Conciliar Sect Legitimizes Communist Control of Chinese Episcopate Ninth Illicit Consecration
The EWTN News portal reports that on 15 October 2026, Father Ignatius Ding Zuyao was consecrated as “bishop” of Haimen in mainland China, marking the ninth such consecration under the self-styled “Pope” Leo XIV (Robert Prevost) and the nineteenth under the so-called “provisional agreement” between the Vatican and the People’s Republic of China. The article notes the secrecy surrounding these ceremonies — announcements made only on the day of consecration — and highlights that two previously “underground” prelates were subsequently recognized by the atheistic communist regime, “regularizing their ecclesiastical and civil status.” This transactional capitulation to a persecuting state manifests the total abandonment of the Church’s divine constitution and the Social Kingship of Christ by the conciliar sect occupying Rome.