The National Catholic Register — a flagship organ of the conciliar sect — publishes a feature on Annie and RJ Harber, parents who lost their daughters Blair and Brooke in the 2025 Texas floods. The piece, syndicated from EWTN’s “News In Depth,” presents their grief as a testimony to “Catholic faith,” highlighting their attendance at the Novus Ordo service days after recovering their children’s bodies, their nightly rosary, and a memorial fund for lacrosse equipment. The article functions as a carefully curated piece of emotional propaganda for the neo-church, substituting supernatural theology with therapeutic sentimentality.
The Conciliar Sect Weaponizes Parental Grief for Institutional Legitimacy
The cited article reports that the Harbers “went to Mass Sunday, July 6” — the day after finding their daughters’ remains — citing the Third Commandment. But the “Mass” they attended was not the Unbloody Sacrifice of Calvary codified by St. Pius V in Quo Primum and defended by the Council of Trent (Session XXII, Canon 1: “If anyone says that in the Mass a true and proper sacrifice is not offered to God… let him be anathema”). It was the fabricated Novus Ordo Missae of Paul VI (Montini), a Protestantized memorial meal that suppresses the propitiatory nature of the Sacrifice, the Real Presence, and the priesthood. The Harbers’ obedience to a commandment is commendable in intent, but the object of their worship — the “liturgy” of the conciliar sect — is idolatry, not Catholic worship. As Pius XII taught in Mediator Dei (1947): “The liturgy is not a mere human institution… it is the worship of the Church.” The neo-church’s rite, having broken continuity with the lex orandi, lex credendi of twenty centuries, cannot be the worship of the Catholic Church.
The article notes the girls attended “St. Rita Catholic School in Dallas” and “went to Mass every Sunday.” In the post-conciliar paradigm, “Catholic school” means an institution that teaches religious indifferentism, false ecumenism, and the “hermeneutic of continuity” — all condemned by St. Pius X in Pascendi Dominici Gregis (1907) as the synthesis of all heresies: Modernism. The Syllabus of Errors (Pius IX, 1864) condemns the proposition that “The Church ought to be separated from the State, and the State from the Church” (Error 55). The conciliar sect’s schools implement precisely this separation, forming children in a secularized “Catholic identity” devoid of the Social Reign of Christ the King proclaimed by Pius XI in Quas Primas (1925): “His reign encompasses also all non-Christians, so that most truly the entire human race is subject to the authority of Jesus Christ.”
Therapeutic Deism Replaces the Theology of the Cross
RJ Harber states: “God can accept anger, but he can also help us carry this cross.” This formulation — God as a therapeutic companion who “accepts” human emotion — is the language of modernist anthropology, not Catholic theology. The true God does not merely “accept” anger; He demands conversion, penance, and submission to His holy will. The Council of Trent (Session XIV, Chapter 4) teaches that contrition requires “hatred of sin and a firm purpose of amendment.” The neo-church’s “accompaniment” paradigm — borrowed from Protestant psychology — replaces the fear of the Lord (Proverbs 1:7: “The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom”) with emotional validation.
Annie Harber admits: “I definitely questioned God and was angry at God.” The article presents this as a relatable human moment, never correcting it with the doctrine that God is the Supreme Good who cannot will evil, and that suffering is a mystery of divine justice and mercy ordered to the salvation of souls. St. Thomas Aquinas (Summa Theologiae I-II, q. 113, a. 5) teaches that “God does not will evil, but He permits it for the sake of a greater good.” The neo-church’s silence on original sin, particular judgment, purgatory, and the necessity of the state of grace for salvation reveals its functional naturalism. The girls’ “deep Catholic faith” is measured by rosary beads and school attendance — never by the sacramental state of their souls, the validity of their baptism (the new rite of baptism, like the new rite of orders, is of doubtful validity per the sacramental theology of Leo XIII in Apostolicae Curae, 1896), or their final perseverance.
The “Beloved Sisters Fund”: Naturalistic Philanthropy as Substitute for Supernatural Charity
The Harbers’ fund — “The Blair & Brooke Harber Beloved Sisters Fund” — supports “flood and disaster relief efforts and aids Catholic after-school activities, including after-school education and Catholic sports.” RJ Harber boasts: “Over 200 girls came out and tried the sport for the first time… carrying their life forward.” This is pure naturalism. The Corporal Works of Mercy are elevated to the exclusion of the Spiritual Works — instructing the ignorant, counseling the doubtful, admonishing sinners, praying for the living and the dead. The fund operates through “The Catholic Foundation of Texas,” a conciliar structure that funds the very “schools” and “parishes” propagating the errors of Vatican II. Quas Primas condemns this inversion: “When God and Jesus Christ were removed from laws and states… the foundations of that authority were destroyed.” The neo-church’s “charity” is horizontal philanthropy, severed from the vertical dimension of glorifying God and saving souls. As St. Pius X warned in Notre Charge Apostolique (1910) against the Sillon: “They want to set up a ‘city’ which will have neither distinctions nor hierarchies… but this city is not the City of God.”
EWTN and the Register: Propaganda Arms of the Usurpation
The interview appears on “EWTN News In Depth,” hosted by Catherine Hadro. EWTN, founded by the late Mother Angelica (a nun of the post-conciliar order), has functioned for decades as the media arm of the conciliar sect, legitimizing the false “popes” from John XXIII to Leo XIV (Robert Prevost). The Register, owned by EWTN, consistently promotes the “hermeneutic of continuity,” the “new evangelization,” and the “saints” of the neo-church (John Paul II, John XXIII, Paul VI, Mother Teresa — all “canonized” by antipopes without the guarantee of infallibility). The article’s URL (ncregister.com) and its framing — “faith sustains,” “legacy lives on” — are designed to produce emotional consolation without doctrinal demand. This is the opium of the people in the Marxist sense, repackaged for the conciliar market.
The Silence on the Four Last Things: The Gravest Omission
Nowhere does the article mention: Death, Judgment, Heaven, Hell. The parents say “we know they’re in heaven” — a presumption condemned by the Council of Trent (Session VI, Canon 16: “Let him be anathema who says that he will for certain, with an absolute and infallible certainty, have that great gift of perseverance even to the end, unless he shall have learned this by a special revelation”). The girls’ salvation is assumed based on external piety (rosary, Catholic school) — the very Pharisaism Our Lord condemned (Matthew 23:25-28). The neo-church has abolished the doctrine of Hell in practice; its “funerals” are canonizations. The Harbers’ “comfort” is built on a lie: that the Novus Ordo “Mass” and the conciliar “sacraments” are sure channels of grace. Cum ex Apostolatus Officio (Paul IV, 1559) declares that a heretic “cannot be the head of the Church” — and the conciliar “bishops” who ordain “priests” for the Novus Ordo are manifest heretics (professing religious liberty, false ecumenism, collegiality). Their “sacraments” are at best doubtful, at worst invalid. The girls’ souls — and the parents’ — are in mortal peril.
Symptomatic Diagnosis: The Neo-Church’s Anthropocentric Counterfeit
This article is a textbook specimen of the conciliar sect’s methodology:
- Emotional manipulation substitutes for doctrinal instruction.
- Lay “witness” replaces the Magisterium.
- Naturalistic “legacy” (lacrosse sticks) replaces supernatural merit (Masses, indulgences, prayers for the dead).
- False “communion” with the “pope” (Leo XIV) is presupposed; the article never questions the legitimacy of the Vatican usurpers.
- Silence on the Crisis: No mention of the Great Apostasy (2 Thessalonians 2:3), the abomination of desolation in the holy place (Matthew 24:15), the loss of the Mass, the new rites of sacraments, the heresies of Vatican II.
The Harbers are not merely grieving parents; they are exhibits in the neo-church’s showroom, proving that the “new springtime” produces “holy families” — while the true Church, reduced to the remnant (Romans 11:5), preserves the Tradition in catacombs, celebrating the True Mass, keeping the Faith entire, and praying for the conversion of the conciliar occupiers.
Conclusion: Return to the Ark of Salvation
The only authentic Catholic response to such tragedy is not a “fund” for sports equipment, but the Gregorian Masses for the dead, the Rosary for the conversion of sinners, the penance for one’s own sins, and the recognition that the structures occupying the Vatican are the whore of Babylon (Apocalypse 17) — the paramasonic structure foretold by Leo XIII’s vision (1884) and St. Pius X’s prophecy. The Harbers’ “faith” is a sentimental counterfeit, sustained by the conciliar sect’s sacramental simulacra. Extra Ecclesiam nulla salus — outside the true Church (the remnant holding the pre-1958 Faith, Mass, and hierarchy), there is no salvation. The article is not a testimony of faith; it is a document of the apostasy.
Source:
Parents of Catholic Sisters Who Died in Texas Floods: ‘God Can Help Us Carry This Cross’ (ncregister.com)
Date: 25.07.2026