Catholic News Agency reports on November 7, 2025 about the Department of Homeland Security’s defiance against federal court orders mandating humane conditions at Broadview, Illinois immigration facility. The article details denied access to sacraments for detainees despite efforts by “Auxiliary Bishop” José María García-Maldonado and other religious leaders. DHS spokesperson Tricia McLaughlin labeled detainees as “the worst of the worst” while antipope Leo XIV issued vague appeals about migrant rights without addressing sacramental deprivation. The report reveals tension between detainees’ attorneys alleging unconstitutional conditions and government claims of compliance, while religious leaders’ November 6 letter requests Eucharistic access remains unanswered.
Sacramental Starvation as Modernist Heresy
The blocking of priests from administering Holy Communion constitutes direct violation of Quas Primas (1925) where Pius XI declared Christ’s kingship over all civil authorities: “Rulers of nations…must not refuse public veneration and obedience to the reign of Christ.” The detainees’ forced Eucharistic fast manifests the conciliar sect’s abandonment of extra Ecclesiam nulla salus (outside the Church there is no salvation). When McLaughlin claims “religious organizations have ALWAYS been welcome,” she engages in fraudulent equivocation by treating the Most Holy Sacrifice as optional “religious service” rather than the sine qua non of Catholic life.
“Many people who’ve lived for years and years and years, never causing problems, have been deeply affected by what’s going on right now.”
Antipope Leo XIV’s bloodless statement reduces the crisis to humanitarian concern, omitting all reference to sanctifying grace or sacramental necessity. This echoes the Modernist heresy condemned in Lamentabili Sane (1907): “Revelation could not be other than the consciousness acquired by man of his relation to God” (Proposition 20). By framing detention conditions through naturalistic “rights” discourse rather than ex opere operato sacramental theology, the conciliar sect confirms Pius X’s warning that Modernists reduce religion to “vital immanence.”
Dehumanizing Rhetoric Against Divine Image
DHS’s characterization of detainees as “pedophiles, gang members, and rapists” employs collective damnation tactics antithetical to Catholic justice. The 1864 Syllabus of Errors explicitly condemns the notion that “authority is nothing else but numbers and the sum total of material forces” (Proposition 60). While legitimate authority may detain criminals, the blanket vilification violates the Church’s teaching on the imago Dei inherent even in unrepentant sinners.
The article’s focus on Alfonso Batalla-Garcia’s homicide conviction while ignoring due process concerns reveals post-conciliarism’s utilitarian ethics. Pius XII’s 1952 address to jurists emphasized: “Even the guilty man does not cease to be a human person.” By contrast, McLaughlin’s reduction of detainees to their alleged crimes echoes the naturalism Pius XI condemned in Divini Redemptoris as “ignoring the true and only supernatural destiny of men.”
Omission of Ecclesiological Catastrophe
Nowhere does the article question why “Bishop” Barron seeks assurances from apostate civil authorities rather than denouncing sacramental obstruction. This illustrates the conciliar sect’s inverted hierarchy whereby modernist “clergy” beg Caesar for permission to administer Christ’s sacraments. Quas Primas establishes the opposite principle: “The Church demands for itself full freedom and independence from secular authority.”
The detainee testimony about six days without bedding or adequate food exposes the heresy of Americanism condemned in Leo XIII’s Testem Benevolentiae (1899). When civil authorities place bureaucratic procedures above corporal works of mercy, they enact the very “separation of Church and State” error anathematized in the Syllabus (Proposition 55). Tragically, the conciliar sect’s “Auxiliary Bishops” behave like NGO workers rather than successors of the Apostles who declared: “We must obey God rather than men” (Acts 5:29).
Antipope’s Empty Sentimentalism
Antipope Leo XIV’s statement exemplifies conciliar apostasy: “Jesus says very clearly…how did you receive the foreigner?” This selective citation omits Christ’s requirement that charity flow from sanctifying grace. The Modernist distortion transforms the Gospel into social work manual, fulfilling Pius X’s warning in Pascendi Dominici Gregis that heretics reduce religion to “a certain kind of intuition born of sentiment.”
When the antipope quotes his exhortation Dilexi Te claiming “the Church…builds bridges” for migrants, he inverts the Church’s true mission articulated in Mortalium Animos (1928): “The Church is without question a sign lifted up among the nations…for the salvation of all.” Nowhere does Leo XIV mention confession or sanctifying grace – the only means by which souls escape eternal damnation. This confirms the “abomination of desolation” foretold in Daniel 9:27, where sacraments are withheld amidst humanitarian platitudes.
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DHS blasts order for improvements to migrant facility, says it houses ‘worst of the worst’ (catholicnewsagency.com)
Article date: 07.11.2025