The EWTN News portal reports a dispute between the “Archbishop” of Miami, Thomas Wenski, and Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier regarding vaccine exemptions in “Catholic” schools receiving state scholarship funds. Uthmeier demanded compliance with Florida law granting religious exemptions, threatening loss of funding; Wenski refused, citing the National Catholic Bioethics Center’s 2011 guidance that vaccines derived from aborted fetal cell lines are “not intrinsically evil” and that “religious” exemptions cannot be granted, only “conscience” exemptions. The “bishops” prioritize state money and a false obedience to public health idols over the immutable rights of Catholic parents and the moral law. This controversy exposes the conciliar sect’s total subservience to the secular state and its betrayal of the very conscience rights it claims to champion.
The Usurpers of the Hierarchy Have No Authority to Bind or Loose
The first and most fundamental fact obscured by the EWTN report is that the men involved — Wenski, the “Florida Conference of Catholic Bishops,” the “National Catholic Bioethics Center” — possess no legitimate ecclesiastical jurisdiction whatsoever. Since the usurpation of the Holy See by the manifest heretic Angelo Roncalli (John XXIII) in 1958, the See of Peter has been vacant (Sede Vacante). As St. Robert Bellarmine teaches in De Romano Pontifice, a manifest heretic ipso facto ceases to be Pope and head of the Church, “just as he ceases to be a Christian and member of the body of the Church” (De Romano Pontifice, Bk. 2, Ch. 30). This principle is confirmed by Canon 188.4 of the 1917 Code: “Every office becomes vacant by the mere fact and without any declaration… if the cleric publicly defects from the Catholic faith.” The “bishops” of the conciliar sect, having publicly professed the heresies of Vatican II (religious liberty, ecumenism, collegiality, the new ecclesiology), have automatically lost all jurisdiction before any declaratory sentence. They are, in the words of Pope Celestine I regarding Nestorius, men who “had already brought the divine judgment upon himself” and “could not remove anyone by sentence who himself had already shown that he must be removed.”
Therefore, Wenski’s claim that “The Church has a right to determine our own teachings” is a blasphemous usurpation. He is not the Church; he is a public heretic occupying an episcopal see sine titulo. His “teachings” are the doctrines of the synagoga Satanae (Apoc. 2:9), the conciliar sect, which has substituted the regnum Christi for the regnum hominis. The faithful are not bound by his “policies” but are obliged to resist them as they would resist a wolf in sheep’s clothing.
The Sophistry of “Religious” vs. “Conscience” Exemptions: A Modernist Trap
The linguistic engineering deployed by the NCBC and parroted by Wenski is a textbook example of the Modernist method condemned by St. Pius X in Lamentabili Sane Exitu and Pascendi Dominici Gregis. Proposition 26 of Lamentabili condemns the error: “The dogmas of faith should be understood according to their practical function, i.e., as binding in action, rather than as principles of belief.” Here, the distinction between “religious exemption” (grounded in objective Catholic doctrine) and “conscience exemption” (reduced to subjective sincerity) serves to evacuate the moral object of the act.
Wenski states:
“If a Catholic has conscience objections to the vaccines you canʼt say that your objections come from your understanding of the Catholic faith because the vaccinations available and developed are not contrary to Church teachings.”
This is a formal heresy against the moral law. It denies that the use of cell lines derived from deliberately aborted children (HEK-293, PER.C6, WI-38, MRC-5) constitutes proximate material cooperation in the evil of abortion. The 2005 Pontifical Academy for Life document (itself a product of the conciliar magisterium, not the infallible extraordinary magisterium) admitted the liceity only pro ratione gravi and temporarie, while affirming the duty to oppose such vaccines and demand ethical alternatives. To declare that no “religious” objection can exist is to declare that the Catholic faith has nothing to say about the slaughter of the innocents — Parvulos autem non ad me venite (Mt 19:14). It reduces the Faith to a mere bureaucratic compliance with the status quo of the pharmaceutical-state complex.
The NCBC’s John Haas, cited in the article, epitomizes the clericus modernista: he distinguishes “religious” from “conscience” objections to herd the faithful into a pen where they may whisper subjective preferences but may not invoke the objective moral law. This is the hermeneutic of rupture applied to bioethics: the natural law is silenced, the Fifth Commandment is relativized, and the “common good” is redefined as herd immunity via tainted biologics.
The “Common Good” of the Neo-Church is the Common Good of the Masonic State
Wenski invokes the “common good” and “Catholic social teaching” to justify coercion:
“Catholic social teaching also obligates schools to promote the common good and protect children through immunization… Weʼve witnessed in recent months an upsurge of cases of measles, and we know that that presents certain dangers for pregnant women.”
This is naturalism pure and simple, condemned by Pope Pius IX in the Syllabus of Errors (Prop. 55: “The Church ought to be separated from the State, and the State from the Church” — condemned) and by Pope Pius XI in Quas Primas. Pius XI teaches: “His reign encompasses not only Catholic nations… but His reign encompasses also all non-Christians, so that most truly the entire human race is subject to the authority of Jesus Christ” (Quas Primas, 18). The “common good” of which Wenski speaks is the bonum commune temporalist of the Masonic state — health as mere biological survival, severed from the finis ultimus of eternal salvation.
Pius XI warns: “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” (Quas Primas, 31). The “bishops” have accepted the removal of Christ the King from the public order; they now function as chaplains to the secular Leviathan, enforcing its mandates (vaccines, gender ideology, “safe environment” protocols) in exchange for thirty pieces of silver — the state scholarship funds. Uthmeier, a layman and a temporal ruler, correctly identifies the irony:
“many Catholic families have come to him noting the irony that their conscience rights are protected in public schools in Florida but not in Catholic ones.”
The secular state, in its residual natural law awareness, better defends the rights of Catholic parents than the “successors of the apostles” who have betrayed their mandate. This is the abominatio desolationis standing in the holy place (Mt 24:15).
Parental Rights Usurped: The Violation of Natural and Divine Law
The article cites Canon 217 of the 1983 Code (itself an invalid code promulgated by a usurper) regarding the right to Christian education. The true law is the 1917 Code, Canon 1113: “Parents are bound by a most grave obligation to provide for the religious and moral education of their children” — an obligation that precedes and supersedes any state or “ecclesiastical” policy. The “bishops” deny parents the means to fulfill this obligation (Catholic education) unless they violate their conscience by injecting their children with products of abortion. This is coercion of conscience, the very definition of the Antichrist’s method: “Ut non possint emere neque vendere, nisi qui habet characterem” (Apoc. 13:17).
Yvonne Bontkowski of Children of God for Life correctly notes:
“This is the first time I have ever seen where the state isnʼt asking the Church to violate its teaching, itʼs asking the Church to honor it.”
The state, in its blind legalism, accidentally upholds the ius naturale (parental authority, freedom of conscience) while the “Church” tramples it. This inversion is the fruit of Dignitatis Humanae, the conciliar declaration on religious liberty, which teaches that the state has no duty to profess the true religion — thereby rendering the “Church” just another private association subject to state regulation. Having surrendered the potestas indirecta in temporalibus (Leo XIII, Immortale Dei), the conciliar hierarchy now grovels for state funding and enforces state health mandates.
The Symptomatic Level: The Neo-Church as an Instrument of the New World Order
This dispute is not an isolated policy disagreement; it is a symptom of the systemic apostasy of the conciliar sect. The “bishops” collaborate with the pharmaceutical-industrial complex (the “merchants of the earth,” Apoc. 18:23, pharmakeia) to enforce a globalist bio-security agenda. The distinction between “religious” and “conscience” exemptions mirrors the distinction between “freedom of worship” (private, tolerated) and “freedom of religion” (public, suppressed) promoted by the Masonic UN and EU.
Barbara Loe Fisher’s observation —
“If the scientists and the government havenʼt done due diligence… that is a moral dilemma the Church is going to have to eventually grapple with.”
— reveals the naïveté of those who expect the conciliar “Church” to “grapple” with truth. It will not. It is the ecclesia adultera (Ez 16:32), married to the spirit of the world. Its “bioethics centers” exist to manufacture consent for the culture of death, not to defend the Faith.
The “Miracle of the Sun” at Fatima — a Masonic psychological operation as detailed in the contextual documents — foreshadowed this era: a false sign in the heavens to distract from the true chastisement, the loss of the Faith in the hierarchy. The “consecration of Russia” was a diversion from the apostasia a summo (2 Thess 2:3). Today, the “bishops” demand consecration to the needle.
Conclusion: Flee the Conciliar Structures; Keep the Faith
The faithful in Florida and everywhere must understand: no true Catholic school can exist under the authority of a manifest heretic “bishop.” The sacraments administered by priests ordained in the new rite (post-1968) are doubtful at best; the “Mass” celebrated is a Protestantized memorial meal. The “Canon law” cited is the law of a schismatic sect.
The only response to Uthmeier’s threat — and to Wenski’s tyranny — is the response of the Machiabaei: “Non possumus”. Parents must withdraw their children from these pseudo-Catholic schools, educate them at home or in true traditional chapels served by validly ordained priests (pre-1968 rites, una cum sede vacante), and refuse the mark of the beast in whatever form it appears — be it the mRNA injection, the digital ID, or the false obedience to the usurpers in the Vatican.
“Qui non est mecum, contra me est” (Mt 12:30). The “bishops” have chosen Caesar. The remnant chooses Christ the King.
Source:
Florida attorney general, Miami archbishop spar over vaccine exemptions in Catholic schools (ewtnnews.com)
Date: 17.08.2026