The EWTN News portal reports that the usurper “Pope” Leo XIV (Robert Prevost) has appointed “Bishop” Brendan Cahill of Victoria, Texas, as the seventh “bishop” of the Diocese of Joliet, Illinois, succeeding Ronald Hicks, recently translated to the “Archdiocese of New York.” The announcement highlights Cahill’s academic credentials in psychology, African American studies, and dogmatic theology, his tenure as seminary rector, and his 2025 appointment as chair of the USCCB Committee on Migration. This routine bureaucratic reshuffle within the conciliar sect lays bare the total substitution of the regnum Christi for a naturalistic, humanitarian NGO structure: the neo-church no longer even pretends to seek the salvation of souls, but only the management of migratory flows and the accommodation of the world.
The Usurpation of Jurisdiction: A Manifest Heretic Exercises No Authority
The very premise of this “appointment” is canonically and theologically null. 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 line of claimants to the Holy See since John XXIII has publicly professed the heresies of religious liberty, false ecumenism, and collegiality—condemned by the Syllabus of Pius IX and Pascendi Dominici Gregis of St. Pius X. Consequently, ipso facto, they possess no jurisdiction. Canon 188.4 of the 1917 Code declares that an office becomes vacant ex ipso facto by “public defection from the Catholic faith.” The “appointment” of Cahill by Leo XIV is therefore an act of a private individual, devoid of any canonical efficacy, akin to a layman simulating an episcopal consecration. The faithful are bound to ignore it, for lex injusta non est lex (an unjust law is no law).
Invalid Orders and the Bugnini Rite: The Sacramental Void
Even if jurisdiction existed, the orders conferred in the post-conciliar sect are gravely doubtful. “Bishop” Cahill received episcopal consecration in 2015 from Cardinal DiNardo using the Pontificale Romanum of 1968, a rite fabricated by the Freemason Bugnini which omits the essential form for the episcopate found in the traditional Veni, Creator Spiritus and the explicit transmission of the potestas ordinis et jurisdictionis. Pope Pius XII in Sacramentum Ordinis (1947) defined the matter and form for the priesthood; the new rite’s ambiguity regarding the specific sacrificial priesthood and the episcopate renders the consecrations at best doubtful, at worst invalid. Cahill is, in all probability, a layman dressed in episcopal insignia, a “bishop” only in the eyes of the world, not in the sight of God. As Pope Leo XIII declared in Apostolicae Curae, “the ordinations performed according to the Anglican rite… are absolutely null and utterly void.” The new rite shares the same defect of intention and form.
Naturalistic Credentials: Psychology and Migrationism Replace Theology and Sanctity
The EWTN report reads like a corporate HR bulletin. Cahill’s degrees are listed: psychology, African American studies, dogmatic theology. Note the order and the nature: psychology and sociology precede and displace sacred theology. This is the nova theologia condemned by Pius XII in Humani Generis: the reduction of the supernatural to the natural, of grace to psychology. His role as chair of the USCCB Committee on Migration is the clincher. The USCCB is a Masonic-style conference of “bishops” with no canonical basis, existing only to implement the globalist agenda of the United Nations and the World Economic Forum. “Migration” has become the new gospel of the neo-church, replacing the Great Commission: “Go ye therefore, teach all nations, baptizing them…” (Mt 28:19). The Syllabus of Pius IX condemns the error that “the civil government… has a right to an indirect negative power over religious affairs” (Error 41) and that “the Church ought to be separated from the State” (Error 55). The neo-church inverts this: it becomes the chaplain of the State, blessing the dissolution of borders and the replacement of populations, calling it “charity.”
The Silence of the Lambs: No Mention of Christ the King, Sin, or Hell
Read the announcement again. There is zero reference to the Kingship of Christ, the sole remedy for societal ills taught by Pius XI in Quas Primas: “Peace is only possible in the kingdom of Christ… When God and Jesus Christ were removed from laws and states… the foundations of that authority were destroyed.” There is no mention of the conversion of the diocese to the true Faith, the suppression of the Novus Ordo “table of assembly,” the restoration of the Mass of the Ages, the fight against abortion, sodomy, or the Masonic infiltration of public schools. Total silence on the supernatural end of man. This is the heresy of actionism condemned by St. Pius X in Lamentabili Sane Exitu (Prop. 62): “The dogmas of faith should be understood according to their practical function, i.e., as binding in action, rather than as principles of belief.” Cahill is appointed not to save souls, but to manage a diocese as a branch office of a globalist NGO.
The Symptomatic Level: The “Church of the New Advent” as the Abomination of Desolation
This appointment is not an anomaly; it is the system working as designed. The conciliar sect, the ecclesia novae adventus, functions precisely as a paramasonic structure occupying the visible patrimony of the Church. Its “bishops” are functionaries selected for ideological reliability to the Modernist revolution. The career path—seminary rector, curia bureaucrat, “bishop” of a small see, USCCB committee chair, promotion to a major see—mirrors the cursus honorum of a political party, not the sequela Christi. The “pontiff” Leo XIV, a product of the Augustinian order decimated by Modernism, continues the work of the “Synod on Synodality”: the demolition of the hierarchical constitution divino jure in favor of a democratic, Protestantized “people of God.” The See of Joliet is not receiving a shepherd; it is receiving a manager for the liquidation of the remnants of Catholic identity.
The Duty of the Faithful: Non Recognoscere, Non Communicare
True Catholics in Joliet—and everywhere—must recognize that no canonical mission exists here. They owe no obedience to Cahill, just as they owe none to Leo XIV, Hicks, or the USCCB. St. Cyril of Alexandria, commenting on the Nestorian crisis, notes that the faithful fled the heretical bishop before any formal sentence: “A great outcry arose among all the people, and they immediately fled. They did not want to have anything to do with those who held such views.” The faithful must attach themselves to priests validly ordained in the traditional rite (pre-1968) who hold the integral Faith, reject the Novus Ordo, and deny the legitimacy of the conciliar hierarchy. Extra Ecclesiam nulla salus. The structures occupying the Vatican are the abominatio desolationis spoken of by Daniel and Our Lord (Mt 24:15). Let the dead bury their dead; the Church of Christ endures in the catacombs of Tradition, where the Mass of Pius V is offered and the Syllabus is believed.
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Pope Leo XIV appoints Texas bishop to lead Diocese of Joliet, Illinois (ewtnnews.com)
Date: 17.09.2026