The EWTN News portal reports that on September 11, 2026, the UK Parliament voted 286–270 against a bill to legalize assisted suicide in England and Wales, ending a two-year legislative push. The article frames the defeat as a victory for the “Catholic Bishops’ Conference of England and Wales,” quoting Archbishop John Sherrington of Liverpool and Archbishop Richard Moth praising the result as a triumph for “solidarity,” “compassionate society,” and “excellent palliative care.” This celebration exposes the conciliar hierarchy’s complete capitulation to naturalism: they have reduced the Kingship of Christ to a lobbying effort in a Masonic parliament, substituting the supernatural order for humanitarian sentiment.
The Fact of Collaboration with the Usurped Civil Power
The cited article reveals that the “lead bishop for life issues,” Sherrington, “thanked those who wrote to their MPs to stop the bill’s progression” while Moth “called on the faithful to write to lawmakers to petition against the bill.” This is not the voice of the Church Militant; it is the whine of a pressure group begging crumbs from a illegitimate legislature. Quas Primas teaches that “the State must leave the same freedom to the members of Orders and Congregations… who are indeed the most valiant helpers of the Pastors of the Church… either by combating the triple concupiscence of the world through religious vows, or by striving for perfection” (Pius XI, Quas Primas). Instead, these men direct the faithful to participate in the democratic farce, implicitly recognizing the “right” of a Godless parliament to decide life and death. The Syllabus of Errors condemns the proposition that “The civil government, even when in the hands of an infidel sovereign, has a right to an indirect negative power over religious affairs” (Pius IX, Syllabus, Error 41). By lobbying MPs, the conciliar hierarchy affirms this very error.
Linguistic Level: The Vocabulary of the “Church of the New Advent”
The rhetoric is stripped of the supernatural. Sherrington speaks of “the true measure of a compassionate society,” “solidarity, care and respect,” “human relationships,” “shared responsibility,” and “excellent palliative and end-of-life care.” Not a word of gratia, salus animarum, the Social Reign of Christ the King, or the Four Last Things. The term “lead bishop for life issues” is a bureaucratic title worthy of an NGO, not a successor of the Apostles. This language is the lingua franca of Modernism, condemned by St. Pius X in Lamentabili Sane Exitu: “The dogmas of faith should be understood according to their practical function, i.e., as binding in action, rather than as principles of belief” (Proposition 26). The conciliar “bishops” have made the Faith a social policy.
Theological Level: The Absence of Christ the King and the Supernatural Order
Quas Primas declares: “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 entire human society had to be shaken, because it lacked a stable and strong foundation” (Pius XI, Quas Primas, citing Ubi Arcano). The article’s “bishops” do not demand that Parliament acknowledge Christ’s Kingship; they merely ask it to reject one particular evil. This is the hermeneutic of continuity with the world, not with Tradition. They accept the secular state’s autonomy in moral legislation, contradicting the Syllabus: “The Church ought to be separated from the State, and the State from the Church” (Error 55) — a proposition the conciliar sect effectively embraces by operating within the secular framework.
Furthermore, the “bishops” are not true bishops. The Defense of Sedevacantism establishes that “A Pope-manifest heretic loses his office automatically” (St. Robert Bellarmine, De Romano Pontifice), and the line of post-1958 claimants are manifest heretics by their adherence to Vatican II’s errors (religious liberty, ecumenism, collegiality). Consequently, the “Catholic Bishops’ Conference” is a paramasonic structure devoid of jurisdiction. Sherrington and Moth are “bishops” of the conciliar sect, ordained in the invalid Paul VI rite, exercising a simulated ministry. Their “opposition” to assisted suicide is a potemkin virtue signaling that legitimizes the neo-church as a “moral voice” in the public square — the very “ecumenism project” and “diversion from apostasy” identified in the analysis of False Fatima Apparitions.
Symptomatic Level: The Fruit of the Conciliar Revolution
This episode is a textbook symptom of the abomination of desolation occupying the Vatican. The conciliar hierarchy’s strategy is dialogue and lobbying — the tools of the Church of the New Advent — rather than the prophetic denunciation of a Parliament that has “defected from the Catholic faith” (Canon 188.4, 1917 Code). The Syllabus condemns: “The obligation by which Catholic teachers and authors are strictly bound is confined to those things only which are proposed to universal belief as dogmas of faith by the infallible judgment of the Church” (Error 22). The “bishops” confine themselves to “life issues” while silent on the apostasy of the nation, the invalidity of the Novus Ordo, the sacrilege of “communion” in the hand, and the usurpation of the Holy See.
The article notes the bill was “originally sponsored by Labour Member of Parliament (MP) Kim Leadbeater” and “reintroduced… by Lauren Edwards.” The “bishops” treat these agents of the synagogue of Satan (Pius IX, Allocution) as legitimate interlocutors. Quas Primas warns: “Let rulers of states therefore not refuse public veneration and obedience to the reigning Christ… if they wish to maintain their authority inviolate”. The conciliar hierarchy does not demand this veneration; it begs for a negative vote.
The EWTN Complicity
The source, EWTN News, is an organ of the neo-church, founded by the modernist “Mother” Angelica, promoting the false unity of the conciliar sect. Its reporting sanitizes the “bishops'” naturalism, presenting it as Catholic witness. This is the “disinformation strategy” of Stage 3 identified in the False Fatima analysis: “Takeover of the narrative by modernists, concealment of the Third Secret, ecumenical reinterpretation.” EWTN conceals the sedevacantist truth — that the See of Peter is vacant, the sacraments are largely unavailable, and the only remedy is return to immutable Tradition under valid bishops and priests.
The defeat of the assisted suicide bill is not a Catholic victory; it is a Masonic managed dialectic where the controlled opposition of the conciliar hierarchy validates the secular state’s sovereignty over moral law. Non praevalebunt — but the gates of hell prevail only where the Kingship of Christ is denied. The “bishops” of England and Wales have denied it in deed and word.
Source:
UK Parliament rejects assisted suicide bill (ewtnnews.com)
Date: 11.09.2026