The National Catholic Register (NCR), the flagship propaganda organ of the EWTN conciliar media empire, reports that nearly sixty Republican lawmakers, led by Sen. Mike Lee and Rep. Chris Smith, have sent a letter to Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche demanding a federal investigation into the “D.C. Five” β the remains of five late-term aborted babies discovered in 2022 at the Washington, D.C. home of Lauren Handy, a convert to the conciliar sect and activist with the secular group Progressive Anti-Abortion Uprising. The lawmakers cite the Born-Alive Infants Protection Act and the Partial-Birth Abortion Ban Act, lamenting four years of DOJ inaction under the Biden administration and urging autopsies and proper burial. The DOJ responds with bureaucratic assurances of review. This spectacle of “pro-life” legislators petitioning the very secular state that legalized and subsidizes the slaughter of the innocents exposes the naturalistic impotence and theological bankruptcy of the conciliar “pro-life” movement, which seeks justice from Caesar while refusing to confess the Social Kingship of Christ.
The Theatrics of Legalistic Supplication
The cited article presents the letter as a courageous act of congressional oversight. In reality, it is a pathetic display of supplicatio ad imperatorem (supplication to the emperor) by men who have sworn to uphold a Constitution that enshrines the “right” to abortion as settled law. The lawmakers write:
βUnder the Born Alive Infants Protection Act (1 U.S.C. Β§ 8), these five children should have experienced equal protection under the law at any stage of development, including as abortion survivors.β
They appeal to positive law β statutes enacted by a Masonic-inspired secular order β as the standard of justice. They ignore the lex naturalis (natural law) and the lex divina (divine law) which bind every human legislator proprio vigore (by its own force). The Syllabus of Errors (1864) condemned the proposition that “The State, as being the origin and source of all rights, is endowed with a certain right not circumscribed by any limits” (Error 39) and that “In the case of conflicting laws enacted by the two powers, the civil law prevails” (Error 42). These lawmakers, by begging the DOJ to enforce its own statutes, implicitly accept the supremacy of the civil power over the moral law. They do not demand justice ex iure divino (from divine right); they request a bureaucratic review ex iure humano (from human law).
The article notes the remains were found at the home of a “Catholic convert” affiliated with a “secular organization.” This detail inadvertently reveals the ecumenical, naturalistic character of the modern “pro-life” movement: a “Catholic” (i.e., a member of the conciliar sect) collaborates with a secular group to obtain human remains, then appeals to the secular state for justice. There is no mention of the Church’s rights, the duty of public reparation, or the necessity of the Social Reign of Christ the King. It is pure humanitarianism masquerading as Catholicism.
The Vocabulary of Secular Humanism
The linguistic register of the article and the lawmakers’ letter is entirely immanentist. Terms like “violation of life and law,” “equal protection under the law,” “lawlessness and inhumanity,” “justice system,” “credible allegations of criminal actions” β this is the language of the Civitas Terrena (City of Man), not the Civitas Dei (City of God). The word “sin” is absent. “Abortion” is treated as a “crime” defined by statute, not as a crimen nefandum (unspeakable crime) crying to heaven for vengeance (Gen 4:10). The lawmakers speak of “babies” and “children,” which is laudable, but they frame their humanity solely in terms of gestational age (“28 to 32 weeks”) and statutory personhood (“abortion survivors”), not as souls created ad imaginem Dei (in the image of God) destined for eternal beatitude.
The DOJ’s response β “takes these matters seriously,” “review the information carefully,” “following the facts and the law wherever they lead” β is the sterile language of the administrative state. The lawmakers’ acceptance of this bureaucratic brush-off as a victory (“encouraged when former Attorney General Pam Bondi confirmed… ongoing investigation”) demonstrates their captivity to the procedural idolatry of the modern state. They have no auctoritas (authority) beyond their elected office; they possess no potestas sacra (sacred power). They are functionaries of a system that defines justice as the outcome of a legal process, not as the conformity of the will to the Eternal Law.
The Absence of Christ the King and the Supernatural Order
This is the gravest indictment. The article, the lawmakers, the “Catholic convert” activist, and the EWTN portal all operate within a framework that implicitly denies the Kingship of Christ over nations. Pius XI, in Quas Primas (1925), teaches infallibly:
“His reign, namely, extends not only to Catholic nations or to those who, by receiving baptism according to law, belong to the Church… but His reign encompasses also all non-Christians, so that most truly the entire human race is subject to the authority of Jesus Christ.”
And further:
“Let rulers of states therefore not refuse public veneration and obedience to the reigning Christ, but let them fulfill this duty themselves and with their people, if they wish to maintain their authority inviolate and contribute to the increase of their homeland’s happiness.”
The lawmakers’ letter contains not a single reference to Jesus Christ, His Kingship, His Sacred Heart, or the duty of the State to profess the Catholic Faith. They invoke the “Born Alive Infants Protection Act” and the “Partial-Birth Abortion Ban Act” β positive laws of a secular congress β as the highest norm. This is the error of laicism condemned by Pius XI:
“This plague is the secularism of our times, so-called laicism, its errors and wicked endeavors… It began with the denial of Christ the Lord’s reign over all nations; the Church’s authority to teach men, to issue laws, to govern nations… was denied.”
By petitioning the DOJ β an arm of a state that officially repudiates Christ β these “pro-life” Catholics (conciliar sectarians) commit a practical denial of the Social Kingship of Christ. They act as if the State is the ultimate arbiter of life and death, capable of granting “justice” by its own authority. They ignore the Syllabus condemnation of the proposition: “The civil government, even when in the hands of an infidel sovereign, has a right to an indirect negative power over religious affairs” (Error 41). They ignore Leo XIII’s teaching in Immortale Dei: “The State must leave the same freedom to the members of Orders and Congregations… who are indeed the most valiant helpers of the Pastors of the Church and contribute most to the expansion and establishment of Christ’s Kingdom.” There is no Kingdom here. There is only the “justice system.”
The “Catholic convert” Lauren Handy is described as an activist with a “secular organization.” This is the fruit of the conciliar aggiornamento: a “Catholic” whose primary identity is a secular activist, whose method is collaboration with the world, whose hope is a federal investigation. The supernatural virtue of fortitudo (fortitude) rooted in fides (faith) is replaced by political advocacy. The Corpus Christi procession is replaced by a press conference. The Act of Reparation to the Sacred Heart is replaced by a letter to the Attorney General.
The Conciliar “Pro-Life” Movement as Controlled Opposition
The symptomatic analysis reveals this event as a staged ritual of the novus ordo establishment. EWTN/NCR β the media arm of the conciliar sect β reports this as a triumph of “pro-life” witness. In reality, it functions as a safety valve for Catholic outrage. The faithful are directed to channel their horror at abortion into writing letters to Congress, voting for Republicans, and trusting the DOJ. This diverts them from the only true remedy: the Restoration of All Things in Christ (Instaurare omnia in Christo, St. Pius X), the public profession of the Faith by the State, the criminalization of abortion ex lege divina et naturali, and the recognition that the current legal order is lex injusta non est lex (an unjust law is no law at all β St. Thomas Aquinas, ST I-II, q. 96, a. 4).
The article mentions the “Biden Administration Department of Justice refused to act” and contrasts it with the hope placed in the Trump-era DOJ (Pam Bondi) and the current Acting AG Todd Blanche. This partisan ping-pong is the essence of the conciliar “pro-life” strategy: elect the right Caesar, and he will stop the slaughter. It is a practical denial of the doctrine that “there is no other name under heaven given to men by which we must be saved” (Acts 4:12) β applied to the temporal order, there is no salvation for nations apart from the Kingship of Christ. The Syllabus condemns: “The Roman Pontiff can, and ought to, reconcile himself, and come to terms with progress, liberalism and modern civilization” (Error 80). The conciliar “pro-life” movement has reconciled itself to liberal democracy; it begs liberal democracy to be less barbaric.
The discovery of the babies’ remains in 2022, the four-year delay, the threat of discarding the bodies β these are the fruits of a state that has declared itself the source of law (Error 39, Syllabus). The lawmakers’ letter is not a prophetic denunciation; it is a plea for the state to police itself. It is the whimper of the ecclesia domestica (domestic church) that has forgotten it is called to be the ecclesia militans (Church militant) under the Standard of the Cross.
Conclusion: The “D.C. Five” are martyrs of the Moloch of liberal democracy, sacrificed on the altar of “reproductive rights.” Their “pro-life” advocates, by refusing to invoke the Name above every name, by refusing to demand that the State kneel before Christ the King, by placing their trust in the DOJ rather than the Deus Fortis (Strong God), participate in the very naturalism that makes the slaughter legally possible. Non est potestas nisi a Deo (There is no power but from God β Rom 13:1). Until the “pro-life” movement becomes a movement for the Social Kingship of Christ, it remains a well-intentioned but theologically sterile wing of the Masonic republic. The blood of these children cries not for a federal investigation, but for the Regnum Christi (Kingdom of Christ).
Source:
Nearly 60 Lawmakers Urge Investigation of βDC Fiveβ Aborted Babies (ncregister.com)
Date: 22.07.2026