EWTN’s March for Life: A Naturalistic Spectacle Masking Apostasy
The Catholic News Agency article promotes EWTN’s coverage of the 53rd annual March for Life in Washington, D.C., framing it as a religiously-grounded pro-life event. The schedule includes Masses at the National Shrine, speeches by Vice President JD Vance and other politicians, ecumenical prayers with Orthodox and Protestant leaders, and music performances. The theme “Life Is a Gift” superficially echoes Catholic morality but omits the sine qua non of all authentic pro-life action: the Social Kingship of Christ and the condemnation of religious liberty as a diabolical heresy.
Reduction of Sanctity to Secular Activism
The event’s core error lies in its naturalistic framing. While invoking prayer vigils and Masses, it reduces the Church’s mission to a political lobbying group seeking incremental restrictions on abortion within a pluralist framework. This contradicts Pope Pius XI’s condemnation: “When once men recognize, both in private and in public life, that Christ is King, society will at last receive the great blessings of real liberty, well-ordered discipline, peace and harmony” (Quas Primas, §19). The March for Life treats abortion as a standalone evil divorced from the total apostasy of states that reject Christ’s authority. Not once does the article demand the abolition of the U.S. Constitution’s secularist foundation—a demand made explicit by Pope Pius IX: “It is necessary that the State be constituted Christian” (Quanta Cura, §6).
False Ecumenism and Sacrilegious Liturgies
The inclusion of Protestant speakers like Cissie Graham Lynch and Orthodox bishop Irinej Dobrijevic exposes the event’s indifferentist rot. The article celebrates their participation as virtuous when in truth, it violates the dogmatic decree Mortalium Animos (1928): “The union of Christians can only be promoted by promoting the return to the one true Church of Christ of those who are separated from it” (§10). Worse, the “Masses” mentioned are almost certainly the invalid 1969 rite, promulgated by antipopes to erase the propitiatory sacrifice. Receiving ‘Communion’ at these liturgies constitutes sacrilege, as the article fails to warn attendees.
Omission of the Primacy of Supernatural Order
Nowhere does the March for Life emphasize the absolute necessity of baptism, the dangers of dying in original sin, or the eternal consequences of abortion for the child’s soul. This silence reflects the neo-church’s abandonment of extra Ecclesiam nulla salus. Contrast this with the Council of Florence’s infallible teaching: “[Holy Roman Church] firmly believes, professes, and preaches that all those outside the Catholic Church… cannot share in eternal life” (Cantate Domino, 1442). The event’s slogan “Life Is a Gift” rings hollow when it ignores the only means to eternal life: incorporation into Christ’s Mystical Body through valid sacraments.
Collaboration with a Heretical Regime
The presence of Vice President JD Vance—a politician serving a regime that funds abortion globally and enforces religious indifferentism—epitomizes the March’s moral bankruptcy. Pope Leo XIII forbade Catholics from supporting governments hostile to the Church: “It is unlawful to follow one line of conduct in private life and another in public” (Immortale Dei, §45). By treating Vance as an ally, organizers normalize the U.S. regime’s apostasy, ignoring St. Pius X’s warning: “The modern state tends to isolate itself and to constitute itself without God” (Notre Charge Apostolique, §7).
Conclusion: A Counterfeit Witness
The March for Life exemplifies the conciliar sect’s betrayal of Catholic integralism. It reduces the fight against abortion to a secularized, interfaith spectacle while ignoring the root cause: states that dethrone Christ. Until organizers demand America’s conversion to Catholicism and condemn Vatican II’s heresy of religious liberty, their efforts remain a dangerous farce. As the Syllabus of Errors declares: “Every man is free to embrace and profess that religion which… he shall consider true” is an “erroneous opinion” condemned under penalty of anathema (Proposition 15). EWTN’s coverage thus propagates not truth, but apostasy in sentimental disguise.
Source:
How to watch the March for Life 2026: EWTN’s live coverage (catholicnewsagency.com)
Date: 21.01.2026