Conciliar Diocese Surrenders Sacred Ground to Secular Power
EWTN News reports that a federal judge has ruled the U.S. government may deposit $183,071 to seize land belonging to the Diocese of Las Cruces, New Mexico, for border fencing along the U.S.-Mexico border. The diocese had sought to block the deposit while it contests the government’s use of eminent domain to take the land, which lies at the base of Mount Cristo Rey, site of a 29-foot statue of Christ and annual pilgrimages. Judge Kenneth Gonzales ruled the deposit would not prejudice the diocese’s right to challenge the taking. The diocese argued the seizure would “constitute a significant infringement on religious freedom and the rights of worship.”
The reporting, while framed as a story of religious persecution, reveals the utter theological and spiritual bankruptcy of a conciliar diocese that has already surrendered the Church’s sovereign rights in practice while merely protesting the financial terms.
