The Theater of a Deceased Hierarchy
The cited article from Pillar Catholic details the reassignment of Bishop Gaspard Béby Gnéba from the Diocese of Man to an auxiliary role in the Archdiocese of Abidjan by the post-conciliar figure “Pope Leo XIV.” It presents this administrative move as a puzzling but potentially benign personnel decision within a functioning ecclesial structure, analyzing possible reasons such as health, reconciliation efforts, or strategic resource allocation. The article’s entire framework accepts as given the legitimacy of the “Holy See,” the “papacy,” and the “episcopacy” of the conciliar sect. From the perspective of integral Catholic faith, this acceptance is the fundamental and fatal error. The article is not a report on Church governance but a symptom of the “abomination of desolation” (Matt. 24:15) – a human, naturalistic organization performing clerical theater while the Catholic Church, the Mystical Body of Christ, endures in a state of sede vacante.
1. Factual Deconstruction: The Illegitimate Foundation
The article’s foundational “fact” is that “Leo XIV” possesses the authority to appoint bishops. This is categorically false. The authority to appoint bishops belongs solely to the true Roman Pontiff, the Vicar of Christ, who must be a validly ordained Catholic bishop in communion with the unchanging faith. The line of Roman Pontiffs ended with the death of Pope Pius XII in 1958. The subsequent conciliar “popes,” beginning with Angelo Roncalli (“John XXIII”), have been either manifest heretics or, at minimum, formal schismatics by their public adherence to and promotion of the errors of Vatican II, which constitute a wholesale rejection of the Catholic religion.
St. Robert Bellarmine, the great Doctor of the Church, defined the principle: “A manifest heretic… is not a Christian, and therefore cannot be Pope.” The 1917 Code of Canon Law, in Canon 188.4, states that an office is vacated ipso facto by “public defection from the Catholic faith.” The post-conciliar “papacy” has publicly defected by endorsing religious liberty (Dignitatis Humanae), ecumenism (Unitatis Redintegratio), and collegiality, all of which are condemned by Pope Pius IX in the Syllabus of Errors (e.g., Errors 77-80 on religious freedom and the separation of Church and State). Therefore, “Leo XIV” is an antipope, and his “appointments” are nullius momenti (of no effect). The article’s entire narrative about a “demotion” or “reassignment” is a discussion of roles within a private club, having no bearing on the divinely instituted Hierarchy of the Catholic Church.
2. Linguistic Analysis: The Language of Naturalism and Bureaucracy
The article employs the cold, managerial language of corporate human resources: “reassigned,” “demotion,” “low-key auxiliary roles,” “consolidation of the Church,” “ecological resources,” “spiritual rest.” This lexicon is profoundly revealing. It treats the sacred Hierarchy—the participation in the Apostolic College instituted by Christ to teach, sanctify, and govern souls for eternal life—as if it were a secular administrative body managing “parishes” and “dioceses” as if they were branch offices of a multinational NGO. There is not a single mention of supernatural realities: the state of souls, the danger of eternal damnation, the necessity of grace, the propitiatory sacrifice of the Mass, or the absolute duty of Catholic rulers to establish the Social Reign of Christ the King. This silence is the hallmark of the conciliar “church,” which Pope St. Pius X condemned in Pascendi Dominici Gregis as the “synthesis of all heresies” because it reduces religion to a natural, ethical, and humanitarian concern. The article’s tone is that of a Vaticanologist analyzing the Curia, not a Catholic commentator on the salvation of souls.
3. Theological Confrontation: Omission of the Primacy of God’s Law
The article discusses Bishop Gnéba’s 2024 letter urging laity to denounce priestly misconduct as a notable event. While the content of the letter is morally good in itself, the article frames it as a “reform” effort within the system. This is a fatal omission. In the true Catholic Church, the primary duty of a bishop is not merely to manage clerical misconduct but to safeguard the purity of the faith and the sanctity of the sacraments. The article says nothing about the far more grave scandal: that the “clergy” in the conciliar sect routinely sacrilegiously administer the “Novus Ordo Missae,” which is a Lutheran-style “supper” that denies the propitiatory sacrifice of Calvary and is intrinsically evil. It says nothing about the “ordination” of women (as in the case of “Sr.” Jeanchin in Germany) or the open
Source:
Why is an Ivorian diocesan bishop now an auxiliary? (pillarcatholic.com)
Date: 23.02.2026