Conciliar Sect’s Naturalist Response to Minneapolis Crisis Exposes Doctrinal Bankruptcy
EWTN News reports (January 26, 2026) on statements from the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) and Minnesota Catholic Conference regarding Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) operations in Minneapolis that resulted in civilian fatalities. The conciliar sect’s functionaries, including Archbishop Paul S. Coakley and Cardinal Joseph Tobin, issued calls for “calm” and “restraint” while quoting antipope Leo XIV’s Angelus remarks about “fraternity and peace.” The Minnesota Catholic Conference joined interfaith groups in an open letter advocating for reduced immigration enforcement and promoted a fundraising campaign for parishes providing assistance to undocumented immigrants. Seattle Archbishop Paul D. Etienne concurrently released a pastoral letter vaguely referencing “well-ordered society” while omitting any mention of Christ’s Social Kingship.
Subordination of Divine Law to Naturalistic Humanism
The conciliar hierarchy’s statements constitute a complete inversion of Catholic social principles. Pius XI’s encyclical Quas primas (1925) dogmatically declared that “the empire of our Redeemer embraces all men” and that rulers must “publicly reverence and obey Christ” for true peace. Instead, Coakley reduces the Gospel to a mere “leaven of fraternity,” mirroring Vatican II’s Gaudium et spes heresy which holds that “Christ’s love impels us to build a truly fraternal world” (GS §75). The Minnesota Catholic Conference’s interfaith letter compounds this by treating Judaism and Protestantism as equal partners in social action, directly violating the Syllabus of Errors’ condemnation of indifferentism (Pius IX, 1864, §17).
Systematic Omission of Christ’s Reign Over Civil Society
Nowhere do these modernist clerics reference the Regnum Christi or the duty of civil authorities to uphold Catholic truth. When Coakley parrots antipope Leo XIV’s slogan “Peace is built on respect for people,” he substitutes anthropocentric platitudes for Pius XI’s definitive teaching that “the empire of our Redeemer embraces all men” (QP §18). Archbishop Etienne’s pastoral letter speaks of “truth, justice, and peace” while carefully avoiding the Unam Sanctam doctrine that “it is necessary for salvation that every human creature be subject to the Roman Pontiff” (Boniface VIII, 1302). This calculated silence exposes their adherence to the condemned proposition that “the Church ought to be separated from the State, and the State from the Church” (Syllabus of Errors §55).
Undermining Civil Authority Through Selective Application of Moral Principles
Cardinal Tobin’s demand to defund ICE constitutes blatant subversion of Romans 13:1 (“Let every soul be subject to higher authorities”). The Catechism of St. Pius X affirms that “the Church teaches us to obey lawful authorities” (On the Duties of Citizens). Yet Tobin brands ICE a “lawless organization” while ignoring the 3,000 immigration violations justifying their operation. The Minnesota Catholic Conference compounds this rebellion by urging authorities to cease enforcement against “law-abiding undocumented immigrants”—an oxymoron directly contradicting St. Paul’s teaching that “he who resists the authority resists what God has appointed” (Rom 13:2).
False Ecumenism as Instrument of Social Deconstruction
The Minnesota Catholic Conference’s interfaith collaboration with Jewish and Protestant groups implements the conciliar sect’s embrace of religious indifferentism condemned in Mortalium animos: “This perverse opinion is spread about, that souls can attain eternal salvation by any profession of faith” (Pius XI, 1928). By jointly demanding “sanctuary” for illegal immigrants, these groups promote the condemned heresy that “every man is free to embrace and profess that religion which he shall consider true” (Syllabus of Errors §15). Their fundraising appeal for parishes aiding immigration violators constitutes material cooperation with evil forbidden by moral theology.
Naturalism Replacing Supernatural Faith in Pastoral Priorities
Archbishop Etienne’s reduction of Catholic social doctrine to seeing “Christ in each person” through humanitarian gestures reflects the modernist heresy condemned in Pascendi dominici gregis: “The Modernist makes his own the necessity of ‘vital immanence'” (Pius X, 1907). His pastoral letter’s silence on Minnesota’s 28.5% abortion rate (CDC, 2023) while lamenting immigration enforcement exposes the conciliar sect’s inversion of moral priorities. True shepherds would echo Pius IX’s condemnation of those who “give the name of progress to subvert Catholic truth” (Syllabus of Errors §80), not issue mealy-mouthed pleas for “dialogue” while citizens die in streets made lawless by anarchic policies.
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Catholic leaders urge calm in Minneapolis, reflect on ‘well-ordered’ society (ewtnnews.com)
Date: 26.01.2026