Spanish Diocese’s ‘Child Equilibrist’ Program Capitulates to Divorce Culture, Abandons Indissolubility
The EWTN News portal (via its Spanish-language service ACI Prensa) reports on a program developed by the Family Guidance Center (COF) of the conciliar diocese of Cuenca, Spain, entitled Niño equilibrista (“Child Equilibrist”). The initiative targets children of divorced parents—acknowledging a civil divorce rate of approximately 50% and an 83% collapse in Catholic marriages since 1975—and employs a mutual support group model to help these children “balance loyalties,” “feel heard,” “acknowledge pain,” and “manage emotions.” The program explicitly avoids judgment, frames forgiveness as psychological processing, and treats the concept of God the Father as a pedagogical difficulty arising from broken homes. The directors boast of eight years of preparation and desire universal adoption across the conciliar sect. This report exposes not a pastoral remedy, but a structured capitulation to the divorce culture, replacing the Church’s judicial and sacramental authority with therapeutic deism.
The Therapeutic Substitution for Supernatural Grace
The article reveals the total displacement of the supernatural order by a secular psychological framework. The program’s coordinator, Teresa Sarabia, states the children are helped to “understand the grieving process and what they are going through,” to “manage their emotions,” and to address forgiveness as a matter of “wavering between assigning blame and forgiveness.” Nowhere is there mention of the Sacrament of Penance, the necessity of sanctifying grace, the Holy Eucharist as the medicine of immortality, or the reality of original and actual sin. The child’s soul is treated as a psyche to be soothed, not a spiritual entity in danger of eternal loss.
This is the rotten fruit of the Modernist heresy condemned by St. Pius X in Lamentabili sane exitu (1907) and Pascendi Dominici Gregis (1907), where the dogmas of faith are reduced to “a certain interpretation of religious facts, which the human mind has worked out with great effort” (Prop. 22) and Christian doctrine becomes “a certain religious movement, applied or applicable to different times and places” (Prop. 59). The Niño equilibrista program is precisely this: a religious movement adapted to the “times” of the divorce revolution, devoid of the depositum fidei. As Pius XI taught in Quas Primas, Christ reigns in the minds of men… because He Himself is Truth, and men must draw truth from Him and accept it obediently. This program offers not Truth, but “tools to communicate” and “emotional management.”
The Implicit Denial of Marriage’s Indissolubility
The director, Marta Guillén Tena, notes the situation “poses a challenge for the Church, given that it preaches the sanctity of marriage and its indivisible unity.” This phrasing—“preaches… given that”—betrays a conceptual separation between the Church’s doctrine and her pastoral action. The program does not proclaim the indissolubility of the bond (matrimonium ratum et consummatum a Deo non dissolvitur); it manages the aftermath of its civil rupture as a permanent, irreversible fact.
By treating the civil divorce decree as the definitive terminus of the family unit, the conciliar structure implicitly teaches heresy by practice. It validates the Syllabus error condemned by Pius IX: “By the law of nature, the marriage tie is not indissoluble, and in many cases divorce properly so called may be decreed by the civil authority” (Error 67). The program’s very name—“Child Equilibrist”—accepts the premise that the child must balance between two separate households, legitimizing the adulterous second unions (or single lives) that flow from the civil divorce. There is no call for the parents to repent, separate from invalid unions, or live as brother and sister. There is no investigation of nullity mentioned. There is only “come what may, [parents] will always be their parents.” This is accompaniment as apostasy.
Canon 188.4 of the 1917 Code declares an office vacant ipso facto upon “public defection from the Catholic faith.” A diocese that institutes a structure predicated on the legitimacy of divorce defects from the faith regarding the Sixth and Ninth Commandments and the Sacrament of Matrimony. It functions as a paramasonic structure facilitating the abomination of desolation in the sanctuary of the family.
The Psychologization of the Fatherhood of God
The article admits a staggering theological bankruptcy: “What the children go through also presents difficulties when it comes to explaining to them the concept of God the Father.” This is the voice of the Church of the New Advent, which has lost the sensus fidei. The Fatherhood of God is not a “concept” to be explained by pedagogues; it is the ontological foundation of all paternity (Eph 3:15: “ex quo omnis paternitas in caelis et in terra nominatur”). The difficulty arises not from the child’s trauma, but from the parents’ mortal sin and the conciliar clergy’s failure to preach the severitas Dei alongside His misericordia.
The program’s answer is to help children “address their relationship with God and the concept of forgiveness” in a “setting of absolute confidentiality where all the children and their parents are free to express themselves openly. No one will judge them.” This is the cult of man masquerading as charity. God the Father judges (John 5:22: “The Father judgeth no man, but hath committed all judgment to the Son”). The Church, as the Mater et Magistra, holds the keys of binding and loosing (Matt 16:19). To declare “No one will judge them” is to usurp the divine prerogative and deny the potestas iudicialis intrinsic to the Keys. It is the fulfillment of the Syllabus error: “The Church has not the power of defining dogmatically that the religion of the Catholic Church is the only true religion” (Error 21) extended into the moral sphere: the Church claims no power to define the moral state of the divorced and “remarried.”
“Non-Judgmentalism” as Rejection of the Church’s Judicial Authority
The boast “No one will judge them… We welcome them with authenticity and sincerity — nothing is feigned. We do this out of love, for the greater glory of God” is a diabolical inversion of Amoris Laetitia-style mercy. True love reproves (Prov 3:12: “Whom the Lord loveth, he chasteneth”). The spiritual works of mercy command: Admonish the sinner. The program explicitly rejects this. It creates a safe space for the persistence in sin.
This mirrors the Masonic strategy outlined in the analysis of false apparitions: “Stage 3 (1958-2000): Takeover of the narrative by modernists, concealment of the Third Secret, ecumenical reinterpretation.” Here, the “secret” concealed is the indissolubility of marriage; the “reinterpretation” is “accompaniment.” The Niño equilibrista is a psychological operation against the lex divina, normalizing the status peccati under the guise of “healing.”
The Conciliar Sect’s Complicity in the Destruction of the Family
The article notes the 83% collapse in Catholic marriages since 1975—the year the novus ordo “marriage rite” was imposed and the Catechism of the Catholic Church (1992) began its corruption of the sixth commandment. The “Family Guidance Center” of the diocese of Cuenca does not guide families to God; it guides them into acceptance of their destruction. The director states: “This is not a program we want to implement solely for ourselves. We are part of one Church, and everything we do is for the whole Church.” This “Church” is the conciliar sect, the neo-church occupying the visible structures, whose “unity” is forged in the betrayal of Quas Primas: “When God and Jesus Christ… were removed from laws and states… the foundations of that authority were destroyed… the entire human society had to be shaken, because it lacked a stable and strong foundation.”
The program targets “adult children of divorce” because “they are the ones who will soon be starting families of their own.” The goal is not to convert them to the indissoluble bond, but to “heal” them so they can function in a society where divorce is the norm. It is the manufacturing of good citizens of the Masonic city, not saints of the City of God.
Conclusion: A Program of the Antichurch, Not the Bride of Christ
The Niño equilibrista is a monument to the hermeneutic of rupture. It replaces the Unbloody Sacrifice of Calvary with group therapy; the Tribunal of the Rota with a “confidential setting”; the Catechism of Trent with “emotional tools.” It is a work of the abomination of desolation standing in the holy place (Matt 24:15). True pastors, validly ordained before the 1968 invalidation of the sacramental rites, would tell these children: “Your parents have sinned gravely. The bond remains. Pray for their conversion. Frequent the true Mass. Confess your sins. Do not imitate their adultery.” The conciliar hirelings offer instead a balancing act on the tightrope of hell. Vade retro, Satana.
Source:
A Catholic support program for the children of divorced parents (ewtnnews.com)
Date: 25.09.2026