Paprocki’s Lawsuit: Conciliar ‘Bishops’ Beg Secular Courts for ‘Conscience’ Crumbs
The National Catholic Register (NCR), the flagship organ of the EWTN media empire, reports that the “Bishop” of Springfield, Illinois, Thomas Paprocki, has joined a Lutheran nursing home and four doctors in a federal lawsuit against the State of Illinois over its “End-of-Life Options” assisted suicide law. The coalition, represented by the Thomas More Society, argues that the statute compels participation in suicide against “conscience” and abandons “nearly two millennia of medical practice.” Paprocki claims Catholic healthcare must advance “the healing work of Christ” and “affirm the God-given dignity of every human life,” demanding freedom to serve “according to our faith, not according to the state’s mandate.” A similar suit was filed by Rockville Centre “Bishop” John Barres and religious sisters against New York’s law. This legalistic maneuvering exposes the total capitulation of the conciliar hierarchy to the secular order: they petition Caesar for “religious liberty” crumbs rather than proclaiming the Social Kingship of Christ (Quas Primas) which demands the State’s subordination to God’s Law.