Corporate Naturalism Versus Catholic Truth: The Sanchez Case Exposed
The Catholic News Agency portal (December 15, 2025) reports on United Airlines settling a lawsuit with flight attendant Ruben Sanchez, who was terminated for privately discussing Catholic teachings on marriage and sexuality during “Pride Month” preparations. While framing the incident as a victory for religious expression, the article inadvertently exposes the complete capitulation of post-conciliar structures to anti-Christian naturalism.
Naturalism Disguised as Neutral Employment Policy
The portal describes United Airlines’ actions as mere corporate overreach, ignoring the systematic imposition of gender ideology as new state religion. Sanchez’s termination for affirming that marriage is “entwined with […] the exclusive, indissoluble covenant of marriage” reveals the airlines’ enforcement of what Pius XI condemned as the “false liberty of thought” (Libertas Praestantissimum). The article’s reference to Catechism 2358 is particularly insidious, as it presents the post-conciliar text’s ambiguous language on “unjust discrimination” as authentic Catholic teaching. This directly contradicts the uncompromising stance of Pius XI:
“Those who hold the reins of government should not forget that it is the duty of public authority by appropriate laws and sanctions to defend the lives of the young against the corruption which threatens them” (Casti Connubii, 1930).
The portal fails to note that Sanchez’s social media posts – spanning 140,000 messages over a decade – were scrutinized under a neo-pagan purity test unknown to Catholic moral theology. By treating orthodox doctrine as “hate speech,” United Airlines operationalizes the very error condemned in Pius IX’s Syllabus: “The Church ought to be separated from the State, and the State from the Church” (Error #55).
Conciliar Betrayal in the Guise of Defense
When the article cites the “U.S. Catholic bishops'” opposition to the Equality Act, it obscures three critical facts:
- The conciliar “USCCB” has consistently undermined marriage through diocesan “LGBT ministry” programs
- Their opposition lacks the doctrinal clarity of Leo XIII’s Immortale Dei: “States cannot without crime show themselves indifferent to religion”
- No mention is made of Catholic employers’ positive duty to fire employees promoting grave sin, as demonstrated in the 1910 Manual of Christian Doctrine
The portal’s portrayal of X (formerly Twitter) as free speech champion is equally deceptive. X’s “commitment to defend free speech” stems from Enlightenment individualism, not Veritatis Splendor. True Catholic resistance would require Sanchez to reject settlement with a company enforcing mortal sin, per Paul’s admonition: “What concord hath Christ with Belial?” (2 Cor 6:15). Instead, the article celebrates collaboration with anti-Christian systems as victory.
The Silent Apostasy of Ecclesiastical Silence
Nowhere does the portal ask why no Catholic prelate denounced United Airlines’ persecution. This mirrors the conciliar church’s abandonment of workers, contrasting starkly with Pius XI’s mandate:
“Catholic workingmen must be openly and publicly ordered to join Catholic labor unions where these exist” (Quadragesimo Anno, 1931).
The portal’s neutral reporting on “Pride Month” activities constitutes complicit silence before sacrilege. Where Pius X anathematized Modernists for “fostering the notion that the Church ought to adapt herself somewhat to our advanced civilization” (Pascendi, 1907), the article treats corporate sodomite propaganda as legitimate “working conditions.”
The False Hope of Secular Remedies
By highlighting the unrelated Smith and Brown lawsuit – defended by the non-Catholic First Liberty Institute – the portal implicitly endorses the Americanist heresy condemned in Leo XIII’s Testem Benevolentiae. True justice for Sanchez would require:
- Public excommunication of United Airlines executives by a valid bishop
- Rejection of X’s secular “free speech” framework in favor of Quas Primas‘ social kingship
- Repudiation of the conciliar “Catechism” in favor of pre-1958 doctrinal sources
The settlement’s confidential terms likely include gag orders preventing Sanchez from denouncing United’s ongoing violations of divine law – a compromise Pius XII forbade: “To consider the State as something ultimate to which everything else should be subordinated and directed, cannot fail to harm the true and lasting prosperity of nations” (Summi Pontificatus, 1939).
Source:
United Airlines settles suit over flight attendant’s expression of Catholic beliefs (catholicnewsagency.com)
Date: 15.12.2025