Catholic News Agency’s November 5, 2025 article mourns the death of “Fr.” Guillermo Treviño Jr., a 39-year-old cleric from the Diocese of Davenport who died after attending antipope Leo XIV’s World Meeting of Popular Movements. The piece glorifies his activism with Escucha Mi Voz Iowa, his opposition to U.S. immigration enforcement, and his lobbying of Senator Chuck Grassley, while quoting praise from “Bishop” Dennis Walsh and “Archbishop” Thomas Zinkula. This hagiography of social agitation reveals the conciliar sect’s complete abandonment of sacramental priorities.
Subordination of Supernatural to Natural Ends
The article celebrates how Treviño “nurtured the meatpacking and farming communities” not through administering sacraments or combating mortal sin, but through secular labor organizing. This inversion of priorities directly violates Pius XI’s condemnation in Quas Primas (1925): “When once men recognize, both in private and in public life, that Christ is King, society will at last receive the great blessings of real liberty, well-ordered discipline, peace and harmony.” The conciliar sect replaces the Kingship of Christ with the reign of social workers.
Nowhere does the article mention Treviño’s sacramental efficacy, frequency of confession administration, or doctrinal orthodoxy – the sole marks of authentic priesthood. Instead, it touts his 2022 Cardinal Bernardin Award, named after the architect of the USCCB’s seamless garment heresy. Pius X’s Lamentabili Sane (1907) condemned precisely this modernist reduction: “The Church is incapable of effectively defending evangelical ethics, because it steadfastly adheres to its views, which cannot be reconciled with modern progress” (Proposition 63).
Canonical Irregularities and Sacramental Doubts
The Davenport diocese admits Treviño simultaneously “pastored” two parishes due to clerical shortages – an impossibility under Canon 94 §2 of the 1917 Code, which mandates personal residence for pastors. This administrative abuse stems from the post-conciliar destruction of priestly formation condemned in Pius X’s Pascendi Dominici Gregis: “Modernists pass judgment on the sacraments just as they do on everything else… For them the sacraments are mere symbols or signs.”
The article’s silence on Treviño’s ordination lineage raises grave doubts. Post-1968 sacramental rites lack proper form and intention, as Paul VI’s Missale Romanum (1969) destroyed the sacrificial nature of the Mass. Those ordained with the 1968 Pontificale Romanum – like Treviño, ordained in 2015 – possess questionable holy orders. As the Holy Office decreed in 1896: “Anglican orders are null and void” due to defective rite and intention – a defect exponentially worse in post-conciliar ordinations.
Political Activism as Replacement Theology
The Des Moines Register quotes “Archbishop” Zinkula praising Treviño’s “passion for serving and advocating for immigrants” alongside his love for “Star Wars and professional wrestling.” This profane trivialization exposes the conciliar sect’s anthropocentric shift, condemned by Pius IX’s Syllabus of Errors: “The Church ought to be separated from the State, and the State from the Church” (Proposition 55).
Treviño’s lobbying against ICE enforcement directly defies Romans 13:1 (“Let every soul be subject unto the higher powers”) and Pius XII’s teaching in Summi Pontificatus (1939): “The empire of Christ over all nations rejects… that false liberty which in truth is shameful license.” His godson’s deportation despite DACA status proves divine judgment on illegal immigration, as the Fourth Commandment requires obedience to just laws.
Roman Collaboration with Modernist Revolution
Treviño’s participation in antipope Leo XIV’s “World Meeting of Popular Movements” links him to the Bergoglian heresy of popular supremacy over divine law. This gathering – a pseudo-synodal exercise in liberation theology – continues the revolutionary agenda condemned in Pius VI’s Quod Aliquantum (1791) against the French Civil Constitution: “They establish as a principle this false and absurd maxim, or rather this delirium, that the people are the primary origin of all rights and of all powers.”
The article’s claim that Treviño’s funeral will occur at Sacred Heart Cathedral in Davenport confirms the conciliar sect’s sacramental bankruptcy. As Pius XII taught in Mediator Dei (1947): “The worship rendered by the Church to God must be, in its entirety, interior as well as exterior.” Post-conciliar funerals – especially those livestreamed on YouTube – reduce sacred rites to multimedia spectacles devoid of propitiatory sacrifice.
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A beloved Iowa priest and immigrant advocate dies at 39 (catholicnewsagency.com)
Article date: 05.11.2025