Catholic News Agency reports on an initiative by “religious sisters” associated with And Then There Were None (ATTWN) to send Christmas cards to abortion clinic workers featuring the Holy Family image and “resources” for career change. Founded by Abby Johnson – a former abortion facility director – the organization boasts sending 23,000 handwritten notes over a decade with “Dominican, Maronite, Benedictine, Carmelite, Capuchin, and Franciscan sisters” participating. Johnson claims this strategy prompts workers to leave the industry, citing her personal experience keeping a sidewalk counselor’s note for 18 years as evidence of its effectiveness. The report frames this as compassionate outreach without mentioning repentance, sacramental confession, or the eternal consequences of facilitating child murder.
Naturalism Disguised as Charity
The entire campaign operates on the fundamentally naturalistic premise that abortion workers merely need better employment opportunities rather than immediate conversion from mortal sin. Pius XI condemned such horizontalism in Quas Primas: “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” (1925). Nowhere does ATTWN demand public renunciation of complicity in abortion or reparation for crimes against the unborn.
Johnson’s description of a weeping post-abortive woman (“she has a sorrow that I just can’t understand”) reveals total blindness to the theology of sin. The Council of Trent Session XIV Chapter IV mandates that contrition must include “the detestation of sin committed, with the purpose of not sinning for the future.” Instead, the article promotes emotional manipulation through temperature descriptions (“over 100 degrees”) and habit-clad performers rather than presenting the via veritatis.
Sacramental Bankruptcy
Nowhere does the report mention the absolute necessity of sacramental confession for those involved in abortion – a direct violation of Canon 2350 §1 of the 1917 Code which excommunicates all abortion accomplices latae sententiae. The “resources” offered substitute pagan career counseling for the Church’s medicinal penalties. As the Holy Office decreed in 1884: “Those who procure abortion…are by that very fact excommunicated…nor can they be absolved unless they first repair the scandal and damage” (Collectanea S. Congregationis de Propaganda Fide I, n. 1107).
The article’s description of the initiative as a “perfect ministry” for cloistered sisters constitutes sacrilegious abuse of consecrated life. Saint Alphonsus Liguori warns: “It would be a defect of religious poverty for nuns to spend money in sending letters to persons whom neither rule nor obedience obliges them to write to” (The True Spouse of Christ, 1775). The sisters’ time belongs to their solemn vows of prayer and penance, not to psychological marketing campaigns.
Doctrinal Omissions Expose Modernist Agenda
The report’s silence on four key truths reveals its conciliarist foundations:
1. Abortion workers are ipso facto excommunicated (Canon 2350, 1917 Code). Modernist “dialogue” replaces the Church’s medicinal censures.
2. Facility operators are murderers according to Saint Antoninus: “Those who give potions for abortion…are murderers” (Summa Theologica III:8:4).
3. No authentic charity exists without truth: Pius IX’s Syllabus condemns the notion that “the Church ought to be separated from the State, and the State from the Church” (Error 55), yet ATTWN treats abortion as a private career choice rather than a capital crime demanding state punishment.
4. False ecumenism: Johnson’s inclusion of Maronite sisters violates Pius XI’s prohibition against interritual activities that risk “the purity of the Oriental rite” (Rerum Orientalium, 1928).
Bergoglian Roots of the Scandal
This initiative perfectly embodies Jorge Bergoglio’s heretical “culture of encounter” condemned in the Filial Correction (2017) for promoting “false notions of mercy divorced from repentance.” The article’s praise for Johnson’s conversion narrative ignores her continued promotion of contraception – another intrinsic evil (Casti Connubii, 1930). Nowhere does ATTWN demand restitution from abortionists for their stolen wages – a requirement for absolution (Saint Raymond of Peñafort, Summa de Poenitentia I:6:13).
The Holy Family image’s instrumentalization constitutes theological fraud. As Pius XII warned: “The family is sacred; it is the cradle not only of children but also of the nation” (Allocution to Midwives, 1951). Displaying the Holy Family while omitting their obedience to Mosaic Law (Luke 2:22-24) implicitly endorses the “clinic workers'” violation of Levitical bloodguilt statutes (Leviticus 20:2-5).
Apostate Sisters and Masonic Alliances
The participating “orders” trace their destruction to post-conciliar reforms:
– The Dominicans abandoned Saint Dominic’s preaching charism after adopting the 1968 Ratio Institutionis replacing Thomism with Rahnerian theology.
– Carmelites discarded the 1593 constitutions under “Sister” Teresa of Calcutta’s influence, transforming contemplative life into social work.
– Franciscans institutionalized heresy through the 1967 “Secular Franciscan Order Rule” violating Boniface VIII’s Super Cathedram (1300).
These counterfeit sisters operate as Bergoglio’s foot soldiers in advancing the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals (SDG 3.7: “universal access to sexual healthcare”) by diverting attention from abortion’s criminal nature. Their cards functionally serve as Masonic “invitations to fraternal dialogue” condemned by Leo XIII: “They plot to destroy the foundations of religion and public order” (Humanum Genus, 1884).
Conclusion: Conversion or Complicity?
Authentic Catholic action would follow the example of Saint Nicholas punching the Arian heretic – not sending Hallmark sentiments to abortionists. As Archbishop Lefebvre warned: “We are not some sort of Catholic charity organization” (Open Letter to Confused Catholics, 1986). Until ATTWN demands public abjuration of abortion ideology, sacramental confession, and restitution, this campaign remains scandalous cooperation with evil – a whitewashed tomb concealing the blood of millions.
Source:
Religious sisters offer abortion clinic workers Christmas cards with resources and prayers (catholicnewsagency.com)
Date: 24.12.2025