Conciliar Theologian’s Feeble Resistance Exposes Neo-Church Complicity in Political Abortion Advocacy
EWTN portal reports that a theology professor at the conciliar University of Dallas, Jodi Hunt, challenged Democratic Senate candidate James Talarico after he declared “the Bible is silent on the issue” of abortion during a CNN town hall. Hunt countered with the Fifth Commandment, drawing applause, while “Bishop” Michael Olson of Fort Worth echoed the primacy of the right to life. Talarico cited “Pope Francis and Pope Leo” as “spiritual heroes” for a “consistent pro-life ethic” encompassing climate change and poverty, while redefining abortion as a “public policy problem” solvable by contraception and sex education. The conciliar university and commentator Kathryn Jean Lopez praised Hunt’s “courage.” This spectacle of managed dissent reveals the utter bankruptcy of the conciliar “pro-life” strategy: it legitimizes the anti-Christian political order, recognizes manifest heretics as popes, and reduces the defense of the innocent to a bipartisan talking point devoid of supernatural authority.
The Theatrics of Controlled Opposition Within the Conciliar Sect
The entire exchange bears the hallmarks of a staged dialectic designed to channel Catholic outrage into the safe harbor of electoral politics. James Talarico, a Democrat seeking high office, openly mocks divine law by declaring Sacred Scripture “silent” on the slaughter of the unborn—a blasphemy that should incur automatic excommunication (latae sententiae) under the immutable canons of the Church, not a polite theological rebuttal. Yet the response from the conciliar establishment—Hunt, Olson, the University of Dallas—is calibrated not to anathematize the error but to “engage respectfully.” This is the dialogue condemned by Pope Pius XI in Mortalium Animos (1928): a false unity that “presupposes that the true Church can be found outside the Catholic Church.” The “applause” Hunt received signals not a victory for truth but the satisfaction of a captive audience watching a controlled burn.
Recognition of Antipopes as the Principle of Apostasy
Talarico’s invocation of “Pope Francis and Pope Leo” as “two of my favorite spiritual heroes” is the theological smoking gun. Jorge Bergoglio and Robert Prevost (“Leo XIV”) are manifest heretics who, by their public adhesion to religious liberty, false ecumenism, and the “hermeneutic of continuity,” have severed themselves from the Mystical Body. As St. Robert Bellarmine teaches in De Romano Pontifice: “A Pope who is 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.” The Bull Cum ex Apostolatus Officio of Pope Paul IV confirms that the promotion of a heretic to the papacy is “null, void, and of no effect,” requiring no declaratory sentence. Talarico’s “heroes” are usurpers occupying the See of Peter; Hunt’s failure to denounce this blasphemy—instead saying she “appreciated that he highlighted some social causes”—proves she operates entirely within the novus ordo paradigm of recognition and resistance, the defining heresy of the Lefebvrian and indultist pseudo-traditionalists.
The Conciliar “Bishop” and the Naturalistic Reduction of the Right to Life
Michael Olson, the conciliar ordinary of Fort Worth, tweets: “The right to life is the premier moral issue because all human rights depend upon the human person being alive.” Note the language: “human rights,” “human person,” “morality of all issues,” “common good.” This is the vocabulary of the Dignitatis Humanae revolution, not the Syllabus of Errors. Pope Pius IX condemned the proposition that “the civil government… has a right to an indirect negative power over religious affairs” (Error 41) and that “the Church ought to be separated from the State” (Error 55). Olson’s statement, stripped of any reference to the Social Kingship of Christ, the Rights of God, or the necessity of the Catholic confessional state, reduces the defense of the unborn to a secular humanist axiom. As Pius XI thundered in Quas Primas: “Peace is only possible in the kingdom of Christ.” A “right to life” divorced from the Kingship of Christ is a philosophical abstraction that the Masonic state grants and withdraws at will.
Abortion as “Public Policy Problem”: The Triumph of Utilitarianism
Talarico’s reframing of abortion as “a public policy problem” rather than a moral issue, solvable by “scientifically valid sex education” and access to contraception, is the explicit program of the Masonic lodges. The Council of Trent anathematizes those who say the sacraments “merely serve to remind man of the presence of the ever-benevolent Creator” (Lamentabili sane exitu, prop. 41); here, the murder of the innocent is reduced to a metric to be managed by technocrats. Contraception is intrinsically evil (Casti Connubii, Pius XI, 1930), a sin crying to heaven for vengeance. To propose it as a remedy for abortion is to fight fire with gasoline. Hunt’s reported riposte—”If we can’t trust him to protect the most innocent among us, we can’t trust he’ll do anything he says”—remains trapped in the natural order of political calculation. It does not invoke the lex aeterna, the judgment of God, or the reality that a Catholic politician supporting abortion is a public sinner to be denied the Holy Eucharist (Canon 855, 1917 Code; St. Paul, 1 Cor 11:27-29).
The University of Dallas: A Factory for Conciliar Accommodation
The University of Dallas’s press release—boasting that Hunt “exemplifies UD’s mission to form leading citizens who bring their convictions into the public square with courage, clarity, and respect”—exposes the institution’s true charism: the formation of citizens for the secular city, not saints for the City of God. The language of “convictions,” “public square,” and “respect” is pure Rawlsian liberalism. Pope St. Pius X condemned the Modernist error that “Christ did not proclaim any specific, all-encompassing doctrine suitable for all times and peoples, but rather initiated a certain religious movement” (Lamentabili, prop. 59). UD’s “mission” is precisely this: a vague, evolving “Catholic identity” that accommodates the world. The praise from Kathryn Jean Lopez, a fixture of the neo-conservative commentariat, seals the verdict: this is the opposition of the loyal opposition, permitted and praised by the paramasonic structure to maintain the illusion of vitality.
Silence on the Supernatural: The Gravest Accusation
Nowhere in the EWTN report—nor in the statements of Hunt, Olson, or the University—is there mention of: the Most Holy Sacrifice of the Mass as the propitiatory act that alone stays the hand of divine justice; the state of grace as the prerequisite for any meritorious action; the Four Last Things (Death, Judgment, Heaven, Hell) as the horizon of all political activity; the necessity of conversion to the Catholic Faith for the salvation of nations; or the Social Reign of Christ the King as the only framework in which “human rights” have any ontological foundation. This silence is not an omission; it is the forma of the conciliar religion. As Pius XI wrote in Quas Primas: “When God and Jesus Christ were removed from laws and states… the foundations of that authority were destroyed.” The conciliar “pro-life” movement, by accepting the godless framework of the liberal democratic state, has built its house on sand.
The EWTN Apparatus: Gatekeeper of the Neo-Church Narrative
The source itself—EWTN News, the media arm of the conciliar establishment—functions as the Pravda of the neo-church. It frames the event as a “sharp exchange” and a victory for “faith in the public square,” never questioning the legitimacy of the town hall format, the CNN/Jubilee sponsorship, or the candidacy of a pro-abortion Democrat. The article’s closing “newsletter signup” and “related articles” on “bishops urging prayer” reveal the commercial and bureaucratic nature of the enterprise. True Catholic journalism would have headlined: “Apostate Politician Blasphemes Scripture; Conciliar Hierarchy Offers Only Dialogue.” Instead, EWTN serves the strategy of tension that keeps the faithful tethered to the sinking ship of the post-conciliar structure.
Conclusion: No Political Solution to a Spiritual Chastisement
The Talarico-Hunt exchange is a microcosm of the Great Apostasy. A manifest heretic running for Senate cites antipopes as authorities; a conciliar “theologian” answers with the Decalogue but recognizes the usurpers’ legitimacy; a conciliar “bishop” invokes “human rights” instead of the Rights of Christ the King; a conciliar university celebrates “civic engagement.” The remedy is not a better candidate, a sharper theologian, or a more forceful bishop within the conciliar structure. The remedy is the restitutio in integrum: the rejection of the novus ordo sect, the recognition of the vacant See, the adherence to bishops of unbroken apostolic succession and valid sacraments, and the public profession of the Social Kingship of Christ over every nation and law. Until then, every “pro-life” victory in the conciliar arena is a defeat for the Kingdom of God, a non serviam disguised as a fiat.
Source:
Catholic theologian challenges U.S. Senate candidate on abortion: ‘The Bible is not silent’ (ewtnnews.com)
Date: 17.10.2026