Congressional Hearing Exposes Anti-Catholic Assault on Divine Authority
EWTN News reports on the February 10, 2026 House Homeland Security Committee hearing where Democratic lawmakers attacked U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officials with blasphemous rhetoric. Representative LaMonica McIver (D-New Jersey) demanded ICE Acting Director Todd Lyons declare whether he believed himself “going to hell” while accusing agents of having “blood on your hands.” The hearing occurred amid congressional debates over funding extensions for the Department of Homeland Security, with Democrats split between abolishing ICE entirely or imposing “reforms” restricting immigration enforcement.
Secular Humanism Replaces Divine Law in Immigration Debate
The hearing revealed the complete inversion of Catholic principles governing civil authority. Rep. McIver’s demand that Lyons justify his actions before “judgment day” constitutes sacrilegious theater, as she simultaneously rejects the lex divina (divine law) granting rulers authority to enforce just immigration laws. Pius XI’s encyclical Quas Primas explicitly states: “Rulers and princes are bound to give public honor and obedience to Christ” (¶32), which includes upholding national sovereignty. Instead, Democrats embrace the condemned error that “human reason…is law to itself” (Pius IX, Syllabus of Errors, Condemned Proposition #3).
“The people are watching you; they are watching you. And this is why we need to abolish ICE.”
This mob-inciting rhetoric directly contradicts the Church’s teaching that governing authorities “hold power from God” (Romans 13:1). The demand to dismantle DHS—an agency protecting citizens—echoes the anarchist heresy condemned in Pius IX’s Syllabus (Proposition #63).
False Mercy Masks Hostility to National Sovereignty
The article references 300 “Catholic leaders including 15 bishops” lobbying against ICE funding. This cabal of conciliar churchmen promotes the modernist heresy that “the Church ought to be separated from the State” (Pius IX, Syllabus, Proposition #55). Their November 2025 statement opposing “indiscriminate mass deportation” deliberately ignores the Church’s distinction between immigratio licita (lawful immigration) and invasio illicita (unlawful invasion). Leo XIII’s Rerum Novarum (¶33) affirms the state’s duty to “prevent the influx of foreigners” threatening social cohesion.
The U.S. Conference of “Catholic” Bishops’ (USCCB) activism constitutes formal cooperation with the “false philosophy of Juridical Naturalism” (Pius XII, Ci Riesce). By demanding open borders, these apostates reject Pius XII’s teaching that nations have the ius excludendi (right of exclusion) over undesired migrants (Exsul Familia, §20).
Revolutionary Rhetoric Rejects Order and Subsidiarity
Rep. Delia Ramirez’s (D-Illinois) call to “dismantle” DHS exposes the revolutionary spirit condemned in Quas Primas: “When men…reject the rule of our Savior, wretchedness will follow” (¶11). Democrats’ accusations of ICE “terrorizing the streets” invert reality, as they defend anarchist protesters like Renée Good and Alex Pretti who died violently resisting lawful authority. This follows the pattern of the French Revolutionaries who “placed the state above the Church” (Leo XIII, Au Milieu des Sollicitudes, §3).
“DHS cannot be reformed. It must be dismantled and something new must take its place.”
Such language mirrors the Masonic cry “Écrasez l’infâme!” (Crush the infamy!) against Catholic civilization. Republicans’ tepid defense of ICE—framed through utilitarian concerns about “open borders” rather than divine mandate—equally fails to invoke the Kingship of Christ over nations.
Judgment Belongs to God Alone
Rep. McIver’s blasphemous interrogation—”Do you think you’re going to hell?“—violates Christ’s warning “Judge not, lest you be judged” (Matthew 7:1). The Church alone possesses authority to bind conscience regarding eternal punishment (Council of Trent, Session XIV, Chapter 5). Her theatrical condemnation of Lyons constitutes sacrilege while ignoring the true scandal: 63 million abortions under America’s bloodstained “laws.”
The hearing demonstrates the conciliar sect’s complete assimilation into the “modernist heresy” (St. Pius X, Lamentabili Sane, Proposition #58). Until civil rulers submit to Christ the King, such diabolical disorder will only intensify.
Source:
Democratic lawmaker asks ICE director if he’s ‘going to hell’ in fiery hearing (ewtnnews.com)
Date: 11.02.2026