Catholic News Agency reports (December 19, 2025) that U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio announced plans for a “standalone process” for religious worker visas to address backlogs allegedly caused by fraud in immigration programs. The article frames this as relief for clergy shortages, quoting a USCCB spokesperson expressing gratitude for the administration’s attention to “important issue for the Church” to ensure “access to the sacraments.” Rubio claims the plan avoids denominational preference while acknowledging “some denominations are more professionalized” in documentation. The report mentions prior lawsuits by dioceses and warnings about priest shortages, framing immigration enforcement as a technical challenge rather than a matter of divine law.
Subordination of Ecclesiastical Authority to Secular Bureaucracy
The article exposes the fundamental inversion of Christ’s social kingship by treating the Church’s divine mission as subordinate to state immigration policy. When Rubio states “we’re not discriminating in favor of one versus another” denomination, he applies the heresy of indifferentism condemned by Pius IX in the Syllabus of Errors (Proposition 15). The USCCB’s collaboration in this secular vetting process constitutes implicit acceptance of the state’s authority to regulate the Church’s sacramental ministry – a direct violation of Quas Primas (1925), where Pius XI declared: “Rulers of nations… must not only themselves render obedience to Christ but must also in their private and official acts ensure that the laws and institutions they govern conform to His teachings.”
Naturalism Replacing Supernatural Mission
Nowhere does the article mention that authentic Catholic priests derive their authority from extra Ecclesiam nulla salus (Outside the Church there is no salvation), not government visas. The USCCB spokesperson reduces the priesthood to human resource management, lamenting potential shortages of “essential ministries” while ignoring the dogmatic truth that invalidly ordained conciliar “priests” cannot confect sacraments regardless of visa status. This echoes the Modernist error condemned in Lamentabili Sane (1907): “The Church listening cooperates with the Church teaching… so that the Church teaching should only approve the common opinions of the Church listening” (Proposition 6).
Concession to Masonic Secularism
Rubio’s claim that “some denominations are more professionalized in terms of what they’re able to provide us with” reveals the plan’s inherent discrimination against traditional religious orders maintaining pre-conciliar discipline. The article’s focus on bureaucratic “country-specific requirements” and “information” systems institutionalizes the heresy denounced by Pius X: “The Church is an enemy of the progress of natural and theological sciences” (Condemned Proposition 57). By framing immigration enforcement as a technical “vetting” challenge rather than a matter of Christus Rex‘s supremacy over nations, the report promotes the Masonic separation of Church and State condemned in the Syllabus of Errors (Proposition 55).
Omission of Apostolic Mandate
The glaring silence about valid holy orders exposes the conciliar sect’s apostasy. When dioceses worry about priest shortages, they ignore Pius XII’s Sacramentum Ordinis (1947), which established immutable sacramental forms. Most conciliar “ordinations” after 1968 follow the invalid Paul VI rite, rendering their “ministers” incapable of confecting the Eucharist – a truth suppressed in the article’s secularized narrative. As the False Fatima Apparitions file notes: “The centralized role of the Church and the sacraments is undermined by the demand for ‘hyper-acts’ of worship… The efficacy of Holy Mass is diminished in favor of spectacular acts.”
Conclusion: Capitulation to Antichrist
This “visa relief” constitutes further entanglement with the modernist occupation regime. As St. Pius X warned in Pascendi Dominici Gregis (1907), such bureaucratization of sacred functions flows from the heresy that “the Church is incapable of effectively defending evangelical ethics because it steadfastly adheres to its views” (Condemned Proposition 63). True shepherds would denounce the USCCB’s collaboration with Rubio’s naturalistic system, recalling Pius XI’s admonition: “When God and Jesus Christ… are removed from laws and states… the foundations of authority were destroyed” (Quas Primas). Until civil rulers recognize Christ’s social reign, no “administrative fixes” can remedy the conciliar sect’s spiritual bankruptcy.
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State Department set to roll out religious worker visa plan next month (catholicnewsagency.com)
Date: 19.12.2025