Denver Archdiocese Warns Against Laicized Maronite Pseudo-Cleric
The Catholic News Agency portal (December 4, 2025) reports that Andre Mahanna, a former Maronite Catholic priest dismissed from the clerical state for financial impropriety, continues to fraudulently present himself as a priest. The Archdiocese of Denver issued a warning that Mahanna lacks faculties to celebrate sacraments, preach, or solicit funds through his nonprofit, Saint Rafka Mission of Hope and Mercy. The article notes Mahanna’s past White House access under the Trump administration and his media appearances on EWTN, while recent videos show him wearing clerical attire and soliciting donations for Middle East aid.
Sacramental Simulation and the Crisis of Ecclesiastical Authority
The Archdiocese of Denver’s statement—issued by a conciliar sect structure with no legitimate jurisdiction—fails to address the theological gravity of sacramental simulation. Canon 188 §4 of the 1917 Codex Iuris Canonici stipulates automatic loss of office for clerics who publicly defect from the faith, rendering any subsequent “sacraments” administered by Mahanna not merely illicit but sacrilegious mockeries. The silence regarding the specific nature of Mahanna’s financial crimes exposes the modernist obsession with administrative scandals while ignoring the eternal consequences of souls deceived by invalid rites.
“Neither Mr. Mahanna nor this nonprofit may take part in parish life, ministry, or fundraising in any Catholic setting within the archdiocese.”
This bureaucratic warning—devoid of anathemas or calls to repentance—epitomizes the conciliar sect’s reduction of the Church to a managerial NGO. Contrast this with Pope Pius IX’s Syllabus of Errors (1864), which condemned the heresy that “the Church ought to be separated from the State, and the State from the Church” (Error 55). Mahanna’s political access (e.g., White House events) reveals the post-1958 hierarchy’s collusion with secular powers, betraying the Social Kingship of Christ proclaimed in Pius XI’s Quas Primas (1925).
Financial Corruption as Symptom of Doctrinal Collapse
Mahanna’s nonprofit reported $138,045 in revenue (2024), yet the article ignores how such financial operations exploit pious sentiment while advancing religious indifferentism. His mission’s stated focus on “unity of Christians” and “Judeo-Christian values” aligns with the conciliar heresy of ecumenism condemned in Mortalium Animos (1928): “The union of Christians can only be promoted by promoting the return to the one true Church of Christ.” The absence of any call for Mahanna’s public abjuration of errors or reparations confirms the conciliar sect’s abandonment of the Church’s punitive authority (cf. Canon 2314).
Modernist Media Complicity
EWTN’s platforming of Mahanna (2017-2018) as an “expert” exemplifies the neo-church’s embrace of celebrity over doctrine. St. Pius X’s Lamentabili Sane (1907) condemned the modernist error that “truth changes with man, because it develops with him” (Error 58)—a principle violated by media entities treating apostates as valid commentators. The article’s focus on Mahanna’s “national profile” rather than his eternal peril reflects the naturalism inherent in post-conciliar journalism.
Conclusion: A Church Without Teeth
The Denver warning—devoid of excommunication or spiritual sanctions—proves the conciliar sect’s incapacity to govern. True Catholic discipline, as practiced under Pius V’s Romanus Pontifex (1571), would demand Mahanna’s immediate incarceration in a monastery for penance, not bureaucratic finger-wagging. Until the restoration of integral Catholic authority, such scandals will proliferate, confirming the prophecy of Our Lady of La Salette: “Rome will lose the faith and become the seat of the Antichrist.”
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Former Maronite priest still presenting himself as a cleric, Denver Archdiocese warns (catholicnewsagency.com)
Date: 04.12.2025