The EWTN News portal reports that the “Archdiocese” of Chicago, under its “Archbishop” Blase Cupich, along with the Carmelite Sisters for the Aged and Infirm and the Little Sisters of the Poor, has secured a temporary injunction from a federal judge blocking enforcement of Illinois’ assisted suicide law against them. The lawsuit, filed by the Becket law firm, argues that the law infringes on “religious liberty” by compelling participation in suicide. “Archbishop” Cupich stated the objection is not to “impose Catholic teaching on non-Catholics” but to stop the State from compelling “Catholic health care providers to violate their conscience.” Simultaneously, “Bishop” Thomas Paprocki of Springfield, alongside a Lutheran care home and other groups represented by the Thomas More Society, pursues a parallel suit. This legalistic scramble for exemptions within a Masonic legal framework exposes the total bankruptcy of the conciliar sect’s “pro-life” strategy: it surrenders the Social Kingship of Christ to beg for tolerance from the very state that legalizes murder.
The Heresy of Religious Liberty as Operational Principle
The entire edifice of this litigation rests on the false conciliar doctrine of religious liberty (Dignitatis Humanae), a doctrine condemned by the immutable Magisterium. Pope Pius IX in the Syllabus of Errors (1864) condemned the proposition that “every man is free to embrace and profess that religion which, guided by the light of reason, he shall consider true” (Error 15) and that “the Church ought to be separated from the State, and the State from the Church” (Error 55). Pope Leo XIII in Libertas Praestantissimum (1888) taught that true liberty is freedom from error and sin, not a license to propagate falsehood. By invoking the First Amendment—a Masonic construct enshrining indifference to truth—the “Archdiocese” and its legal mercenaries at Becket implicitly accept the secularist premise that the State is the source of rights, merely granting exemptions as acts of grace. They do not demand the repeal of the law as an affront to God’s sovereignty; they demand a “safe space” for their own institutional survival.
Pius XI in Quas Primas (1925) declared: “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.” The conciliar hierarchy, by arguing within the framework of “conscience rights” granted by the secular sovereign, ratifies the very removal of Christ from the public order that Pius XI anathematized. They act as chaplains to the revolution, not as its conquerors.
Collaboration with Heretics and Schismatics: The Scandal of Ecumenical Litigation
The article notes that “Bishop” Paprocki’s lawsuit includes “a Lutheran care home” and that the Thomas More Society boasts of representing “95% of Catholic health institutions in Illinois and more than 13,000 health care professionals nationwide” alongside “Christian health care professionals.” This is the practical application of the conciliar false ecumenism condemned by Pius XI in Mortalium Animos (1928): the unity of action with those who deny the Catholic Faith, under the banner of “shared values.” The “Catholic” plaintiffs make common cause with a Lutheran institution—an ecclesial community originating in heresy and schism—to petition a secular court. This is not the unam sanctam of Boniface VIII; it is a coalition of the compromised.
The “Catholic Medical Association” (CMA), represented by Dr. Mary Keen Kirchoff, celebrates the injunction as a victory against discrimination toward those with “deeply held religious beliefs.” Note the language: not “divine law,” not “the Fifth Commandment,” not “the Kingship of Christ,” but “religious beliefs”—a subjective, Modernist category placing revealed truth on par with private opinion. This is the fruit of Vatican II’s Gaudium et Spes and its anthropocentric turn: the reduction of the Church’s mission to the defense of “conscience” understood as autonomy, not as conformity to the lex aeterna.
The Illusion of “Catholic Health Care” in the Conciliar Sect
The plaintiffs—the “Carmelite Sisters for the Aged and Infirm,” the “Little Sisters of the Poor,” the “Illinois Catholic Health Association,” the “National Association of Catholic Nurses”—are institutions fully integrated into the post-conciliar structure. They operate under the “authority” of “bishops” who have implemented the Novus Ordo, the new Code of Canon Law (1983), and the catechetical ruin of the past six decades. Their “health care” has long since accommodated the culture of death: the widespread distribution of abortifacient “contraceptives” in their formularies, the acceptance of “palliative care” protocols that blur the line between comfort and euthanasia, the collaboration with government funding streams that mandate compliance with anti-life regulations. They now seek a judicial carve-out for “assisted suicide” while having long surrendered the integral deposit of faith.
The “Archbishop” Cupich’s statement—”the Church’s objection to this statute is not an attempt to impose Catholic teaching on non-Catholics”—is a formal capitulation to the secularist dogma that the State is religiously neutral. It is a direct contradiction of Quas Primas: “Let rulers of states therefore not refuse public veneration and obedience to the reigning Christ… if they wish to maintain their authority inviolate and contribute to the increase of their homeland’s happiness.” Cupich does not call Pritzker to convert and submit to Christ the King; he asks a federal judge to please not force his employees to kill. This is not the voice of the Church Militant; it is the whimper of a NGO seeking a grant renewal.
The Juridical Farce: Canon 188.4 and the Vacancy of the See
From the perspective of integral theology, the “Archdiocese of Chicago” lacks a legitimate Ordinary. “Blase Cupich” was appointed by “Pope” Francis (Jorge Bergoglio), a manifest heretic who, by the principle of ipso facto loss of office (Canon 188 §4 of the 1917 Code: “Publicly defects from the Catholic faith”), ceased to be a member of the Church, let alone its Head. St. Robert Bellarmine (De Romano Pontifice II, 30) teaches: “A manifest heretic cannot be Pope… he cannot be the head of something of which he is not a member.” Pope Paul IV’s Bull Cum ex Apostolatus Officio (1559) declares the promotion of a heretic “null, void, and of no effect.” Therefore, Cupich holds no jurisdiction; his “archdiocese” is a juridical fiction, a corporation sole under Illinois law, staffed by clerics ordained in the doubtful rite of Paul VI (1968), whose validity is gravely suspect due to defect of form and intention.
The “sisters” plaintiff are members of institutes that have embraced the conciliar reforms, including the replacement of the Unbloody Sacrifice of Calvary with the Protestantized “Memorial Meal.” Their “vocation of showing Christ’s unbounded love” (Mother Mary Rose Heery) is emptied of sacrificial content when the very act of worship has been stripped of its propitiatory nature. One cannot witness to the “love that endures in every circumstance” while offering the faithful a counterfeit sacrifice and submitting to a hierarchy that teaches religious indifferentism.
The Symptomatic Level: The Conciliar Sect as the “Abomination of Desolation”
This lawsuit is a symptom of the abomination of desolation standing in the holy place (Matt 24:15). The structures occupying the Vatican have, since 1958, systematically dismantled the Church’s immune system against the world. They replaced the Social Kingship of Christ with “religious freedom”; the Confessional State with “healthy secularity”; the Index of Forbidden Books with “dialogue”; the Syllabus with Gaudium et Spes. The result is a “Church” that sues Caesar for the right to exist, rather than proclaiming that Caesar has no authority except from God (John 19:11; Rom 13:1).
The “Thomas More Society” and “Becket” are the legal arms of this surrender. They are experts in navigating the labyrinth of the First Amendment—a document crafted by Freemasons (Washington, Franklin, Hancock) to ensure the State would never confess Christ. By mastering this godless jurisprudence, they legitimize it. They win “victories” that are defeats: each exemption reinforces the principle that the State may kill the innocent, provided it allows a few “objectors” to opt out. This is the “culture of life” of the conciliar sect: a managed retreat into the catacombs of conscience clauses, while the public square is consecrated to Moloch.
The Only Remedy: The Restoration of All Things in Christ
The true Catholic response to Illinois’ law is not a lawsuit for exemption, but the public proclamation that Jesus Christ is King of Illinois, that Governor Pritzker and the Legislature are bound by the Divine Law to repeal the statute, and that any “Catholic” institution cooperating with the law—even by silent compliance—commits sacrilege and scandal. The true bishops (if any remain with valid orders and jurisdiction) should excommunicate the legislators, interdict the state, and call the faithful to civil disobedience unto martyrdom, following the example of the Martyrs of the Cristero War (¡Viva Cristo Rey!), not the example of the Becket Fund.
As Pius XI commanded in Quas Primas: “If rulers of states… 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 hierarchy has abandoned this conviction. They have chosen the “peace of mind” of a temporary restraining order over the pax Christi in regno Christi. Their “victory” is the victory of the world; their “conscience” is the conscience of the flesh. Let the faithful flee these structures of apostasy, cleave to the Tradition of the Fathers, and pray for the true Restoration, when the Kingship of Christ will be confessed not in a courtroom brief, but from the pulpits of a purified Church and the thrones of converted nations.
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Court says Chicago Archdiocese, Catholic sisters won’t have to submit to state suicide law (ewtnnews.com)
Date: 12.09.2026