral Catholic faith, this “news” is not an ecclesiastical event but a symptom of the abomination of desolation standing in the holy place (Matt. 24:15). The faithful are not bound in conscience to recognize Saporito as their bishop, nor Malone as their former bishop, nor Leo XIV as pope. Quod ab initio non valet, in tractu temporis convalescere non potest (What is invalid from the beginning cannot become valid through time). The true Church — Ecclesia militans — subsists in those bishops and priests who retain valid orders (conferred before 1968), the true Mass of the ages, and the integral profession of the faith defined by the Council of Trent, Vatican I, and the pre-1958 Magisterium. All else is schism, heresy, and idolatry. The appointment of Saporito is a providential warning: the structures occupying the visible edifices are not the Church. Ecce quam bonum et quam jucundum habitare fratres in unum — but only in the unity of the true faith, not in the counterfeit unity of the conciliar sect.
Source:
Pope Leo XIV Names Newark Auxiliary Bishop to Lead Diocese of Metuchen, New Jersey (ncregister.com)
Date: 15.09.2026