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How Clergy Went From Being Holy and Strong to Hip and Soy, by Riaan Van Zyl – Brown Pelican Society of Lousiana

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Archbishop Ronald Hicks. Credit: St. Patrick’s Cathedral, YouTube, Screenshot.

By Riaan Van Zyl, Integrity Magazine, June 18, 2026

Riaan Van Zyl is a convert to the faith, an ultra-Traditionalist Catholic Counter-Revolutionary, and advocate for integralism. A seasoned journalist, he has worked as a crime and political reporter, investigative writer, and columnist. His Catholic writing has thus far appeared on his blog, Radical Fidelity. He occasionally commits poetry and lives in Roodepoort, South Africa

 

Hicks’ desperate episcopacy is just one example of the ‘folksy’ style adopted by some post-Vatican II clergy

riaanArchbishop Ronald Hicks seems determined to “win over New Yorkers” by talking sports rather than preaching sainthood. And to embarrass his office with his effeminate attempts at being “hip.”

In a post-championship Mass homily at St. Patrick’s Cathedral this past Sunday, Hicks proudly announced, “Even though I’m new to New York, I caught the Knicks fever. I caught the Knicks’ passion … and last night, as the eleventh archbishop … I sat with my number 11 jersey on. I watched every minute until victory.”

Catholics on social media were repulsed by the spectacle. Some drew attention to Hick’s beta male manner of speaking. Others highlighted the “soy face” he made during a celebration with Muslim socialist mayor Zohran Mamdani.

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