The article from the EWTN News portal (May 20, 2026) reports that Bishop Shelton Fabre, chair of the USCCB Committee on Domestic Justice and Human Development, sent a letter to congressional leaders urging the restoration of funding to the Environmental Protection Agency and the Department of the Interior. The bishop invoked Genesis 2:15, referenced the environmental priorities of “Popes” Francis and Leo XIV, and argued that federal funding for environmental programs is necessary to protect “God’s creation,” public health, and vulnerable communities. What is presented as responsible stewardship is, upon examination through the lens of integral Catholic theology, a revealing symptom of the post-conciliar Church’s capitulation to secular naturalism and its abandonment of the supernatural mission entrusted to her by Christ the King.
The Reduction of the Faith to Mere “Care for Creation”
The letter’s foundational argument rests on a single scriptural citation: Genesis 2:15, “to cultivate and care for the Earth.” Bishop Fabre presents this as though the entirety of the Church’s social teaching — indeed, her very reason for existence — can be reduced to environmental stewardship. This is a grotesque truncation of the Catholic faith. The same Book of Genesis that speaks of tending the Garden also records the Fall, the promise of a Redeemer (Genesis 3:15), the Flood, and the Tower of Babel — events that reveal humanity’s fundamental problem is not ecological mismanagement but sin, and that the remedy is not federal agency funding but redemption through the Cross of Christ.
Pius XI, in the encyclical Quas Primas (1925), established the Feast of Christ the King precisely to combat the error that the Church should concern herself with temporal and natural matters as though they were primary. He wrote: “His reign, namely, extends not only to Catholic nations or to those who, by receiving baptism according to law, belong to the Church, even though their erroneous opinions have led them astray or discord has separated them from love, but His reign encompasses also all non-Christians, so that most truly the entire human race is subject to the authority of Jesus Christ.” The Kingdom of Christ is supernatural, and the Church exists to lead souls to eternal salvation — not to function as a lobbying group for the Environmental Protection Agency.
By grounding his argument in “care for creation” while remaining entirely silent about the Kingship of Christ, the sacramental life, the reality of sin, the necessity of grace, the Four Last Things, and the eternal destiny of every soul, Bishop Fabre reveals the theological poverty of the conciliar sect. The letter contains not a single mention of Jesus Christ as Lord and Savior, not a single reference to the Most Holy Sacrifice of the Mass, the sacraments, prayer, or the supernatural virtues. This is not Catholic social teaching — it is secular environmentalism baptized with a veneer of scriptural proof-texting, indistinguishable from what any naturalistic NGO might produce.
The Heretical Foundation: Appealing to Apostate “Popes”
Bishop Fabre explicitly cites “the environmental priorities of both Pope Francis and Pope Leo XIV” as authoritative. This is a devastating admission. From the perspective of integral Catholic faith, neither Francis (Bergoglio) nor Leo XIV (Prevost) possesses any authority whatsoever to teach, govern, or sanctify. They are manifest heretics and usurpers who have occupied the See of Peter since the death of Pius XII and have systematically dismantled the Catholic faith through the conciliar revolution.
St. Robert Bellarmine teaches in De Romano Pontifice (II, 30): “A manifest heretic cannot be Pope… The reason for this is that he cannot be the head of something of which he is not a member; now, he who is not a Christian is not a member of the Church, and a manifest heretic is not a Christian… therefore, a manifest heretic cannot be Pope.” The 1917 Code of Canon Law, Canon 188.4, confirms that every office becomes vacant “by the mere fact and without any declaration” when a cleric “publicly defects from the Catholic faith.” Bergoglio’s entire pontificate — from Amoris Laetitia to Laudato Si’ to his endorsement of civil unions — constitutes a public, manifest, and obstinate defection from the Catholic faith. Prevost, his chosen successor, continues this apostasy.
To cite the “priorities” of these men as though they carried any doctrinal weight is to acknowledge the authority of heretics over the Church — an act that itself constitutes complicity in their heresy. Pius XI, in Quas Primas, warned: “When God and Jesus Christ — as we lamented — were removed from laws and states and when authority was derived not from God but from men, the foundations of that authority were destroyed.” The USCCB does not merely tolerate this removal — it actively promotes the heretical agenda of the usurpers as though it were the mind of the Church.
The Silence About the True Crisis: Modernist Apostasy
The most damning feature of Bishop Fabre’s letter is not what it says but what it omits. The letter expresses deep concern about EPA funding cuts, toxic waste, clean water, air quality, and endangered species. It expresses zero concern about the following realities:
- The systematic destruction of the Catholic liturgy through the Novus Ordo Missae, which Pius VI condemned as “harmful to the faith” in Quo Primum;
- The sacrilegious distribution of “Communion” to public sinners, including divorced and “remarried” persons, politicians who legislate abortion, and non-Catholics;
- The massacre of over 60 million unborn children in the United States alone since Roe v. Wade, a slaughter that constitutes a far greater toxic contamination of the nation than any Superfund site;
- The teaching of sodomitic ideology in Catholic schools and the employment of active sodomites in diocesan positions;
- The ecumenical worship services with Protestants, Muslims, and pagans conducted under the auspices of the conciliar structures;
- The emptying of seminaries, the closure of convents, and the collapse of religious vocations following the introduction of the conciliar reforms.
St. Pius X, in the encyclical Pascendi Dominici Gregis (1907), identified Modernism as “the synthesis of all heresies” and warned that the Modernists “proceed to the extent of saying that dogmas, sacraments, and hierarchy, both in concept and in reality, are merely modes of explanation and stages in the evolution of Christian consciousness” (Lamentabili, proposition 54). The USCCB’s obsession with environmental policy while remaining silent about the apostasy destroying the Church from within is the quintessential expression of Modernism — the substitution of naturalistic humanism for supernatural faith.
The “vulnerable communities” that Bishop Fabre claims to champion are, in reality, being spiritually massacred by the very structures he represents. A child who drinks clean water but is taught that dogmas evolve, that all religions lead to God, and that sin is an outdated concept is infinitely worse off than a child who drinks contaminated water but is taught the Catholic faith in its integrity. The USCCB has chosen to fight for the body while surrendering the soul.
The Masonic Framework of “Environmental Stewardship”
The post-conciliar Church’s embrace of environmentalism cannot be understood apart from the broader Masonic project of reducing religion to social activism. Pius IX, in the Syllabus of Errors (1864), condemned the proposition that “the Roman Pontiff can, and ought to, reconcile himself, and come to terms with progress, liberalism and modern civilization” (proposition 80). The environmental movement, as it has been adopted by the conciliar structures, is precisely such a reconciliation — a capitulation to the spirit of the age.
The Masonic design, as outlined in the document on the “Fatima” operation, proceeds through stages of infiltration and redirection. The substitution of “care for our common home” for the preaching of Christ and His Kingdom is not an accident — it is a deliberate strategy to empty the Church of her supernatural content and transform her into a humanitarian organization indistinguishable from the United Nations or the World Economic Forum. When Bishop Fabre writes that “the common good requires sound stewardship of the environment,” he is echoing the language of Agenda 21, the Paris Climate Agreement, and the Sustainable Development Goals — documents produced by the enemies of Christ the King, not by the Church of Christ.
Pius IX warned in Etsi Multa (1873) that the “synagogue of Satan” works through “sinuous caverns” to “submit the Church of God to the most cruel servitude, to undermine the foundations on which it rests, to contaminate its splendid qualities.” The USCCB’s transformation into an environmental advocacy group is a textbook example of this servitude. The Church does not need the EPA — the Church needs the restoration of the Most Holy Sacrifice, the preaching of integral Catholic doctrine, and the public acknowledgment of the Social Kingship of Christ over the United States and every nation on earth.
The True “Care for Creation”: Restoring Order Under Christ the King
Authentic Catholic teaching on the relationship between man and the natural world is inseparable from the Church’s teaching on the order of creation under God. Man is the steward of creation, yes — but he is so precisely because he is a rational creature made in the image and likeness of God, redeemed by the Precious Blood of Christ, and called to eternal beatitude. Remove the supernatural framework, and “stewardship” becomes mere environmentalism — a worship of the creature rather than the Creator.
Pius XI declared in Quas Primas: “Christ possesses dominion over all creatures, not by force but by essence and nature, meaning that His authority is based on that wonderful union called hypostatic.” All authority — over creation, over nations, over individuals — flows from Christ. The proper response to environmental degradation is not to write letters to Congress begging for more funding for federal agencies. The proper response is repentance, prayer, the restoration of the Most Holy Sacrifice, and the ordering of society according to the laws of God.
The USCCB, by contrast, places its trust in the United States Congress, the Environmental Protection Agency, and the Department of the Interior — secular institutions that, under the influence of the same Masonic forces that produced the French Revolution and the Russian Revolution, have legalized the murder of the unborn, promoted sexual deviance, and driven God from public life. To seek the protection of creation from institutions that are actively destroying the souls entrusted to their care is not merely foolish — it is a betrayal of the Catholic faith.
Conclusion: The Bankruptcy of the Conciliar Sect
Bishop Shelton Fabre’s letter to Congress is a perfect specimen of the theological and spiritual bankruptcy of the post-conciliar Church. It reduces the Catholic faith to environmental lobbying, cites apostate usurpers as authorities, ignores the true crisis of modernist apostasy, and places its trust in the secular institutions of a nation in advanced stages of moral collapse. It is, in every respect, the antithesis of what the Church was commissioned by Christ to be and to do.
The faithful who still profess the integral Catholic faith must recognize the USCCB for what it is: not a conference of bishops, but a bureaucratic apparatus of the conciliar sect, engaged in the systematic replacement of supernatural religion with naturalistic humanitarianism. The remedy is not to lobby the USCCB to add a few more prayers to its environmental statements. The remedy is to reject the entire conciliar edifice, to cling to the unchanging Catholic faith as taught by the Fathers, the Councils, and the true Popes, and to work for the restoration of the Social Kingship of Christ — the only foundation upon which true justice, true peace, and true care for creation can ever be built.
As St. Pius X declared in Pascendi: “We exhort all Catholics who hold any position in the literary or educational world to be on their guard, and to defend, both by word and writing, the authority of the Church.” The time for guarding has passed. The time for the uncompromising exposure of the conciliar apostasy — in all its forms, including its environmentalist disguise — is now.
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U.S. bishops urge Congress to restore environmental funding (ewtnnews.com)
Date: 20.05.2026