The National Catholic Register, organ of the conciliar sect’s “EWTN” media apparatus, reports that a United States federal district judge, Franklin Valderrama, has granted a temporary injunction shielding the “Archdiocese of Chicago,” the “Carmelite Sisters for the Aged and Infirm,” and the “Little Sisters of the Poor” from enforcement of Illinois’ assisted suicide statute while a federal lawsuit proceeds. The lawsuit, filed September 3 by the “religious liberty law firm Becket,” includes as plaintiffs “Archbishop” Blase Cupich and the aforementioned post-conciliar religious congregations. The “Cardinal” Cupich declared the law should be struck down “permanently,” insisting the Church’s objection “is not an attempt to impose Catholic teaching on non-Catholics” but merely “to stop the State from compelling Catholic health care providers to violate their conscience.” Meanwhile, the antipope Leo XIV (Robert Prevost) was photographed meeting with the “Little Sisters of the Poor” in Istanbul last November. Parallel litigation by “Bishop” Thomas Paprocki of Springfield and the Thomas More Society seeks to extend similar protections to “95% of Catholic health institutions in Illinois.” This sordid spectacle of the conciliar hierarchy groveling before Masonic tribunals for permission to refrain from murder epitomizes the total capitulation of the neo-church to the secularist order condemned by Pius XI and Pius IX.
The Conciliar Hierarchy’s Illegitimacy: No Authority to Sue, No Right to Be Heard
The very premise of this litigation is a fraud upon the faithful. The plaintiffs — “Archbishop” Blase Cupich, “Bishop” Thomas Paprocki, and the various “sisters” of post-conciliar congregations — possess no canonical mission, no jurisdiction, and no sacramental validity. As St. Robert Bellarmine teaches, “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” (De Romano Pontifice, lib. 2, cap. 30). The line of usurpers occupying the Vatican since 1958 — John XXIII, Paul VI, John Paul I, John Paul II, Benedict XVI, Francis, and now Leo XIV (Robert Prevost) — have all publicly professed the heresies of Vatican II: religious liberty, ecumenism, collegiality, and the dignity of man as the center of revelation. By the principle ipso facto, they lost all office the moment they embraced this Modernist synthesis. Canon 188.4 of the 1917 Code confirms: “Every office becomes vacant by the mere fact and without any declaration… if the cleric publicly defects from the Catholic faith.” Pope Paul IV’s Bull Cum ex Apostolatus Officio declares the promotion of a heretic “null, void, and of no effect” regardless of unanimous assent. Therefore, “Cupich,” “Paprocki,” “Prevost,” and their “religious” subordinates are laymen masquerading as clergy, devoid of any authority to represent the Catholic Church, to bind consciences, or to invoke the name of Christ in a court of law.
The Heresy of Religious Liberty: Begging Caesar for Crumbs
The central argument of the Becket lawsuit — that the First Amendment protects “the rights of Catholic and Christian doctors, hospitals, and health care ministries to reject assisted suicide” — is a formal adhesion to the condemned error of religious liberty. Pius IX’s Syllabus of Errors (1864) anathematizes the proposition: “In the present day it is no longer expedient that the Catholic religion should be held as the only religion of the State, to the exclusion of all other forms of worship” (Error 77) and “The Roman Pontiff can, and ought to, reconcile himself, and come to terms with progress, liberalism and modern civilization” (Error 80). By framing their resistance as a claim for “conscience exemptions” within a pluralistic legal framework, the conciliar plaintiffs concede the legitimacy of the secular state’s sovereignty over life and death. They do not deny the state’s right to authorize suicide; they merely demand a carve-out for themselves. This is the liberalism condemned by Quanta Cura and the Syllabus: the Church reduced to a private association begging toleration from the Civitas Dei‘s mortal enemy.
“Not an Attempt to Impose Catholic Teaching” — Apostasy in Plain Speech
“To be clear, the Church’s objection to this statute is not an attempt to impose Catholic teaching on non-Catholics… it is an effort to stop the State from compelling Catholic health care providers to violate their conscience.”
With these words, “Cardinal” Cupich publicly renounces the Social Kingship of Christ. Pius XI in Quas Primas (1925) declares: “His reign encompasses also all non-Christians, so that most truly the entire human race is subject to the authority of Jesus Christ… Let rulers of states therefore not refuse public veneration and obedience to the reigning Christ.” The encyclical condemns the “plague… of secularism, so-called laicism” which “began with the denial of Christ the Lord’s reign over all nations.” Cupich’s statement is a textbook implementation of that plague: he accepts the secularist premise that Catholic teaching has no binding force on the civil order, that the state may legitimately license murder, and that the Church’s only role is to negotiate exemptions for its own functionaries. This is not Catholicism; it is theological surrender to the Masonic city of man.
The “Little Sisters” and “Carmelites”: Post-Conciliar Counterfeits
The “Little Sisters of the Poor” and “Carmelite Sisters for the Aged and Infirm” cited as plaintiffs are creatures of the neo-church, formed or deformed after 1958 under the influence of the “renewal” mandated by Vatican II’s Perfectae Caritatis. Their “vocation” is described in purely horizontal, humanitarian terms: “showing Christ’s unbounded love to those who need it most — a love that endures in every circumstance and through every hardship.” Not a word of the Salus animarum, the Sacrifice of the Mass, the state of grace, or the final judgment. This is the anthropocentric “charity” of the new religion, stripped of supernatural content, perfectly compatible with the “common good” as defined by the Masonic state. The antipope Leo XIV’s visit to their Istanbul facility — highlighted in the article’s photograph — signifies nothing but the mutual recognition between the paramasonic Vatican structure and its satellite NGOs.
The Thomas More Society and Becket: Lay Usurpers of Ecclesiastical Authority
The involvement of the “Thomas More Society” and “Becket” — lay-led legal organizations operating entirely within the secular juridical order — completes the picture of ecclesial suicide. The Syllabus condemns the error that “The civil government… 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 submitting their cause to a federal judge, the conciliar plaintiffs acknowledge the supremacy of the civil power over the Church’s mission. They invoke the First Amendment — a Masonic construct enshrining libertas perditionis — as their shield. St. Pius X in Lamentabili Sane Exitu (1907) condemned the Modernist proposition: “The Church cannot, in any way, pass judgment on opinions concerning human abilities” (Prop. 5) and “The Church, in condemning errors, has no right to require any internal assent from the faithful” (Prop. 7). The conciliar sect, by resorting to secular courts, places the judgment of God’s law in the hands of His enemies.
Assisted Suicide: The Fruit of the Conciliar Revolution
The Illinois law, signed by Governor Pritzker in December 2025, is the logical consequence of the anthropocentric inversion inaugurated at Vatican II. Gaudium et Spes §12 teaches that “man is the only creature on earth which God willed for itself,” and §22 that “by his incarnation the Son of God has united himself in some fashion with every man.” This kenotic Christology — man as the self-sufficient subject of dignity — inevitably yields the “right to die.” The conciliar hierarchy’s opposition is purely procedural: they do not denounce the law as a crimen nefandum crying to heaven for vengeance, nor do they call the Catholic faithful to non possumus civil disobedience. They seek only exemptions. This is the strategy of containment perfected by the neo-church: manage the collapse, negotiate the terms of surrender, preserve the institutional assets.
The Masonic Blueprint: Diversion from the True Apostasy
As documented in the analysis of the False Fatima Apparitions, the conciliar apparatus functions as a Masonic psychological operation diverting attention from the apostasia within. The “Fatima” narrative — with its “consecration of Russia” and “triumph of the Immaculate Heart” — serves to “focus on external threats (communism), omitting the main danger: modernist apostasy within the Church since the beginning of the 20th century.” Today, the “religious liberty” litigation plays the same role: it creates a theatrical conflict between “faith-based providers” and the secular state, obscuring the reality that the conciliar hierarchy is the state’s most effective agent in dismantling the remnants of Christendom. The “victory” of a temporary injunction is celebrated as a triumph; in truth, it is a ratification of the secular order’s jurisdiction.
No Salvation in the Conciliar Structures
The faithful must understand: there is no canonical, sacramental, or supernatural life in the structures occupying the Vatican and the dioceses. The “Mass” celebrated by “Cupich” or “Paprocki” is at best a simulacrum, at worst an idolatrous service of the “community.” The “Communion” distributed by the “sisters” or “chaplains” in their facilities is not the Body of Christ but bread, because the form and intentio of the Novus Ordo missae defect from the Catholic theology of the Propitiatory Sacrifice. The “blessing” of the antipope Leo XIV is the blessing of a heretic, which is a curse (Prov. 28:9). The only true Church is the Ecclesia militans persevering in the integral Faith of Trent, the Mass of Pius V, and the governance of bishops validly ordained in the traditional rite before 1968. All else is abominatio desolationis.
Conclusion: The Kingship of Christ Admits No Compromise
Pius XI commanded: “If rulers and legitimate superiors will have the conviction that they exercise authority not so much by their own right as by the command and in the place of the Divine King, everyone will notice how religiously and wisely they will use their authority.” The conciliar plaintiffs, by contrast, exercise their “authority” by filing briefs in federal court, citing the First Amendment, and begging the Masonic state for mercy. They have no conviction that they act in loco Christi Regis. They are functionaries of the Antichrist’s kingdom, administering the temporal goods of a usurped patrimony while the souls entrusted to them perish without the true Sacraments. Let no Catholic be deceived: the only remedy for the culture of death is the integral restoration of the Social Kingship of Christ — not a court order, not a conscience clause, not a “religious liberty” victory. Regnavit a ligno Deus.
Source:
Court Says Chicago Archdiocese and Nuns Won’t Have to Submit to Illinois Suicide Law (ncregister.com)
Date: 12.09.2026