Knights of Columbus Poll Masks America’s Moral Collapse Behind False “Pro-Life” Statistics
Catholic News Agency (January 22, 2026) reports on a Marist Poll commissioned by the Knights of Columbus, claiming 37% of Americans identify as “pro-life” while 67% support abortion restrictions. The article frames this as evidence of growing consensus against abortion, quoting Knights of Columbus Supreme Knight Patrick Kelly citing antipope Leo XIV’s nebulous call to “welcome unborn life.”
Theological Fraud in Poll Methodology
The survey commits grave linguistic subterfuge by equating Catholic morality with secular polling categories. Casti Connubii (1930) condemns “any use whatsoever of matrimony exercised in such a way that the act is deliberately frustrated in its natural power to generate life” (§56), establishing abortion as intrinsic evil without exception. Yet the poll:
- Reduces the absolute inviolability of innocent life to a political “label” contest between “pro-life” (37%) and “pro-choice” (62%)
- Legitimizes exceptions for rape/incest (supported by 21% of respondents) despite Pius XI’s condemnation: “However much we may pity the mother… no one can escape the laws of God” (Casti Connubii §64)
- Falsely distinguishes “practicing” Catholics (58% “pro-life”) from “nonpracticing” (31%) – implying faith is measured by sociological metrics rather than ex opere operato sacramental grace
Knights of Columbus’ Complicity in Moral Relativism
The Knights’ celebration of this poll constitutes dogmatic betrayal. Their founding by Blessed Michael McGivney (1852-1890) occurred when the Church uncompromisingly taught:
“The civil law should punish abortion with the same penalties as homicide… The killing of an innocent child is always a crime” (Holy Office, 1884; Denzinger 1884).
Yet Supreme Knight Kelly praises results showing 32% support unlimited abortion – a fourfold increase from pre-Roe v. Wade America. The Knights’ promotion of “pregnancy resource centers” while tolerating chemical abortion (opposed by only 59%) mirrors the conciliar sect’s double-mindedness condemned in Lamentabili Sane (1907): “Revelation could not be… something finished and perfect” (§21).
Antipope’s Empty Rhetoric Exposed
The article weaponizes antipope Leo XIV’s vague reference to life as a “priceless gift” – a naturalistic reduction omitting:
- The necessity of baptism for salvation (Unam Sanctam, Boniface VIII)
- Abortion’s status as excommunication latae sententiae (1917 CIC §2350)
- The social kingship of Christ requiring civil authorities to prohibit abortion (Quas Primas §18)
This deliberate silence confirms Leo XIV as “the abomination of desolation standing in the holy place” (Matthew 24:15). His “fundamental ethical imperative” language apes Kantian autonomy – condemned by Pius IX in Syllabus of Errors: “Human reason is the sole arbiter of truth and falsehood” (§3).
Statistical Omissions Reveal Modernist Agenda
Notably absent from the report:
- Sacramental consequences: No mention that 55% of “Catholics” identifying as “pro-choice” place themselves outside the Church (1917 CIC §2314)
- Millennial apostasy: The 44% of Catholics calling themselves “pro-life” represent catastrophic decline from 96% opposing abortion in 1963 (Gallup)
- Demonic coordination: 84% support for pregnancy centers contradicts Planned Parenthood’s 2025 report showing record abortion rates
Symptomatic of Conciliar Apostasy
This poll exemplifies the conciliar sect’s dogmatic indifferentism predicted in Pascendi Dominici Gregis: “The believer has within him the germ of every truth… Modernists place the root of faith in sentiment” (§14). By celebrating incremental restrictions while accepting abortion’s legalization, the Knights of Columbus execute the Masonic plan described in Humanum Genus (Leo XIII, 1884): “To make divorce and abortion accessible… under the guise of freedom” (§28).
The March for Life – now collaborating with antipapal Rome – completes the betrayal. As true Catholics kneel before true popes like Pius XII who called abortion “the direct murder of the innocent” (Address to Midwives, 1951), conciliar “pro-lifers” march with wolves in sheep’s clothing.
Source:
Poll: Only 37% of Americans identify as pro-life, but 67% want limits on abortion (catholicnewsagency.com)
Date: 22.01.2026