The EWTN News portal reports that in the 2026 midterm elections, Democrats captured every major statewide office in Texas, ending three decades of Republican dominance. The self-described Catholic Gina Hinojosa, an avowed supporter of abortion, defeated the incumbent Greg Abbott, also nominally Catholic, who had signed the Texas Heartbeat Act. Republicans retained the state Senate but lost the House. Pro-life advocates from Texas Right to Life describe the result as a “devastating blow” yet cling to the Senate as a “backstop,” while conciliar academics from the University of St. Thomas and University of Dallas frame the duty of Catholics as ongoing “civic engagement” and defense of “parental rights” through school vouchers. The article reveals the total capitulation of the conciliar sect to the liberal democratic order, reducing the Kingship of Christ to a partisan voting bloc and the salvation of souls to legislative lobbying.
The Conciliar Sect’s False Dichotomy: Two “Catholics,” One Apostasy
The cited article presents a spectacle that would have been unthinkable in Catholic Christendom: two claimants to the name “Catholic” contending for the governorship of a state, one openly advocating the slaughter of the unborn, the other having signed a law restricting it, yet both operating entirely within the framework of a secular, Masonic republic. The EWTN report notes blandly: “While both Hinojosa and Abbott are Catholic, Hinojosa is pro-abortion…” This sentence alone condemns the conciliar sect. In the true Church, a public defender of abortion ipso facto places herself outside the communion of the faithful; she is not a “Catholic” with a dissenting opinion, but a manifest heretic and apostate. As St. Robert Bellarmine teaches, a manifest heretic cannot be Pope, nor can he be a member of the Church, for he who is not a member cannot be the head, nor even a limb (De Romano Pontifice, II, 30). The same principle applies to any Catholic politician: public obstinacy in grave sin against the natural and divine law severs the bond of membership. The conciliar sect, however, having abandoned the doctrine of the Social Kingship of Christ, treats the Faith as a private label compatible with any political ideology.
Pius XI, in Quas Primas, declares that Christ’s reign encompasses all men, individuals, families, and states, and that “the state is happy not by one means, and man by another; for the state is nothing else than a harmonious association of men” (n. 31). The article’s entire premise — that the fate of the unborn and the rights of parents hinge on the oscillation of a democratic electorate — is a practical denial of this Kingship. It substitutes the rex gloriae with the vox populi.
Naturalism Masquerading as “Civic Duty”
The conciliar professors quoted in the article — Anthony Joseph of the University of St. Thomas and Susan Hanssen of the University of Dallas — articulate a purely naturalistic political theology. Joseph states: “Our duty to seek the common good is not episodic but ongoing. It neither begins nor ends with voting, and continues whether our preferred party wins or not.” This sounds pious, but it is devoid of the supernatural. The “common good” for a Catholic is not a secular welfare metric; it is the bonum commune ecclesiae, the glory of God and the salvation of souls, which the State is bound to foster by professing the true Faith and protecting the Church’s liberty (Leo XIII, Immortale Dei). The Syllabus of Errors (1864) condemns 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” (Error 77). The conciliar “Catholic” academic, formed in the school of Vatican II’s Gaudium et Spes and Dignitatis Humanae, has internalized these condemned errors. He speaks of “civic engagement” where the martyrs spoke of confessio fidei; he speaks of “legislative backstops” where the Fathers spoke of the potestas ligandi et solvendi.
Hanssen laments Hinojosa’s opposition to school vouchers as “a big loss for a key principle of Catholic social doctrine — the rights of parents over their children’s education.” While parental rights are indeed a natural law principle, the conciliar reduction of education policy to a voucher mechanism — “frees parents from the stranglehold of the teacher’s unions” — reveals a capitalist, individualist anthropology, not a Catholic one. True Catholic social doctrine demands that the State subsidize Catholic schools as a matter of justice, because the State exists to serve the Church’s mission (Pius XI, Divini Illius Magistri). Begging for vouchers from a secular legislature is the politics of mendicants, not the libertas Ecclesiae of the Syllabus.
The Pro-Life Movement: A Paralyzed Giant Serving the Neo-Church
John Seago of Texas Right to Life epitomizes the theological bankruptcy of the conciliar pro-life establishment. He calls the electoral defeat a “devastating blow” but not an “utter disaster” because the Republican Senate remains a “backstop.” He then reveals the movement’s true strategy: “We cannot simply focus on elections and expect our culture to change by itself. We must make the case for life in our churches, our communities, and our everyday conversations.” This is the hermeneutic of dialogue applied to the slaughter of the innocent. It assumes the legitimacy of a culture that legalizes infanticide and seeks to “persuade” it. It ignores the teaching of Pius IX in the Syllabus that “The civil government… has a right to an indirect negative power over religious affairs” is an error (Error 41), and that “The teaching of the Catholic Church is hostile to the well-being and interests of society” is an error (Error 40). The pro-life movement, by accepting the rules of the liberal democratic game, implicitly concedes that the State has the authority to permit or prohibit abortion — a authority it does not possess, since all authority comes from God (Rom 13:1) and is bounded by the natural law.
Most damning is Seago’s admission that Texas Right to Life will seek “bipartisan support” and work “where the Democrats are usually right there with us,” including “protecting patients’ rights, improving foster care and adoption services.” This is ecumenism of the blood — collaboration with the party of death on “social services” while the killing continues. It is the irenicism condemned by Pius XI in Mortalium Animos (1928): the illusion that unity can be built on naturalistic common ground while doctrinal and moral truth are suspended. The true Church does not “partner” with the ministers of Moloch; she excommunicates them and calls them to repentance.
The Silence of the Sacraments and the Supernatural
Nowhere in the EWTN article — nor in the statements of the “pro-life” leaders or “Catholic” professors — is there a mention of the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass, the Rosary, penance, the state of grace, the intercession of the Blessed Virgin, or the Final Judgment. The crisis is treated entirely as a political, sociological, and legal problem. This is the practical atheism of the conciliar sect. Lamentabili Sane Exitu (1907) condemns the Modernist proposition that “Faith, as assent of the mind, is ultimately based on a sum of probabilities” (Prop. 25) and that “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). The conciliar operatives have inverted the order: political action is their faith; the “pro-life cause” is their religion. They have made an idol of the ballot box.
Pius XI in Quas Primas instituted the Feast of Christ the King precisely “to address the needs of the present times and provide a special remedy against the plague that poisons human society. And this plague is the secularism of our times, so-called laicism”. The article is a case study of that plague: even the “resistance” is laicized. The true remedy — the public, liturgical, and legal enthronement of Christ the King — is absent because the conciliar hierarchy abandoned it at the Council, replacing the Corpus Christi procession with the “dialogue” table.
Sedevacantist Verdict: The Conciliar Structure is the Enemy
From the perspective of integral Catholic faith — which recognizes that the See of Peter has been vacant since the death of Pius XII in 1958, and that the men occupying the Vatican since John XXIII are usurpers leading a paramasonic counter-church — this Texas election is not a “setback for the pro-life movement.” It is the inevitable fruit of the conciliar revolution. The “Catholic” politicians (Hinojosa, Abbott), the “Catholic” media (EWTN), the “Catholic” academics (Joseph, Hanssen), and the “Catholic” advocacy groups (Texas Right to Life) are all functioning within the same false paradigm: the legitimacy of the secular liberal order, the separation of Church and State, and the reduction of the Gospel to a political platform.
The Syllabus of Pius IX condemns the root error: “The Roman Pontiff can, and ought to, reconcile himself, and come to terms with progress, liberalism and modern civilization” (Error 80). The conciliar sect has done exactly that. Its “pro-life” wing is merely the controlled opposition, managing the decline, teaching the faithful that salus in urna (salvation is in the ballot box). True Catholics — those adhering to the Mass of all time, the unchanging Magisterium, and the Social Kingship of Christ — know that non est alia salus (there is no other salvation) outside the Church, and that the Church’s mission is not to win elections but to conquer souls for the King who “shall rule from sea to sea, and from the river unto the ends of the earth” (Ps 71:8). The Texas result is not a call to “double and triple outreach” to legislators; it is a call to convert the legislators, the voters, and the land itself to Christ the King — or to recognize that the current structure is the abomination of desolation standing in the holy place, and to act accordingly.
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Texas Democrats sweep statewide offices; Catholics, pro-lifers respond (ewtnnews.com)
Date: 04.11.2026