The National Catholic Register (NCR), the flagship organ of the EWTN neo-conservative establishment, reports on the latest Labor Day statement from the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB). Dated September 4, 2026, the piece details “Archbishop” Shelton J. Fabre’s message focusing on young people, economic anxiety, and the perceived threats of Artificial Intelligence. The statement explicitly invokes the phantom encyclical Magnifica Humanitas attributed to the usurper “Pope” Leo XIV (Robert Prevost), echoing its warnings against a “new Tower of Babel” and calling for systems “centered on the human person.” The USCCB reiterates its decades-long commitment to the Masonic-inspired “Economic Justice for All” framework and the conciliar distortion of Rerum Novarum. This document is not a Catholic social teaching statement; it is a manifesto of the conciliar sect’s total surrender to the technocratic New World Order, baptizing the anti-human agenda of the Fourth Industrial Revolution under the guise of a “common good” stripped of Christ the King.
The Non-Existent “Pope Leo XIV” and the Phantom Encyclical Magnifica Humanitas
The entire rhetorical architecture of the USCCB statement rests upon a foundation of sand: the authority of “Pope Leo XIV.” Robert Prevost is not the Roman Pontiff; he is a manifest heretic and an antipope occupying the See of Peter by virtue of the Great Apostasy foretold in 2 Thessalonians 2:3-4. As St. Robert Bellarmine teaches in De Romano Pontifice, “A Pope who is a manifest heretic, by that very fact ceases to be Pope and head, just as he ceases to be a Christian and member of the body of the Church” (Defense of Sedevacantism). The “encyclical” Magnifica Humanitas is a nullity, a private theological opinion of a layman masquerading as Magisterium. To cite it as authoritative is to commit the sin of falsa demonstratio—attributing divine authority to a human, indeed heretical, fabrication. The USCCB, by treating this antipope as “Holy Father,” confirms its schismatic separation from the Catholic Church and its integration into the abomination of desolation (Matt 24:15) now enthroned in the Vatican.
Linguistic Engineering: “Builders of Communion” and the Erasure of the Kingship of Christ
The language deployed by “Archbishop” Fabre is the Newspeak of the conciliar revolution. Phrases like “builders of communion,” “inclusive growth,” “design systems centered on the human person,” and “participation in God’s creation” (divorced from the Unbloody Sacrifice of Calvary) are semantic traps. They replace the Social Reign of Christ the King—“whose kingdom shall have no end” (Dan 7:14; Quas Primas, Encyclical of Pius XI)—with a vague, naturalistic humanitarianism. Pius XI thundered: “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” (Quas Primas, citing Ubi Arcano). The USCCB message derives authority from “traditional economic indicators,” “polls,” and the “experiences of workers,” not from the Deus Absconditus revealed in Scripture and Tradition. This is the laicism condemned by Pius XI as “the plague that poisons human society” (Quas Primas). The “Kingdom of God” mentioned in the final paragraph is the Masonic “city of man,” not the Civitas Dei.
Theological Bankruptcy: AI, the “Common Good,” and the Denial of Original Sin
The statement’s treatment of Artificial Intelligence reveals a Pelagian optimism incompatible with Catholic anthropology. Fabre claims “AI systems can imitate but never replace human intelligence… AI cannot feel, love, discern, or receive God’s grace and wisdom.” While materially true, the context frames AI as a neutral tool requiring only “careful development” to “serve the common good.” This ignores the Syllabus of Errors (Pius IX), which condemns the proposition: “Human reason, without any reference whatsoever to God, is the sole arbiter of truth and falsehood, and of good and evil” (Error #3). The development of AI is driven by the spirit of Antichrist—the Promethean attempt to simulate the Logos without the Logos Incarnate. The “exploitative supply chain” and “low-wage workers” are not mere economic externalities; they are the fruit of a system that has “removed Jesus Christ and His most holy law from… public life” (Quas Primas). The conciliar sect’s refusal to name the demonic dimension of technocracy—its role in the Great Reset, digital ID, and the coming Mark of the Beast system (Apoc 13:16-17)—is a dereliction of the pastoral office born of Modernist unbelief. Lamentabili Sane Exitu (St. Pius X) condemned the Modernist error that “Christ did not proclaim any specific, all-encompassing doctrine suitable for all times and peoples” (Error #59). The USCCB acts as if the Gospel has nothing specific to say about the ontology of machine intelligence, reducing the Church to an NGO lobbying for “guardrails.”
The “Rerum Novarum” Deception: 135 Years of Conciliar Drift into Socialism
Fabre boasts: “The Church has brought the sacredness of the human person to the questions of work and labor for these last 135 years.” This is a lie. The post-conciliar church has emptied Rerum Novarum of its doctrinal core—the necessity of the Catholic State, the rights of God, the condemnation of socialism (Error #40, Syllabus: “The teaching of the Catholic Church is hostile to the well-being and interests of society”—condemned as error). The reference to Economic Justice for All (1986) seals the indictment. That document epitomizes the clerico-liberal error condemned in the Syllabus (Section IV), substituting class collaboration for the Kingship of Christ and “economic democracy” for the ordo iustitiae rooted in divine law. Pius XI in Quas Primas explicitly linked the feast of Christ the King to the remedy for “secularism… so-called laicism”. The USCCB, by contrast, celebrates Labor Day—a civic holiday rooted in the Masonic labor movement—as a quasi-liturgical occasion, further blurring the distinction between the City of God and the City of Man.
Symptomatic Analysis: The Conciliar Sect as Chaplain to the Technocratic Beast
The focus on “young people,” “vulnerable communities,” “communities of color,” and “anxiety” is the pastoral vocabulary of the Antichurch. It mirrors the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals (Agenda 2030). The call for “shared responsibility… including the Church, the government, labor unions, civil society groups, and corporations” is the synodal implementation of the Masonic Grande Architecte‘s vision: a global governance structure where the “Church” is merely one stakeholder among equals, stripped of potestas iurisdictionis and potestas ordinis. The Syllabus condemns: “The Church ought to be separated from the State, and the State from the Church” (Error #55). The USCCB lives this error daily. By validating the “concerns” about AI without anathematizing the transhumanist anthropology driving it, the conciliar bishops function as useful idiots for the Masonic “psychological operation” (False Fatima Apparitions analysis) preparing humanity for the Antichrist. They offer dialogue where the Magisterium demands submission; they offer accompaniment where the Law of God demands conversion.
Conclusion: No Salvation in the Structures of the New Advent
The Labor Day message of the USCCB is a document of apostasy. It manifests the operation of error (2 Thess 2:10) whereby the conciliar sect prostitutes the language of Catholic social teaching to legitimize the technocratic tyranny of the New World Order. There is no “common good” apart from the Summum Bonum, Jesus Christ the King. There is no “dignity of work” apart from its ordination to the Unbloody Sacrifice. There is no “Church” in the USCCB, only a paramasonic structure occupying the ecclesiastical buildings. “He who is not with Me is against Me; and he who does not gather with Me scatters” (Matt 12:30). Faithful Catholics must withdraw entirely from these structures, assist at the Most Holy Sacrifice offered by valid priests holding the Tradition, and pray for the restoration of the Social Reign of Christ the King—the only remedy for the plague of our times.
Source:
U.S. Bishops Focus On Young People, Artificial Intelligence in Labor Day Message (ncregister.com)
Date: 04.09.2026