The National Catholic Register (NCR) reports (September 9, 2026) that the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) has filed an amicus brief in Viramontes v. Cook County, urging the Supreme Court to uphold local bans on semiautomatic rifles such as the AR-15. The brief argues that the “autonomy of local authority” reflects the Catholic principle of subsidiarity and that modern firearms are “fundamentally dissimilar” to 18th-century arms, thus “dangerous and unusual” and subject to regulation. This intervention by the conciliar hierarchy reveals not pastoral solicitude but a total capitulation to the Masonic secular order, substituting the Kingship of Christ for the idolatry of state power.
The Illegitimacy of the USCCB: A Masonic Parody of Episcopal Authority
The entity styling itself the “U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops” possesses no canonical mission, no sacramental jurisdiction, and no theological standing. It is an administrative construct of the conciliar sect, erected after the pseudo-council Vatican II to manage the demolition of the Faith in America. Its members—men like “Cardinal” Blase Cupich, “Archbishop” José Gomez, “Bishop” Robert Barron—are manifest heretics who profess the novelties of religious liberty, ecumenism, and collegiality condemned by the Syllabus of Pius IX and the encyclicals of St. Pius X. As St. Robert Bellarmine teaches, “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” (De Romano Pontifice). This principle extends to the episcopate: one who publicly defects from the Faith (Canon 188.4, 1917 Code) loses office ipso facto. The USCCB is therefore a synagogue of Satan (Apoc. 2:9), a “paramasonic structure” occupying the visible patrimony of the Church, issuing political press releases instead of preaching the Gospel.
Perversion of Subsidiarity: Serving the State, Not the Kingdom
The brief’s invocation of subsidiarity is a sacrilegious distortion of Pius XI’s teaching in Quadragesimo Anno (1931). True subsidiarity orders society toward the common good defined by the divine law, not toward the arbitrary “safety” standards of a Masonic republic. Pius XI declared 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 USCCB does not demand that Cook County govern sub Deo; it begs the Supreme Court—the high tribunal of a regime that legalizes infanticide, sodomy, and usury—to empower local tyrants to disarm the populace. This is not subsidiarity; it is servilitas, the slavery of the Church to the State, precisely the error condemned in the Syllabus (Error 55: “The Church ought to be separated from the State, and the State from the Church”).
The Second Amendment: An Enlightenment Idol, Not Catholic Doctrine
The article notes the bishops’ reliance on “America’s historical tradition of federalism” and Supreme Court precedents (Heller, McDonald, Bruen, Rahimi). Catholic theology knows no “Second Amendment.” The right to bear arms is a positivist concession of a Protestant-Masonic constitutional order founded on the heresy of popular sovereignty. Leo XIII condemned the “fatal error” of believing “the State… is the origin and source of all rights” (Syllabus, Error 39). The conciliar bishops, by arguing within the framework of District of Columbia v. Heller, legitimize the myth of the neutral secular state. They accept the premise that the Supreme Court—an unelected oligarchy in black robes—is the final arbiter of natural law. This is Modernism in action: the “vital immanence” of religious sentiment adapting to the “evolving consciousness” of the age (condemned in Lamentabili sane exitu, Props. 58, 59, 64).
“Dangerous and Unusual”: Judging by Worldly Standards, Not Eternal Law
The brief declares AR-15s “fundamentally dissimilar” to 18th-century arms and thus “dangerous and unusual.” Who defines “dangerous”? The God who commanded David to slay Goliath, or the State that slaughters millions in the womb? The bishops adopt the utilitarian calculus of the world: efficiency of killing, magazine capacity, “assault weapon” aesthetics. They ignore the Catechism of the Council of Trent on legitimate defense: “He who defends his life is not guilty of murder even if he is forced to deal his aggressor a lethal blow.” By conceding that the nature of the weapon—not the justice of the cause—determines legitimacy, they surrender the natural right of self-preservation to the positive law of the Antichrist. This is the hermeneutic of rupture applied to the natural law: truth changes with technology (Lamentabili, Prop. 58: “Truth changes with man”).
Silence on the True Crisis: Apostasy, Invalid Sacraments, the Reign of Antichrist
While the structures occupying the Vatican fret over rifle stocks, souls are damned by the millions. The “Mass” celebrated in their cathedrals is the Novus Ordo Missae—a Protestantized “table of assembly” fabricated by the Freemason Bugnini, invalid in form and intention, stripping the propitiatory Sacrifice of Calvary. Their “priests” are ordained in the Paul VI rite (1968), doubtfully valid at best, sacrilegious at worst. Their “saints” (John Paul II, Kolbe, Faustina, Newman) are apostates, ecumenists, and pseudo-mystics canonized by antipopes (John XXIII, Paul VI, John Paul II, Benedict XVI, Francis, Leo XIV). The Fatima apparatus they promote is a Masonic psychological operation (1717–1917–2017 cycles) diverting attention from the apostasy within (St. Pius X, Pascendi). Not a word in the amicus brief on the Social Kingship of Christ, the duty of states to profess the Catholic Faith (Quas Primas), or the eternal perdition awaiting those who die outside the Ark of Peter. Their “charity” is philanthropy; their “justice” is legalism; their “peace” is the peace of the world (John 14:27).
Collaboration with the Antichrist Structure: Legitimizing the Supreme Court of a Godless Republic
By filing this brief, the USCCB formally recognizes the jurisdiction of the U.S. Supreme Court over the moral order. It petitions Caesar to regulate the instruments of defense, implicitly accepting Caesar’s plenitudo potestatis in the temporal sphere. This is the clerico-liberal error condemned by Pius IX (Syllabus, Errors 19, 20, 41, 42): “The ecclesiastical power ought not to exercise its authority without the permission and assent of the civil government”; “In the case of conflicting laws… the civil law prevails.” The bishops act as lobbyists for the Prince of this World, seeking a favorable ruling from the Sanhedrin of the New World Order. They have “made void the law of God through your tradition” (Matt. 15:6). True bishops—validly ordained, holding the Faith entire, in communion with the true Roman Pontiff (sede vacante since 1958)—would excommunicate the legislators who vote for abortion, denounce the Masonic Constitution, and call the faithful to resist unto martyrdom rather than render to Caesar what belongs to God. The USCCB does the opposite: it renders unto God the things that are Caesar’s (political activism) and renders unto Caesar the things that are God’s (the souls of the faithful, the rights of the Church, the Kingship of Christ).
Christus Vincit, Christus Regnat, Christus Imperat. The USCCB serves the Antichrist.
Source:
U.S. Bishops Urge Supreme Court to Allow Communities to Regulate Firearms Under Second Amendment (ncregister.com)
Date: 09.09.2026