Catholic News Agency reports on Arkansas artist Lakey Goff’s design for a “Living Wall: Monument to the Unborn,” approved by Governor Sarah Huckabee Sanders’ administration. The $1 million project features waterfalls, flora, and hexagonal stones where women can inscribe names of aborted children. Goff claims divine inspiration for this “act of repentance,” stating it will provide healing through nature’s sounds and the ability to “name babies.” The November 26, 2025 article highlights fundraising efforts through a 5K event involving groups including Arkansas Right to Life and describes Goff’s vision of the monument as facilitating “an encounter with Jesus Christ.”
Naturalism Masquerading as Repentance
The monument’s conceptual framework constitutes a diabolical inversion of authentic Catholic penitential practice. By replacing sacramental confession with waterfalls and botanical displays, the designers reduce the horror of abortion to an ecological gesture. Pius XI’s encyclical Quas primas (1925) establishes that “the entire human race is subject to the authority of Jesus Christ,” yet this memorial pointedly avoids Christ’s royal authority to judge and forgive through His Church.
Goff’s assertion that “the sound of seven different waterfalls… is the sound of Jesus’ voice” directly contradicts the Church’s teaching on divine revelation. The Holy Office’s decree Lamentabili sane (1907) condemns the proposition that “Revelation was merely man’s self-awareness of his relationship to God” (Proposition 20). This monument embodies precisely this condemned error – substituting created nature for the voice of the Incarnate Word.
The Missing Sacraments
Nowhere does the article mention the necessity of sacramental confession for post-abortion healing, nor the obligation to seek absolution from validly ordained priests. The Catechism of the Council of Trent decrees: “The sins which men commit… require for their remission the sacramental confession” (Part II, Ch. V). The monument’s designers promote a dangerous fiction that writing children’s names on stones constitutes repentance, while omitting the ex opere operato grace of the sacrament of Penance.
This omission reveals the project’s alignment with the conciliar sect’s destruction of sacramental theology. The 1917 Code of Canon Law (Canon 1258 §1) strictly forbade Catholics from participating in non-Catholic religious activities. Yet this memorial – endorsed by Arkansas’ government and promoted by ostensibly Catholic media – establishes a parallel pseudo-sacramental system detached from the Church’s magisterium and sacramental economy.
False Ecumenism and the Silence on Judgment
Governor Sanders’ November proclamation designating a “month to remember the unborn” exemplifies the naturalism condemned by Pius IX in the Syllabus of Errors: “The State must leave the same freedom to the members of Orders and Congregations… to strike it with frequent blows, to shake it, to overthrow it” (Condemned Proposition 55). By reducing abortion remembrance to a secular memorial, the government denies Christ’s exclusive right to govern nations.
The article’s reference to “healing” without mention of final judgment constitutes pastoral malpractice. The Council of Trent (Session VI, Canon 15) anathematizes those who claim assurance of salvation without fear of judgment. True post-abortion ministry requires warning women – as did St. John Vianney – that unconfessed sins lead to hellfire, not botanical consolation gardens.
Illicit Collaboration with Apostate Structures
The fundraising partnership with “Arkansas Right to Life” exposes the memorial’s theological bankruptcy. This organization operates within the conciliar sect’s structures, implicitly recognizing the authority of antipope Leo XIV. As Pius XII taught in Mystici Corporis Christi (1943): “To remain in the Church… it is not enough to be honorably adorned with Christian virtues… one must be a member of the Body of Christ by the bonds of visible union.”
The article’s promotion of this project by Catholic News Agency – which regularly reports on antipapal activities as legitimate – demonstrates the conciliar sect’s continuous betrayal of its mandate. St. Pius X’s Pascendi Dominici gregis (1907) identified such naturalistic reductions of religion as the essence of Modernism: “Religion is a form of life which springs up from the hidden recesses of the subconscious.”
Conclusion: A Monument to Modernism
This “Living Wall” epitomizes the conciliar revolution’s substitution of sacramental reality with therapeutic naturalism. Where Christ established the confessionals as hospitals for sinners, Modernists build stone gardens. Where the Council of Trent defined the Church’s exclusive power to absolve sins, neo-modernists offer waterfalls and bird habitats.
As the First Vatican Council infallibly declared: “If anyone says that miracles can happen… in any age… and that therefore the accounts of them… should be banished… let him be anathema” (Session III, Canon 4). The true memorial to the unborn exists in every Catholic altar where the propitiatory Sacrifice of Calvary renews – not in Arkansas’ syncretic nature shrine that mocks Christ’s kingship while pretending to honor life.
Source:
‘An encounter with Jesus’: Artist behind living wall memorial for unborn shares mission (catholicnewsagency.com)
Date: 26.11.2025