Federal Bureaucrats Usurp Ecclesial Authority in Detainee “Pastoral Care” Charade
Catholic News Agency portal (November 18, 2025) reports on U.S. Department of Homeland Security officials encouraging “clergy” to coordinate with Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) for detainee “pastoral care.” The article details denied Communion access at Broadview, Illinois facility despite detainees being held beyond the purported 12-hour processing window. DHS spokesman Nate Madden – identified as wearing a Benedictine ring while serving the Biden administration – claims facilities maintain “highest standards” despite court-documented overcrowding and unsanitary conditions. The piece references a recent United States Conference of “Catholic” “Bishops” statement opposing mass deportations.
Naturalism Replaces Supernatural Order in Detention “Ministry”
The entire discourse reduces pastoral care to bureaucratic transaction, ignoring lex orandi, lex credendi (the law of prayer is the law of belief). By framing sacramental access as federal “accommodation” rather than divine right, the conciliar sect collaborates in sacrilege. Quoting Madden’s claim that “detainees have their religious needs met” through state-approved channels confirms the post-conciliar heresy condemned by Pius XI: “When God and Jesus Christ were removed from laws and states… the foundations of authority were destroyed” (Quas Primas, §18).
“ICE welcomes religious and pastoral visits… encourages religious volunteers to reach out”
This total inversion of rightful authority – where Caesar permits what Christ commands – embodies the condemned Syllabus error: “The Church ought to be separated from the State, and the State from the Church” (Pius IX, Syllabus of Errors, §55). Nowhere does the article question the legitimacy of “clergy” administering sacraments while recognizing antipopes.
Conciliar Sect Complicit in Sacramental Desecration
The silence on validity exposes deeper apostasy. When “auxiliary bishop” GarcÃa-Maldonado attempts to distribute Communion, three heresies converge:
- The Novus Ordo “Eucharist” lacks proper form and intention per Leo XIII’s Apostolicae Curae
- Detainees receive in mortal sin without confession – impossible under Canon 856 (1917 Code)
- “Communion” becomes political theater rather than viaticum for souls
Pius XII’s Mediator Dei condemns such profanation: “The Eucharist is not a common meal… it is the august sacrifice of Christ” (§120). The article’s concern for “unsanitary conditions” while ignoring sacrilegious Communions proves Modernist prioritization of material over spiritual.
USCCB’s Heretical “Pastoral Message” Condemned by Tradition
The November 12 statement from conciliar “bishops” exemplifies condemned errors:
- Prioritizing illegal migrants’ comfort over citizens’ common good (contrary to Pius XII’s Exsul Familia)
- Equating deportation with dignity violation (rejecting Romans 13:1-7 on civil authority)
- Omitting requirement for immigrants to convert (against Boniface VIII’s Unam Sanctam)
When Madden retorts that “the Catholic Church is wrong on immigration,” he unknowingly highlights the conciliar sect’s discontinuity with true doctrine. Leo XIII’s Immortale Dei establishes the framework: “States cannot without crime act as if God did not exist… the Church has the right to govern herself” (§6).
Broadview Facility as Microcosm of Conciliar Apostasy
The logistical debate obscures theological bankruptcy. Whether detainees stay 12 hours or 6 days matters less than:
| Conciliar Error | Traditional Doctrine |
|---|---|
| “Pastoral care” as federal accommodation | State must recognize Christ the King’s rights (Quas Primas) |
| “Religious needs” pluralism | Extra Ecclesiam nulla salus (Council of Florence) |
| Madden’s Benedictine ring while serving evil | No concordat with hell (2 Cor 6:14) |
The true scandal isn’t denied sacraments but sacraments administered by invalid “priests” to unprepared souls. As the Catholic Encyclopedia (1913) states: “The State cannot exclude the Church from any sphere of public life… religion must be the foundation of civil society” (“State and Church”).
Operation Midway Blitz Versus Christ’s Eternal Kingdom
Both protesters and ICE agents operate within the same naturalistic framework. The “Coalition for Spiritual and Public Leadership” exemplifies Americanist heresy condemned in Testem Benevolentiae (Leo XIII). Their activism substitutes social justice for metanoia, forgetting Christ’s warning: “What does it profit a man to gain the whole world, and lose his soul?” (Mark 8:36).
Meanwhile, DHS weaponizes “safety concerns” to suppress true religion, fulfilling Pius X’s warning: “States must be subject to the Church… otherwise they will crumble into ruins” (Vehementer Nos, §3). The pepper-balling of a Presbyterian minister merely continues Cromwellian persecution under “liberal” guise.
Conclusion: Only Return to Christ the King Offers Solution
This imbroglio proves the conciliar sect’s impotence against secular tyranny. True Catholics recognize:
- No valid sacraments exist in neo-church structures
- Illegal immigration stems from globalist dismantling of Christendom
- Only restoration of Social Kingship of Christ ends crisis
As Archbishop Lefebvre – himself compromised yet occasionally accurate – noted: “We are living through the demolition of the Church.” Until true hierarchy condemns Vatican II’s religious liberty heresy (contra Mirari Vos, Gregory XVI), such sacrilegious farces will continue. Let us pray for the Consecration of Russia to the Immaculate Heart – not the false Fatima version, but according to true tradition – that Christ may reign again over nations now enslaved to antichristian powers.
Source:
Federal officials encourage clergy to ‘reach out’ on pastoral care for detainees (catholicnewsagency.com)
Date: 18.11.2025