Portal Catholic News Agency reports on November 5, 2025 the appointment of Kristina Zamarytė-Sakavičienė as Lithuania’s vice minister of justice, presenting her as a Catholic model of integrating faith into public life. The article highlights her pro-life activism, six children, and endorsements from conciliar hierarchy figures including “Cardinal” Sigitas Tamkevičius and “Archbishop” Kęstutis Kėvalas. Her stated positions include opposition to IVF and abortion based on “child-centric” ethics and natural law arguments, while advocating religious freedom in governance.
Theological Naturalism Masquerading as Catholic Witness
The vice minister’s assertion that “justice is not tied to any one faith” constitutes a bold rejection of Quas Primas (Pius XI, 1925), which declared Christ’s kingship over all nations and individuals. Her reduction of Catholic morality to natural law arguments – “human rights… demands of justice… according to their human nature” – follows the condemned proposition of Vatican II’s Dignitatis Humanae that truth claims may coexist equally in civil society. Pius IX’s Syllabus of Errors explicitly condemns such indifferentism: “Every man is free to embrace and profess that religion which, guided by the light of reason, he shall consider true” (Error 15).
This naturalistic foundation manifests in her policy framework prioritizing “the child’s interest” through secular justice rather than upholding divine law. While opposing abortion and IVF, she grounds objections in “cultural changes that elevate… desires of adults” rather than the immutable teaching that these acts constitute intrinsic evils violating God’s sovereignty over life. The Catechism of the Council of Trent mandates that civil laws must prohibit all violations of divine law, not merely those deemed socially inconvenient.
Collaboration with Apostate Structures
Her acceptance of office under Lithuania’s secular government constitutes implicit endorsement of the conciliar heresy that “the Church ought to be separated from the State, and the State from the Church” (Syllabus of Errors, 55). True Catholic statesmen would follow the directive of Immortale Dei (Leo XIII): “The Almighty… has given the charge of the human race to two powers, the ecclesiastical and the civil, the one being set over divine, the other over human things… neither is the Church to be subject to the civil power.”
The praise from hierarchy figures exposes their conciliarist complicity. When “Cardinal” Tamkevičius applauds her “Christian stance” while accepting Lithuania’s secular constitution, he betrays the martyrdom of true confessors like Blessed Teofilius Matulionis who refused any compromise with communist regimes. These conciliar prelates operate under the modernist error condemned in Lamentabili Sane: “The organic constitution of the Church is not immutable; but Christian society… is subject to perpetual evolution” (Proposition 53).
Omission of Supernatural Finality
Nowhere does the article mention Zamarytė-Sakavičienė’s obligation to work toward Lithuania’s conversion to the Catholic faith or the subordination of civil law to ecclesiastical authority. Her vision of a “just society” focuses exclusively on temporal welfare, ignoring the Church’s teaching that states exist to facilitate man’s supernatural end. Pius XI’s Quas Primas clarifies: “When once men recognize, both in private and in public life, that Christ is King, society will at last receive the great blessings of real liberty, well-ordered discipline, peace and harmony.”
The vice minister’s proposed “new language and fresh approaches” to communicate moral truths dangerously echoes the modernist method condemned in Pascendi Dominici Gregis (St. Pius X): “They affirm that religious formulas… must be reduced and modified so as to harmonize with modern science and philosophy.” True Catholic action requires uncompromising proclamation of dogma, not accommodation to secular sensibilities.
False Ecumenism in Policy Framework
Her assertion that Lithuania’s renewal depends on “recognizing that human dignity is not merely granted by the state” contains a fatal ambiguity. While correctly noting dignity’s transcendent origin, she omits that this dignity flows solely from man’s creation in God’s image and redemption through Christ’s Blood – truths requiring civil confession. The article’s celebration of interfaith collaboration at pro-life events violates Pius XI’s condemnation in Mortalium Animos: “The union of Christians can only be promoted by promoting the return to the one true Church of Christ of those who are separated from it.”
The vice minister’s entire approach embodies the conciliar inversion whereby natural virtues replace supernatural faith as society’s foundation. As St. Pius X warned in Notre Charge Apostolique, this creates “a Utopia tending toward a universal brotherhood which has only exist in the dreams of certain idealists.” Authentic Catholic statesmanship would demand Lithuania’s constitutional submission to Christ the King and the Roman Catholic Church – not merely technocratic policy reforms.
Symptomatic of Conciliar Devolution
This appointment exemplifies how the conciliar sect co-opts well-intentioned believers into its revolutionary program. By praising her as a model Catholic public servant while she operates within secular democratic structures, the article promotes the heresy that modern governance systems can be “baptized” rather than converted. St. Pius X’s Vehementer Nos demolishes this error: “That the State must be separated from the Church is a thesis absolutely false, a most pernicious error… It follows necessarily that between the Church and the State there must exist a mutual connection.”
Her silence on Lithuania’s mandatory religious indifferentism in public education and the state’s failure to suppress blasphemy reveals conciliarism’s inevitable trajectory: incremental surrender to secularism under the guise of “dialogue.” The article’s omission of any call to restore Catholicism as Lithuania’s state religion – mandated by canonical precepts until 1958 – confirms its modernist orientation.
Source:
Mother of 6 brings child-centric vision to Lithuania’s justice ministry (catholicnewsagency.com)
Article date: 05.11.2025