Mount Cristo Rey: Conciliar Sect Surrenders Christ’s Kingship to Caesar’s Eminent Domain
The National Catholic Register (NCR), a flagship organ of the conciliar sect, reports on a June 28, 2026, “Mass” atop Mount Cristo Rey in the Diocese of Las Cruces, New Mexico, where the neo-church’s “bishop” Peter Baldacchino and “deacon” Jim Winder staged a liturgical spectacle against the U.S. federal government’s eminent domain seizure of diocesan land for a border wall. The article frames the dispute as a clash between “border security” and “sacred pilgrimage,” quoting the “chancellor” Winder insisting the sect is “not against border security” but views the wall as a “political tool,” while the “bishop” celebrates a supposedly “apolitical” Mass beneath a 29-foot limestone statue of Christ the King erected in 1940. The government has already won a court ruling allowing a six-figure deposit to seize the land. This entire episode exposes the conciliar sect’s total capitulation to the naturalistic order: it reduces the Social Kingship of Christ to a backdrop for political theater, surrenders the Church’s libertas ecclesiastica (freedom of the Church) to Caesar’s sword, and parades invalid ministers as witnesses to a “unity” that is nothing but indifferentist syncretism.