The conciliar sect’s “secretary for relations with states,” Paul Richard Gallagher, denounced surrogacy as a “new form of colonialism” at an event co-hosted by the Italian government on January 13, 2026. The EWTN-owned Catholic News Agency platform reports this collaboration between the Vatican II sect and secular authorities sought to oppose surrogacy’s “commodification of women and children” through purported “ethical” concerns. Gallagher regurgitated “Pope” Leo XIV’s recent diplomatic corps address condemning gestational contracts as violating child “rights” and maternal dignity. The event framed surrogacy through feminist and neo-colonialist rhetoric while ignoring its intrinsic opposition to sacramental marriage and natural law.
Naturalistic Reduction of Catholic Bioethics
The conciliar sect’s critique operates entirely within Enlightenment anthropocentrism, framing surrogacy’s evil through secular “human dignity” discourse rather than lex divina (divine law). Gallagher’s claim that “the commodification of women and children” constitutes the primary offense echoes the 1948 UN Declaration’s secular rights framework rather than Pius XI’s Casti Connubii which condemned all artificial reproductive techniques as “shameful and intrinsically vicious.” By adopting the language of “violence against women” – a feminist construct foreign to Thomistic anthropology – the Vatican II apparatus reveals its capitulation to gender ideology’s premises.
The event’s stated goal of “preventing the commodification” constitutes doctrinal treason when contrasted with Pius XII’s 1949 condemnation of artificial insemination: “No intention, however noble, no circumstance, however difficult, can erect into a positive norm of action what is intrinsically against the natural and divine law” (Address to Midwives). The modernist pseudo-magisterium replaces this immutable principle with consequentialist hand-wringing about “financial pressures” on surrogate mothers – tacitly admitting that if paid enough, such exploitation might become acceptable.
Colonialist Rhetoric Veils Doctrinal Bankruptcy
Gallagher’s denunciation of surrogacy as “a new form of colonialism” constitutes ideological posturing devoid of theological substance. The colonial analogy deliberately avoids confronting surrogacy’s essence as a violation of the procreative telos of marriage as defined by Pius XI: “The primary end of marriage is the procreation and education of children; the secondary, mutual assistance and the remedy of concupiscence” (Casti Connubii 11). By framing the issue through Marxist power dynamics rather than sacramental ontology, the conciliarists again demonstrate their subscription to materialist heresy.
The event’s collaboration with the Italian Ministry for Family – which actively promotes civil unions and demographic replacement through mass immigration – exposes the conciliar sect’s hypocrisy. Leo XIV’s regime denounces surrogacy while tolerating Italy’s facilitation of IVF and embryo destruction through its national health system. This moral schizophrenia stems from Vatican II’s embrace of religious liberty (Dignitatis Humanae 2), which forbids Catholic states from prohibiting intrinsic evils when secular majorities accept them.
The Unspoken Heresy: Implicit Acceptance of Reproductive Technocracy
Gallagher’s call for surrogacy’s “total abolition” rings hollow amid the conciliar sect’s decades-long silence on IVF – the technological prerequisite for gestational surrogacy. Pius XII unequivocally condemned artificial insemination in 1949 as “absolutely forbidden… even between lawfully wedded persons” (Address to Midwives). Yet post-conciliar “popes” have tolerated IVF’s global proliferation, with Bergoglio calling test-tube babies “a gift for science” (July 2023). This selective outrage reveals the Vatican II apparatus’ doctrinal incoherence.
The event’s focus on commercial surrogacy deliberately ignores the deeper heresy: the ontological separation of procreation from conjugal union. As the Holy Office declared under Pius XII: “Any technological intervention substituting for the conjugal act in generating life constitutes a grave violation of natural law and divine ordinance” (Response on Artificial Insemination, 1956). By reducing surrogacy to an economic exploitation issue, the conciliar sect implicitly accepts the underlying biotechnological assault on human origins.
Abandonment of Christ the King’s Social Reign
The most damning omission lies in the complete absence of dominium Christi (Christ’s kingship) from the conciliar critique. Pius XI’s Quas Primas mandated that “nations will be happy… only when both individuals and states submit to the empire of our Savior” (19). Gallagher’s secularized bioethics rejects this integralism, treating surrogacy as a policy issue solvable through UN regulations rather than a symptom of societies rejecting Christ’s sovereignty.
This naturalistic approach fulfills the Modernist program condemned in Pius X’s Pascendi: “Revelation is reduced to a consciousness of religious experience arising from the vital immanence of the believer” (6). By framing surrogacy through feminist and anti-colonialist narratives rather than divine law, the conciliar sect demonstrates its total assimilation into the post-Christian world order. The event’s UN-oriented strategy confirms Paul VI’s admission that the Church has become “an expert in humanity” (Populorum Progressio 13) – a therapeutic NGO rather than the ark of salvation.
Source:
Archbishop Gallagher: Surrogacy is a ‘new form of colonialism’ (catholicnewsagency.com)
Date: 15.01.2026