The National Catholic Register (EWTN News) reports that the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) and the Archdiocese for the Military Services have denounced the Department of Defense’s decision to livestream the 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 to argue against repaying evil for evil. Archbishop Timothy Broglio appealed to the revised Catechism paragraph 2267 — altered by the antipope Francis — to declare capital punishment “inadmissible” in modern societies with prison systems. The Catholic Mobilizing Network, a USCCB affiliate, echoed these sentiments, likening the public execution to “lynching” and quoting the usurper Leo XIV on “human dignity.” This unified chorus reveals the conciliar sect’s total capitulation to secular humanitarianism and its explicit rejection of the Church’s perennial teaching on the State’s God-given right to wield the sword of justice.
The Usurpation of Ecclesiastical Authority by a False Magisterium
The statements of Coakley and Broglio carry no canonical weight. They are not successors of the Apostles but functionaries of a paramasonic structure occupying the Vatican since the usurpation of John XXIII in 1958. The “Archbishop” Coakley and “Archbishop” Broglio were consecrated in the Novus Ordo rite of 1968, which is doubtfully valid at best and sacrilegious in its intent, severing the sacramental lineage required for episcopal jurisdiction. As St. Pius X condemned in Pascendi Dominici Gregis, the Modernist hierarchy “no longer represents the Church but a counterfeit religion.” Their invocation of “Catholic teaching” is a theft of terminology to legitimize a novel doctrine condemned by the true Magisterium.
Pope Pius XII, in his 1952 Address to the First International Congress of Histopathology of the Nervous System, 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.” This principle, rooted in Genesis 9:6 — “Whosoever shall shed man’s blood, his blood shall be shed: for man was made to the image of God” — and confirmed by Romans 13:4 — “For he is God’s minister to thee for good. But if thou do that which is evil, fear: for he beareth not the sword in vain: for he is God’s minister, an avenger to execute wrath upon him that doeth evil” — is irreformable. The conciliar sect’s Catechism revision is a heretical rupture, not a development.
Perversion of Scripture: Romans 12:17 Torn from Context
Coakley’s citation of Romans 12:17 — “Do not repay anyone evil for evil” — is a classic Modernist distortion. St. Paul addresses private vengeance, not the public administration of justice. The very next chapter (Romans 13) establishes the State’s divine mandate to punish evildoers. St. Augustine, in De Civitate Dei (Book 1, Ch. 21), clarifies: “The same divine law which forbids the killing of a human being allows certain exceptions, as when God authorizes killing by a general law or when He gives explicit commission to an individual for a limited time. Since the agent of authority is but a sword in the hand, and is not responsible for the killing, it is in no way contrary to the commandment, ‘Thou shalt not kill’ to wage war at God’s bidding, or for the representatives of the State’s authority to put criminals to death, according to law or the rule of rational justice.”
The conciliar prelates deliberately confuse vindicta privata (private revenge) with vindicta publica (public justice). This is not theological ignorance; it is malicious equivocation to advance the Masonic agenda of abolishing all transcendent justice in favor of therapeutic incarceration.
The “Dignity” Idol: Anthropocentrism Masquerading as Theology
The refrain of “human dignity” and “image of God” — parroted by Broglio, Murphy, and the antipope Leo XIV — serves as the neo-pagan creed of the conciliar sect. In authentic theology, the imago Dei in the rational creature demands proportionate punishment for grave sin, because the criminal, by his free choice, has deformed that image and offended the Infinite Majesty. St. Thomas Aquinas (Summa Theologiae II-II, q. 64, a. 2) teaches: “If a man be dangerous and infectious to the community, on account of some sin, it is praiseworthy and advantageous that he be killed in order to safeguard the common good… Therefore to kill a man who retains his natural worthiness is intrinsically evil, although it may be justifiable to kill a sinner just as it is to kill a beast, for, as Aristotle points out, an evil man is worse than a beast and more harmful.”
The conciliar sect inverts this: the criminal’s subjective dignity becomes absolute, nullifying the objective order of justice. This is Pelagian humanitarianism — salvation by social therapy, not by the Cross. The “culture of death” rhetoric is diabolically ironic from a hierarchy that endorses Amoris Laetitia’s adultery permissions, the Fiducia Supplicans blessing of sodomy, and the global abortion regime through its silence and diplomatic complicity.
The Lynching Slander: Historical Illiteracy as Moral Weapon
Murphy’s comparison of a lawful military execution — following court-martial, appeals, and presidential approval — to “lynching” is a calumny against the very concept of due process. Lynching was extra-judicial mob murder, often racially motivated, devoid of legal safeguards. Hasan’s sentence resulted from a uniform code of military justice proceeding with full defense rights. To equate the two is to deny the legitimacy of all penal law, which is the anarchist’s goal. The conciliar sect adopts the language of the revolutionary Left because it is the religious arm of the Revolution.
Silence on the Supernatural: The Grave Omission
Nowhere in the statements of Coakley, Broglio, or Murphy is there mention of:
– The eternal salvation of Hasan’s soul, which the imminent prospect of death may procure through fear of judgment (“The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom”, Ps 110:10).
– The expiatory value of accepting a just penalty, which St. Thomas calls a “satisfaction” for sin.
– The rights of God (iura Dei), violated by the murder of 13 souls created for His glory.
– The duty of the State as minister Dei to manifest God’s justice temporally, as a sign of the Final Judgment.
This total silence on the supernatural order is the nota bene of Modernism: religion reduced to social work, the Church to an NGO, the Cross to a symbol of solidarity. As Pius XI warned in Quas Primas (1925): “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… the entire human society had to be shaken, because it lacked a stable and strong foundation.” The conciliar sect has completed this removal.
The Antipope’s “Civilization” Metric: Materialism Baptized
Leo XIV’s quoted dictum — “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” — is secular humanism in mitre. True Catholic social teaching (Leo XIII, Immortale Dei; Pius XI, Quas Primas; Pius XII, Summi Pontificatus) measures a civilization by its submission to Christ the King, its conformity to the Natural Law, and its fostering of the common good ordered to supernatural beatitude. “Protecting the human person” abstracted from truth and justice is the slogan of the United Nations, not the Bride of Christ. The conciliar sect has abdicated the Kingship of Christ for a seat at the Masonic table of “human rights.”
Systemic Apostasy: The Fruit of Vatican II
This episode is not an aberration but the necessary fruit of the conciliar revolution:
– Dignitatis Humanae (religious liberty) → the State has no duty to confess Christ → the State becomes a secular manager of “rights.”
– Gaudium et Spes (anthropocentrism) → man is the center → punishment becomes “violence against dignity.”
– The New Mass (horizontal, communal meal) → the propitiatory Sacrifice is obscured → expiation becomes unintelligible.
– The revised Catechism (1997, 2018) → doctrinal mutation declared as “development.”
The USCCB’s opposition to Hasan’s execution is formal cooperation with the culture of death — the true one, which denies God’s rights and the reality of eternal punishment. By seeking to spare a mass murderer the temporal sword, they deprive him of the medicinal fear of the eternal sword. “He that spareth the rod hateth his son: but he that loveth him correcteth him betimes” (Prov 13:24). The conciliar hierarchy hates the souls entrusted to them — and the God who will judge them.
Conclusion: No Legitimacy, No Obedience
The condemnation of Hasan’s execution by the conciliar sect is null and void. It proceeds from manifest heretics who have ipso facto lost all jurisdiction (Bellarmine, De Romano Pontifice; Canon 188.4, 1917 Code; Paul IV, Cum ex Apostolatus Officio). Catholics bound to the integral Faith must reject this false mercy, affirm the State’s God-given right to execute justice, and pray for Hasan’s conversion before the Divine Tribunal — not for his temporal reprieve at the hands of apostates. “It is a fearful thing to fall into the hands of the living God” (Heb 10:31). The conciliar sect has forgotten this; the true Church never will.
Source:
US Catholic Bishops Condemn ‘Barbaric’ Plan to Livestream Military Execution (ncregister.com)
Date: 09.10.2026