The National Catholic Register — flagship organ of the conciliar sect’s American wing — reports on the inaugural “Catholic Military Conference” hosted by the Archdiocese for the Military Services, USA, under its “archbishop” Timothy Broglio. Held in Chantilly, Virginia, from November 9–11, 2026, the three-day gathering assembled 240 active-duty personnel, veterans, West Point cadets, and “chaplains” to discuss “just-war doctrine” amid what the article describes as Broglio’s public condemnations of the Trump administration’s military actions in the Caribbean, Greenland, and Iran. Speakers included Matthew Bunson of EWTN citing the antipope Leo XIV’s fictitious encyclical Magnifica Humanitas, Joseph Capizzi of the University of Notre Dame’s McGrath Institute, and retired Lt. Gen. James Dubik of the Institute for the Study of War. The conference provided daily “Mass,” confession, and prayer — all simulated within the paramasonic structures occupying the Vatican since 1958 — while carefully avoiding concrete moral judgment on specific U.S. military ventures. The event epitomizes the neo-church’s reduction of the Kingship of Christ to a bureaucratic ethics consultancy for Caesar’s legions.
The Antichurch as Chaplain to Empire
The very concept of an “Archdiocese for the Military Services” — a canonical structure erected by the usurper Paul VI in 1985 — manifests the conciliar sect’s capitulation to the modern secular state. Quas Primas teaches that “the reign of Christ encompasses all men… not only Catholic nations… but also all non-Christians, so that most truly the entire human race is subject to the authority of Jesus Christ” (Pius XI, Quas Primas, 1925). The State is not an autonomous sphere entitled to its own “chaplaincy” to soothe the consciences of its warriors; it is bound to publicly profess the Catholic Faith and order its laws — including its war powers — according to the divine commandments. Pius XI warns: “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” (ibid.). The neo-church’s military “archdiocese” does not proclaim this truth; it inverts it, offering spiritual anesthesia to soldiers waging wars for a Masonic republic that explicitly rejects Christ’s Kingship in its Constitution.
Broglio’s posture — “to tell him the truth… to counsel the leadership” — apes George Washington’s Masonic vision of chaplaincy as a morale utility, not the Church’s divine mandate to bind and loose in the name of Christ the King. The Syllabus of Errors condemns the proposition that “The Church ought to be separated from the State, and the State from the Church” (Pius IX, Error 55). Yet the conciliar sect not only accepts this separation but institutionalizes it, providing “pastoral care” to a military machine that enforces the pax Americana — a peace built on usury, abortion export, and the demolition of Catholic social order in conquered lands.
False Magisterium, False Encyclopedia, False Peace
The article reveals the neo-church’s reliance on its own fabricated magisterium. Matthew Bunson, “vice president and editorial director of EWTN News,” draws from “Pope Leo XIV’s recent encyclical, Magnifica Humanitas” — a document that does not exist in the Catholic Church, issued by a man (Robert Prevost) who holds no legitimate title. The line of usurpers began with John XXIII; every subsequent claimant has promulgated heresy under the guise of authority. Cum ex Apostolatus Officio declares that “if at any time it shall appear that any… Cardinal… or even the Roman Pontiff… has defected from the Catholic Faith or fallen into some heresy: (i) his promotion or elevation… shall be null, void, and of no effect” (Paul IV, 1559). The “encyclical” cited is waste paper; the “pope” who signed it is a manifest heretic who, by that very fact, ipso facto ceased to be Pope (St. Robert Bellarmine, De Romano Pontifice, Bk. 2, Ch. 30).
The content attributed to this phantom encyclical — “reckoned with the changing face of war in light of AI and automated weapons and called on humanity to abandon ‘a false realism’ based on the idea that war is part of human nature” — betrays the modernist heresy of evolutio dogmatum condemned by St. Pius X in Lamentabili sane exitu (Prop. 58: “Truth changes with man, because it develops with him, in him, and through him”). Just war doctrine does not “change” with technology; its principles — just cause, legitimate authority, right intention, proportionality, last resort, probability of success — are rooted in the natural law and the immutable moral order. To suggest otherwise is to surrender the Church’s teaching to the spirit of the age.
Just War Theory as Ideological Cover for Unjust Wars
The conference’s treatment of just war doctrine is a masterclass in casuistry — the very vice St. Alphonsus Liguori excoriated. Broglio admits the gathering was prompted by “questions about some of the actions taken, in particularly in the Caribbean and then against Iran… They’ve raised moral questions on the part of service men and women”. Yet he insists: “this is an opportunity to address general principles, not to speak about specific instances.” This is the modus operandi of the conciliar sect: abstract principles are affirmed in the lecture hall while concrete crimes are ignored in the field. The Syllabus condemns the error that “The civil government… has a right to an indirect negative power over religious affairs” (Error 41) and that “In the case of conflicting laws enacted by the two powers, the civil law prevails” (Error 42). The neo-church’s military “archbishop” implicitly accepts this hierarchy: he will not declare that a specific U.S. war is unjust lest he offend the civil power that funds his “archdiocese.”
The attendees’ questions reveal the scandal. One asked: “To what extent is the United States military realizing or perhaps failing to realize the principles of just war?” The reaction — “a few half-suppressed gasps… indication of the sensitivity of the subject for the active-duty military personnel in the room” — exposes the reality: these men know their orders violate Catholic morality, but the “chaplaincy” exists to quiet, not to form, their consciences. Broglio’s fallback — “no one can be commanded to act against his conscience” — is a Protestantized, subjectivist distortion. The true principle is: “We must obey God rather than men” (Acts 5:29). A soldier ordered to kill innocents in an unjust war must refuse, regardless of “conscience” — which, unformed by the true Faith, is a fickle guide. The neo-church offers no such clarity; it offers “discernment” — the devil’s vocabulary.
Simulated Sacraments for a Simulated Faith
The article notes “daily Mass, and opportunities for confession and prayer” at the conference. These are not the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass nor the Sacrament of Penance instituted by Christ. The “priests” presiding were ordained in the invalid Pauline rite (1968) by “bishops” consecrated in the invalid Montinian rite (1968), all in communion with the usurpers in the Vatican. Cum ex Apostolatus Officio and Canon 188.4 of the 1917 Code — “Every office becomes vacant by the mere fact and without any declaration… if the cleric… publicly defects from the Catholic faith” — apply to the entire post-conciliar hierarchy. Their “Mass” is a cena, a Protestantized meal; their “absolution” is null. The faithful attending these rites commit objective sacrilege, mistaking idolatry for worship. St. Pius X condemned the Modernist proposition that “The sacraments merely serve to remind man of the presence of the ever-benevolent Creator” (Lamentabili, Prop. 41). The neo-church’s military “liturgy” is precisely this: a therapeutic reminder, not a propitiatory sacrifice.
The West Point Cadets: Formed for the Antichrist’s Legion
The presence of West Point cadets — “plebe” Adrian Molina, Benjamin Barbara — is a grim sign. They seek “to apply [just-war doctrine] to my future career as an officer” and “serve both God and country”. But the “country” they serve is the United States, a Masonic construct founded on Enlightenment error, whose laws permit the slaughter of the unborn, the perversion of marriage, and the export of degeneracy worldwide. Pius XI teaches: “Let rulers of states therefore not refuse public veneration and obedience to the reigning Christ… if they wish to maintain their authority inviolate and contribute to the increase of their homeland’s happiness” (Quas Primas). The U.S. government refuses this obedience as a matter of constitutional principle. A Catholic cannot serve two masters (Matt. 6:24). The neo-church’s “chaplains” — like the Augustinian “Chaplain Norlito Concepcion” in “combat fatigues” — model the synthesis of Cross and sword that the Church has always rejected. The Knights of Christ do not wear the uniform of the Beast.
Systemic Apostasy: The Neo-Church as Whore of Babylon
This conference is not an anomaly; it is the modus vivendi of the conciliar sect. Vatican II’s Gaudium et Spes (n. 79) called for “dialogue” with the world; the neo-church has become the world’s chaplain. The “Archdiocese for the Military Services” is a department of the Pentagon, funded by the state, staffed by “clerics” who owe their “faculties” to the usurper. Its function is to legitimize the imperium by draping it in Catholic vocabulary. The Syllabus condemns the proposition that “The Roman Pontiff can, and ought to, reconcile himself, and come to terms with progress, liberalism and modern civilization” (Error 80). The neo-church has done exactly that — and this conference is its fruit.
The silence of the article — and the conference — on the Social Reign of Christ the King, on the duty of nations to profess the true Faith, on the conversion of the United States to Catholicism, on the final judgment of nations (Matt. 25:31–46), is the loudest condemnation. Quas Primas instituted the Feast of Christ the King “to address the needs of the present times and provide a special remedy against the plague that poisons human society. And this plague is the secularism of our times, so-called laicism”. The neo-church does not combat laicism; it administers its last rites to Catholic soldiers dying for it.
Conclusion: No Peace Without the King
The “Catholic Military Conference” is a Potemkin village of piety erected on the ruins of the Faith. Its “just war” discourse is a sophistry that enables empire; its “sacraments” are empty signs; its “archbishop” is a hireling of the state; its “pope” is an antipope. The only just war for a Catholic is the spiritual combat for the restoration of all things in Christ (Instaurare omnia in Christo) — beginning with the recognition that the See of Peter has been vacant since 1958, that the structures in Rome are a paramasonic counterfeit, and that true peace comes only when “every tongue will confess that our Lord Jesus Christ is in the glory of God the Father” (Quas Primas, citing Leo XIII). Until then, no “conference,” no “chaplaincy,” no “encyclical” from the usurpers can make the wars of the Masonic republic just. They remain what they are: bella injusta, waged by the City of Man against the City of God. Non praevalebunt.
Source:
Conference Invites Military Members to Contemplate When War Is Just (ncregister.com)
Date: 11.11.2026