Catholic News Agency (December 4, 2025) reports on recent pro-life developments, including a study claiming 24% of post-abortive women experience “serious distress,” a pregnancy center network’s “1 million conversions” statistic, a court victory for abortion pill reversal advocates, and an Iowa bill promoting campus resources for pregnant students. The portal frames these as unqualified pro-life victories while employing naturalistic language that obscures the Church’s uncompromising condemnation of abortion as homicidium iniucundum (unjust homicide).
Psychological Reductionism Replaces Moral Theology
The featured study by Fr. Donald Paul Sullins reduces abortion’s evil to mental health consequences, stating women should be informed of “persistent emotional distress” rather than eternal damnation. This corrupts the Church’s constant teaching that abortion constitutes peccatum clamans ad caelum (a sin that cries to heaven), regardless of psychological outcomes. Pius XI’s Casti Connubii (1930) condemns abortionists as “murderers” who destroy “the life of an innocent” (#64), while the CNA report omits all references to sin, repentance, or sacramental confession.
Therapeutic language about “post-abortion distress” substitutes for the Church’s demand for contritio perfecta (perfect contrition) and sacramental absolution. The 1917 Code of Canon Law mandated excommunication latae sententiae (Canon 2350) for abortion – a penalty the conciliar sect abolished in 1983. By framing abortion as a healthcare issue rather than spiritual catastrophe, CNA collaborates in the conciliar revolution’s moral dissolution.
Naturalism Corrupts “Pro-Life” Activism
Choose Life Marketing’s celebration of “1 million conversions” employs ambiguous terminology implying mere statistical victories rather than souls rescued from mortal sin. The term “conversion” properly denotes metanoia – radical turning from sin to God – yet the portal describes it mechanistically: “women choosing connection over isolation.” This naturalistic distortion ignores the supernatural reality that every abortion constitutes formal cooperation in murder (Pius XII, Address to Midwives, 1951).
The report lauds pregnancy centers’ “compassion, excellence, and support” without demanding they uncompromisingly proclaim Catholic doctrine on abortion’s intrinsic evil. This aligns with the conciliar sect’s abandonment of extra Ecclesiam nulla salus (no salvation outside the Church), instead promoting a false mercy detached from truth. As Leo XIII warned in Libertas (1888): “To omit the mention of God and natural law removes all justice and force from the civil laws themselves” (#30).
Legal Victories Mask Doctrinal Surrender
CNA celebrates the 2nd Circuit Court’s protection of abortion pill reversal advocacy while ignoring the conciliar sect’s failure to condemn chemical abortions as intrinsically evil. The Natural Law demands absolute prohibition of all abortion methods, yet the report reduces the issue to “free speech” – a modernist category alien to Catholic social teaching. Pius IX’s Syllabus of Errors condemned the proposition that “every man is free to embrace and profess that religion which, guided by the light of reason, he shall consider true” (#15).
The Iowa bill’s promotion of Title IX protections continues the conciliar sect’s collaboration with anti-Catholic civil structures. True Catholic action would demand colleges expel abortionists as public sinners per Canon 2350, rather than seeking accommodation with systems facilitating campus abortions. St. Pius X’s Vehementer Nos (1906) denounced “the subordination of the Church to the civil power” as “contrary to natural law, to the Gospel teaching, to the tradition of the Fathers.”
Omissions Expose Conciliar Apostasy
The report’s gravest failure lies in what it excludes:
- No mention of abortion’s status as crimen pessimum (most heinous crime) requiring public excommunication
- No call for post-abortive women to seek sacramental confession under pain of hell
- No condemnation of conciliar “popes” who weakened canonical penalties for abortion
- No distinction between true pregnancy aid (demanding repentance) and conciliar “mercy” devoid of conversion
This silence confirms the conciliar sect’s complicity in the culture of death. As the Holy Office decreed under Pius XII (1949): “No Catholic may deny the constant teaching of the Church that direct abortion constitutes a grave crime against the natural law.” The CNA report’s therapeutic language and naturalistic framing constitute implicit denial of this doctrina catholica (Catholic doctrine).
Conclusion: Abandonment of the Church’s Militant Spirit
The entire report manifests the conciliar sect’s betrayal of Catholicism’s militant character. Where St. Augustine taught that “not to oppose error is to approve it,” conciliar “pro-life” activism settles for psychological counseling and legal compromises. The article’s celebration of incrementalist victories ignores Christ’s demand for total conversion: “Unless you repent, you will all likewise perish” (Luke 13:3).
True Catholic resistance would follow the example of St. Fidelis of Sigmaringen, martyred for preaching against heresy: “I came to extirpate heresy, not to embrace it.” Until the conciliar sect renounces its false ecumenism and naturalistic anthropology, its “pro-life” efforts remain salt without savor – worthy only to be “trampled underfoot” (Matthew 5:13).
Source:
1 in 4 post-abortive women regret abortion decades later, study finds (catholicnewsagency.com)
Date: 04.12.2025