Franciscan Sisters’ Land Return: Modernist Subversion of Catholic Mission
The Catholic News Agency portal reports on the Franciscan Sisters of Perpetual Adoration selling land to the Lac du Flambeau tribe for $30,000 (1% of its market value), framing it as historic “repair for colonization” and “healing.” The land, purchased from the tribe in 1966 for their spirituality center, is returned alongside confessions of “complicity” in operating St. Mary’s Catholic Indian Boarding School (1883-1969), which they now condemn for “suppressing Native identity.” This theatrical gesture, praised by diocesan “bishop” James Powers as “justice and reconciliation,” exemplifies the neo-church’s apostasy from its divine mandate.
Sacred Mission Replaced With Naturalistic Activism
The sisters’ claim that restoring tribal land bases enables “cultural preservation” and “economic resilience” inverts the Church’s sacred duty. As Pius XI declared in Quas Primas (1925), Christ’s Kingship demands the submission of all nations to His social reign, not the perpetuation of pagan identities: “Nations will be reminded by the annual celebration of this feast that not only private individuals but also rulers and princes are bound to give public honor and obedience to Christ” (§32). The land transfer implicitly denies Extra Ecclesiam Nulla Salus—the dogma that outside the Church, no one is saved (Council of Florence, 1442)—by prioritizing tribal sovereignty over evangelization. This aligns with the condemned error: “Good hope at least is to be entertained of the eternal salvation of all those who are not at all in the true Church of Christ” (Syllabus of Errors, Pius IX, 1864, §17).
Self-Condemnation of Missionary Work as “Colonialism”
The sisters’ denunciation of their boarding school ministry—where they educated indigenous children—as “separating children from their families” and “suppressing Native identity” constitutes blasphemy against the Church’s civilizing mission. St. Boniface, Apostle of Germany, razed pagan oaks to build churches; St. JunÃpero Serra established missions to save souls, not preserve animist customs. The neo-church’s guilt narrative echoes Masonic condemnations of Catholic evangelization. Pius IX anathematized those claiming “The Church is an enemy of the progress of natural and theological sciences” (Syllabus, §57), yet these sisters parrot secular anthropology’s false dichotomy between faith and culture.
“It was painful to address our complicity, but we knew it had to be done,” former community president Sister Eileen McKenzie said.
This statement reveals theological bankruptcy. The sisters’ “complicity” lies not in spreading Christ’s Gospel but in betraying it through modernist revisionism. St. Pius X condemned such self-flagellation: “The Church listening cooperates in such a way with the Church teaching in defining truths of faith, that the Church teaching should only approve the common opinions of the Church listening“—a condemned Modernist error (Lamentabili, 1907, §6). True religious submit to Tradition, not anthropological fads.
Economic Suicide as False Charity
Selling land at 1% of its value—ostensibly to aid tribal “self-determination”—violates the Church’s right to own property for divine worship and apostolic works (CIC 1917, Canon 1495). Pius XI warned against conflating charity with socialist redistribution: “Charity cannot take the place of justice unfairly withheld” (Quadragesimo Anno, 1931, §137). This transaction, praised by tribal president John Johnson as “true healing,” embodies the naturalism condemned in Quas Primas: “When God and Jesus Christ were removed from laws and states… the foundations of authority were destroyed” (§18).
Silence on Supernatural Realities: Apostasy by Omission
The article and sisters’ statements lack any reference to sin, grace, or salvation. Their “spirit of relationship and healing” excludes the Blood of Christ, the only true reparatio (Reparatio in Latin: “restoration”). Contrast this with Our Lady of Fatima’s call (rejected as Masonic by true Catholics) for penance and conversion—though even that apparition’s focus on Russia distracted from modernism, the true “enemy within” (St. Pius X, Pascendi, 1907). The sisters’ pseudo-charity serves the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals, not the Kingship of Christ.
A Call to Fidelity
This land transfer epitomizes the conciliar sect’s apostasy. As true Catholics, we must reject all collaboration with this neo-pagan “church,” which has “equated the Christian religion with false religions” (Syllabus, §77). Let us cling to the unchanging Faith, knowing that “the gates of hell shall not prevail” (Matthew 16:18)—even as usurpers in Rome surrender Christ’s inheritance to Baal.
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Religious sisters announce historic land return to Wisconsin Native American tribe (catholicnewsagency.com)
Article date: 07.11.2025