US Immigration Restrictions Betray Christ’s Kingship Over Nations
The VaticanNews portal (December 3, 2025) reports the Trump administration’s suspension of immigration applications from 19 nations under pretext of national security. This policy cites a recent attack by an Afghan suspect on National Guard members as justification. Concurrently, US “bishops” issued a milquetoast “Special Message” advocating for “meaningful reform” while paying lip service to human dignity. Both positions constitute a betrayal of Catholic integralism and the Social Reign of Christ the King.
Naturalism Replaces Divine Law in Immigration Policy
The memorandum’s justification rests on purely naturalistic criteria: “national security and public safety” divorced from any consideration of ius divinum (divine law). Pius XI’s encyclical Quas Primas (1925) declares: “Kings and princes are bound to give public honor and obedience to Christ… The annual recurrence [of Christ the King’s feast] will remind nations that the Church… has the innate and legitimate right to freedom from governmental interference.” The policy’s omission of religious persecution as grounds for asylum – while focusing solely on secular security concerns – rebels against Immortale Dei (Leo XIII, 1885): “The State must not absorb the individual or the family; both should be allowed free and untrammelled action so far as is consistent with the common good and the interest of others.”
Conciliar Bishops Promote Anthropocentric Heresy
“The Bishops’ message called for nations ‘to recognize the fundamental dignity of all persons, including immigrants’ and called for ‘meaningful reform’ of immigration laws.”
This statement commits three doctrinal errors:
- Omits supernatural finality: True human dignity flows from being made ad imaginem Dei (in God’s image) and ordered toward beatific vision. Pius IX’s Syllabus condemns proposition #64: “The violation of any solemn oath… is altogether lawful and worthy of the highest praise when done through love of country” – precisely the nationalist idolatry enabling such policies.
- Equivocates on “reform”: Without specifying conversion to Catholic social order, this echoes Vatican II’s heresy of religious liberty (Dignitatis Humanae). As Pius IX taught: “States must recognize the true religion… it is absurd to foster that attitude which grants free rein to the pernicious errors which lead the minds of men astray” (Quanta Cura, 1864).
- Usurps magisterial authority: Post-conciliar “bishops” lack jurisdiction, rendering their statements theologically null. Lamentabili Sane (1907) condemns proposition #6: “The Church listening cooperates… that the Church teaching should only approve the common opinions” – exactly this democratic inversion of hierarchy.
Historical Roots in Americanist Heresy
Trump’s rhetoric (“we don’t want them in our country“) and the “bishops'” response both stem from Leo XIII’s condemned Americanist heresy: “The Church ought to adapt herself to modern civilization… [and] relax her ancient rigor” (Testem Benevolentiae, 1899). This crisis was foretold in Our Lady of La Salette’s prophecy: “Rome will lose the faith and become the seat of the Antichrist” – fulfilled when post-1958 antipopes abandoned Catholic states doctrine.
Omission of Christocentric Solution
Neither secular authorities nor conciliar functionaries reference the only remedy for social disorder: “When all men… permit themselves to be governed by Christ, then at last will sweet peace return” (Pius XI, Quas Primas). The article’s concluding call to “support us in bringing the Pope’s words into every home” compounds the scandal – Bergoglio’s modernist poison contradicts true papal teaching. True Catholics must instead work for:
- Recognition of Christ as King of Nations through state consecrations
- Re-establishment of immigration policies favoring Catholic refugees over Muslims
- Repudiation of Vatican II’s religious liberty heresies enabling secular tyranny
Source:
US pauses processing of immigration applications (vaticannews.va)
Date: 03.12.2025