Baton Rouge “Bishop” Grants Sacrilegious Dispensation Amid Immigration Crackdown
The Catholic News Agency (December 8, 2025) reports that “Bishop” Michael Duca of Baton Rouge has granted dispensation from Sunday Mass obligations for immigrants fearing deportation under the Trump administration’s “Swamp Sweep” operation. Citing “a heavy heart,” Duca permits Catholics to substitute Mass with home prayers, rosaries, or novenas until they deem it “safe” to attend. This follows similar dispensations in San Bernardino, Nashville, and Charlotte dioceses, framed as compassion for those facing “anxiety and fear.”
Violation of Divine Positive Law
The Baton Rouge dispensation constitutes direct rebellion against De Fide Catholic teaching. Canon 1248 of the 1917 Codex Iuris Canonici permits dispensation only for physical impossibility (illness, care of infants, travel exceeding two hours) or legitimate absence approved by one’s ordinary. Pius XII’s Mediator Dei (1947) condemns substituting private devotions for the Holy Sacrifice: “The Church has never allowed liturgical services to be replaced by pious exercises” (§158). Duca’s decree transforms the Mass – the unbloody renewal of Calvary – into optional spirituality, betraying the Council of Trent’s anathema against those who claim “the Mass is merely a sacrifice of praise and thanksgiving” (Session XXII, Canon 1).
Naturalism Replaces Supernatural Faith
By prioritizing earthly safety over eternal salvation, Duca inverts the hierarchy of values. Our Lord’s command – “Render to Caesar the things that are Caesar’s, and to God the things that are God’s” (Mark 12:17) – demands unconditional fidelity to divine worship regardless of civil consequences. The early Church faced systematic persecution, yet the Didache (70 AD) records Christians gathering “on the Lord’s Day” even as Roman authorities hunted them. Modernist shepherds now teach cowardice disguised as prudence, forgetting Christ’s warning: “Do not fear those who kill the body but cannot kill the soul” (Matthew 10:28).
Sacramental Bankruptcy and Pastoral Malpractice
Duca’s directive to “pray the rosary” while avoiding Mass exposes the conciliar sect’s sacramental decay. The Catechism of St. Pius X (1905) teaches: “The precept of hearing Mass obliges under mortal sin” (Q. 632). When access to valid sacraments exists (as in Baton Rouge’s indult communities), refusal constitutes grave sacrilege. No Catholic canonized before 1958 – from St. Maria Goretti to St. Maximilian Kolbe – would endorse abandoning the Eucharist for temporal security. This “pastoral care” echoes the Arian crisis, where compromising bishops prioritized political accommodation over doctrinal fidelity.
Omission of the Church’s True Mission
The dispensation’s poisonous fruit lies in its omissions:
- No mention of sanctifying grace: The “fearful” are encouraged towards sentimental devotions rather than sacramental confession and reception of Holy Communion to strengthen their souls.
- Silence on martyrdom: Early Christians faced crucifixion and wild beasts rather than miss Mass. Today’s shepherds teach flight from spiritual combat.
- False ecumenism: Duca laments deportations affecting “immigrants across denominations,” equating heretics with members of Christ’s Mystical Body.
Collusion With Revolutionary Agendas
This dispensation advances three modernist heresies condemned in Pius IX’s Syllabus of Errors:
“The Church ought to be separated from the State, and the State from the Church” (Error 55)
“Human reason, without any reference whatsoever to God, is the sole arbiter of truth and falsehood” (Error 3)
“Every man is free to embrace and profess that religion which, guided by the light of reason, he shall consider true” (Error 15)
By accepting the state’s alleged right to intimidate believers from worship, Duca denies Christ’s kingship over nations (Pius XI, Quas Primas §18). His call for “a just solution” adopts the UN’s humanitarian language while ignoring the only solution: the Social Reign of Christ the King.
Conclusion: Shepherds Who Fleece the Flock
When “bishops” offer dispensations from Mass but never from paying taxes or complying with unjust laws, they reveal themselves as hirelings (John 10:12). The Baton Rouge decree continues the conciliar sect’s fifty-year pattern: abandoning the supernatural to serve earthly powers. As St. John Chrysostom warned: “The road to Hell is paved with the skulls of erring priests, with bishops as their signposts.” Until true shepherds restore the integral Faith, Catholics must seek valid sacraments – regardless of persecution – and reject all compromises with the world.
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Baton Rouge Diocese announces Sunday Mass dispensation for migrants fearing deportation (catholicnewsagency.com)
Date: 08.12.2025