The participation of Bishop Joseph Brennan of Fresno in the April 18, 2026, consecration of an Episcopal bishop raises serious questions about fidelity to Catholic doctrine and discipline and begs for Rome to address. By actively joining in the laying on of hands and reciting the ordination formula, the bishop went well beyond passive ecumenical courtesy. He took part in a rite that the Catholic Church has judged invalid for more than a century. Pope Leo XIII’s 1896 encyclical Apostolicae Curae declared Anglican ordinations absolutely null and utterly void due to defects in both form and intention. That judgment has never been reversed and applies fully to the Episcopal Church. A Catholic bishop treating such a ceremony as if it confers the sacrament of Holy Orders publicly undermines this solemn teaching. It gives the appearance that invalid ordinations are somehow equivalent to those handed down in the Catholic Church through unbroken apostolic succession. This action also conflicts with longstanding Church law. Both the 1917 and 1983 Codes of Canon Law prohibit active participation in the rites of non-Catholics. Co-consecration is not a permitted gesture of goodwill. It constitutes communicatio in sacris (communion in sacred things) in its clearest form, something the Church has consistently restricted to avoid confusion and false equivalence. Ecumenical guidelines allow limited, passive presence in some cases, but they explicitly exclude anything that could imply recognition of orders the Church declares null. The broader effects compound the problem. In an age of doctrinal confusion, the visible collaboration of a successor of the apostles with a community that ordains women and holds positions sharply at odds with Catholic teaching on marriage, life, and sexuality creates scandal. It suggests to the faithful that differences about the priesthood, the sacraments, and moral truth are secondary to a vague spirit of unity. This fosters indifferentism rather than genuine ecumenism, which requires honesty about what still divides Christians. Bishop Brennan’s decision, however well-intentioned, risks weakening the Catholic witness to the apostolic ministry entrusted by Christ to His Church. The faithful deserve shepherds who uphold the fullness of the faith with clarity, even when it means declining invitations that compromise it.