The EWTN News portal reports that the antipope’s “bishops” of the USCCB — specifically “Archbishop” Shelton Fabre and “Archbishop” Ronald Hicks — have successfully lobbied the Trump administration to enact legislation permitting conciliar “clergy” to reverse prior decisions to opt out of the United States Social Security and Medicare systems. The bill, signed October 20, 2026, opens a two-year window in 2029–2030 for these “priests” and “religious” to buy back into the federal pension and healthcare apparatus. The USCCB letter frames this as “much needed relief,” “support,” and a path to “more complete retirement” and “comprehensive financial and physical wellbeing.” This sordid spectacle of the conciliar hierarchy begging the civil power for old-age insurance constitutes a public, legislative apostasy from Divina Providentia and the regnum Christi, exposing the neo-church as a mere secular NGO managing human resources for the Antichrist’s kingdom.
The Naturalistic Vocabulary of Apostasy: “Wellbeing” Replaces Salvation
The linguistic putrefaction of the USCCB letter is the immediate signature of the Modernist spirit condemned by St. Pius X in Lamentabili sane exitu (1907). The document speaks of “financial and physical wellbeing,” “secure retirement,” “transition into the next phase of their lives and ministries,” and “inaccurate financial advice.” Not a single word — not one — references the salus animarum, the state of grace, the munus sacerdotale, or the eternal recompense promised to those who leave all for Christ (Matt. 19:29). The “bishop” Fabre and “bishop” Hicks adopt the rhetoric of a corporate HR department negotiating a benefits package for mid-level managers. This is the lingua novus ordo: bureaucratic, therapeutic, and utterly devoid of the sensus catholicus. As Pius XI teaches in Quas Primas, “Christ reigns in the minds of men… because He Himself is Truth, and men must draw truth from Him and accept it obediently.” The USCCB draws its truth from actuarial tables and the Social Security Administration.
The Theological Bankruptcy: Serving Two Masters
The conciliar “clergy” opting back into Caesar’s insurance fund publicly declare that they trust the United States Treasury more than the Father of Lights (James 1:17). This is a formal, practical denial of Providentia specialissima over those consecrated to the altar. The pre-conciliar Church, following the Canones Apostolici and the Corpus Iuris Canonici (c. 127, X, 3.4; c. 3, X, 1.3), strictly forbade clerics from engaging in secular business or seeking worldly security (clericus negotia saecularia non gerat). The Council of Trent (Sess. 24, c. 12, de ref.) commands bishops to ensure clerics “abstain from worldly business.” By canonizing the pursuit of a federal pension, the USCCB abrogates the ius divinum governing the ecclesiastical state. They fulfill the Modernist proposition condemned in Lamentabili (Prop. 65): “Contemporary Catholicism cannot be reconciled with true knowledge without transforming it into a certain dogmaless Christianity, that is, into a broad and liberal Protestantism.” Here, the “priesthood” is reduced to a career track with a 401(k) equivalent.
Usurpation of Christ’s Kingship: The State as Savior
Pius XI, in Quas Primas, proclaims: “His reign encompasses also all non-Christians, so that most truly the entire human race is subject to the authority of Jesus Christ… Let rulers of states therefore not refuse public veneration and obedience to the reigning Christ.” The Syllabus of Errors (Pius IX, 1864) condemns the proposition: “The Church ought to be separated from the State, and the State from the Church” (Error 55), and “The civil government… has a right to an indirect negative power over religious affairs” (Error 41). By petitioning Congress and the President for a statutory “window” to re-enter the federal system, the USCCB acknowledges the supremacy of the secular order over the supernatural vocation. They render to Caesar not only the coin bearing his image (Matt. 22:21), but the very securitas senectutis of Christ’s ministers. This is laicism in action: “the denial of Christ the Lord’s reign over all nations; the Church’s authority to teach men, to issue laws, to govern nations… was denied” (Quas Primas). The “bishops” Fabre and Hicks act as lobbyists for a special interest group, not as successores Apostolorum defending the libertas Ecclesiae.
The Symptomatic Level: Fruit of the Conciliar Revolution
This legislation is the ripe fruit of Gaudium et Spes and the hermeneutic of worldliness inaugurated at Vatican II. The “priest” of the new rite is configured not to the Victima immolata but to the “man for others” — a social worker with a collar. The USCCB’s “Committee on Domestic Justice and Human Development” and “Committee on Clergy, Consecrated Life, and Vocations” are the administrative organs of this secularization. The “opt-out” itself was a concession to the Masonic principle of separation of Church and State, allowing “clergy” to pose as autonomous contractors. Now, the “opt-in” reveals the failure of that autonomy: the “clergy” cannot survive without the Beast’s mark (Apoc. 13:16-17). The “two-year window” (2029-2030) is a Jubilee of Mammon. As St. Robert Bellarmine teaches (De Romano Pontifice, cited in the Defense of Sedevacantism), a manifest heretic loses all jurisdiction ipso facto. These “bishops,” by leading their “flock” into servitude to the secular state for temporal security, manifest the heresy of Naturalism and Modernism. They are not pastors; they are hirelings (John 10:12-13) negotiating a severance package.
The Invalidity of the Conciliar “Sacraments” and “Clergy”
It must be reiterated: the “priests” and “bishops” benefiting from this bill are, in the vast majority, products of the invalid Pontificale Romanum of 1968 and the Novus Ordo Missae. They lack the character indelebilis of the priesthood and the potestas ordinis and jurisdictionis. The “Archbishops” Fabre and Hicks are laymen in ecclesiastical costume, heading a paramasonic structure occupying the Vatican. Their “letter” has no more canonical weight than a press release from the AARP. The true Catholic priest, validly ordained in the Apostolic rite, trusts in the words of the Psalmist: “I have been young and now am old, yet I have not seen the righteous forsaken, nor his seed begging bread” (Ps. 36:25). He seeks the regnum Dei first (Matt. 6:33), not the regnum Caesaris with its Medicare Part B.
Conclusion: The Abomination of Desolation Administers Pensions
The Trump-USCCB Social Security bill is not a “victory for faith leaders.” It is a public deed of apostasy. It confirms that the conciliar sect is the abominatio desolationis standing in the holy place (Matt. 24:15), administering not the Sacraments of eternal life, but the bureaucratic entitlements of a dying empire. True Catholics, adhering to the immutable Tradition and the valid Sacraments, reject this servitude. We recognize no “bishop” who begs Caesar for a pension, no “priest” who trusts the Social Security Trust Fund over the Divine Treasurer. Non est in fine pazientiae Dei: convertimini ad Dominum Deum vestrum (Joel 2:13) — while there is still time, before the final judgment where no federal benefit avails.
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Trump signs bill to reopen SSocial Security, Medicare opt-ins for priests, clergy (ewtnnews.com)
Date: 21.10.2026