Neo-Colonialism of the Flesh: Surrogacy’s Assault on Divine Order
The Italian Embassy to the Holy See hosted an event titled “A Common Front for Human Durnity: Preventing the Commodification of Women and Children in Surrogacy” on January 13, 2026. Archbishop Paul Richard Gallagher, secretary for relations with states of the conciliar sect, denounced surrogacy as “a new form of colonialism” exploiting vulnerable women and reducing children to commodities. He echoed antipope Leo XIV’s recent condemnation of gestational practices violating human dignity. Italian Minister Eugenia Roccella joined Gallagher in calling for surrogacy’s abolition, framing it as a global human rights issue requiring multilateral action.
Natural Law Subverted by Contractual Barbarism
Gallagher rightly identifies surrogacy’s core evil: the reduction of human life to commercial transaction. Quod naturale est, non potest licite violari (What is natural cannot lawfully be violated). The Code of Canon Law (1917) explicitly forbids any separation of marriage’s unitive and procreative ends (Canon 1013 §1), rendering surrogacy intrinsically immoral. Pius XII’s 1949 address to midwives condemns artificial reproduction techniques as “a grave offense against the natural law and the divine plan.” Yet the event’s participants omit this theological foundation, reducing the crime to secular “commodification” rather than sacrilege against God’s creative authority.
The Conciliar Sect’s Selective Outrage
While decrying surrogacy, Gallagher operates within a structure that systematically undermines marriage’s sanctity. The Syllabus of Errors condemns the notion that “the civil authority may interfere in matters relating to religion, morality, and spiritual government” (Proposition 44). Yet here, the conciliar sect collaborates with the Italian state – which recognizes civil unions and promotes contraception – to address a moral crisis its own doctrinal ambiguities helped create. Where is the demand for Italy to abrogate its divorce laws (contrary to Canon 1118) or ban IVF (explicitly condemned in Casti Connubii)? This hypocrisy reveals Modernism’s essence: partial truths masking comprehensive apostasy.
Silence on the Supernatural Holocaust
Gallagher’s speech ignores surrogacy’s most damning consequence: the mass damnation of souls. Children conceived through artificial means are often baptized without parental faith, violating the Church’s teaching on sacramental validity (Council of Trent, Session VII). Surrogate mothers risk mortal sin through extramarital conception, while commissioning couples defy Dei Verbum’s immutable mandate: “Let the faithful be bred in the discipline and reverence of Christ” (Ephesians 6:4). The event’s feminist alliances compound this disaster, as Pius XI warned in Casti Connubii: “False liberty and unnatural equality with men corrupts woman’s dignity.”
Ecumenical Collusion in Moral Bankruptcy
The diplomatic framing – involving Cyprus’ Orthodox ambassador and secular NGOs – betrays the conciliar sect’s surrender to religious indifferentism. Leo XIII’s Satis Cognitum (1896) mandates: “Unity cannot spring from shepherds who preach opposing doctrines.” By partnering with non-Catholic entities to combat surrogacy, Gallagher implicitly endorses the condemned error that “Protestantism is nothing more than another form of the same true Christian religion” (Syllabus of Errors, Proposition 18). This ecumenical complicity mirrors the very “colonialism” he decries: spiritual invaders replacing Catholic supremacy with humanitarian platitudes.
Antipapal Contradictions and Unholy Alliances
Antipope Leo XIV’s surrogacy condemnation – while theologically sound – rings hollow from a usurper presiding over the Vatican’s “abomination of desolation” (Matthew 24:15). His conciliar sect promotes communion for adulterers (Amoris Laetitia), pagan worship (2019 Amazon Synod), and LGBTQ+ blessings – all offenses far graver than surrogacy. As St. Pius X warned in Pascendi, Modernists “fabricate new dogmas” while feigning orthodoxy on select issues. Italy’s simultaneous push to criminalize surrogacy abroad while funding contraception domestically exposes this charade: a diabolical dance where Caesar pretends to heal wounds his own laws inflicted.
Source:
Archbishop Gallagher: Surrogacy is a ‘new form of colonialism’ (ewtnnews.com)
Date: 15.01.2026