The EWTN News portal reports that the conciliar structure styling itself the “Archdiocese of St. Louis,” headed by the false “archbishop” Mitchell Rozanski, has filed a federal lawsuit against the Ste. Genevieve County Detention Center. The suit challenges visitation policies that allegedly prevent its “clergy” from administering the Novus Ordo “Communion” to immigration detainees held by ICE. The facility’s major, Jason Schott, reportedly suggested that the “Eucharist” be passed in a plastic bag by prison guards—a proposal the plaintiffs reject as theologically insufficient, citing their own sacramental norms. The “archdiocese” frames the dispute as a violation of “religious freedom” and equal access, comparing its “clergy” to lawyers and consular officials. This legal theater exposes the total naturalization of the neo-church: false shepherds, devoid of jurisdiction and valid orders, petition Caesar for permission to distribute simulated sacraments, thereby ratifying the secular state’s supremacy over the supernatural order.
The Juridical Farce of a Vacant See Suing the State
The very premise of the lawsuit is a canonical impossibility. The See of St. Louis has been vacant since the death of the last true bishop, for the conciliar “ordinaries” installed since the Second Vatican Council are manifest heretics who have ipso facto lost all jurisdiction by public defection from the Catholic Faith. As St. Robert Bellarmine teaches in De Romano Pontifice: “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” (De Romano Pontifice, Bk. 2, Ch. 30). This principle applies a fortiori to bishops. Canon 188.4 of the 1917 Code declares that any office becomes vacant ipso facto and without declaration if a cleric “publicly defects from the Catholic faith”. The “Archbishop” Rozanski, by his public adherence to the heresies of Vatican II—religious liberty, false ecumenism, collegiality, the new Mass—has tacitly resigned his office before God and the Church. He is a private individual masquerading as a prelate. His “lawsuit” is the act of a litigious layman, not a successor of the Apostles.
Simulated Orders, Simulated Sacraments, Simulated Pastoral Care
The “priests” of this conciliar structure—such as the named “Father” Christopher Schroeder—are almost certainly invalidly ordained. The Novus Ordo rite of episcopal consecration and priestly ordination, promulgated by the antipope Paul VI in 1968, altered the essential form and intention required by the Council of Trent and the unbroken Tradition of the Church. As Pope Pius XII defined in Sacramentum Ordinis (1947), the form for the priesthood is “Accipe Spiritum Sanctum…” with the imposition of hands; the new rite substitutes a vague “prayer of consecration” that omits the specific sacramental form. No valid ordination, no valid priesthood, no valid Eucharist. The “Communion” they seek to distribute is mere bread, the product of a simulated sacrifice offered by a layman in vestments. The detainees—poor souls abandoned by the true Church—are being offered a stone for bread (Matt. 7:9). The lawsuit’s insistence on “strict rules on how communion may be administered” is a grotesque parody: they guard the rubrics of a false rite while denying the very reality of the Sacrament.
Religious Liberty: The Masonic Trojan Horse
The “archdiocese” explicitly invokes “religious freedom” and the “Religious Freedom Restoration Act” (RFRA) as its legal basis. This is the language of the Syllabus of Errors, condemned by Pope Pius IX. Proposition 77: “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”—condemned. Proposition 79: “It is false that the civil liberty of every form of worship… conduce more easily to corrupt the morals and minds of the people”—condemned. By grounding its claim in religious liberty, the neo-church admits that it no longer claims the jus divinum—the divine right of the Church to teach, govern, and sanctify independently of the State. It begs the State for “accommodation” as a supplicant, acknowledging the State’s authority to grant or deny access to souls. This is the precise inversion of Quas Primas: Pius XI proclaimed that “the Church… demands for itself by a right belonging to it, which it cannot renounce, full freedom and independence from secular authority” and that “rulers of states… have the duty to publicly honor Christ and obey Him”. The conciliar sect has exchanged the Crown of Christ the King for the crumbs of Caesar’s tolerance.
The Plastic Bag: A Perfect Symbol of the New “Sacramental” Theology
The facility’s suggestion—passing the Host in a plastic bag via a guard—is not an aberration; it is the logical terminus of the Novus Ordo theology. Once the Real Presence is obscured by the “memorial” theology of the new rite, once the priesthood is reduced to “presiding” over a “community meal,” once the altar becomes a “table,” the mode of distribution becomes a matter of logistics, not reverence. The “archdiocese” objects not because the proposal is sacrilegious—every Novus Ordo “Communion” in the hand, standing, by lay “ministers,” is sacrilegious—but because it violates their own novel norms. They defend a discipline they themselves corrupted. As St. Pius X condemned in Lamentabili Sane Exitu (Prop. 41): “The sacraments merely serve to remind man of the presence of the ever-benevolent Creator”—this is the Modernist error that empties the sacraments of causative grace. The plastic bag is the honest vessel for a symbol.
Collaboration with the Godless State: The Neo-Church as NGO
The lawsuit reveals the true nature of the conciliar hierarchy: a non-governmental organization seeking government contracts and access. They cite the facility’s contract with ICE (since mid-2025), the number of detainees (3,000), the death of one detainee—as if they were a social service agency auditing a vendor. They do not speak of the salvation of souls, the danger of death without the true Sacraments, the necessity of Baptism, Confession, and Extreme Unction administered by valid priests. They speak of “access,” “visitation windows,” “equitable treatment.” This is the laicism Pius XI denounced: “the Church’s authority to teach men, to issue laws, to govern nations… was denied. And then, slowly, the Christian religion began to be equated with other false religions and shamelessly placed in the same category; then it was subordinated to secular power” (Quas Primas). The “archdiocese” functions as a chaplaincy vendor for the detention-industrial complex, legitimizing the State’s power over bodies while surrendering the Church’s rights over souls.
The Silence on the True Crisis: Apostasy Within
Conspicuously absent from the press release, the lawsuit, and the EWTN report is any mention of the real scandal: that the “Catholic” detainees have been deprived of the true Mass and true Sacraments for decades by the very hierarchy now suing for “access.” The “Archdiocese of St. Louis” closed traditional parishes, suppressed the Latin Mass, imposed the Novus Ordo, and taught generations that the Holy Sacrifice is a “community celebration.” Now, when the State treats their simulated rite with the indifference it deserves, they cry foul. This is the diversion St. Pius X warned against: focusing on external threats (ICE, the State, “religious freedom”) while ignoring the “enemies within” who have destroyed the Faith. As the False Fatima Apparitions analysis notes: “The message focuses on external threats (communism), omitting the main danger: modernist apostasy within the Church since the beginning of the 20th century.” Here, the “external threat” is the detention center; the internal apostasy is the conciliar sect itself.
No True Shepherd Would Enter That Courtroom
A true bishop, a true priest, would not file a lawsuit in a secular court to demand “access” to administer invalid sacraments. He would denounce the false hierarchy, call the faithful out of the neo-church (“Go out from her, my people”, Apoc. 18:4), and seek to provide the true Sacraments clandestinely if necessary—risking prison rather than legitimizing the State’s jurisdiction over the Church’s ministry. The martyrs of the early Church, the confessors under Communism, the priests in Elizabethan England—they did not sue Caesar. They obeyed God. The “Archdiocese of St. Louis” has chosen the path of the Old Catholics condemned by Pius IX in Etsi Multa: appealing to the civil power against the Church’s law. But there is no Church law here—only the bylaws of a paramasonic structure.
Conclusion: The Lawsuit Itself Is the Judgment
This legal action is not a defense of the Faith; it is a public manifestation of the neo-church’s apostasy. It proves that the conciliar hierarchy has no supernatural mission, no valid sacraments, no divine authority. They are a human institution, fully integrated into the secular order, fighting for market share in the religious-services sector. The plastic bag is the perfect liturgical vessel for their “Eucharist”; the federal courtroom is the proper sanctuary for their “worship.” Let the faithful flee this Babylon. The true Church of Christ—una, sancta, catholica, apostolica—subsists in those who hold the integral Faith, the traditional Mass, and the valid Sacraments, awaiting the restoration of the hierarchy by God’s providence. “The gates of hell shall not prevail against it” (Matt. 16:18)—but they have prevailed against the counterfeit.
Source:
St. Louis Archdiocese sues over limits on sacraments for ICE detainees (ewtnnews.com)
Date: 05.10.2026