“Buffer Zone” Law Exposes Neo-Church’s Complicity in Child Sacrifice
Catholic News Agency reports that the Scottish “Bishops’ Conference” has denounced the Abortion Services (Safe Access Zones) Act 2024, which criminalizes prayer and pro-life advocacy within 200 meters of abortion facilities. The legislation explicitly bans silent vigils, leafleting, and “religious preaching” near 30 abortion centers across Scotland. While the “bishops” correctly identify the law’s assault on fundamental freedoms, their critique remains fatally compromised by theological modernism and refusal to name abortion’s intrinsic evil (Catechism of St. Pius X).
Naturalistic Assumptions Underpin Both Law and “Episcopal” Response
The Scottish government’s justification for buffer zones presupposes a radical separation between civil law and moral order, treating abortion as mere healthcare rather than homicidium innocentium (murder of innocents). This directly violates Pius XI’s teaching that “states are governed by Christ the King no less than individuals” (Quas Primas, §32). Yet the “bishops” themselves adopt the regime’s naturalistic language, framing opposition in terms of “free speech” rather than divine judgment against child-sacrificing societies.
Their statement decries how the law “restricts critical voices from democratic debate” but remains silent on the supernatural consequences of abortion – eternal damnation for unrepentant participants. This omission mirrors Vatican II’s disastrous Gaudium et Spes (n. 51), which abandoned the Church’s historic condemnation of abortion as crimen nefandum (unspeakable crime).
Legalized Persecution Reveals Post-Conciliar Collapse
Rose Docherty’s arrest for silently holding a pro-life sign demonstrates how buffer zone laws operationalize the error of indifferentism condemned by Pius IX: “The Church cannot approve of those who deem all religions to be equally good” (Syllabus of Errors, §15). By criminalizing prayer near abortion mills, Scotland enforces state atheism – yet the “bishops” respond with procedural complaints rather than denouncing the regime’s apostasy.
The legislation’s potential application to private homes – where “a prayer said by a window” could be prosecuted – fulfills Pius X’s warning about modernist states seeking to “destroy the Catholic religion” (Vehementer Nos, §3). That police expressed “unease” about enforcing thought crimes matters less than the hierarchy’s failure to mobilize Catholics for civil disobedience against unjust laws, as St. Thomas More exemplified.
Episcopal Cowardice Perpetuates Infanticide Regime
Nowhere do these “pastors” reiterate the Church’s immutable teaching that abortion constitutes formal cooperation in evil requiring automatic excommunication (1917 CIC, can. 2350 §1). Their milquetoast declaration that “we support those motivated by conscience… to stand up for the right to life” deliberately avoids naming abortionists as murderers and politicians as accomplices.
This moral equivocation continues Paul VI’s disastrous Humanae Vitae compromise, which refused to reaffording the Church’s full disciplinary authority against contraceptive culture. When Gillian Mackay – the Green Party architect of this infanticide-protection law – boasts that prosecutions depend on “who’s passing the window,” she reveals the persecutory intent the “bishops” refuse to name.
Conclusion: Silence Before the Slaughter of Innocents
As Herod’s soldiers slaughtered Bethlehem’s children, the Holy Family fled to Egypt – they didn’t petition Roman administrators about “buffer zones” around infanticide sites. Today’s conciliar “shepherds” have forgotten Ambrose’s maxim: Non est pietas parcere damnatis (It is not piety to spare the condemned). By reducing the abortion holocaust to a free speech issue, Scotland’s pseudo-bishops prove themselves successors not of the Apostles but of Caiaphas – administrators of death disguised as clerics. Until they publicly condemn every abortionist and abortion-seeking mother to hellfire, their legal protests constitute empty theater.
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Scottish bishops denounce ‘buffer zone’ law (catholicnewsagency.com)
Date: 07.01.2026