The Vatican News portal reports that the “bishops” of England and Wales — specifically the “Archbishop” of Liverpool John Sherrington, the “Bishop” of Portsmouth Philip Egan, and the “Bishop” of Hexham and Newcastle Stephen Wright — have issued statements opposing the Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill scheduled for its second reading in the House of Commons on 11 September 2026. These prelates of the conciliar sect describe the legislation as “flawed and dangerous,” “dangerously flawed,” and a “bad Bill,” citing insufficient safeguards for the vulnerable, risks to conscientious objection, and potential damage to palliative care. The “Archbishop” Sherrington urges “all people of goodwill” to contact their MPs via an online form. This spectacle of conciliar “bishops” lobbying a Masonic parliament using the language of secular humanism and “human rights” exposes the total capitulation of the neo-church to the civil order and its abandonment of the regnum Christi (reign of Christ) over society.
The Language of the Conciliar Sect: Pragmatism Replaces Principle
The vocabulary employed by these “bishops” is revealing. “Archbishop” Sherrington declares the bill “flawed and dangerous” — not intrinsically evil (intrinsece malum), not a violation of the divine positive law (lex divina positiva), not a crime crying to heaven for vengeance (crimen clamans ad caelum). The “Bishop” Egan calls the principle of assisted suicide “abominable” but immediately pivots to “mission creep” and Canadian statistics (“more than 5% of deaths are by lethal injection”). The “Bishop” Wright asserts “Life is a gift from God” but frames his opposition as “Morals and ethics aside… it’s a bad Bill.”
This is the hermeneutic of discontinuity in action: the conciliar “magisterium” has so thoroughly naturalized the Faith that its representatives now speak the language of NGOs and parliamentary committees. They do not thunder Non possumus (we cannot) in the name of Christ the King; they whisper “insufficient safeguards” in the name of “vulnerable people.” As Pius XI teaches in Quas Primas: “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”. These “bishops” have accepted the removal of Christ from the civil order and now haggle over the terms of His absence.
The Conciliar “Episcopate” as Lobbyists for a Masonic Parliament
The very act of directing the faithful to an online form to contact MPs is a confession of ecclesiological bankruptcy. The “bishops” of the neo-church act as a pressure group within a democratic system they implicitly legitimize. They do not declare that the Parliament of the United Kingdom — a body born of the Reformation, sustained by Freemasonry, and now openly apostate — lacks the competence to legislate on matters of life and death. They do not invoke Canon 188.4 of the 1917 Code against Catholic legislators who vote for such a bill (publice a fide catholica deficere). They do not threaten excommunication (latae sententiae) for “Catholic” MPs who support murder.
Instead, they participate in the dialogue — that most Modernist of virtues — with the powers of darkness. The Syllabus of Pius IX condemns the error that “The civil government, even when in the hands of an infidel sovereign, has a right to an indirect negative power over religious affairs” (Error 41) and that “In the case of conflicting laws enacted by the two powers, the civil law prevails” (Error 42). By lobbying Parliament, these “bishops” affirm the supremacy of the civil power over the moral law. They have become clerici saeculares (secular clerics) in the service of the civitas terrena.
No Mention of the Kingship of Christ, the Social Reign, or the Duty of the State
Read the statements again. There is zero reference to the Social Kingship of Christ (Regnum Christi Sociale), instituted by Pius XI in the very encyclical Quas Primas (1925) which the conciliar sect has effectively abolished. There is no declaration that “The state must leave the same freedom to the members of Orders… who are indeed the most valiant helpers of the Pastors of the Church” (Quas Primas). There is no reminder that “Rulers of states… have the duty to publicly honor Christ and obey Him” (Quas Primas). There is no condemnation of the laicism (laïcité) that Pius XI identifies as “the plague that poisons human society.”
The “Bishop” Wright says: “It’s not for human beings to kill one another in any context.” True — but why? Because the Fifth Commandment binds jus divinum (divine law), not because of “safeguards” or “palliative care.” The “Bishop” Egan warns of “sick babies, the disabled” being killed — as if the killing of the terminally ill were less grave. This is the slippery slope argument of the utilitarian, not the argumentum ex fide of the Catholic bishop. The conciliar “episcopate” has adopted the ethics of the lesser evil, which is no Catholic ethics at all.
The Invalidity of the Conciliar “Episcopate” and Their Sacramental Nullity
These men — Sherrington, Egan, Wright — are not bishops of the Catholic Church. They are functionaries of the conciliar sect, ordained in the invalid Pontificale Romanum of Paul VI (1968), consecrated by “bishops” who themselves lack valid orders and jurisdiction. They recognize as “pope” the usurper Leo XIV (Robert Prevost), a manifest heretic who by that very fact ipso facto ceased to be a member of the Church, let alone its head (St. Robert Bellarmine, De Romano Pontifice: “A manifest heretic… by that very fact ceases to be Pope and head, just as he ceases to be a Christian and member of the body of the Church”).
Pope Paul IV’s Bull Cum ex Apostolatus Officio declares that the promotion of a heretic “shall be null, void, and of no effect”. The “bishops” of England and Wales derive their “mission” from an antipope; they have no jurisdiction, no authority, no sacramental power. Their “opposition” to the bill is not the voice of the Church; it is the noise of a synagoga Satanae (synagogue of Satan) managing the controlled opposition for the Masonic state. As St. Pius X condemned in Lamentabili sane exitu (prop. 55): “The organic structure of the Church is subject to change, and the Christian community, like the human community, is subject to continuous evolution” — this evolutionist ecclesiology produces exactly such “bishops” who evolve with the times.
The Silence on the Supernatural End: The Gravest Accusation
The article notes the “bishops” warn of “negative consequences for the most vulnerable,” “coercion,” “domestic abuse,” “eating disorders.” Not one word on the eternal salvation of souls. Not one word on the stipendium peccati mors (the wages of sin is death). Not one word on the necessity of the status gratiae (state of grace), the viaticum, the extrema unctio, the judicium particulare (particular judgment). Not one word on the poena aeterna (eternal punishment) awaiting the unrepentant murderer and the suicide.
This silence is the crimen omissionis (crime of omission) that defines the conciliar sect. They have reduced the salus animarum (salvation of souls) — the suprema lex of the Church — to the salus corporum (safety of bodies) and the qualitas vitae (quality of life). They have become philanthropi (philanthropists), not pastores (shepherds). As Pius XI warned: “The Church… gives birth to and raises up ever new ranks of holy men and women” — but the neo-church produces only social workers in clerical collars.
The “Catholic” Laity Mobilized as Democratic Citizens, Not as Soldiers of Christ
The “online form” to contact MPs is the perfect symbol of the conciliar laity’s vocation: democratic activism. They are not called to orare et laborare (pray and work) for the regnum Christi, to offer reparation for the sins of the nation, to demand the consecratio of the country to the Sacred Heart (as Leo XIII did in Annum Sacrum, 1899, cited in Quas Primas). They are called to click a link and participate in the theatrum politicum (political theater) of a Protestant-Masonic parliament.
This is the fruit of Dignitatis Humanae and Gaudium et Spes: the laity as “autonomous” agents in the secular order, the Church as a “partner” in dialogue. The true Catholic laity, as St. Pius X taught in Il Fermo Proposito (1905), must “restore all things in Christ” (instaurare omnia in Christo) — beginning with the recognition of Christ’s Kingship over the civil law. The conciliar “bishops” lead them instead to petition Caesar for “safeguards” on the cross.
Conclusion: The Conciliar Sect as the Handmaid of the Culture of Death
The “opposition” of Sherrington, Egan, and Wright is not a defense of the Faith; it is a managed dissent designed to absorb Catholic energy into the harmless channels of parliamentary procedure. They do not anathematize the bill; they “urge opposition.” They do not excommunicate the promoters; they “share concerns” with the Royal College of Psychiatrists and the BMA. They do not proclaim Christus Vincit, Christus Regnat, Christus Imperat; they whisper “flawed and dangerous.”
This is the abomination of desolation standing in the holy place: a false hierarchy occupying the sees of England and Wales, speaking the language of the enemy, legitimizing the enemy’s legislature, and betraying the regnum Christi. The true Church — the Ecclesia militans of Tradition — knows that “There is no other name under heaven given to men by which we must be saved” (Acts 4:12), and that no “safeguards” can make the murder of the innocent anything but a sin that cries to heaven. Non praevalebunt (they shall not prevail).
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Bishops of England and Wales condemn 'flawed and dangerous' assisted dying bill (vaticannews.va)
Date: 10.09.2026