Conciliar Sect’s Gender Conference Masks Modernist Subversion
The Catholic News Agency portal (January 20, 2026) reports on Leah Sargeant’s keynote at the University of St. Thomas conference titled “The Beauty of Truth: Navigating Society Today as a Catholic Woman.” Sargeant, described as a “former atheist,” criticized cultural lies about gender interchangeability and autonomy while promoting “radical dependence” – yet her arguments remain imprisoned within the conciliar sect’s naturalistic framework that obscures the supernatural order. This event exemplifies how the Vatican II sect stages pseudo-traditional events to camouflage its fundamental rupture with Catholic anthropology.
Naturalism Disguised as Orthodoxy
While Sargeant correctly identifies the cultural lies of gender interchangeability and radical autonomy, her analysis remains trapped in the horizontal plane of creation: “Our embodied, sexed nature has been ordered for our salvation” dangerously reduces the suprema lex (highest law) of salvation to biological function. Pius XI’s Quas Primas establishes that Christ’s Kingship extends over all aspects of human existence: “Nor is there any difference in this matter between the individual and the family or the State; for all men, whether collectively or individually, are under the dominion of Christ” (Quas Primas 18). By framing dependence merely as interpersonal relationality rather than submission to divine authority, the conference substitutes Catholic hierarchy with egalitarian sentimentality.
“We have the good news that our culture needs to hear: that men and women are ordered to the good and made for amity for each other.”
This statement epitomizes the conciliar inversion. The bonum (good) is not defined according to Thomistic lex aeterna (eternal law) but through the ambiguous lens of “amity.” Where is the insistence that the primary ordering of sexes is toward hierarchical complementarity under Christ the King? The 1917 Code of Canon Law (Canon 1372) expressly forbade women from any role implying jurisdiction over men – a truth conspicuously absent from this “Catholic” women’s conference.
The Poisonous Newman Citation
Sargeant’s reference to John Henry Newman exposes the modernist rot at this event’s core. She quotes his dangerous assertion: “Independence was not made for man. It is an unnatural state…” without noting that this proto-modernist’s theory of doctrinal development directly contradicts the Church’s immutable depositum fidei. Pius X’s Lamentabili Sane expressly condemned the proposition that “Christian doctrine was initially Jewish, but through gradual development, it became first Pauline, then Johannine, and finally Greek and universal” (Proposition 60). Newman’s canonization by Bergoglio constitutes formal approval of his evolutionary heresies.
Omission of Sacramental Reality
Nowhere does the article warn that receiving “Communion” in post-conciliar structures – where the Mass has been reduced to a communal meal and rubrics violate the theology of propitiatory sacrifice – constitutes sacrilege. The University of St. Thomas operates under the counterfeit authority of the USCCB, which has promulgated the invalid Novus Ordo Missae since 1969. As the Council of Trent decreed: “If anyone says that the sacrifice of the Mass is merely a commemoration…let him be anathema” (Session 22, Canon 1). Authentic dependence on God requires valid sacraments – an impossibility in the conciliar sect.
Feminism’s Unmasked Agenda
The conference’s sponsorship by the “Catholic Women’s and Gender Studies program” betrays its revolutionary aims. Pius XI’s Casti Connubii condemned feminism’s “false liberty and unnatural equality with men” (26). By hosting Sargeant – author of The Dignity of Dependence: A Feminist Manifesto – the university propagates the very errors Vatican II enabled. True Catholic womanhood finds its model not in conference speeches but in the vitae of pre-1958 saints like St. Joan of Arc (warrior virgin) and St. Catherine of Siena (advisor to popes), who exercised influence without violating hierarchical order.
Symptomatic Silence on Final Ends
The gravest omission lies in the complete absence of reference to humanity’s telos (end): the beatific vision. When Sargeant states “our embodied, sexed nature has been ordered for our salvation,” she ignores the Church’s perennial teaching that marriage exists primarily for “the procreation and education of children for the glory of God and the eternal salvation of souls”</i (1917 Code, Canon 1013 §1). The article's concluding focus on "hope in our frailty" substitutes emotional consolation for the Church's authentic mission: to save souls from eternal damnation through doctrinal clarity and sacramental validity.
This conference exemplifies how the conciliar sect stages theatrical “orthodoxy” while advancing the modernist agenda condemned in Pius X’s Pascendi: “They affirm that the doctrines of the Church have no other purpose than to furnish the believer with a means of producing for himself…a religious sentiment” (42). Until the structures occupying the Vatican return to the integral faith professed before 1958, such events remain but whitened sepulchers – outwardly appealing, inwardly dead.
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‘Our embodied, sexed nature has been ordered for our salvation,’ former atheist says (catholicnewsagency.com)
Date: 20.01.2026