EWTN News reports that on June 26, 2026, several American and Mexican “bishops” — James Misko, John Dolan, John Wester, Mark Seitz, and Gerald Kicanas — led a “rosary procession” across the U.S.–Mexico border at Nogales, Arizona, culminating in a “Mass” and a “pastoral conversation on migration” organized in partnership with the Kino Border Initiative and the Hope Border Institute. The event, dubbed “Border Mass 250,” was framed as a celebration of immigrants ahead of America’s 250th anniversary, with “Bishop” Seitz declaring that rights are “given by God” and “Bishop” Kicanas lamenting the failure to achieve “comprehensive immigration reform.” The event was explicitly placed in union with “Pope” Leo XIV, who is reportedly planning a visit to Lampedusa. What this report reveals is not a Catholic response to a political question, but a thoroughly modernist spectacle in which the supernatural mission of the Church is entirely subordinated to secular humanitarianism, false ecumenism, and the revolutionary dismantling of the very concept of ordered sovereignty under Christ the King.
The Complete Absence of the Supernatural Order
The most striking feature of this entire event — and of the EWTN News report describing it — is the total, deafening silence regarding the supernatural destiny of man. Not a single “bishop” mentioned the salvation of souls. Not a single speaker referenced the necessity of sanctifying grace, the sacraments, the reality of sin, or the final judgment. The “Mass” celebrated at Sacred Heart Church in Nogales is presented as a mere backdrop to a political demonstration, a ritual prop lending sacral veneer to what is fundamentally a secular rally for open borders.
This is precisely the reduction of the Faith that Pope Pius XI condemned in Quas Primas: the Kingdom of Christ reduced to a merely natural association concerned with temporal welfare. Pius XI taught that the annual celebration of Christ the King was instituted precisely to combat the “secularism of our times, so-called laicism,” which “began with the denial of Christ the Lord’s reign over all nations” and led to “the whole society profoundly shaken and heading towards destruction.” The “bishops” of Nogales have not merely failed to preach Christ the King; they have actively replaced His royal claims with the slogans of humanitarian activism.
“Rights Given by God” — A Modernist Distortion of Catholic Doctrine
“Bishop” Seitz declared at the event: “As we mark the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence, we are reminded that we are made by our Creator with certain inalienable rights. They’re given by God… That is a fundamental reality that we in the Church always have in mind and that no policy, no executive order or Supreme Court decision can take away.”
This statement, while superficially appealing, is a masterclass in modernist equivocation. The Declaration of Independence — a document steeped in Enlightenment naturalism and Masonic philosophy — speaks of “Nature’s God,” a deistic abstraction utterly incompatible with the Catholic God who is Truth Himself and who demands the submission of all nations to His revealed Law. Pope Leo XIII, in Immortale Dei, explicitly condemned the proposition that “the State is subject to no duty of recognizing or professing any religion” and that “the best theory of civil society requires that popular schools… should be freed from all ecclesiastical authority” — a proposition condemned by Pope Pius IX in the Syllabus of Errors, no. 47.
By invoking the Declaration of Independence as a framework for Catholic social teaching, Seitz and his fellow “bishops” commit the very error that St. Pius X identified in Lamentabili Sane Exitu: the subordination of divine revelation to the categories of secular philosophy. Proposition 58 of the Syllabus of St. Pius X condemned the idea that “Truth changes with man, because it develops with him, in him, and through him.” Proposition 64 condemned the notion that “the progress of sciences requires a reform of the concept of Christian doctrine concerning God, creation, Revelation, the Person of the Incarnate Word, and Redemption.” These “bishops” have done precisely this — reformed Catholic doctrine to conform to the prevailing secular ideology of “human rights” divorced from the obligations of divine law.
The Kino Border Initiative and the Hope Border Institute: Instruments of the Revolution
The event was organized in partnership with the Kino Border Initiative and the Hope Border Institute — organizations that function as the humanitarian wing of the conciliar revolution’s assault on national sovereignty. The Hope Border Institute’s executive director, Dylan Corbett, is described as a member of the Vatican Dicastery for Promoting Integral Human Development — one of the signature creations of the Bergoglio era, dedicated to the reduction of the Church’s mission to secular social activism.
Corbett stated: “In union with Pope Leo XIV, who will soon go to Lampedusa, the border Mass in Nogales was a way for the Catholic community to name the suffering, affirm the dignity of those affected by these policies, and commit to working for reform.”
The reference to Lampedusa is particularly revealing. Bergoglio’s 2013 visit to that island was a carefully staged media spectacle designed to equate the Church’s mission with the globalist agenda of open borders and the dissolution of national sovereignty. Leo XIV’s planned visit continues this tradition. The “suffering” named is exclusively temporal — the suffering of those detained or deported by immigration authorities. The far greater suffering — the suffering of souls in mortal sin, the suffering of the damned, the spiritual ruin caused by the conciliar apostasy itself — is not merely ignored but rendered invisible by the very framework of “integral human development” that reduces man to a purely material being.
The “Almost Complete Unanimity” of Apostasy
“Bishop” Wester boasted that the immigration issue “enjoys almost complete unanimity in the bishops’ conference.” This is not a boast; it is a confession. The “almost complete unanimity” of the conciliar sect on immigration — as on religious liberty, false ecumenism, and the reception of Communion by public adulterers — is the unanimity of collective apostasy. When the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops approved their message opposing “indiscriminate mass deportation” with over 95% support, they demonstrated not Catholic unity but the total capture of the conciliar structures by the spirit of the world.
Pope Pius IX, in the Syllabus of Errors, condemned the proposition that “the Roman Pontiff can, and ought to, reconcile himself, and come to terms with progress, liberalism and modern civilization” (no. 80). These “bishops” have done far more than reconcile themselves with liberalism; they have become its most vocal ecclesiastical advocates, using the vestments of their office to sanctify the dissolution of the very social order that Catholic teaching demands.
The Rosary Procession as Political Theater
The “rosary procession across the international line” is perhaps the most grotesque element of this entire spectacle. The rosary is the weapon of spiritual warfare, the prayer by which the Blessed Virgin crushed the head of the serpent throughout the centuries. To employ it as an accompaniment to a political demonstration for open borders is to profane a sacred act — to reduce the Mother of God to a mascot for the humanitarian-industrial complex.
This is consistent with the modernist treatment of all Catholic devotions. Just as the “Consecration of Russia” demanded by the false Fatima apparitions reduces the Immaculate Heart to a political instrument, so too does this procession reduce the rosary to a prop in a media event. The true Catholic understanding of the rosary — as a meditation on the mysteries of our salvation, a weapon against heresy and sin, and a means of obtaining the conversion of sinners — is entirely absent.
The Silence on the Third Commandment and the Duty of Civil Authority
Not a single “bishop” at this event addressed the duty of civil authority to govern justly — which includes the regulation of borders for the common good. Catholic teaching has always recognized the right of sovereign nations to control their borders. Pope Leo XIII, in Immortale Dei, taught that civil authority is ordained by God and must be exercised for the common good — which includes the protection of the nation’s citizens and the maintenance of order.
The “bishops” of the conciliar sect have inverted this teaching, effectively declaring that no sovereign right exists when it conflicts with the demands of mass migration. This is not Catholic social teaching; it is the naturalism condemned by Pope Pius IX in the Syllabus, no. 39: “The State, as being the origin and source of all rights, is endowed with a certain right not circumscribed by any limits.” By denying the legitimate authority of the state to regulate immigration while simultaneously claiming that “no policy, no executive order or Supreme Court decision can take away” the “inalienable rights” of migrants, these “bishops” have created a theological contradiction that serves only the interests of globalist elites.
Union with Leo XIV: The Seal of the Counter-Church
The explicit placement of this event “in union with Pope Leo XIV” is the final confirmation of its true nature. Leo XIV — Robert Prevost — is the current usurper on the Chair of Peter, the successor of John XXIII, Paul VI, John Paul I, John Paul II, Benedict XVI (resigned), and Bergoglio. His planned visit to Lampedusa is not a Catholic act but a continuation of the Bergoglian revolution that has transformed the Vatican into a lobbying organization for globalist causes.
The faithful who remain in the true Church — the Church of all ages, the Church that teaches that there is no salvation outside her communion and that all nations must submit to Christ the King — must recognize these “bishops” for what they are: not shepherds but wolves, not pastors but revolutionaries, not successors of the Apostles but agents of the counter-church that occupies the Vatican and perverts the faithful through the systematic replacement of supernatural religion with secular humanitarianism.
Non serviam. (I will not serve.) This is the unspoken motto of the conciliar sect — not the servitude of God, but the servitude of man, of the world, of the flesh, and of the devil. The Border Mass 250 is but one more manifestation of the abomination of desolation standing in the holy place, and the faithful must reject it with the same firmness with which the Church has always rejected heresy: Extra Ecclesiam nulla salus. (Outside the Church there is no salvation.)
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Procession urges dignity and respect for migrants at border crossing (ewtnnews.com)
Date: 29.06.2026