The EWTN News portal (November 27, 2025) reports on the recent appointment of two pseudo-archbishops for Canadian dioceses by antipope Robert Prevost styling himself “Leo XIV.” The article describes Bishop Stephen Hero’s transfer from Prince Albert to Edmonton and the elevation of Oblate priest Susai Jesu to Keewatin-Le Pas, emphasizing their educational backgrounds and pastoral experience while ignoring the fundamental invalidity of their positions within the framework of Catholic ecclesiology.
Usurpation of Episcopal Authority Condemned by Divine Law
The so-called “appointments” violate the immutable principle that extra Ecclesiam nulla salus (outside the Church there is no salvation). As Pius XII definitively taught in Mystici Corporis Christi (1943), only those united to Peter’s legitimate successor constitute the Church’s visible structure. The article’s claim that Hero studied at the post-conciliar “Seminary of Christ the King” in Mission, British Columbia, reveals the counterfeit nature of his formation – an institution operating without mandate from the true Church.
St. Robert Bellarmine’s De Romano Pontifice explicitly states: “A manifest heretic cannot be Pope” (2:30). Since the apostate Montini (“Paul VI”) promulgated the heretical Novus Ordo Missae in 1969, all subsequent Vatican claimants have publicly defected from Catholic faith. Canon 188.4 of the 1917 Code confirms automatic loss of office for such defection, rendering Prevost’s acts utterly null. Pius IX’s Syllabus of Errors condemned the proposition that “the Roman Pontiff can, and ought to, reconcile himself, and come to terms with progress, liberalism and modern civilization” (Error 80) – precisely the heresy embodied in these appointments.
Sacramental Invalidity Masquerading as Legitimacy
The article’s reference to Jesu’s planned “episcopal ordination” constitutes blasphemous simulation. The 1946 apostolic constitution Sacramentum Ordinis requires valid matter, form, and intention for Holy Orders. The conciliar sect’s ordination rites – modified under Bugnini’s influence – fail to properly signify the priesthood’s sacrificial nature, as demonstrated by Cardinals Ottaviani and Bacci’s 1969 intervention to Paul VI. Pius XII’s Sacramentum Ordinis declared invalid any alteration to the essential form: “Accipe Spiritum Sanctum” (“Receive the Holy Spirit”).
Hero’s motto “Deus Solus” rings hollow when attached to one accepting office from antipapal authority. As St. Cyprian warned in On the Unity of the Catholic Church: “He who does not hold this unity does not hold God’s law, does not hold the faith of the Father and the Son, does not hold life and salvation.” The twelve stars in Hero’s coat of arms grotesquely parody Our Lady’s crown while serving a counterfeit hierarchy that promotes the very religious indifferentism condemned in Pius XI’s Quas Primas:
“The Roman Pontiff can, and ought to, reconcile himself, and come to terms with progress, liberalism and modern civilization”
Indigenous Syncretism Replaces Catholic Evangelization
The article’s praise for Jesu’s work with “Indigenous, Metis, and Inuit peoples” exposes the conciliar sect’s abandonment of missionary duty. Pius XI’s Rerum Ecclesiae (1926) mandated that missionaries “lead the heathen to the Church… teaching them to observe all that Christ has commanded.” Instead, Jesu’s alleged “learning the Cree language” serves not Catholic catechesis but the religious syncretism condemned in Pius IX’s Syllabus (Errors 15-18).
The Archdiocese of Keewatin-Le Pas’ description as home to diverse ethnic groups omits the Catholic imperative that all nations must be subject to Christ’s reign. Quas Primas explicitly states: “Nations will be reminded by the annual celebration of this feast that not only private individuals but also rulers and princes are bound to give public honor and obedience to Christ” (n.32). By contrast, the conciliar sect promotes the condemned error that “the best theory of civil society requires that popular schools… be freed from all ecclesiastical authority” (Pius IX, Syllabus, Error 47).
Symptomatic Apostasy of Neo-Church Structures
The appointment mechanism itself constitutes canonical crime. Canon 329§2 of the 1917 Code reserves episcopal appointments to the Roman Pontiff after formal consultation with diocesan consultors – impossible when both appointor and appointees belong to an apostate structure. Pius X’s Lamentabili Sane condemned the modernist position that “organic structure of the Church is subject to change” (Proposition 53), precisely what these appointments facilitate.
Jesu’s Oblate affiliation compounds the offense. The authentic OMI charism of evangelization founded by St. Eugene de Mazenod has been inverted into promoting the pan-religious humanism condemned in Pascendi Dominici Gregis (1907). The article’s reference to Jesu’s psychology degrees confirms adherence to the condemned proposition that “human reason, without any reference whatsoever to God, is the sole arbiter of truth” (Pius IX, Syllabus, Error 3).
These appointments complete the conciliar sect’s transformation into what St. Pius X called in Pascendi “a pernicious work of deception from which Catholic faith receives the greatest injury.” As Our Lord warned: “Every plant which my heavenly Father has not planted will be rooted up” (Matthew 15:13).
Source:
Pope Leo XIV appoints 2 new archbishops for western Canada dioceses (ewtnnews.com)
Date: 27.11.2025