EU’s Ideological Persecution Exposes Modernist Betrayal of Catholic Families
Catholic News Agency via ACI Prensa reports that the European Commission has defunded the Federation of Catholic Family Associations in Europe (FAFCE) while simultaneously financing “abortion tourism” and imposing recognition of homosexual unions across member states. The Brussels-based federation – comprising 33 associations from 20 countries – had its funding frozen in November 2025 despite submitting projects on child protection from pornography and digital safety. FAFCE president Vincenzo Bassi attributes this to ideological discrimination against the Catholic vision of marriage as between one man and one woman, stating the EU now considers family experience “incompatible with European values.” This financial suffocation occurs as EU institutions push “soft law” mechanisms to override national sovereignty on family and life issues.
Naturalistic Tyranny Disguised as “Equality”
The EU’s actions constitute direct persecution against those upholding the natural law written in men’s hearts (Rom 2:15). By weaponizing “gender equality” criteria against FAFCE, Brussels authorities expose their adherence to the condemned errors of liberalism and religious indifferentism. Pius IX’s Syllabus of Errors explicitly rejects the notion that “the Church ought to be separated from the State, and the State from the Church” (Error 55) and condemns the view that “every man is free to embrace and profess that religion which, guided by the light of reason, he shall consider true” (Error 15). The Commission’s conduct manifests these exact heresies by punishing Catholic moral positions while financing child murder through abortion tourism.
This ideological coercion reveals the EU’s foundational apostasy from Europe’s Christian roots. As Pius XI declared in Quas Primas, nations rejecting Christ’s social reign inevitably descend into tyranny: “When God and Jesus Christ are removed from laws and states, the foundations of authority are destroyed.” The EU’s “bureaucratic model” criticized by Bassi constitutes a regnum hominis (kingdom of man) seeking to displace the regnum Christi (kingdom of Christ) through forced acceptance of sodomy and infanticide.
Conciliar Sect Complicity in Modernist Subversion
FAFCE’s predicament demonstrates the fatal compromise of post-conciliar structures collaborating with anti-Christian regimes. The federation operates within the EU’s bureaucratic framework while protesting exclusion from it – a contradiction echoing Vatican II’s disastrous aggiornamento. As the Syllabus warns (Error 80), attempts to “reconcile the Church with progress, liberalism, and modern civilization” inevitably empower the Church’s enemies. FAFCE’s plea for inclusion within a system financing abortion proves the conciliar sect’s inability to resist modernist absorption.
Bassi’s complaint about EU overreach into family matters ignores the elephant in the room: The conciliar sect itself abandoned the fight for Christ’s social kingship when Paul VI threw the papal tiara into the Tiber and embraced the UN’s godless human rights framework. Pius XI had already condemned this betrayal in Quas Primas: “Rulers of nations must honor Christ not only privately, but publicly through laws and institutions.” When FAFCE members genuflect before Bergoglio’s climate synods while begging Brussels for funds, they participate in their own marginalization.
Theological Bankruptcy of “Dialogue” With Apostates
Bassi’s stated goal to propose “an alternative emerging from the people” rather than confront the EU epitomizes the conciliar sect’s spiritual paralysis. Contrast this defeatism with St. Pius X’s uncompromising stance against France’s secularization: “When the State refuses to give God what belongs to God, by a necessary consequence it refuses to give to citizens that to which, as men, they have a right.” The EU’s demographic winter stems directly from its rejection of Catholic fertility principles – a crisis requiring conversion not dialogue.
The federation’s funding crisis exposes the futility of seeking common ground with regimes openly promoting child sacrifice. As Leo XIII warned in Libertas, “It is unlawful to follow one form of religion in private and another in public.” FAFCE’s attempt to simultaneously uphold Catholic marriage while operating within EU structures violates this principle. True resistance would follow the confessors who defied Roman emperors, not bureaucrats pleading for inclusion in Sodom’s city planning meetings.
Silence on Supernatural Mission Condemns Collaboration
Nowhere does FAFCE’s protest invoke the Kingship of Christ or condemn abortion as deicide. This naturalistic language – focusing on “family experience” and “demographic winter” rather than divine judgment – betrays acceptance of the EU’s secular framework. Compare this to Pius XI’s encyclical Casti Connubii which declares contraception “intrinsically vicious” and abortion “horrible crime.” When Catholic organizations stop proclaiming these truths to avoid offending technocrats, they become useful idiots for Babylon.
The EU’s persecution should surprise no one familiar with Masonic plans exposed in the Syllabus (Error 77-80). What remains scandalous is the conciliar sect’s continued complicity. Until FAFCE and similar groups denounce the Vatican II revolution enabling this persecution, their protests constitute empty theater. As Christ warned: “No man can serve two masters” (Mt 6:24) – least of all when one master wears rainbow flags and funds abortion mills while the other hangs crucified on Golgotha.
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Catholic federation denounces withdrawal of EU funds due to ideological bias (catholicnewsagency.com)
Date: 23.12.2025