The commented article from the “Catholic News Agency” portal (January 20, 2026) promotes the 12th annual OneLife LA event organized by the “Archdiocese of Los Angeles.” The gathering features a “Walk for Life,” speeches by “Archbishop” José Gómez and others, and culminates in a “Requiem Mass” for the unborn. Participants include the Knights of Columbus, Order of Malta, and various organizations promoting naturalistic humanitarianism under the veneer of Catholicism. While paying lip service to life issues, the event exemplifies the conciliar sect’s reduction of Catholicism to social activism devoid of supernatural purpose.
Naturalism Masquerading as Catholicism
The event’s stated goal of promoting “life, family, and faith” deliberately obscures the regnum sociale Christi (social reign of Christ) that demands the subordination of all civil laws to divine law. Pius XI’s encyclical Quas Primas condemns this very error: “When once men recognize…that Christ has been given all power in heaven and on earth…it will be a necessary consequence that the whole of human society will submit to His empire” (§19). The OneLife LA organizers invert this hierarchy by treating abortion as one social issue among others rather than the demonic inversion of divine order requiring the Church’s militant condemnation.
“Every life is precious and must be loved and protected, from conception until natural death — as children of God made in his image…”
Gómez’s statement omits the necessary corollary: that civil authorities permitting abortion incur ipso facto excommunication under Canon 2334 of the 1917 Code. The event’s ecumenical participants (Knights of Columbus, NET Ministries) compound this silence by refusing to name apostate politicians and judges who enable child murder. This aligns with Bergoglio’s notorious “Amoris Laetitia” heresy prioritizing false mercy over divine justice.
Sacrilegious Simulation of Catholic Worship
The so-called “Requiem Mass” celebrated by Gómez constitutes spiritual fraud. The Novus Ordo rite—promulgated by the antipope Paul VI—invalidly represents the Holy Sacrifice due to its intentional destruction of the Offertory prayers and Canon. As the Council of Trent infallibly declared: “If anyone says that the Sacrifice of the Mass is merely a commemoration…and not propitiatory: let him be anathema” (Session XXII, Canon 3). The event further sacrileges Our Lord by allowing non-Catholics to receive “communion,” violating the Church’s perennial teaching on Eucharistic discipline.
“Speakers include El Paso ‘Bishop’ Mark Seitz, pro-life advocate Nora Yesenia, and Daniela Verástegui…”
Seitz’s inclusion proves the event’s doctrinal bankruptcy. This “bishop” publicly endorsed the 2021 “Fiducia Supplicans” declaration blessing homosexual unions—a heresy condemned by Pius IX in the Syllabus of Errors as “allowing tolerance of error” (Proposition 15). The platform given to Verástegui (sister of Eduardo Verástegui, who promotes the invalid “canonizations” of John Paul II) demonstrates the organizers’ alignment with Bergoglian modernism.
Subversion Through Humanitarian Distraction
The Knights of Columbus’ $10,000 grant to pregnancy centers constitutes Pelagian activism divorced from sacramental efficacy. True Catholic charity requires conversion to the Faith as its sine qua non—a principle destroyed by the event’s ecumenical partnerships with groups like “Options United” and “Care for Creation.” These organizations promote the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals, which advance population control under environmental pretexts. As Pius XII warned: “There can be no true peace…without recognition of the rights of God and His Church” (1942 Christmas Message).
“Tim Shannon…distributes food…Donations for items come from the Order of Malta.”
The Order of Malta’s involvement confirms the event’s masonic character. Since 2017, this once-Catholic order has been led by heterodox figures like Giacomo Dalla Torre and John Dunlap, who enforce Bergoglio’s climate change ideology. Their humanitarian work follows the Rotary Club model condemned by Leo XIII in Humanum Genus as substituting natural virtue for supernatural grace.
Omission of the Only True Remedy
Nowhere does OneLife LA mention the only solution to the culture of death: the Social Reign of Christ the King through the conversion of nations. The event’s young attendees—praised for their “energy”—are being formed in apostasy by conciliar “catechists” who deny extra Ecclesiam nulla salus. As the Lamentabili Sane decrees against Modernists state: “Faith…is ultimately based on a sum of probabilities” (Proposition 25)—precisely the relativistic mindset cultivated by these ecumenical gatherings.
The true Catholic response requires uncompromising adherence to Tradition:
- Public excommunication of all politicians supporting abortion
- Restoration of the Traditional Latin Mass as the exclusive rite
- Rejection of the conciliar sect’s false shepherds
Until these conditions are met, events like OneLife LA remain theatrical distractions from the Church’s true mission: instaurare omnia in Christo (to restore all things in Christ) (Eph 1:10). As St. Pius X declared: “The true friends of the people are neither revolutionaries nor innovators, but traditionalists” (Notre Charge Apostolique). OneLife LA’s organizers have chosen revolution.
Source:
OneLife LA 2026 to gather thousands for life, family, and faith in Los Angeles (catholicnewsagency.com)
Date: 20.01.2026