March for Life 2026: Syncretism Masquerading as Catholic Witness
EWTN News reports on the March for Life held in Washington, D.C., on January 23, 2026, emphasizing a “broad range of life issues” including euthanasia prevention and disability advocacy alongside opposition to abortion. Participants like Alex Schadenberg of the Euthanasia Prevention Coalition warned against assisted suicide legislation, while Ashley Kollme shared her daughter Sophia’s story of survival after a prenatal heart condition diagnosis. The article highlights Rehumanize International’s promotion of a “consistent life ethic” opposing abortion, capital punishment, and euthanasia.
Ecumenism and the Erosion of Supernatural Finality
The March for Life’s embrace of a “consistent life ethic”—a term popularized by theologically suspect figures like the late Cardinal Bernardin—exposes its foundational error: reducing the Church’s supernatural mission to a naturalistic campaign for “human dignity.” Pius XI’s encyclical Quas Primas (1925) unequivocally declares that Christ’s kingship extends not merely to the defense of earthly life but to the ordering of all societies and laws toward man’s eternal salvation: “Nations will be reminded by the annual celebration of this feast that not only private individuals but also rulers and princes are bound to give public honor and obedience to Christ” (Quas Primas §31). By conflating abortion with issues like immigration detention conditions (“Unborn children die in ICE detention”), the March diminishes the absolute primacy of abortion as the preeminent life issue—a direct violation of the Church’s perennial teaching that abortion constitutes homicidium perfectissimum (the most perfect homicide, St. Thomas Aquinas, Summa Theologiae II-II, q.64, a.6).
The Silent Apostasy: Naturalism Replacing Grace
Nowhere does the article mention the sacramental means by which life is sanctified—baptism, penance, or the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass—revealing a modernist subtext that reduces Catholicism to ethical activism. Pius IX’s Syllabus of Errors condemns the proposition that “human reason, without any reference whatsoever to God, is the sole arbiter of truth and falsehood, and of good and evil” (Condemned Proposition #3). Yet this is precisely the framework adopted by Rehumanize International, which substitutes the lex divina with a secular “culture of peace.” The testimony of Ashley Kollme, while emotionally compelling, risks reducing the pro-life cause to sentimentalism: “Deserving life shouldn’t be conditional upon one’s health” ignores the Church’s teaching that life’s value derives from being imago Dei, not medical outcomes. The silence on the necessity of baptism for salvation (Mark 16:16) is particularly egregious, implying Sophia’s survival alone justifies her existence—a pagan, not Catholic, worldview.
Religious Indifferentism and the Masonic “Consistent Life Ethic”
Rehumanize International’s platform exemplifies the synthesis of all heresies condemned by St. Pius X: Modernism. Their “consistent life ethic” places abortion, capital punishment, and “unjust war” on equal footing—a doctrine alien to Catholic tradition. The Church has always distinguished between intrinsic evils (abortion, euthanasia) and prudential matters (war, immigration policy). St. Augustine’s just war theory (City of God XIX) and the Church’s approval of capital punishment under certain conditions (Romans 13:4) are irreconcilable with Rehumanize’s pacifist absolutism. Worse, the organization’s interfaith collaborations (implied by its broad appeals to “human dignity”) foster the religious indifferentism anathematized by Pius IX: “Every man is free to embrace and profess that religion which, guided by the light of reason, he shall consider true” (Syllabus, Condemned Proposition #15).
EWTN’s Complicity in the Neo-Church’s Agenda
As a mouthpiece for the conciliar sect, EWTN News epitomizes the hermeneutic of continuity deception. The article uncritically quotes Schadenberg—whose coalition includes non-Catholics—without challenging his alliance with those who reject extra Ecclesiam nulla salus. It also lauds political figures like Rep. Chris Smith, a nominal Catholic who has never repudiated Vatican II’s heresies. Nowhere does the piece warn that receiving “Communion” in post-conciliar structures—where the Mass is invalid—constitutes sacrilege. This omission flows from EWTN’s decades-long normalization of the Novus Ordo, which St. Pius V’s Quo Primum (1570) declares irreformable.
Conclusion: A March Toward Syncretism
The 2026 March for Life, like its predecessors, embodies the naturalism and ecumenism that have gutted Catholic witness since 1958. Until organizers demand the public reign of Christ the King and condemn the apostate Vatican regime, their efforts will remain a hollow performanc—a “broad range” of errors marching in lockstep with modernity.
Source:
Euthanasia prevention, other life issues promoted at 2026 March for Life (ewtnnews.com)
Date: 23.01.2026