EWTN News portal reports on July 8, 2026, the installation of three new bishops in the conciliar sect’s American structures: Gary Studniewski and Robert Boxie III as auxiliary bishops in the Archdiocese of Washington, ordained by the pseudo-cardinal Robert McElroy, and Evelio Menjívar-Ayala as bishop of Wheeling-Charleston, all appointed by the antipope Leo XIV (Robert Prevost). The ceremony at the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception gathered the sect’s hierarchy, including the disgraced pseudo-cardinal Donald Wuerl and the pseudo-nuncio Gabriele Caccia, while the new bishop of Wheeling-Charleston invoked the falsely canonized ‘St. Oscar Romero’ as his spiritual patron. This triumphalist display of pseudo-episcopal ordinations manifests the conciliar sect’s continued usurpation of Catholic hierarchy and its brazen mockery of divine institution.
Usurpation of Episcopal Office by Antipapal Mandate
The cited article relates that the three prelates received their appointments “by Pope Leo XIV” on May 1. From the perspective of integral Catholic faith, this statement alone condemns the entire proceeding. Robert Prevost, as a manifest heretic who adheres to the Second Vatican Council’s errors — religious liberty, false ecumenism, collegiality, and the new mass — ipso facto lost any claim to the papacy before his election, according to the constant teaching of the Church. St. Robert Bellarmine teaches: “A manifest heretic cannot be Pope… he cannot be the head of something of which he is not a member” (De Romano Pontifice 2:30). Pope Paul IV’s Bull Cum ex Apostolatus Officio declares that the promotion of a heretic to the papacy is “null, void, and of no effect” regardless of unanimous cardinal consent. Therefore, the appointments of Studniewski, Boxie, and Menjívar-Ayala derive from a non-existent authority; they are null and void ab initio. The article’s phrase “appointed by Pope Leo XIV” is not a description of fact but a profession of faith in the conciliar sect’s counterfeit magisterium.
The Nullity of Conciliar ‘Ordinations’ and the Vitiated Rite
The article states that Cardinal McElroy “ordained Bishop Gary Studniewski and Bishop Robert Boxie III into the order of bishops.” Even assuming McElroy possessed valid orders — doubtful given his formation in the post-conciliar chaos and the dubious validity of the Paul VI ordinal — the rite used was almost certainly the 1968 Pontificale Romanum, which omits the essential form for episcopal consecration as defined by Pius XII in Sacramentum Ordinis (1947). The traditional form — “Comple in sacerdote tuo… ut dignus sit… offerre tibi dona” — was replaced by a vague invocation of the “Spirit’s grace.” The article itself quotes McElroy: “witnessing the grace of Spirit come upon these two men and set them aside in their new ministry as bishops.” This Protestantized language — “ministry,” “set aside,” “grace of Spirit” — reveals the defect of intention and form that invalidates the sacrament. As the Syllabus of Errors condemns: “The Church has not the power of defining dogmatically that the religion of the Catholic Church is the only true religion” (Error 21) — and the conciliar sect’s new ordinal embodies this error by stripping the sacrament of its sacrificial and hierarchical nature.
Invocation of False Saints: The Romero Cult as Modernist Idolatry
The new bishop of Wheeling-Charleston, Menjívar-Ayala, declared: “God brought me from a distant life in El Salvador, the land of St. Oscar Romero.” This invocation is idolatry. Oscar Romero was beatified (2015) and canonized (2018) by the antipope Francis, whose “canonizations” lack the guarantee of infallibility because they proceed from a non-papal authority and often celebrate figures whose orthodoxy is gravely suspect. Romero, a liberation theology icon, was assassinated for political activism, not odium fidei. The Church teaches (Quas Primas, Pius XI) that Christ’s kingship demands “obedience to the divine will and to believe firmly and constantly in the teaching of Christ.” To propose Romero as a model of sanctity is to substitute Marxist agitation for Catholic martyrdom. The article’s uncritical repetition of “St. Oscar Romero” demonstrates the conciliar sect’s replacement of the sanctoral cycle with a pantheon of revolutionary heroes.
McElroy and the Coterie of Heretics: A Synod of Apostates
The ordination was attended by “Cardinal Donald Wuerl,” “Archbishop William Lori,” “Bishop Barry Knestout,” and “Apostolic Nuncio Gabriele Caccia.” This assemblage reads like a catalogue of the conciliar sect’s most notorious agents of destruction. Wuerl, the architect of the “McCarrick cover-up” and promoter of Amoris Laetitia‘s adultery-permitting praxis; Lori, the “religious liberty” strategist who frames the Church’s surrender to the state as a defense of conscience; Caccia, the diplomatic face of the Vatican’s Ostpolitik with communist regimes. McElroy himself, the ordaining prelate, is a public heretic who has advocated for “LGBT inclusion,” communion for the divorced and remarried, and women deacons. St. Pius X in Lamentabili sane exitu condemned the proposition: “The Church, in condemning errors, has no right to require any internal assent from the faithful to the pronouncements issued by the Church” (Prop. 7). These men not only reject that right; they invert it, demanding assent to their errors. Their presence at the ceremony is not a sign of communion but of conspiracy against the Church.
Reduction of the Episcopate to Bureaucratic Functionaries
The article’s language reveals the conciliar sect’s ecclesiology: bishops are “installed,” “appointed,” “serve auxiliary roles,” and “follow the Lord along a distinctive path of service.” The pseudo-nuncio Caccia urges them to “always walk in faith, hope, and love” — a vague exhortation devoid of the munus docendi, sanctificandi, regendi. Pius XI in Quas Primas teaches that Christ’s kingship is legislative, judicial, and executive: “Christ Jesus is given to men as Redeemer… but at the same time He is the Lawgiver, to whom men owe obedience… concerning the judicial authority… He Himself says… ‘the Father judges no one, but has given all judgment to the Son’… Furthermore, Christ possesses the so-called executive power, for all must obey His commands.” The conciliar “bishop” exercises none of these. He is a middle manager in a paramasonic NGO, tasked with implementing the “synodal” agenda. The article notes Menjívar-Ayala’s joke about West Virginia feeling “more like purgatory” due to heat — a trivialization of eschatological reality typical of the conciliar clergy’s naturalistic mindset.
The Theological Impossibility of ‘Auxiliary Bishops’ in a Vacant See
The very concept of “auxiliary bishops” in the Archdiocese of Washington presupposes a valid residential archbishop. But the See of Washington has been vacant since the death of the last true bishop (if any remained after 1958). The current “archbishop,” McElroy, is a usurper appointed by an antipope. Canon 188.4 of the 1917 Code states: “Every office becomes vacant by the mere fact and without any declaration… if the cleric publicly defects from the Catholic faith.” McElroy’s public heresies — documented and unrepented — vacated any office he held ipso facto. Therefore, Studniewski and Boxie are not auxiliaries to a bishop; they are co-conspirators in the occupation of a vacant See. The article’s description of the ceremony as a “blessing” from the “Holy Father” is a sacrilegious parody of the Church’s divine constitution.
Symptomatic Level: The Conciliar Sect’s Parody of Apostolic Succession
The entire spectacle — 2,500 attendees at the National Shrine, livestreamed ordination, the “joy and privilege” rhetoric — manifests the conciliar sect’s reliance on external pomp to mask internal nullity. St. Pius X warned in Pascendi Dominici Gregis that Modernists “aim at such a development of dogmas as appears to be their corruption.” The “development” here is the transformation of the episcopate from a divine institution for the salvation of souls into a human bureaucracy for the management of a false religion. The article’s closing reference to “related articles” about other installations in Venezuela and by Robert Barron confirms the systemic, global nature of this usurpation. As the Syllabus condemns: “National churches, withdrawn from the authority of the Roman pontiff and altogether separated, can be established” (Error 37) — and the conciliar sect has effectively created a national church in America, subject to the antipope’s will, not Christ’s.
Conclusio: The installation of Studniewski, Boxie, and Menjívar-Ayala is not a growth of the Church but a metastasis of the conciliar cancer. No grace flows from these ceremonies; no authority resides in these men. The faithful are bound by divine law to reject them as strangers and thieves (John 10:1, 5), to withdraw from their pseudo-sacraments, and to adhere to the remnant of true bishops and priests who preserve the integral faith sine macula. “He who is not with Me is against Me; and he who gathers not with Me scatters” (Matt. 12:30).
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3 new bishops installed in Washington Archdiocese, Diocese of Wheeling-Charleston (ewtnnews.com)
Date: 08.07.2026