National Catholic Register portal (July 9, 2026) reports that Speaker Mike Johnson, a Protestant sectarian, welcomes the new “apostolic nuncio” of the antipope Leo XIV, Archbishop Gabriele Giordano Caccia, hailing the “mutually reinforcing relationship between Catholicism and republican self-government” and boasting of Catholic representation in Congress and the Supreme Court as a triumph. This grotesque spectacle of a heretic legislator legitimizing the representative of a manifest heretic usurper exposes the complete substitution of the supernatural Kingdom of Christ for a naturalistic Masonic parody of civil religion.
The Protestant Legislator as Propagandist for the Paramasonic Structure
The article opens with Speaker Mike Johnson—a Southern Baptist, a sectarian severed from the una, sancta, catholica et apostolica Ecclesia—presuming to “welcome” the envoy of the antipope Leo XIV (Robert Prevost) to Washington. Johnson writes:
“It is my great honor to welcome you to Washington, D.C., during this semiquincentennial year as we commemorate 250 years of American independence.”
A non-Catholic, possessing no jurisdiction in the Church, no authority from Christ, and no share in the priesthood of the New Covenant, acts as the master of ceremonies for the installation of a “nuncio” who represents not the Vicar of Christ but the head of the abominatio desolationis occupying the Vatican. This is the imperium in imperio of the Masonic republic asserting dominance over the counterfeit hierarchy it helped install. Johnson’s “bipartisan House delegations” attending the funeral of the antipope Francis and the “inauguration” of Leo XIV are not acts of diplomatic courtesy; they are the civitas terrena rendering homage to the synagoga Satanae, fulfilling the prophecy of Pius IX in the Syllabus: “The civil government… has a right to an indirect negative power over religious affairs” (Error 41), now exercised by a Protestant speaker over a Modernist antipope.
Religious Liberty: The Condemned Heresy Elevated to Civic Virtue
Johnson explicitly ties the 250th anniversary to “the principles of human dignity and religious liberty, enshrined most famously in the Declaration of Independence.” Here lies the theological bankruptcy: libertas religiosa is not a Catholic principle; it is a condemned error. Pope Pius IX in the Syllabus Errorum (1864) anathematized the proposition: “Every man is free to embrace and profess that religion which, guided by the light of reason, he shall consider true” (Error 15) and “Man may, in the observance of any religion whatever, find the way of eternal salvation” (Error 16). Leo XIII in Immortale Dei (1885) and Libertas Praestantissimum (1888) taught that liberty of conscience is a “pestilential error” leading to the ruin of states. Pius XI in Quas Primas (1925), provided in the context, declares: “When God and Jesus Christ… were removed from laws and states and when authority was derived not from God but from men, the foundations of that authority were destroyed.” Johnson’s celebration of religious liberty as the glory of the American founding is a celebration of the very laicismus Pius XI instituted the Feast of Christ the King to combat. The “nuncio” Caccia, by accepting this praise without correction, confirms his role as an agent of the novus ordo reconciliation with the world, not a legate of Christ the King.
Archbishop Carroll: The Patron of Americanism, Not Catholic Tradition
Johnson holds up Archbishop John Carroll as the model of “the mutually reinforcing relationship between Catholicism and republican self-government.” This is a deliberate falsification. Carroll was the architect of Americanism, the heresy condemned by Leo XIII in Testem Benevolentiae (1899) for adapting Catholic doctrine to democratic principles, silencing the Social Reign of Christ the King, and promoting a “Catholicism” compatible with the Masonic Constitution. Carroll’s “relationships with several of the nation’s Founding Fathers” were not a pastoral triumph but a scandalous collaboration with Deists and Freemasons (Washington, Franklin) who denied the Divinity of Christ and the necessity of the Church for salvation. The Syllabus condemns: “The Church ought to be separated from the State, and the State from the Church” (Error 55)—precisely the principle Carroll enshrined in the early American hierarchy. Johnson’s claim that Carroll would be “proud” of 150 Catholic congressmen and six Catholic justices is an admission that these “Catholics” are formed in the heresy of Americanism, legislating abortion, contraception, and sodomy under the guise of “religious liberty.” As Pius XI warns: “The state is happy not by one means, and man by another; for the state is nothing else than a harmonious association of men”—but only when ordered to the finis ultimus, not the finis proximus of temporal peace.
The “Nuncio” of an Antipope: No Mission, No Jurisdiction, No Sacraments
Archbishop Gabriele Giordano Caccia is presented as “appointed apostolic nuncio to the United States on March 7, 2026” by “Pope Leo XIV.” Since the line of true popes ended with Pius XII (1958), Leo XIV (Robert Prevost) is a manifest heretic, an antipope who professes the Modernist errors of Vatican II: religious liberty, ecumenism, collegiality, and the new Mass. By the teaching of St. Robert Bellarmine (De Romano Pontifice), Wernz-Vidal (Ius Canonicum), and Canon 188.4 of the 1917 Code: a manifest heretic loses the papacy ipso facto, without declaration. As the Defense of Sedevacantism file demonstrates:
“A manifest heretic cannot be Pope. It cannot be objected that the character remains in him, because if he remained Pope because of the character, since it is indelible, he could never be deposed.”
Therefore, Caccia receives no canonical mission from a true pope. His “appointment” is a nullity. His previous role as “permanent observer to the United Nations” signifies the conciliar sect’s subservience to the Masonic world order, not the potestas indirecta in temporalia of the true Church. His “first address” emphasizing “peace, communion, and mission… listening, trust and shared discernment” is the language of the novus ordo synodal church—a Protestantized, Masonic parody of the missio ad gentes. He maintains relations with “the nation’s bishops”—men mostly invalidly ordained in the new rite (post-1968), lacking the character indelebilis of the priesthood, simulating the sacrifice, leading souls to hell.
The Jubilee Year: A Counterfeit Indulgence for a Counterfeit Church
Johnson references the “Jubilee Year” during which his colleagues found “deep spiritual significance.” The true Jubilee is a papal act of the potestas clavium, granting indulgences tied to the Sacrament of Penance and the Holy Mass. The conciliar “Jubilee” is a naturalistic festival of “pilgrimage” and “dialogue,” devoid of the satisfactio for sin, the confessio to a valid priest, and the Communio in the true Body of Christ. As St. Pius X condemned in Lamentabili Sane Exitu (1907): “The sacraments merely serve to remind man of the presence of the ever-benevolent Creator” (Error 41)—this is the theology of the “Jubilee” Johnson’s delegation attended. Their “spiritual significance” is autosuggestio, not grace.
Silence on the Supernatural: The Gravest Accusation
The article—and Johnson’s letter—contains not a single mention of the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass, the Sacraments, the State of Grace, the Final Judgment, Heaven, Hell, or the Social Kingship of Christ over nations. The “mission” of the “nuncio” is reduced to “foster a deep friendship between the United States and the Holy See”—a purely horizontal, diplomatic, naturalistic goal. This is the heresis gravissima of the conciliar sect: the reduction of the Church to an NGO, the Gospel to humanitarianism, the King of Kings to a “partner” of the Masonic republic. Pius XI in Quas Primas thunders: “Let rulers of states therefore not refuse public veneration and obedience to the reigning Christ… For what we wrote at the beginning of Our Pontificate about the diminishing authority of law and respect for power, the same can be applied to the present times.” Johnson, Caccia, and the “bishops” refuse this obedience. They serve Caesar under the pretense of serving Christ.
Conclusion: The Abomination of Desolation in the Holy Place
This meeting of a Protestant Speaker and a Modernist “nuncio” is the perfect icon of the tempus apostasiae. The “Holy See” is occupied by the abominatio desolationis (Matt 24:15). The “nuncio” is a functionary of the paramasonic structure. The “Catholic” politicians are apostates cooperating in the murder of the unborn and the corruption of the young. The true Church—Ecclesia militans—endures only in those bishops and priests who retain the true Mass, the true Sacraments, the true Faith, and the true jurisdiction derived from the last true Pope, Pius XII. Non praevalebunt (Matt 16:18). But woe to those who, like Johnson and Caccia, “say to the seers: See not; and to the prophets: Prophesy not unto us right things, speak unto us smooth things” (Is 30:10).
Source:
Speaker Mike Johnson Welcomes New U.S. Apostolic Nuncio (ncregister.com)
Date: 09.07.2026