The Catholic News Agency reported on December 19, 2025, that “Bishop” Michael Pham dedicated a sculpture titled “Angels Unawares” at the University of San Diego. This 8-foot bronze replica of a statue originally commissioned by anti-pope Bergoglio for St. Peter’s Square depicts 140 migrants on a boat with angel wings. USD President Jim Harris claims it reminds viewers to care for “poor and vulnerable communities,” while Vice President Michael Lovette-Colyer boasted it makes the campus “a welcoming place” near the Mexican border. The sculpture’s Canadian creator Timothy Schmalz – known for his blasphemous “Homeless Jesus” installations – admitted the work was developed in consultation with “Cardinal” Michael Czerny, architect of Bergoglian migration ideology. The dedication coincided with the UN’s International Migrants Day, with the university explicitly aligning itself with the “US Conference of ‘Bishops'” political advocacy on immigration.
Naturalism Displacing Supernatural Faith
The entire spectacle constitutes a perfect case study in the conciliar sect’s systematic substitution of humanitarian sentiment for Catholic dogma. While Catholic tradition demands that all earthly realities be ordered toward man’s supernatural end – the salvation of souls through Christ the King – this installation inverts priorities by:
- Elevating migration to sacramental status through angelic imagery
- Equating social activism with evangelization (Schmalz’s claim that his art “preaches the Gospel”)
- Omitting any reference to the migrants’ spiritual state or need for conversion
Pius XI’s encyclical Quas primas (1925) condemns such naturalism: “When God and Jesus Christ were removed from laws and states… the entire human society had to be shaken because it lacked a stable and strong foundation.” The sculpture’s focus on temporal struggles ignores the Church’s true mission – to lead souls to eternal salvation through the One True Faith.
Located near a United States international border… our geographic location calls for all people to respect human dignity.
This statement by Lovette-Colyer epitomizes the conciliar sect’s abdication of spiritual authority. The Church doesn’t exist to promote secular “human dignity” concepts, but to proclaim Christ’s exclusive claim as “the way, the truth, and the life” (John 14:6). Canon 1350 §2 of the 1917 Code mandates that Catholic institutions “promote piety and religion,” not UN migration agendas.
Heretical Artistic Representation
Schmalz’s corpus reveals a pattern of blasphemous naturalism:
- Homeless Jesus depicts Our Lord as a vagrant rather than glorified King
- When I Was in Prison reduces the Eucharistic Christ to social justice symbol
- Angels Unawares sacralizes illegal border crossings as salvific acts
The artist’s admission that the sculpture belongs to “the same category as the Statue of Liberty” confirms its Masonic inspiration. The original statue was conceived by Freemason Frédéric Auguste Bartholdi as “Liberty Enlightening the World” – an explicitly anti-Catholic symbol celebrating revolutionary ideals. Schmalz’s claim to be “an artist soldier for the Vatican” accurately identifies his masters – not the Holy See of Pius X or Pius XII, but the Masonic-infiltrated Vatican II sect.
Do not neglect hospitality, for through it some have unknowingly entertained angels (Heb 13:2)
This Scripture is twisted to justify migration idolatry. The original verse refers to individual acts of charity toward strangers – not state-sanctioned border violations. The conciliar sect deliberately omits Scripture’s consistent condemnation of lawlessness (Romans 13:1-7, 1 Peter 2:13-17) and Christ’s command to “render unto Caesar what is Caesar’s” (Matthew 22:21).
Canonical Irregularities and False Shepherds
“Bishop” Pham’s participation constitutes formal cooperation with apostasy under Canon 2335 of the 1917 Code (since he legitimizes Bergoglian heresies). His Vietnamese refugee background is weaponized to suggest moral authority – a tactic Bergoglio routinely employs with his “peripheries” rhetoric.
The involvement of “Cardinal” McElroy’s successor reveals continuity with San Diego’s notorious modernist tradition. McElroy’s 2022 call for “radical inclusion” of LGBT activists and Communion for adulterers laid groundwork for this migration idolatry. The university’s Kroc School of Peace Studies (named after a McDonald’s heiress) exemplifies capitalist-globalist collusion masquerading as Catholicism.
Omissions That Condemn
Conspicuously absent from the ceremony and reporting:
- Any mention of Christ’s social kingship (Quas primas)
- Warning that migrants must convert to Catholicism for salvation (Extra Ecclesiam nulla salus)
- Recognition that illegal entry violates the Fifth Commandment (by undermining national sovereignty)
- Distinction between legitimate asylum and demographic warfare via migration
The sculpture’s dedication on UN Migrants Day confirms the conciliar sect’s subservience to New World Order agendas. Pius IX’s Syllabus of Errors condemned such globalism in Proposition 80: “The Roman Pontiff can, and ought to, reconcile himself, and come to terms with progress, liberalism and modern civilization.”
Symptom of Apostasy
This event manifests three fatal errors of post-conciliarism:
| Conciliar Error | Catholic Truth |
|---|---|
| Migrants as new “saints” | Only baptized Catholics in state of grace can achieve holiness |
| “Welcoming” as supreme virtue | Truth (including immigration laws) must precede mercy |
| UN agenda as pastoral priority | Christ’s reign over nations as sole focus |
Theological justification comes from Bergoglian collaborator “Cardinal” Czerny – son of communist refugees who co-authored the heretical Vademecum for Migrants claiming border crossings are “acts of survival deserving respect.” This directly contradicts St. Thomas Aquinas: “Laws are unjust when they impose unequal burdens… or exceed the lawgiver’s authority” (ST I-II Q96 A4).
Conclusion: Idolatry of Displacement
USD’s sculpture represents the conciliar sect’s final apostasy – replacing Christ the King with migrant caravans as objects of veneration. As St. Pius X warned in Pascendi Dominici Gregis (1907), modernists reduce religion to “certain religious facts interpreted by the human mind” (Proposition 22). The angels depicted aren’t heavenly messengers but demons of demographic revolution – preparing the world not for Christ’s return, but for Antichrist’s borderless tyranny. True Catholics must reject this idolatry and cling to the Church’s immutable teaching: “There is no other name under heaven given to men by which we must be saved” (Acts 4:12) – not open borders.
Source:
San Diego bishop dedicates sculpture honoring migrants and refugees at college campus (catholicnewsagency.com)
Date: 19.12.2025