The EWTN News portal (July 10, 2026) reports that the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB), alongside the leadership of Catholic Relief Services, Catholic Charities USA, and other conciliar NGOs, dispatched a letter to the Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry demanding the strengthening of the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) in the 2026 Farm Bill. Signed by “Archbishop” Shelton J. Fabre and “Bishop” A. Elias Zaidan, the letter laments that the draft bill “does not sufficiently strengthen or modernize SNAP,” opposes work requirements and eligibility verification, demands the removal of restrictions on felons, and advocates for Puerto Rico’s integration into the federal welfare apparatus. The signatories quote the antipope Leo XIV (Robert Prevost) from his 2025 World Day of Hunger address: “Hunger … is a cry that rises to heaven and requires a swift response from every nation.” Nowhere in this bureaucratic petition is there a whisper of the Social Reign of Christ the King, the necessity of the Church’s libertas from the civil power, or the salvation of souls — the suprema lex of the true Church. This document is the quintessence of the conciliar apostasy: the substitution of the Regnum Christi for the welfare state.
The Usurpation of the Church’s Mission by Naturalistic Humanitarianism
The cited letter reveals the modus operandi of the conciliar sect: the total reduction of the Church’s divine mandate — docere, sanctificare, regere — to the administration of temporal caloric intake. The “bishops” speak not as successors of the Apostles commissioned to teach all nations (Matt. 28:19), but as lobbyists for a federal entitlement program. They urge “Congress to pass a farm bill that furthers this goal” of alleviating hunger, defining the “common good” in purely materialistic, utilitarian terms. This is the laicism condemned by Pius XI in Quas Primas: “When God and Jesus Christ… 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 conciliar hierarchy does not merely acquiesce in this removal; they actively petition the Masonic state to expand its paternalistic bureaucracy, begging Caesar for crumbs while the regnum Dei is mocked.
“Our greatest concern with the current draft is with the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), our nation’s core nutrition program,” the bishops said in the letter sent to the leadership of the Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry.
“Greatest concern.” Not the loss of the Faith, not the profanation of the Most Holy Sacrifice, not the damnation of souls entrusted to their care — but the funding levels of a federal welfare program. This is the cult of man in its purest form, the humanitarianism that St. Pius X identified as the “synthesis of all heresies” in Pascendi Dominici Gregis. The Church’s mission is supernatural; her munus is the distribution of the fruits of the Redemption, not the distribution of EBT cards.
Quoting the Antipope: The Blind Leading the Blind into the Ditch
The letter cites “Pope Leo’s address from Oct. 16, 2025” as authoritative. Robert Prevost, the current usurper of the Chair of Peter, is a manifest heretic who, by the very fact of his public adhesion to the conciliar errors (religious liberty, false ecumenism, collegiality, the new mass), has ipso facto lost all jurisdiction, as taught by St. Robert Bellarmine: “A Pope who is a manifest heretic, by that very fact ceases to be Pope and head, just as he ceases to be a Christian and member of the body of the Church.” The “Defense of Sedevacantism” file confirms: “A manifest heretic cannot be Pope or a member of the Church… A non-Christian in no way can be Pope.” To quote this antipope as a moral authority is to legitimize the abomination of desolation standing in the holy place (Matt. 24:15). It is the blind quoting the blind to justify the construction of a Tower of Babel called “food security.”
They quoted Pope Leo’s address from Oct. 16, 2025, related to the World Day of Hunger. “Hunger … is a cry that rises to heaven and requires a swift response from every nation, every international organization, every regional, local, or private body,” Leo said. “No one can remain on the sidelines in the fight against hunger.”
This rhetoric — “every nation, every international organization” — is the language of the Civitas Diaboli, the Masonic project of a one-world humanitarian order. It echoes the condemned proposition of the Syllabus: “The Roman Pontiff can, and ought to, reconcile himself, and come to terms with progress, liberalism and modern civilization” (Error 80). The true Pope teaches that peace is only possible in the Kingdom of Christ (Quas Primas); the antipope preaches a peace built on full bellies and empty souls.
The Silence of the Sacraments: The Gravest Accusation
Search the letter in vain for a single reference to the Most Holy Sacrifice of the Mass, the Sacraments, the state of grace, conversion, penance, or the Last Judgment. The “bishops” and their NGO allies are united in a “shared commitment to alleviate hunger” — a purely naturalistic goal achievable by any secular agency. This silence is not an oversight; it is the forma of their apostasy. As Pius XI teaches: “The Kingdom of our Redeemer encompasses all men… not only to Catholic nations… but His reign encompasses also all non-Christians.” The conciliar hierarchy, however, acts as if the Kingdom of Christ is the SNAP program. They have forgotten — or rather, rejected — the principle that man does not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceeds from the mouth of God (Matt. 4:4). By omitting the supernatural order, they implicitly deny it. This is the practical atheism condemned in the Syllabus: “The teaching of the Catholic Church is hostile to the well-being and interests of society” (Error 40) — a lie the conciliar sect disproves by becoming the Church’s most effective ally to the secular state.
Subsidiarity Perverted: The Bureaucratization of Charity
The letter’s specific demands — “delay a plan to shift costs to the states,” “eliminate a restriction on SNAP that bans access to some people with felony convictions,” “allow Puerto Rico to move from NAP to full SNAP participation” — reveal a total absorption into the logic of the centralized, bureaucratic state. The true Catholic principle of subsidiarity (Pius XI, Quadragesimo Anno) demands that charity remain as local and personal as possible, an act of caritas flowing from the love of God. The conciliar bishops, however, demand federalization, entitlement, administrative expansion. They want the state to be the primary dispenser of charity, reducing the faithful to taxpayers and the poor to clients of a bureaucracy. This is not Catholic social teaching; it is Christian socialism condemned by Pius XI in Quadragesimo Anno: “Religious socialism, Christian socialism, are contradictory terms; no one can be at the same time a good Catholic and a true socialist.”
Ecumenism of the Welfare State: The Common Good Without Christ
The letter boasts of collaboration between “Catholic Relief Services, Catholic Charities USA, Catholic Rural Life, and National Council of the U.S. Society of St. Vincent de Paul” — all fully integrated into the government funding stream, all operating under the ecumenical imperative of the conciliar revolution. They speak of “our shared responsibility to protect vulnerable families, support thriving communities, and promote the common good.” But the common good (bonum commune) is not an aggregate of material satisfactions; it is the glory of God and the salvation of souls. As Leo XIII teaches in Immortale Dei: “The Church… is a perfect society… endowed with proper and perpetual rights… conferred upon her by her Divine Founder.” The conciliar sect has surrendered these rights to the state, becoming a mere department of Health and Human Services. The Syllabus condemns: “The Church is not a true and perfect society, entirely free… but it appertains to the civil power to define what are the rights of the Church” (Error 19). The USCCB lives this error daily.
The Masonic Architecture of the “Farm Bill” Apostolate
The very venue — lobbying the “Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry” — signifies the conciliar hierarchy’s integration into the Masonic structure of the modern state. The “False Fatima Apparitions” file exposes the “Masonic Operation ‘Fatima'” with its “disinformation strategy” of “globalization of the cult and control of the narrative.” The same strategy operates here: the conciliar “bishops” provide religious legitimization for the expansion of state power, blessing the Leviathan with holy water stolen from the true Church. They are the chaplains of the New World Order, ensuring that the “faithful” view the welfare state as the primary vehicle of Christian charity. This is the paramasonic structure in action: the “Church of the New Advent” serving as the spiritual arm of the Masonic city.
Canon 188.4 and the Vacancy of the See: The Theological Root
Why do these men act thus? Because they are not true bishops. They are ordained in the novus ordo rite of Paul VI (Montini), a rite stripped of the essential form for the sacrament of Order, and they profess the heresies of Vatican II. By Canon 188.4 of the 1917 Code: “Every office becomes vacant by the mere fact and without any declaration by reason of tacit resignation… if the cleric: … 4. Publicly defects from the Catholic faith.” The “Defense of Sedevacantism” file cites Fr. McDevitt: “Defection from the faith must be public. It should be noted at once that joining, or enrolling in, a non-Catholic sect is not required to establish the publicity which the canon demands.” Public adhesion to the conciliar errors — religious liberty, ecumenism, the new mass — constitutes public defection. These men hold no office in the Church of Christ. They are functionaries of the conciliar sect, and their lobbying for SNAP is the logical fruit of their vacancy: having lost the supernatural mission, they cling to the natural one.
Conclusion: The Bread of Angels vs. the Bread of the State
The article exposes the total bankruptcy of the conciliar hierarchy. They have exchanged the Bread of Angels for the bread of the state; the Kingship of Christ for the kingship of Caesar; the salvation of souls for the satiation of bodies. They quote an antipope to petition a Masonic Congress for an expanded welfare program. This is not the Church of Christ; it is the Church of the New Advent, the abomination of desolation, the synagogue of Satan (Apoc. 2:9) masquerading as the Bride of Christ. True Catholics — those who keep the integral Faith of the Fathers, the Mass of Trent, the Social Kingship of Christ — must reject this spectacle entirely. Non est hic Christus, neque ibi (Matt. 24:23). The remedy is not a “better Farm Bill,” but the Restoration of All Things in Christ (Eph. 1:10), beginning with the recognition of the vacant See and the rejection of every conciliar novelty. Viva Cristo Rey!
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U.S. Catholic bishops to lawmakers: SNAP policy is ‘our greatest concern’ in farm bill (ewtnnews.com)
Date: 10.07.2026