Ireland’s 108 Silent Victims Expose Apostate Nation’s Crime

The cited article from EWTN News/NC Register (March 9, 2026) reports that an Irish advocacy group, citing Health Service Executive data from 2019–2023, is calling for an inquiry into the deaths of 108 babies born alive after attempted abortions. The group’s spokesperson asks whether these infants were “simply left to die” and denied life-saving interventions, decrying the “silence and secrecy.” The article also briefly notes other U.S. abortion-related legal and legislative developments.

This report, while presenting factual data, operates within a fundamentally naturalistic and implicitly Modernist framework. It treats the murder of 108 innocent souls as a matter of transparency and inquiry, utterly omitting the supernatural dimensions of the crime: the violation of the Fifth Commandment (“Thou shalt not kill”), the loss of baptismal grace for these infants, the gravity of mortal sin incurred by those involved, and the divine judgment awaiting a nation that legalizes such outrages. The article’s language of “perinatal outcomes” and “reproductive health” mirrors the sanitized jargon of the conciliar sect’s apostasy, reducing persons to biological processes. The complete silence on the Social Reign of Christ the King—that all law and governance must be subordinate to the law of God—reveals the depth of the post-Conciliar collapse. This is not a failure of policy but a failure of faith, a direct consequence of the “abomination of desolation” standing in the holy place since the usurpation of the See of Peter by the line of Modernist antipopes beginning with Angelo Roncalli (“John XXIII”).

Naturalistic Humanism Masquerading as Concern

The article frames the tragedy in purely sociological and administrative terms: “transparency,” “secrecy,” “approaches,” “outcomes.” This is the language of the Syllabus of Errors, which condemns the separation of civil society from the Church (Error 55) and the subordination of divine law to human law (Error 42). Pope Pius IX’s Syllabus (1864) anathematizes the notion that “the civil authority may interfere in matters relating to religion, morality and spiritual government” (Error 44). Here, the State of Ireland, through its Health Service Executive, is implicitly treated as the final arbiter of life and death, its procedures questioned only for lack of openness, not for their intrinsic wickedness. The article never invokes the primary duty of the State to protect innocent life as an imperative of divine law. Instead, it petitions a godless State for “answers,” as if the State’s permission could legitimize infanticide. This is the logical fruit of Vatican II’s “pastoral” ambiguity and the conciliar cult of man.

“When God and Jesus Christ were removed from laws and states… the foundations of that authority were destroyed, because the main reason why some have the right to command and others have the duty to obey was removed.” — Pope Pius XI, Quas Primas (1925)

The death of 108 baptized souls (for in Catholic Ireland, virtually all were baptized) is a criminal neglect bordering on cooperation in the murder itself. The article’s failure to demand the immediate criminal prosecution of the abortionists, the doctors who withheld care, and the officials who sanctioned the regime is a damning indictment of its own compromised worldview. It accepts the legalization of abortion as a given and merely seeks to regulate its “outcomes.” This is the spirit of Pascendi Dominici gregis (1907), which condemned Modernism’s attempt to “reform” the Church according to the “principles of the modernists” (Error 58 of Lamentabili sane exitu). The article itself practices this Modernist reform of morality, treating the murder of infants as a public health issue rather than a cry for divine vengeance (Genesis 4:10).

The Omission of the Supernatural: The Gravest Sin

The most serious accusation against the article is its total silence on the supernatural order. It mentions neither:

The state of original sin from which these infants needed to be cleansed by baptism.
The eternal destiny of these souls—whether they received baptism of desire or baptism of blood (a matter of theological speculation, but one that must be considered).
The mortal sin of the mothers, doctors, and nurses who participated in or facilitated these abortions.
The obligation of the Church to excommunicate those who procure abortion (Canon 1398 of the 1917 Code of Canon Law).
The duty of Catholic rulers to defend the rights of Christ the King by outlawing such practices entirely, as taught by Pius XI in Quas Primas.

This silence is not neutrality; it is apostasy. It reflects the conciliar sect’s “hermeneutics of discontinuity,” where the clear moral law of God is replaced by the shifting sands of “pastoral discernment” and “situation ethics.” The article operates on the same plane as the “errors concerning Christian marriage” condemned by Pius IX in the Syllabus (Errors 65-74), which denied the sacramental nature and indissolubility of marriage. Here, the very right to life of the unborn is denied in practice, and the article concerns itself only with the administrative aftermath. This is the “naturalistic and rationalistic” spirit of Modernism condemned by St. Pius X: it reduces the supernatural to the natural, the spiritual to the material, the eternal to the temporal.

Contrast with the Unchanging Magisterium: Christ the King vs. the Cult of Man

The article’s underlying assumption is that the State, even when perpetrating or permitting murder, is a legitimate authority whose processes can be “reformed.” This is a direct rejection of the doctrine of the Social Kingship of Christ. Pope Pius XI, in Quas Primas, which established the feast of Christ the King precisely to combat the secularism denounced here, taught:

“The State must leave the same freedom to the members of Orders and Congregations… It is therefore necessary that Christ reign in the mind of man… let Christ reign in the will, which should obey God’s laws and commandments… let Him reign in the body and its members, which… should contribute to the inner sanctification of souls.”

When the State legalizes the murder of the innocent, it has forfeited its legitimate authority. The article never asks: How can a State that authorizes the slaughter of its most vulnerable citizens claim any moral authority to govern? This is the question that would be asked by a truly Catholic voice, one formed by the pre-1958 magisterium. The article’s call for an “inquiry” is a vain hope within a system that has already deified human autonomy and placed human law against divine law. Error 39 of the Syllabus condemns the idea that “the State… is endowed with a certain right not circumscribed by any limits.” Ireland’s abortion regime is the precise embodiment of this error: a State claiming absolute sovereignty over life and death. The article does not condemn this sovereignty; it merely asks the sovereign to be more transparent in its tyranny.

The “Pseudo-Traditionalist” Distraction and the Failure of Resistance

One might search in vain for any mention of the true Catholic response: the mobilization of the faithful under legitimate bishops (all of whom, post-1958, are in schism or sedevacantist) to non possumus—we cannot comply. There is no call for public penance, for processions of reparation, for the excommunication of politicians who vote for abortion, for the withholding of the sacraments from those who persist in this crime. The article’s model of action—lobbying, lawsuits, “campaigns” by groups like “Susan B. Anthony Pro-Life America”—is the same naturalistic, democratic, and ultimately futile approach that has failed for decades because it operates outside the supernatural economy of the Church. It treats the battle as political rather than spiritual, as a clash of interests rather than a war between the City of God and the City of Satan.

This is the tragic legacy of the “those pretending to be traditional Catholics” who recognize the conciliar antipopes. Their entire strategy is reduced to “give us the old Mass,” as if the Most Holy Sacrifice of the Mass could be offered in a nation that legally murders its children without a public, solemn, and collective act of reparation and a crusade for the Social Reign of Christ. The article’s passive tone mirrors the failure of these groups. They will not name the modernists as apostates. They will not declare the post-Conciliar “Church” a sect. They will not call for the restoration of the Catholic monarchy as the only political solution. Therefore, their “pro-life” activism is merely a humanitarian project within the framework of apostasy, destined to fail because it lacks the theological virtue of hope grounded in the promises of Christ to His true Church, not to the conciliar abomination.

Conclusion: The Only Catholic Response

The deaths of these 108 babies are not a statistical anomaly to be investigated by a committee. They are a cry of blood (Genesis 4:10) against a nation that has officially rejected the law of God. The only Catholic response is:

Uncompromising denunciation of the Irish government and all who cooperate in this murder as servants of Satan, outside the pale of the Church.
Public and solemn reparation by the (sedevacantist) clergy and faithful, through the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass and the Rosary, for this national crime.
Excommunication latae sententiae of all who procure, perform, or legislate for abortion, in accordance with the unchanging law of the Church.
Preaching the Social Kingship of Christ as the only foundation for just law, as defined by Pius XI in Quas Primas and condemned by the Syllabus in all its errors.
Refusal to acknowledge the conciliar “Church” or its “authorities” as legitimate, for they are the architects of this apostasy that has led to such slaughter.

The article, by its naturalistic framing, implicitly endorses the very system that produced these deaths. It calls for reform of an apostate structure, not for its overthrow in the name of Christ the King. This is the ultimate bankruptcy: it treats the symptom (the dead babies) while ignoring the disease (the rejection of the Divine Law and the Social Reign of Christ). Until the nations are consecrated to the Sacred Heart of Jesus and governed by His absolute and undisputed sovereignty, such outrages will continue, and “inquiries” will be mere exercises in futility, masking the fundamental reality: the world has chosen Barabbas over Christ.

Source:
Ireland Group Calls for Inquiry Into Deaths of 108 Babies Born Alive After Abortion (ncregister.com)
Date: 09.03.2026