Bishop Barron’s Inadequate Critique Masks Conciliar Church’s Socialist Apostasy
The Catholic News Agency portal (January 5, 2026) reports on “Bishop” Robert Barron’s criticism of New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s inaugural address advocating collectivism. While Barron correctly identifies socialism as deadly, his analysis remains trapped within the conciliar sect’s theological contradictions. The article cites post-1958 antipopes like “Benedict XVI” and “Francis” to create false continuity with authentic Catholic social teaching, obscuring the conciliar revolution’s complicity in advancing socialist errors.
Theological Bankruptcy of Conciliar “Social Doctrine”
Barron’s claim that “Catholic social teaching has consistently condemned socialism” rings hollow when examined against the conciliar sect’s actions. The article cites “Benedict XVI’s” 2006 statement that “democratic socialism was and is close to Catholic social doctrine” – a direct contradiction of Pope Pius XI’s teaching that “no one can be at the same time a good Catholic and a true socialist” (Encyclical Quadragesimo Anno, 1931). This exemplifies the hermeneutic of rupture condemned in Pius X’s Pascendi Dominici Gregis.
The cited Catechism of the Catholic Church represents the modernist distortion promulgated by antipope John Paul II. Contrast this with Pope Leo XIII’s unambiguous condemnation:
“Socialists, working on the poor man’s envy of the rich, are striving to do away with private property, and contend that individual possessions should become the common property of all… But their contentions are so clearly powerless to end the controversy that were they carried into effect the working man himself would be among the first to suffer” (Rerum Novarum, 1891).
Omission of Christ’s Social Kingship
Both Mamdani’s collectivism and Barron’s critique operate within the same naturalistic framework that rejects Regnum Christi (the Kingdom of Christ). Pius XI’s encyclical Quas Primas established the feast of Christ the King precisely to combat “the plague of anti-clericalism, whose errors and impious actions” stem from denying Christ’s authority over societies.
The article’s silence about Mayor Mamdani’s Muslim background and his statement “no matter… how you pray” exposes the conciliar sect’s abandonment of Extra Ecclesiam Nulla Salus (No Salvation Outside the Church). When Mamdani claims “the words that most define us are… New Yorkers“, he substitutes civic identity for the baptismal character – a heresy enabled by Vatican II’s Dignitatis Humanae.
Conciliar Complicity in Marxist Advance
The article notes antipope “Francis” encouraged “cooperation and dialogue between Marxists and Christians” in 2024. This confirms his role as “the destroyer” prophesied in the Third Secret of Fatima – though the conciliar sect suppresses the authentic message. Barron’s failure to denounce “Francis'” apostasy while quoting post-conciliar documents illustrates the neo-church’s fundamental incoherence.
As Archbishop Lefebvre warned: “The Church’s alliance with the Revolution can only produce a syncretism, a sort of new religion… which is no longer Catholic” (Open Letter to Confused Catholics). The “dialogue” between Barron and Mamdani occurs on this heretical common ground of religious indifferentism.
Authentic Catholic Response
True Catholic resistance would:
1. Denounce Mamdani’s collectivism as satanic rebellion against the Divine Order
2. Excommunicate all politicians supporting abortion, socialism, or religious indifferentism
3. Restore the Social Reign of Christ the King through Consecration of States to the Sacred Heart
Pius IX’s Syllabus Errorum condemns as heresy the notion that “The Church ought to be separated from the State, and the State from the Church” (Error 55). Until Barron and his confreres demand New York’s submission to Christ the King, their critiques remain opera imperfecta (incomplete works) complicit in modernity’s apostasy.
Source:
Bishop Barron critiques New York Mayor Mamdani’s embrace of ‘collectivism’ (catholicnewsagency.com)
Date: 05.01.2026