The EWTN News portal reports on an interview with “Archbishop” Gustavo García-Siller of San Antonio, who refuses to grant Mass dispensations to immigrants fearing deportation while comparing U.S. immigration enforcement to Mexican anticlerical persecution. The “prelate” boasts of sending catechists to hidden immigrants and appoints secular executive Ada Saenz to lead Catholic Charities, framing these actions as “living out her faith.”
Sacramental Obligation Weaponized for Political Theater
García-Siller’s refusal to issue Mass dispensations superficially appears doctrinally sound, stating: “To tell people not to come to the sacramental life of the Church, and the community? No, I would not”. Yet this masks a deeper betrayal. The 1917 Code of Canon Law (Canon 1245) explicitly grants bishops authority to dispense from Mass attendance for just causes including grave fear. By denying this pastoral provision, the “archbishop” transforms the Holy Sacrifice into a political prop, coercing vulnerable souls to choose between deportation and potential sacrilege if attending Mass in state of mortal fear.
His solution—sending lay catechists to distribute Communion—violates Mediator Dei (Pius XII, 1947):
“The dispensing of the Eucharist belongs only to the clergy… Nor is the Christian people permitted… to take upon itself the rights or responsibilities of the sacred ministry.”
This modernist reduction of priests to social workers and laity to pseudo-clergy exposes the conciliar sect’s systematic destruction of sacramental theology.
Equating Border Enforcement with Cristero Persecution: Historical Revisionism
The “prelate” outrageously claims U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) replicates Mexico’s Cristero-era oppression, lamenting: “I myself experienced the consequences of the oppression of the Catholic Church in Mexico because of tyrant leaders”. This blasphemous analogy ignores that Mexico’s 1917 Constitution:
- Outlawed monastic vows (Article 5)
- Confiscated Church property (Article 27)
- Prohibited clerical attire and public worship (Article 130)
Meanwhile, García-Siller condemns ICE for deporting those who “were in the process legally”—admitting their non-compliance with civil law. Pius XII’s Exsul Familia (1952) upholds nations’ right to regulate borders while denouncing actual religious persecution, which no sane observer equates with immigration enforcement. The “archbishop’s” rhetoric follows the conciliar playbook of substituting class warfare for spiritual combat, thus fulfilling Marx’s demand that religion serve revolutionary politics.
Catholic Charities: Trojan Horse of Secular Humanism
The appointment of Ada Saenz—CEO of Boys and Girls Clubs—to lead Catholic Charities San Antonio epitomizes the neo-church’s surrender to secularism. García-Siller praises her for “living out her faith” through professional management skills, reducing charity to bureaucratic efficiency. Contrast this with St. Vincent de Paul’s maxim: “Go to the poor: you will find God.”
True Catholic charity requires converting souls while feeding bodies, as Quas Primas (Pius XI, 1925) teaches:
“When once men recognize, both in private and in public life, that Christ is King, society will at last receive the great blessings of real liberty, well-ordered discipline, peace and harmony.”
Modernist “outreach” deliberately omits this supernatural dimension, reducing the Church to an NGO. The “archbishop’s” plan to provide uninsured immigrants with “medication” and “services the government isn’t giving” echoes the socialist call for wealth redistribution, condemned in the Syllabus of Errors (Pius IX, 1864): “The Church ought to be separated from the State, and the State from the Church” (Error 55).
The Silence That Screams Apostasy
Nowhere does García-Siller mention:
- Reparation for sins provoking divine chastisement through social chaos
- The duty of immigrants to obey legitimate authorities (Romans 13:1-7)
- Christ the King’s sovereignty over nations amid border disputes
This omission of the supernatural proves Benedict XV’s warning in Ad Beatissimi Apostolorum (1914):
“When religion is banished… human authority fails.”
By prioritizing ethnic identity (“Hispanics… will help bring new life into the Church”) over conversion of souls, the conciliar sect embraces the very nationalist idolatry that fueled Mexican persecution. García-Siller’s false compassion—demanding open borders while denying sacramental dispensations—reveals the anti-church’s true allegiance: not to Christ the King, but to the Novus Ordo Seclorum of globalist revolution.
Source:
San Antonio archbishop discusses his childhood in Mexico and why he won’t issue a Mass dispensation (ewtnnews.com)
Date: 27.01.2026