EWTN News reports that the U.S. Department of Justice has filed an amicus brief supporting Nick Rolovich, a Catholic football coach fired by Washington State University for refusing the COVID-19 vaccine on religious grounds. While the secular government defends religious liberty, the conciliar “Church” remains conspicuously silent on the moral evils embedded in these vaccines—exposing its utter bankruptcy as a guide for consciences.
The Secular State Defends What the “Church” Abandons
It is a damning indictment of the post-conciliar abomination that the United States Department of Justice—a secular, often anti-Catholic institution—shows more respect for religious conscience than the occupied Vatican structures. The DOJ brief argues that Rolovich provided “voluminous… evidence where he asserted, and demonstrated evidence of, a sincere religious belief,” acknowledging the conflict between his Catholic faith and the vaccine mandate. Meanwhile, the conciliar “hierarchy,” with few exceptions, actively promoted the very vaccines that Rolovich’s conscience rejected. This inversion—where Caesar defends what the “Church” attacks—is the natural fruit of the modernist revolution that has transformed the Barque of Peter into a servile instrument of worldly powers.
The Moral Evil the “Church” Refuses to Name
The article mentions that Rolovich “drew upon his study of the Bible, personal prayer, personal experience, personal study, advice from others, advice from a Catholic priest, and the teachings of the Church in concluding that his conscience precluded him from receiving any available COVID-19 vaccine.” Yet nowhere does the article—or the conciliar apparatus it represents—articulate the specific moral grounds for this refusal. The reason is clear: to do so would require condemning the use of aborted fetal cell lines in vaccine development and testing, a practice that constitutes formal cooperation with the intrinsic evil of abortion.
Pope Pius XI, in *Casti Connubis* (1930), declared: “Any use whatsoever of matrimony exercised in such a way that the act is deliberately frustrated in its natural power to generate life is an offense against the law of God and of nature, and those who indulge in such are branded with the guilt of a grave sin.” The production of vaccines using cell lines derived from elective abortions perpetuates the culture of death and implicates all who voluntarily participate in it. The conciliar “Church’s” refusal to unequivocally condemn this practice—and its active promotion of these vaccines—reveals its complicity in the abortion industry and its betrayal of the most fundamental principles of natural law.
The “Teachings of the Church” According to Modernism
The article’s vague reference to “the teachings of the Church” is characteristic of the modernist method of emptying Catholic doctrine of its concrete content. What are these “teachings”? The pre-conciliar Magisterium is unequivocal: the Fifth Commandment forbids the direct and voluntary killing of an innocent person, and cooperation in abortion—including the use of its fruits—is gravely sinful. Pope Pius XII, in his Address to the Italian Catholic Union of Midwives (1951), stated: “Every human being, even the child in the womb, has the right to life directly from God and not from the parents, not from any society or human authority. Therefore, there is no man, no society, no human authority… which can give a direct and legitimate disposition over an innocent human life.”
Yet the conciar “Church,” under the direction of its usurper antipopes, has consistently refused to draw the logical conclusion from these principles. The Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith’s 2008 instruction *Dignitas Personae*, issued under the heretic Benedict XVI (Ratzinger), acknowledged the moral problems with such vaccines but concluded that their use could be “licit” under certain conditions—a scandalous evasion that effectively gave the faithful permission to cooperate with abortion. This is the “teaching” that Rolovich’s unnamed “Catholic priest” likely invoked: not the immutable law of God, but the casuistic evasions of modernist bureaucrats.
EWTN: The Voice of Conciliar Cowardice
The source of this report—EWTN—is itself a product of the post-conciliar confusion. While it occasionally employs pre-conciliar language, its fundamental orientation is toward the “hermeneutic of continuity,” the modernist fiction that the conciliar revolution represents no rupture with authentic Catholic tradition. EWTN’s coverage of this case is typical: it celebrates the secular defense of religious liberty while remaining silent on the specific moral evil that grounds the Catholic objection. This is not journalism; it is propaganda for the conciliar sect, designed to reassure the faithful that the “Church” is still relevant while obscuring its systematic betrayal of Catholic truth.
The article’s closing reference to “EWTN News explains: Where does the Catholic Church stand on vaccines?” is particularly revealing. The answer, from the conciliar perspective, is that the “Church” stands wherever the world stands—promoting vaccines derived from aborted children, silencing those who object, and celebrating only when secular authorities deign to protect the consciences it has abandoned.
The Duty of Catholic Conscience
Pope Leo XIII, in *Libertas Praestantissimum* (1888), taught: “Liberty is a power perfecting man, and hence should have truth and goodness for its object… The mind can never be competent to choose the truth unless it is free from external compulsion.” The true Catholic position is not merely that Rolovich has a “right” to refuse the vaccine—a concession to the liberal framework of “rights” that the modernists have adopted—but that he has a duty to refuse it, because its use constitutes formal cooperation with intrinsic evil.
Pope Pius IX, in the Syllabus of Errors (1864), condemned the proposition that “the Roman Pontiff can, and ought to, reconcile himself, and come to terms with progress, liberalism and modern civilization” (Proposition 80). The conciliar “Church’s” reconciliation with the pharmaceutical industry and its abortion-tainted products is precisely the kind of “reconciliation” that Pius IX condemned. The faithful are not called to seek the approval of secular courts for their obedience to God’s law; they are called to obey that law regardless of the consequences, trusting in Divine Providence.
Conclusion: The Triumph of Naturalism
The Rolovich case, as presented by EWTN, is a microcosm of the post-conciliar catastrophe. A Catholic coach is fired for following his conscience; the secular government defends him; the “Church” remains silent on the moral evil that grounds his objection; and the Catholic media celebrates the secular defense while obscuring the theological betrayal. This is the natural fruit of the modernist revolution: a “Church” that has abandoned its supernatural mission, reduced its teaching to vague appeals to “conscience,” and surrendered its prophetic voice to the powers of this world.
The faithful must reject this abomination. They must refuse all vaccines derived from aborted fetal cell lines, regardless of the conciliar “Church’s” permission to use them. They must recognize that the true Church—the Church of all ages, not the conciliar sect—teaches that cooperation with abortion is always and everywhere gravely sinful. And they must pray for the restoration of the social reign of Christ the King, before Whom all nations—including the United States and its Department of Justice—are subject, and before Whom the conciar usurpers will one day give an account of their betrayal.
Source:
Department of Justice backs Catholic football coach suing university over COVID vaccine mandate (ewtnnews.com)
Date: 11.06.2026