The EWTN News portal reports that Massachusetts Governor Maura Healey, a self-identified Catholic, has signed legislation removing all statutory limits on abortion, making the Commonwealth the eleventh state to legalize the slaughter of the unborn without restriction. The president of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops, “Archbishop” Paul Coakley of Oklahoma City, labeled the decision “shocking” and “horrendous,” an “affront against the dignity of life,” yet immediately abdicated any ecclesiastical responsibility by declaring that excommunication of the governor is a matter “between the governor and her bishop,” admitting the USCCB possesses no such authority. The lay organization CatholicVote demanded Healey’s excommunication, citing canon law and the gravity of public scandal. The article further notes pro-life enthusiasm for a potential federal enforcement of the Comstock Act against mail-order abortifacients and a legal challenge in Virginia regarding a proposed constitutional amendment enshrining abortion. This spectacle of bureaucratic hand-wringing and juridical evasion by the conciliar hierarchy manifests the total collapse of the Church’s public witness and the substitution of the *regnum Christi* with the *regnum hominis*.
The Theological Vacuum of “Dignity” Rhetoric
The language employed by the conciliar “archbishop” is revealing in its vacuity. Coakley speaks of an “affront against the dignity of life” and a “blow to the pro-life movement.” Nowhere does he name the offense for what it is in the sight of God: a crying sin against the Fifth Commandment, a violation of the natural law written on the human heart, a participation in the murder of the innocent that cries to heaven for vengeance (*Genesis 4:10*). The reduction of the theological category of *mortale peccatum* to the secular humanitarian slogan “dignity of life” is the hallmark of the conciliar revolution. Pius XI, in *Quas Primas*, teaches that “when God and Jesus Christ… were removed from laws and states… the foundations of that authority were destroyed.” The conciliar “bishops” have internalized this removal; they speak the language of the United Nations, not the language of the Gospels. They do not call Healey to repentance for the salvation of her immortal soul; they express “concern” for a “movement.” This is not the voice of the *Ecclesia docens*; it is the whimper of a secular NGO.
The Juridical Farce: “No Authority” to Bind and Loose
The most damning admission in the report comes from Coakley himself: “the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops or any episcopal conference really does not have that kind of authority to excommunicate Healey.” Here the conciliar “archbishop” inadvertently speaks a truth he does not understand. The USCCB is a canonical fiction, a bureaucratic apparatus of the conciliar sect, devoid of the *potestas iurisdictionis* that belongs exclusively to the Roman Pontiff and to bishops in communion with him. Since the See of Peter has been vacant since the death of Pius XII in 1958—occupied by a line of manifest heretics beginning with John XXIII, continuing through Paul VI, John Paul II, Benedict XVI, Francis, and now the antipope Leo XIV (Robert Prevost)—there exists no legitimate episcopate within the visible structures of the Vatican. As St. Robert Bellarmine teaches, a manifest heretic “by that very fact ceases to be Pope and head… as he ceases to be a Christian and member of the body of the Church” (*De Romano Pontifice*). The “bishops” ordained in the new rite (post-1968) or those who adhere to the antipope possess no jurisdiction *ab ipso facto*. They cannot bind, they cannot loose, they cannot excommunicate. Coakley’s admission that the matter is “between the governor and her bishop” is a tacit confession that the conciliar hierarchy is a *societas sine iure*, a society without law, floating in a juridical void of its own making.
The Scandal of “Catholic” Politicians: A Fruit of False Ecumenism and Religious Liberty
The article notes that Healey is “Catholic” and signed the bill at a “celebratory public event” met with “applause.” For sixty years, the conciliar sect has tolerated, dialogueued with, and even honored pro-abortion politicians—Kennedy, Cuomo, Biden, Pelosi, Newsom, and now Healey. This is the inevitable fruit of the heresy of *Dignitatis Humanae* and the false ecumenism of *Unitatis Redintegratio*. By teaching that the State is not bound to profess the Catholic Faith and that error has rights, the conciliar “popes” and “bishops” stripped the Church of her *potestas indirecta in temporalia* and rendered the Catholic politician free to serve Caesar rather than Christ. Pius IX condemned in the *Syllabus of Errors* (Prop. 77) the proposition that “in the present day it is no longer expedient that the Catholic religion should be held as the only religion of the State.” He condemned (Prop. 55) the separation of Church and State. The conciliar sect has embraced these condemned errors as its “magisterium.” The result is a “Catholic” governor who legislates infanticide with a clear conscience, validated by the silence of her “bishop” and the impotent lamentations of a “conference” that exists only to manage the decline.
The Naturalistic Delusion: Trust in Caesar’s Law (Comstock Act)
The article highlights pro-life enthusiasm for Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche’s pledge to review the Comstock Act to halt mail-order abortifacients. This misplaced hope in the *lex humana* is a symptom of the naturalism condemned by St. Pius X in *Pascendi* and *Lamentabili Sane Exitu*. The Modernist error holds that “the progress of sciences requires a reform of the concept of Christian doctrine” (*Lamentabili*, Prop. 64); the practical naturalist error of the pro-life movement holds that the progress of legislation can substitute for the *Lex Divina*. The Comstock Act is a statute of the Masonic United States, a power structure historically dedicated to the overthrow of the Social Kingship of Christ. To petition Caesar to restrain the slaughter he has legalized is to acknowledge his sovereignty over life and death. It is the cry of the Israelites demanding a king “like all the nations” (*1 Samuel 8:5*). The true remedy is not a federal statute but the *Consecratio* of the nation to the Sacred Heart, the restoration of the Catholic confessional State, and the recognition that “there is no other name under heaven given to men by which we must be saved” (*Acts 4:12*), as Pius XI reiterates in *Quas Primas*. The “pro-life movement” has become a wing of the Republican Party, a political pressure group devoid of supernatural grace, fighting the City of Man with the weapons of the City of Man.
The “Excommunication” Theater: CatholicVote and the Illusion of Canonical Order
CatholicVote’s demand for Healey’s excommunication, while rhetorically appealing to “the logic of medicinal punishment,” operates within the same conciliar framework. They address the “bishop” of Boston (a member of the apostate hierarchy) as if he possessed the power of the keys. They treat the 1983 Code of Canon Law—a product of the conciliar revolution, riddled with collegialist and subjectivist errors—as if it were the immutable law of the Church. True canonical punishment *ferendae sententiae* requires a legitimate judge; *latae sententiae* excommunication for procuring abortion (Canon 1398 of the 1983 Code, reflecting the perennial law) attaches *ipso facto* to the perpetrator. Healey *is* excommunicated by the very nature of her act, regardless of any declaration by a “bishop” who himself sits outside the Church. The theater of “calling for excommunication” serves only to obscure the reality: the conciliar structure has no power to declare the *fait accompli*, because it has no power to teach, govern, or sanctify. It is a *simulacrum iurisdictionis*.
The Symptomatic Level: The Abomination of Desolation in the Holy Place
This entire episode—the legislative murder, the episcopal whimper, the lay activism, the legalistic maneuvering—is a perfect icon of the *abominatio desolationis* spoken of by Daniel and Our Lord (*Matthew 24:15*). The “Holy Place” (the visible structures of the Church) is occupied by a paramasonic structure that mimics the Church’s externals while denying her soul. The “bishops” are hirelings who flee when the wolf comes (*John 10:12*), offering not the Bread of Life but the stones of political commentary. The “faithful” are scattered, looking to Caesar for protection. The remedy is not found in the “bishops of Massachusetts” nor in the USCCB nor in the Comstock Act. The remedy is found in the *Ecclesia militans* adhering to the immutable Tradition, the valid Sacraments, the true Mass of the Ages, and the Social Kingship of Christ the King. As Pius XI commands: “Let rulers of states therefore not refuse public veneration and obedience to the reigning Christ… if they wish to maintain their authority inviolate” (*Quas Primas*). Massachusetts has refused; the conciliar hierarchy has refused to call them to account; the true Church endures in the catacombs, praying *Veni, Domine Jesu*, awaiting the restoration of all things in Christ.
Source:
Massachusetts abortion law ‘horrendous,’ top Catholic bishop says (ewtnnews.com)
Date: 14.08.2026