The Catholic News Agency portal reports on November 12, 2025, about elections within the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB). “Bishop” Kevin Rhoades was elected secretary, while other appointments included leadership roles for committees on religious liberty, ecumenism, and immigration. The assembly passed statements opposing mass deportations and advanced the beatification cause of a Jesuit priest working on the U.S.-Mexico border.
Illegitimate Elections in Illegitimate Structure
These elections constitute a grotesque parody of ecclesiastical governance. The USCCB – like all post-conciliar structures – lacks any legitimacy, being born from Vatican II’s subversion of the hierarchical constitution of the Church (Pius X, Pascendi Dominici Gregis). When Pius XII condemned attempts to transform the episcopate into “a democratic federation with a perpetual president” (Allocution to Cardinals, 1945), he prophetically described this exact conciliar aberration. The very act of voting for ecclesiastical offices betrays the monarchical constitution established by Christ, Who appointed Peter alone as visible head of the Church.
“Religious Liberty” as Heresy Institutionalized
Rhoades’ promotion despite chairing the blasphemously named “Committee on Religious Liberty” reveals the sect’s entrenched apostasy. The Second Vatican Council’s Dignitatis Humanae directly contradicts the infallible teaching that “no one is saved outside the Catholic Church” (Council of Florence) and Pius IX’s condemnation of the “insane folly” of religious liberty (Quanta Cura). The committee’s focus on “gender ideology” and immigration rather than the submission of all nations to the Social Kingship of Christ (Pius XI, Quas Primas) exposes its naturalistic foundations. Sample’s succession ensures continued betrayal, as Portland’s liturgy scandals prove his modernist alignment.
Ecumenical Apostasy Formalized
The election of “Auxiliary Bishop” Peter Smith to lead ecumenical efforts institutionalizes the sin of religious indifferentism. This directly violates the oath against modernism requiring clergy to reject “the heretical misrepresentation that dogmas evolve” (Sacrorum Antistitum). True shepherds would echo Pius XI’s condemnation: “Those who hold that the true religion can be found in any sect are in grave error” (Mortalium Animos). The committee’s existence itself constitutes formal cooperation with the “abominable sect of Freemasonry” condemned in over 200 papal documents.
Immigrant Souls Abandoned to Indifferentism
The Ukrainian archeparchy’s leadership in “justice and peace” work constitutes nationalist pandering, not Catholic evangelization. The bishops’ opposition to deportations while remaining silent about the duty of Catholic rulers to restrict public manifestations of false religions (Leo XIII, Immortale Dei) reveals their inverted priorities. True charity would demand the conversion of immigrants, not facilitation of their religious indifferentism – a point underscored by the beatification cause for a border priest who likely practiced the same ecumenical errors condemned by St. Pius X.
Child Protection Theater Masks Doctrinal Abuse
The “Committee on Protection of Children” represents modernist hypocrisy at its zenith. While feigning concern for physical safety, these “bishops” systematically rape souls through invalid sacraments and heretical teachings. They ignore Pius XI’s warning that “the greatest crime is to corrupt the faith” (Divini Illius Magistri). Their Novus Ordo “Mass” – described by Cardinals Ottaviani and Bacci as “strikingly Protestantizing” – constitutes spiritual abuse far graver than any physical misconduct.
The elections confirm the USCCB as a perfect embodiment of the “abomination of desolation” predicted in Daniel 9:27 – a bureaucratic machine manufacturing apostasy while retaining Catholic terminology. As St. Augustine teaches, Extra Ecclesiam nulla salus – outside the Church there is no salvation. These men have placed themselves outside through adherence to conciliar heresies, making their elections not merely invalid, but spiritually perilous for all involved.
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Bishop Rhoades elected USCCB secretary, 6 committee leaders elected (catholicnewsagency.com)
Date: 12.11.2025