The EWTN News portal (February 1, 2026) reports on a conference in Lithuania’s Parliament addressing Europe’s demographic collapse, featuring speeches by conciliar sect officials including “Bishop” Saulius Bužauskas and various Eastern European politicians. The article parrots the antipope Leo XIV’s concerns about family marginalization while promoting policy solutions utterly divorced from Catholic integralism.
Naturalism Masquerading as Social Concern
The conference participants reduce the demographic crisis to purely natural causes, with Árpád József Mészáros boasting of Hungary’s financial incentives increasing fertility from 1.23 to 1.51 children per woman – still far below replacement level. This technocratic approach exemplifies the naturalism condemned by Pius IX in the Syllabus of Errors (1864): “The State, as being the origin and source of all rights, is endowed with a certain right not circumscribed by any limits” (Error 39). The Hungarian model’s debt-forgiveness schemes and childcare subsidies constitute economic bribery that ignores the primary cause of demographic collapse: the loss of supernatural faith and rejection of Christ’s social kingship.
Helena Hlubocká’s “relational ecosystem” analysis proves particularly insidious by reducing marriage to a sociological construct rather than a sacramental institution. Her iceberg analogy omits the fundamental truth that “unless the Lord builds the house, they labor in vain who build it” (Ps 127:1). The pre-conciliar encyclical Casti Connubii (Pius XI, 1930) establishes that stable families flow from grace-filled sacramental marriages, not state-engineered “partnership stability.”
Conciliar Sect Complicity in Cultural Suicide
“Bishop” Bužauskas’ plea for families to be seen as “natural and meaningful” rather than “exceptions” constitutes blasphemous understatement. The 2022 Latvian survey revealing youth’s abandonment of family values directly results from the conciliar sect’s 60-year failure to condemn:
- Contraception (never mentioned in the article)
- Divorce (absent from analysis)
- Abortion (treated as demographic footnote)
Agnese Irbe’s admission that “financial support cannot compensate for weakening cultural desire” inadvertently condemns her own sect’s refusal to preach extra Ecclesiam nulla salus. The true solution lies not in Ordo Iuris’ policy coordination but in Pius XI’s prescription: “Christ reigns in the minds of men… in the wills of men… in the hearts of men” (Quas Primas, 1925). By contrast, the resolution’s call for “cultural and educational support” deliberately avoids mentioning Catholic education’s necessity.
Theological Apostasy in Citation of Modernist Figures
The article’s reference to antipope Wojtyła’s Familiaris Consortio and Bergoglio’s Amoris Laetitia as theological foundations exposes the conference’s doctrinal bankruptcy. These documents actively undermine Catholic marriage by:
- Promoting communion for adulterers (Amoris Laetitia 305)
- Equating natural marriage with sacramental union (Familiaris Consortio 68)
Jerzy Kwaśniewski’s appeal to “Catholic social teaching” rings hollow when citing post-conciliar antipopes rather than Leo XIII’s Rerum Novarum (1891) or Pius XI’s Quadragesimo Anno (1931), which established the family wage and subsidiarity as non-negotiable principles.
Omission of the Supernatural Order
Nowhere does the analysis acknowledge that Europe’s demographic winter stems directly from:
The rejection of Christ the King’s social reign and the conciliar sect’s embrace of religious liberty (Vatican II’s Dignitatis Humanae).
The Lithuanian parliament’s conference participants cross themselves piously while advocating policies indistinguishable from pagan humanism. This hypocrisy embodies Pius XI’s warning against those who “would restore the Kingdom of Christ, but without the royal apparel” (Quas Primas). True demographic renewal requires:
| Conciliar Solution | Catholic Solution |
|---|---|
| Childcare subsidies | Restoration of sacramental confession |
| Housing loans | Eucharistic reign in public life |
| “Family-friendly” workplaces | Suppression of contraception |
The demographic collapse will only accelerate while nations ignore the perennial teaching: “For the children of this world are wiser in their generation than the children of light” (Lk 16:8). Europe requires not policy tweaks but the Social Reign of Christ the King – anathema to both EU bureaucrats and their conciliar church collaborators.
Source:
Eastern European leaders tackle demographic collapse after pope’s family warning (ewtnnews.com)
Date: 01.02.2026