CatholicVote’s Immigration Report: A Modernist Distortion of Catholic Social Teaching
The Catholic News Agency portal (November 13, 2025) reports on CatholicVote’s document “Immigration Enforcement and the Christian Conscience,” which attempts to justify Trump-era immigration policies through selective citation of post-conciliar sources. The report claims Christians must balance “charity toward the immigrant with the common good,” while dismissing the USCCB’s criticism of mass deportations as mere “policy preferences.” CatholicVote President Kelsey Reinhardt asserts that “mercy and justice travel together,” yet the document systematically subordinates supernatural charity to naturalistic state interests.
Naturalism Masquerading as Catholic Social Doctrine
The report’s central error lies in its reduction of caritas (supernatural charity) to mere humanitarian compassion. While quoting paragraph 1903 of the post-conciliar Catechism about authorities pursuing the “common good,” the document omits the sine qua non condition for any legitimate common good: the Social Kingship of Christ. As Pius XI declared in Quas Primas (1925): “Nations will be happy and peaceful only inasmuch as they obey the rule of our Divine Savior.” The report’s silence about Christ’s royal authority over nations constitutes a grave theological omission.
Benjamin Mann’s contention that “there is no such thing as an official ‘Catholic position’ on the practical details of immigration policy” directly contradicts the anti-Modernist oath prescribed by St. Pius X: “I hold with certainty and sincerely confess that faith is not a blind sentiment of religion welling up from the depths of the subconscious…but a genuine assent of the intellect to truth received by hearing from an external source” (Lamentabili Sane Exitu, 1907). The Church’s social doctrine flows from divine revelation – not political pragmatism.
Post-Conciliar Confusion Breeds Heretical Equivocation
CatholicVote’s appeal to “recent popes” as justifying policy pluralism exposes its theological bankruptcy. Since the apostate Montini (Paul VI), the Vatican occupiers have propagated the heresy of religious liberty condemned by Pius IX in the Syllabus of Errors (1864): “Every man is free to embrace and profess that religion which, guided by the light of reason, he shall consider true” (Error #15). This false principle underpins the report’s claim that border walls and deportations constitute “humane” policy options.
The document’s assertion that “it is actually immoral…to accept immigrants to the detriment of its own citizens” inverts Catholic priorities. True morality requires nations to first ensure immigrants embrace the Catholic Faith, as Pope Pius XII taught in Exsul Familia (1952): “The Church has the duty to care for the spiritual welfare of migrants…lest they fall into religious indifference.” The report reduces immigration ethics to material calculations about “detriment,” ignoring the salvation of souls.
USCCB’s Complicity in Revolutionary Subversion
While correctly noting the USCCB’s immigration statement opposes mass deportations, CatholicVote fails to recognize this pseudo-episcopal body’s illegitimacy. These conciliar sect “bishops” possess neither valid orders nor jurisdiction, having been consecrated with the invalid Paul VI rite. Their “You Are Not Alone” migrant initiative constitutes spiritual sabotage, facilitating the invasion of Protestant and pagan foreigners who accelerate America’s apostasy.
The true Catholic position remains that articulated by Pope Pius X: “There is no true civilization without a moral civilization, and no true moral civilization without the true religion” (Apostolic Letter to the Bishops of Chile, 1907). Immigration policy must serve the conversion of nations to Christ the King – not mere economic or security interests. CatholicVote’s naturalistic framework, which treats immigrants as labor commodities or security threats rather than souls needing baptism, betrays its alignment with modernist errors.
Satanic Subversion Through Controlled Opposition
CatholicVote’s veneer of traditionalism conceals revolutionary premises. By accepting the post-conciliar sect’s authority and citing its counterfeit catechism, the organization operates as controlled opposition. Its report exemplifies the condemned Modernist tactic of “evolution of dogma” (Lamentabili Sane Exitu, #21-22), treating immigration doctrine as malleable to political circumstances rather than derived from immutable principles.
The document’s focus on “human trafficking” and “drug cartels” as primary immigration concerns reflects the materialist worldview of Freemasonry, which seeks to reduce all social questions to economic or criminal terms. True Catholics must instead prioritize what the USCCB omits: the eternal destiny of immigrants’ souls and the duty of Catholic rulers to evangelize foreign populations before admitting them.
The Only Catholic Solution: Christ the King
Neither CatholicVote’s nationalist enforcement nor the USCCB’s open borders represent authentic doctrine. The integral Catholic position requires:
- Complete closure of borders to non-Catholics except for missionary purposes
- Mandatory Catholic instruction for all admitted foreigners
- Deportation of immigrants who refuse conversion after reasonable time
- Prioritization of Catholic refugees fleeing persecution
As Pope Leo XIII declared in Immortale Dei (1885): “States cannot without criminality act as if God did not exist.” Until America publicly consecrates itself to Christ the King and establishes Catholicism as the state religion, no immigration policy can satisfy justice or charity. This supernatural perspective remains wholly absent from both CatholicVote’s report and the conciliar sect’s statements, proving their shared apostasy from Catholic truth.
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CatholicVote report examines moral implications of immigration enforcement (catholicnewsagency.com)
Date: 13.11.2025