The National Catholic Register portal reports that the conciliar “bishops” of England and Wales, through their spokesman “Archbishop” John Sherrington, have issued a statement of “serious concern” regarding a Parliamentary bill criminalizing so-called “conversion practices” related to gender identity. The “bishops” do not denounce the legislation as an affront to the Divine Law or the Kingship of Christ; rather, they plead that it threatens “fundamental rights, including freedom of religion or belief and freedom of expression,” creates “uncertainty around lawful pastoral care,” and hampers their ability to “proclaim an authentic understanding of the human person with clarity, simplicity, love and respect.” They urge politicians to “abandon” the bill and rely on existing laws. This supplication to the secular power exposes the total capitulation of the conciliar hierarchy to the religion of laicism and the total abandonment of the Social Kingship of Christ.
The Conciliar Hierarchy Has No Authority to “Urge” — Only the True Church Commands in Christ’s Name
The very act of addressing a Masonic Parliament as a dialogue partner, “urging” it to “abandon” a bill, manifests the democratization of the Church condemned by Pope St. Pius X in Pascendi Dominici Gregis and by Pope Pius XI in Quas Primas. The true successors of the Apostles do not “urge” civil rulers; they command them in the name of Christ the King to obey the Divine Law. As Pius XI teaches: “Let rulers of states therefore not refuse public veneration and obedience to the reigning Christ, but let them fulfill this duty themselves and with their people, if they wish to maintain their authority inviolate and contribute to the increase of their homeland’s happiness” (Quas Primas, 31). The conciliar “bishops” have inverted this order: they beg the State for “space” to operate, implicitly recognizing the State as the supreme arbiter of what is lawful. This is the laicism Pius XI identified as “the plague that poisons human society” (Quas Primas, 24).
Appeal to “Religious Freedom” and “Human Rights” Is a Profession of Modernist Faith
The statement’s reliance on “freedom of religion or belief and freedom of expression” as the primary bulwark against the bill is a formal adhesion to the condemned errors of liberalism and indifferentism. The Syllabus of Errors of Pope Pius IX anathematizes the proposition: “In the present day it is no longer expedient that the Catholic religion should be held as the only religion of the State, to the exclusion of all other forms of worship” (Error 77) and “The Roman Pontiff can, and ought to, reconcile himself, and come to terms with progress, liberalism and modern civilization” (Error 80). By invoking “human rights” — a Masonic construct derived from the 1789 Declaration of the Rights of Man — the conciliar “bishops” place the dignity of man above the rights of God. They do not argue that the bill is sinful because it mocks the Creator’s order (Male and female He created them, Gen 1:27); they argue it is inconvenient because it restricts their “freedom.” This is the cult of man denounced by Pius XI: “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” (Quas Primas, 31).
The Very Category “Gender Identity” Is a Gnostic Heresy; The “Bishops” Legitimize It by Negotiation
The bill targets counseling that helps persons “identify with their biological sex rather than an opposite-sex ‘gender.'” The conciliar “bishops” accept the premise of the debate by speaking of “gender identity” as a coherent category requiring “pastoral care.” They do not denounce the ontological lie that a man can become a woman or vice versa. They do not proclaim the infallible truth that sex is immutable, created by God, and that any attempt to “transition” is a rebellion against the Creator. Instead, they seek “certainty around lawful pastoral care” — implying that their “pastoral care” might include accompanying someone in their “gender journey” provided it is not “abusive.” This is the hermeneutic of continuity with the world: the conciliar sect does not convert the world; it negotiates its surrender to the world.
“Abusive Counseling” Already Outlawed? The Conciliar Sect’s Definition of “Abuse” Is the World’s Definition
Sherrington claims the Church “opposes [abusive counseling] in all circumstances” and that current law already outlaws it. But what does the conciliar sect mean by “abusive”? It means whatever the secular State and the LGBT lobby define as abuse: any refusal to affirm a person’s self-declared “gender identity.” The “bishops” have already surrendered the definition of charity to the enemy. True charity is veritas in caritate (Eph 4:15) — leading souls to truth, not confirming them in delusion. By accepting the State’s definition of “abuse,” the conciliar hierarchy makes itself an instrument of the abomination of desolation standing in the holy place (Mt 24:15).
The Swiss “Bishops” Endorsed the Ban — Proof of Systemic Apostasy
The article notes that “Catholic bishops in Switzerland in May endorsed a national legal ban on so-called conversion measures aimed at people who identify as LGBT.” This is not an aberration; it is the logical consequence of Vatican II’s Dignitatis Humanae and the false ecumenism of Unitatis Redintegratio. Once the Church claims the State has no duty to profess the Catholic Faith (Error 55 of Syllabus: “The Church ought to be separated from the State, and the State from the Church”), the “bishops” become mere chaplains to the secular order, begging for “exemptions” for their “pastoral care.” The Swiss “bishops” show the endgame: full collaboration with the anti-Christian State in exchange for a quiet corner to practice a neutered religion.
The US Supreme Court Reference: “Free Marketplace of Ideas” Replaces the Kingship of Christ
The article cites the US Supreme Court: “The First Amendment stands as a bulwark against any effort to prescribe an orthodoxy of views, reflecting a belief that each American enjoys an inalienable right to speak his mind and a faith in the free marketplace of ideas as the best means for finding truth.” The conciliar “bishops” implicitly endorse this Masonic doctrine: truth is not revealed by God and guarded by the Church; it is discovered in a “free marketplace of ideas.” This is Modernism condemned in Lamentabili Sane Exitu: “Christ did not proclaim any specific, all-encompassing doctrine suitable for all times and peoples, but rather initiated a certain religious movement, applied or applicable to different times and places” (Prop. 59). The conciliar hierarchy has replaced the Depositum Fidei with the marketplace of ideas.
No Mention of Sin, Judgment, or the Salvation of Souls — The Gravest Omission
Read the statement again. There is no mention of sin, no mention of Hell, no mention of the Final Judgment, no mention of the Sacred Heart of Jesus or the Immaculate Heart of Mary (the true one, not the Masonic Fatima construct). There is only “pastoral care,” “uncertainty,” “freedom of expression,” “proclaiming understanding.” This silence is the signature of the Antichurch. As Pius XI wrote: “The Kingdom of our Redeemer encompasses all men… 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” (Quas Primas, 28). The conciliar “bishops” act as if the State is not subject to Christ, but they are subject to the State.
The “Bishops” Are Not Successors of the Apostles — They Are Functionaries of the Neo-Church
These men — Sherrington, the “Bishops’ Conference,” the Swiss “bishops” — derive their “authority” from the paramasonic structure occupying the Vatican since 1958. They are not validly ordained in the apostolic line of the Traditional Rite (the new ordinal of Paul VI is defective in form and intention), and they publicly profess the heresies of Vatican II: religious liberty, ecumenism, collegiality, the new Mass. As St. Robert Bellarmine teaches (De Romano Pontifice), a manifest heretic ipso facto loses all jurisdiction. Canon 188.4 of the 1917 Code confirms: “Every office becomes vacant by the mere fact and without any declaration… if the cleric publicly defects from the Catholic faith.” These “bishops” have defected; they hold no office in the Church of Christ. They are hirelings (Jn 10:12) fleeing the wolf, leaving the sheep to be devoured by the gender ideology they helped legitimize by fifty years of aggiornamento.
Conclusion: The Only Answer Is the Integral Restoration of Christendom
The bill will pass. The conciliar “bishops” will comply, carve out their “pastoral exemption,” and continue their dialogue with the Masonic State. The true Catholic response is not to “urge” Parliament but to denounce it as rex iniquus (Ps 93:20), to proclaim that “there is no other name under heaven given to men by which we must be saved” (Acts 4:12), and to work for the Restoration of All Things in Christ (Instaurare omnia in Christo) — the Social Kingship of Christ over individuals, families, and nations. The conciliar sect is the great apostasy (2 Thess 2:3) foretold; its “bishops” are the false prophets (Mt 7:15) speaking peace, peace, when there is no peace (Jer 6:14). Sede vacante — the See is vacant; the Church endures in the catacombs of Tradition, where the true Mass is offered, the true Faith is kept, and the true King is obeyed.
Source:
UK Bishops Warn Against Parliament Bill That Would Criminalize Counseling on Gender Identity (ncregister.com)
Date: 11.11.2026