The EWTN News portal, mouthpiece of the conciliar sect occupying the Vatican, reports on the 2026 gubernatorial races with grotesque triumphalism, heralding the prospect of fourteen “Catholic” candidates vying for twelve statehouses. The article, dated September 22, 2026, catalogues a rogues’ gallery of lay politicians—Greg Abbott, Gina Hinojosa, Maura Healey, Michael Minogue, Jim Pillen, Lynne Walz, Ryan Fazio, Ned Lamont, Terri Pickens Manweiler, Brad Little—who parade their nominal affiliation with the neo-church as a campaign credential. If all prevail, the tally of “Catholic” governors would rise from twenty to twenty-two. This spectacle of electoral arithmetic exposes the final bankruptcy of the conciliar project: the reduction of the Regnum Christi to a demographic statistic for the Masonic republic.
The Theological Impossibility of a “Catholic” Governor in a Masonic Republic
The very premise of the article—that a “Catholic” can exercise the office of governor in the United States without contradiction—is a frontal denial of the Social Kingship of Christ defined by Pius XI in Quas Primas. The encyclical teaches that “men united in societies are no less subject to the authority of Christ than individuals” 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” (Pius XI, Quas Primas, citing St. Augustine). The Syllabus of Pius IX condemns as error the proposition that “The Church ought to be separated from the State, and the State from the Church” (Error 55) and that “The civil government… has a right to an indirect negative power over religious affairs” (Error 41).
Every candidate cited in this report swears allegiance to a Constitution that enshrines religious indifferentism (First Amendment) and the separation of Church and State—the very “laicism” Pius XI denounces as “the plague that poisons human society” (Quas Primas). Greg Abbott boasts that his “faith informs every decision,” yet he governs a republic founded on the principle that the State derives its authority from the consent of the governed, not from God. This is the error of popular sovereignty condemned by Leo XIII and St. Pius X. A true Catholic ruler must confess Christ publicly in the laws; he cannot “prioritize uniting all of God’s children in love of neighbor” while presiding over a legal order that protects abortion (even with exceptions), same-sex “marriage,” and religious liberty. Abbott’s Texas has not abolished abortion; it has regulated it. He is not a “shining city on the hill” for Christ, but a custodian of the Masonic city of man.
Religious Liberty and Separation of Church and State: The Heresy at the Heart of the Campaign
The most damning testimony comes from the Democrat candidate Terri Pickens Manweiler, who declares: “I firmly believe in the separation of church and state. I would not impose my beliefs onto others, especially through the political process or governance.” Here is the liberalism condemned by Pius IX in the Syllabus (Error 80: “The Roman Pontiff can, and ought to, reconcile himself, and come to terms with progress, liberalism and modern civilization”) and by Pius XI in Quas Primas (“secularism of our times, so-called laicism, its errors and wicked endeavors”).
But the Republicans are no better. Ryan Fazio speaks of serving “humbly” and rejecting “temptations of power,” yet he seeks the governorship of Connecticut—a state whose laws enshrine the murder of the unborn and the corruption of marriage—under a Constitution that forbids any religious test but effectively demands a functional atheism in legislation. The article notes that “about half of gubernatorial races are open races, with the incumbent either term-limited or retiring.” This musical chairs of Masonic functionaries is presented as the arena for “Catholic witness.” It is, in reality, the theatrum mundi where the conciliar laity legitimize the abomination of desolation standing in the holy place of civil authority.
The “Moral Compass” Heresy: Subjectivism Replaces Divine Law
Gina Hinojosa tells EWTN: “My faith is my moral compass. It grounds me in purpose and gives me the courage to do what is right regardless of obstacles or consequences.” This is the quintessence of Modernist subjectivism condemned in Lamentabili Sane Exitu (Prop. 25: “Faith, as assent of the mind, is ultimately based on a sum of probabilities”; Prop. 26: “The dogmas of faith should be understood according to their practical function, i.e., as binding in action, rather than as principles of belief”). For Hinojosa, “faith” is not the assensus fidei to revealed truth proposed by the Magisterium, but a private, pragmatic “compass” for navigating the secular arena.
Jim Pillen echoes this Protestantized pietism: “I begin each day praying to do God’s will… my faith shapes my commitment to protecting life, serving others with humility, respecting human dignity.” Notice the vocabulary: “human dignity,” “serving others,” “protecting life”—all stripped of their supernatural referent (the rights of Christ the King, the salvation of souls, the condemnation of error). This is the language of the Gaudium et Spes anthropology, not the Catechism of the Council of Trent. The “Catholicism” on display is a therapeutic deism, perfectly compatible with the Novus Ordo’s “pastoral” orientation, utterly foreign to the integral Catholic faith which demands the subiectio of the civil power to the spiritual (Gelasius I, Epistula ad Anastasium: Duo sunt, imperator, quibus principaliter mundus hic regitur: auctoritas sacra pontificum et regalis potestas).
The Conciliar Sect’s Electoral Strategy: Legitimizing the Anti-Christian Order
The article functions as propaganda for the neo-church‘s integration into the Masonic polity. EWTN News—founded by the “Franciscan” Mother Angelica, a creature of the post-conciliar establishment—acts as the publicity arm for this electoral farce. By highlighting “Catholic candidates” across party lines, the conciliar sect signals its total acceptance of the partitocracy and the liberal democratic myth. It matters not if the candidate is a pro-abortion Democrat (Hinojosa, Healey, Walz, Pickens Manweiler, Lamont) or a “pro-life” Republican (Abbott, Pillen, Fazio, Little, Minogue); both wings serve the same Master: the secular State.
The Syllabus condemns the error that “Catholics may approve of the system of educating youth unconnected with Catholic faith… and which regards the knowledge of merely natural things” (Error 48). Mutatis mutandis, the conciliar laity approve a political order unconnected with the Catholic Faith, regarding merely natural “common good.” The article’s graphic—”If every Catholic candidate were to win, the number of Catholic governors would climb from 20 to 22″—reveals the quantitative, sociological mindset of the Church of the New Advent. It counts bodies in offices, not souls in grace; it measures influence in statehouses, not the rights of Christ the King in legislation.
Silence on the Social Kingship of Christ: The Gravest Omission
Nowhere in this 1,000-word dispatch does the name of Christ the King appear. Nowhere is the duty of the State to “publicly honor Christ and obey Him” (Quas Primas) mentioned. Nowhere is the Canon 188.4 principle applied—that public defection from the faith vacates office—because the conciliar sect does not believe the Faith is a public, objective standard for nations. The candidates speak of “values,” “compass,” “foundation,” “ethos.” They do not speak of Christus Vincit, Christus Regnat, Christus Imperat.
This silence is the crimen laesae majestatis Divinae. The article is a documentary proof that the conciliar sect has fulfilled the prophecy of Quas Primas: “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”. The “Catholic governors” of 2026 will be the executors of that destruction, administering the paramasonic structure of the American republic with the blessing of the antipope Leo XIV (Prevost) and his “bishops.” The faithful remnant knows: Non est potestas nisi a Deo (Rom 13:1). Authority not from God is violence. These candidates seek violence’s throne. Their “faith” is the livery of the Whore of Babylon.
Source:
Catholic Candidates to Shape 2026 Gubernatorial Races in 12 States (ncregister.com)
Date: 22.09.2026