The EWTN News portal reports that a member of the post-conciliar “Daughters of Mary Mother of Mercy,” Sister Leticia Ugboaja, was briefly detained by ICE agents while walking to the Novus Ordo service in McAllen, Texas. The conciliar “Bishop” Daniel Flores of Brownsville and “Archbishop” Gustavo García-Siller of San Antonio, alongside Democratic and Republican politicians, decried the arrest as “wildly disturbing,” demanding reform of enforcement protocols near “houses of worship.” The conciliar hierarchy even issues “dispensations from Mass attendance” for those fearing deportation. This spectacle of humanitarian sentimentality lays bare the conciliar sect’s total apostasy: it has replaced the Social Kingship of Christ with the religion of man, collaborating with the secular arm to manage the “fear” of those who have no supernatural faith.
The “Nun” and Her Counterfeit Consecration
The article centers on a “registered nurse” and “extraordinary minister of holy Communion” belonging to an institute founded well after the Great Apostasy of 1958. Such “religious” have no canonical existence in the eyes of the Church; their vows, lacking a valid superior and the true sensus fidei, are null. The Code of Canon Law (1917), Canon 488, requires episcopal approbation for religious institutes—approbation that can only come from a true bishop with jurisdiction. Since the line of true bishops was severed by the conciliar revolution (cf. Pope Paul IV, Cum ex Apostolatus Officio: a heretic “cannot be Pope… his promotion… shall be null, void, and of no effect”), these women are merely laywomen playing at religious life. Their “habit” is a costume; their “consecration,” a lie. The ICE agents detained a private citizen, not a bride of Christ.
The Novus Ordo “Mass” as Idolatrous Assembly
The article states Sister Ugboaja was “heading to Mass at Our Lady of Sorrows Church.” This is the gravest deception. The Novus Ordo Missae, fabricated by the Freemason Bugnini under the antipope Paul VI, is not the Unbloody Sacrifice of Calvary but a Protestantized memorial meal. Pope Pius V, Quo Primum, codified the True Mass in perpetuity; any other rite is a lex orandi of heresy producing a lex credendi of apostasy. The building she entered is not a Catholic church but a “synagogue of Satan” (Apoc 2:9), where the True Presence is denied by the very form of the rite. To weep over an arrest en route to this abomination is to mourn the interruption of idolatry.
False Shepherds Collaborating with Secular Power
“Bishop” Flores declares enforcement protocols “wildly disturbing and need to be reformed.” “Archbishop” García-Siller refuses to dispense the “Mass obligation,” preferring to “reach out to those who are hidden” with “catechists and Communion.” This is the heresy of Americanism condemned by Leo XIII, Testem Benevolentiae: the Church adapting to the civil order. The Syllabus of Errors (1864) anathematizes the proposition that “The ecclesiastical power ought not to exercise its authority without the permission and assent of the civil government” (Error 20) and that “The Church ought to be separated from the State, and the State from the Church” (Error 55). Here, the conciliar “bishops” do not defend the libertas Ecclesiae; they beg the Caesar (ICE, DHS, Congress) for “sensitive locations” exemptions. They recognize the suprema potestas of the state over the sanctuary. Pius XI, Quas Primas, thunders: “When God and Jesus Christ… were removed from laws and states… the foundations of that authority were destroyed.” These hirelings have removed Christ the King from the public square; now they reap the whirlwind.
Dispensation from “Mass” — Apostasy Disguised as Pastoral Care
The article reveals that “Bishops in other parts of the country have issued dispensations from Mass attendance for those who fear deportation.” This is a crime against the First Commandment. The obligation to assist at the True Sacrifice on Sundays binds under pain of mortal sin (Council of Trent, Sess. VI, Can. 21). No “bishop” can dispense from divine law. Pius XI, Quas Primas: “Christ reigns in the wills of men… because He inclines our free will and conquers it with His inspiration, so that we are inflamed for the noblest deeds.” To tell the faithful “stay home, fear the ICE agent more than God” is to preach apostasy. The early Christians faced lions rather than miss the Dominicum. These modernists offer “virtual Mass” and home “Communion” (invalid, as the “priests” lack orders per Leo XIII, Apostolicae Curae)—a spiritual euthanasia.
The “Sensitive Locations” Heresy: Church Subservient to State
The ICE spokesperson boasts the agency is “not subject to previous restrictions on immigration operations at sensitive locations, to include schools, churches, and courthouses.” The conciliar sect sued to block enforcement in “places of worship”—and lost. This litigation concedes the plenitudo potestatis of the secular state over the Church’s physical space. Syllabus, Error 24: “The Church has not the power of using force, nor has she any temporal power, direct or indirect” — condemned. The Church has the right to defend her temples, but the conciliar sect has no temples, only meeting halls. They invoke “religious freedom” (Error 15, 77, 79), the “pest of indifferentism” (Syllabus, Intro), begging the Masonic state for tolerance. Pius IX, Quanta Cura: “The Roman Pontiff can, and ought to, reconcile himself, and come to terms with progress, liberalism and modern civilization” — CONDEMNED. The conciliar “bishops” do exactly this: they reconcile with the ICE regime, demanding only a “curtain of fear” be lowered (Cuellar’s phrase).
Symptomatic Level: The Conciliar Sect as Instrument of Antichrist
This incident is not an anomaly; it is the modus operandi of the “Church of the New Advent”. The “nun” is a functionary of the neo-church’s NGO network (South Texas Health System). The “bishops” are CEOs of a tax-exempt corporation managing “fear” and “anxiety” (Riojas, Flores). The politicians (Cuellar, de la Cruz, Cruz, Cornyn) are the true shepherds of this flock, securing the “release” via the “border czar” Homan. The Masonic operation is evident: the state creates the crisis (open borders, then raids); the conciliar sect provides the humanitarian theater, diverting souls from the one thing necessary — the reign of Christ the King. Pius XI, Quas Primas: “This plague is the secularism of our times, so-called laicism… It began with the denial of Christ the Lord’s reign over all nations.” The conciliar sect is the primary agent of this denial. They have no mandatum to teach, govern, or sanctify (Canon 109: jurisdiction requires a true Pope). They are “manifest heretics… deprived of all jurisdiction… by their own judgment” (St. Robert Bellarmine, De Romano Pontifice 2:30).
Conclusion: The arrest of a fake nun on the way to a fake Mass elicits fake outrage from fake bishops and real politicians. The only reality is the Social Kingship of Christ the King, which the conciliar sect has betrayed and the Masonic state ignores. Extra Ecclesiam nulla salus — and the conciliar sect is not the Church. Let the faithful flee these structures of apostasy and cleave to the Tradition where the True Mass is offered and Christ reigns.
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Nun arrested by ICE while walking to Sunday Mass in Texas released after lawmakers’ intervention (ewtnnews.com)
Date: 01.07.2026