Florida “Bishops” Embrace Humanitarianism Over Catholic Sovereignty Teachings
The “Catholic News Agency” portal (December 22, 2025) reports that several Florida-based members of the United States Conference of “Catholic Bishops” have demanded President Trump and Governor DeSantis suspend immigration enforcement during Christmas. Archbishop Thomas Wenski of Miami declared:
“Don’t be the Grinch that stole Christmas… Give people these two weeks to be with their families without fear of being arrested.”
The statement co-signed by seven other “bishops” asserts that border security has been achieved and enforcement now primarily impacts non-criminal migrants, appealing to an Amnesty International report condemning Florida detention centers. This morally relativistic position substitutes Catholic doctrine with secular humanitarianism.
Subordination of Divine Law to Sentimentalism
The “bishops” reduce Christmas – the incarnation of the Verbum caro factum – to a sentimental ceasefire for lawbreakers. Their statement declares enforcement should pause to “ease the fear and anxiety present in many of our immigrant… families” while praising America’s “special constitutional order which protects our liberties.” This inversion subordinates Romans 13:1-7 (which commands obedience to lawful authority) to emotional appeals, ignoring Pius XI’s teaching that “the empire of our Redeemer embraces all men” (Quas Primas, 18) and that rulers must “maintain the authority inviolate and contribute to the increase of their homeland’s happiness” (Quas Primas, 24). The Syllabus of Errors explicitly condemns the notion that “the Church ought to be separated from the State, and the State from the Church” (Error 55), yet these prelates demand the State abdicate its God-given duty to protect citizens.
Natural Law Obliterated by Emotional Blackmail
When the “bishops” claim enforcement “inevitably sweep[s] up numbers of people who are not criminals but just here to work,” they deliberately conflate legal immigrants with illegal entrants. The Code of Canon Law (1917) recognizes nations’ rights to regulate borders (Canon 117), while Leo XIII taught that governments must “safeguard the community and its parts” (Rerum Novarum, 35). By citing Amnesty International – an organization promoting abortion and gender ideology – as moral arbiters, these prelates adopt the modernist heresy condemned in Lamentabili Sane (Proposition 22): that dogmas are “not truths of divine origin but… interpretation of religious facts.”
Theological Vacuum and Selective Mercy
Nowhere do the “bishops” mention:
- The eternal consequences of promoting lawlessness (1 Peter 2:13-14)
- The distinction between just and unjust laws central to Catholic thought
- The Church’s condemnation of illegal immigration in Pope Pius XII’s Exsul Familia
Their selective mercy echoes the Jansenist rigorism condemned in the False Fatima Apparitions analysis: demanding suspension of temporal penalties while ignoring the spiritual catastrophe of normalizing disobedience. As Quas Primas warns: “When God and Jesus Christ were removed from laws and states… the foundations of that authority were destroyed” (31). By urging de facto sanctuary policies, these prelates become accomplices to the “pests” of socialism condemned in the Syllabus (Errors 63-64).
Continuity With Conciliar Apostasy
This statement exemplifies the post-conciliar sect’s abandonment of Regnans in Excelsis (1570), which anathematizes those who substitute “new rites and institutions in the place of the old.” The “bishops” adopt the very religious indifferentism Pius IX condemned when he wrote: “Man may, in the observance of any religion whatever, find the way of eternal salvation” (Syllabus, Error 16). Their appeal to “lower the temperature within our partisan divisions” confirms Benedict XV’s warning in Ad Beatissimi Apostolorum against “exaggerated nationalism” and “class hatred” – yet they remain silent about the eternal subordination of politics to Christ the King.
Source:
Florida bishops call for immigration enforcement moratorium over Christmas (catholicnewsagency.com)
Date: 22.12.2025