Secular Justice Masks Blasphemy’s Gravity in Church Bomb Hoax Case
Catholic News Agency reports that Zimnako Salah received a six-year prison sentence for planting fake bombs at churches in Arizona, California, and Colorado in 2023. Federal prosecutors emphasized the “hate crime” aspect, noting Salah targeted victims “because of their religion.” Authorities seized bomb components from his storage unit and documented his consumption of “extremist propaganda.” U.S. Attorney Eric Grant claimed Salah sought “many deaths and injuries,” while Assistant Attorney General Harmeet Dhillon declared the Department of Justice will “protect the rights of all people of faith to worship… free from fear.” The report’s naturalistic framing ignores the crimen laesae maiestatis divinae (crime of injured divine majesty) inherent in attacks against God’s temples.
Reduction of Sacrilege to Mere “Hate Crime” Against Humans
The Justice Department’s press release, uncritically reprinted by Catholic News Agency, reduces Salah’s acts to offenses against “the rights of all people of faith” rather than crimes against God Himself. This mirrors the conciliar sect’s abandonment of Syllabus Errorum (1864) which condemned the proposition that “the Church ought to be separated from the State, and the State from the Church” (Error 55). Pius IX’s encyclical Quanta Cura (1864) explicitly denounced the “erroneous opinion, most fatal in its effects on the Catholic Church and the salvation of souls, which Our predecessor of immortal memory, Gregory XVI, called insanity (deliramentum), namely that ‘liberty of conscience and worship is each man’s personal right.'”
The article’s exclusive focus on human “rights” exemplifies the cultus hominis (cult of man) condemned by Pope St. Pius X in Pascendi Dominici Gregis (1907):
“It is not only as an unbeliever that they preach the Church should treat them with benevolence, but because, in their view, human dignity and liberty require that everyone should enjoy in civil society the right to profess any religion he may please.”
Absent is any reference to Quas Primas (1925), where Pius XI established Christ’s social kingship, declaring: “Nations will be reminded by the annual celebration of this feast that not only private individuals but also rulers and princes are bound to give public honor and obedience to Christ.”
Omission of Blasphemy’s Eternal Consequences
Nowhere does the report mention the graviora delicta (graver crimes) of blasphemy and sacrilege defined in Canon 2326 of the 1917 Code. St. Thomas Aquinas teaches in the Summa Theologica (II-II, Q.13, A.3) that blasphemers “are handed over to the secular power to be exterminated from the world by death.” The modern justice system’s six-year sentence for attempted church bombings contrasts starkly with the 1570 Roman Catechism’s instruction: “The punishment due to blasphemers is death; and this is a law of universal application, enacted by God Himself.”
The article’s silence on Salah’s eternal fate reflects the conciliar sect’s de facto denial of hell. As Pius XII warned in Humani Generis (1950): “Some pervert the very concept of original sin, along with the concept of sin in general as an offense against God, as well as the idea of satisfaction performed for us by Christ.”
Neo-Church’s Complicity in Naturalistic Justice
Catholic News Agency’s celebration of secular prosecution reveals the conciliar sect’s abdication of ecclesiastical jurisdiction. The 1917 Code’s Canon 1935 granted bishops authority to prosecute crimes against faith, while Canon 2227 imposed excommunication for sacrilege against the Eucharist. By outsourcing justice to civil authorities, the neo-church implicitly endorses the condemned error that “the Church has not the power of using force, nor has she any temporal power, direct or indirect” (Syllabus Errorum, Error 24).
The report’s reference to “Christian churches” (lowercase ’c’) further demonstrates doctrinal indifferentism. As Leo XIII decreed in Satis Cognitum (1896): “The Church of Christ, therefore, is one and the same for ever; those who leave it depart from the will and command of Christ the Lord.” True justice for Salah would require his reconciliation with the one true Church – not incarceration in a secular prison treating all religions as equally valid.
Psychological Warfare Against True Believers
Salah’s backpack hoaxes constitute psychological terrorism meant to disrupt divine worship – a crime historically punished by civil authorities in Catholic states. The article’s failure to identify attacked churches by denomination hides whether true Masses or protestantized “liturgies” were targeted. This omission serves the conciliar agenda of equating Novus Ordo assemblies with Protestant sects.
The FBI’s seizure of “extremist propaganda” from Salah’s possession raises unanswered questions about whether he accessed anti-Catholic materials tolerated by the conciliar regime. The neo-church’s 1986 Assisi gathering demonstrated its betrayal by facilitating pagan worship, inviting the very Islamic extremism that now threatens churches. As Pius XI declared in Mortalium Animos (1928): “This apostolic see has never allowed its subjects to take part in the assemblies of non-Catholics.”
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Arizona man sentenced to prison after hoax bomb threats at Christian churches (catholicnewsagency.com)
Date: 11.11.2025