Trump’s Health Plan Negotiations Expose Moral Bankruptcy of Conciliar Compromise
The Catholic News Agency portal (January 16, 2026) reports on President Donald Trump’s healthcare proposal negotiations with Congress, focusing on potential abandonment of Hyde Amendment protections against taxpayer-funded abortions. The article notes the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops’ (USCCB) generic support for Hyde while highlighting the Catholic Health Association’s enthusiasm for expanded healthcare access absent explicit pro-life demands. This reveals the conciliar sect’s fundamental inversion of priorities – placing material “healthcare access” above the lex divina (divine law) requiring absolute opposition to abortion funding.
Naturalistic Reduction of Catholic Moral Teaching
The USCCB’s anemic statement that “authentic health care upholds the dignity of all human life” constitutes theological malpractice by omission. Casti Connubii (Pius XI, 1930) unequivocally declares abortion “horrible crime” with no exceptions, while the Syllabus of Errors (Pius IX, 1864) condemns the notion that “human reason… is the sole arbiter of truth and falsehood” (Proposition 3). The bishops’ failure to demand explicit rejection of any health plan permitting abortion funding demonstrates their absorption into the conciliar sect’s relativistic framework.
“We welcome the administration’s engagement in the vital work of expanding access to quality, affordable health care”
Sister Mary Haddad’s statement epitomizes the conciliar cancer destroying Catholic medical ethics. Her organization’s silence on Hyde Amendment protections directly contradicts Pius XII’s teaching that Catholic institutions must have “absolute certainty that they cannot cooperate in any abortion” (Address to Midwives, 1951). The article’s description of CHA as aligned “generally” with Church teaching exposes the modernist tactic of reducing dogma to negotiable “values.”
Political Pragmatism Over Divine Law
Trump’s memo omitting Hyde protections while promising to “put you first” exemplifies the naturalism condemned in Quas Primas (Pius XI, 1925): “When… states renounce and do not wish to recognize the reign of our Savior… the entire human society had to be shaken.” The president’s call for Republican “flexibility” on abortion funding constitutes formal cooperation with evil per Veritatis Splendor principles, regardless of alleged “pro-life” intentions.
The article’s focus on insurance premiums and drug pricing as primary concerns illustrates society’s descent into what St. Augustine termed the civitas terrena – the earthly city obsessed with material comforts. Nowhere does the White House memo or Catholic respondents mention the primary healthcare need: protection of life from conception to natural death. This omission fulfills Pius X’s warning in Pascendi Dominici Gregis (1907) that modernists reduce religion to “experience” divorced from objective truth.
Conciliar Complicity in Abortion Regime
The USCCB’s tepid Hyde support while negotiating with pro-abortion legislators reveals their conciliar captivity. Contrast this with St. Pius V’s Regnans in Excelsis (1570), excommunicating Elizabeth I for establishing England’s state-sponsored apostasy. Today’s conciliar “bishops” instead practice the condemned error that “Church not only ought never to pass judgment on philosophy, but ought to tolerate the errors of philosophy” (Syllabus, Proposition 11).
Sister Haddad’s praise for bipartisan Affordable Care Act negotiations exposes the conciliar sect’s true allegiance. Her statement that subsidy renewals would “ease financial pressures” while ignoring abortion funding constitutes material cooperation with intrinsic evil – explicitly condemned in Lamentabili Sane (1907) as “contradictory to the doctrine of the Church.” The Catholic Health Association thus operates as medical modernism’s Trojan horse, implementing the very “cult of man” denounced in Lamentabili (Proposition 65).
Theological and Canonical Consequences
Canon 188.4 of the 1917 Code automatically deprives office from clerics who “publicly defect from Catholic faith.” The conciliar sect’s “bishops” and religious superiors who negotiate abortion funding – however indirectly – incur this penalty. St. Robert Bellarmine’s principle applies: “A manifest heretic cannot be Pope” (De Romano Pontifice II.30), extending to all prelates tolerating child murder.
The article’s focus on political horse-trading over fundamental moral law demonstrates society’s complete abandonment of Quas Primas‘ vision: “Nations will be reminded of the final judgment, where Christ… will very severely avenge these insults.” Until civil leaders recognize Christ’s kingship over healthcare policy, all “pro-life” posturing remains what St. Augustine called splendida vitia – splendid vices disguising spiritual death.
Source:
Trump to negotiate with Congress over pro-life protections in health plan (catholicnewsagency.com)
Date: 16.01.2026