The article from EWTN News (January 23, 2026) reports on “Cardinal” Seán O’Malley’s homily preceding the March for Life, where he declared life a “precious gift from a loving God” and asserted that “the antidote to abortion is love.” The Boston archbishop emeritus framed abortion as the “greatest moral crisis” while promoting an ethic of “community, compassion, and solidarity” divorced from the Church’s immutable doctrinal foundations. The text notably references the conciliar sect’s antipope under the title “Pope Leo” and reduces the battle against child-murder to a naturalistic social campaign.
Theological Bankruptcy of Naturalistic “Solutions”
O’Malley’s assertion that “the antidote to abortion is love” constitutes a demonstrable rejection of Catholic soteriology. The Church has always taught that the antidote to any mortal sin – including the crimen nefandum of abortion – consists not in sentimental platitudes but in:
1. Recognition of personal guilt (Council of Trent, Session XIV, Chapter V)
2. Sacramental confession (John 20:23)
3. Amendment of life through sanctifying grace
Nowhere does the homily mention the necessity of sacramental penance for those involved in abortion, nor does it warn that receiving “Communion” in invalid post-conciliar rites constitutes sacrilege. This omission exposes the conciliar sect’s abandonment of ex opere operato efficacy, reducing the sacraments to empty symbols of human solidarity.
Subversion of Christ’s Social Kingship
The cardinal’s claim that “political polarization, racism, economic injustice will only continue to fuel abortion” inverts Catholic causality. Pius XI’s Quas Primas (1925) establishes that societal disorders stem from rejecting Christ’s reign: “The rebellion of individuals and states against the authority of Christ has produced deplorable consequences” (§1). By making abortion a symptom rather than the logical fruit of apostasy, O’Malley perpetuates the modernist heresy condemned in Pius IX’s Syllabus of Errors: “The Church ought to be separated from the State, and the State from the Church” (Error 55).
Illegitimate Authority and Invalid Mandate
The article’s reference to “Pope Leo” (Bergoglio) constitutes material cooperation with the Vatican II antipapacy. St. Robert Bellarmine’s De Romano Pontifice (II.30) establishes that manifest heretics automatically lose ecclesiastical office without declaration – a principle codified in Canon 188.4 of the 1917 Code. By invoking Bergoglio’s name alongside legitimate papal documents, O’Malley commits the sin of communicatio in sacris with false shepherds who deny the Faith (2 John 1:10-11).
Omission of Requisite Catholic Action
Nowhere does the homily mention the non-negotiable Catholic solutions to abortion:
- Repeal of religious liberty heresy (Vatican II’s Dignitatis Humanae)
- Establishment of Catholicism as state religion (Pius IX, Syllabus Error 77)
- Criminal penalties for abortionists (Pius XI, Casti Connubii §67)
Instead, attendees are directed to post on social media with “#ewtnprolife” – reducing spiritual warfare to digital activism. This confirms Pius X’s warning in Pascendi Dominici Gregis (§6) that modernists replace supernatural faith with “religious experience” divorced from dogma.
Conclusion: A Movement Doomed by Apostasy
The 53-year failure of the March for Life stems from its deliberate avoidance of Catholic truth. As long as participants recognize the conciliar sect’s false hierarchy and invalid sacraments, they labor under “the curse of the Lord upon the works of those who build with untempered mortar” (St. Pius X, Notre Charge Apostolique). True opposition to abortion requires:
1. Rejection of Vatican II and its antipopes
2. Return to integral Catholic Tradition
3. Public consecration of nations to Christ the King
Until these conditions are met, no amount of marching will halt the culture of death incubated by modernism itself.
Source:
‘The antidote to abortion is love,’ Cardinal O’Malley says ahead of March for Life (ewtnnews.com)
Date: 23.01.2026