US Bishops’ Immigration Focus Neglects Christ’s Social Kingship
EWTN News reports (January 31, 2026) that “Archbishop” Paul Coakley, president of the USCCB, has declared immigration enforcement debates “a matter the U.S. Church simply can’t avoid,” while calling for “Holy Hours” following violent protests in Minneapolis. The article describes his meeting with President Trump discussing visa backlogs and “meaningful immigration reform,” alongside Jesuit “Fr.” R.J. Fichtinger’s plea to “divorce people from actions” amid civil unrest. This preoccupation with temporal solutions constitutes a modernist betrayal of the Church’s divine mission.
Subordination of Supernatural Mission to Political Agendas
The entire discourse operates within the naturalistic framework condemned in Pius IX’s Syllabus of Errors (1864), which anathematized the proposition that “the Church ought to be separated from the State, and the State from the Church” (Error 55). By framing immigration as merely a policy debate rather than a failure of nations to recognize Christ’s Social Kingship, these churchmen commit three fatal errors:
1. Naturalization of Sin: Nowhere does Coakley identify the root cause – America’s apostasy from its de facto Catholic heritage through religious liberty heresy (condemned in Mirari Vos, Gregory XVI). The violent protests stem from societies rejecting Christus Rex, not from technical immigration policy flaws.
2. Sacramental Minimalism: Reducing the Eucharistic Holy Hour to a conflict resolution tool perverts its purpose as the Unbloody Sacrifice of Calvary. Pius XI’s Quas Primas (1925) establishes that Christ’s Kingship demands “not only that individuals should pay Him homage, but that rulers and governments should also…publicly honor and obey Him” – a truth conspicuously absent in the bishops’ approach.
3. False Ecumenism: The call to pray alongside “people of goodwill” ignores Christ’s exclusive mediation: “Neither is there salvation in any other” (Acts 4:12). This aligns with Modernist indifferentism condemned in St. Pius X’s Lamentabili Sane (1907) which rejects the notion that “truth changes with man, because it develops with him” (Proposition 58).
Ecclesiological Subversion Through Bureaucratic Language
The linguistic analysis reveals systematic apostasy:
– “Meaningful immigration reform”: A technocratic phrase masking refusal to demand Catholic confessional states – the only lasting solution to migration crises caused by anti-Christian regimes.
– “Fear is a tool of the enemy”: Coakley’s psychological reductionism ignores the just fear of God’s judgment on nations permitting sacrilegious “Communions” and abortion. True shepherds would echo St. John the Baptist: “Ye brood of vipers, who hath warned you to flee from the wrath to come?” (Matthew 3:7).
– “Divorce people from actions”: Fichtinger’s Jesuitical counsel contradicts Catholic moral theology. As the Syllabus condemns: “A heretic is not a member, therefore he cannot be the head of the Church” (St. Robert Bellarmine). One must judge both sin and sinner with charity.
Illicit Recognition of False Authorities
The article commits two grave offenses against ecclesial order:
1. Pseudo-Magisterium: The USCCB – a post-conciliar innovation lacking canonical status – issues “nearly unanimous” documents pretending to teaching authority. True bishops would follow Pius VI’s condemnation of the Civil Constitution of the Clergy (1791), rejecting state interference in Church matters.
2. Antipapal Adulation: Coakley speculates that antipope Leo XIV might be concerned about Minneapolis, despite the usurper’s manifest heresies. This violates the Bull Cum Ex Apostolatus Officio (1559) which declares that “if anyone…had beforehand deviated from the Catholic Faith…his promotion is null, void and invalid”.
Symptomatic of Conciliar Apostasy
This immigration debate fixation exposes the conciliar sect’s fundamental errors:
– Inversion of Priorities: While millions risk eternal damnation from invalid sacraments and false ecumenism, the USCCB obsesses over visa processing. The true Church follows Our Lord’s mandate: “Seek ye first the kingdom of God” (Matthew 6:33).
– Protestantization of Ministry: Fichtinger’s reduction of the priesthood to community organizing (“hard conversations”) exemplifies the destruction of sacramental theology predicted in Lamentabili (Proposition 50): “The elders fulfilling supervisory functions…were appointed by the Apostles as priests or bishops…but they did not continue the apostolical mission.”
– Masonic Syncretism: The emphasis on “peace” without conversion echoes the Rotary Club, not St. Augustine’s City of God. As Pius IX warned in the Syllabus (Error 77), such false peace occurs when “the Catholic religion should be held as the only religion of the State, to the exclusion of all other forms of worship” is abandoned.
The only solution remains that proclaimed in Quas Primas: “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.” Until these churchmen demand America’s submission to the Social Reign of Christ the King, their political activism constitutes dangerous fiddle-playing while civilization burns.
Source:
ICE enforcement debate is a matter U.S. Church ‘simply can’t avoid,’ Archbishop Coakley says (ewtnnews.com)
Date: 31.01.2026