Conciliar Sect’s Legal Maneuvers Mask Deeper Apostasy on Abortion
Catholic News Agency reports (December 17, 2025) that Illinois “Catholic leaders” including “Cardinal” Blase Cupich and “Bishop” Thomas Paprocki support pro-life pregnancy centers suing the state over a law requiring abortion referrals. The lawsuit challenges a 2016 mandate forcing objecting healthcare providers to refer women to abortionists. While a district court blocked compelled speech about abortion “benefits,” it upheld the referral requirement. The case now appeals to the 7th Circuit, with amicus support from conciliar institutions invoking religious freedom arguments.
Naturalistic Reduction of Moral Evil to Legal Dispute
The article frames abortion as a mere policy disagreement rather than crimen nefandum (unspeakable crime). Nowhere does it cite the infallible condemnation of abortion as “gravely contrary to the moral law” (Catechism of the Council of Trent, Part III, 6:2) or Pius XI’s encyclical Casti Connubii declaring it an “unspeakable crime.” This silence exposes the conciliar sect’s abandonment of doctrinal precision in favor of secular legalism.
When the Illinois Catholic Health Association claims the law “could lead people to believe [abortion] is morally acceptable,” it demonstrates theological bankruptcy. The Church has always taught that formal cooperation in evil – including referral – constitutes mortal sin (Pius XII, Address to Midwives, 1951). The amicus brief’s focus on “predictability” for religious institutions subordinates divine law to bureaucratic convenience.
Quisling “Prelates” Legitimize Anti-Christian Regime
“Cardinal” Cupich’s statement that “every life deserves protection” rings hollow while he maintains communion with antipopes who promote abortion access globally. His record includes:
- Implementing Francis/Bergoglio’s Amoris Laetitia allowing communion for adulterers
- Hosting LGBT “ministries” contrary to Casti Connubii‘s condemnation of “depraved morality”
- Failing to excommunicate Illinois Governor Pritzker after he signed assisted suicide legislation
“Bishop” Paprocki’s appeal to “2,000-year-old teachings” is particularly grotesque given his 2017 policy allowing pro-abortion politicians to receive communion if they “pray for forgiveness” – a direct violation of Canon 915 and the Council of Trent’s anathema against sacrilegious communions (Session XIII, Canon 11).
Fatal Concessions to Anti-Life Tyranny
The lawsuit’s narrow focus on referral requirements accepts the framework of Illinois’ abortion regime. Contrast this with Pope Pius IX’s Syllabus of Errors condemning the proposition that “the Church ought to be separated from the State, and the State from the Church” (Error 55). True Catholic resistance would demand the abolition of all abortion facilities – not mere exemption from complicity.
The article’s celebration of Becket Law’s religious liberty arguments ignores Pope Pius IX’s condemnation of “liberty of conscience and worship” as “insanity” (Quanta Cura 3). When the amicus brief cites “First Amendment jurisprudence,” it implicitly affirms the Americanist heresy condemned by Leo XIII in Testem Benevolentiae (1899).
Omission of Supernatural Realities
Nowhere do the quoted “prelates” mention:
- The eternal consequences for abortionists and accomplices (Revelation 21:8)
- The duty to impose canonical penalties on pro-abortion legislators (1917 CIC 2334)
- The necessity of public excommunication for obstinate heretics (Pius XII, Sacramentum Ordinis)
This silence flows from the conciliar sect’s naturalism, reducing the Faith to a social work program. The article’s description of pregnancy centers as “pro-life” rather than Catholic institutions reflects the ecumenical dissolution of identity condemned in Pius XI’s Mortalium Animos.
Systemic Apostasy of Conciliar Institutions
The Catholic Conference of Illinois’ participation in this suit continues its betrayal of Catholic principles, having:
…failed to organize public processions of reparation when Illinois legalized abortion in 1973, assisted suicide in 2025, and homosexual “marriage” in 2013
Meanwhile, their Orthodox “allies” in the amicus brief reject Papal supremacy – highlighting how the conciliar sect prefers heretical alliances over fidelity to Rome. This confirms St. Pius X’s warning in Pascendi that Modernists “make common cause with the heterodox” (n.39).
Conclusion: Legalism as Cover for Capitulation
While the article presents this lawsuit as defense of conscience, it actually demonstrates the conciliar sect’s imprisonment within Enlightenment categories. True Catholic resistance would follow Archbishop Lefebvre’s 1976 denunciation of “abominable abortion laws” and demand Illinois abolish all abortion facilities – not carve out exemptions for religious dissidents. Until these “prelates” condemn the Vatican II heresy of religious liberty (Dignitatis Humanae) that enabled Illinois’ law, their legal maneuvers remain satanic counterfeits of authentic Catholic action.
Source:
Catholic leaders back pregnancy centers, doctors in federal suit over abortion referrals (catholicnewsagency.com)
Date: 17.12.2025