Catholic News Agency portal reports on Australia’s novel online safety law prohibiting social media access for children under 16, featuring commentary from Sydney Catholic father Dany Elachi and “Archbishop” Peter Comensoli of Melbourne. Elachi co-founded the Heads Up Alliance after witnessing his daughter’s addiction to digital devices, claiming social media “replaces bedtime prayer” and prevents children from contemplating life’s deeper questions. The article frames the legislation as “pro-parent” while acknowledging concerns about age verification data collection and potential withdrawal symptoms in children. Michael Hanby, professor at the compromised “Pontifical” John Paul II Institute, ambiguously endorses the law’s intentions while doubting its efficacy. This superficial treatment of childhood’s spiritual annihilation through technology exemplifies the conciliar sect’s surrender to therapeutic statism.
State Usurpation of Parental Authority Under Guise of Protection
The Australian law epitomizes the inversion of subsidiarity (Quadragesimo Anno §79), transferring primary educational authority from parents to civil bureaucracies. While Elachi correctly identifies social media’s corrosive effects, his celebration of state coercion betrays authentic Catholic principles. Pius XI’s Divini Illius Magistri unambiguously declares: “The family holds directly from the Creator the mission and hence the right to educate the offspring, a right inalienable because inseparably joined to the strict obligation, a right anterior to any right whatever of civil society” (§32). By outsourcing moral boundaries to legislators rather than rebuilding domestic church governance, these “Catholic advocates” legitimize the very technocratic tyranny enabling childhood’s digital captivity.
Naturalistic Reduction of Spiritual Malady to Behavioral Management
Nowhere does the analysis ascend beyond psychologized symptom-treating to diagnose the metaphysical void enabling device addiction. The article’s therapeutic language—”withdrawal symptoms,” “developmental maturity,” “positive engagement”—echoes the conciliar sect’s surrender to anthropological naturalism condemned in Pascendi Dominici Gregis (§6). True Catholic formation requires sacramental grace and ascetical discipline, not state-enforced digital diets. As St. Pius X warned: “Modernists place the foundation of religious philosophy in that doctrine which is usually called Agnosticism” (§6), reducing faith to subjective experience rather than objective truth. Elachi’s lament that “scrolling replaces bedtime prayer” inadvertently exposes the post-conciliar collapse of family spirituality—a crisis no legislature can remedy.
Complicit Silence on Conciliar Sect’s Role in Technological Paganism
“Archbishop” Comensoli’s vacuous statement—praising social media’s “great benefits” while weakly hoping laws “protect children”—typifies the conciliar hierarchy’s death pact with digital Moloch. Contrast this with Pius XI’s unambiguous condemnation in Quas Primas: “When once men recognize, both in private and in public life, that Christ is King, society will at last receive the great blessings of real liberty, well-ordered discipline, peace and harmony” (§19). The Australian bishops’ failure to demand Christ’s social kingship while endorsing bureaucratic controls proves their adherence to Vatican II’s secularist heresy of religious liberty (Dignitatis Humanae §2).
Satanic Distraction From Primary Spiritual Warfare
The article’s myopic focus on screens obscures the ontological crisis of parents abandoning their baptismal duty to be primary evangelizers. St. John Chrysostom’s admonition rings ignored: “Teach your children to love God first, before teaching them reading and writing” (Homily 21 on Ephesians). Where are the calls for family rosaries, Eucharistic adoration, or fasting? Elachi’s alliance-building around device prohibition rather than virtue cultivation reveals the conciliar sect’s sacramental desertification. True Catholic resistance would restore the Rituale Romanum blessing for children—”Ut sis benedictus et sanctificatus in nomine Domini”—not lobby for state surveillance.
Technocratic Age Verification as Prelude to Digital Enslavement
The law’s requirement for social media companies to collect identification documents establishes dangerous precedent for the mark of the beast infrastructure. While Elachi weakly acknowledges privacy concerns, he ignores the prophetic warnings of Pius IX’s Syllabus condemning those who claim “the Church ought to be separated from the State, and the State from the Church” (§55). Australia’s “pro-parent” façade masks the globalist agenda to replace paternal authority with biometric control grids—an anti-Catholic tyranny enabled by parents who prefer state nannies over cruciform leadership.
Source:
Catholic advocates hail Australian social media ban for children as ‘new standard’ (catholicnewsagency.com)
Date: 10.12.2025