The National Catholic Register (NCR) portal reports that Virginia voters have adopted a referendum enshrining a “fundamental right to reproductive freedom” including abortion into the state constitution, with 61.5% in favor. Simultaneously, Missouri’s pro-life referendum to repeal its existing abortion right is failing 55.5% to 44.5%, while Nevada and Idaho await results on similar measures. The article notes that “Catholic bishops in all four states were heavily involved throughout the races, emphasizing the Church’s teaching on the sanctity of life and asking the faithful to cast pro-life votes.” This spectacle of prelates of the conciliar sect begging a sovereign people to refrain from legalizing child murder via democratic vote exposes the utter bankruptcy of the post-conciliar religion: it has reduced the immutable Law of God to a policy preference subject to the tyranny of the majority.
The Democratic Farce: Substituting Vox Populi for Vox Dei
The cited article presents the slaughter of the innocents as a legislative puzzle to be solved at the ballot box. Virginia’s amendment establishes a “fundamental right to reproductive freedom” extending to “every individual,” not merely adults, with a “mental health” exception so elastic it renders the third-trimester restriction illusory. Missouri’s constitution already contains a “fundamental right to reproductive freedom” with identical “mental health” loopholes determined by the “treating physician, who is often the abortionist.” Nevada and Idaho propose similar abominations.
This is the practical application of the condemned errors of the Syllabus (1864): Error 39 (“The State… is endowed with a certain right not circumscribed by any limits”), Error 55 (“The Church ought to be separated from the State, and the State from the Church”), and Error 77 (“In the present day it is no longer expedient that the Catholic religion should be held as the only religion of the State…”). The conciliar sect, by participating in this charade, implicitly affirms that the civil power is the source of right (auctoritas non veritas facit legem), denying the Social Kingship of Christ solemnly defined by Pius XI in Quas Primas: “His reign encompasses not only Catholic nations… but His reign encompasses also all non-Christians, so that most truly the entire human race is subject to the authority of Jesus Christ.” When a nation votes to legalize murder, it does not acquire a right; it commits a crime crying to heaven for vengeance (Genesis 4:10).
The Conciliar “Bishops”: Hirelings Fleeing the Wolf
The article states: “Catholic bishops in all four states were heavily involved throughout the races, emphasizing the Church’s teaching on the sanctity of life and asking the faithful to cast pro-life votes.” Note the language: asking the faithful to vote. Not commanding, not threatening canonical penalties for formal cooperation in evil (Canon 1398, 1917 Code: latae sententiae excommunication for procuring abortion), not declaring that a Catholic who votes for such a referendum places himself outside the Church. They “emphasize teaching” as if the Gospel were a platform plank.
This is the fruit of the false ecclesiology of Vatican II (Lumen Gentium, Gaudium et Spes), which replaced the Societas Perfecta — the Church as a perfect society with coercive jurisdiction (Syllabus, Error 19: “The Church is not a true and perfect society…”) — with a “people of God” engaged in “dialogue” with the world. The “bishops” of the neo-church function as lobbyists for a religious NGO, not as successors of the Apostles wielding the potestas iurisdictionis to bind and loose. St. Pius X condemned the Modernist error that “The Church is an enemy of the progress of natural and theological sciences” (Lamentabili, 57) and that “Truth changes with man” (58). Here, the “truth” of the sanctity of life is treated as a negotiable value in the marketplace of ideas.
The “Mental Health” Loophole: The Devil’s Definition
Every referendum described — Virginia, Missouri, Nevada, Idaho — contains the “mental health” exception, undefined, left to the “discretion of the treating physician, who is often the abortionist.” This is not a legislative oversight; it is the deliberate codification of abortion on demand. The article correctly identifies the fox guarding the henhouse. Yet the conciliar hierarchy, by funneling the faithful into a vote on which version of the abortion license to accept (Missouri’s “repeal” would merely return legislative power to a corrupt legislature under the same constitutional “health” framework), legitimizes the framework itself.
Pius XI in Quas Primas warned: “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 “mental health” exception is the legal instantiation of the Modernist heresy condemned in Lamentabili (25): “Faith, as assent of the mind, is ultimately based on a sum of probabilities” — here, the probability of a doctor’s signature replaces the certainty of the Fifth Commandment. The “physician” becomes the new pontiff of life and death.
The Silence on the Supernatural: Practical Atheism
Nowhere in the NCR report — nor, we can be certain, in the pastoral letters of the “bishops” referenced — is there mention of the eternal consequences for the souls of the mothers, the abortionists, the legislators, or the voters who approve these referendums. No mention of the state of grace, the Sacraments, the Four Last Things, or the Kingship of Christ over the temporal order. The analysis is purely sociological, political, juridical. This is the “secularism of our times, so-called laicism” denounced in Quas Primas: “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 “bishops” of the conciliar sect have accepted the Masonic separation of Church and State (Syllabus, Error 55). They do not demand the consecratio of the state to the Sacred Heart (as Pius XI mandated in Quas Primas for the Feast of Christ the King), but merely a “pro-life vote.” They have surrendered the potestas indirecta in temporalia — the Church’s right to judge the moral order of civil laws — for a seat at the democratic table. As Leo XIII taught in Immortale Dei (cited in Quas Primas, fn. 28): “His reign encompasses also all non-Christians… the entire human race is subject to the authority of Jesus Christ.” To suggest that Christ’s authority over Virginia or Missouri is contingent on a referendum is blasphemy.
The Symptom: A Sect Structured for Defeat
The failure in Virginia and the likely failure in Missouri are not accidents. They are the necessary fruit of a “church” that has spent sixty years teaching religious liberty (Dignitatis Humanae), collegiality, and the dignity of the human person divorced from the dignitas filii Dei conferred by Baptism. The “bishops” who “heavily involved” themselves in these campaigns are the same men who implement the Novus Ordo “Mass” — a Protestantized memorial meal that has emptied the pews and eviscerated the sense of the sacred. They are the same men who embrace the false ecumenism that treats the abortionist’s “conscience” as inviolable.
The article notes the referendums extend rights to “every individual, rather than restricting it to just adults” and “all individuals, not just adults.” This linguistic shift — “individual” replacing “person,” “reproductive freedom” replacing “license to kill” — is the Newspeak of the Antichrist. The conciliar hierarchy, having abandoned the Latin persona (substantia rationalis individua) for the modernist “individual,” has no metaphysical ground to stand on. They argue consequences (demographics, women’s health) while the enemy argues principles (autonomy, equality). Principles always win.
The Only Remedy: Instaurare Omnia in Christo
The NCR article is a dispatch from the front lines of a war the conciliar sect has already lost because it refuses to name the Enemy and wield the only Weapon. The “bishops” ask the faithful to vote; the true Church commands the faithful to pray, do penance, and reject the legitimacy of the anti-laws. Lex injusta non est lex (St. Thomas Aquinas, Summa Theologiae I-II, q. 96, a. 4). A law permitting abortion is not a law; it is violence. No vote, no majority, no constitution can make it binding in conscience.
The true hierarchy — those bishops and priests retaining valid Orders and jurisdiction outside the conciliar structures — do not issue “voter guides.” They denounce the abominatio desolationis standing in the holy place (Matthew 24:15). They teach that the Social Reign of Christ the King is not a “value” to be voted on, but a dogmatic reality to be confessed. As Pius XI commanded: “Let rulers of states therefore not refuse public veneration and obedience to the reigning Christ… if they wish to maintain their authority inviolate and contribute to the increase of their homeland’s happiness” (Quas Primas).
Virginia has voted for its own destruction. Missouri is failing to avert it. The “bishops” of the neo-church will issue statements of “disappointment” and “renewed commitment.” The true Church, the Ecclesia Militans, continues the only fight that matters: the battle for souls against the portae inferi, knowing that in fine, Corde Mariae Immaculatum triumphabit — not by a referendum, but by the Blood of the Lamb.
Source:
Virginia Adopts Abortion Rights Referendum, Three Other States Await Results (ncregister.com)
Date: 04.11.2026