The Primordial Rights of Parents and the Divine Origin of Authority
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The National Catholic Register reports on the 2026 commencement ceremonies at various institutions recommended by the Cardinal Newman Society, detailing honorary degrees conferred upon businessmen, politicians, media personalities, and “Catholic” leaders. The article presents these honors as celebrations of faithful Catholic education, listing recipients such as Lisa Brenninkmeyer (founder of Walking with Purpose), Dr. John Bruchalski, Iqbal Z. Quadir, Timothy Busch, Cardinal Timothy Dolan, Florida Governor Ron DeSantis, Chris Stefanick, and Peter Cancro, among others. The piece frames these individuals as exemplars of Catholic leadership and service, highlighting their professional achievements, charitable contributions, and inspirational messages to graduates. What this article unwittingly exposes is the complete capitulation of the conciliar institutions to worldly criteria of success, the reduction of Catholic education to naturalistic humanism, and the utter absence of any supernatural criterion in evaluating what constitutes genuine Catholic leadership.
The National Catholic Register portal reports that on May 14, 2026, the Society of St. Pius X (SSPX), through its superior general Father Davide Pagliarani, published a “Declaration of Catholic Faith” addressed to the antipope Leo XIV, in response to a May 13 warning from Cardinal Víctor Manuel Fernández of the Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith that the SSPX’s planned consecration of bishops without papal mandate on July 1 would constitute a “schismatic act” resulting in excommunication. The SSPX statement claims to articulate “the minimum necessary to be in communion with the Church,” reaffirming the unicity of faith and Church, the sole mediatorship of Christ, Mary’s intimate association with the work of Redemption (including an apparent rejection of the DDF’s 2025 caution against the title “Co-Redemptrix”), the necessity of the Catholic Church for the salvation of all humanity without exception, the binding mandate to convert every man to the Catholic Faith until the end of time, and the impossibility of blessing couples living in “sins of impurity” — an apparent reference to the heretical declaration *Fiducia Supplicans*. The Register notes that the declaration also addresses contested questions tied to the interpretation of post–Second Vatican Council teaching, including God’s will regarding the plurality of religions and differing levels of assent required by various Vatican II texts. This declaration, far from being a genuine profession of Catholic faith, is the latest act of diplomatic theater by a group that has for over five decades served as a controlled opposition within the conciliar sect, simultaneously professing Catholic doctrine and recognizing the legitimacy of the very antipopes who destroyed it.
The National Catholic Register reports that the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of the Philippines (CBCP), through its president Archbishop Gilbert Garcera of Lipa, has urged the Philippine Senate to proceed with the impeachment trial of Vice President Sara Duterte. The House of Representatives voted 257–25 to impeach Duterte for the second time on May 11, 2026, forwarding Articles of Impeachment alleging misuse of 612.5 million pesos in confidential funds, unexplained wealth accumulation, bribery, and threats to kill President Ferdinand Marcos Jr., the First Lady, and former House Speaker Martin Romualdez. The bishops called on senators to “abide by what the Constitution directs” and urged Filipinos to remain vigilant throughout the proceedings. Bishop Gerardo Alminaza of San Carlos issued a separate statement similarly calling for public monitoring of the trial. The Senate, acting as an impeachment court, requires a two-thirds vote (16 of 24 senators) for conviction and removal from office. A previous impeachment attempt in February 2025 was voided by the Supreme Court on constitutional grounds. That the conciliar sect’s hierarchy in the Philippines has inserted itself into a sordid political impeachment drama — involving allegations of corruption, bribery, and murderous threats between rival factions of the ruling class — while the faithful languish without the true sacraments, sound doctrine, and the social reign of Christ the King, is a damning indictment of an institution that has utterly abandoned its supernatural mission.
National Catholic Register portal reports that on May 15, 2026, the usurper Robert Prevost, styling himself “Pope Leo XIV,” addressed parliamentarians and representatives from the OSCE region at a conference on illicit drugs hosted by the Italian Parliament. In his address, Leo XIV reiterated his rejection of the death penalty, torture, and any degrading punishment, emphasizing “respect for human dignity” and advocating for “re-education and full reintegration of offenders into the fabric of society.” He called for “comprehensive programs” for those “enslaved by addiction” to “rediscover and live anew the fullness of their God-given dignity,” stressing that education “is key to prevention” and must begin in the family. He concluded by urging participants “to promote policies that truly serve the common good and the inalienable dignity of every human being.” This address, while cloaked in the language of compassion and social concern, represents a profound departure from immutable Catholic doctrine on justice, the common good, and the legitimate use of punishment, revealing the conciliar sect’s systematic erosion of divine law in favor of a secular, naturalistic humanism that undermines the very foundations of a truly just society.
The Pillar portal, in its May 15, 2026 edition, offers a weekly digest of news from the conciliar structures occupying the Vatican and their global network of pseudo-Catholic institutions. The article reports on the potential SSPX episcopal consecrations, the awarding of a Vatican honor to the Iranian ambassador, a Polish archdiocese’s experimental priest appointment model, the situation of Catholics in Myanmar, dating advice for young Catholics, Georgia’s new Orthodox patriarch, the expulsion of a priest from Israel, and the future of the Australian ordinariate. What emerges is not a portrait of the One, Holy, Catholic, and Apostolic Church, but of a bureaucratic, modernist apparatus increasingly indistinguishable from a secular NGO — an institution that has abandoned its divine mandate in exchange for diplomatic niceties, sociological experiments, and therapeutic self-help.
The National Catholic Register reports on a recent U.S. Supreme Court decision regarding mifepristone telehealth rules, highlighting the dissenting opinions of Justices Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito, along with Judge Stuart Kyle Duncan of the Fifth Circuit. The article frames their positions as acts of “genuine judicial courage” against powerful pro-abortion interests. While the piece correctly identifies the gravity of the abortion issue and the corruption within regulatory agencies, it fundamentally operates within a naturalistic framework that fails to address the root cause of societal collapse: the rejection of Christ the King and the abandonment of integral Catholic doctrine.
EWTN News reports that numerous “Catholic” institutions recommended by the Cardinal Newman Society — itself a creature of the post-conciliar confusion — have conferred honorary degrees upon a roster of businessmen, politicians, media personalities, and “clerics” whose achievements, measured against the immutable standard of Catholic truth, reveal the abyss into which Catholic education has fallen since the revolutionary coup of 1962–1965. The article, dated May 15, 2026, catalogues ceremonies at The Catholic University of America, Thomas More College of Liberal Arts, the University of Mary, Franciscan University of Steubenville, the University of Dallas, Benedictine College, Ave Maria University, and Walsh University. The honorees include Florida Governor Ron DeSantis, Cardinal Timothy Dolan, businessman Timothy Busch, EWTN host Chris Stefanick, and “Father” Robert Spitzer, SJ. The thesis of this analysis is inescapable: these commencement ceremonies are not acts of Catholic witness but rituals of a naturalistic, worldly religion that has severed itself from the Most Holy Sacrifice, the Social Kingship of Christ, and the supernatural end of man.
EWTN News reports that the Society of St. Pius X (SSPX), in response to a Vatican warning about excommunication for their planned consecration of bishops without papal mandate, has issued a “Declaration of Catholic Faith” addressed to the current usurper on Peter’s throne, Leo XIV. The statement, signed by their superior general Father Davide Pagliarani, claims to represent “the minimum necessary to be in communion with the Church” and reiterates certain Catholic teachings while obliquely criticizing some post-conciliar novelties. However, this theatrical gesture merely exposes the fundamental bankruptcy of a group that has spent over five decades in a state of organized rebellion against the very authority it pretends to recognize, all while refusing to acknowledge the root cause of the Church’s destruction: the modernist apostasy that has consumed the conciliar structures.
The National Catholic Register, a portal aligned with the post-conciliar establishment, published a commentary on May 15, 2026, by Claire Lai, daughter of imprisoned Hong Kong media mogul Jimmy Lai. The article recounts how her father’s incarceration under Beijing’s national security law has purportedly deepened the family’s faith, citing his manual labor, fasting, and longing for sacraments as evidence of spiritual fortitude. While the narrative of suffering is presented as a testament to divine grace, a rigorous examination through the lens of pre-1958 Catholic doctrine reveals a troubling reliance on false devotions, a silence on the true nature of the Church’s authority, and a dangerous conflation of natural virtue with supernatural justification — all hallmarks of the modernist infiltration that has hollowed out the faith since the Second Vatican Council.
