EWTN News, the flagship propaganda organ of the conciliar sect, reports that on October 27, 2026—the very Feast of Our Lord Jesus Christ the King instituted by Pius XI to combat the laicism and secularism devouring the nations—the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) announced an award for its former president, “Archbishop” José Gomez of Los Angeles. The “Encuentros Award,” bestowed by the Subcommittee on Hispanic/Latino Affairs, celebrates decades of ethnic advocacy within the neo-church’s bureaucratic machinery. This spectacle of self-congratulation on the solemnity dedicated to the Social Kingship of Christ stands as a blasphemous parody of the Church’s divine mission: the conciliar sect honors a functionary of the anti-kingdom for managing the demographic replacement of the Faith with tribal sociology.
The Feast of Christ the King Profaned by Conciliar Theater
Pius XI, in Quas Primas (1925), established this feast precisely because “very many have removed Jesus Christ and His most holy law from their customs, from private, family, and public life” and declared that “the hope of lasting peace will not yet shine upon nations as long as individuals and states renounce and do not wish to recognize the reign of our Savior.” The Pontiff warned that “when God and Jesus Christ… were removed from laws and states… the foundations of that authority were destroyed.” Today, the structures occupying the Vatican and their national conferences—exemplified by the USCCB—have not merely removed Christ from public life; they have replaced His Kingship with a managerial ideology of “accompaniment,” “encounter,” and ethnic niche-marketing.
The article notes the award will be presented at the “U.S. bishops’ plenary assembly in November… in Baltimore.” This bureaucratic gathering, devoid of any supernatural character, is the true liturgy of the conciliar sect. While Pius XI commanded that “the people, free from daily occupations, may beautifully testify with joyful hearts that they are obedient and subject to Christ,” the neo-church gathers its hirelings to testify to their obedience to the spirit of the age. The timing—announced on the Feast of Christ the King—is not coincidental; it is a ritualistic mockery. The paramasonic structure celebrates the abolition of the Kingship of Christ by honoring its most effective administrators.
The Invalidity of the Appointing Authority: Heretics Cannot Govern
The article traces Gomez’s ascent: “appointed auxiliary bishop of Denver by Pope John Paul II… became the archbishop of San Antonio… appointed coadjutor archbishop of Los Angeles by Pope Benedict XVI.” From the perspective of integral Catholic theology, this lineage of appointment is canonically null and void. The Defense of Sedevacantism documentation establishes with absolute certitude, citing St. Robert Bellarmine, Wernz and Vidal, and Pope Paul IV’s Bull Cum ex Apostolatus Officio, that a manifest heretic loses the papacy ipso facto, without any declaratory sentence. Bellarmine teaches: “A non-Christian in no way can be Pope… a manifest heretic is not a Christian… therefore, a manifest heretic cannot be Pope.”
John Paul II (Wojtyla) and Benedict XVI (Ratzinger) were public adherents of the Modernist synthesis condemned by St. Pius X in Lamentabili Sane Exitu and Pascendi Dominici Gregis. They promulgated the heretical Vatican II documents (Dignitatis Humanae, Unitatis Redintegratio, Nostra Aetate), assented to the New Mass (a fabrication of Bugnini’s Masonic liturgical commission), and practiced false ecumenism. By the very fact of their manifest heresy, they ceased to be members of the Church, and consequently ceased to be its Head. Excommunicatus ipso facto, non habet potestatem ordinem (one excommunicated by the very fact has no power of order). Therefore, every “appointment” made by these antipopes is null, void, and of no effect. Gomez holds no jurisdiction; he is a layman dressed in episcopal insignia, a functionary of a schismatic sect.
Canon 188.4 of the 1917 Code confirms: “Every office becomes vacant by the mere fact and without any declaration… if the cleric… publicly defects from the Catholic faith.” The “consecrations” and “appointments” within the conciliar sect are acts of a usurped jurisdiction, simulating the Church’s hierarchy to better destroy it from within.
The USCCB: A Masonic Parliament Replacing the Divine Hierarchy
The award originates from the “Subcommittee on Hispanic/Latino Affairs of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB).” This body is a conciliar innovation unknown to Catholic canon law, born of the heresy of collegiality (Vatican II, Lumen Gentium 22). It transforms the divinely instituted monarchical hierarchy—where each bishop receives jurisdiction immediately from the Roman Pontiff—into a democratic parliament subject to committees, subcommittees, and voting blocs.
The Syllabus of Pius IX condemns the proposition: “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” (Error 19). The USCCB mimics the civil power: it issues “statements,” holds “conferences” (Anaheim, Oct 20–23), manages “directors,” and distributes “awards.” It is a shadow government servicing the Masonic project of a “Church of the New Advent”—a religious NGO subservient to the globalist order. “Bishop” Cantú’s praise of Gomez as a “tireless champion for the Catholic Church and specifically for Hispanic Catholics” reveals the sect’s true ecclesiology: the Church is reduced to an ethnic lobby group. There is no mention of the Salus Animarum, the conversion of souls, the defense of the Faith, or the Kingship of Christ. Only “advocacy” and “gifts they bring.”
“Hispanic Ministry”: Ethnic Gnosticism Against the Catholicity of the Church
The very category “Hispanic/Latino Ministry” is a theological monstrosity. Pius XI taught in Quas Primas: “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 Church knows no ethnic boundaries in the dispensation of grace. Unus Dominus, una fides, unum baptisma (One Lord, one faith, one baptism). To segregate the faithful into “Hispanic,” “Anglo,” “Vietnamese,” “Black” ministries is to deny the Catholicity (universality) of the Church. It is the application of the condemned error of Nationalism and Racism within the sanctuary.
The Syllabus condemns: “Every man is free to embrace and profess that religion which, guided by the light of reason, he shall consider true” (Error 15) and “Protestantism is nothing more than another form of the same true Christian religion” (Error 18). The modern “Hispanic Ministry” operates on the same indifferentist principle: culture replaces creed; ethnicity replaces grace. The “Encuentros” (Encounters) process—born of the Medellin and Puebla conferences, fruits of Liberation Theology and Modernism—substitutes the Encounter with Christ Crucified in the Holy Sacrifice for a horizontal “encounter” with “cultural identity.” Gomez is honored not for defending the Depositum Fidei, but for managing a demographic segment for the neo-church.
Opus Dei: The Shock Troops of the Neo-Modernist Establishment
The article highlights Gomez’s ordination “a priest of the Prelature of Opus Dei on Aug. 15, 1978, at the Shrine of Torreciudad in Spain” and his doctorate from the University of Navarra. Opus Dei, erected as a Personal Prelature by the antipope John Paul II in 1982 (Ut Sit), functions as the clerical vanguard of the conciliar revolution. It provides the “conservative” veneer for the destruction of the Mass, the priesthood, and doctrine. Its spirituality—sanctification of work severed from the Sacrifice of the Altar—is a lay-centered Pelagianism perfectly suited to the secularized “worldliness” of the neo-church.
Gomez’s career—accounting, philosophy, theology, Navarra, Opus Dei, USCCB presidency—is the cursus honorum of the technocratic manager, not the cursus sanctorum of a successor of the Apostles. He is a “naturalized American citizen” leading a “naturalized” pseudo-church. The award recognizes the successful integration of the Hispanic demographic into the Novus Ordo machine, ensuring the flow of personnel and finances into the sect’s collapsing structures.
EWTN: The Propaganda Arm of the Abomination of Desolation
The source, EWTN News (“EWTN News Español… translated and adapted by EWTN News English”), is the media monopoly of the conciliar sect. Founded by the Modernist “Mother Angelica” under the aegis of the local “bishop” and ultimately the Vatican usurpers, it serves to normalize the New Mass, the false popes, the false saints (John Paul II, “St. Oscar Romero”), and the entire conciliar agenda. The article’s tone—bureaucratic, celebratory, devoid of the Cross—is the house style of the anti-church. It reports on “communications,” “privacy policies,” “newsletters,” and “special envoys.” It is a corporate press release, not Catholic journalism. The reporter, David Ramos, boasts of covering “Pope Francis’ trips” and the “beatification ceremony of today’s Saint Oscar Arnulfo Romero”—an apostate Marxist “saint” of the antipope Bergoglio. This is the company Gomez keeps; this is the “Church” he serves.
Conclusion: The Silence of the Cross Amidst the Noise of Awards
The article is a perfect negative image of the Catholic Church. It contains zero references to: the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass (the true center of the priesthood), the Sacraments (channels of grace), the State of Grace (the supernatural life), the Four Last Things (Death, Judgment, Heaven, Hell), the Blessed Virgin Mary (Mediatrix of All Graces), the conversion of sinners, the condemnation of error, or the Social Kingship of Christ the King—whose feast day it is.
Instead, we find: “advocacy,” “champion,” “gifts,” “demographics,” “leadership,” “naturalized citizen,” “plenary assembly,” “subcommittee,” “award.” This is the language of the City of Man, masquerading in ecclesiastical vestments. St. Pius X condemned the Modernist error that “Christ did not proclaim any specific, all-encompassing doctrine suitable for all times and places, but rather initiated a certain religious movement” (Lamentabili, 59). The USCCB and Gomez are the high priests of this “movement.”
On this Feast of Christ the King, the true faithful—those adhering to the Tradition of the Fathers, the Mass of Trent, the doctrine of Pius IX, Leo XIII, St. Pius X, Pius XI, and Pius XII—recognize this spectacle for what it is: the smoke of Satan entering the temple of God (Paul VI, homily 1972, unwittingly describing his own sect). The “Encuentros Award” is a badge of the abomination of desolation standing in the holy place (Matt 24:15). Non est hic Christus, neque ibi (Here is not Christ, neither is He there). The true Church endures in the catacombs of Tradition, celebrating the Kingship of Christ not with plaques in Baltimore, but with the Unbloody Sacrifice of Calvary and the profession of the integral Faith. Viva Cristo Rey!
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Archbishop Gomez to be recognized for his work in U.S. Hispanic ministry (ewtnnews.com)
Date: 27.10.2026