The National Catholic Register, mouthpiece of the conciliar sect, reports that the Spokane “bishop” Thomas Daly — a usurper installed in 2015 by the apostate See of Rome — issued a plea for prayers and material aid following devastating wildfires in Washington state. The article highlights a statue of the Blessed Virgin standing untouched amid ashes, a detail seized upon by the neo-church to foster naturalistic sentimentality. “Bishop” Daly toured the ruins with his “Vicar General,” praised the “courage” of firefighters, and fretted over Thanksgiving logistics and school schedules. Catholic Charities Eastern Washington solicited donations for “essential supplies, housing, and long-term assistance.” An arson suspect was arrested. The fire chief described “apocalyptic devastation” and a “new normal” of unstoppable infernos. This report epitomizes the conciliar sect’s total substitution of the supernatural mission of the Church for temporal humanitarianism, its clergy functioning as mere social workers while the divine rights of Christ the King are ignored and souls are left to perish without the true Sacraments.
The “Bishop” as Functionary of the Civil Religion
The cited article presents “Bishop” Daly performing the role assigned to the conciliar hierarchy by the Masonic powers: managing disaster relief and offering vague spiritual consolation devoid of dogmatic content. His letter urges the faithful to be “people of hope” because “Christ remains with us” — a platitude stripped of the extra Ecclesiam nulla salus reality. Nowhere does this “bishop” call for public penance, processions of reparation, or the invocation of God’s mercy through the Unbloody Sacrifice of Calvary offered by valid priests. Instead, he surveys damage with a police escort, calculates rebuilding timelines, and coordinates with Catholic Charities — an NGO indistinguishable from secular relief agencies. This is the laicism condemned by Pius XI in Quas Primas: “When God and Jesus Christ… were removed from laws and states… the foundations of that authority were destroyed.” The conciliar “bishop” does not govern souls for eternity; he administers temporal comfort for a dying world.
The Statue Fetishism and the Silence on True Worship
The article’s emphasis on a Virgin Mary statue “untouched” amid the ruins serves the conciliar sect’s agenda of Mariolatry divorced from the Kingship of Christ. This sentimental focus on a physical object — while the Most Holy Sacrifice is unavailable in the diocese due to the absence of validly ordained priests — is a hallmark of the post-conciliar apostasy. The faithful are directed toward material signs rather than the res et sacramentum of the Eucharist. Pius XI taught that Christ reigns in minds, wills, and hearts through truth, grace, and charity (Quas Primas). The conciliar sect replaces this reign with emotional attachment to statues, a practice bordering on idolatry when divorced from the sacerdotium and the regnum of the true Church. The “miraculous” preservation of plaster is exalted; the loss of the True Mass is unmentioned.
Catholic Charities: The Secular Arm of the Anti-Church
The appeal by “Catholic Charities Eastern Washington” for an “emergency fund” to provide “essential supplies, housing, and long-term assistance” exposes the complete naturalization of the conciliar sect’s works. This organization operates “near downtown Spokane,” its staff and clients affected by the fires. It functions as a branch of the welfare state, funded by donations solicited under the Catholic name but lacking any supernatural finality. St. Pius X condemned the Modernist error that “the Church is an enemy of the progress of natural and theological sciences” (Lamentabili sane exitu, prop. 57), yet the conciliar sect has surrendered the supernatural order entirely to the natural. The Syllabus of Pius IX anathematized the proposition that “the civil government… has a right to an indirect negative power over religious affairs” (Error 41); today, the conciliar “charities” beg the civil government and private donors for funds to perform the state’s work, having abandoned the Church’s duty to teach, govern, and sanctify.
The “New Normal” of Divine Chastisement Ignored
Fire Chief Stocking speaks of a “new normal” of “apocalyptic devastation,” referencing the Palisades fire and the Lāhainā inferno. The conciliar “bishop” and his media echo this naturalistic analysis — climate change, wind patterns, ember storms — while maintaining a criminal silence on the moral causes of divine chastisement. The Syllabus condemns the error that “moral laws do not stand in need of the divine sanction” (Error 56). The fires consume a land where the public reign of Christ the King has been repudiated, where the “conciliar sect” promotes religious liberty, ecumenism, and the “cult of man” (Pius XI, Quas Primas). The arson arrest is noted, but the systemic arson against God’s law — abortion, sodomy, blasphemy, sacrilege — is never addressed. The true shepherd would proclaim: Convertimini ad me, et ego convertar ad vos (Zach 1:3). The hireling speaks of “Thanksgiving with no place to go.”
Invalid Shepherds, Invalid Sacraments, Lost Souls
“Bishop” Daly, ordained and consecrated in the post-1968 rite of the conciliar sect, possesses no jurisdiction, no orders, no mission. The Defense of Sedevacantism demonstrates that a manifest heretic loses office ipso facto (Bellarmine, De Romano Pontifice; Canon 188.4; Cum ex Apostolatus Officio). The line of usurpers from John XXIII to Leo XIV (Robert Prevost) has severed the apostolic succession in the visible structures occupying the Vatican. The “parishes” in Spokane are not Catholic churches; they are Protestantized assembly halls where the Novus Ordo — a fabrication of the Freemason Bugnini — simulates the Holy Sacrifice. The faithful in Spokane have no access to the Unbloody Sacrifice of Calvary, no valid absolution, no extreme unction. The “bishop” offers “prayers” and “hope” while the supernatural lifeline is cut. This is the abomination of desolation standing in the holy place (Matt 24:15).
Conclusion: The Kingdom of Christ or the Kingdom of This World
The article is a portrait of the Church of the New Advent in its essence: a humanitarian NGO with religious branding, managing decline, offering therapy, silent on sin, judgment, and the regnum Christi. Pius XI instituted the Feast of Christ the King precisely to combat the “secularism of our times, so-called laicism” (Quas Primas). The conciliar sect has enthroned laicism in the sanctuary. The fires in Spokane are a visitation of God’s justice upon a nation and a “church” that have dethroned Christ. The only remedy is the restoration of the Social Kingship of Christ through the integral Catholic faith, the traditional Mass, and the rejection of the conciliar sect and its false shepherds. “He who gives the Kingdom of Heaven does not take away earthly things” — but the conciliar sect gives earthly things and takes away the Kingdom of Heaven.
Source:
Spokane Bishop Daly Calls for Prayers Amid ‘Devastating’ Wildfires in Washington State (ncregister.com)
Date: 05.08.2026