The National Catholic Register portal reports on the 2026 GIVEN Forum, a leadership conference for young women hosted at the Catholic University of America, where speakers including biblical scholar Mary Healy and Sister of Life Bethany Madonna promoted the “feminine genius” as a mandate for female infiltration into every sector of society and ecclesiastical governance. The article celebrates antipope Leo XIV’s appointment of two women to prefectures of the Roman Curia as validation of this agenda. This assembly epitomizes the conciliar sect’s rebellion against divine hierarchy, substituting a gnostic anthropology of “giftedness” for the immutable order of creation and the sacerdotal constitution of the Church.
The “Feminine Genius”: A Modernist Trojan Horse Against the Divine Constitution
The cited article relates that the GIVEN Forum was founded to “put Pope St. John Paul II’s teaching on the feminine genius into action,” quoting his 1995 “Letter to Women” on the need for women “to be present and active in every area of life — social, economic, cultural, artistic, and political.” This is the language of laicism condemned by Pius XI in Quas Primas: “When God and Jesus Christ… were removed from laws and states and when authority was derived not from God but from men, the foundations of that authority were destroyed.” The “feminine genius” construct, far from being a development of doctrine, is a personalist innovation that dissolves the ontological distinction between the common priesthood of the faithful and the ministerial priesthood, between the Marian principle of receptive fruitfulness and the Petrine principle of jurisdictional authority. As St. Paul teaches under the inspiration of the Holy Ghost: “Let the woman learn in silence with all subjection. But I suffer not a woman to teach, nor to use authority over the man: but to be in silence” (1 Tim 2:11-12). This apostolic injunction, rooted in the order of creation (“For Adam was first formed; then Eve”, 1 Tim 2:13), is not a cultural accommodation but a divine positive law (lex divina positiva) that no “pontifical” commission or synodal assembly can abrogate.
The article boasts that Mary Healy is “one of only three women ever to serve on the Pontifical Biblical Commission.” This commission, reconstituted after Vatican II as a consultative body of periti rather than a magisterial organ, exemplifies the conciliar inversion: expertise replaces authority, dialogue replaces definition, and the sensus fidelium is weaponized against the sensus Ecclesiae. The very presence of women on a body advising the Magisterium on Scripture presupposes the false principle that the Church’s teaching office is a collaborative enterprise rather than the exclusive prerogative of the apostolic college in union with the Roman Pontiff.
Antipope Leo XIV’s Curial Appointments: The Abomination of Female Governance
The article explicitly cites antipope Leo XIV’s (Robert Prevost) appointment of Maria Montserrat Alvarado as prefect of the Dicastery for Communication and Salesian Sister Alessandra Smerilli as prefect of the Dicastery for Promoting Integral Human Development as evidence that “women are no less capable of bringing important gifts and leadership skills to the Church than men are.” This is a direct assault on the hierarchical constitution of the Church established by Christ Himself. The power of jurisdiction (potestas jurisdictionis) — which includes the power to legislate, judge, and govern — belongs exclusively to sacred ministers who have received the sacrament of Orders. Pope Pius XII, in Sacramentum Ordinis (1947), defined that the matter of the sacrament of Order is the imposition of hands, which can only be conferred on baptized males (viri). This is not a disciplinary law but a divine constitution (constitutio divina) of the Church: “Wherefore, in accordance with the constant tradition of the Church, we declare that the Church has no authority whatsoever to confer priestly ordination on women” (John Paul II, Ordinatio Sacerdotalis, 1994 — though issued by a manifest heretic, the doctrine expressed is the immutable teaching of the ordinary and universal Magisterium).
The appointment of women to prefectures — offices exercising potestas executiva over dicasteries of the Roman Curia — constitutes a simulated exercise of jurisdiction by persons incapable of receiving it. Canon 129 §1 of the 1983 Code (itself a product of the conciliar rupture) states: “Those who have received sacred orders are qualified… for the power of governance.” Even this corrupted code preserves the principle. The 1917 Code was explicit: “Can. 1083. Only a baptized man can validly receive sacred ordination”; “Can. 967. Women are barred from all ecclesiastical offices”. The neo-church’s installation of women in governance is not “development” but schismatic rebellion against the ius divinum.
GIVEN Institute: A Masonic “Light-Life” Parody of Catholic Formation
The article reveals the GIVEN Forum’s genesis: “The Council of Major Superiors of Women Religious… submitted the idea to the Hilton Foundation and were awarded a grant to help them create GIVEN.” The Hilton Foundation, a secular philanthropic entity, funding a “Catholic” leadership institute is the modus operandi of the paramasonic infiltration documented in the False Fatima Apparitions file: “Stage 2 (1940-1958): Globalization of the cult and control of the narrative through Lucia’s isolation.” Here, the narrative is “women’s leadership,” and the control is exercised through foundation money and conciliar structures. The Council of Major Superiors of Women Religious is itself a post-conciliar construct, canonically erected in 1992 by the “Congregation for Institutes of Consecrated Life” — a dicastery of the usurping hierarchy.
The forum’s methodology — “action plans,” “mentorship programs,” “wholistic wellness coaches,” “self-care” — is pure corporate NGO language. Eliza Monts, a “content creator,” declares the conference is for women “who have the drive, the passion, and the circumspection to see a need in the Church — and by the Church, we don’t just mean parishes, but every human and the needs of every human.” This is the heresy of humanitarianism condemned by Pius XI in Quas Primas: the substitution of the civitas Dei with a “civilization of love” built on naturalistic philanthropy. The “feminine genius” becomes the baptismal name for the Masonic project of humanitarian universalism, where the Church’s mission to save souls is reduced to “humanizing the world.”
Pro-Life Movement: Naturalistic Sentimentalism Replacing Supernatural Combat
Amanda Achtman, a GIVEN alumna, frames the pro-life cause in terms of “feminine charism, to abide the difficulty with patience and endurance, that is attractive in the tenderness it brings and in the way that it humanizes the culture.” There is no mention of the supernatural order: no reference to the salvation of souls, the horror of sin, the necessity of grace, the intercession of the Mediatrix of All Graces, or the Kingship of Christ over the temporal order. The “women at the foot of the Cross” are stripped of their theological significance — the Co-Redemptrix standing juxta Crucem in union with the Victim — and reduced to models of “tenderness” and “endurance.” This is the kenosis of the Cross into a humanitarian symbol.
The article notes the Dobbs anniversary and euthanasia statistics in Canada and the US, but the response proposed is “engagement with the person before me… insisting on their goodness… a joyful encounter.” This is the dialogue methodology of the conciliar sect, condemned by Pius IX in the Syllabus of Errors (Error 80): “The Roman Pontiff can, and ought to, reconcile himself, and come to terms with progress, liberalism and modern civilization.” The pro-life movement, as presented by GIVEN, is not a crusade for the rights of God but a therapeutic ministry of accompaniment. Sister Bethany’s anecdote of the woman praying outside the abortion clinic for three years — while the clinic operates — illustrates the pacifist capitulation of the neo-church: prayer as witness, not as spiritual warfare demanding the intervention of the secular arm to suppress the crime of abortion (Crimen ab homine Deoque).
The “Two Lucias” of the Neo-Church: False Apparitions and False Authority
The article’s entire framework rests on the authority of “Pope St. John Paul II” and “Pope Leo XIV.” The False Fatima Apparitions file exposes the Masonic operation behind Fatima, the linchpin of John Paul II’s “Marian” pontificate: “Symbolism of dates: 1717 (founding of Freemasonry), 1917 (apparitions), 2017 (canonization) – ritualistic 200-year cycles.” John Paul II’s “Theology of the Body” and “Letter to Women” are the theological superstructure built on this fraudulent foundation. The “feminine genius” is the gnostic key unlocking the priesthood to women — the ultimate goal of the Masonic “Fatima” operation: “The imprecise formulation ‘conversion of Russia’ (without specifying Catholicism) opens the way to religious relativism.”
Antipope Leo XIV (Robert Prevost), a member of the Augustinian Order corrupted by conciliarism, continues the usurpation. His appointment of women to Curial prefectures is the abomination of desolation (Matt 24:15) standing in the holy place: women exercising potestas jurisdictionis in the very heart of the Church’s governance. This is not “common sense” as Monts claims; it is theological insanity, the dementia praecox of a church that has lost the Faith.
The Council of Major Superiors: A Synodal Mockery of Religious Life
The GIVEN Forum’s founding by the Council of Major Superiors of Women Religious exposes the total collapse of religious life in the conciliar sect. True religious life, as defined by Pius XII in Sponsa Christi (1950), is ordered to the perfection of charity through the evangelical counsels under a legitimate superior, in separation from the world. The “Sisters of Life” (founded 1991 by “Cardinal” O’Connor) and the “Council of Major Superiors” (erected 1992) are novitates — novelties without root in the Tradition. Their “charism” is not the sequela Christi but social activism: “ministering to women who are weighing abortion,” “praying outside abortion facilities,” “driving to convents.” This is corporal works of mercy severed from the spiritual works and the cultus divinum. St. Pius X condemned this activism in Notre Charge Apostolique (1910): “They want to set up a ‘People’s Church’… where the authority of the priesthood is denied.”
EWTN and the Neo-Church Media Apparatus
The article notes that Maria Montserrat Alvarado is “EWTN News’ president and COO” and serves on the GIVEN Institute’s board. EWTN, founded by Mother Angelica under the “bishop” of Birmingham, is the propaganda arm of the conciliar sect, broadcasting the “Mass” of Paul VI, promoting the “saints” of the neo-church (Kolbe, Faustina, John Paul II), and providing a platform for the “feminine genius” ideology. Its president’s elevation to a Curial prefecture by antipope Leo XIV is the nomenklatura appointment of a loyal apparatchik. The “National Catholic Register” itself, owned by EWTN, is the house organ of this operation, publishing puff pieces like the present article to normalize the revolution.
Conclusion: The GIVEN Forum as a Symptom of the Great Apostasy
The GIVEN Forum is not a “Catholic women’s leadership conference.” It is a Masonic laboratory for the androgynization of the Church, funded by secular foundations, staffed by conciliar religious, promoted by neo-church media, and validated by the usurping hierarchy. Its “feminine genius” is the sophianic heresy of Vladimir Solovyov and Sergei Bulgakov, baptized by John Paul II: the divinization of the feminine principle as a quasi-hypostatic mediator, displacing the unique mediation of Christ the High Priest (Unus Mediator, 1 Tim 2:5).
The integral Catholic Faith, preserved in the catacombs of Tradition by bishops and priests maintaining the Traditio without admixture, recognizes this assembly for what it is: a synod of the Antichurch, preparing the enthronement of the Antichrist in the Temple of God (2 Thess 2:4). The true “feminine genius” is the Marian fiat: “Behold the handmaid of the Lord; be it done unto me according to thy word” (Luke 1:38) — a total submission to the divine will, not a demand for “leadership skills” in the Curia. The true woman of the Church is the Mater Dolorosa at the foot of the Cross, not the “content creator” at the podium of the GIVEN Forum.
Non praevalebunt (Matt 16:18). The gates of hell shall not prevail against the Church of Christ, which subsists in the remnant faithful to the Tradition of 1958, not in the “Catholic University of America” hosting a conference funded by the Hilton Foundation.
Source:
Women’s Call to ‘Humanize and Love’ the World Highlighted at Annual Conference (ncregister.com)
Date: 03.07.2026