EWTN News portal reports on a Canadian woman, Colleen De Vos, recounting her father’s 2023 death by Canada’s Medical Assistance in Dying (MAID) program after being denied hospice care, juxtaposed with the Becket Fund’s legal challenge against New York’s assisted suicide law on “religious freedom” grounds. The article presents the Dominican Sisters of Hawthorne and other conciliar entities as victims of state coercion, framing the conflict as a clash between “autonomy” and “conscience rights” within the secular legal order. **This liberal juridical framework implicitly legitimizes the anti-Christian state’s authority over life and death, surrendering the Social Kingship of Christ to the false god of religious liberty.**
The Conciliar Media’s Complicity in the Culture of Death
The cited article from the EWTN News portal—an organ of the conciliar sect’s propaganda apparatus—exemplifies the modus operandi of the neo-church: managing the symptoms of apostasy while preserving the revolutionary principles that caused it. The report details a harrowing reality: an 85-year-old Catholic man, denied hospice care twice, was steered toward a “cardboard box in the mail” containing lethal drugs by a nurse practitioner. De Vos’s testimony exposes the diabolical logic of the anti-Christian state: “Obtaining [hospice care] was very difficult. And this was very simple.” This is the lex talionis of the Masonic republic—death is a “right” delivered with bureaucratic efficiency; life is a burden obstructed by red tape.
Yet the portal’s framing betrays its own modernist infection. It treats the Canadian horror merely as a cautionary tale for New York, pivoting immediately to the Becket Fund’s federal lawsuit. Adele Keim, senior counsel for this liberal legal outfit, declares: “New York has created an opt-out law. The presumption is you’re in unless you opt out.” She laments that Catholic providers “can’t opt out of your obligations to counsel patients about assisted suicide and the ‘benefits’ it would provide.” The article notes the “hope in a federal judge’s decision to temporarily block New York from enforcing the law against the Catholic plaintiffs.” **This is the language of the Novus Ordo sect: not the thunder of Quas Primas condemning laicism, but the whine of a special interest group begging Caesar for a conscientious objection clause.**
Linguistic Surrender: “Religious Freedom” as the New Gospel
The linguistic level reveals the theological bankruptcy. The article’s vocabulary is entirely secular-liberal: “opt-out law,” “presumption,” “counsel patients,” “refer patients,” “constitutional claims,” “fundamental right to religious freedom.” Keim explicitly states: “The right to assisted suicide is not a fundamental right… But… there is a fundamental right to religious freedom.” Here the Becket Fund—a darling of the conciliar establishment—elevates the Masonic invention of “religious liberty” (condemned by Pius IX in the Syllabus, Error 55: “The Church ought to be separated from the State, and the State from the Church”) above the jus divinum of the Fifth Commandment.
Pius XI in Quas Primas teaches: “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 main reason why some have the right to command and others have the duty to obey was removed.” The Becket Fund’s strategy accepts the premise that authority derives from men (the Constitution, the courts) and merely seeks a carve-out for “faith communities.” This is liberalism in its purest form—the very error condemned by Pius IX in Quanta Cura and the Syllabus (Error 80: “The Roman Pontiff can, and ought to, reconcile himself, and come to terms with progress, liberalism and modern civilization”).
The article’s closing quote from De Vos completes the capitulation: “I don’t believe that it’s up to the lawmakers… to give someone the autonomy to end their life.” She concedes the lawmakers’ potestas over life, differing only on its exercise. **True Catholic doctrine knows no “autonomy” (self-law) for the creature; lex aeterna binds all, legislators included. The state has no “right to give autonomy”—it has a duty to punish the murderer (Gen 9:6; Rom 13:4).**
Theological Void: No Christ the King, No Supernatural End
The theological level exposes a vacuum where the Catholic Faith should be. The article mentions “Catholic ministries,” “Dominican Sisters of Hawthorne,” “Bishop Barres” (a conciliar “bishop” of Rockville Centre), “Archbishop Hicks” (of New York)—all operatives of the post-conciliar sect. Nowhere does it invoke:
- The Social Kingship of Christ (Quas Primas: “His reign encompasses also all non-Christians, so that most truly the entire human race is subject to the authority of Jesus Christ”)
- The duty of the state to profess the Catholic Faith (Syllabus, Error 77: “In the present day it is no longer expedient that the Catholic religion should be held as the only religion of the State”—condemned)
- The distinction between potestas ordinis and potestas jurisdictionis—the conciliar “clergy” possess neither validly
- The reality that the “Medical Aid in Dying Act” is a legislative act of tyranny (lex injusta non est lex), binding no conscience
- The necessity of public reparation and the conversion of nations, not “court injunctions”
The “Catholic Church teaches” paragraph at the end is a boilerplate from the Catechism of the Catholic Church (1992)—a Modernist document riddled with ambiguities on “dignity” and “autonomy.” It cites no Council, no Pope before 1958, no Castigat ridendo mores of the Holy Office. **The silence on the supernatural order—grace, sacraments, final judgment, the Kingship of Christ—is the gravest accusation. The article reduces the horror of assisted suicide to a “religious freedom” case, implying that if the state granted the “opt-out,” the evil would be tolerable. This is the heresy of Americanism, condemned by Leo XIII in Testem Benevolentiae (1899).**
Symptomatic Diagnosis: The Conciliar Sect as Controlled Opposition
The symptomatic level reveals the systemic function of such reporting. EWTN, the Becket Fund, the “Dominican Sisters of Hawthorne” (a post-conciliar institute), and the “bishops” suing New York form a controlled opposition. They channel Catholic outrage into harmless litigation within the Masonic court system, ensuring the faithful never demand the integral solution: the restoration of the Catholic State, the condemnation of the usurpers in the Vatican, the rejection of the Novus Ordo sect’s false sacraments and false hierarchy.
The article mentions “Bishop Barres… said ‘we will never submit’ to ‘the culture of death.'” **This is theatrical defiance. Barres submits daily to the antipope Leo XIV (Robert Prevost), to the Novus Ordo Missae, to the heresies of Vatican II (Dignitatis Humanae, Gaudium et Spes). His lawsuit uses the enemy’s weapons (the First Amendment, “religious freedom”) on the enemy’s turf (federal court). 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 “bishops” of the conciliar sect are manifest heretics by their adhesion to Vatican II; they have ipso facto lost all jurisdiction (Canon 188.4, 1917 Code; Cum ex Apostolatus Officio). Their “lawsuit” is a layman’s act, devoid of ecclesiastical authority.**
The Canadian tragedy—denied hospice, offered death—is the fruit of the laïcité the conciliar sect embraced at Vatican II. Quas Primas warned: “seeds of discord sown everywhere, flames of envy and hostility have engulfed nations… unbridled desires… division among citizens and blind and immeasurable egoism… domestic peace completely shattered… the whole society profoundly shaken and heading towards destruction.” The “religious freedom” strategy accelerates this destruction by legitimizing the neutral state.
The Only Catholic Response: Restaurare Omnia in Christo
The integral Catholic response to assisted suicide laws is not a federal injunction. It is the proclamation that Jesus Christ is King of Canada, of New York, of every nation—and that any law permitting the murder of the innocent is null and void ab initio (lex injusta non obligat). It is the refusal of all cooperation with the anti-Christian state, including the payment of taxes funding murder, the sending of children to state schools, the recognition of “civil marriages.” It is the establishment of parallel structures: true hospices run by true religious (those retaining valid orders and the true Faith), true guilds of Catholic physicians, true resistance to the novus ordo hierarchy.
The EWTN article, for all its sentimental pathos, serves the Prince of this World. It lulls the faithful into thinking the courts can save them. **“Unless the Lord build the house, they labour in vain that build it” (Ps 126:1). The “cardboard box in the mail” is the Eucharist of the Antichurch—efficient, sterile, deadly. The only antidote is the Unbloody Sacrifice of Calvary offered by valid priests in the true Mass, the social reign of Christ the King, and the rejection of every vestige of the conciliar revolution.**
Source:
Family learns hospice bed opened as father faced scheduled assisted suicide (ewtnnews.com)
Date: 06.08.2026