The National Catholic Register reports that Missouri voters overwhelmingly rejected Amendment 5, a proposal to eliminate the state income tax in favor of expanded sales taxes, with 83% voting against it. The article highlights that Missouri’s four conciliar “bishops” intervened in this purely temporal political matter, issuing a statement urging voters to consider “moral principles” and warning that the “most vulnerable” would suffer from increased sales taxes. The measure was supported by Republican Governor Mike Kehoe, a nominal Catholic, while the modernist Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy celebrated the defeat. This episode exposes the complete subversion of the Church’s divine mission by the conciliar sect: its “bishops” have abandoned the supernatural reign of Christ the King to become mere functionaries of the secular state, dispensing humanitarian platitudes in place of Catholic doctrine.
The Usurpation of the Church’s Mission by Naturalistic Humanitarianism
The cited article reveals the quintessence of the post-conciliar apostasy: the “bishops” of the conciliar sect have reduced the Church to a non-governmental organization lobbying for fiscal policy. They speak not of the regnum Christi, the Kingship of Christ over nations, nor of the duty of the civil power to govern according to God’s law (Deus, non homines), but of “moral principles that should guide us in pondering any tax proposal” and the “potential effects on those who are most vulnerable.” This language is not Catholic; it is the vernacular of Masonic philanthropy and socialist redistributionism. Pope Pius XI, in Quas Primas, teaches authoritatively: “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 main reason why some have the right to command and others have the duty to obey was removed.” The Missouri “bishops” do not call the civil power to submit to Christ the King; they petition the voters to adjust tax brackets for the sake of the poor. This is laicism in miters, the very “plague” Pius XI condemned: “the secularism of our times, so-called laicism, its errors and wicked endeavors.”
The Syllabus Condemned: The Church Subjected to the Civil Power
The intervention of these “bishops” presupposes the condemned errors of the Syllabus of Pius IX. By entering the public square to debate tax mechanics, they implicitly accept Error 20: “The ecclesiastical power ought not to exercise its authority without the permission and assent of the civil government” — here inverted, the “ecclesiastical” power seeks to influence the civil power on the latter’s own terms. They accept Error 39: “The State, as being the origin and source of all rights, is endowed with a certain right not circumscribed by any limits” — for they do not challenge the State’s claimed absolute dominion over property and labor, only the distribution of the spoils. They embody Error 55: “The Church ought to be separated from the State, and the State from the Church” — not by resisting the State, but by volunteering as its chaplain for social welfare. The Syllabus anathematizes the proposition that “The teaching of the Catholic Church is hostile to the well-being and interests of society” (Error 40); yet these “bishops” validate the State’s agenda by speaking its language of “vulnerable populations” and “economic policy,” rendering the Church harmless to the secular order.
No Authority, No Mission: The Sedevacantist Reality of the Conciliar Hierarchy
These four men in Missouri are not Catholic bishops. As the Defense of Sedevacantism demonstrates from Bellarmine, Wernz-Vidal, and Canon 188.4, a manifest heretic loses his office ipso facto. The conciliar “bishops” profess the heresies of Vatican II: religious liberty, ecumenism, collegiality, the new ecclesiology — all condemned by Lamentabili Sane and Pascendi. They recognize the usurper “Pope” Leo XIV (Robert Prevost) and the line of antipopes from John XXIII. Therefore, they are not members of the Church, and consequently cannot be her heads (Bellarmine, De Romano Pontifice 2:30: “A non-Christian in no way can be Pope… a manifest heretic is not a Christian… therefore, a manifest heretic cannot be Pope”). The same principle applies to the episcopate. Their “statement” is the private opinion of laymen who have publicly defected from the Catholic faith (Canon 188.4), possessing nulla jurisdictio, no authority to teach, govern, or sanctify. When they speak, it is not the voice of the Good Shepherd, but the voice of the hireling who flees the wolf of modernism — or rather, collaborates with him.
The “Preferential Option for the Poor” as a Substitute for the Social Kingship of Christ
The “bishops'” rhetoric — “most vulnerable,” “weighed alongside the potential effects” — is the liberation theology lexicon that replaced the Social Reign of Christ the King. Pius XI instituted the Feast of Christ the King precisely “to address the needs of the present times and provide a special remedy against the plague that poisons human society… the secularism of our times.” He taught that “His reign encompasses also all non-Christians, so that most truly the entire human race is subject to the authority of Jesus Christ” and that “rulers of states… have the duty to publicly honor Christ and obey Him.” The Missouri “bishops” are silent on this duty. They do not demand that Missouri’s laws conform to the Decalogue; they do not condemn the State’s usurpation of God’s dominion over property (taxation without divine sanction). They merely haggle over the method of plunder. This is the fruit of the Modernist error condemned in Lamentabili Proposition 59: “Christ did not proclaim any specific, all-encompassing doctrine suitable for all times and peoples, but rather initiated a certain religious movement, applied or applicable to different times and places.” Having denied Christ’s Kingship over the temporal order, they fill the void with humanitarian sentimentality.
The Conciliar Sect as an Instrument of the Masonic State
The article notes Governor Kehoe is “a Catholic” who supported the measure, while the “bishops” opposed it. This spectacle of “Catholic” against “Catholic” in the political arena is the desired fruit of the Masonic operation described in the False Fatima Apparitions analysis: “Stage 3 (1958-2000): Takeover of the narrative by modernists, concealment of the Third Secret, ecumenical reinterpretation.” The conciliar sect serves to neutralize Catholic opposition to the secular state by channeling it into harmless policy debates. The “bishops” do not excommunicate the Governor for supporting a tax structure they deem immoral; they do not interdict the legislators. They issue a “statement.” This is the ecumenical reinterpretation of the Church’s mission: dialogue replaces anathema, accompaniment replaces judgment, the ballot box replaces the throne of Christ. The Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy, a secular think tank, is cited as the authoritative voice validating the “bishops'” position — the world applauds the neo-church when it mimics the world.
Conclusion: The Abomination of Desolation in the Public Square
The Missouri episode is a microcosm of the Great Apostasy. The true Church, the Ecclesia militans, teaches that “there is no other name under heaven given to men by which we must be saved” (Acts 4:12, cited in Quas Primas) and that “the State is happy not by one means, and man by another; for the state is nothing else than a harmonious association of men” (St. Augustine, cited in Quas Primas) — happiness found only in submission to Christ the King. The conciliar “bishops” have betrayed this truth. They have exchanged the Kingship of Christ for a seat at the table of Caesar, offering not the Bread of Life but the stones of fiscal policy. Their “moral principles” are the traditiones hominum (Mark 7:8), the commandments of men, taught as doctrines. Faithful Catholics must reject these hirelings, withdraw from the conciliar sect, and pray for the restoration of the true hierarchy that will “render to Caesar the things that are Caesar’s, and to God the things that are God’s” (Matt 22:21) — beginning with the proclamation that Christus Vincit, Christus Regnat, Christus Imperat over Missouri, over the United States, and over all nations.
Source:
Missouri Voters Reject Income Tax Proposal After Bishops Warned of Its Effects on ‘Most Vulnerable’ (ncregister.com)
Date: 05.08.2026