Catholic News Agency reports on a “rite of reparation” conducted by “Archbishop” Bernard Hebda at Annunciation “Catholic Church” in Minneapolis, three months after a transgender shooter killed two children during a school Mass. The December 6 ceremony featured bare altars, sprinkling of “holy water,” and prayers to “restore the sanctity” of the building desecrated by bloodshed. The “archbishop” claimed the ritual would “reclaim this space for Christ and his Church,” while ignoring the conciliar sect’s complicity in fostering the spiritual chaos that enabled such atrocities.
Naturalism Replaces Supernatural Faith
The entire spectacle reduces sacramental reality to therapeutic theater. While claiming to perform exorcismus locorum (exorcism of places), the conciliar officials omitted the essential precondition for true reparation: public abjuration of Vatican II’s errors that have devastated the Church’s spiritual immune system. Pius XI’s Quas Primas established that “the hope of lasting peace will not yet shine upon nations as long as individuals and states renounce and do not wish to recognize the reign of our Savior” – yet the ceremony contained no demands for societal submission to Christ the King, no condemnation of gender ideology, nor any call for the conversion of America.
The article’s repeated focus on psychological “healing” and “resilience” exposes the anthropocentric shift condemned in Pius IX’s Syllabus of Errors: “The teaching of the Catholic Church is hostile to the well-being and interests of society” (Error 40). Nowhere do the conciliar officials warn parents that attending the invalid Novus Ordo service endangers children’s souls more than physical threats. The murdered children are mourned as tragic casualties rather than potential martyrs denied proper sacramental preparation – a silence screaming with theological modernism.
Invalid Sacraments, Illegitimate Ministers
The ceremony’s futility is guaranteed by its ministers’ compromised positions. “Archbishop” Hebda operates under antipope Leo XIV’s counterfeit hierarchy, his holy orders suspect due to post-1968 rite irregularities. St. Pius X’s Lamentabili Sane condemned the notion that “the sacraments arose as a result of the interpretation by the Apostles or their successors of Christ’s thoughts” (Proposition 40) – precisely the subjectivist attitude displayed when these false shepherds pretend to reconsecrate what their own errors profaned.
“We cannot undo the tragic loss of Fletcher and Harper, but we can communicate to the world that we recognize that the power of God is far in excess of any evil”
This blasphemous equivocation suggests God’s permissive will toward evil equals divine impotence before human violence. Contrast this with the Acta Apostolicae Sedis (1910) directive that desecrated churches must undergo elaborate exorcisms before re-consecration – rituals these conciliar performers lack both the authority and knowledge to execute properly. Their bare altar symbolizes the sacrificial emptiness of the Novus Ordo, which Annibale Bugnini admitted was designed to please Protestants.
Omissions That Condemn
The article’s glaring silences reveal the conciliar sect’s apostasy:
1. No examination of conscience regarding how transgender ideology infiltrated the Church through conciliar “dialogue” and “accompaniment”
2. No condemnation of the shooter’s mortal sins against nature (Cf. Pius XI’s Casti Connubii)
3. No warning that receiving “Communion” in post-conciliar structures constitutes sacrilege
4. No mention of Christ’s eternal judgment upon unrepentant sinners
5. No call for Minnesota’s governor to consecrate the state to Christ the King
Instead, we find empty ritualism divorced from doctrinal substance – the very “worship in spirit and truth” (John 4:23) replaced with emotional communal therapy. When “Father” Dennis Zehren sprinkles “holy water,” it mocks the Asperges rite whose power flows from integral Catholic faith, not sociological gestures.
Fruits of Vatican II’s Poisoned Tree
This tragedy exemplifies the conciliar revolution’s catastrophic fruits. The shooter’s deranged attack occurred in a church architecture resembling a spaceship more than a Roman basilica – physical embodiment of the horizontalist heresy. The Novus Ordo’s table-altar invites precisely such profanations by obscuring the Sacrifice of Calvary. As Archbishop Lefebvre warned: “When the altar becomes a table, the church becomes a meeting hall.”
The conciliar sect’s refusal to identify the shooter as Robert Westman (biological male) constitutes complicity in gender ideology – a direct violation of Genesis 1:27 and countless papal condemnations of sexual confusion. Pius XII’s Sacra Virginitas explicitly denounced “the error of those who consider the sense of shame [modesty] to be a remnant of obsolete conceptions” – yet the Minneapolis archdiocese has hosted “LGBTQ+ retreats,” making this bloodshed spiritually predictable.
True reparation requires: 1) Rejection of Vatican II’s religious liberty heresy (contra Quanta Cura); 2) Restoration of the Traditional Latin Mass; 3) Public consecration of Minnesota to Christ the King; 4) Excommunication of all propagators of gender ideology within Church structures. Until then, these theatrical “rites” merely whitewash tombs full of dead men’s bones (Matthew 23:27).
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Archbishop performs rite of reparation at Annunciation Catholic Church after shooting (catholicnewsagency.com)
Date: 09.12.2025