The National Catholic Register (NCR), a propaganda organ of the structures occupying the Vatican, reports on declining civil divorce rates among recently married couples in the United States, citing data from the Institute for Family Studies and the Heritage Foundation. The article highlights the “Witness to Love” ministry of Mary Rose and Ryan Verret, appointed as consultants to the “Dicastery for the Laity, the Family, and Life” by the antipope Francis, and the “Worldwide Marriage Encounter” movement, recently recognized as an “international association of the faithful” by the antipope Leo XIV (Robert Prevost). These modernist operatives attribute the statistical trend to “intentionality,” “later marriages,” and “communication frameworks,” framing marriage as a human project of self-improvement rather than a divine, indissoluble bond. The piece concludes with a meeting of the “Vatican” “bishops” in October to discuss “walking with families in complex situations” such as “abandonment, separation, and divorce.” This sociological whitewash deliberately obscures the theological reality: the conciliar sect has dismantled the sacrament of Matrimony through a nullity-factory “annulment” system, a Protestantized rite, and the admission of public adulterers to “Communion,” rendering its statistical celebrations a diabolical mockery of Christ’s Kingship over the family.
The Naturalistic Reduction of the Sacrament to Sociological Data
The cited article treats the sacred bond of Matrimony — Sacramentum magnum in Christo et Ecclesia (Eph 5:32) — as a demographic variable subject to statistical manipulation. It quotes Grant Bailey of the Institute for Family Studies attributing the decline in divorce to “later marriages” and a “more select population,” while the Verrets and Opryskos speak of “intentionality,” “communication frameworks,” and “investing in your relationship.” Nowhere is the primary end of marriage — the procreation and education of offspring (proles et educatio prolis) — mentioned; nowhere the secondary ends of mutual help and the remedy of concupiscence; nowhere the absolute indissolubility ratum et consummatum established by God Himself: Quod ergo Deus coniunxit, homo non separet (Mt 19:6).
Pius XI, in Casti Connubii (1930), condemned this very naturalistic inversion: “There are not a few who, overstepping the bounds of right reason, pretend that the primary end of marriage is not the procreation and education of children, but the mutual love and companionship of the spouses”. The conciliar sect’s “marriage ministries” perfect this error. They replace the lex credendi with the lex sociologica. The “Dicastery for the Laity, the Family, and Life” is a bureaucratic fiction of the paramasonic structure occupying the Vatican; its “consultants” are lay functionaries of the neo-church, devoid of any canonical mission from the true Church. As the Syllabus of Pius IX condemns: “The Church is not a true and perfect society… but it appertains to the civil power to define what are the rights of the Church” (Error 19). Here, the “civil power” is the secular sociological academy (Institute for Family Studies, Heritage Foundation), whose data the sect uses to validate its own pastoral bankruptcy.
The Antipope’s “Dicastery” and the Legitimization of Modernist Movements
The article boasts that the Verrets were named consultants by “Pope Francis” (Jorge Bergoglio) and that the Opryskos received a decree of recognition and an audience with “Pope Leo XIV” (Robert Prevost). Both men are manifest heretics who have automatically lost all jurisdiction ipso facto by public defection from the Catholic Faith (Canon 188 §4, 1917 Code; Bellarmine, De Romano Pontifice; Paul IV, Cum ex Apostolatus Officio). Bergoglio’s Amoris Laetitia formally permits adulterers to receive the Holy Eucharist; Prevost continues this apostasy. To receive a “mandate” from an antipope is to receive a mission from the synagoga Satanae.
St. Robert Bellarmine teaches: “A manifest heretic cannot be Pope… a non-Christian in no way can be Pope… he cannot be the head of something of which he is not a member” (De Romano Pontifice 2:30). The “Dicastery” is not a Roman Congregation but a department of the abomination of desolation (Mt 24:15). “Worldwide Marriage Encounter” (WME) and “Witness to Love” are fruits of the conciliar revolution — movements steeped in Wojtylian personalism, which substitutes the persona for the natura, making the subjective “experience” of the couple the measure of the sacrament. This is Modernism condemned by St. Pius X in Lamentabili Sane Exitu: “Christ did not proclaim any specific, all-encompassing doctrine suitable for all times and peoples, but rather initiated a certain religious movement, applied or applicable to different times and places” (Prop. 59). WME’s “lifelong communication framework” is Protestant “encounter” theology, not Catholic sacramental theology.
The “Annulment” Elephant in the Room: The Real Divorce Crisis
The article’s fixation on civil divorce rates is a deliberate diversion from the catastrophic reality of the conciliar “annulment” industry. While civil divorce rates may fluctuate due to fewer marriages (the Heritage Foundation notes a drop from 90% to 55% marriage rates), the conciliar sect grants hundreds of thousands of “declarations of nullity” annually — de facto Catholic divorces. Pius XII, in his Allocution to the Roman Rota (1942), thundered: “The indissolubility of marriage is not a mere ecclesiastical law… it is divine law… no human power can dissolve a ratified and consummated marriage.” The 1983 “Code” of the antipope John Paul II (Wojtyla) introduced the “defect of consent” chaos (can. 1095), turning the tribunal into a rubber stamp for the contraceptive, sterile, faithless unions of the neo-church.
The article mentions the October “Vatican” meeting on “walking with families in complex situations such as abandonment, separation, and divorce.” This is the language of Amoris Laetitia Chapter 8 — the “accompaniment” of public sinners into the sanctuary. The Syllabus condemns: “The Church has not the power of defining dogmatically that the religion of the Catholic Church is the only true religion” (Error 21). The conciliar sect cannot define dogma because it has abandoned the Faith. Its “marriage preparation” programs produce couples married in a rite (the 1969 Ordo Celebrandi Matrimonium) that omits the essential form of the traditional rite (Ego N. accipio te N. in coniugem meum… with the explicit invocation of the Trinity and the indissoluble bond), casting doubt on the validity of the sacrament itself. Lex orandi, lex credendi — the law of praying is the law of believing. The neo-church prays a vague “covenant”; it believes in a dissoluble contract.
The “Counterrevolution” Myth: John Paul II as Architect of Ruin
Ryan Verret claims: “Pope John Paul II positioned marriage and family as a counterrevolution to destructive modernist tendencies… Maybe in some ways we’re in the counterrevolution now.” This is a grotesque inversion. Wojtyla (John Paul II) was the principal architect of the modernist “Theology of the Body,” a phenomenological system that dethrones the objective natural law and the Thomistic ontology of the sacrament in favor of the “lived experience” of the “subject.” His 1983 “Code” and Familiaris Consortio (1981) opened the floodgates for the “internal forum solution” and the pastoral chaos culminating in Amoris Laetitia. He “canonized” the false mystic Faustina Kowalska (whose writings were on the Index) and the freemason Maximilian Kolbe. He kissed the Koran. He assembled the “spirits of Assisi.” He is a “saint” of the antipope Bergoglio — a canonization by a non-Pope is null, void, and of no effect (Cum ex Apostolatus Officio).
There is no “counterrevolution” in the conciliar sect. There is only the revolution consuming its own children. The “young people coming back to faith and things that are transcendent” (Verret) are being funneled into the Indult or FSSPX ghettos — “a schism within a schism of the neo-church” — where they attend a Mass celebrated by priests of doubtful orders (Bugnini’s ordinal, Liénart’s consecrations) in communion with the antipope. Qui cum haereticis communicat, haereticus fit.
Silence on the Supernatural Order: The Grave Accusation
The article is a masterpiece of naturalism. It speaks of “prayer as a couple,” “community support,” “maintenance like a car,” “retreat once a year.” It does not speak of the state of grace, the necessity of Confession before the Most Holy Sacrifice, the Nuptial Blessing as a sacramental conduit of sanctifying grace, the duty to rear children for heaven (prolem Deo genuisse), the horror of contraception (nefandum crimen, Pius XI), the reality of the Particular Judgment, or the Social Kingship of Christ over the family and State.
Pius XI in Quas Primas (1925) declares: “His reign extends not only to Catholic nations… but His reign encompasses also all non-Christians, so that most truly the entire human race is subject to the authority of Jesus Christ… Let rulers of states therefore not refuse public veneration and obedience to the reigning Christ.” The conciliar sect’s “marriage advocates” render to Caesar (the secular state, the sociological institutes, the “Dicastery”) what belongs to God. They seek “happy marriages” for social stability, not holy marriages for the glory of God. “The state is happy not by one means, and man by another; for the state is nothing else than a harmonious association of men” (St. Augustine, cited in Quas Primas). But a society built on the sand of naturalistic “communication skills” — without the Rock of Peter, the True Mass, and the True Faith — collapses. “Unless the Lord build the house, they labor in vain that build it” (Ps 126:1).
Conclusion: The Abomination of Desolation in the Holy Place
The declining civil divorce rate is a statistical artifact of a demographic winter caused by the loss of the Faith. The conciliar sect celebrates this artifact while presiding over the wholesale destruction of the sacrament of Matrimony through invalid rites, heretical theology, and the “annulment” racket. The Verrets, the Opryskos, the “Cardinal” Farrell, the “Popes” Francis and Leo XIV — they are the blind leading the blind into the pit (Mt 15:14). True Catholic marriage exists only where the True Mass is offered, where the True Faith is professed, where bishops and priests possess valid Orders and jurisdiction derived from the last true Pope, Pius XII (d. 1958). All else is fornicatio spiritualis — a simulation of the holy for the comfort of the reprobate. Ecce quam bonum et quam jucundum habitare fratres in unum (Ps 132:1) — but only in the unity of the True Church, outside of which there is no salvation, no sacrament, and no hope.
Source:
Amid Declining Divorce Rates, Catholic Marriage Advocates Urge Continued Support for Married Couples (ncregister.com)
Date: 06.08.2026