Antichurch Hierarchy’s Theatrical Return: Hicks Resumes Novus Ordo Amidst Apostasy
EWTN News portal reports (August 7, 2026) that the conciliar “archbishop” of New York, Ronald Hicks, resumed public “ministry” at St. Patrick’s Cathedral on August 6, the feast of the Transfiguration, celebrating a Novus Ordo service for the profession of vows of the “Sisters of Life” after a month-long recovery from retinal detachment surgery. The article notes this date marked the six-month anniversary of his installation by the usurper “Leo XIV” (Robert Prevost), and references the antipope’s upcoming bestowal of the pallium on American “archbishops.” This theatrical return to the sanctuary of the neo-church perfectly encapsulates the empty ritualism of a counterfeit hierarchy that possesses neither jurisdiction nor the True Sacrifice, parading its naturalistic preoccupations while the rights of Christ the King are trampled.