Irish Prelate’s Demographic Alarm Masks Grave Doctrinal Failures
The EWTN News portal reports on Bishop Kevin Doran’s lament that Ireland lost “300 classes of primary school children” to abortion in 2024. The article further details Zimbabwean bishops opposing abortion legislation, a failed Nebraska bill addressing coerced abortions, a Texas father suing an abortionist, and dismissed charges against Memphis pro-life activists. These fragments reveal the conciliar sect’s inability to proclaim the integral Catholic truth (doctrina catholica integra) on abortion.
Demographic Calculations Obscure Mortal Sin’s Gravity
While “Bishop” Doran correctly notes abortion’s societal impact by stating
“Abortion doesn’t just kill babies. It deprives communities… of thousands of happy, laughing children”
, his analysis remains entrenched in naturalism. The conciliar sect’s prelate reduces abortion to a demographic crisis rather than proclaiming it as premeditated homicide requiring automatic excommunication under Canon 2350 §1 of the 1917 Code. This omission aligns with the neo-church’s abandonment of latae sententiae penalties for abortionists and accomplices.
Pius XI’s encyclical Casti Connubii (1930) condemns all abortion as “shameful and intrinsically vicious,” emphasizing that “no reason, however grave, can be put forward by which anything intrinsically against nature may become conformable to nature and morally good.” Doran’s failure to invoke this immutable teaching exposes the conciliar hierarchy’s doctrinal bankruptcy.
Zimbabwean Hierarchy’s Timid Opposition
The Zimbabwean bishops’ statement urging senators to
“uphold your constitutional responsibility to protect the right to life of unborn children”
relies on secular legalism rather than divine law. Their appeal to “African and Christian moral heritage” ignores the Church’s universal condemnation of abortion articulated in the Council of Vienne (1312) and reaffirmed by Pius IX’s Quanta Cura (1864).
The bishops’ directive for parishes to read their statement at Mass constitutes empty ritualism, as the post-conciliar liturgy itself denies the propitiatory nature of the Mass essential for expiating societal sins like abortion. As the Council of Trent (Session XXII, Chapter 2) teaches: “[The Mass] is truly propitiatory… appeasing God’s wrath for our sins.”
Nebraska Bill’s Fatal Compromise
The failed Nebraska bill requiring abortion providers to screen for coercion reveals the conciliar mindset’s contradictions. While purporting to protect women, the legislation implicitly legitimizes abortion by regulating rather than abolishing it. St. Thomas Aquinas’ Summa Theologica (II-II, Q.64, A.6) establishes that no circumstance justifies homicide: “It is in no way lawful to slay the innocent.”
Civil Remedies Cannot Replace Ecclesiastical Justice
Jerry Rodriguez’s lawsuit against abortionist Remy Coeytaux under Texas’ civil statute demonstrates commendable zeal but highlights the State’s usurpation of the Church’s judicial role. The Fourth Lateran Council (1215) Canon 18 mandates: “No cleric may pronounce a sentence of death… or be present at its execution.” Civil authorities who permit abortion incur excommunication ferendae sententiae, yet the conciliar sect remains silent on this penalty.
Rescue Activists’ Incomplete Witness
While the Memphis pro-life activists’ charges being dropped is providential, their “Rescue Resurrection” movement remains theologically deficient. True resistance requires not only physical obstruction but uncompromising doctrinal clarity against the conciliar sect’s errors. St. Pius X’s Vehementer Nos (1906) condemns the separation of Church and State that enables abortion facilities: “That the State must be separated from the Church is a thesis absolutely false, a most pernicious error.”
The Silent Abomination: Omission of Supernatural Reality
All cited parties ignore the four last things (death, judgment, heaven, hell) awaiting abortion perpetrators. The Catechism of the Council of Trent (Part III, 6, §3) warns: “He who takes care to avoid mortal sin… will easily avoid eternal damnation.” The conciliar hierarchy’s refusal to preach eternal punishment for abortion constitutes pastoral malpractice.
The demographic argument’s inadequacy is exposed by Pius XI in Quas Primas (1925): “When once men recognize… Christ’s royal dignity… society will at last receive the great blessings of real liberty, well-ordered discipline, peace and harmony.” Ireland’s abortion crisis stems directly from rejecting Christ’s social kingship—a truth the conciliar sect dare not proclaim.
Source:
Irish bishop says country has lost ‘300 classes of primary school children’ to abortion in 1 year (ewtnnews.com)
Date: 06.02.2026