EWTN News portal reports that the hierarchy of the conciliar sect, led by the “archbishop for the Military Services” Timothy Broglio and joined by the “bishop” of Austin Daniel Garcia, “cardinal” Blase Cupich of Chicago, and “archbishop” Paul Coakley of Oklahoma City, has issued a chorus of condemnation against the planned livestreamed execution of Nidal Hasan, the perpetrator of the 2009 Fort Hood massacre. These men, received by the antipope Leo XIV (Robert Prevost), denounce the death penalty as an offense to human dignity, label the execution “performative barbarism” and “pornography of a state-sponsored slaying,” and invoke a false mercy that empties the Cross of its justice. This spectacle of epistolary sentimentality exposes the total capitulation of the conciliar sect to the religion of man, its rejection of the *potestas gladii* entrusted by God to the civil sword, and its functional apostasy from the Kingship of Christ over temporal society.
The Theological Bankruptcy of the Conciliar “Episcopate”
The statements attributed to these false shepherds constitute a formal repudiation of the perennial Magisterium. When “Archbishop” Broglio declares that participation in a firing squad is “contrary to the teaching of the Church,” he utters a manifest falsehood. The Catholic Church, in her immutable doctrine, has always taught that the civil authority possesses the *jus gladii*—the right of the sword—delegated by God Himself. St. Paul writes to the Romans: “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 doth evil” (Rom 13:4). Pope Pius XII, addressing the First International Congress of Histopathology of the Nervous System (September 14, 1952), explicitly affirmed: “Even when it is a question of the execution of a condemned man, the State does not dispose of the individual’s right to life. In this case it is reserved to the public power to deprive the condemned person of the enjoyment of life in expiation of his crime when, by his crime, he has already dispossessed himself of his right to life.”
The conciliar sect’s “Catechism” (1992/1997), revised under the modernist “pope” John Paul II and further corrupted by “pope” Francis, attempts to overthrow this doctrine by appealing to a “new understanding” of human dignity—a classic Modernist evolution of dogma condemned by St. Pius X in Lamentabili sane exitu (proposition 58: “Truth changes with man, because it develops with him, in him, and through him”) and Pascendi Dominici Gregis. The “bishops” cited in the article are not guardians of the deposit of faith but agents of its dissolution.
Reduction of Justice to Therapeutic Sentimentalism
“True justice cannot be achieved through further violence or vengeance,”
declares “Bishop” Garcia. This sentence alone encapsulates the neo-church’s heresy: the identification of justice with non-violence and the conflation of vindictive punishment with vengeance. St. Thomas Aquinas teaches that “Vengeance is lawful and virtuous so far as it tends to the prevention of evil” (Summa Theologiae II-II, q. 108, a. 1). The death penalty is not “violence” in the sense of injustice; it is the vindicta publica, the public vindication of the moral order violated by the criminal. By calling it “vengeance,” Garcia adopts the language of the enemies of the Church—the secular humanists and abolitionists—who deny the objective reality of sin and the necessity of expiation.
“Cardinal” Cupich’s phrase “pornography of a state-sponsored slaying” is a rhetorical blasphemy. It equates the lawful execution of a mass murderer—who killed 14 souls, including an unborn child—with sexual depravity. This inversion reveals the conciliar sect’s obsession with the aesthetics of modernity: the “livestream” is condemned not because it trivializes death, but because it confronts the comfortable conscience of the post-conciliar Catholic with the reality of justice. The true pornography is the daily slaughter of the innocent in the womb, which these same “bishops” tolerate through their collaboration with pro-abortion politicians and their silence on the crimen nefas of legalized abortion.
The Myth of “Human Dignity” Detached from Divine Law
The article repeats the mantra “human dignity” as a talisman against the death penalty. “Archbishop” Coakley cites Romans 12:17—“Do not repay anyone evil for evil”—ripped from its context. This precept governs private conduct, not the public office of the magistrate. The Syllabus of Errors (Pope Pius IX, 1864) condemns the proposition: “Moral laws do not stand in need of the divine sanction, and it is not at all necessary that human laws should be made conformable to the laws of nature and receive their power of binding from God” (Error 56). The conciliar sect’s anthropology severs human dignity from its source: the image of God in the rational soul, which implies moral responsibility and the capacity to forfeit one’s right to life by grave crime. As Pius XI teaches in Quas Primas: “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, because the main reason why some have the right to command and others have the duty to obey was removed.”
By grounding opposition to the death penalty in a secularized concept of “dignity,” these false prelates align themselves with the Masonic project of the Rights of Man—a document born of the Revolution, condemned by the popes, which makes the autonomous individual the measure of all things. The “Church of the New Advent” has become the chaplaincy of the United Nations.
False Obedience to a False Pope
The article notes Broglio was “received by Pope Leo XIV on Oct. 12.” This meeting is the seal of the conspiracy. Robert Prevost, as “Leo XIV,” is a manifest heretic who professes the errors of Vatican II: religious liberty, false ecumenism, collegiality, the new Mass. According to the doctrine articulated by St. Robert Bellarmine and confirmed by Canon 188.4 of the 1917 Code: “Every office becomes vacant by the mere fact and without any declaration… if the cleric… publicly defects from the Catholic faith.” As the Defense of Sedevacantism file demonstrates, a manifest heretic ceases to be Pope ipso facto. Bellarmine states: “A manifest heretic cannot be Pope… he cannot be the head of something of which he is not a member.” The “bishops” who recognize him, conceive him, and obey him are schismatics separated from the Catholic Church. Their “obedience” to the antipope is the very mark of their apostasy.
The Military Ordinariate: 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. It has no foundation in Tradition. Its “archbishop” Broglio, a career diplomat of the Vatican II sect, functions as a chaplain to the American empire, blessing its wars and now its judicial procedures. His order to Catholic soldiers to “request to be excused” from the firing squad is an usurpation of the proper formation of conscience. A Catholic soldier, properly formed, knows that the execution of a just sentence is a lawful act of the civil power, and participation in it—when duly ordered—is not sinful but a fulfillment of duty. Broglio’s intervention exposes the conciliar sect’s pacifism: a heresy that denies the legitimacy of the temporal sword, condemned implicitly by the Syllabus (Error 39: “The State… is endowed with a certain right not circumscribed by any limits”—condemned because the State’s right is circumscribed by divine law, not because it lacks the sword).
Symptomatic Level: The Conciliar Sect as the “Abomination of Desolation”
This episode is not an isolated pastoral error; it is the necessary fruit of the conciliar revolution. The “bishops” speak the language of the world because they are of the world. They fear the “livestream” because it reveals the consequences of sin—consequences their theology has erased. They speak of “trauma” and “moral injury” to the executioners, adopting the psychological jargon of the therapeutic state, while ignoring the trauma of the victims’ families denied justice, and the moral injury to the common good when the sword rusts in its sheath.
The False Fatima Apparitions file identifies the strategy of the enemies of the Church: “Diversion from apostasy… The message focuses on external threats (communism), omitting the main danger: modernist apostasy within the Church.” Here, the conciliar hierarchy focuses on the “barbarism” of the state’s execution, diverting attention from their own barbarism: the destruction of the Mass, the corruption of doctrine, the cover-up of clerical corruption, the surrender to the spirit of the age. They imitate the terrorists? No—they imitate the Sanhedrin, who cried “We have no king but Caesar” (Jn 19:15), delivering the Just One to death while demanding the release of Barabbas. Today, they demand the life of the murderer be spared in the name of a “mercy” that crucifies Justice.
Conclusion: No Peace Without the Kingship of Christ
Pius XI instituted the Feast of Christ the King precisely to combat the “plague… so-called laicism” which “began with the denial of Christ the Lord’s reign over all nations” (Quas Primas). The conciliar sect’s opposition to the death penalty is a symptom of this denial. By refusing to recognize that the State acts as minister Dei in punishing the guilty, they dethrone Christ from the temporal order. Their “mercy” is the mercy of the Antichrist: a pseudo-charity that leaves the wolf among the sheep.
True Catholic bishops—validly ordained, holding the integral faith, in communion with the true Church enduring in the catacombs—would teach the faithful that the execution of a justly condemned murderer is an act of justice, a deterrent to evil, and a possibility of grace for the criminal who meets his end with contrition. They would not weep for the executioner but pray for the soul of the condemned. They would not fear the “livestream” but the judgment of God upon a nation that abandons His law.
The conciliar sect has no authority, no mission, no sacraments, and no truth. Its “bishops” are blind guides leading the blind into the pit. “Let them alone: they are blind, and leaders of the blind. And if the blind lead the blind, both will fall into the pit” (Mt 15:14).
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Bishops condemn broadcast of firing squad execution, emphasize Church’s opposition to death penalty (ewtnnews.com)
Date: 13.10.2026