The EWTN News portal reports on a coordinated “pro-life” offensive by the conciliar sect’s lay organizations: Students for Life of America and Turning Point USA launch a campus tour titled “Feminists Lied: Prove Me Wrong” fronted by Kristan Hawkins; CatholicVote deploys actor Eduardo Verástegui to sway Hispanic voters in Virginia against abortion and “same-sex marriage” referenda; “Archbishop” John Sherrington of the English hierarchy laments the legalization of assisted suicide on the Isle of Man; and an Arizona court awards damages to a father whose child was aborted without his consent. This roundup of naturalistic political maneuvering, devoid of the supernatural order, exposes the conciliar sect’s reduction of the Church’s mission to electoral mechanics and civil litigation.
The Secularization of the Apostolate: Politics as Substitute for Grace
The cited article reveals the total substitution of the Church’s divine mandate for the salvation of souls with a secular program of cultural conservatism. The “Feminists Lied” tour, explicitly framed as a “debate [on] the ethics of abortion” and a challenge to the view that “feminism and a legal right to abortion have helped women rather than hurt them,” operates entirely within the naturalistic framework of “women’s happiness,” “career success,” and “equality.” Kristan Hawkins, identified as “Catholic,” declares: “Motherhood is not a weakness to be overcome. If equality requires a woman to end her pregnancy to succeed, then we haven’t liberated her at all. We’ve just handed her a different burden and called it freedom.” This rhetoric, while superficially appealing to natural law, is radically deficient because it severs the defense of life from the Kingship of Christ and the necessity of sanctifying grace. As Pius XI teaches in 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 main reason why some have the right to command and others have the duty to obey was removed.” The tour’s partnership with Turning Point USA—founded by the evangelical Charlie Kirk, a heretic outside the Church—embodies the condemned error of indifferentism (Syllabus, Error 18: “Protestantism is nothing more than another form of the same true Christian religion”). Common cause with heretics in the public square is not apostolate; it is the communicatio in sacris forbidden by divine law, a practical denial that extra Ecclesiam nulla salus.
The “CatholicVote” Spectacle: Electoralism as Idolatry
The deployment of Eduardo Verástegui—a lay actor associated with the film Sound of Freedom—to “reach Hispanic voters in Virginia and encourage them to vote against a referendum” epitomizes the conciliar sect’s idolatry of the democratic process. The article notes that “the state’s bishops have spoken with clarity against the proposal” and that Catholics have a “sacred duty” to vote no. This language inverts the theological order: the sacred duty of the baptized is first to convert the nation to the Social Kingship of Christ, not to participate in a Masonic referendum that presupposes the sovereignty of the people over God’s law. Pius IX condemned the proposition that “In the present day it is no longer expedient that the Catholic religion should be held as the only religion of the State” (Syllabus, Error 77). By framing the battle as a “very important referendum” decided by majority vote, CatholicVote legitimizes the laicism Pius XI denounced as “the plague that poisons human society” (Quas Primas). Verástegui’s involvement further stains the effort with the taint of the “Sound of Freedom” phenomenon, a production celebrated by the conciliar establishment and secular conservatives alike, which distracts from the Church’s true mission by substituting cinematic sentimentality for the opus Dei of the Mass and the Rosary.
The “Bishop” of the Conciliar Sect: Lamentation Without Authority
“Archbishop” John Sherrington—whose jurisdiction the article claims “includes the Isle of Man”—expressed “sadness that an ‘assisted dying’ bill will become law.” He states: “The Catholic Church continues to teach that life is a most precious gift of God… a person should never intentionally end his or her life.” This is the impotent whimper of a functionary of the neo-church. Sherrington, a “bishop” consecrated in the invalid Novus Ordo rite and appointed by the usurper antipope, possesses no jurisdiction and no authority to teach or govern. His “teaching” is reduced to a press release expressing “sadness” and proposing “a different approach” to the civil power. This is the laicism condemned by Pius XI: “The Church’s authority to teach men, to issue laws, to govern nations… was denied. And then, slowly, the Christian religion began to be equated with other false religions… subordinated to secular power.” Sherrington does not condemn the law as null and void by divine right (as Pius IX did regarding the Prussian laws: “these laws are null and void because they are absolutely contrary to the divine constitution of the Church”); he merely “proposes a different approach.” This is the voice of the abomination of desolation standing in the holy place: a hireling who flees when the wolf comes, leaving the sheep to the slaughter of state-sanctioned murder.
Civil Damages for a Supernatural Crime: The Naturalistic Illusion of Justice
The article highlights the lawsuit of Mario Villegas, who “won a lawsuit against the Phoenix-based abortion clinic Camelback Family Planning after a court found that the clinic failed to follow the state’s informed consent law.” He was awarded “$5,000 in statutory damages and $62,500 in compensatory damages for his psychological, emotional, and physical injuries.” The court noted his “feeling of loss” and that “he lost an opportunity to have somebody in his life.” This is the supreme irony of the conciliar “pro-life” movement: it celebrates a verdict rendered by a secular court, under positive law, awarding money for the murder of a soul created for eternity. The father carries the “ultrasound photo of his unborn child everywhere he goes.” While humanly poignant, this is presented as the summum bonum of justice. Where is the mention of the child’s baptism of desire or the Limbo of the Infants? Where is the call for the mother’s conversion and sacramental confession? Where is the excommunication of the abortionists (Canon 1398, 1917 Code)? The conciliar sect’s “victory” is a Pyrrhic settlement in the currency of the City of Man, ignoring the judgment of the City of God. St. Augustine warns: “Two cities have been formed by two loves: the earthly by the love of self, even to the contempt of God; the heavenly by the love of God, even to the contempt of self” (De Civitate Dei, XIV, 28). This lawsuit is a monument to the earthly city.
The “Charlie Kirk” Hagiography: Canonizing a Heretic
The article reverently notes that Hawkins dedicated the tour to “Charlie’s legacy,” referencing Charlie Kirk, “assassinated on Sept. 10, 2025… an evangelical Christian who often blended political activism with evangelism.” The conciliar sect’s media organ (EWTN/CNA) thus builds a cultus around a manifest heretic, an “evangelical” who denied the Petrine primacy, the sacrificial priesthood, the Real Presence, and the necessity of the Church for salvation. Kirk’s “legacy” is “frequently challenged abortion and encouraged young people to start families.” This is natural virtue without supernatural faith—virtus paganorum, which saves no one. The Council of Trent anathematizes those who say “the justice received [by faith] is not preserved and also not increased before God through good works… but that the said works are merely the fruits and signs of justification obtained, not also a cause of its increase” (Session VI, Canon 24). To hold up a heretic as a model for Catholic youth is scandalum in the strict theological sense: an obstacle to salvation.
Systemic Apostasy: The “Pro-Life” Movement as a Wing of the Masonic Republic
The symptomatic level of this reportage reveals the structural integration of the conciliar “pro-life” apparatus into the Masonic two-party system. Students for Life, Turning Point, CatholicVote—these are not ecclesial movements but political action committees operating within the novus ordo seclorum. They accept the legitimacy of the “referendum,” the “lawsuit,” the “campus debate,” the “election.” They do not demand the Reign of Christ the King; they demand “informed consent” laws and “voting no.” This is the laicism Pius XI identified as the “plague”: “the denial of Christ the Lord’s reign over all nations; the Church’s authority to teach men, to issue laws, to govern nations… was denied.” The article’s silence on the Social Kingship of Christ, the necessity of the Catholic State, the duty of public worship, the condemnation of religious liberty, the reality of Hell for unrepentant murderers—this silence is the locus theologicus of the apostasy. The conciliar sect’s “pro-life” activism is a pressure valve for the Masonic state, channeling Catholic zeal into harmless democratic participation, ensuring that the status quo of legalized abortion (regulated, restricted, but never abolished as a crime against God) remains intact.
Conclusion: No Salvation in the Conciliar Ghetto
The EWTN roundup is a catalog of the conciliar sect’s spiritual bankruptcy. It presents a “Church” that has “nothing to do with the order of salvation” (Pius XII, Mystici Corporis), but everything to do with the order of Caesar. Kristan Hawkins, Eduardo Verástegui, “Archbishop” Sherrington, Mario Villegas, Tyler Arnold—all operate within the paramasonic structure occupying the Vatican, using the vocabulary of the faith to legitimize the religion of man. True Catholic action begins at the altar of the Tridentine Mass, flows through the sacerdotium of valid bishops and priests, and aims at the instaurare omnia in Christo—not at the ballot box, the campus microphone, or the civil courtroom. “Unless the Lord build the house, they labor in vain that build it” (Ps 126:1). The conciliar “pro-life” movement builds on sand; the tide of the Antichrist will wash it away.
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Students for Life, Turning Point debate abortion in ‘Feminists Lied’ campus tour (ewtnnews.com)
Date: 24.10.2026