The EWTN News portal reports that the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB), through its Committee chairmen Archbishop Shelton J. Fabre and Bishop A. Elias Zaidan, alongside Catholic Relief Services CEO Sean Callahan, has issued a statement urging world leaders at COP31 in Antalya, Turkey, to enact “decisive climate action.” The statement invokes the “cry of the earth and the cry of the poor,” demands climate finance prioritizing grants over loans, a “just transition” from fossil fuels, and echoes the rhetoric of the antipope Leo XIV (Robert Prevost). The Irish hierarchy chimed in with similar demands. This spectacle of prelates lobbying a Masonic United Nations forum exposes the complete substitution of the Church’s supernatural mission for a naturalistic, political agenda.
The Antichurch as NGO: Reduction of the Kingship of Christ to Climate Technocracy
The cited statement is a manifesto of apostasy. It nowhere mentions the Salus animarum (salvation of souls), the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass, the necessity of Baptism for eternal life, the reality of sin, judgment, hell, or the Social Kingship of Christ the King. Instead, it parrots the secular catechism of the UN: “climate finance,” “adaptation,” “resilience,” “just transition,” “biodiversity loss.” This is the opus operatum of the conciliar sect: the total inversion of Quas Primas. Pius XI taught: “When God and Jesus Christ… were removed from laws and states… the foundations of that authority were destroyed” (Encyclical Quas Primas, 1925). The USCCB does not call rulers to publicly honor Christ and obey Him (ibid.); it calls them to manage carbon emissions. It seeks not the Regnum Christi, but the Regnum Hominis — a global technocratic tyranny administered by the very “synagogue of Satan” Pius IX condemned in the Syllabus (Error 80: “The Roman Pontiff can, and ought to, reconcile himself… with progress, liberalism and modern civilization”).
False “Pope,” False Authority, False Gospel
The statement explicitly invokes “Pope Leo XIV” (Robert Prevost) as “Holy Father” and cites his address to the Pontifical Academy of Sciences. There is no Pope Leo XIV. The See of Peter has been vacant since the death of Pius XII (1958). The line of usurpers — John XXIII, Paul VI, John Paul I, John Paul II, Benedict XVI, Francis, and now Prevost — constitutes a manifestly heretical antipapacy. By the principle ipso facto (St. Robert Bellarmine, De Romano Pontifice), a manifest heretic ceases to be Pope and head. The “canonization” of the conciliar revolution by these antipopes — religious liberty, false ecumenism, collegiality, the New Mass — is the “abomination of desolation” (Matt. 24:15) standing in the holy place. The USCCB’s submission to Prevost is not obedience; it is adherence to a counterfeit magisterium. Canon 188.4 of the 1917 Code declares an office vacant by “public defection from the Catholic faith.” The conciliar “bishops” holding office in the Vatican structures have defected; therefore, they possess no jurisdiction. Their statements carry the weight of a Masonic lodge resolution.
The “Cry of the Earth” vs. The Cry of the Damned
The bishops speak of “the cry of the earth and the cry of the poor.” This phrase, lifted from the apostate Francis’s Laudato Si’, is a blasphemous anthropomorphism. The earth does not “cry”; it groans in expectation of the revelation of the sons of God (Rom. 8:19-22) — a supernatural eschatological hope, not a political program. The true “cry of the poor” is the cry of souls perishing for lack of the true Faith, the true Mass, the true Sacraments. “There is no other name under heaven given to men by which we must be saved” (Acts 4:12). The USCCB is silent on this. It offers the poor not the Bread of Life, but “climate finance” and “adaptation measures.” This is the social gospel of Freemasonry, condemned by St. Pius X in Pascendi and Lamentabili (Prop. 58: “Truth changes with man… Christ did not proclaim any specific, all-encompassing doctrine suitable for all times and peoples”). The “climate crisis” narrative serves the Masonic “Great Reset” — the establishment of a world government (Error 39 of Syllabus: “The State… is endowed with a certain right not circumscribed by any limits”).
COP31: The Masonic Parliament of the Antichrist
The article notes COP31 draws “100,000 participants including heads of states… corporate executives, and nongovernmental organizations like Greenpeace and WWF.” It is presided over by Turkey’s Environment Minister Murat Kurum and negotiated by Australia’s Chris Bowen, under the gaze of Recep Tayyip Erdoğan. This is the “synagogue of Satan” (Apoc. 2:9; 3:9) in session. Pius IX, in the allocution attached to the Syllabus, identified the source: “Anyone who knows the nature, desires and intentions of the sects, whether they be called masonic or bear another name… cannot doubt that the present misfortune must mainly be imputed to the frauds and machinations of these sects.” The USCCB sends its representatives not to convert the nations, but to beg alms from Caesar for the “Global Goal on Adaptation.” It recognizes the competence of the UN — a body founded on the denial of Christ’s Kingship (Error 55: “The Church ought to be separated from the State”) — to dictate moral theology on energy, economics, and “justice.”
“Just Transition”: The Language of the Revolution
The demand for a “just transition mechanism to accompany developing countries… as they move away from fossil fuels” is the vocabulary of the Communist Manifesto, not the Gospel. It assumes the false premise that CO2 — the breath of life, the substrate of photosynthesis — is a “pollutant.” It demands the impoverishment of nations (denying them cheap, reliable energy) in obedience to the Club of Rome’s Limits to Growth Malthusianism. “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). True happiness comes from the City of God, not from wind turbines and carbon credits. The “dignity of every worker” is protected by the Church’s social doctrine (Rerum Novarum, Quadragesimo Anno) which upholds private property, just wage, and subsidiarity — not by UN wealth redistribution schemes administered by the same globalist elites who fund abortion and gender ideology.
The Irish Hierarchy: Schismatics in Synodality
The Irish “bishops” demand “fossil fuel phase-out” and “fossil fuel profit tax.” This is the same hierarchy that acquiesced to the legalization of abortion (2018) and same-sex “marriage” (2015) in Ireland without excommunicating a single legislator. Their “climate” statement is a diversion: it costs them nothing politically, aligns them with the secular state, and maintains the flow of government funding to their schools and agencies. It is simulacrum of prophetic witness.
Absence of the US Delegation: Providence or Chastisement?
The article notes the “second consecutive year that the United States lacks an official government delegation… due to the Trump administration’s withdrawal from climate pacts.” The USCCB laments this. They lament that the temporal power refuses to worship the idol they have erected. They desire the Catholic State to be subservient to the Masonic UN. This is the precise error condemned by Pius IX (Error 20: “The ecclesiastical power ought not to exercise its authority without the permission and assent of the civil government” — reversed here: the ecclesiastical power *begs* the civil government to submit to a *higher* Masonic authority).
Catholic Relief Services: The Judas Purse
Sean Callahan, CEO of Catholic Relief Services (CRS), co-signs the statement. CRS has been repeatedly documented (by the Lepanto Institute, Population Research Institute, etc.) as funding organizations promoting contraception, abortion, and gender ideology. It is the financial arm of the USCCB’s betrayal. “You cannot serve God and mammon” (Matt. 6:24). The “climate finance” they demand — “grants over loans” — is the mechanism by which the antichurch launders money to the enemies of Christ.
The Theological Vacuum: No Supernatural, Only Naturalistic
Read the statement again. Not one reference to Jesus Christ as King, Judge, Redeemer. Not one call for conversion, penance, the Rosary, the Sacred Heart. The “faith in action” they praise in “young people” is faith in the Gospel of Greta, not the Gospel of Christ. This is the heresy of activism condemned by Pius XI: “The Church… gives birth to and raises up ever new ranks of holy men and women… Christ does not cease to call to happiness in the heavenly Kingdom those who were faithful and obedient subjects to Him in the earthly Kingdom” (Quas Primas). The USCCB calls for obedience to the Paris Agreement.
Conclusion: Come Out From Among Them
The USCCB statement is a document of the paramasonic structure occupying the Vatican. It proves that the conciliar “bishops” are not successors of the Apostles, but functionaries of the New World Order. They have ipso facto lost their offices by manifest heresy (Bellarmine, De Romano Pontifice 2:30; Canon 188.4; Cum ex Apostolatus Officio). The faithful Catholic must have no communion with them (2 Cor. 6:14-18). The true Church endures in the catacombs — in the faithful priests and bishops who preserve the Traditional Latin Mass, the unchanging Doctrine, and the Social Kingship of Christ the King. “He who gives the Kingdom of Heaven does not take away earthly things!” (Quas Primas, citing hymn Crudelis Herodes). The USCCB takes away the Kingdom of Heaven to offer earthly things — and fails at both.
“If rulers and legitimate superiors will have the conviction that they exercise authority not so much by their own right as by the command and in the place of the Divine King, everyone will notice how religiously and wisely they will use their authority…” (Quas Primas).
The USCCB exercises authority in the place of the UN, not the Divine King. Anathema sit.
Source:
U.S. Catholic bishops urge world leaders to take decisive climate action at COP31 (ewtnnews.com)
Date: 09.11.2026