EWTN’s Midterm Spectacle: Political Idolatry Masquerading as Catholic Witness
The EWTN News portal (October 30, 2026) announces expanded coverage of the 2026 United States midterm elections, framing partisan political contests and abortion referendums as the primary arena for “Catholic voters.” The network’s flagship program, EWTN News Nightly, will deploy its roster of anchors and analysts—including Matthew Bunson, Owen Jensen, and representatives from SBA Pro-Life America and Students for Life of America—to deliver “award-winning journalism faithful to Catholic teaching” across cable, YouTube, and streaming platforms. This spectacle reduces the Kingship of Christ to a voting guide and substitutes the Church’s divine mission for Republican Party turnout operations.
The Naturalistic Reduction of the Supernatural Mission
The cited article reveals the total capitulation of the conciliar sect to secular politics. Matthew Bunson, presented as “Vice President and Editorial Director,” declares that EWTN provides “reporting and commentary… faithful to Catholic teaching and that touches on all of the issues that are of concern to Catholics.” This statement is a lie. The “issues of concern to Catholics” enumerated are exclusively temporal political contests: control of the Senate, House, gubernatorial races, and referendums on abortion in Virginia, Nevada, Idaho, and Missouri. Not a word is spoken of the Social Kingship of Christ, the rights of God, the duty of states to profess the Catholic Faith, or the eternal salvation of souls—the only true “issues of concern” to a Catholic.
Pius XI, in Quas Primas, teaches with unmistakable clarity: “Peace is only possible in the kingdom of Christ” (Pax Christi in Regno Christi). He condemns the “plague… of secularism, so-called laicism” which “began with the denial of Christ the Lord’s reign over all nations.” EWTN’s coverage is not a remedy for this plague; it is an instrument of the plague. By framing the midterm elections as the venue for Catholic action, EWTN implicitly affirms the Modernist heresy condemned by St. Pius X in Lamentabili Sane Exitu: that the Church’s mission is reducible to “a certain religious movement, applied or applicable to different times and places” (prop. 59), rather than the immutable, supernatural mandate to teach all nations and baptize them for the Kingdom of God.
The Linguistic Camouflage of Apostasy
The rhetoric of the announcement is saturated with the bureaucratic, democratic vocabulary of the world: “expanded coverage,” “multiple platforms,” “award-winning journalism,” “go-to news outlet,” “proper understanding of the results.” This is the language of a media corporation, not the Bride of Christ. The term “Catholic perspective” is weaponized as a brand to baptize partisan analysis. When Bunson claims EWTN is “uniquely positioned to be the go-to news outlet for a proper understanding of the results of the vote and their implications for Catholics,” he usurps the role of the Magisterium. The only “proper understanding” of political events for a Catholic is their relation to the Reign of Christ the King and the salvation of souls. EWTN offers instead a naturalistic hermeneutic: politics interpreted by politics, devoid of grace, eschatology, or the Cura Animarum.
The inclusion of “analysts” from Ballotpedia, SBA Pro-Life America, and Students for Life of America confirms the NGO-ization of the apostolate. These are secular pressure groups operating within the liberal democratic framework. Their presence on a putatively “Catholic” network signals that the conciliar sect has no supernatural voice of its own; it must borrow credibility from the very political order that Pius IX’s Syllabus of Errors condemns (prop. 39, 55, 77, 80). The “Catholic perspective” is thus revealed as conservative Americanism—the heresy condemned by Leo XIII in Testem Benevolentiae—wearing a scapular.
The Theological Bankruptcy of “Pro-Life” Political Strategy
The article highlights “coverage of referendums on abortion” as a centerpiece. This exposes the fundamental theological error of the conciliar “pro-life” movement: the belief that the murder of the innocent can be adjudicated by popular vote. The Syllabus of Errors condemns the proposition that “the civil law prevails” over divine law (prop. 42) and that “right consists in the material fact” (prop. 59). To submit the natural law prohibition of abortion to a referendum is to concede that the right to life is a positive law concession of the state, not an inalienable right bestowed by the Creator. It is to practice political positivism—the very essence of Modernism.
Furthermore, the silence on the sacramental order is deafening. There is no mention of the Most Holy Sacrifice, the Rosary, penance, or episcopal consecration of nations to the Sacred Heart—the only means by which Christ the King reigns. Pius XI instituted the Feast of Christ the King precisely so that “the faithful, by meditating upon these truths, may gain much strength and courage… to fight bravely under the banner of Christ the King.” EWTN replaces the banner of Christ with the ballot box. This is not “faithful to Catholic teaching”; it is idolatry of the democratic process.
The Symptomatic Fruit of the Conciliar Revolution
This election coverage is not an anomaly; it is the inevitable fruit of Vatican II’s Gaudium et Spes and Dignitatis Humanae. The conciliar sect’s acceptance of religious liberty and the separation of Church and State (condemned by Pius IX, prop. 55; by Leo XIII, Immortale Dei; by Pius XI, Quas Primas) forces it into the political arena as just another interest group. Having renounced the divine right to teach and govern nations, it must beg for civil permissions. Having abandoned the integral Catholic State, it settles for Republican majorities.
The personnel named—Bunson, Dudo, Rosales, Galván—are functionaries of the “Church of the New Advent,” the paramasonic structure occupying the Vatican. They operate under the authority of the usurper antipope “Leo XIV” (Robert Prevost), in the line of the false popes beginning with John XXIII. Their “Catholic teaching” is the Modernist synthesis of all heresies condemned by St. Pius X in Pascendi Dominici Gregis: evolution of dogma, immanentism, democratization of the Church, and the reduction of faith to “a sum of probabilities” (Lamentabili, prop. 25).
The Only Catholic Response: Non Possumus
A true Catholic, adhering to the integral faith before 1958, cannot participate in this charade. We do not vote for the lesser evil; we reject the evil system. As Pope Pius IX teaches in the Syllabus (prop. 63), “It is lawful to refuse obedience to legitimate princes, and even to rebel against them” when they legislate against God’s law—but the conciliar sect teaches obedience to the democratic process itself. The Catholic perspective on the midterms is not “which candidate wins,” but Quo vadis, America?—whither goest thou, having rejected the Kingship of Christ?
The true Church, persecuted but indefectible, endures in the catacombs of Tradition, where valid bishops and priests offer the Unbloody Sacrifice of Calvary and teach the Social Kingship of Christ without compromise. EWTN’s “expanded coverage” is bread and circuses for the neo-church, a distraction from the abomination of desolation standing in the holy place. Let the dead bury their dead; we await the King. Viva Cristo Rey!
Source:
EWTN News Announces Expanded US Midterm Elections Coverage (ncregister.com)
Date: 30.10.2026