Conciliar Bishops Capitulate to EU Secular Courts, Reduce Baptism to Bureaucratic Record
The EWTN News portal reports that the Commission of the Bishops’ Conferences of the European Union (COMECE) has submitted a position paper to the Court of Justice of the European Union opposing the erasure of baptismal records under the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). The conciliar prelates argue that baptismal registers are merely “records of historical events” and “fundamental evidentiary instrument[s]” for internal governance, warning that deletion would imply baptism is “repeatable and optional” and constitute an “infringement on the substance of the sacrament.” The case originated from a 2023 request in the Diocese of Ghent, Belgium. The conciliar hierarchy’s defense rests entirely on procedural autonomy and canonical record-keeping, surrendering the supernatural reality of the sacrament to the jurisdiction of a Masonic secular tribunal.
Submission to the Secular Sword: The Conciliar Hierarchy Begs Caesar for Permission to Exist
The very act of appearing before the Court of Justice of the European Union to defend the Church’s “autonomy” is a public admission that the conciliar sect recognizes the supremacy of the secular order over the spiritual. By what right does a Masonic tribunal, erected in contempt of the Social Kingship of Christ, adjudicate the sacramental records of the Catholic Church? Pope Pius XI, in Quas Primas, thundered: “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 conciliar “bishops” do not challenge the EU’s usurped jurisdiction; they plead for an exemption within it. They accept the premise that the European Union — a construct of the synagogue of Satan foretold by Pius IX in the Syllabus of Errors (prop. 55: “The Church ought to be separated from the State, and the State from the Church”) — has the competence to rule on the sacraments instituted by Christ. This is not a defense of the faith; it is a negotiation of surrender.
Reduction of the Sacrament to a “Historical Event”: The Naturalistic Perversion of Baptism
The COMECE position paper declares: “The purpose of a baptismal register is not to bear witness to the faith of individual persons… Rather, such registers function as a ‘fundamental evidentiary instrument’ for ‘numerous matters relating to the internal life of the Church.'” This is a heretical reduction of the sacrament to a bureaucratic entry. The Council of Trent, Session VII, Canon 9 on Baptism, anathematizes anyone who says that baptism is “not necessary for salvation” or that it does not confer grace ex opere operato. The baptismal register records not a “historical event” but the indelible character (character indelebilis) imprinted on the soul — a spiritual seal that configures the baptized to Christ the High Priest and incorporates him into the Mystical Body. As St. Augustine teaches against the Donatists: “The sacrament of baptism is not conferred by the merit of the minister, but by the merit of Christ… The character of the sacrament remains even in the wicked.” (Contra Epistolam Parmeniani, II, 28). To speak of “historical events” and “evidentiary instruments” is to speak the language of the notary, not the theologian. It is the language of Modernism, condemned by St. Pius X in Lamentabili Sane Exitu (prop. 39-40): the sacraments are reduced to “modes of explanation and stages in the evolution of Christian consciousness.”
The “Character” Denied: Baptism as Repeatable and Optional?
The conciliar prelates warn that erasure would “mislead both Catholics and non-believers into being convinced that the sacrament of baptism is ‘repeatable and optional.'” They have the causality inverted. It is their own theology — or lack thereof — that has already convinced the faithful of this lie. The Novus Ordo “baptismal” rites, the universal practice of “conditional baptism” for converts from Protestant sects without rigorous investigation of form and matter, the charismatic “baptism in the Spirit,” and the ecumenical recognition of “valid baptism” in heretical communities — all of this has already emptied the sacrament of its uniqueness and necessity. The Council of Florence defined: “Holy Baptism… cannot be repeated.” (Exultate Deo, Denz. 1314). The character indelebilis is ontological, not archival. No secular court, no GDPR request, no episcopal “deletion” can erase what God has sealed. The conciliar hierarchy fears the appearance of repeatability because they have already destroyed the reality of the character in the minds of the faithful by their false ecumenism and their denial of extra Ecclesiam nulla salus.
Canon 188.4 and the Vacancy of the Conciliar See
The article refers to “European bishops” and “the Catholic Church” as represented by COMECE. These are not Catholic bishops. They are functionaries of the abomination of desolation occupying the Vatican since 1958. Canon 188.4 of the 1917 Code — still binding as immutable ecclesiastical law — declares: “Every office becomes vacant by the mere fact and without any declaration… if the cleric: 4. Publicly defects from the Catholic faith.” The “bishops” of COMECE, by their participation in the false ecumenism of Vatican II, their acceptance of religious liberty (Dignitatis Humanae), their communion with the manifest heretics “Pope” Francis and now “Pope” Leo XIV (Robert Prevost), have publicly defected from the faith. They hold no jurisdiction. Their “position paper” is the legal brief of a schismatic sect, not the voice of the Church. As Pope Paul IV defined in Cum ex Apostolatus Officio: “…if at any time it shall appear that any Bishop… has defected from the Catholic Faith or fallen into some heresy: (i) his promotion or elevation… shall be null, void, and of no effect.”
The Silence on the Supernatural: No Grace, No Soul, No Eternity
Read the COMECE statement again. There is not a single mention of grace, of the Holy Ghost, of the remission of original sin, of the theological virtues infused, of the right to eternal life. The register is defended as a tool for verifying “whether or not a person has married, made a profession in a religious institute or been confirmed.” This is pure juridicism — the juridicalism condemned by Pius XII in Mystici Corporis Christi — stripped of the mysterium. The conciliar hierarchy has no language for the supernatural because they no longer believe in it. They speak of “theological reflection” protected by “Church autonomy” — a phrase lifted from the secular lexicon of “institutional independence.” This is the laicism Pius XI denounced in Quas Primas: “the secularism of our times, so-called laicism, its errors and wicked endeavors.” The conciliar sect is not the Church; it is a paramasonic structure mimicking the Church’s external forms while denying her soul.
EWTN: The Propaganda Arm of the Neo-Church
The article is published by EWTN News, authored by Daniel Payne. EWTN, founded by the late Mother Angelica, has long served as the de facto media organ of the conciliar establishment, promoting the “recognize and resist” delusion and the indult “Traditional Latin Mass” as a palliative for those fleeing the Novus Ordo. By framing this capitulation to the EU as a courageous defense of “religious liberty,” EWTN perpetuates the lie that the conciliar hierarchy represents the Catholic Church. It does not. It represents the Church of the New Advent, the neo-church of the Antichrist. The true Church — the Ecclesia militans — exists only where the integral faith of Trent and Vatican I is preserved, where bishops retain valid orders and jurisdiction (or at least valid orders and the intention to do what the Church does), and where the Mass of the Ages is offered una cum the true Pope (the last being Pius XII) or in sedevacancy una cum the Church triumphant.
The GDPR as Divine Chastisement
The GDPR demand for the “right to be forgotten” applied to baptismal records is a diabolical parody of the Book of Life. “He that shall overcome shall thus be clothed in white garments, and I will not blot out his name out of the book of life.” (Apoc. 3:5). The secular state, having apostatized from the Kingship of Christ (prop. 77 of the Syllabus: “In the present day it is no longer expedient that the Catholic religion should be held as the only religion of the State”), now demands the power to erase the very record of God’s ownership of the soul. The conciliar bishops’ response — “we need these records for marriage tribunals and religious profession” — is the response of a property manager, not a shepherd. They have already surrendered the keys. The EU court will rule as it pleases; the conciliar sect will comply, as it has complied with every secular demand since Dignitatis Humanae. The true Catholic, baptized with the true rite by a valid priest, carries the character in his soul before the throne of God. No EU directive, no conciliar “deletion,” no Masonic “canonization” can touch it. “The Lord knoweth who are his.” (2 Tim. 2:19). The rest is dust and archives.
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European bishops warn against allowing erasure of ‘theological reality’ of baptismal records (ewtnnews.com)
Date: 05.09.2026