EWTN News portal reports that a New Jersey man, Louis Geri, has been sentenced to 70 months in federal prison for plotting to attack the 2025 “Red Mass” at the Cathedral of St. Matthew the Apostle in Washington, D.C. Geri pleaded guilty to extortion under the Hobbs Act and possession of an unregistered firearm after being arrested with Molotov cocktails and a list of financial demands. U.S. Attorney Jeanine Pirro characterized the incident as “an attack on our community and on the fundamental right to worship freely.” The conciliar media outlet frames the sentencing as a vindication of religious liberty, wholly omitting the supernatural dimension of the crime and the liturgical aberration that is the Red Mass itself. This reportage exposes the neo-church’s total capitulation to the Masonic secular order, replacing the regnum Christi with the “rights of man.”
The Red Mass: Liturgical Servility to the Secular Power
The cited article describes the Red Mass as an annual event that “honors lawmakers and judicial officials,” specifically noting the attendance of Supreme Court justices. This is the crux of the conciliar church’s apostasy: the Most Holy Sacrifice is prostituted as a ceremonial backdrop for the very civil magistrates who, by their rulings, have enthroned the slaughter of the innocents, the redefinition of marriage, and the expulsion of God from the public square. Pius XI, in Quas Primas, thundered against this precise inversion: “Let rulers of states therefore not refuse public veneration and obedience to the reigning Christ… for it will remind them of the final judgment, in which Christ… will very severely avenge these insults.” The Red Mass does not call the state to subditio (subjection) to Christ the King; it invites the state to patronize the Church. It is the liturgical enactment of the condemned proposition “The Church ought to be separated from the State, and the State from the Church” (Syllabus, Error 55), realized not by hostility but by a sacrilegious embrace. The “Cathedral of St. Matthew the Apostle,” occupied by the conciliar hierarchy, becomes a theater for the theatrum mundi, where the Unbloody Sacrifice of Calvary is reduced to a chaplaincy service for the Civitas Diaboli.
“Right to Worship Freely”: Masonic Liberty vs. Catholic Duty
U.S. Attorney Jeanine Pirro’s declaration—quoted approvingly by EWTN—that the plot was “an attack on… the fundamental right to worship freely” reveals the theological vacuum at the heart of the neo-church’s public witness. “The fundamental right to worship freely” is the language of the French Revolution, of the First Amendment, of the Masonic liberté condemned by Gregory XVI in Mirari Vos and Pius IX in the Syllabus (Errors 15, 77, 79). The Catholic Church does not claim a “right to worship”; she claims the jus divinum, the divine mandate to render to God the public, social, and visible worship due to Him as King of Nations. Quas Primas declares: “The state must leave the same freedom to the members of Orders… but… rulers and legitimate superiors… have the duty to publicly honor Christ and obey Him.” The conciliar hierarchy, through its mouthpiece EWTN, substitutes the social reign of Christ for the individualist “right to worship,” thereby surrendering the corpus mysticum to the secularist fiction of religious neutrality. This is not a defense of the faith; it is a negotiation of its surrender.
The Conciliar Hierarchy’s Silence on the Social Kingship of Christ
Nowhere in the article—nor in the statements of the “U.S. Attorney” or the “senior editor at EWTN News”—is there a whisper of the Kingship of Christ, the reparation due for the intended sacrilege, or the eternal peril of the souls involved, including the attacker. The event is treated as a security breach, a criminal justice statistic. This silence is the fides implicita of the conciliar revolution: the Church has ceased to be ecclesia docens (teaching Church) and become an NGO managing “sacred spaces.” The Syllabus condemns the proposition that “The civil government… has a right to an indirect negative power over religious affairs” (Error 41); yet the conciliar church actively solicits the state’s protection on the state’s own naturalistic terms. By celebrating the Red Mass for Supreme Court justices—many of whom are architects of the cultura mortis—the hierarchy commits scandalum magnum, confirming the world in its rebellion. As St. Pius X warned in Lamentabili Sane Exitu, the Modernist “aim at such a development of dogmas as appears to be their corruption” (Prop. 1). The corruption is complete: the King is excluded from His own feast.
EWTN as Propagandist for the Neo-Church’s Naturalistic Agenda
The article’s author, Daniel Payne, identified as a “senior editor at EWTN News,” functions not as a Catholic journalist but as a stenographer for the paramasonic structure. The language—”community,” “extremist threats,” “sacred space”—is stripped of all theological density. “Sacred space” becomes a bureaucratic designation for a building the neo-church occupies, not a locus sanctus consecrated for the Sacrificium Propitiatorium. The report notes Geri’s willingness to attack the White House and Capitol, implicitly equating the cathedral with Masonic temples of power. This equivalence is the fruit of the hermeneutic of continuity which pretends the Church’s mission is compatible with the secular state. EWTN, founded in the spirit of the false “Fatima” narrative (itself a Masonic psychological operation as documented in the theological objections regarding the “consecration of Russia” and the “ecumenism project”), serves as the pravda of the conciliar sect, normalizing the reduction of the regnum Dei to a “faith community” seeking police protection.
The Absence of Supernatural Perspective: No Mention of Sin, Grace, or Divine Judgment
The most damning indictment is what the article omits. There is no call to prayer for the conversion of Louis Geri, no warning that “he who has departed from the faith… cannot depose or remove anyone” (Pope Celestine I on Nestorius, cited in Defense of Sedevacantism), no reminder that the true tragedy is not 70 months in a federal penitentiary but the eternity of hell for an unrepentant soul. The conciliar “clergy” and their media apparatus have forgotten the novissima: death, judgment, heaven, hell. They speak the language of the saeculum because they belong to it. St. Robert Bellarmine teaches that a manifest heretic “ceases to be Pope and head, just as he ceases to be a Christian and member of the body of the Church.” The hierarchy presiding over the Red Mass, having embraced the heresies of religious liberty, ecumenism, and collegiality, has ipso facto vacated its office. The building is a cathedral in name only; the sacrifice offered there (if the Novus Ordo can be so called) is a simulacrum, a “table of assembly” where the verba consecratoria are often mutilated and the intentio corrupted by the new rite’s orientation toward the “community.” Geri attacked a shell; the neo-church defends the shell as a “right.”
Conclusion: Only the Integral Faith Can Resist the Antichrist’s Structure
The sentencing of Louis Geri is a triumph of the secular arm, not the spiritual. The neo-church rejoices in the former because it has abandoned the latter. The Red Mass, the “right to worship,” the partnership with the Masonic state—these are the badges of the abomination of desolation standing in the holy place. True Catholics, adhering to the quod semper, quod ubique, quod ab omnibus, recognize that the only remedy for the chaos unleashed by the conciliar apostasy is the integral restoration of the Social Kingship of Christ, the rejection of the false “popes” from John XXIII to Leo XIV (Robert Prevost), and the refusal of all communion with the structures occupying the Vatican. Non possumus serve two masters. The Red Mass is an abomination; its defense by EWTN is a confession of apostasy. Christus vincit, Christus regnat, Christus imperat.
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Would-be attacker of 2025 DC Red Mass sentenced to 5 years (ewtnnews.com)
Date: 29.09.2026