“IC2KG” Movement Embodies Post-Conciliar Degradation of Catholic Faith
Catholic News Agency’s January 5, 2026 article profiles Lauri Hauser’s “IC2KG” (“I choose to know God”) movement, recently promoted at the Denver SEEK conference. The initiative reduces supernatural faith to emotional sloganeering through family chants, “IC2KG bingo,” and T-shirt sales, epitomizing the neo-church’s abandonment of sacramental efficacy in favor of naturalistic activism. The absence of any reference to sanctifying grace, sacramental life, or doctrinal formation exposes this as pure Modernist subjectivism condemned by St. Pius X in Pascendi Dominici Gregis (1907).
Naturalism Disguised as Evangelization
The article describes Hauser’s program teaching children “how to know, love, serve, and share God” through games and peer testimonials – a purely naturalistic method directly condemned by Pius XI: “Religious instruction is essentially different from every other kind of education” (Divini Illius Magistri, 1929). By having children “stand on a prop Bible” as theatrical demonstration, the program reduces the Word of God to a physical crutch rather than the supernatural means of salvation. Pius XII warned against such pedagogic novelties: “Let them not think… that the progress of bodily or intellectual development in the child must also be the rule for his religious formation” (Mediator Dei, 1947).
The claim that “we need to make that choice every day that we get up” constitutes Semi-Pelagianism, implying human will precedes divine grace – anathematized by the Council of Orange (529 AD) and condemned in Canon 3 of Trent’s Decree on Justification. Hauser admits her discomfort with public faith expression prior to creating merchandise, revealing the movement’s foundation in emotional impulse rather than theological truth.
Commercialization of Sacred Realities
Hauser’s ministry centers on selling “T-shirts, hats, stickers, and wristbands” while reciting prayers over apparel shipments – a sacrilegious fusion of commerce and false piety. The First Council of Nicea (325 AD) forbade clergy from trade (Canon 18), while Pius XI condemned those who “prostitute the word of God… by using it as an instrument for gaining ends which are earthly and transitory” (Divini Redemptoris, 1937).
This merchandising mentality flows from Vatican II’s Gaudium et Spes (1965), which sacralized secular activities contrary to Pius X’s condemnation of Modernist attempts to “make religion an instrument for reaching material advantage” (Pascendi, 34). The article’s description of folding clothes while praying parallels occult sympathetic magic, not Catholic sacramentals blessed by ordained priests.
Omission of Essential Catholic Elements
Nowhere does the article mention:
1. The necessity of baptism for salvation (John 3:5, Council of Trent Session VI)
2. The Eucharistic sacrifice as source of grace
3. The sacrament of penance
4. Devotion to Our Lady
5. The Four Last Things
This silence confirms the program’s alignment with Modernist “gospel reductionism” condemned in Pius X’s Lamentabili Sane (Propositions 22, 58-65). The SEEK conference itself – organized by FOCUS (Fellowship of Catholic University Students) – promotes charismatic heresies and ecumenical dialogue forbidden by Pius XI’s Mortalium Animos (1928). Hauser’s admission that participants struggle with sharing faith proves the bankruptcy of neo-evangelization methods compared to the sine qua non of sacramental confession and Holy Communion frequented by saints.
Theological Implications of “Choice” Framework
The slogan “I choose to know God” inverts the Catholic understanding of divine election, implying human autonomy over supernatural faith. The Council of Trent infallibly declared: “If anyone says that man’s free will moved and aroused by God… does not cooperate by assenting to God’s call… let him be anathema” (Session VI, Canon 4). By making faith contingent on human decision rather than sacramental regeneration, Hauser’s program embodies the Americanist heresy condemned in Leo XIII’s Testem Benevolentiae (1899).
The article celebrates Hauser overcoming her “private” faith through merchandise creation – precisely the “false idea of liberty” (Libertas Praestantissimum, 1888) that substitutes personal comfort for doctrinal submission. True Catholic missionary work flows from the Mass (Maximum Illud, Benedict XV, 1919), not T-shirt sales.
Rejection of Ecclesial Authority
Hauser operates without mention of episcopal oversight or nihil obstat, violating Canon 1385 of the 1917 Code requiring prior censorship for religious publications. Her “varying program elements” between schools constitute doctrinal relativism condemned in Pius XII’s Humani Generis (1950): “Everyone is permitted to… either neglect Church doctrine or reject it.”
The “buddy system” pairing older and younger students creates false lay hierarchy, contravening Pius X’s warning against “democratizing the Church” (Notre Charge Apostolique, 1910). This pedagogical model originates not in Catholic tradition but in Protestant revivalism and Freemasonic mutual instruction societies.
Conclusion: Syncretic Social Gospel
“IC2KG” represents neo-church apostasy – reducing Catholicism to emotional slogans while suppressing the Cross, sacrifice, and eternity. As Pius XI declared: “The Faith does not consist in entertaining certain feelings… but in accepting with complete submission all that God has revealed” (Mortalium Animos, 10). This movement’s absence from pre-conciliar saints’ lives proves its novelty: St. Dominic converted heretics through rosary and penance, not T-shirts and bingo. Until the Roman apostasy ends, true Catholics must reject such innovations and cleave to the Missale Romanum, catechisms, and sacraments preserved by traditional clergy.
Source:
Catholic mom spreads ‘IC2KG’ message to youth, attends first SEEK conference (catholicnewsagency.com)
Date: 05.01.2026