Conciliar Diocese Weaponizes Christ the King Statue to Obstruct Sovereign Border Defense
The EWTN News portal (June 30, 2026) reports on a legal and propagandistic offensive launched by the “diocese” of Las Cruces, led by its “bishop” Peter Baldacchino and chancellor “deacon” Jim Winder, against the United States federal government’s exercise of eminent domain to construct a border wall on church-owned land adjacent to Mount Cristo Rey. The “diocese” frames its resistance as a defense of a pilgrimage site topped by a 1940 statue of Christ the King, claiming the wall would erect a “30-foot ‘Keep Out’ sign” beneath the image of the Savior. “Deacon” Winder insists the “diocese” supports “border security” but deems the wall a “political tool,” while “bishop” Baldacchino celebrated a Mass atop the mountain on June 28, 2026, labeled “completely apolitical” yet manifestly staged to galvanize opposition to sovereign border enforcement. This spectacle exposes the conciliar church’s radical inversion of the Social Kingship of Christ: the statue of the King of Nations is weaponized by His purported ministers to undermine the God-ordained duty of the State to protect its borders and the common good, revealing a theology reduced to humanitarian sentimentality and political resistance against the temporal order.