The liberal media outlet EWTN News reports from its DC Bureau that the Netherlands has recorded its first reported life-ending procedure involving a child under the age of 12 since expanding its euthanasia regulations in 2024. By June 25, 2026, Dutch Health Minister Sophie Hermans confirmed that at the end of 2025, a committee received its first report of a life termination of a child between the ages of 1 and 12 years. The article, framed as an “ethical concern,” notes that this expansion of legalized killing prompted renewed criticism from Catholic bioethicists. Dutch officials claim the regulations address terminally ill children experiencing “hopeless and unbearable suffering,” where no reasonable palliative care alternative exists. This development is not merely a Dutch problem but a terrifying symptom of the total apostasy of nations that have formally renounced the reign of Our Lord Jesus Christ.
The Inescapable Logic of Apostasy: From Christ the King to Child Euthanasia
When a nation legally sanctions the deliberate execution of its own children under the guise of “compassion,” it is not a sign of progress but the terrifyingly consistent fruit of a civilization that has dethroned God. The Dutch euthanasia expansion is the inevitable consequence of the secularism condemned by Pope Pius XI in his encyclical *Quas Primas*. He warned that when Jesus Christ and His most holy law are removed from the customs and public life of a nation, the foundations of society are destroyed. The deliberate killing of a child aged 1 to 12 is the logical terminus of the laicism Pius XI described, where the State, not God, becomes the arbiter of life and death.
The “Compassion” of Satan: Masking Murder as Mercy
The language used by Dutch authorities reveals the diabolical nature of this act. By framing the murder of a child as a response to “hopeless and unbearable suffering,” the Netherlands employs the language of mercy to disguise the intrinsic evil of euthanasia. This is the exact deception warned of in the Church’s constant teaching. Joseph Meaney of the National Catholic Bioethics Center correctly identifies this as a “grave ethical violation,” noting that euthanasia is intrinsically evil and can never be morally justified. However, the modernist “Catholic” establishment remains largely silent on the public dethronement of Christ, focusing only on individual acts of charity while ignoring the systemic evil of a state that murders its own citizens. A society that rejects the sovereignty of Christ the King inevitably replaces the worship of God with the cult of man, where human autonomy becomes the ultimate idol.
The Bellwether of Apostasy: The Netherlands as the Vanguard of the Culture of Death
The Netherlands has systematically dismantled the moral barriers established by the Christian civilization it abandoned. First, they legalized killing for adults in 2002, then expanded it to infants, and now, in 2025, they have normalized the execution of children up to the age of 12. This is the “hermeneutic of continuity” in moral collapse. As the article notes, the Netherlands serves as a bellwether; what begins in the “tolerant” West eventually spreads globally. More than 10,000 euthanasia deaths were reported in the Netherlands in 2025 alone, accounting for a growing share of annual deaths. This is not healthcare; it is industrialized slaughter sanctioned by a godless state. The “medical-legal committee” that reviewed this child’s death is a mockery of justice, serving only to rubber-stamp the decisions of a culture that has embraced the “synagogue of Satan.”
The Silence of the Sacred: The Execution of the Innocent and the Loss of the Sense of Sin
Under the integral Catholic faith, the life of an innocent child is sacred from conception to natural death. The Fifth Commandment—”Thou shalt not kill”—admits of no exceptions for state-sanctioned murder, regardless of the child’s age or illness. The Catechism of the Pope Pius X and the constant teaching of the Magisterium affirm that human life is a gift from God, and only God has the right to take it. The fact that a child “cannot give informed consent” makes this act not just a violation of natural law, but a monstrous exercise of absolute power by the State over the most vulnerable. This is the inevitable result of the modernist error condemned in *Lamentabili sane exitu*, where moral laws are divorced from divine sanction, and human reason is placed above the eternal law of God.
The Culture of Death as the Kingdom of Man
The expansion of euthanasia to children reveals the true face of the “civilization of love” promised by the world. It is a civilization of death, where the weak are eliminated for the convenience of the strong. This is the logical outcome of the democratization of morality, where truth is determined by parliamentary vote rather than by the immutable teachings of the Church. The modernist “bishops” and “theologians” who remain silent or offer only tepid “concerns” are complicit in this apostasy. They have traded the hard teachings of the Gospel for the approval of a secular world. The situation in the Netherlands is a call to reject the entire conciliar revolution, which has stripped the altars of the Church and left the faithful defenseless against the spirit of the Antichrist. Only a return to the integral Catholic faith, where the Kingship of Christ is acknowledged in the laws of nations, can stop this slide into the abyss.
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Netherlands records first euthanasia death of child under 12 after law expansion (ewtnnews.com)
Date: 25.06.2026