USCCB President’s Immigration Stance Betrays Catholic Social Order
Catholic News Agency reports that “Archbishop” Paul Coakley of Oklahoma City, newly elected head of the United States Conference of “Catholic Bishops,” anticipates meeting with Donald Trump and JD Vance to discuss immigration policies. The December 22 article quotes Coakley claiming “no conflict” between border security and treating migrants with “God-given dignity,” while opposing “indiscriminate mass deportation” in the USCCB’s November statement. Coakley asserts that undocumented immigrants “don’t forfeit their human dignity” and that America remains “a nation of immigrants ourselves.”
Naturalistic Reduction of Catholic Social Teaching
The conciliar sect’s immigration stance constitutes a radical departure from Quas Primas (Pius XI, 1925), which declared that “nations will be happy…only when the precepts and practices of Catholic wisdom are held in public and private esteem” (Quas Primas, §21). By reducing social doctrine to sentimental appeals about “human dignity” divorced from supernatural order, the USCCB betrays the Church’s immutable teaching that civil law must conform to divine law. The Syllabus of Errors explicitly condemns the notion that “the state is the source of all rights” (Pius IX, §39) and that “the Church ought to be separated from the State” (§55) – precisely the framework underlying Coakley’s comments.
Subversion of State Authority
When Coakley claims “the state doesn’t award [dignity] and the state can’t take it away,” he promotes the condemned error that “human reason, without any reference whatsoever to God, is the sole arbiter of truth” (Syllabus, §3). Leo XIII’s Immortale Dei establishes that civil authority derives from God “not only in its origin but in its very essence” (Immortale Dei, §3). The USCCB’s statement that “human dignity and national security are not in conflict” inverts this hierarchy by suggesting divinely ordained state functions require justification before modernist interpretations of “dignity.”
Omission of Supernatural Finality
The article’s complete silence about the eternal consequences of illegal immigration reveals the conciliar sect’s materialist worldview. Traditional Catholic teaching requires governments to prioritize the salvation of souls through orderly immigration policies that maintain social conditions for evangelization. Pius XII’s Exsul Familia emphasizes that migration rights exist “only when the good of the commonwealth does not forbid it” (§7). By contrast, Coakley’s rhetoric mimics UN human rights documents more than papal encyclicals.
Illegitimate Ecclesiastical Structure
The very existence of the USCCB as a governing body contradicts the Church’s constitution. Pius VI’s Auctorem Fidei condemned the Gallicanist error that “national churches withdrawn from the authority of the Roman Pontiff can be established” (§37). The USCCB’s November statement carries zero magisterial weight, being issued by clerics in communion with antipopes who lack jurisdiction. As the Holy Office decreed in 1922: “No bishop has the right to organize himself in associations or federations without previous approval of the Holy See” – approval impossible from non-Catholic occupiers of the Vatican.
False Mercy Without Conversion
Coakley’s assertion that “we have a responsibility to welcome migrants” while omitting the duty to convert them exemplifies the conciliar betrayal. The Council of Florence defined that “no one remaining outside the Catholic Church…can become partakers of eternal life” (Cantate Domino). Traditional catechisms like the Catechism of St. Pius X teach that public authority must “prevent non-Catholic religions from spreading their false doctrines” (§The Fourth Commandment). The USCCB’s silence on migrants’ spiritual peril constitutes formal cooperation with religious indifferentism condemned by Pius IX (§15-18).
Conclusion: Apostasy Disguised as Compassion
This immigration rhetoric continues the conciliar revolution’s program to replace Christ the King with human rights idolatry. As Pius XI warned: “When once men recognize…that Christ must be banished from civil society, they will soon pervert the very notion and form of government” (Quas Primas, §18). The USCCB’s statements serve not Catholic truth but the globalist agenda to dissolve nations – a direct assault on the divine constitution of both Church and State. Until the hierarchy demands immigrants’ conversion and submission to Christ’s social reign, their “social teaching” remains Satanic subversion.
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Archbishop Coakley anticipates meeting with Trump, Vance (catholicnewsagency.com)
Date: 22.12.2025