The EWTN News portal (Catholic News Agency) reports that the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) and the Archdiocese for the Military Services, USA, have issued statements condemning Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth’s decision to livestream the military execution of Nidal Hasan, the perpetrator of the 2009 Fort Hood massacre. Archbishop Paul Coakley, president of the USCCB, decried the act as a “barbaric promotion of a culture of death”, invoking Romans 12:17. Archbishop Timothy Broglio cited the revised Catechism of the Catholic Church (CCC 2267) — altered by the antipope Francis — to declare the death penalty “inadmissible” even for the gravest crimes. The Catholic Mobilizing Network, a USCCB-affiliated NGO, echoed the sentiment, quoting the usurper “Pope” Leo XIV (Robert Prevost) and likening the execution to “lynching” and “grotesque display of hatred”. This coordinated outcry exposes the conciliar sect’s total apostasy: it substitutes the jus gladii (right of the sword) entrusted by God to legitimate authority with a mawkish humanitarianism that protects the murderer and betrays the victim, the common good, and the Kingship of Christ.
The Usurped Authority: No Catholic Bishop Speaks Here
The men paraded as “archbishops” — Coakley and Broglio — hold offices within the conciliar sect, the ecclesia novae adventus erected upon the ruins of the true Church after the pseudo-Council Vatican II. Their “ordinations” post-1968 derive from the invalid Pontificale Romanum of Paul VI (Montini), stripped of the essential form and intention for the sacrament of Order. As St. Pius X condemned in Pascendi Dominici Gregis, the Modernist hierarchy “no longer represents the Church of Christ, but a counterfeit church of man”. The USCCB is a bureaucratic assembly of a false religion, a conventiculum of heretics possessing no jurisdiction, no magisterium, no authority to bind consciences. When Coakley speaks, he speaks not as a successor of the Apostles, but as a functionary of the abomination of desolation standing in the holy place (Matt. 24:15).
The Heresy of Abolitionism: Contradiction of Perennial Magisterium
The conciliar sect’s “catechism” (CCC 2267), revised by the antipope Francis in 2018, declares the death penalty “inadmissible because it is an attack on the inviolability and dignity of the person”. This is formal heresy, directly contradicting the immutable teaching of the Holy Ghost. The Roman Catechism of the Council of Trent, promulgated by St. Pius V, teaches: “Another kind of lawful slaying belongs to the civil authorities, to whom is entrusted power of life and death, by the legal and judicious exercise of which they punish the guilty and protect the innocent. The just use of this power, far from involving the crime of murder, is an act of paramount obedience to this Commandment which prohibits murder” (Part III, Chap. 5, n. 4). Pope Pius XII, addressing the First International Congress of Histopathology of the Nervous System (Sept. 14, 1952), affirmed: “Even in the case of the death penalty the State does not dispose of the individual’s right to life. Rather public authority limits itself to depriving the offender of the good of life in expiation for his guilt, after he, through his crime, deprived himself of his own right to life”. The conciliar sect’s abolitionism is not a “development of doctrine” — it is a revolt against God’s justice, a denial of the lex talionis inscribed in the natural law and confirmed by Revelation (Gen. 9:6: “Whosoever shall shed man’s blood, his blood shall be shed: for man was made to the image of God”).
Sentimentalism Masquerading as Charity: The “Culture of Death” Inversion
Coakley’s rhetoric — “Our God is the God of life” — weaponizes a half-truth to nullify the whole truth. God is the God of life precisely because He is the God of justice. The execution of a convicted mass murderer who shouted “Allahu Akbar” while gunning down unarmed soldiers is not a “culture of death”; it is the vindictive justice (vindicative justice) required by the ordo iustitiae. St. Thomas Aquinas teaches: “The death inflicted by the judge profits the sinner, if he be converted, unto the expiation of his crime; and, if he be not converted, it profits so as to put an end to the sin, because the sinner is thus deprived of the power to sin anymore” (ST II-II, q. 64, a. 2). The conciliar sect’s “mercy” is cruelty to the victims, to society, and to the soul of the criminal, who is deprived of the salutary fear of death that may move him to repentance. As Pius XII warned: “To deprive punishment of its penal character is to empty justice of its essence” (Allocution to Italian Jurists, Dec. 13, 1953).
The Antipope as “Authority”: Leo XIV and the Cult of Man
The Catholic Mobilizing Network quotes “Pope” Leo XIV (Robert Prevost): “the greatness of a civilization is not measured by its material achievements, but by the way it cares for, protects, and upholds the human person”. This is the antichristic anthropology of Vatican II — Gaudium et Spes’s “man is the way of the Church” — enthroning the creature in the place of the Creator. Pius XI, in Quas Primas (1925), thundered: “When God and Jesus Christ were removed from laws and states… the foundations of that authority were destroyed, because the main reason why some have the right to command and others have the duty to obey was removed”. The conciliar sect’s “civilization” measures greatness by how comfortably it accommodates the murderer, not by how faithfully it renders to God His rights. The reference to Leo XIV — a manifest heretic who perpetuates the false religions of ecumenism, religious liberty, and collegiality — as a moral authority is the supreme act of idolatry: habent papam, sed non Deum (they have a pope, but not God).
Lynching, Authoritarianism, and the Language of the Enemy
Krisanne Vaillancourt Murphy’s comparison of a lawful military execution — carried out after years of due process, conviction by court-martial, and presidential approval — to “lynching” and “public executions of some authoritarian countries” is a calumny against justice itself. It adopts the vocabulary of the Masonic Left, for whom any exercise of the jus gladii is “violence.” The Syllabus of Errors (Pius IX, 1864) condemns the proposition: “The civil law prevails over the canon law in case of conflict” (Error 42) and “The Church ought to be separated from the State, and the State from the Church” (Error 55). The conciliar sect has internalized these errors: it demands the State renounce its God-given sword (Rom. 13:4: “He beareth not the sword in vain: for he is God’s minister, an avenger to execute wrath upon him that doth evil”) in favor of a therapeutic managerialism that “holds people accountable without perpetuating the cycle of death” — a phrase that could have been written by a secular penologist, devoid of any reference to eternal salvation, divine retribution, or the rights of Christ the King.
Silence on the Supernatural: The Gravest Accusation
Nowhere in the statements of Coakley, Broglio, or Murphy is there mention of: the eternal destiny of Hasan’s soul; the obligation of the State to secure the common good sub ratione boni aeterni; the rights of Christ the King over nations and laws; the propitiatory value of punishment united to the Cross; the duty of the Church to intercede for the conversion of the condemned, not his earthly preservation. This total silence on the supernatural order is the nota distinguens of the conciliar sect. It operates entirely within the saeculum, deploying Catholic vocabulary (“dignity,” “Gospel,” “image of God”) to advance a naturalistic, Masonic humanitarianism. As St. Pius X diagnosed in Lamentabili Sane Exitu (1907), the Modernist reduces religion to “a certain religious movement, applied or applicable to different times and places” (Condemned Prop. 59), stripping dogmas of their immutable truth.
The Military Archdiocese: A Structure of the Neo-Church
The “Archdiocese for the Military Services, USA” is a canonical fiction of the conciliar sect, erected in 1985 by the antipope John Paul II (Wojtyła). Its “archbishop,” Broglio, functions as a chaplain to the empire, blessing the secular order while demanding it abandon the very justice that legitimizes its sword. The true Church has always taught that the military vocation, rightly ordered, serves the tranquillitas ordinis (peace of order) under Christ the King. Pius XII, addressing the Italian Catholic Action (1945), stated: “The State has the right to inflict capital punishment… because it is its duty to protect the common good against the unjust aggressor”. The conciliar military “archdiocese” inverts this: it protects the aggressor against the common good.
Conclusion: The Sect Serves the Murderer, Not the Victim
The coordinated condemnation of Hasan’s execution by the USCCB, the Military Archdiocese, and their NGO satellites is not a “pro-life witness” — it is the final betrayal of the Church’s mission. By denying the legitimacy of the death penalty, the conciliar sect denies the social kingship of Christ, the objective order of justice, and the reality of eternal punishment. It stands with the “synagogue of Satan” (Apoc. 2:9) that Pius IX identified as the engine of the war against the Church: “It is from them that the synagogue of Satan… takes its strength” (Allocution Quibus quantisque, 1849). True Catholics — those adhering to the integral faith preserved outside the occupying structures of the Vatican — recognize this spectacle for what it is: the paramasonic structure occupying Rome revealing its true master. Non est hic Christus, ecce in desertis (Matt. 24:26). The blood of the Fort Hood victims cries out not for “clemency” for their killer, but for the justice of God which the conciliar hierarchy has abjured.
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U.S. Catholic bishops condemn ‘barbaric’ plan to livestream military execution (ewtnnews.com)
Date: 09.10.2026