EWTN News portal (October 1, 2026) reports that the Australian state of Victoria recorded 512 deaths by “voluntary assisted dying” (VAD) in the year ending June 30, a 31.6% increase from the previous year, representing 1.1% of all deaths. The article notes that Victoria’s Parliament passed amendments in November 2025, effective April 2027, which will broaden eligibility, shorten the request period from nine to five days, and permit health professionals to initiate discussions about euthanasia. The portal cites a pastoral letter from Victoria’s “Catholic bishops” warning the changes would allow practitioners to raise euthanasia with patients “at their most vulnerable,” and quotes Sydney “Archbishop” Anthony Fisher calling for “positive alternatives” like palliative care. The surge in state-sanctioned killing and the tepid, managerial response of the conciliar hierarchy expose the total bankruptcy of a false church that has abandoned the Kingship of Christ for the secular city of man.
The Metastasis of Legalized Murder: The Fruit of Dethroning Christ
The cold statistics — 512 souls dispatched by poison in a single year, a near one-third increase, applications surging 40% — are not merely a “trend.” They are the inevitable harvest of a society that has formally deposed Jesus Christ from His Kingship over civil legislation. Pius XI, in Quas Primas, thundered: “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, because the main reason why some have the right to command and others have the duty to obey was removed.” Victoria’s law is the positive enactment of this destruction. The state has assumed the jus vitae ac necis (right over life and death), a prerogative belonging solely to the Divine King. The Syllabus of Errors (Pius IX) condemned the proposition that “The civil law prevails” over divine law (Error 42) and that “Moral laws do not stand in need of the divine sanction” (Error 56). Victoria has inscribed these very errors into its statute books. The “Voluntary Assisted Dying Review Board” is the modern Sanhedrin, legitimizing the murder of the innocent under color of law, proving that where Christ is not King, Satan reigns through the civil magistrate.
The Language of Death: Euphemism as Liturgical Perversion
The article’s vocabulary — “voluntary assisted dying,” “VAD substance,” “practitioner administration,” “safeguards,” “access” — constitutes a liturgical language of the Antichurch. Words are perverted to cloak the crime: “assisted dying” for homicide; “substance” for poison; “practitioner” for executioner; “safeguards” for procedural fig-leaves covering intrinsic evil. This is the novus ordo of secularism: a bureaucratic ritual replacing the Unbloody Sacrifice of Calvary. The “Review Board’s annual report” functions as a demonic synaxarion, cataloguing the “success” of the cult of death. The linguistic shift from “euthanasia” to “VAD” mirrors the conciliar shift from “Sacrifice of the Mass” to “Eucharistic celebration” — both are semantic engineering to evacuate the supernatural reality and replace it with a humanistic simulation. The “bishops” adopt this Newspeak, speaking of “weakening safeguards” rather than denouncing a law that cries to heaven for vengeance (Gen 4:10). They negotiate the terms of the slaughter instead of excommunicating the slaughterers.
The Theological Vacuum: Silence on the Fifth Commandment and the Kingship of Christ
The pastoral letter of the Victorian “bishops” and the statement of “Archbishop” Fisher are masterpieces of Modernist equivocation. They warn of “reduced safeguards,” “vulnerable patients,” and urge “palliative care.” Nowhere do they declare: “This is murder. This violates the Fifth Commandment. This law is null and void ab initio because it contradicts the eternal law of God. The legislators who voted for it, the doctors who administer the poison, and the officials who oversee it have incurred latae sententiae excommunication.” This silence is the gravest accusation. Lamentabili Sane Exitu (St. Pius X) condemned the Modernist proposition 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” (Error 26) and that “Christian doctrine was initially Jewish, but through gradual development, it became first Pauline, then Johannine, and finally Greek and universal” (Error 60). The conciliar “hierarchy” acts exactly thus: doctrine (Thou shalt not kill) is reduced to a “practical function” (palliative care advocacy), and the immutable moral law is treated as an evolving “pastoral approach.” They have ceased to be teachers of truth and become managers of social services. As Pius XI taught: “The state must leave the same freedom to the members of Orders… who are indeed the most valiant helpers of the Pastors of the Church and contribute most to the expansion and establishment of Christ’s Kingdom, either by combating the triple concupiscence of the world through religious vows…” The “bishops” have surrendered the Kingdom to the “triple concupiscence” (lust for death, pride of autonomy, greed for healthcare savings) and call it “pastoral care.”
The Impotence of the “Hierarchy”: Manifest Heresy and Automatic Loss of Office
Why do these “bishops” and “archbishops” speak as functionaries of the secular state rather than Successores Apostolorum? Because, from the perspective of integral Catholic theology, they are not bishops at all. The “Defense of Sedevacantism” file establishes, via St. Robert Bellarmine, Wernz & Vidal, and Canon 188.4 (1917 Code), that a manifest heretic loses his office ipso facto, without any declaration. Bellarmine: “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 “bishops” of the conciliar sect (post-1958) publicly profess the heresies of Vatican II: religious liberty (Dignitatis Humanae), ecumenism (Unitatis Redintegratio), collegiality subverting papal primacy, and the “hermeneutic of continuity” masking rupture. By Canon 188.4, “Every office becomes vacant by the mere fact… if the cleric: 4. Publicly defects from the Catholic faith.” Fr. McDevitt confirms: “Joining, or enrolling in, a non-Catholic sect is not required to establish the publicity which the canon demands.” The conciliar sect is a non-Catholic sect. Therefore, the Victorian “bishops” and “Archbishop” Fisher are private individuals usurping ecclesiastical jurisdiction. They possess no authority to teach, govern, or sanctify. Their “pastoral letters” are private opinions devoid of sacramental grace or juridic force. They cannot bind consciences. Their failure to condemn euthanasia with the anathema of the Council of Trent (“If anyone says that… it is lawful to kill… let him be anathema”) is not mere negligence; it is proof of their non-membership in the Church of Christ. As Bellarmine states: “A non-Christian in no way can be Pope… a manifest heretic cannot be Pope… he who is not a Christian is not a member of the Church.” The same applies to the episcopate.
The Masonic-Modernist Architecture: The “Abomination of Desolation” in the Antipodes
The “False Fatima Apparitions” file details the Masonic operation to divert attention from the modernist apostasy within the Church. The legalization of euthanasia in Victoria, and the conciliar hierarchy’s acquiescence, is the visible fruit of this operation. The “False Fatima” analysis notes: “The message focuses on external threats (communism), omitting the main danger: modernist apostasy within the Church since the beginning of the 20th century.” Today, the “external threat” is the “culture of death,” but the conciliar “hierarchy” — the paramasonic structure occupying the Vatican — refuses to name the internal cause: their own apostasy from Quas Primas, from the Syllabus, from Cum Ex Apostolatus Officio. The “ecumenism project” noted in the file — “imprecise formulation… opens the way to religious relativism” — finds its terminus in the “interfaith” palliative care chaplaincies where the “bishops” collaborate with heretics, schismatics, and pagans to “accompany” the dying into eternity without the Sacraments of the True Church. The “seers and suspicious practices” — isolation, control of narrative — mirror the isolation of true Catholic resistance today, silenced by the “Review Boards” of the neo-church. The canonization of the antipope “John Paul II” and “Paul VI” (mentioned in the file’s context of false saints) seals the sect’s identity: it canonizes the architects of the revolution that produced Victoria’s death law.
Conclusion: No Peace Except in the Kingdom of Christ
The article concludes with “Archbishop” Fisher’s call for “positive alternatives.” This is the whimper of the hireling (John 10:12) who flees when the wolf comes. The only “positive alternative” is the Social Kingship of Christ the King, solemnly defined by Pius XI: “His reign encompasses also all non-Christians, so that most truly the entire human race is subject to the authority of Jesus Christ.” Victoria’s law is an act of high treason against the King of Kings. The conciliar “bishops,” by their manifest heresy and automatic loss of office (Canon 188.4, Bellarmine, Cum Ex Apostolatus Officio), have abdicated the defense of the Kingdom. The 512 dead are martyrs of the secularist state, sacrificed on the altar of laicism. The true Church — Ecclesia Militans — remains in the catacombs, adhering to the immutable Faith, the Traditional Mass, and the Sedevacantist truth: the See of Peter is vacant, the hierarchy has defected, and Christ alone is King. “His empire shall be multiplied, and there shall be no end to peace: he shall sit upon the throne of David… to establish it and gird it with justice and righteousness from henceforth and forever” (Isa 9:6-7, cited in Quas Primas). The euthanasia chambers of Victoria will not endure; the Kingdom of Christ will.
Source:
Australia’s euthanasia deaths rise as Victoria expands assisted dying law (ewtnnews.com)
Date: 01.10.2026