US Bishops’ Consecration Facade Masks Apostasy
Catholic News Agency reports that the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) has approved plans to consecrate the nation to the Sacred Heart of Jesus in 2026, coinciding with America’s 250th anniversary. Bishop Kevin Rhoades of Fort Wayne-South Bend framed this act as fulfilling Vatican II’s mandate to “perfect the temporal order with the spirit of the Gospel,” while citing antipopes Bergoglio (“Francis”) and Prevost (“Leo XIV”) alongside authentic magisterial references to Pius XI and Leo XIII. The article notes accompanying catechetical materials will be produced in multiple languages, with Archbishop Thomas Wenski suggesting political figures like Donald Trump attend the June 2026 ceremony during the USCCB’s Orlando meeting.
Theological Bankruptcy of Conciliar “Consecration”
The very notion that apostate shepherds can consecrate anything to Christ reveals the depth of the conciliar sect’s self-delusion. As Pius XI declared in Quas Primas: “Nations will be happy and peaceful only when they recognize Christ’s royal power and obey His laws” – an unambiguous requirement wholly absent from the USCCB’s proposal. True consecration demands three irreducible elements: 1) Public recognition of Christ’s social reign, 2) Repudiation of America’s foundation in religious indifferentism, and 3) Abrogation of the heresy of religious liberty condemned by Pius IX in the Syllabus of Errors (Proposition 77). Instead, Rhoades invokes Vatican II’s heretical claim that the Church exists merely to “perfect the temporal order” – a naturalistic reductionism condemned by St. Pius X in Pascendi Dominici Gregis as modernist immanentism.
Modernist Subversion of Sacred Heart Devotion
The article’s reference to Bergoglio’s encyclical Dilexit Nos as promoting Sacred Heart devotion exposes the operation’s diabolical inversion. When Bergoglio writes of “building God’s kingdom of love and justice,” he employs code words for the Marxist liberation theology he advanced throughout his apostate career. Authentic devotion to the Sacred Heart, as revealed to St. Margaret Mary, requires reparation for sins against Christ’s Kingship – particularly the “indifferentism in which so many Christians are buried” (Leo XIII, Annum Sacrum). Yet the USCCB has spent decades promoting the very indifferentism condemned:
“The bishops will develop prayer resources, including a novena… for use by dioceses, parishes, and other groups.”
This bureaucratic packaging reduces the votum sanguinis (blood vow) of Sacred Heart devotion to another programmatic activity – all while the USCCB continues its scandalous ecumenical partnerships with Protestant sects and its silence on America’s abortion holocaust. Archbishop Etienne’s concern that the devotion is “almost complex” reveals the infantilized faith of conciliar “clergy,” incapable of transmitting the odium theologicum (theological hatred of error) essential for true reparation.
Betrayal of Reparative Devotion
The historical summary provided constitutes a dangerous half-truth. While correctly noting Pius IX’s 1856 establishment of the feast, it omits the Church’s requirement that nations formally recognize Christ’s sovereignty – a condition fulfilled when Ecuador consecrated itself in 1874, but systematically violated by the USCCB’s embrace of America’s pluralist heresy. Sister Margaret Mary’s visions demanded public acts of national submission, not interfaith photo-ops with politicians. Rhoades’ collaboration with Trump’s “Religious Liberty Commission” compounds the sacrilege, as the First Amendment’s false “liberty” was declared an “erroneous opinion” by Pius VII and “insanity” by Gregory XVI (Mirari Vos).
The proposed multilingual materials will inevitably propagate the conciliar sect’s poisoned theology. Consider the USCCB’s 2022 document “Keeping Christ’s Sacred Promise,” which praised Protestant “ecclesial communities” as “instruments of salvation” – a direct contradiction of Pius XII’s Mystici Corporis Christi that outside the Church nullus omnino salvatur (no one at all is saved). When Wenski suggests inviting Trump and Vance, he reveals the operation’s true purpose: ecclesial theater to mask the conciliar sect’s complicity in America’s culture of death.
Silence Speaks Louder Than Empty Rituals
Nowhere does the plan address the necessary preconditions for valid consecration: revocation of the USCCB’s 1983 pastoral letter “The Challenge of Peace” (which endorsed nuclear pacifism condemned by Pius XII), repudiation of their 2006 document on Jewish relations (denying conversion necessity), or abolition of their scandalous “Unity in Diversity” ecumenism. This consecration constitutes blasphemous simulation – like Caiaphas blessing the Temple while plotting deicide. As the Holy Office decreed in 1882: “No act of consecration or reparation can have value when performed by those in formal heresy or communion with heresiarchs” (Denzinger 1963a). The USCCB’s ritual amounts to spiritual whitewashing of America’s apostate foundations and their own betrayal of the Kingship they pretend to honor.
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U.S. bishops to consecrate nation to Sacred Heart of Jesus (catholicnewsagency.com)
Date: 11.11.2025