USCCB’s Immigration and Synodality Agenda: A Betrayal of Catholic Sovereignty
VaticanNews portal reports (November 15, 2025) that newly elected USCCB president Paul Coakley prioritizes immigration advocacy, “synodality,” and overcoming polarization through “dialogue.” The article portrays the U.S. as “a nation built on migration experience” requiring bishops to “alleviate fears” of immigrants through “advocacy” for “just laws” facilitating migration. Coakley claims this aligns with “Pope Leo’s” call to be “agents of communion” against polarization, promoting a “synodal Church” where bishops “listen” and “dialogue” to build “unity.” This Modernist program masquerading as pastoral care constitutes apostasy from the Social Kingship of Christ.
Naturalism Replaces the Divine Law of Nations
The article’s central error lies in reducing immigration to a humanitarian issue while ignoring the ius gentium (law of nations) and Christ’s royal authority over societies. Pius XI’s encyclical Quas Primas (1925) explicitly condemns the notion that nations may disregard their God-given sovereignty: “Rulers of nations… must govern as ministers of God and acknowledge Christ’s reign by upholding His laws in legislation.” By demanding “just laws” to facilitate mass migration, the USCCB subordinates national self-preservation – a natural law imperative – to anarchic globalism.
Coakley’s claim that bishops must “calm fears” about border security directly contradicts Pope Pius IX’s Syllabus of Errors (1864), which condemns the proposition that “the State is the origin and source of all rights” (Error 39). True Catholic teaching, as articulated by St. Robert Bellarmine, holds that civil authorities possess the plenitudo potestatis (fullness of power) to regulate borders for the common good. The USCCB’s advocacy for “smooth migration processes” – including for “religious workers” – surrenders this duty to Masonic-inspired border dissolution.
Synodality: The Democratization of Apostasy
The article’s promotion of “synodality” as “walking together” exposes its revolutionary essence. Pius X’s encyclical Pascendi Dominici Gregis (1907) identifies this as classic Modernist methodology: “The Church is born of the collective conscience… Therefore, the ecclesiastical magisterium must submit to popular impulses.” Coakley’s assertion that “it’s not the Bishop’s Church… It’s our Church” formalizes this heresy, reducing the hierarchical Church to a democratic collective.
When the article states bishops must “listen to one another on the basis of mutual respect,” it ignores St. Pius X’s condemnation in Lamentabili Sane (1907): “Ecclesiastical judgments… prove the Church opposes history” (Error 3). True shepherds reject “dialogue” with error, instead invoking Anathema sit against those undermining doctrine. The USCCB’s synodal “process” – already evident in their pro-abortion “Eucharistic coherence” failures – seeks not unity in truth but complicity in heresy.
The False Mercy of Polarization
Coakley’s plea to “heal divisions” by being “instruments of communion” reveals the Conciliar sect’s core deception: replacing the Church’s combat against error with a false peace. Pope Pius IX’s Syllabus condemns those who claim “the Roman Pontiff can reconcile himself with progress, liberalism, and modern civilization” (Error 80). The USCCB’s “accompaniment” of migrants and “synodal listening” constitute precisely this betrayal, exalting human solidarity above the lex credendi (law of belief).
Nowhere does the article mention Christ’s command to “make disciples of all nations” (Matthew 28:19) or the necessity of converting migrants to the One True Faith. This omission confirms the USCCB’s adherence to Vatican II’s Dignitatis Humanae, condemned by Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre as “the legalization of religious liberty apostasy.” True Catholic immigrants – like the Cristero refugees – fled persecution to preserve the Faith, not to demand accommodation of their errors.
Conclusion: Shepherds Who Silence the Lambs
The VaticanNews article exemplifies the Conciliar sect’s program: replace the Kingship of Christ with humanitarianism, swap dogma for dialogue, and exile the Cross for comfort. As St. Pius X warned in Pascendi, “Modernists place the foundation of religious philosophy in that doctrine which is commonly called Agnosticism” – here manifested in the USCCB’s refusal to proclaim Catholic sovereignty over nations. Until “bishops” like Coakley repent and demand immigrants’ conversion – not just their “accompaniment” – they remain usurpers of apostolic authority, paving the way for Antichrist’s universal religion.
Source:
New USCCB President: Immigration remains priority for US Bishops (vaticannews.va)
Date: 12.11.2025