Catholic News Agency reports from a January 9-10, 2026 symposium titled “The Beauty of Truth: Navigating Society Today as a Catholic Woman” hosted by the University of St. Thomas’ Catholic Women’s and Gender Studies Program. Speakers including Mary Eberstadt and Erika Bachiochi addressed sexuality issues while accepting the post-conciliar church’s compromised stance on moral theology. The event exemplifies how neo-church structures propagate doctrinal ambiguity under the guise of “dialogue.”
Naturalism Replaces Supernatural Faith in Sexual Ethics
The symposium’s approach reduces Catholic morality to utilitarian calculations rather than upholding Casti Connubii‘s immutable principles. Eberstadt’s claim that “Each of these acts is an act of human subtraction” regarding contraception’s societal effects employs pure naturalism condemned by Pope Pius XII: “The Catholic faith and practice of purity are inseparably joined together by the will of God” (Sacra Virginitas, 1954). Her focus on social consequences ignores the intrinsic evil of contraception established in Casti Connubii (1930): “Any use whatsoever of matrimony exercised in such a way that the act is deliberately frustrated in its natural power to generate life is an offense against the law of God and of nature.”
Bachiochi’s admission that Church teachings were “very, very hard to live” dangerously implies divine law requires accommodation to human weakness. This echoes the modernist heresy condemned in Lamentabili Sane (1907): “Dogmas…are capable of…evolution and change” (Proposition 22). True Catholic asceticism teaches with St. Paul: “I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me” (Philippians 4:13), not through sentimental appeals to personal difficulty.
Gender Studies Program Contradicts Catholic Anthropology
The very existence of a “Catholic Women’s and Gender Studies Program” constitutes doctrinal sabotage. Pius XI definitively rejected gender ideology’s foundations in Divini Illius Magistri (1929): “Education belongs preeminently to the Church…because of her plenitude of supernatural truth.” The term “gender studies” derives from John Money’s pseudoscientific theories promoting sexual confusion – philosophies anathematized by Pius X’s Pascendi Dominici Gregis (1907) as modernist errors.
This academic program operates under the Vatican’s “Dicastery for Culture and Education” – a bureaucratic entity created by antipope Bergoglio in 2022. As the Syllabus of Errors declares: “The Church ought to be separated from the State, and the State from the Church” (Proposition 55) is heresy. True Catholic education forms souls for eternity, not “navigating society” through modernist compromise.
Omission of Sacramental Grace Reveals Neo-Gnosticism
Nowhere do speakers mention the necessity of sacramental grace to live chastely, a silence exposing the neo-church’s Pelagian tendencies. The Council of Trent anathematizes those who claim “the commandments of God are impossible to observe” (Session VI, Canon 18). Authentic Catholic teaching emphasizes what Pius XII called “the supernatural means which are available to all” (Mystici Corporis, 1943): frequent confession, Eucharistic devotion, and Marian consecration.
The symposium’s focus on societal “love deficit” ignores the primacy of sanctifying grace. As St. Augustine teaches: “Our hearts are restless until they rest in Thee” (Confessions I.1.1). When speakers reduce the faith to therapeutic humanism rather than proclaiming “the unsearchable riches of Christ” (Ephesians 3:8), they fulfill Pius X’s warning about modernists making religion “a kind of aspiration towards the unknown” (Pascendi, 7).
Conclusion: Antichurch Exploits Women’s Suffering
This symposium exemplifies how post-conciliar structures manipulate faithful women’s legitimate struggles to advance heresy. While paying lip service to Church teachings, the program’s naturalistic framework and omission of supernatural remedies constitute spiritual abuse. True Catholic womanhood finds its model in the Virgin Mary, whose Fiat mihi secundum verbum tuum (Luke 1:38) embodies perfect obedience to divine law – not therapeutic discussions about doctrine’s “difficulty.” Until the conciliar sect repudiates Vatican II’s errors and returns to integrally Catholic faith, such events will remain wolves’ gatherings in sheep’s clothing.
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Catholic women discuss beauty, difficulty, redemptive nature of Church’s teachings on sexuality (catholicnewsagency.com)
Date: 18.01.2026