‘Archbishop’ of Detroit Feels ‘Divine Presence’ at Mosque Opening, Says It’s a ‘Truly Wonderful and Sacred Place’

Ed Weisenburger praises Islamic house of worship as ‘place of holiness’…

‘Archbishop’ of Detroit Feels ‘Divine Presence’ at Mosque Opening, Says It’s a ‘Truly Wonderful and Sacred Place’

(image source: dearborn.org)

The largest Muslim house of worship in the United States has just opened its doors in the city of Dearborn, Michigan. It is officially known as the Imam Al-Hasanain Mosque and is part of the Islamic Institute of America.

The Arab American News, a local newspaper in Dearborn, reports:

Hundreds of community members, religious leaders, elected officials and dignitaries gathered in Dearborn Heights earlier this month to celebrate the grand opening of the new headquarters of the Islamic Institute of America (IIOA) and the inauguration of the Imam Al-Hasanain Mosque, a $16 million project that community leaders describe as one of the largest and most significant Islamic developments in Michigan in recent years. …

The opening ceremony attracted a diverse group of religious leaders and public officials, including Detroit Archbishop Edward Weisenburger….

(Ebtissam Khanafer, “Hundreds gather for grand opening of the Imam Al-Hasanain mosque and Islamic Institute of America’s new campus in Dearborn Heights”, The Arab American News, June 12, 2026)

For the Counterfeit Church of the Second Vatican Council, which adores the same god as the Moslems (see Lumen Gentium, n. 16; Nostra Aetate, n. 3), the opening of an Islamic house of worship and preaching is cause for celebration.

Thus, as reported, the supposed Roman Catholic archbishop of Detroit, Edward J. Weisenburger (b. 1960), happily participated in the grand opening ceremony with ribbon cutting, which took place on June 5.

Not only did ‘Abp.’ Weisenburger attend as one of the guests of honor, he was even allowed to give an address to all participants. Furthermore, he gave an impromptu interview to a journalist. In both instances, his remarks were brief but audacious. It seemed as if he was trying to pack as much evidence for his own apostasy as possible into the few moments he was speaking.

From the video feeds publicly available on the Facebook page of dearborn.org (here and here), we have compiled a short video in which you can see Weisenburger give his speech and also his statement to the press. A transcription of his words follows below the clip:

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Here is a transcription of what Weisenburger said (italicized words were given special emphasis by the speaker):

[impromptu remarks to journalist:]

Today is a day of great, great joy for everyone in the Dearborn community. This is a time that a new place of holiness has been established within the community for people to encounter their God. I’m deeply, deeply honored to be here today, especially to represent Christian brothers and sisters, but also to show that we are all part of one great human family.

[address to everyone gathered:]

There is nowhere that I feel greater honor, fraternity, and kindness; and from the moment I drove onto this beautiful property today, I very fully felt the sense of the divine presence. As our wonderful imam spoke so beautifully, we are members of the same human family.

All churches, all mosques, all synagogues, all places where God reaches out and touches with his finger, are sacred. This is a truly wonderful and sacred place, a place that will bring all of humanity, I believe, into deeper communion with our one God.

My prayers are that you will know great, great successes here, great blessings here, and that together we will come to love our one God all the more. I will be brief because I also know we have prayer at 1:30, but, again, I’m deeply, deeply grateful for the welcome. I’m deeply grateful to be in the presence of other religious leaders in our community, and there is no place I think that I feel more at home.

May God bless you. May God bless this place. May God keep you always safe, productive, and filled with joy and blessings. Thank you.

This is nothing short of apostasy! What Weisenburger said amounts to an indirect but nevertheless quite clear and complete renunciation of the objective truth of the Roman Catholic religion.

Indeed, Weisenburger’s words rest on a grave error denounced by Pope Pius XI in 1928, namely, “that false opinion which considers all religions to be more or less good and praiseworthy, since they all in different ways manifest and signify that sense which is inborn in us all, and by which we are led to God and to the obedient acknowledgment of His rule”; warning that such a view is radically incompatible with the Roman Catholic religion: “Not only are those who hold this opinion in error and deceived, but also in distorting the idea of true religion they reject it, and little by little, turn aside to naturalism and atheism, as it is called; from which it clearly follows that one who supports those who hold these theories and attempt to realize them, is altogether abandoning the divinely revealed religion” (Encyclical Mortalium Animos, n. 2).

Look at Weisenburger’s words again. There is nothing in them that would indicate in the least that the speaker is a Roman Catholic. Instead, the words reflect the convictions of a Freemason, a Modernist, a religious relativist.

But beyond the obviously heretical nature of his words, notice also how overblown his comments really are, so much so that one might at first mistake them for sarcasm — which they were most certainly not — because no comedian could top this. It is beyond parody!

The fake ‘Catholic archbishop’ of Detroit went out of his way to praise Islam most effusively. He absurdly called the mosque a “place of holiness” where people can “encounter their God”! “Nowhere”, he said, does he “feel greater honor, fraternity, and kindness”. His feelings are so messed up that he “very fully felt the sense of the divine presence” as he drove onto the property of the Mohammedan Trinity deniers. The imam there is “wonderful”, of course, and the mosque itself, Weisenburger blasphemously maintained, is so “sacred” that it “will bring all of humanity … into deeper communion with our one God”, he is convinced.

Addressing hundreds of mostly Muslim guests, he reminded them that “we [!] have prayer at 1:30”, and topped it all of by saying that there is “no place” at which he “feel[s] more at home” than this Islamic institute. Clearly, the archdiocesan cathedral is no place for this apostate! Weisenburger supposedly believes that the Holy Eucharist is literally the Divine Presence — God Himself incarnate — present in the tabernacle. Yet, the new Islamic center in Dearborn outshines even that for him!

Without a trace of sarcasm one must ask: What has this man been smoking?!

Weisenburger’s attendance at the mosque’s grand opening was well planned in advance, by the way. The following promo flyer advertising his coming was used by the Islamic institute on social media:

We might add that the fact that we are all part of one human family is not exactly a new revelation or spectacular insight. Yes, Christians and Moslems are indeed fellow human beings, all made by the same true God (who is a Trinity, by the way, unlike the Islamic god). But the same is true for Buddhists and Zoroastrians, for Jews and Wiccans, for agnostics and Shintoists. They, too, are all equally human — as are first responders and abortionists, dentists and pornographers, drug dealers and drug addicts. So what? What follows from this? Nothing that could in any way excuse or legitimize Islam, that’s for sure.

As for Weisenburger’s ‘interfaith’ apostasy, of course his own successive bosses — the false popes of the Vatican II Church — have led the way in that regard, and so in a way he is merely following their examples.

For instance, in 2024, ‘Pope’ Francis declared that all religions lead to God; and last year ‘Pope’ Leo XIV said while visiting Algeria that mosques are “a divine, sacred space where so many people come to pray in order to find the presence of the Most High, of God, in their lives” (source). In 1979, ‘Pope’ John Paul II brazenly taught the horrendous blasphemy — in a magisterial encyclical letter, no less! — that “the firm belief of the followers of the non-Christian religions” is “an effect of the Spirit of truth operating outside the visible confines of the Mystical Body” (Redemptor Hominis, n. 6)!

Also, let us never forget Francis’ support for the apostate Abrahamic Family House in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates; Francis’ heresy that religious diversity is a gift from God; ‘Bp.’ Paolo Martinelli’s absurd comment that the world “needs” Hindu temples; an Italian parish providing a temporary worship space for Muslims; and a Nigerian diocese building a mosque for Muslim refugees — among countless other examples that could be mentioned.

Weisenburger’s heretical remarks are thoroughly grounded in the infernal doctrines of Freemasonry, which are the very antithesis of Roman Catholicism.

In 1892, a real Pope named Leo — the thirteenth by that name — warned Catholics:

Everyone should avoid familiarity or friendship with anyone suspected of belonging to Masonry or to affiliated groups. Know them by their fruits and avoid them. Every familiarity should be avoided, not only with those impious libertines who openly promote the character of the sect, but also with those who hide under the mask of universal tolerance, respect for all religions, and the craving to reconcile the maxims of the Gospel with those of the revolution. These men seek to reconcile Christ and Belial, the Church of God and the state without God.

(Pope Leo XIII, Encyclical Custodi Di Quella Fede, n. 15; underlining added.)

Similarly, Fr. Michael Müller in his 1880 book The Church and her Enemies described the true Catholic position well when he wrote: “It is impious to say, ‘I respect every religion.’ This is as much as to say: I respect the devil as much as God, vice as much as virtue, falsehood as much as truth, dishonesty as much as honesty, Hell as much as Heaven” (p. 287).

Originally made a ‘bishop’ by ‘Pope’ Benedict XVI in 2012, Edward Joseph Weisenburger became ‘archbishop’ of Detroit in February 2025. His appointment was one of the last ‘gifts’ the dying ‘Pope’ Francis saw fit to bestow upon the world.

Especially with his June 5 remarks at the Islamic center, is it not entirely evident that Weisenburger is an enemy of the Catholic Church and the religion of Jesus Christ?

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