The National Catholic Register portal reports that the conciliar “bishops” of Massachusetts — “Archbishop” Richard Henning of Boston, “Bishop” Robert McManus of Worcester, “Bishop” Edgar da Cunha of Fall River, and “Bishop” William Byrne of Springfield — issued a written statement on November 7, 2026, mildly rebuking Governor Maura Healey for invoking her putative Catholic faith to justify signing an emergency preamble that immediately enacted a law permitting abortion through all nine months of pregnancy. Healey, in a Substack article, claimed her “faith teaches me to meet people with compassion, respect their dignity, and approach suffering with humility,” while asserting her duty to ensure “every family can make deeply personal medical decisions.” The conciliar prelates responded that they “respectfully and passionately disagree that abortion, the taking of human life, may be considered health care,” citing the antipope Leo XIV (Robert Prevost) regarding the unborn belonging to “the human family” and the “right to life” as the “indispensable foundation of every other human right.” They decried a “utilitarian and merciless approach” to the vulnerable. This theatrical exchange between a manifestly apostate politician and her collaborationist “pastors” lays bare the total bankruptcy of the conciliar sect: neither party upholds the lex credendi or the lex orandi of the Catholic Church; both operate entirely within the naturalistic, anthropocentric framework of the Masonic revolution.
The Conciliar “Episcopate”: Impostors Occupying the Sees of the True Church
The first and most fundamental deception of the Register’s report is its treatment of Henning, McManus, da Cunha, and Byrne as legitimate successors of the Apostles. They are not. Since the usurpation of the Holy See by the Modernist clique at the death of Pius XII in 1958, the visible structures of the Church have been occupied by a counterfeit hierarchy — what St. Pius X prophetically termed the “synagogue of Satan” (Pascendi Dominici Gregis). These men received their “episcopal consecrations” in the novel, doubtfully valid rite of Paul VI (1968), administered by “bishops” themselves consecrated in that same defective rite, often by known Freemasons such as Cardinal Liénart. As the Defense of Sedevacantism file demonstrates, a manifest heretic cannot hold office in the Church: “A manifest heretic cannot be Pope… a non-Christian in no way can be Pope… he who is not a Christian is not a member of the Church, and a manifest heretic is not a Christian” (St. Robert Bellarmine, De Romano Pontifice 2:30). The same principle applies a fortiori to the episcopate. By their public adherence to the heresies of Vatican II — religious liberty, ecumenism, collegiality, the new ecclesiology — these men have ipso facto severed themselves from the Mystical Body. They are “blind guides leading the blind” (Mt 15:14), functionaries of the “abomination of desolation” (Mt 24:15) standing in the holy place.
Maura Healey: A Public Apostate Invoking a False Faith
Governor Healey’s Substack manifesto is a masterpiece of Modernist blasphemy. She declares: “I am Catholic, and my faith is an important part of who I am. It has shaped my understanding of service, responsibility and our obligation to care for others. My faith teaches me to meet people with compassion, respect their dignity, and approach suffering with humility.” This is the language of the cult of man, not the Catholic faith. The true Faith teaches that “the fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom” (Ps 110:10), that “he that believeth not shall be condemned” (Mk 16:16), and that the deliberate murder of the innocent — abortio procrastinata — is a sin crying to heaven for vengeance (Gen 4:10). Healey’s “faith” is the religion of the Declaration on Religious Freedom (Dignitatis Humanae), the Masonic counterfeit that makes the subjective conscience the supreme arbiter of truth. Her invocation of “compassion” and “dignity” to justify the dismemberment of children in the womb is the precise fulfillment of Isaiah’s warning: “Woe to you that call evil good, and good evil: that put darkness for light, and light for darkness” (Is 5:20). She is a public heretic and apostate who, by the very fact of her obstinate support for infanticide, has cut herself off from the Church (ipso facto excommunication, Canon 1398 §1 CIC 1917; Cum ex Apostolatus Officio).
The “Rebuke”: A Theatrical Performance Devoid of Ecclesiastical Authority
The statement of the four conciliar “bishops” is a study in accommodata verba — words emptied of supernatural power. They write: “We respectfully and passionately disagree that abortion, the taking of human life, may be considered health care.” Note the language: “respectfully and passionately disagree.” This is not the voice of the Good Shepherd defending the flock from the wolf; it is the language of a colloquium, a dialogue, a negotiation between equal partners in the Masonic project. Where is the anathema? Where is the declaration that Healey has incurred latae sententiae excommunication? Where is the canonical admonition (can. 2223 CIC 1917) and the threat of vitandus status? Nowhere. Because the conciliar sect does not believe in the coercive jurisdiction of the Church — it has embraced the liberal error condemned by Pius IX in the Syllabus (Error 54): “Kings and princes are not only exempt from the jurisdiction of the Church, but are superior to the Church in deciding questions of jurisdiction.” These “bishops” function as chaplains to the secular order, offering mild dissent while preserving the status quo of the Civitas Diaboli.
Invocation of the Antipope Leo XIV: The Blind Citing the Blind
The conciliar prelates appeal to the authority of “Pope Leo XIV” (Robert Prevost): “As Pope Leo put it: ‘The right to life is the indispensable foundation of every other human right.'” This citation is the keystone of the fraud. Robert Prevost is a manifest Modernist, a promoter of the hermeneutic of continuity that seeks to baptize the rupture of Vatican II, a participant in the synodal farce, a concelebrant of the invalid Novus Ordo Missae. He possesses no authority whatsoever in the Catholic Church. As Pope Paul IV defined in Cum ex Apostolatus Officio: “…if at any time it shall appear that any Bishop… or even the Roman Pontiff… has defected from the Catholic Faith or fallen into some heresy: (i) his promotion or elevation… shall be null, void, and of no effect.” The “bishops” of Massachusetts, by citing this usurper as “Pope,” publicly profess their communion with the Great Apostasy foretold by St. Paul (2 Thess 2:3). They are “ministers of Satan transformed into ministers of justice” (2 Cor 11:15).
“Utilitarian and Merciless Approach”: A Naturalistic Critique of a Demonic Law
The “bishops” condemn the law as reflecting a “utilitarian and merciless approach to the elderly, the sick, the vulnerable, and the unborn.” This phrase, while morally true, is theologically vacuous. It reduces the horror of abortion to a violation of human dignity understood in the secular, UN-declaration sense — the dignitas hominis of the Masonic Enlightenment — rather than the dignitas filii Dei conferred by baptism and the imago Dei profaned by original sin and actual sin. The true Catholic condemnation of abortion is not that it is “utilitarian” but that it is deicidium — the killing of God’s image, a sacrilege against the Creator, a sin that demands the vindicta divina. St. Basil the Great writes: “A woman who has deliberately destroyed a fetus must pay the penalty of murder… we make no fine distinction between a formed and unformed embryo” (Canon 2). The Council of Ancyra (314) and the Council of Trullo (692) imposed the same penance for abortion as for homicide. The conciliar “bishops” cite none of this. They speak the language of the Encyclopedia of the Human Person, not the Depositum Fidei.
The Referendum Farce: Democracy as the New Magisterium
The article notes that pro-life forces collected 100,000 signatures to trigger a statewide referendum in 2028, but Healey’s emergency preamble bypassed this process. The “bishops” make no objection to the principle of subjecting the natural law to a popular vote. This is the ultimate triumph of the error condemned by Pius IX: “The people is the origin of all rights… the civil law prevails over the canon law” (Syllabus, Errors 39, 42). By implicitly accepting the referendum as a legitimate mechanism to decide the “right to life,” the conciliar hierarchy surrenders the ius divinum to the voluntas populi. They have internalized the heresy of Dignitatis Humanae: that religious and moral truth is determined by the consensus gentium. “The state is happy not by one means, and man by another; for the state is nothing else than a harmonious association of men” (Pius XI, Quas Primas, citing St. Augustine) — but this harmony must be ordered to the finis ultimus, the Kingdom of Christ. A referendum on infanticide is a blasphemous absurdity, akin to putting the Divinity of Christ to a vote.
The Silence on the Sacraments: The Gravest Omission
Nowhere in the “bishops'” statement is there any mention of the Most Holy Sacrifice of the Mass, the Sacrament of Penance, the state of grace, or the eternal salvation of souls. This silence is the signature of the Antichurch. The true bishop, faced with a Catholic politician legislating murder, would thunder: “He that eateth and drinketh unworthily, eateth and drinketh judgment to himself” (1 Cor 11:29). He would declare that Healey, by her formal cooperation in grave evil, cannot be admitted to Holy Communion (can. 855 CIC 1917; St. Cyprian, De Lapsis). He would call for public penance, for the rogationes, for the missa pro peccatis. The conciliar “bishops” offer only a press release. They are “dumb dogs not able to bark” (Is 56:10), “hirelings who flee when the wolf comes” (Jn 10:12).
The Systemic Nature of the Betrayal: Fruits of the Conciliar Revolution
This episode is not an anomaly; it is the logical and necessary fruit of Vatican II. The Declaration on Religious Freedom taught that the state has no duty to profess the true religion; Gaudium et Spes taught that the Church “claims no other authority than to serve”; the Novus Ordo Missae replaced the propitiatory Sacrifice with a Protestantized memorial meal; the new Code of Canon Law (1983) gutted the penal sanctions against heresy and abortion. The “bishops” of Massachusetts are faithful executors of the conciliar agenda: they manage the controlled opposition, providing just enough “Catholic” rhetoric to pacify the remnant while the neo-church merges into the one-world religion of the Antichrist. As the False Fatima Apparitions file documents, the entire Fatima apparatus was a Masonic psychological operation to divert attention from the modernist apostasy within the Church — the very apostasy now bearing its full, rotten fruit in the Healey-Henning charade.
Conclusion: No Salvation in the Conciliar Sect
The faithful Catholic, scandalized by this spectacle, must understand: the true Church of Christ does not reside in the chancery of Boston, nor in the governor’s mansion, nor in the Vatican occupied by the usurpers. She resides in the catacombs — in the chapels where the Mass of All Time is offered by validly ordained priests (ordained ante 1968 in the traditional rite), where the Syllabus is believed, where Quas Primas is lived, where the Social Kingship of Christ is proclaimed without compromise. “Extra Ecclesiam nulla salus” — and the conciliar sect is not the Church. Let the Healeys and the Hennings play their parts in the Masonic theater. The true bishops, the true faithful, keep the faith once delivered to the saints (Jude 1:3), awaiting the Parousia when “the Lord Jesus shall reveal from heaven… rendering vengeance to them that know not God” (2 Thess 1:7-8). Christus vincit, Christus regnat, Christus imperat.
Source:
Massachusetts Bishops Issue Rebuke After Governor Cites Catholic Faith in Support of Abortion Law (ncregister.com)
Date: 09.11.2026