Vatican News portal (December 9, 2025) reports on the Commission of the Bishops’ Conferences of the European Union (COMECE) expressing “concern” over a European Court of Justice (CJEU) ruling requiring EU member states to recognize same-sex marriages performed in other member states. The case centered on a Polish same-sex couple whose German marriage certificate was rejected by Polish authorities. While COMECE claims the ruling exceeds EU competencies and threatens national sovereignty over family law, the statement carefully avoids condemning the moral abomination of sodomitical unions. The commission weakly laments potential impacts on “legal certainty” and fears future rulings on surrogacy, while acknowledging that EU nations must still comply with the court’s decision.
Naturalism Masquerading as Jurisprudence
The CJEU ruling exemplifies the triumph of Enlightenment naturalism over divine law, treating marriage as a mutable contractus civilis (civil contract) rather than the sacramentum magnum (great sacrament) established by Christ (Ephesians 5:32). By declaring that member states must recognize these unions for residency purposes, the court enshrines the heresy of “human rights above God’s rights” – precisely condemned by Pius IX in the Syllabus of Errors (1864): “Every man is free to embrace and profess that religion which, guided by the light of reason, he shall consider true” (Error #15). COMECE’s timid objection that the ruling “appears to push jurisprudence beyond the boundaries of EU competences” ignores the theological root: when states abandon the Social Kingship of Christ, they inevitably descend into moral chaos.
The Silence That Condemns
Nowhere does COMECE’s statement:
1. Denounce homosexual acts as “intrinsically disordered” (Catechism of St. Pius X)
2. Affirm marriage as “a perpetual and indissoluble bond between one man and one woman” (Council of Trent, Session XXIV)
3. Warn that recognition of pseudo-marriages constitutes formal cooperation with grave sin (1 Corinthians 6:9-10)
This calculated omission reveals the conciliar sect’s fundamental agreement with EU secularism. When COMECE weakly cites Article 9 of the EU Charter (“the right to marry… guaranteed according to national laws”), it participates in the very relativism it pretends to oppose. As Pius XI declared in Quas Primas (1925): “When once men recognize… that Christ has royal rights over them… it will be apparent to everybody that the Church is… invested with the power of teaching… all nations” (§18). By treating marriage as a national “competence” rather than a divine institution, COMECE betrays its submission to the cultus hominis (cult of man) – the core heresy of Vatican II.
Post-Conciliar Complicity in Apostasy
The document’s bureaucratic language (“impact upon questions that are at the core of national competence”) exposes its authors as functionaries of the EU’s neo-pagan project. True Catholic resistance would echo St. John the Baptist’s condemnation of Herod’s illicit union (Mark 6:18), not draft polite diplomatic demurrals. This cowardice flows directly from the conciliar sect’s embrace of religious liberty (Dignitatis Humanae), which Pius IX anathematized as the “freedom of perdition” (Quanta Cura, 1864).
The warning about surrogacy proves particularly hypocritical. Having long tolerated IVF practices that destroy embryonic lives, the conciliar hierarchy now feigns concern when the same anti-life logic produces “wombs for rent.” This is the inevitable fruit of abandoning Casti Connubii (1930), where Pius XI condemned “any use whatsoever of matrimony exercised in such a way that the act is deliberately frustrated in its natural power to generate life” (§54).
Eclipse of the Supernatural
The article’s climax – COMECE’s fear that “this judgment could bring negative developments… in other sensitive areas” – epitomizes the post-conciliar mindset. Rather than proclaiming eternal damnation for unrepentant sodomites (Jude 1:7), these “bishops” worry about legal precedents. Their statement never mentions:
– The Four Last Things
– Sacramental grace
– The necessity of repentance
This silence confirms they operate within the EU’s naturalistic framework, not the supernatural economy of salvation. When Poland’s constitutional protection of marriage is reduced to a “national identity” issue rather than divine mandate, COMECE reveals its true allegiance: not to Christ the King, but to the novus ordo seclorum of Masonic humanism.
As the conciliar sect negotiates surrender terms with the EU’s sodomite agenda, faithful Catholics recall Pius IX’s condemnation: “The Roman Pontiff can, and ought to, reconcile himself, and come to terms with progress, liberalism and modern civilization” (Syllabus of Errors #80). The abomination desolating Europe’s courts will only worsen until nations kneel before their true Sovereign: Christus Vincit, Christus Regnat, Christus Imperat!
Source:
COMECE expresses concern over EU Court judgement on same-sex marriage (vaticannews.va)
Date: 09.12.2025