The EWTN News portal reports that a federal court in Illinois has expanded a temporary restraining order shielding “nearly every Catholic health care institution” in the state from compliance with the newly enacted assisted suicide law. The lawsuit, spearheaded by the Thomas More Society, names as plaintiffs the pseudo-bishop of Springfield, Mr. Thomas Paprocki, the pseudo-cardinal of Chicago, Mr. Blase Cupich, and multiple communities of pseudo-religious sisters. The court order prevents the state from forcing these conciliar entities to participate in the “suicide regime,” though the protection is merely temporary and predicated on secular “religious liberty” statutes. This legal maneuver exposes the total bankruptcy of the conciliar hierarchy: they do not fight the evil law as such, but merely beg Caesar for a privileged exemption, thereby recognizing the legitimacy of the anti-Christian state and abandoning the Social Kingship of Christ.
The Illegitimacy of the Plaintiffs: Usurpers of Ecclesiastical Office
The article presents Mr. Paprocki and Mr. Cupich as “Bishop” and “Cardinal” respectively, leading a coalition of “Catholic” plaintiffs. From the perspective of integral Catholic faith, these men hold no legitimate ecclesiastical office. As St. Robert Bellarmine teaches in De Romano Pontifice, “a Pope who is 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.” This principle applies a fortiori to bishops and cardinals. The conciliar hierarchy, beginning with the usurper John XXIII, has publicly professed the heresies of religious liberty, ecumenism, and collegiality condemned by the Syllabus of Errors and Quas Primas. By adhering to the Second Vatican Council and the post-conciliar magisterium, they have ipso facto defected from the Catholic Faith (Canon 188.4, 1917 Code) and lost all jurisdiction. Mr. Cupich is a notorious modernist who has publicly scandalized the faithful by promoting the LGBT agenda and intercommunion with heretics; Mr. Paprocki, while presenting a “conservative” facade, recognizes the false “pope” Leo XIV (Robert Prevost) and the validity of the Novus Ordo Missae, thereby communicating in sacris with manifest heretics. They are not shepherds of the Church but functionaries of the “abomination of desolation” occupying the Vatican. Their “lawsuit” is not an act of episcopal courage but a corporate legal strategy by a paramasonic structure.
The Naturalistic Framework: Religious Liberty vs. Divine Right
The entire legal defense rests on the secular concept of “religious liberty” and “conscience protections” under the U.S. Constitution and Illinois law. This is the very error condemned by Pope Pius IX in the Syllabus of Errors (Prop. 77, 78, 79, 80): “In the present day it is no longer expedient that the Catholic religion should be held as the only religion of the State… The Roman Pontiff can, and ought to, reconcile himself, and come to terms with progress, liberalism and modern civilization.” By arguing for an exemption, the plaintiffs implicitly concede the state’s right to enact the assisted suicide law for the general populace. They do not declare the law null and void ab initio because it violates the Divine Law (Lex injusta non est lex). They do not invoke the Kingship of Christ over Illinois, which Pius XI proclaimed in Quas Primas: “Rulers of states… have the duty to publicly honor Christ and obey Him… His royal dignity demands that all relations in the state be ordered on the basis of God’s commandments.” They accept the secularist premise that the State is the source of law (Syllabus, Prop. 39), begging for a “carve-out” rather than demanding the law’s repeal as a crime against God. This is the “clerico-liberalism” condemned by Pius IX: Catholics seeking to survive within the liberal order by negotiating toleration.
Submission to the Secular Order: Begging for Tolerance Instead of Proclaiming Truth
The Thomas More Society’s Peter Breen states the law firm will “keep fighting until that protection is permanent.” Note the objective: not the abolition of the satanic law, but a permanent privilege for their institutions. The article notes that “narrow opt-out laws mean the Catholic care providers were not obligated to actively facilitate the specific act of suicide. But the state law still requires them to participate in the suicide regime in various other ways, including touting the alleged benefits of taking one’s own life.” Even this limited cooperation is condemned by the plaintiffs only insofar as it violates their “conscience.” They do not condemn it as a mortal sin that cries to heaven for vengeance, nor do they warn the faithful that any cooperation—even “touting benefits”—is formal cooperation in murder. This is the fruit of the false theology of “religious freedom” taught by Dignitatis Humanae: the Church reduced to a private association seeking accommodation from the secular sovereign. Pius XI warned: “When God and Jesus Christ… were removed from laws and states… the foundations of that authority were destroyed.” The conciliar hierarchy has internalized this destruction; they no longer believe they have the right to demand the State obey God, only the privilege to be left alone.
The Theological Vacuum: Silence on Sin, Salvation, and the Social Kingship of Christ
Read the article carefully. There is not a single mention of the salvation of souls, the gravity of suicide as a sin against the Holy Ghost, the reality of Hell, or the duty of the Church to teach the moral law to the civil magistrate. The language is entirely bureaucratic and therapeutic: “health care providers… strive to heal, not harm,” “cared for the sick and dying in keeping with their faith.” This is the “cult of man” denounced by St. Pius X in Pascendi Dominici Gregis and Lamentabili Sane Exitu. The Modernist error (Prop. 58, 59, 65) holds that “Truth changes with man” and “Christ did not proclaim any specific, all-encompassing doctrine suitable for all times and peoples.” Consequently, the conciliar “clergy” speak the language of NGOs, not the language of the Prophets. They do not say: “This law is an abomination; the Governor and Legislature will answer to Christ the King at the Final Judgment.” They say: “We have a legal right to opt out.” This silence about the supernatural order is the gravest accusation. It proves they are “blind guides” (Matt. 15:14) leading the faithful into the ditch of indifferentism.
The “Catholic Health Care” Illusion: Syncretism in the Service of the World
The article boasts that “nearly every Catholic health care institution in Illinois” is covered. What are these institutions in reality? They are corporate entities deeply enmeshed in the secular medical-industrial complex, largely funded by government Medicare/Medicaid dollars, and staffed overwhelmingly by personnel who do not profess the integral Catholic Faith. Since the conciliar revolution, these “Catholic” hospitals have routinely violated the moral law—providing “palliative care” that hastens death, distributing abortifacient “contraception” under the guise of “rape protocols,” performing sterilizations via “tubal ligations” rebranded as “salpingectomies,” and collaborating with the transgender ideology. The “Ethical and Religious Directives” of the USCCB are a tissue of compromises and loopholes. To seek a legal shield for these institutions is not to defend the Faith; it is to protect the revenue streams and institutional prestige of the neo-church. As Pius XI taught, the Church demands “full freedom and independence from secular authority” not to avoid lawsuits, but “in fulfilling the mission entrusted to it by God – to teach, govern, and lead all to eternal happiness.” These institutions have long since abandoned that mission for the “peace” of the world.
The Thomas More Society: Legalistic Pharisaism in Service of the Neo-Church
The Thomas More Society functions as the legal arm of the conciliar establishment. Its strategy is purely juridical: manipulate the secular courts using the secular categories of the First Amendment. This is the “juridicism” that replaces supernatural theology in the post-conciliar era. St. Thomas More died a martyr because he refused to acknowledge the King’s supremacy over the Church, declaring: “I die the King’s good servant, but God’s first.” The Society bearing his name argues the opposite: “We are the State’s good servants, and we ask the State to let us be God’s servants on the side.” They fight for exemptions, not for the Rights of Christ the King. This is the “schism within a schism” typical of the pseudo-traditionalist milieu: they use the Traditional Latin Mass (often invalidly celebrated by priests ordained in the new rite or by bishops of doubtful orders like Lefebvre’s) as a branding tool, while their public theology is pure Americanist liberalism. They are the “Indultists” of the courtroom.
Conclusion: The Only Remedy is the Restoration of the Catholic Order
The Illinois lawsuit is a microcosm of the Great Apostasy. The false hierarchy, stripped of the sensus Catholicus and the grace of office, flees to the secular courts—the very “synagogue of Satan” (Apoc. 2:9) denounced by Pius IX in the Syllabus—to beg for crumbs of tolerance. They have surrendered the Kingship of Christ for a temporary restraining order. True Catholics, adhering to the immutable Tradition and the sedevacantist thesis that the See of Peter has been vacant since 1958, know that no lasting good can come from the structures of the Antichrist. The assisted suicide law is a chastisement for a nation that has dethroned Christ. The only solution is not a legal “opt-out,” but the Reconquest: the conversion of the State to the Catholic Faith, the restoration of the True Mass and True Sacraments, and the enthronement of Christ the King in the civil constitution. “He who gives the Kingdom of Heaven does not take away earthly things!” (Hymn Crudelis Herodes, cited in Quas Primas). But the conciliar sect, having lost Heaven, clings desperately to earthly things—and loses both.
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‘Nearly every Catholic health care institution’ in Illinois shielded from suicide law in court order (ewtnnews.com)
Date: 08.10.2026