EWTN News portal reports (September 5, 2026) that Gary Hermesch, accused of shooting “Father” Arul Carasala in Seneca, Kansas, on April 3, 2025, was declared incompetent to stand trial by a civil court on September 3, with involuntary commitment proceedings initiated. The “Archbishop” of the Kansas City conciliar structure, Joseph Naumann, eulogized the victim as a “devoted and zealous pastor” who “faithfully served our archdiocese for over 20 years.” This sordid affair—the murder of a Novus Ordo functionary adjudicated by a secular tribunal and lamented with purely humanitarian rhetoric—lays bare the total collapse of the Ecclesia Militans into a mere societas humana, stripped of supernatural jurisdiction, canonical order, and the very sensus fidei that distinguishes the City of God from the city of man.
The Conciliar Sect’s Functionary Masquerades as a Priest
The article identifies the victim as “Father Arul Carasala,” ordained March 4, 1994, in the novus ordo rite of the conciliar sect, incardinated into the “Archdiocese of Kansas City in Kansas” under the usurper “Archbishop” Naumann. From the perspective of integral Catholic theology—anchored in the immutable doctrine of the Council of Trent and the unerring Magisterium of Pius XII—this “ordination” is at best doubtful, at worst null. The Pontificale Romanum of 1968, imposed by the antipope Paul VI (Montini), altered the essential form and intention of the sacrament of Order, substituting the traditional Accipe Spiritum Sanctum with a vague “receiving of the Holy Spirit” for the “office and work of the priesthood,” thereby vitiating the sacramental form required ex vi institutionis Christi. As Leo XIII defined in Apostolicae Curae (1896): “Omnes ordinationes… irritae fuere et inanes” (all ordinations… were void and empty) when the form is defective. A man ordained in the new rite, within the paramasonic structures occupying the Vatican, lacks the character indelebilis of the priesthood; he is a layman simulating the minister of the Most Holy Sacrifice. Carasala was not a sacerdos alter Christus but a functionary of the abomination of desolation (Matt. 24:15), administering invalid sacraments—simulated Masses, null absolutions—to souls deceived into believing they receive grace. His murder, while a grave crime against human life under the natural law, is not the martyrdom of a priest in odium fidei; it is the killing of an agent of the Great Apostasy.
EWTN: Propaganda Organ of the Abomination of Desolation
The source, EWTN News, functions as the Pravda of the conciliar sect. Its reporter, Daniel Payne, uncritically transmits the narrative of the “Archdiocese”: the suspect “confessed,” the “Archbishop” praised the “pastor,” the obituary highlighted “community-oriented” service. Not a single word references the status animarum, the validity of orders, the Missale Romanum of St. Pius V, or the Catechism of the Council of Trent. The portal’s very name—”EWTN News”—masquerades as Catholic media while serving the Church of the New Advent. This is the modus operandi of the neo-church: simulate Catholic vocabulary (“Archdiocese,” “priest,” “ordained,” “faithful”) while evacuating the ontological reality. As St. Pius X thundered in Pascendi Dominici Gregis (1907): “The Modernist… does not deny, he transforms… he empties the dogmas of their meaning.” EWTN’s reportage is a textbook example: it transforms the murder of a false priest into a “loss for the Catholic community,” thereby reinforcing the faithful’s delusion that the sect occupying the cathedrals is the Church.
Secular Judiciary Usurps Ecclesiastical Jurisdiction: Privilegium Fori Abolished
The article states baldly: “Gary Hermesch was declared incompetent to stand trial in Nemaha County Court… The spokesman added that the court ‘ordered involuntary commitment proceedings [to] be initiated.'” A civil court—creature of the Masonic state, deriving its authority from the voluntas populi rather than Deo auctore (Rom. 13:1)—sits in judgment over a crime against a “cleric” of the conciliar sect. Where is the Privilegium Fori? Where is the canonical process? The 1917 Code (Canon 119) reserved the judgment of clerics to ecclesiastical tribunals; the Cum ex Apostolatus Officio of Paul IV (1559) and the Syllabus of Pius IX (Error 31) condemn the abolition of the ecclesiastical forum. Yet the conciliar sect, having surrendered to 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”), meekly submits its “clergy” to Caesar’s courts. The “Archbishop” Naumann issues a Facebook post—Facebook!—instead of convening a synodal investigation or demanding the libertas Ecclesiae. This is the fruit of Dignitatis Humanae and Gaudium et Spes: the Church reduced to an NGO begging for “religious liberty” before the secular magistrate, while the jus divinum is trampled.
Naturalistic Eulogy: “Community-Oriented” Replaces Salus Animarum
His love for Christ and his Church was evident in how he ministered to his people with great generosity and care… a beloved priest who was grounded, compassionate, and deeply community-oriented.
Observe the vocabulary: “generosity,” “care,” “grounded,” “compassionate,” “community-oriented.” Not a whisper of sacerdos, victima, mediator, judex, doctor veritatis. The “Archbishop” Naumann—himself a layman elevated by the antipope John Paul II (Wojtyla) in the invalid new rite of episcopal consecration—eulogizes a social worker. This is the hermeneutic of rupture made flesh: the Munus sacerdotale (priestly office) dissolved into the Munus sociale (social function). Pius XI in Quas Primas (1925) taught that Christ’s Kingdom is “spiritual and relates mainly to spiritual matters” and that “men who wish to belong to it prepare themselves through repentance, but cannot enter except through faith and baptism.” Carasala’s “ministry” in the Novus Ordo—a Protestantized meal service devoid of propitiatory sacrifice—could not confer the gratia sanctificans necessary for entry into the Kingdom. The obituary’s focus on his Indian birth, seminary travels, US citizenship (2011), and surviving relatives is pure curriculum vitae naturalism. Salus animarum suprema lex (the salvation of souls is the supreme law) has been replaced by salus communitatis (the welfare of the community).
The Theological Void: No Mention of Grace, Sacraments, or Judgment
The article’s silence is its loudest accusation. No mention of:
- The Most Holy Sacrifice of the Mass (Tridentine) which Carasala never validly offered.
- The Sacrament of Penance which he could not validly absolve.
- Extreme Unction for the dying—which he could not confer.
- Prayers for the repose of his soul (Requiem aeternam), replaced by “beloved priest” sentimentality.
- The Particular Judgment awaiting every soul (Heb. 9:27).
- The dogma Extra Ecclesiam Nulla Salus (Fourth Lateran, 1215; Boniface VIII, Unam Sanctam, 1302).
This silence is the crimen laesae maiestatis Divinae. The conciliar sect has so internalized the Modernist heresy condemned in Lamentabili Sane Exitu (1907)—propositions 22, 26, 58, 65: “Dogmas… are a certain interpretation of religious facts… Truth changes with man… Christian doctrine was initially Jewish… progress of sciences requires a reform of the concept of Christian doctrine”—that it no longer speaks the language of eternity. It speaks the language of the City of Man: demographics, citizenship, “community,” “generosity.” As Pius XI warned in Quas Primas: “The state is happy not by one means, and man by another; for the state is nothing else than a harmonious association of men.” But the sect has forgotten that “there is no other name under heaven given to men by which we must be saved” (Acts 4:12) than Jesus Christ the King—and that this King reigns only through His true Church, His true priesthood, His true Sacrifice.
Symptomatic of the Great Apostasy: Ecclesia Militans Replaced by NGO
This incident—murder, civil trial, incompetency ruling, Facebook eulogy—is a microcosm of the abomination of desolation standing in the holy place (Matt. 24:15). The structures occupying the Vatican since 1958 (John XXIII, Paul VI, John Paul I, John Paul II, Benedict XVI, Francis, now “Leo XIV” Prevost) are not the Catholic Church but a paramasonic structure erected to displace it. The “priests” they produce are not alter Christus but alter mundus. The “bishops” are not successors of the Apostles but administrators of a false religion. The “faithful” are not the Church Militant but members of a humanitarian association.
The sedevacantist position—grounded in Bellarmine’s De Romano Pontifice (Bk. 2, Ch. 30): “A manifest heretic… by that very fact ceases to be Pope and head… a non-Christian in no way can be Pope”—is the only coherent theological explanation for this reality. The “Archbishop” Naumann, the “priest” Carasala, the media EWTN, the civil court—all operate within the same naturalistic framework, oblivious to the supernatural order. The murder of Carasala is a tragedy of natural justice; the spiritual tragedy is that thousands in Kansas believe they have lost a “priest” and a “pastor,” when in fact they never possessed a valid minister of Christ. Ipsa conteret caput tuum (Gen. 3:15)—the true Church, though persecuted and invisible in the catacombs of the sedevacantist resistance, remains the sole ark of salvation. The neo-church’s lament is the wailing of the synagogue of Satan (Apoc. 2:9) mourning its own agent.
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Accused killer of Kansas priest declared not competent at murder trial (ewtnnews.com)
Date: 05.09.2026