The EWTN News portal (January 28, 2026) reports that Paul Coakley, president of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB), has called for a “Holy Hour for peace” amid unrest related to federal immigration enforcement. The article details Coakley’s lament over recent deaths involving Homeland Security agents, including two American citizens killed in altercations and a Cuban detainee’s homicide. Coakley decries a “climate of fear and polarization” while urging bishops and priests to organize Eucharistic adoration for “reconciliation,” “justice,” and “consolation.” The report frames this as a pastoral response to social tensions, omitting any doctrinal analysis of the Church’s immutable teaching on civil authority and the common good.
Naturalism Disguised as Piety
Coakley’s statement exemplifies the conciliar sect’s reduction of Catholicism to humanitarian sentiment. By declaring that “violence represents failures in our society to respect the dignity of every human life,” he substitutes the Gospel’s supernatural demands with a secularized “human dignity” divorced from status gratiae (state of grace). This mirrors the condemned Modernist error that “Christian doctrine was initially Jewish, but through gradual development, it became first Pauline, then Johannine, and finally Greek and universal” (Lamentabili Sane, §60).
Nowhere does the “archbishop” reference the regnum sociale Christi (social kingship of Christ) as articulated by Pius XI: “Rulers of states therefore not refuse public veneration and obedience to the reigning Christ… if they wish to maintain their authority inviolate” (Quas Primas, §32). The deaths Coakley mourns—including those of citizens resisting lawful authority—are stripped of moral context. Traditional Catholic teaching holds that auctoritas legitima (legitimate authority) acting against criminal violence merits obedience, not vilification (Romans 13:1-4).
Omission as Heretical Weapon
The article’s grave silence lies in its refusal to distinguish between licit civil enforcement and genuine oppression. Coakley’s vague invocation of “violations of fundamental rights” parrots UN humanist rhetoric rather than Thomistic jurisprudence. As Pius IX condemned in the Syllabus of Errors: “Every man is free to embrace and profess that religion which, guided by the light of reason, he shall consider true” (§15)—a precursor to the USCCB’s relativistic “rights” language.
True Catholic peace requires pax Christi in regno Christi (the peace of Christ in the kingdom of Christ), not the false ecumenism of “social reconciliation.” The “Holy Hour” initiative, divorced from calls for repentance and submission to divine law, becomes a pagan ritual. Compare this to Pius XI’s establishment of Christ the King’s feast precisely to combat “secularism of our times, so-called laicism, its errors and wicked endeavors” (Quas Primas)—errors Coakley’s USCCB perpetuates by omission.
Freemasonry’s Liturgical Parody
EWTN’s uncritical reporting on this “Holy Hour” betrays the conciliar sect’s corruption of sacramental theology. When Coakley encourages prayer “in parishes, chapels, or before the Lord present in the quiet of their hearts,” he implies validity in Novus Ordo settings where “rubrics violate the theology of the propitiatory sacrifice” (False Fatima Apparitions). True adoration presupposes the lex orandi of the Traditional Mass, not the invalid “table of assembly” rites instituted by Bugnini’s Masonic reforms.
The article’s description of Holy Hour as a “centuries-old Catholic devotion” is doubly deceptive: First, by ignoring that Vatican II’s liturgy gutted Eucharistic piety; second, by suggesting Coakley’s modernist sect can administer valid sacraments. As the Defense of Sedevacantism file demonstrates: “A manifest heretic cannot be Pope or a member of the Church” (Bellarmine, De Romano Pontifice). By extension, “bishops” ordained with the 1968 rite lack jurisdiction and authority to lead authentic worship.
The True Remedy: Restoration of Christ’s Kingship
Coakley’s plea—”Your faithfulness matters. Your prayers matter“—rings hollow while his sect denies the depositum fidei (deposit of faith). Pius XI’s encyclical demands “states allow themselves to be governed by Christ” through “public veneration” of His social reign (Quas Primas, §33). Instead, the USCCB promotes anarcho-tyranny: undermining lawful immigration enforcement while ignoring the duty to “deny admission to immigrants who endanger public faith or morals” (Pius XII, Exsul Familia).
Authentic peace requires crushing Modernism’s errors and restoring the integrity of Catholic doctrine. Until the USCCB repudiates religious liberty, separation of Church and state, and the New Mass—all condemned by pre-1958 Magisterium—its “Holy Hours” are Satanic mockeries. Let the faithful heed Pius IX’s warning against those who “equate the Church with evolving human consciousness” (Syllabus, §22) and return to the immutable Tradition.
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Amid unrest over immigration enforcement, USCCB president calls for ‘Holy Hour for peace’ (ewtnnews.com)
Date: 28.01.2026