Texas Bishops’ DACA Statement Exposes Apostate Priorities
The Catholic News Agency portal reports on November 6, 2025, that the Texas Catholic Conference of Bishops issued a statement expressing “solidarity” with illegal immigrants under the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program. The bishops decry a federal court ruling limiting DACA benefits in Texas as “unprecedented and disruptive,” blaming political “unwillingness” for a “terribly broken immigration system” while declaring immigrants “some of the most upstanding individuals” in communities. This document epitomizes the neo-church’s surrender to secular humanism.
Naturalism Replaces Divine Law
The bishops’ claim that immigrants possess a “human right… to work and raise a family in peace” directly contradicts the regnum sociale Christi (social kingship of Christ) enshrined in Pius XI’s encyclical Quas Primas (1925): Rulers and legitimate superiors… [must] recognize the reign of our Savior
. By framing rights as autonomous from Christ’s authority, the statement adopts Enlightenment naturalism condemned in Pius IX’s Syllabus of Errors (1864): Every man is free to embrace and profess that religion which… he shall consider true
(Error 15).
Worse still, the bishops reduce pastoral care to political advocacy, declaring: We have heard your cries
while omitting any call for repentance, conversion, or submission to lawful authority. This echoes the modernist heresy defined in Pius X’s Lamentabili (1907), which condemned the notion that Revelation was merely man’s self-awareness of his relationship to God
(Error 20).
Subversion of Lawful Authority
The bishops’ lament over law-abiding people
facing legal consequences ignores the Church’s perennial teaching on the jus gentium (law of nations). St. Augustine’s City of God (Book XIX) establishes that temporal laws derive legitimacy from their conformity to eternal law. Leo XIII’s Immortale Dei (1885) explicitly condemns the separation of civil authority from divine sovereignty: It is unlawful to follow one form of religion and to worship God in another
.
By branding the court’s enforcement of immigration law as fomenting fear [and] severing relationships
, the bishops reject Romans 13:1-2: Let every soul be subject to higher powers… he that resisteth the power, resisteth the ordinance of God
. This aligns with the condemned proposition in the Syllabus: The Church ought to be separated from the State
(Error 55).
Economic Idolatry and Omission of Supernatural Ends
The statement’s concern over significant economic disruption
reveals a materialist worldview. Pius XI’s Quadragesimo Anno (1931) warned against economic systems where dead matter comes forth from the factory ennobled, while men there are corrupted and degraded
. Yet the Texas bishops prioritize employment permits over the salus animarum (salvation of souls), never mentioning:
- The necessity of baptism for salvation (John 3:5)
- The duty to evangelize migrants (Matthew 28:19)
- The eternal peril of scandalously normalizing lawlessness (1 Corinthians 15:33)
This silence proves their complicity with the abominatio desolationis (abomination of desolation) foretold in Daniel 9:27—a church that no longer seeks to convert nations but administers worldly comforts.
Canonical Illegitimacy of the Signatories
As bishops
consecrated under post-conciliar rites of doubtful validity, the Texas conference lacks any authority to teach. Pius XII’s Sacramentum Ordinis (1947) required specific sacramental form for valid ordinations, which Paul VI’s 1968 rite corrupted. St. Robert Bellarmine’s De Romano Pontifice states: A manifest heretic cannot be Pope
—and by extension, those appointed by antipopes lack jurisdiction. Their statement is not a pastoral act but a political manifesto from usurpers.
The Path Forward: Restoration, Not Accommodation
True shepherds would echo Pius X’s condemnation of religious indifferentism in Notre Charge Apostolique (1910): The true friends of the people are neither revolutionaries nor innovators, but traditionalists
. They would demand:
- Public recognition of Christ as King over Texas and all nations
- Reparation for violations of immigration laws
- Priority given to Catholic migrants willing to swear loyalty to Christ the King
Until these false pastors repent, the faithful must heed Our Lord’s warning: Let them alone: they are blind, and leaders of the blind
(Matthew 15:14).
Source:
Texas bishops issue statement expressing solidarity with immigrants ahead of court order (catholicnewsagency.com)
Article date: 06.11.2025