The EWTN News portal reports that the “Catholic Bishops’ Conference of England and Wales” — the administrative board of the conciliar sect in Britain — has issued a statement through its “Archbishop” John Sherrington of Liverpool objecting to a Parliamentary bill criminalizing so-called “conversion therapy” regarding gender identity. Sherrington argues the legislation threatens “freedom of religion or belief and freedom of expression” and would hamper the sect’s ability to “proclaim an authentic understanding of the human person with clarity, simplicity, love and respect.” He urges politicians to “abandon” the bill. The article notes the “U.S. Supreme Court” recently struck down a similar ban in Colorado, and that the “bishops” in Switzerland endorsed a ban provided “pastoral care” is shielded. This groveling before the secular power for a license to speak a truncated natural law, by men who have abandoned the Social Kingship of Christ and the integral Catholic Faith, exposes the total theological bankruptcy of the conciliar religion: it does not command in the name of God, it begs for tolerance from the enemies of God.
The Fiction of Legitimate Authority: False Shepherds Negotiating with Wolves
The “Archbishop” Sherrington and his colleagues in the “Catholic Bishops’ Conference” possess no jurisdiction, no canonical mission, and no sacramental validity. They are the product of the novus ordo rites of episcopal consecration promulgated by the antipope Paul VI in 1968, rites which stripped the form of the essential signification of the sacramental character and the power of orders. As St. Robert Bellarmine teaches, a manifest heretic ipso facto loses all jurisdiction and cannot be head of the Church (De Romano Pontifice, Lib. 2, Cap. 30). The conciliar “bishops” are manifest heretics — adherents of the false religions of religious liberty, ecumenism, and collegiality — and therefore are not members of the Catholic Church, let alone its rulers. They are functionaries of a paramasonic structure occupying the visible patrimony of the Church. When Sherrington speaks of “the Catholic Church’s ability to proclaim,” he speaks for the conciliar sect, the Church of the New Advent, the abomination of desolation standing in the holy place. His “concern” is not for the rights of God, but for the operational space of a false church.
Linguistic Surrender: The Vocabulary of the Enemy Adopted as One’s Own
The statement is a masterclass in modernist newspeak. Sherrington does not condemn the bill as an abomination crying to heaven for vengeance, an act of legislative apostasy by a state that has rejected Christ the King. He does not declare that lex injusta non est lex (an unjust law is no law). Instead, he whines that it is “very broad in scope” and creates “uncertainty around lawful pastoral care.” He affirms the sect “opposes [abusive counseling] in all circumstances,” adopting the enemy’s framing that there exists a legitimate category of “abusive counseling” defined by the sodomite lobby and the state. He speaks of “freedom of religion or belief and freedom of expression” — the very errors condemned by Pope Pius IX in the Syllabus Errorum (Props. 15, 55, 77, 79) and by Pope Leo XIII in Libertas Praestantissimum. Error has no rights (Error non habet ius); only Truth has rights. By invoking the “human rights” of the Masonic declaration, Sherrington places the Crown Rights of Christ the King under the foot of Caesar. He begs for “clarity, simplicity, love and respect” — the saccharine vocabulary of the novus ordo therapy session, utterly devoid of the parrhesia of the Apostles, the anathemas of the Councils, and the gladius Spiritus which is the Word of God.
Theological Bankruptcy: The Social Kingship of Christ Betrayed for a Seat at the Table
Pope Pius XI, in Quas Primas (1925), teaches with absolute clarity: “His reign extends not only to 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.” The encyclical declares that “when God and Jesus Christ were removed from laws and states… the foundations of that authority were destroyed.” The duty of the Church is not to negotiate “pastoral care” exemptions within a Christless legal framework, but to command the State to submit to the Kingship of Christ and to align its laws with the Divine Law. The “gender identity” ideology is a direct revolt against the Creator’s ordinance “Male and female He created them” (Gen 1:27). A true Bishop would not ask Parliament to “abandon” the bill; he would declare the Parliament legitimately deposed from its authority for legislating against the Natural Law and the Divine Positive Law, and he would forbid the faithful under pain of mortal sin from cooperating with this diabolical legislation. The “Swiss bishops” endorsing the ban — provided their “pastoral care” is “shielded” — commit the additional treason of capitulation to the spirit of Antichrist, accepting the premise that the State has the right to define “conversion measures,” merely haggling over the price of their silence.
The “Supreme Court” Idolatry: Rendering to Caesar the Things That Are God’s
The article cites the U.S. Supreme Court ruling striking down the Colorado ban as a positive precedent, quoting its paean to the “First Amendment” as a “bulwark against any effort to prescribe an orthodoxy of views.” This is the conciliar sect’s true magisterium: the Masonic Constitution of the United States. The “First Amendment” enshrines the heresy of religious indifferentism — the “freedom” to worship God or demons indifferently — which Pope Gregory XVI called “that most pestilential error… a liberty of perdition” (Mirari Vos, 1832). To cite a secular court, founded on the rejection of Christ’s Kingship, as the defender of the Church’s mission is spiritual adultery. It confirms the analysis of the Syllabus: “The Roman Pontiff can, and ought to, reconcile himself, and come to terms with progress, liberalism and modern civilization” (Prop. 80) — the very error the conciliar sect embodies. The “bishops” do not want the conversion of England to the Catholic Faith; they want a tolerated niche within the Masonic order.
Symptomatic Diagnosis: The Fruit of Dignitatis Humanae and the “Hermeneutic of Ruin”
This episode is the inevitable fruit of the Second Vatican Council’s Dignitatis Humanae, which declared a “right to religious freedom” based on human dignity rather than on the Truth. Having surrendered the principle that the State must confess Christ the King, the conciliar hierarchy is left with only the language of “rights,” “dialogue,” and “pastoral accompaniment” to defend the crumbs of natural law they still nominally acknowledge. They cannot condemn the gender ideology as demonic because they have embraced the anthropocentric turn of Gaudium et Spes, which makes man the measure of all things. They cannot invoke the Social Kingship of Christ because they have effectively dethroned Him in favor of the “people of God” concept. The “uncertainty” Sherrington fears is the uncertainty of a house built on sand. The “pastoral care” they wish to protect is not the cura animarum unto eternal life, but the management of “gender dysphoria” within a therapeutic framework that denies the reality of sin and the necessity of grace. As St. Pius X condemned in Lamentabili Sane Exitu (Prop. 58): “Truth changes with man, because it develops with him, in him, and through him.” The conciliar “truth” changes with the Parliament; the Catholic Truth is immutable.
Conclusion: No King But Caesar
The “UK bishops” have spoken: they want permission from the Masonic Parliament to speak a watered-down anthropology. They have received their answer in advance: “We have no king but Caesar” (John 19:15). The true Catholic response is not a legal brief, but the declaration of the Social Kingship of Christ, the denunciation of the legislation as null and void (irritae et inanes), and the call to the faithful to resist unto blood rather than comply with the “gender” madness. The conciliar sect, by its very nature, cannot give this response. It is not the Church; it is the Great Apostasy foretold by St. Paul (2 Thess 2:3). Non possumus. We cannot obey. We cannot dialogue. We can only reign with Christ the King in the catacombs of the True Church, awaiting the restoration of all things in Christ.
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UK bishops warn against Parliament bill that would criminalize counseling on gender identity (ewtnnews.com)
Date: 11.11.2026