Masonic Puppet Leo XIV Installs New York “Archbishop” in Apostate Continuity
The conciliar sect’s news outlet Catholic News Agency (December 17, 2025) reports that antipope Leo XIV (Robert Prevost) has appointed Ronald Hicks as the new “archbishop” of New York. The article emphasizes Hicks’ geographical proximity to the antipope (“we grew up literally in the same radius”) and administrative experience in the modernist structures of Joliet and Chicago. Cardinal Timothy Dolan, who presided over the archdiocese’s doctrinal collapse since 2009, is being replaced by a figure whose background includes:
“five-year term as regional director of Nuestros Pequeños Hermanos (NPH) in Central America [overseeing] more than 3,400 orphaned and abandoned children”
and current membership in the USCCB’s Committee on Clergy, Consecrated Life, and Vocations – a body implementing Bergoglio’s Traditionis Custodes persecution.
Canonical Nullity of the Appointment
This appointment possesses zero canonical validity, as the usurper calling himself “Pope Leo XIV” lacks jurisdiction by divine law. Canon 188.4 of the 1917 Code explicitly voids all offices held by those who publicly defect from Catholic faith. Since John XXIII’s inauguration of the conciliar revolution, all Vatican occupants have promulgated heresies condemned by Pius IX’s Syllabus of Errors (e.g., religious liberty in #15-18) and Pius X’s Lamentabili Sane (e.g., evolution of dogma in #22, 58, 64). St. Robert Bellarmine’s principle applies: “A manifest heretic cannot be Pope” (De Romano Pontifice 2:30). The “appointment” constitutes sacrilege, as Hicks will now administer invalid sacraments through the 1968 Ordo Missae – a rite Pius V’s Quo Primum forbade under anathema.
Naturalism Replaces Supernatural Mission
The article’s focus on Hicks’ managerial resume and childhood proximity to the antipope exposes the conciliar sect’s complete abandonment of apostolic criteria. Pius XI’s Quas Primas mandates that bishops must be “distinguished by modesty of conduct” and “hunger and thirst for justice” (n.23), not bureaucratic competence. Nowhere does the report mention Hicks’ adherence to Catholic doctrine – unsurprising given his:
“service as dean of formation at Mundelein Seminary”
under “Cardinal” Cupich, who publicly promotes abortion-advocating politicians. This follows the modernist playbook described in Pius X’s Pascendi Dominici Gregis: reducing the priesthood to social work while “silence about supernatural matters is the gravest accusation.”
Geographic Parochialism as New Ecclesiology
The emphasis on shared Chicago roots between Hicks and the antipope reveals the sect’s tribalization of holy orders. True apostolic succession requires cathedra (teaching authority), not shared pizza preferences. This provincialism mocks Christ’s universal kingship proclaimed in Quas Primas:
“He gave him power, and honor, and a kingdom: and all peoples, tribes, and tongues shall serve him” (Daniel 7:14)
The conciliar sect operates as a Masonic franchise where geographical accident (“same parks, same pools”) trumps doctrinal fidelity – a perfect inversion of 1 Timothy 3:2’s requirement that bishops be “teachers of sound doctrine.”
USCCB Liaison to Apostasy
Hicks’ role as “liaison to the Association of Ongoing Formation of Priests” confirms his commitment to the clerical deformation program implemented since Vatican II. “Ongoing formation” signifies perpetual doctrinal instability condemned by Pius X: “Modernists pass judgment on everything… with consummate audacity” (Lamentabili #57). By serving on committees that enforce gender ideology (Infinite Dignity) and communion for adulterers (Amoris Laetitia), Hicks perpetuates what Pius IX called “the principal plague of our time” (Syllabus #77).
Orphanage Work as Modernist Alibi
The article’s highlight of Hicks’ NPH orphanage directorship employs the classic modernist tactic of substituting natural virtue for supernatural grace. While caring for orphans is praiseworthy, Pius XI warned in Quas Primas that:
“When God and Jesus Christ were removed from laws and states… the entire human society had to be shaken” (n.31)
Hicks’ humanitarian work becomes spiritually destructive when detached from converting souls to the extra ecclesiam nulla salus truth. This follows the conciliar heresy that “Christ’s Church subsists in non-Catholic communities” (Vatican II, Lumen Gentium 8).
Conclusion: Masonic Succession Plan
This appointment completes New York’s transformation from Cardinal Spellman’s archdiocese into a Bergoglian satrapy. As Pius X prophesied in Pascendi, modernists “put themselves forward as reformers” while destroying the Church. The only proper response is total rejection of Hicks’ pretended jurisdiction and the conciliar sect’s false sacraments. True Catholics must flee these structures and seek valid priests preserving the immutable Faith – lest they share in the apostates’ fate when Christ the King returns to “judge the living and the dead and the world by fire” (Athanasian Creed).
Source:
Pope Leo XIV to appoint next archbishop of New York (catholicnewsagency.com)
Date: 17.12.2025