Court Enshrines Apostate Ministry at ICE Facility, Legitimizes Invalid Sacraments

Summary: The EWTN News portal reports that on March 21, 2026, a U.S. district judge ordered the Department of Homeland Security to allow “religious ministers,” including a Jesuit priest, formal access to detainees at a federal facility in Minneapolis. The ruling mandates a written protocol for clergy visits, framing the issue as one of “constitutionally protected exercise of religion.” The article presents the ministers’ work as a “sacred obligation” to provide “pastoral care,” “prayer,” and “sacramental ministry.” This legal victory, celebrated by the plaintiffs and their counsel, rests on the modernist principle of religious liberty and the false equivalence of all Christian ministers, thereby legitimizing the pastoral activities of heretical and schismatic sects occupying Catholic churches. The core error is the uncritical acceptance of post-conciliar “clergy” as legitimate ministers of the Catholic Church, a premise that is theologically bankrupt and a direct fruit of the conciliar apostasy.