The EWTN News portal reports that on August 27, 2026, the U.S. Department of Justice’s Civil Rights Division, led by Assistant Attorney General Harmeet Dhillon, convened a summit with the Appeal of Conscience Foundation and a conglomerate of religious leaders—including the conciliar “apostolic nuncio” Gabriele Caccia, Serbian Orthodox Bishop Irinej Dobrijevic, and Greek Orthodox Archbishop Elpidophoros—to demand stronger federal protections for “houses of worship.” The gathering, framed as a response to rising “religiously motivated violence” and timed to the anniversary of a shooting at a Novus Ordo parish in Minneapolis, produced a joint statement calling for expanded legislation, a permanent interreligious monitoring body, and increased taxpayer funding via the Nonprofit Security Grant Program. The United States Conference of “Catholic” Bishops (USCCB) echoed the plea, lamenting “polarization” while begging Caesar for alms to fortify their empty temples. This spectacle of the conciliar sect groveling before the secular arm to safeguard the *libertas ecclesiae* of heretics and infidels alike is the supreme manifestation of the *liberalism* condemned by Pius IX and the *laicism* anathematized by Pius XI: the Church reduced to an NGO begging for police protection at the altar of religious indifferentism.
The Conciliar Sect’s “Nuncio” Legitimizes the Synagogue of Satan
The presence of Archbishop Gabriele Caccia—the personal representative of the usurper “Pope” Leo XIV (Robert Prevost)—at an interreligious prayer breakfast with schismatics, heretics, and presumably Jews, Muslims, and Protestants, is not a diplomatic courtesy; it is a public act of apostasy. The Syllabus of Pius IX 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). Here, the “nuncio” of the false pope does precisely that: he reconciles the conciliar sect to the Masonic ideal of a pluralistic public square where truth and error share equal legal standing. By sitting beside Bishop Irinej Dobrijevic and Archbishop Elpidophoros—prelates of the Photian schism, devoid of valid jurisdiction and true sacraments since their separation from Rome—Caccia signals that the conciliar sect recognizes no distinction between the one Ark of Salvation and the broken cisterns of schism. Extra Ecclesiam nulla salus is not a doctrine to be nuanced; it is a dogma defined by the Fourth Lateran Council and reiterated by Boniface VIII in Unam Sanctam: “We declare, say, define, and pronounce that it is absolutely necessary for the salvation of every human creature to be subject to the Roman Pontiff.” The “nuncio’s” participation in a joint statement with schismatics is a practical denial of this dogma.
Religious Liberty: The Heresy That Dethrones Christ the King
The entire premise of the summit—“protecting religious freedom” for all “faiths” equally—is the condemned heresy of *indifferentism* and *liberalism*. Pius IX in Quanta Cura (1864) and the Syllabus (Errors 15, 16, 17, 18, 77, 78, 79) anathematized the notion that “Every man is free to embrace and profess that religion which, guided by the light of reason, he shall consider true” and that “In the present day it is no longer expedient that the Catholic religion should be held as the only religion of the State.” Leo XIII in Immortale Dei (1885) teaches that the State “cannot without crime neglect the duties which it owes to God” and must “profess the Catholic religion.” Pius XI in Quas Primas (1925), provided in the context, declares that “His reign encompasses also all non-Christians, so that most truly the entire human race is subject to the authority of Jesus Christ” and that “rulers of states… [must] not refuse public veneration and obedience to the reigning Christ.” The DOJ summit, by contrast, enshrines the Masonic principle that the State is the arbiter of religious peace, protecting the “right” of false worship to exist unmolested. This is not the libertas Ecclesiae; it is the libertas perditionis. The USCCB’s 2026 report, cited in the article, admits that “Catholics are called to be conformed to Christ, not to partisan political leaders”—yet the same body petitions the partisan state for grants to protect buildings where the True Sacrifice has been abolished and the Novus Ordo “table” service offends the Majesty of God.
The “Nonprofit Security Grant Program”: Thirty Pieces of Silver for the Conciliar Sect
The bishops’ demand for “expanded federal support for the Nonprofit Security Grant Program”—complaining that “fewer than half of applicants receive grants, despite rising threats”—reveals the thoroughly naturalistic mindset of the conciliar hierarchy. They do not call for public reparation, for the restoration of the Kingship of Christ in laws, for the suppression of public blasphemy, or for the conversion of the nation. They beg Caesar for money to install cameras, locks, and armed guards at “houses of worship” where the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass is no longer offered, where the Real Presence is denied by liturgical deformation, and where the faithful are fed the poison of false ecumenism. Pius XI in Quas Primas 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.” The conciliar bishops, by seeking security from the very secular power that has dethroned Christ, collaborate in the destruction of that foundation. They have become, in the words of St. Pius X, “enemies within” (*Pascendi*), the modernists who “aim at such a development of dogmas as appears to be their corruption.”
The Anniversary of the Minneapolis Shooting: A Novus Ordo Temple, Not a Catholic Church
The article notes the meeting was held on “the first anniversary of the fatal shooting at Annunciation Catholic Church in Minneapolis in which two children were killed.” This “church” is a Novus Ordo parish, erected under the false obedience of the conciliar hierarchy, where the Protestantized “Mass” of Paul VI is celebrated—a rite fabricated by the Freemason Bugnini to please heretics, which Cardinal Ottaviani and Cardinal Bacci warned “represents, both as a whole and in its details, a striking departure from the Catholic theology of the Mass.” The children killed were not martyred for the Faith; they were victims of criminal violence in a building that has been stripped of the Holy Sacrifice. The conciliar sect exploits their blood to demand more police protection for its empty shells, while remaining silent on the spiritual massacre of souls wrought by the New Mass, the new catechism, and the new “canonizations” of modernists. The true Catholic response to such violence is not a DOJ task force but the Social Reign of Christ the King, the restoration of the Traditional Latin Mass, and the conversion of the nation to the one true Faith.
The USCCB: A Modernist Bureaucracy, Not an Episcopal Conference
The article quotes the “United States Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB)” and its “Committee for Religious Liberty.” This body has no canonical existence in the true Church. It is a creature of the 1966 motu proprio Ecclesiae Sanctae of the antipope Paul VI, designed to implement the collegiality heresy of Vatican II. Its members are “bishops” consecrated in the invalid 1968 rite of Paul VI, ordained by the Freemason Liénart (in the case of Lefebvre’s line) or by other dubious consecrators, and they publicly profess the heresies of Vatican II: religious liberty, ecumenism, collegiality, and the new ecclesiology. Their “religious liberty report” laments “politically and religiously motivated violence” and “polarization”—the buzzwords of the Masonic dialectic—while ignoring the only true polarization: between the City of God and the City of Man. They say “Catholics are called to be conformed to Christ”; yet they conform themselves to the world, to the DOJ, to the Appeal of Conscience Foundation (a B’nai B’rith front), and to the zeitgeist. They are the “blind guides” of Matthew 15:14, leading the faithful into the pit of indifferentism.
The Appeal of Conscience Foundation: A Masonic Front for Syncretism
The summit was co-hosted by the Appeal of Conscience Foundation, described as “a coalition of business and religious leaders working worldwide on behalf of religious freedom, human rights, and the protection of houses of worship.” Founded by Rabbi Arthur Schneier, this organization is a quintessential instrument of the Masonic ecumenical project: it promotes the “shared values” of all religions, effectively denying the Divinity of Christ and the necessity of the Catholic Church for salvation. The participation of the conciliar “nuncio” and the USCCB in this forum is a practical application of the condemned proposition: “Protestantism is nothing more than another form of the same true Christian religion” (Syllabus, Error 18). The joint statement read by the schismatic Orthodox prelates—calling for “stronger legislation to protect houses of worship and for the establishment of an ongoing body of religious leaders to monitor threats”—is a blueprint for a global interreligious police force, the “synagogue of Satan” (Apoc. 2:9) policing the public square to ensure no religion claims exclusive truth.
Sedevacantist Certainty: The Conciliar Sect Has No Authority to Petition Caesar
From the perspective of integral Catholic theology, the sedevacantist thesis—grounded in the teaching of St. Robert Bellarmine, Canon 188.4 of the 1917 Code, and Pope Paul IV’s Bull Cum ex Apostolatus Officio—establishes that a manifest heretic cannot be Pope. The line of claimants from John XXIII to Leo XIV has publicly professed the heresies of Modernism, religious liberty, and false ecumenism; they have promulgated a false liturgy, a false catechism, and a false canon law. They are ipso facto deprived of jurisdiction. Therefore, the “Archbishop Caccia,” the “USCCB,” and all the “bishops” at this summit are private individuals usurping ecclesiastical titles. They have no right to speak for the Church, no right to petition the State on behalf of the Church, and no right to bind the faithful. The true Church—Ecclesia militans—subsists in those bishops and priests who retain the Traditional Latin Mass, the pre-1958 catechism, and the unbroken apostolic succession uncontaminated by the new rites. They do not beg the DOJ for grants; they pray for the conversion of the State to the Kingship of Christ.
Conclusion: The Abomination of Desolation Standing Where It Ought Not
This DOJ summit is a tableau of the Great Apostasy foretold by St. Paul (2 Thess. 2:3-4) and described by Our Lord (Matt. 24:15): the abominatio desolationis standing in the holy place. The conciliar sect, having abandoned the Crown of Christ the King for the thirty pieces of silver of “religious liberty,” now prostrates itself before the secular power to protect its syncretistic “houses of worship.” The true Catholic response is not “stronger legislation” but the Social Kingship of Christ proclaimed by Pius XI: “If rulers of states… wish to maintain their authority inviolate and contribute to the increase of their homeland’s happiness, let them not refuse public veneration and obedience to the reigning Christ.” Until that day, the faithful must “come out from among them, and be ye separate” (2 Cor. 6:17), reject the false shepherds, cleave to the Traditional Mass and the unchanging Faith, and await the restoration of all things in Christ—Instaurare omnia in Christo.
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Faith leaders, Justice Department meet to push for stronger protections for houses of worship (ewtnnews.com)
Date: 28.08.2026