The *National Catholic Register* (EWTN) reports that Louis Geri, a New Jersey man arrested outside the Cathedral of St. Matthew the Apostle in Washington, D.C., on October 5, 2025, before the annual “Red Mass,” has been sentenced to 70 months in federal prison. Geri pleaded guilty to a Hobbs Act extortion charge and possession of an unregistered firearm (Molotov cocktails), admitting he targeted “Catholics and Supreme Court justices” and demanded hundreds of thousands of dollars. U.S. Attorney Jeanine Pirro declared the thwarted attack “an attack on our community and on the fundamental right to worship freely.” The conciliar sect’s celebration of the Red Mass—a liturgical innovation honoring the very civil magistrates who have dethroned Christ the King—provides the occasion for this secular juridical theater, masquerading as defense of religion.
The Red Mass: Liturgical Emblem of the Civitas Diaboli
The so-called “Red Mass,” imported from Europe and instituted in Washington in 1953 under the auspices of the conciliar hierarchy, is not a celebration of the Regnum Christi but a ritualized submission of the sanctuary to the civitas terrena. The article notes it “honors lawmakers and judicial officials”—precisely those who, in the words of Pius XI, “have removed Jesus Christ and His most holy law from their customs, from private, family, and public life” (*Quas Primas*). By invoking the Holy Ghost over the very legislators and jurists who enact and uphold laws contrary to the divine law (abortion, sodomy, religious indifferentism), the conciliar clergy commit a liturgical lie. They implore the Spirit of Truth to illuminate men who have formally rejected the Truth Incarnate. This is not the Missae Sacrum but a conventiculum of the synagoga Satanae, where the “prayer of the Church” becomes the “rule of faith” for a false church that has made its peace with the world.
“Fundamental Right to Worship Freely”: The Masonic Heresy Enshrined as Civic Piety
U.S. Attorney Jeanine Pirro’s characterization of the plot as an assault on “the fundamental right to worship freely” is the distilled essence of the condemned proposition “The Church ought to be separated from the State, and the State from the Church” (Syllabus, Error 55). This “right” is the libertas perditionis condemned by Gregory XVI (*Mirari Vos*), Pius IX (*Quanta Cura*, *Syllabus*), Leo XIII (*Libertas Praestantissimum*), and Pius XI (*Quas Primas*). The Syllabus anathematizes the claim that “in the present day it is no longer expedient that the Catholic religion should be held as the only religion of the State, to the exclusion of all other forms of worship” (Error 77) and that “the civil liberty of every form of worship… conduce[s] more easily to corrupt the morals and minds of the people” (Error 79). Pirro, a creature of the secular state, speaks the language of the allocutio “Nemo vestrum” (1855) and “Jamdudum cernimus” (1861). The conciliar hierarchy, by accepting this framing, confirms its apostasy: it no longer demands the jus publicum of Christ the King but begs for “religious liberty” from Caesar.
The Cathedral of St. Matthew: A Den of Thieves Occupying the Place of the Holy
The building targeted—“the Cathedral of St. Matthew the Apostle”—is the cathedra of the conciliar “archbishop” of Washington (currently the modernist Cardinal Gregory). Since the usurpation of the See of Peter by John XXIII (1958), this structure has housed not the Ecclesia Catholica but the secta conciliaris, the “abomination of desolation standing in the holy place” (Matt. 24:15). The “Red Mass” celebrated therein is a simulated sacrifice, offered by ministers whose orders are doubtful (Bugnini’s ordinal, 1968) and whose jurisdiction is null, in communion with the antipope Leo XIV (Prevost). The faithful who attend are not “Catholics” in the theological sense but adherents of a false religion that has substituted the cultus hominis for the cultus Dei. Geri’s targeting of “Catholics” was, in reality, an attack on the personnel of the neo-church—a distinction the secular press and the conciliar apologists deliberately blur to maintain the illusion that the post-conciliar structure is the Catholic Church.
The Supreme Court Justices: High Priests of the Secularist Idol
The article reveals Geri’s specific intent to target “Supreme Court justices.” These nine unelected lawyers function as the pontifex maximus of the American civil religion, issuing oracles that have legalized the slaughter of the innocent (*Roe*, *Casey*, *Dobbs*’ failure to abolish abortion), mandated the recognition of sodomitical unions (*Obergefell*), and entrenched the separation of Church and State that Pius IX condemned as “a most pernicious error” (*Allocution “Nunquam fore,”* 1856). The Red Mass exists precisely to bless this judicial priesthood. Pius XI teaches: “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 justices who attend the Red Mass participate in a ritual of legitimization for a power that has declared itself autonomous from Christ. Their presence is not a witness of faith but an act of idolatry: rendering to Caesar the honor et gloria due only to the King of Kings.
The Secular Sentence: Ius Gladii Without Auctoritas Sacra
Geri’s 70-month sentence, handed down by a federal judge under the Hobbs Act (extortion) and firearms statutes, is an exercise of the potestas civilis utterly divorced from the potestas ecclesiastica. The conciliar hierarchy rejoices in this secular justice—Pirro’s “commitment to protecting every community from extremist threats”—because it has abandoned the Church’s own coercive jurisdiction over the baptized (Canon 1311, 1917 Code) and the duty of the Catholic state to punish crimes against the faith. The Syllabus condemns the error that “the civil law prevails” over ecclesiastical law in conflicting matters (Error 42) and that “the Church has not the power of using force, nor has she any temporal power, direct or indirect” (Error 24). By outsourcing the protection of its “sacred spaces” to the FBI and the U.S. Attorney’s Office, the conciliar sect admits it is no longer a perfecta societas endowed with “proper and perpetual rights of her own, conferred upon her by her Divine Founder” (Syllabus, Error 19). It has become a department of the secular state, a “non-profit organization” begging Caesar for police protection.
The Theatrics of “Extremism”: Demonizing the Remnant, Absolving the Apostates
The language of “extremist threats and violence” (Pirro) serves a dual purpose: it criminalizes any violent opposition to the neo-church while providing cover for the spiritual violence the conciliar hierarchy inflicts daily on souls by denying them the true Mass, the true faith, and the true sacraments. The article’s focus on Geri’s crude devices—“assembled in part from fireworks and tinfoil”—trivializes the plot but magnifies the “threat” to justify the security apparatus surrounding the Red Mass. Meanwhile, the real “bomb” detonated in the sanctuary—the Novus Ordo Missae, the heresies of *Dignitatis Humanae*, *Nostra Aetate*, *Lumen Gentium*—goes unmentioned. The conciliar “clergy” are the true terrorists of the soul, destroying supernatural life through false worship and false doctrine. As St. Pius X warned in *Pascendi*: “The Modernist… does not destroy, he transforms… he does not deny, he reinterprets.” The Red Mass is the liturgical signature of this transformation.
Silence on the Supernatural: The Grave Omission That Condemns the Narrative
Nowhere in the article—nor in the statements of Pirro, the U.S. Attorney’s Office, or the conciliar hierarchy—is there a word of the status animae, the state of grace, the reality of sin, the necessity of conversion, or the final judgment. The entire discourse is horizontal: security, rights, community, extremism, law enforcement. This is the laicism Pius XI identified as “the plague that poisons human society” (*Quas Primas*). The conciliar “bishops” who preside at the Red Mass have nothing to say of Christ the King, *Rex Gentium*, because they no longer believe He reigns *now* over nations. They have embraced the Modernist error condemned in *Lamentabili Sane Exitu*: “Christ did not proclaim any specific, all-encompassing doctrine suitable for all times and peoples, but rather initiated a certain religious movement” (Prop. 59). Their silence is the loudest profession of their apostasy.
Conclusion: The Red Mass as Symbol of the Great Apostasy
The sentencing of Louis Geri is a tableau of the post-conciliar condition: a false church, occupying Catholic edifices, celebrating a Masonic liturgy before the high priests of a secularist state, protected by the police power of that state, proclaiming “religious liberty” as its highest good. The attacker was a criminal; the institution he targeted is a counterfeit. The true Catholic response is not to defend the Red Mass but to denounce it as an abomination, to proclaim the Social Kingship of Christ the King over all legislation and jurisprudence, and to pray for the conversion of the usurpers in the Vatican and the magistrates in the courts—ut convertantur et vivant. Non est pax, dicit Dominus, impiis (Isa. 48:22). There is no peace—in the cathedral, in the courtroom, or in the prison cell—except in the Kingdom of Christ.
Source:
Would-Be Attacker of 2025 DC Red Mass Sentenced to 5 Years (ncregister.com)
Date: 29.09.2026