USCCB President’s Hollow Appeal Masks Apostasy from Catholic Social Order
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.