Conciliar Politicians Masquerade as Catholics While Usurping Christ’s Kingship Over Nations
EWTN News, the flagship media organ of the conciliar sect, reports on the 2026 gubernatorial races with triumphant enthusiasm, counting no fewer than fourteen politicians across twelve states who publicly identify as “Catholic” while vying for executive power in a Masonic republic founded on the very errors condemned by the Syllabus. The article celebrates the potential rise of “Catholic governors” from twenty to twenty-two, as if the temporal success of men who accommodate abortion, religious liberty, and the separation of Church and State constituted a victory for the Kingdom of Christ. This spectacle of conciliar clerics and laymen blessing the candidacies of pro-abortion Democrats and “pro-life” Republicans alike exposes the complete capitulation of the post-conciliar hierarchy to the spirit of the world, reducing the Social Kingship of Christ to a mere voting bloc within a system that declares independence from God.
The Myth of the “Catholic Politician” in a Masonic Republic
The very premise of the article—that a politician’s self-identification as “Catholic” in the United States electoral system signifies anything other than adherence to the errors of liberalism and Americanism—is a theological fraud. Pope Leo XIII condemned Americanism in Testem Benevolentiae Nostrae (1899), denouncing those who “think that the Church should shape her teaching more in accord with the spirit of the age” and who “would have the Church descend to the level of the civil power.” The Syllabus of Errors (1864) anathematized the proposition that “The Church ought to be separated from the State, and the State from the Church” (Error 55), and that “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). Every candidate mentioned in this article—Abbott, Hinojosa, Healey, Minogue, Pillen, Walz, Fazio, Lamont, Pickens Manweiler, Little—operates within a constitutional framework that enshrines these very errors as supreme law. To call them “Catholic governors” is to call darkness light.
Pius XI, in Quas Primas (1925), declared with unmistakable clarity: “Let rulers of states therefore not refuse public veneration and obedience to the reigning Christ, but let them fulfill this duty themselves and with their people, if they wish to maintain their authority inviolate and contribute to the increase of their homeland’s happiness.” He further taught: “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, because the main reason why some have the right to command and others have the duty to obey was removed.” The American system, which derives its “just powers from the consent of the governed” rather than from God, is precisely the regime Pius XI condemned as foundationless. No “Catholic” governor can exercise authority in this system without either violating his oath to the Constitution or violating his duty to Christ the King. The conciliar sect’s celebration of this dilemma as “faith shaping governance” is the hermeneutic of rupture in political form.
The Democrat “Catholic”: Explicit Apostasy as “Moral Compass”
Gina Hinojosa, Democrat nominee for Texas governor, tells EWTN: “My faith is my moral compass. It grounds me in purpose and gives me the courage to do what is right regardless of obstacles or consequences.” This is the language of Modernist subjectivism condemned by St. Pius X in Lamentabili Sane Exitu (1907): “Faith, as assent of the mind, is ultimately based on a sum of probabilities” (Prop. 25) and “The dogmas of faith should be understood according to their practical function, i.e., as binding in action, rather than as principles of belief” (Prop. 26). Hinojosa’s “faith” is not the fides catholica—the assent to all that God has revealed on the authority of God revealing—but a private religious sentiment detached from the objective moral law. Her voting record in the Texas House includes consistent support for abortion, contraception funding, and LGBT ideology. The conciliar sect’s “bishop” in her diocese has never publicly corrected her, much less excommunicated her for manifest formal cooperation in grave evil. This silence is not pastoral; it is apostasy.
Terri Pickens Manweiler, Democrat challenger in Idaho, is even more explicit: “I am a non-practicing Roman Catholic. My faith governs my personal actions and beliefs. I firmly believe in the separation of church and state. I would not impose my beliefs onto others, especially through the political process or governance.” Here is the condensed heresy of Vatican II’s Dignitatis Humanae and Gaudium et Spes in plain English. The Syllabus condemns: “The Church ought to be separated from the State, and the State from the Church” (Error 55) and “The civil government… has a right to an indirect negative power over religious affairs” (Error 41). Pickens Manweiler’s “non-practicing” status is irrelevant; her explicit endorsement of the separation thesis places her under the anathema of Pius IX, Leo XIII, St. Pius X, Pius XI, and Pius XII. That EWTN publishes her statement without comment—indeed, as part of a “Catholic candidates” showcase—proves that the conciliar sect no longer proposes the Faith but manages a brand.
The Republican “Catholic”: The “Shining City” Heresy and the Illusion of Pro-Life Incrementalism
Greg Abbott, Republican incumbent in Texas, declares: “My Catholic faith is integral to my work as Governor, especially the protection of life from the youngest to the oldest members of the Texas family. Specifically, Jesus and His Church’s teachings on abortion, euthanasia, justice for victims, and the dignity of workers inform every decision I make from the Governor’s desk. As Governor, I will continue to keep Texas the shining city on the hill for the rest of the world as we prioritize uniting all of God’s children in love of neighbor.”
“Shining city on a hill” is Puritan rhetoric (Winthrop, 1630), secularized by Reagan, and now mouthed by a “Catholic” governor who has presided over a regime that funds Planned Parenthood through Medicaid “family planning” waivers, appoints judges who uphold Roe’s legacy, and enforces the Obergefell mandate. Abbott’s “protection of life” is the standard conciliar incrementalism: heartbeat bills with exceptions, trigger laws that leave the penalty on the abortionist not the mother, and a steadfast refusal to criminalize abortion as homicide—which the Church has always taught it is. Pope Pius XI in Casti Connubii (1930) declared: “Any use whatsoever of matrimony exercised in such a way that the act is deliberately frustrated in its natural power to generate life is an offense against the law of God and of nature, and those who indulge in such are branded with the guilt of a grave sin.” Abbott’s Texas permits contraception, no-fault divorce, and sodomy “marriage” as civil rights. His “Catholic faith” is a campaign slogan, not a governing principle.
The article quotes Jim Pillen (Nebraska): “My Catholic faith is the foundation of who I am and how I serve. I begin each day praying to do God’s will. As Governor, my faith shapes my commitment to protecting life, serving others with humility, respecting human dignity, and working to build safer, stronger communities.” Vague, therapeutic, devoid of any reference to the Social Kingship of Christ, the rights of the Church, or the duty of the State to profess the true religion. This is the “civil religion” of the conciliar sect: a vague theism that blesses the status quo.
Ryan Fazio (Connecticut) says: “I am a Catholic who believes in Jesus Christ and a responsibility to glorify God and act in a morally upright way in the world to save our own souls and help others. As governor, I would carry the same ethos that our faith teaches us to serve others in a righteous way. Those in leadership must serve humbly and always reject the temptations of power.” Not a word about the duty of the State to publicly honor Christ, to suppress public blasphemy, to favor the true Church. Quas Primas teaches: “The State must leave the same freedom to the members of Orders and Congregations… The annual celebration of this solemnity will also remind states that not only private individuals, but also rulers and governments have the duty to publicly honor Christ and obey Him.” Fazio’s “ethos” is Pelagian moralism, not Catholic statecraft.
The Conciliar Hierarchy’s Complicity: “Faithful Citizenship” as Electoral Catechesis
The article concludes with a link to “U.S. bishops offer pre-midterms guidance on… faithful citizenship.” This document, Forming Consciences for Faithful Citizenship, is the conciliar sect’s quadrennial manifesto of political modernism. It teaches that Catholics may vote for pro-abortion candidates if there are “proportionate reasons,” that “the Church does not endorse candidates,” and that “prudent judgment” determines the hierarchy of issues. This is the error condemned by Pius IX in the Syllabus: “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)—here inverted to mean that bishops need not apply dogmatic principles (the evil of abortion, the duty of the State to protect life) to concrete political acts. The result is the “seamless garment” confusion that paralyzes Catholic political witness.
The “bishops” cited are not true bishops. As the Defense of Sedevacantism file demonstrates from Bellarmine, Wernz-Vidal, and Canon 188.4: “A Pope who is a manifest heretic, by that very fact ceases to be Pope and head… A manifest heretic cannot be Pope. It cannot be objected that the character remains in him, because if he remained Pope because of the character, since it is indelible, he could never be deposed.” The line of claimants from John XXIII to Leo XIV (Prevost) has publicly taught heresies on religious liberty, ecumenism, collegiality, and the new mass. They have lost the office ipso facto. The men ordained in the new rite (post-1968) lack valid orders; the “bishops” consecrated in the new rite lack valid episcopal character. The entire hierarchy quoted by EWTN is a paramasonic structure occupying the visible patrimony of the Church. Their “guidance” is the blind leading the blind into the ditch of democratic idolatry.
EWTN: The Propaganda Arm of the Neo-Church
EWTN News, founded by the “Mother Angelica” who accepted the new mass, the new catechism, and the “canonizations” of the conciliar “popes,” functions as the media wing of the Church of the New Advent. Its article is not journalism but ecclesiastical marketing: it counts “Catholic” officeholders like beads on a rosary, presenting the occupation of gubernatorial mansions by Modernists as a metric of ecclesial vitality. The article’s graphic by Aaron Phillips—”If every Catholic candidate were to win, the number of Catholic governors would climb from 20 to 22″—reduces the Kingship of Christ to a spreadsheet. This is the fruit of Vatican II’s Gaudium et Spes §76: “The Church… does not place her trust in the privileges offered by civil authority.” Yet here the conciliar sect trusts entirely in civil authority, counting governors as trophies.
The article’s source URL—ewtnnews.com—confirms its origin in the most influential propaganda outlet of the neo-church. EWTN promotes the false Fatima apparitions (condemned in the False Fatima Apparitions file as a “Masonic psychological operation”), the “canonizations” of John Paul II and John XXIII, and the “Traditional Latin Mass” communities (FSSP, ICKSP) that recognize the usurpers as legitimate. It is the controlled opposition par excellence: offering liturgical aesthetics while enforcing doctrinal surrender.
The Theological Verdict: No King But Caesar
The 2026 gubernatorial races, as presented by the conciliar sect’s media, are a tableau of the abomination of desolation standing in the holy place. Politicians who swear to uphold a godless Constitution, who govern a pluralist regime that equates the true religion with false sects, who permit the slaughter of the unborn under color of law—these are hailed as “Catholic leaders” because they attend the Novus Ordo and quote Jesus as a “moral compass.” St. Pius X in Pascendi Dominici Gregis (1907) diagnosed this precisely: “The Modernist… does not deny that Christ is God, but he so explains the divinity of Christ that it becomes a mere symbol… He does not deny the Church, but he so transforms her that she becomes a purely human institution.”
The only Catholic response to this spectacle is the one Pius XI prescribed 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.” No candidate in the 2026 races professes this conviction. The conciliar sect’s celebration of their “faith” is the final proof that it is not the Church of Christ but the synagogue of Satan (Apoc. 2:9), gathering its troops against the Kingship of Christ under the banner of democratic participation.
Non est potestas nisi a Deo (There is no power but from God — Rom 13:1). The governors of 2026, “Catholic” or not, will derive their authority from the consent of the governed, not from God. They will govern a republic that has legalized the murder of sixty million children, the perversion of marriage, and the exile of Christ from the public square. The conciliar sect’s applause is the hiss of the serpent.
Source:
Catholic candidates to shape 2026 gubernatorial races in 12 states (ewtnnews.com)
Date: 22.09.2026