Portal Catholic News Agency reports on November 4, 2025, that Democratic candidates prevailed in Virginia and New Jersey gubernatorial races, interpreting these results as a rejection of President Donald Trump’s policies on immigration and LGBT issues. In Virginia, Abigail Spanberger became the first female governor after campaigning for abortion access and condemning conscience protections for religious hospitals, while her running mate Jay Jones faced controversy over violent rhetoric against political opponents. New Jersey’s Mikie Sherrill retained the governorship with support for late-term abortion and opposition to parental notification policies for gender-confused minors. Both states’ Catholic bishops issued vague statements about conscience formation without condemning the candidates’ anti-Catholic policy positions.
Subordination of Divine Law to Democratic Tyranny
The electoral triumph of politicians openly advocating child murder through abortion represents the formal repudiation of the Kingship of Christ over civil societies. Virginia’s incoming administration seeks to enshrine abortion in the state constitution—a direct violation of Quas Primas (Pius XI, 1925), which declared that “the empire of our Redeemer embraces all men… Nor is there any difference in this matter between the individual and the family or the State.” The celebration of Spanberger’s victory as a historical milestone for women exposes the feminist heresy that Quas Primas condemned: societies rejecting Christ’s authority become “corrupt in morals and mind” through “the pest of indifferentism.”
Virginia bishops’ October warning about the abortion amendment constitutes theological negligence. Rather than invoking Quas Primas’ mandate that rulers “must govern their peoples as the ministers of God,” they reduced the Church’s role to procedural commentary. Their failure to declare Spanberger’s platform intrinsically evil—despite her 2018 vow to force Catholic hospitals to violate divine law—reveals the conciliar sect’s paralysis before modernity’s onslaught. This echoes the silence of New Jersey’s bishops, who abdicated their duty by stating “it is not the Church’s place to tell them how to vote”—a direct contradiction of Pius IX’s condemnation in the Syllabus of Errors (1864) that “the Church ought to be separated from the State, and the State from the Church” (Error 55).
Naturalistic Humanism as Governing Principle
The electoral discourse systematically excluded supernatural considerations, treating abortion and sexual deviancy as matters of policy preference rather than violations of eternal law. Spanberger’s demand that religious institutions abandon conscience protections follows the Masonic principle condemned in the Syllabus: “ecclesiastical judges for temporal causes… ought by all means to be abolished” (Error 31). Her opponent Winsome Earle-Sears’ limited defense of employer conscience rights still accepts the framework of religious liberty—the heresy condemned by Pius IX as “liberty of perdition” (Quanta cura, 1864).
New Jersey’s consensus on abortion legality demonstrates the total victory of naturalism. Both candidates embraced child murder as a constitutional right, differing only on trivial gestational limits. Sherrill’s opposition to protecting women’s sports and parental rights follows the Syllabus’ condemned error that “the entire government of public schools… may and ought to appertain to the civil power” (Error 45). The absence of any candidate invoking the Social Reign of Christ the King confirms Pius XI’s warning in Quas Primas: “the entire human society had to be shaken, because it lacked a stable and strong foundation.”
Conciliar Sect’s Complicity in Apostasy
The bishops’ refusal to bind voters under pain of sin for supporting abortion politicians constitutes formal cooperation with evil. Their appeal to conscience formation without doctrinal clarity violates Pius X’s condemnation in Lamentabili (1907) that “the dogmas of faith should be understood according to their practical function, i.e., as binding in action, rather than as principles of belief” (Proposition 26). By reducing Catholic social teaching to private discernment, these conciliar “bishops” enable the very secularism Quas Primas identified as “so-called laicism, its errors and wicked endeavors.”
The article’s neutral framing of LGBT issues as legitimate policy debates—rather than violations of natural law—exemplifies the conciliar sect’s embrace of modernism. Sherrill’s opposition to protecting women’s sports and parental notification aligns with the Syllabus’ condemned proposition that “the entire government of public schools… may and ought to appertain to the civil power” (Error 45). The silence of New Jersey’s bishops on these intrinsic evils confirms their membership in the anti-Church described in Lamentabili: “hostile to the well-being and interests of society” (Error 40).
Conclusion: Civilization Without the Cross
These elections formalize what Pius XI called “the apostasy of the masses” from Christ’s social reign. Virginia’s impending abortion amendment fulfills the Syllabus’ prophecy that states claiming “the origin and source of all rights” would destroy justice (Error 39). The triumph of Spanberger and Sherrill demonstrates the conciliar sect’s impotence before the Masonic revolution Pius IX denounced: “the entire human society had to be shaken, because it lacked a stable and strong foundation” (Quas primas). Until Catholic resistance rejects both Democrat child-sacrificers and Republican compromisers to restore Christ’s crown rights over nations, such electoral victories will accelerate society’s descent into the abyss.
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Virginia, New Jersey races deliver victory to Democrats amid Trump’s second term (catholicnewsagency.com)
Article date: 05.11.2025