Humanitarian Veneer Masks Apostasy in US Bishops’ Immigration Endorsement
The EWTN News portal (January 27, 2026) reports that Los Angeles “Archbishop” José H. Gómez and other “bishops” endorsed HR 4393, the so-called Dignity Act. The legislation proposes temporary legal status for certain undocumented immigrants contingent on labor participation, financial penalties, and clean criminal records. While avoiding citizenship pathways, it reinforces border militarization and employer surveillance. Gómez called it “a genuine, good-faith starting point,” echoed by “Bishop” Mark Seitz and “Archbishop” Samuel Aquila. This stance exemplifies the conciliar sect’s surrender to secular humanism and abandonment of Catholic integralism.
Naturalism Replaces Supernatural Mission
The “bishops” reduce the Church’s divine mandate to a social services agency. Gómez’s plea to “treat other people like we believe” in God’s image omits the sine qua non of Catholic action: the salvation of souls through conversion to Christ the King. Nowhere do these prelates mention the obligation to evangelize migrants or condemn nations that reject Christ’s social reign. Their silence echoes the condemned proposition: “The Church ought to be separated from the State, and the State from the Church” (Pius IX, Syllabus of Errors, §55).
“We need to start somewhere. And we need to start now.”
Gómez’s urgency applies not to restoring the Social Kingship of Christ but to negotiating with a Godless political system. Contrast this with Pope Pius XI’s encyclical Quas Primas: “When once men recognize, both in private and in public life, that Christ is King, society will at last receive the great blessings of real liberty, well-ordered discipline, peace and harmony.” The Dignity Act’s focus on economic utility (“contributing to the good of our society”) reduces man to a labor unit—a Marxist error condemned by Leo XIII in Rerum Novarum (§34).
False Mercy and the Abdication of Justice
The “bishops” demand amnesty for non-criminal migrants while accepting increased border enforcement. This schizophrenic position ignores the primacy of divine law over human compromise. St. Augustine’s axiom—Remota itaque iustitia quid sunt regna nisi magna latrocinia? (“Without justice, what are kingdoms but great bands of robbers?”)—exposes the bill’s fatal flaw: it legitimizes illegal entry while pretending to penalize it.
Seitz’s claim that families live “in fear” under current systems ignores the objective disorder of violating immigration laws. True pastoral care requires admonishing sinners (Canon 1321) and insisting nations defend their borders (Pius XII, Exsul Familia). Instead, these prelates parrot the UN’s borderless globalism, condemned by Pius XI as “those false principles which… had crept into the very fiber of human society” (Divini Redemptoris, §18).
Omissions That Condemn
The article’s “correction” changing “praises” to “shows openness” reveals the conciliar sect’s linguistic gymnastics. Such semantic dodging avoids confronting the heresy of religious indifferentism embedded in the bill. By endorsing a purely secular solution, Gómez implicitly denies Unam Sanctam’s teaching that “it is necessary for salvation that every human creature be subject to the Roman Pontiff” (Boniface VIII).
Crucially absent is any reference to:
– The duty of nations to prefer Catholic immigrants (Leo XIII, Rerum Novarum §51)
– The Church’s right to intervene in temporal affairs for spiritual ends (Pius IX, Syllabus §19)
– The eternal peril of migrants dying without baptism or repentance
Operationalizing the Anti-Church
Aquila’s call to “take care of immigrants” while ignoring their status animarum (state of souls) typifies the neo-church’s diabolical inversion. The “Dignity Program”—with its $7,000 restitution—reduces redemption to a financial transaction, mocking Christ’s exclusive role as Redeemer. This echoes Modernist Jorge Bergoglio’s “Church of Mercy” facade, which St. Pius X condemned as “the synthesis of all heresies” (Pascendi Dominici Gregis §39).
When Gómez urges limiting deportations to “violent criminals,” he embraces the revolutionary error that legality derives from state power rather than divine authority (Pius VI, Auctorem Fidei §31). The true Church teaches that nations, like individuals, must render to God what is God’s—including their immigration policies (Matt. 22:21).
The Masonic Fingerprint
The bill’s co-sponsor, Rep. Salazar, belongs to the Knights of Columbus—an organization infiltrated by Freemasonry since the 1970s. Her “Dignity Act” mirrors Masonic humanitarianism, which Leo XIII exposed as a tool to “destroy the foundations of Catholicism” (Humanum Genus §20). Gómez’s collaboration with such forces confirms his alignment with the “abomination of desolation” occupying post-conciliar structures.
The “bishops’” silence on requiring migrant conversion proves their apostasy. As St. Gregory the Great warned: “Qui non zelat, non amat” (“Who does not zeal, does not love”). By treating souls as voting blocs, these hirelings betray the Shepherd.
Source:
Archbishop Gómez shows openness to immigration bill to create legal protections (ewtnnews.com)
Date: 27.01.2026