The cited article from Vatican News reports the appointment of Archbishop Anthony Randazzo as Prefect of the Dicastery for Legislative Texts by the individual referred to as “Pope Leo XIV.” It presents this act within the framework of a functioning, legitimate hierarchical structure, using neutral bureaucratic language to describe the transfer of a high-ranking official within the post-conciliar Vatican administration. The article’s thesis, implicit in its very format and tone, is that the current occupants of the Vatican are valid Catholic pastors exercising legitimate jurisdiction, and that their administrative acts are ordinary manifestations of the Church’s governance. This narrative is a profound theological and spiritual bankruptcy, a masterclass in the Modernist strategy of normalizing apostasy through sterile, institutional reporting that studiously avoids any reference to supernatural truth, the state of souls, or the immutable doctrines of the pre-1958 Church.