Conciliar Sect Promotes Naturalistic Familialism While Ignoring Supernatural Crisis of Apostasy
The National Catholic Register portal (September 19, 2026) reports on an episode of its “Register Radio” program featuring Daniel Payne discussing his book Be Fruitful: Why More Catholics Should Get Married and Have Lots of Babies, alongside Jonah McKeown reporting on conciliar schools removing digital screens from classrooms. The segment timestamps reveal a preoccupation with demographic decline (“The West’s Baby Bust Hits Catholics, Too”), pragmatic lifestyle benefits (“Five Kids Later: ‘Our Life Got Better'”), cultural utility (“What Children Give a Culture”), and technological anxiety (“Could AI Really Become Dangerous?”). This obsession with temporal metrics and naturalistic solutions, utterly divorced from the salus animarum (salvation of souls) and the regnum Christi (Kingdom of Christ), exposes the conciliar sect’s reduction of the Catholic Faith to a mere religious NGO managing social decay.
Reduction of the Sacrament of Matrimony to Demographic Engineering
The very title of Payne’s book—Be Fruitful: Why More Catholics Should Get Married and Have Lots of Babies—betrays a Protestantized, utilitarian view of the Sacrament of Matrimony. The conciliar sect’s “marriage” is stripped of its sacramental character as a sign of the union of Christ and the Church (Eph 5:32) and reduced to a mechanism for population replacement. The radio segments “Why Catholics Should Have More Babies” and “The West’s Baby Bust Hits Catholics, Too” frame the divine mandate crescite et multiplicamini (Gen 1:28) not as a participation in God’s creative love ordered to the gloria Dei and the salvation of souls, but as a response to a secular demographic crisis.
Pius XI in Casti Connubii (1930) teaches with unshakeable authority: “The primary end of marriage is the procreation and education of children for God and the Church” (ad Deum et Ecclesiam). The conciliar narrative inverts this: children are produced for “the culture,” for “the West,” for “society.” This is idolatry of the creature (Rom 1:25). The segment “How Did Children Become a Burden?” implies a false dialectic where the “burden” is economic or lifestyle inconvenience, never the spiritual responsibility to form saints for heaven. The testimony “Five Kids Later: ‘Our Life Got Better'” appeals to hedonistic utilitarianism—life quality, parental fulfillment—rather than the crux of Christian parenthood: “He that loveth father or mother more than me, is not worthy of me” (Mt 10:37).
Furthermore, the conciliar sect’s “marriages” are frequently invalid due to the defect of intention introduced by the novus ordo rite and the pervasive contraceptive mentality sanctioned by the pseudo-magisterium since Humanae Vitae was effectively nullified by the “conscience” heresy. To urge “Catholics” to marry and breed within the secta conciliaris is to urge them into concubinage under a veneer of religion, producing children for the novus ordo baptismal rite which may be invalid due to the “community” formula, and certainly lacks the ex opere operato efficacy of the true rite. Lex orandi, lex credendi—the law of praying is the law of believing; the law of the neo-church produces a false faith and false sacraments.
The “Catholic Schools” Charade: Removing Screens While Retaining the Poison of Modernist Catechesis
The second half of the broadcast—“Catholic Schools Are Taking Screens Away,” “What Went Wrong With EdTech?”—is a classic conciliar distraction technique. The removal of screens is a natural good, a prudential measure any pagan educator could adopt. But the conciliar schools remain instruments of apostasy. They teach the Catechism of the Catholic Church (1992), a compendium of Modernist errors: religious liberty (Dignitatis Humanae), false ecumenism (Unitatis Redintegratio), collegiality subverting the Papacy, and the novus ordo “mass” as the center of school life.
Pius XI in Divini Illius Magistri (1929) condemns precisely this: “It is therefore as important to make no mistake in education, as it is to make no mistake in the pursuit of the last end… The whole reason of such education… is the formation of the perfect Christian… that is, of Christ Himself”. A school that teaches the heresy of religious liberty—that man has a “right” to error—forms not Christians but citizens of the Masonic Republic. The segment “Could AI Really Become Dangerous?” and “Why Are AI Companies Asking to Be Regulated?” reveals a worldly, technocratic anxiety utterly foreign to the sensus Catholicus. The true danger is not Artificial Intelligence but Ecclesial Intelligence—the diabolical disorientation of the conciliar hierarchy. “What If China Doesn’t Slow Down?” betrays a geopolitical obsession worthy of the Council on Foreign Relations, not the Bride of Christ. The Kingship of Christ is universal and absolute (Pius XI, Quas Primas): “His reign encompasses also all non-Christians, so that most truly the entire human race is subject to the authority of Jesus Christ”. The conciliar sect dialogues with China; the true Church commands China to recognize Christ the King.
Silence on the Sede Vacante: The Gravest Omission
The total silence regarding the vacancy of the Holy See since 1958 is the argumentum ex silentio that condemns the entire enterprise. Daniel Payne, Jonah McKeown, EWTN, the National Catholic Register—all operate under the usurper antipope Leo XIV (Robert Prevost), the latest in the line of manifest heretics beginning with John XXIII. They recognize as “Pope” a man who professes the heresies of Vatican II: religious liberty, ecumenism, collegiality, the new mass. 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” (De Romano Pontifice, Lib. II, Cap. 30). Canon 188.4 of the 1917 Code declares: “Every office becomes vacant by the mere fact and without any declaration… if the cleric publicly defects from the Catholic faith”.
To discuss “Catholic family life” and “Catholic education” while submitting to a false hierarchy is the sin of schism and heresy. It is spiritual adultery. The children begotten in this context are handed over to the Moloch of the conciliar parish, the novus ordo “mass,” the false catechism. “He who is not with me, is against me” (Mt 12:30). There is no “Catholic” life outside the true Church, Extra Ecclesiam nulla salus. The conciliar sect is the abominatio desolationis (Mt 24:15) standing in the holy place.
The Symptomatic Level: The Neo-Church as Manager of Decline
This radio program is a symptom of the conciliar sect’s terminal crisis. Having abandoned the supernatural finality of the Church—“Go ye into the whole world, and preach the gospel to every creature… He that believeth and is baptized, shall be saved” (Mk 16:15-16)—it retreats into naturalistic activism: demographics, education policy, tech regulation. It mimics the world’s concerns (AI, China, birth rates) using religious vocabulary. This is the heresy of actionism condemned by St. Pius X in Pascendi Dominici Gregis (1907): the Modernist reduces religion to “a certain religious movement, applied or applicable to different times and places” (Lamentabili, Prop. 59).
The Syllabus of Errors (Pius IX, 1864) condemns: “The Church ought to be separated from the State, and the State from the Church” (Prop. 55) and “In the present day it is no longer expedient that the Catholic religion should be held as the only religion of the State” (Prop. 77). The conciliar sect lives these condemned propositions. Its “pro-family” advocacy is merely a lobbying effort within the Masonic world order, seeking “religious freedom” to exist as a tolerated sect. It does not demand the Social Kingship of Christ; it begs for exemptions.
The book Be Fruitful is a palliative for a dying counterfeit church. It offers opium to the laity: “Have babies, remove screens, feel better.” It offers no Cross, no Sanctifying Grace, no True Mass, no True Pope, no True Bishops. It is a whited sepulchre (Mt 23:27)—beautiful outwardly (large families, low-tech schools), but within full of dead men’s bones: the bones of the true Faith, the true Sacrifice, the true Hierarchy.
Conclusion: Return to the Catacombs of Tradition
The only solution to the “baby bust,” the “screen addiction,” the “AI danger,” and the “China threat” is the integral restoration of the Catholic Church: the Traditional Latin Mass (the Missale Romanum of St. Pius V), the Catechism of Trent, the 1917 Code, the Syllabus, the Quanta Cura, the Pascendi, the Quas Primas—and a valid Pope elected by cardinals who have not defected. Until then, every “Catholic” initiative in the conciliar structures is scandalum and vanitas. “Unless the Lord build the house, they labour in vain that build it” (Ps 126:1). The conciliar sect is not the Lord’s house; it is the synagoga Satanae (Apoc 2:9). Flee from it. Vade retro me, Satana (Mt 16:23).
Source:
More Babies, Fewer Screens (ncregister.com)
Date: 19.09.2026