The Catholic News Agency portal (December 10, 2025) reports that “Archbishop” Gregory Aymond of New Orleans granted Sunday Mass dispensations to migrants fearing deportation amid increased immigration enforcement. This follows similar dispensations by “bishops” in Baton Rouge, San Bernardino, Nashville, and Charlotte. Aymond justifies this as pastoral care for immigrants “facing real fear and anxiety” from “Operation Catahoula Crunch,” which plans 5,000 arrests across Louisiana and Mississippi. He encourages virtual Mass participation until immigrants “feel safe to return,” while invoking “dignity of the human person” rhetoric.
Violation of Divine Law and Canonical Order
The decree constitutes sacrilegious abuse of ecclesiastical authority by purporting to suspend the divini iuris (divine law) obligation of Sunday Mass attendance. Canon 1248 §1 of the 1917 Code explicitly states: “On Sundays and other holy days of obligation, the faithful are bound to attend Mass.” The Moral Theology of Prümmer (1956) clarifies that only physical impossibility (e.g., illness, caretaking duties) or true moral impossibility (e.g., violent persecution of Catholics) excuses attendance – not subjective fears of civil consequences for violating immigration statutes.
Aymond’s dispensation relies on the false conciliar notion of “conscience” promoted in Gaudium et Spes 16, which Vatican I condemned in Dei Filius: “If anyone says that divine faith is not to be distinguished from natural knowledge about God and moral matters… let him be anathema.” The 1917 Code (Canon 1245) reserves dispensations to the Holy See except in danger of death cases, rendering Aymond’s decree canonically null.
Sacramental Destruction and False Mercy
The directive to “participate virtually in the Celebration of the Eucharist” constitutes blasphemous simulation of the Most Holy Sacrifice. Pius XII’s Mediator Dei (1947) dogmatically teaches: “The Eucharistic Sacrifice is… the same act of worship which Christ offered to the Father. It requires the physical presence of the priest and faithful.” The suggestion that digital images convey sacramental grace echoes the Protestant heresy of sola fide, condemned by Trent (Session XIII, Canon VIII).
This false mercy prioritizes temporal safety over eternal salvation – a betrayal of pastoral duty. As the Council of Trent infallibly declared: “If anyone says that the Mass is only a sacrifice of praise and thanksgiving… and not propitiatory… let him be anathema” (Session XXII, Canon III). By encouraging migrants to avoid Mass rather than urging repentance of immigration violations, Aymond facilitates their mortal sin of omission while ignoring the eternal peril of their souls.
Modernist Subversion of Church Teaching
The appeal to “dignity of the human person regardless of where they live or from where they come” exposes the conciliar sect’s naturalistic humanism. Contrast this with Pius IX’s Quanta Cura (1864): “They do not fear to foster that erroneous opinion… that each is free to embrace whatever religion he shall… prefer” (Syllabus of Errors, Proposition XV). The immigrants in question violated just immigration laws – a point Aymond deliberately obscures.
The article’s reference to “real justice” follows the modernist playbook of Lamentabili Sane (1907), condemned proposition 58: “Truth changes with man, because it develops with him, in him, and through him.” Nowhere does Aymond reference Romans 13:1 (“Let every soul be subject to higher powers“) or Leo XIII’s Immortale Dei: “To despise legitimate authority is unlawful… whether in the individual citizen or the stranger.”
Illegitimate Authority and Invalid Sacraments
As the conciliar sect lacks valid Holy Orders (due to the invalid New Rite of Ordination), Aymond possesses no sacerdotal or jurisdictional power to grant dispensations. The “Mass” celebrated in New Orleans cathedrals constitutes liturgical abuse at best and invalid simulation at worst. St. Robert Bellarmine’s De Romano Pontifice (II.30) applies: “A manifest heretic cannot be Pope or bishop… they have been condemned by their own judgment” – a principle confirmed by Canon 188 §4 (1917 Code).
The article’s description of “full participation in the Sacraments” constitutes spiritual fraud. Without valid priests and proper sacramental forms, these rituals are empty ceremonies – a fulfillment of Our Lady of La Salette’s prophecy: “The Church will be in eclipse… the sacraments will be profaned.”
Omission of Supernatural Reality
Aymond’s letter exhibits the eschatological blindness of modernism by:
1. Never mentioning the mortal sin of missing Mass
2. Failing to warn that immigration violations may constitute grave matter
3. Ignoring the Four Last Things (Death, Judgment, Heaven, Hell)
4. Omitting any call to repentance or conversion
Compare this to Pius XI’s Quas Primas (1925): “When once men recognize… that Christ has been given all power in heaven and on earth… a power far higher… civil rulers and governments must also submit.” The silence on Christ’s kingship over nations reveals the conciliar sect’s apostasy from Catholic social doctrine.
Rejection of Civil Authority
The article frames immigration enforcement as inherently oppressive, disregarding the natural law duty of nations to control borders. Pope Leo XIII’s Libertas Praestantissimum (1888) affirms: “The practice of all nations… established government authority… as proceeding from God Himself.” By opposing lawful deportation procedures, Aymond violates the Biblical injunction: “Render therefore to Caesar the things that are Caesar’s” (Matthew 22:21).
The conciliar sect’s alignment with illegal immigration fulfills Pius X’s warning in Pascendi Dominici Gregis (1907) against modernists who “pervert the eternal notion of truth” by “conceding to the state the right to violate the Church’s liberty.”
Conclusion: Pastoral Malpractice and Heretical Governance
This dispensation constitutes spiritual malpractice that endangers souls by:
– Encouraging violation of divine law
– Promoting false sacramental theology
– Undermining legitimate civil authority
– Fostering religious indifferentism
As the 1917 Code (Canon 1935) requires bishops to “defend the rights and liberties of the Church,” Aymond’s actions instead advance the conciliar revolution’s goal of creating a “church of man” (Paul VI, Closing Speech of Vatican II). The only proper response is that of St. Pius X: “To restore all things in Christ… that Christ may be all and in all” (Encyclical E Supremi).
Source:
New Orleans Diocese issues Mass dispensation for migrants due to arrest fears (catholicnewsagency.com)
Date: 10.12.2025