Catholic News Agency portal (December 15, 2025) reports on the reaction of “Bishop” Bruce Lewandowski to the December 13 shooting at Brown University that left two dead and nine injured. The “prelate” expressed being “deeply saddened and troubled” while calling for prayers for victims and first responders. The article notes Brown University canceled classes and finals, with administrators offering support to affected families. Authorities continue searching for the unidentified shooter.
Theology of Empty Gestures Replaces Supernatural Faith
The modernist response follows the post-conciliar playbook of reducing Catholicism to therapeutic humanism. Nowhere does the “bishop” mention peccatum (sin), divine judgment, or the necessity of sacramental repentance. His statement exemplifies the conciliar sect’s abandonment of extra Ecclesiam nulla salus (outside the Church there is no salvation) as defined by Pope Boniface VIII (Unam Sanctam, 1302). Contrast this with Pope Pius XI’s encyclical Quas Primas (1925):
“Nations will be reminded by the annual celebration of this feast that not only private individuals but also rulers and princes are bound to give public honor and obedience to Christ” (§32)
Providence’s religious bureaucrat offers no call for societal conversion to Christ the King – the sole solution to such atrocities.
Naturalism Masquerading as Pastoral Care
The article reveals the bankruptcy of conciliar “pastoral” approaches by omitting any reference to:
- The viaticum for dying victims
- Masses offered for the repose of souls
- Exhortation to sacramental confession amid mortal danger
Such omissions prove the neo-church prioritizes earthly comfort over eternal salvation. The “diocese’s resources” mentioned amount to social work divorced from ex opere operato grace. Compare this to the 1917 Code of Canon Law (Canon 468 §1), which mandates bishops to “offer the Sacrifice of Mass for the people entrusted to him on all Sundays and holy days of obligation throughout his diocese.”
Silence on the Root Cause: Apostasy From Christ the King
Modernist clergy deliberately ignore how such tragedies flow from society’s rejection of Regnum Christi. The 1864 Syllabus of Errors condemned precisely this cowardice:
"The Church ought to be separated from the State, and the State from the Church" (Condemned Proposition §55)
"The Roman Pontiff can, and ought to, reconcile himself, and come to terms with progress, liberalism and modern civilization" (Condemned Proposition §80)
Brown University embodies these errors – an Ivy League bastion of secular humanism that promotes abortion, gender confusion, and moral relativism. Yet the conciliar “bishop” makes no demand for Catholic education reform or public penitential processions, as Pope Pius V ordered after the Battle of Lepanto (1571).
Sacrilegious Equivalence in Ecumenical Prayer
The call to “unite in prayer” with heretics and unbelievers violates the Council of Trent’s decree on the unity of faith (Session VII, Canon 8). True shepherds would organize Forty Hours’ Devotion and public Rosaries – not interfaith vigils that equate the One True Church with false religions. This follows the modernist playbook described in St. Pius X’s Pascendi Dominici Gregis (1907):
“To the laws of evolution everything is subject under penalty of death – dogma, Church, worship, the Books we revere as sacred, even faith itself" (§26)
The Missing Weapon: Exorcism and Spiritual Combat
Nowhere does the statement acknowledge demonic influence behind such violence, despite Christ’s warning: “From within, out of the heart of men, proceed evil thoughts, adulteries, fornications, murders…" (Mark 7:21). Traditional bishops would mandate the Exorcismus in Satanam et Angelos Apostaticos (Rituale Romanum 1952) over their territories. Instead, the conciliar sect offers psychological counseling and “thoughts and prayers” devoid of exorcistical power.
Conclusion: Shepherds Who Enable the Wolves
This empty response exposes the conciliar sect’s complicity in societal collapse. As Pope Leo XIII warned in Humanum Genus (1884):
“The attainment of eternal life is put aside for the enjoyment of this mortal life, which ‘soon passes away,’ and those most fatal enemies of the Church of Christ, namely, the sects of Communists and Socialists, are confidently looked to as allies." (§20)
Until pseudo-clerics demand America’s submission to the Social Reign of Christ the King, such tragedies will multiply – each bloodstain crying to heaven for justice against these hirelings who abandoned their flocks.
Source:
Bishop of Providence issues statement after shooting at Brown University (catholicnewsagency.com)
Date: 15.12.2025