Monaco’s Abortion Compromise: A Betrayal of Catholic Statehood
ACI Prensa via Catholic News Agency reports on Prince Albert II’s refusal to expand Monaco’s abortion law, framing it as a defense of the principality’s Catholic identity. The article applauds the monarch for blocking legislation that would have permitted abortion up to 16 weeks in cases of rape and lowered parental consent age limits, noting Monaco’s constitution recognizes Catholicism as the state religion. However, the report omits that the principality’s existing law already permits abortion in cases of rape, fetal deformity, and maternal health — a fatal compromise with the culture of death.
The Illusion of Catholic Statecraft
Prince Albert II’s assertion that current abortion legislation “respects our identity and the place that the Catholic religion occupies” is a grotesque distortion of Catholic teaching. The moral law admits no exceptions (Pius XI, Casti Connubii), yet Monaco’s law codifies three circumstances for state-sanctioned child murder. The monarch’s claim of “humane support” for abortion is diabolical inversion: No Catholic state may license intrinsic evil under any pretext.
The principality’s constitution declares Catholicism the state religion, yet its laws defy the Church’s infallible condemnation of abortion as “the direct murder of the innocent” (Pius XII, Address to Midwives, 1951). This contradiction exposes the modernist cancer: reducing faith to cultural ornamentation while bowing to secular ethics.
Theological Bankruptcy of Exceptionalism
Monaco’s abortion exceptions violate the Church’s immutable doctrine. Quicumque dixerit aliquod esse tempus quo non licet homicidium (“Whoever says there is a time when homicide is lawful” — Council of Trent, Canon 22 on Matrimony) is anathema. Prince Albert’s “compassionate” exceptions directly contradict Pius IX’s Syllabus of Errors, which condemned the proposition that “civil authority may interfere in matters relating to religion, morality, and spiritual government” (Error 44).
The report’s celebration of “90% Catholic identification” is meaningless when the state sanctions mortal sin. As Pius XI warned in Quas Primas, nations rejecting Christ’s reign “will in vain seek peace among themselves, because they neglect order” (n. 1). Monaco’s lawmakers have created a sacrilegious hybrid — invoking Catholic identity while permitting crimes that cry to Heaven for vengeance.
Omissions That Condemn
Glaringly absent from the article is any reference to the Church’s uncompromising stance. The 1917 Code of Canon Law mandates excommunication for abortionists and accomplices (Canon 2350 §1). Nowhere does ACI Prensa mention that Monaco’s exceptions place its legislators and enforcers under latae sententiae penalties.
The report also ignores the principality’s broader apostasy: While feigning Catholic allegiance, Monaco permits contraception, divorce, and religious indifferentism — all condemned by Leo XIII’s Immortale Dei as incompatible with Catholic statehood. This silence confirms the conciliar sect’s complicity in normalizing heresy.
The Masonic Subtext of “Reform”
The proposed abortion expansion follows the Masonic playbook documented in Pius IX’s Syllabus (Errors 55, 77-80). Lowering parental consent to age 15 assaults the family’s God-given authority, fulfilling the Enlightenment goal of “freeing youth from parental and ecclesiastical supervision” (St. Pius X, Notre Charge Apostolique). The article’s neutral framing of this child exploitation betrays its authors’ modernist captivity.
Conclusion: No Quarter for Child-Killers
True Catholic rulers would abolish all abortion exceptions, as St. Ferdinand III of Castile did when he codified the Church’s penalties for abortionists in the Siete Partidas. Monaco’s retention of any “exceptions” proves its submission to the anti-Christian world order. Prince Albert’s gesture is not defense but desecration — a theatrical refusal to deepen evil while maintaining foundational crimes. As the Roman Catechism decrees: “No human law can permit what divine law forbids” (Abortion section). Until Monaco repudiates all child-murder, its Catholic identity is a lie.
Source:
Prince Albert II blocks bill expanding abortion law in defense of Monaco’s Catholic identity (catholicnewsagency.com)
Date: 25.11.2025