Michelle Bachelet’s candidacy for U.N. secretary-general, supported by the conciliar structures and their media allies, represents the logical culmination of the modernist apostasy condemned by Pope Pius IX in the Syllabus of Errors and by St. Pius X in Lamentabili sane exitu. Her advocacy for abortion as a “human right” and her subversion of national sovereignty in favor of a globalist, naturalistic agenda directly contradict the immutable doctrine of Christ’s Kingship over all nations, as defined by Pope Pius XI in Quas Primas. The opposition from Republican lawmakers, while correct in its moral assessment, remains confined to the naturalistic and political sphere, utterly failing to address the supernatural root of the evil: the rejection of God’s law and the public worship due to Christ the King. This failure itself is a symptom of the post-conciliar Church’s abandonment of its mission to convert nations and establish the social reign of Our Lord.
The Naturalistic Trap of Political Opposition
The cited article from EWTN News details the opposition of nearly 30 Republican U.S. lawmakers to Michelle Bachelet’s bid for U.N. secretary-general. Their letter to Secretary of State Marco Rubio criticizes her “extreme abortion agenda,” her “failure to oppose coerced abortion in China,” and her undermining of “state sovereignty.” A State Department spokesperson states the U.S. seeks a secretary-general who will return the U.N. to “maintaining peace and security… rather than the absurd, politicized, woke ideology.” The article frames the conflict entirely within the parameters of American political conservatism versus globalist progressivism.
Linguistic Analysis: The Language of Naturalism
The article’s language is exclusively that of political science and human rights discourse. Terms like “pro-abortion zealot,” “state sovereignty,” “practical, driven, and reform-focused candidate,” and “woke ideology” operate on a purely natural, sociological plane. There is a complete and damning silence on the supernatural order: the concepts of mortal sin, the law of God, the jurisdiction of the Catholic Church over nations, the duty of public penance, and the final judgment are entirely absent. This omission is not neutral; it is the very hallmark of the modernist “abyss between the natural and the supernatural” condemned by St. Pius X. The debate is presented as a clash of human opinions and political strategies, with the pretense that a “more qualified candidate” can fix the institution without first subjecting it to the Social Kingship of Christ.
Theological Confrontation: Abortion vs. the Law of God
The core issue is abortion. Bachelet’s view that “abortion is firmly rooted in international human rights law” is a direct, formal heresy against the natural law as defined by the Church. Pope Pius IX, in the Syllabus of Errors, condemned proposition #58: “All the rectitude and excellence of morality ought to be placed in the accumulation and increase of riches by every possible means, and the gratification of pleasure.” This is the philosophical foundation of the “human rights” industry, which places the gratification of disordered passions (the “gratification of pleasure”) above the primary precept of the natural law: the preservation of innocent human life. Furthermore, proposition #56 states: “Moral laws do not stand in need of the divine sanction, and it is not at all necessary that human laws should be made conformable to the laws of nature and receive their power of binding from God.” Bachelet’s entire framework posits a “human rights law” that is contrary to the divine and natural law. Her advocacy is thus not merely a political error but a repudiation of the First Commandment and the Fifth Commandment (“Thou shalt not kill”).
Pius XI, in Quas Primas, establishes the remedy with absolute clarity: “When God and Jesus Christ… were removed from laws and states… the foundations of that authority were destroyed.” He declares that Christ’s reign “encompasses all men” and that rulers have the duty to “publicly honor Christ and obey Him.” A state that legalizes the murder of the innocent is a state that has definitively rejected the reign of Christ. Bachelet’s mission to impose this rejection globally through the U.N. makes her an agent of the “plague” of secularism (laicism) which Pius XI identified as the poison of modern society.
Symptomatic Analysis: The Conciliar Roots of the Evil
The article’s framework and the very institution it discusses are fruits of the conciliar revolution. The U.N.’s foundational documents, especially the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, were shaped by the “rights of man” ideology that Pius IX condemned (#39, #40). The post-conciliar Church, under the antipopes from John XXIII to “Pope” Leo XIV, has systematically embraced this naturalistic humanism. The “woke ideology” decried by the U.S. spokesperson is the bastard child of the “evolution of dogmas” and “adaptation to modern progress” condemned by St. Pius X in Lamentabili (propositions #57, #58, #64). The U.N.’s focus on “reproductive rights” is the direct implementation of the modernist synthesis of all errors: it combines pantheistic naturalism (man as the measure of all), indifferentism (all religions/values are equal), and the destruction of the family.
The fact that the opposition comes from Republican lawmakers, not from the hierarchy of the “conciliar sect,” is itself telling. The “Church of the New Advent” has been utterly silenced on the supernatural issue of abortion as a mortal sin crying to heaven for vengeance. Its “pro-life” activism, where it exists, is a naturalistic, democratic movement that never dares to proclaim the Social Kingship of Christ or the duty of Catholic states to prohibit heresy and blasphemy, let alone abortion, by law. This is the “dumbing down” of the faith into a mere ethical preference, precisely what the modernists wanted.
The Fatal Omission: Christ the King
The gravest accusation against the article and the political actors it describes is their omission of the sovereignty of Jesus Christ. Pius XI, in Quas Primas, wrote: “Let rulers of states therefore not refuse public veneration and obedience to the reigning Christ, but let them fulfill this duty themselves and with their people, if they wish to maintain their authority inviolate and contribute to the increase of their homeland’s happiness.” The lawmakers’ argument is that Bachelet’s policies are bad for U.S. interests and “state sovereignty.” The Catholic argument, which is utterly absent, is that her policies are crimes against the Supreme Legislator and invite divine chastisement upon the nation. A truly Catholic state would not merely “veto” a candidate at the U.N.; it would withdraw from an organization that promotes intrinsic evil and would work for the establishment of the pax Christi—the peace of Christ’s reign—in its own laws and international relations.
Conclusion: The Apostasy of the Entire System
The controversy over Bachelet’s U.N. bid is a microcosm of the apostasy of the modern world and the conciliar sect. It is a debate confined to the level of natural rights and political power, conducted by men who acknowledge no higher law than their own consensus. The “pro-life” position, while materially correct in its opposition to abortion, is spiritually bankrupt because it is divorced from its supernatural foundation: the Incarnation, the Redemption, and the absolute sovereignty of Christ the King. The lawmakers, like the conciliar “pontiffs,” operate on the false premise of a neutral public square where “values” are debated. There is no neutral public square. As Pius XI thundered: “The State must… recognize and reverently submit to the rule of Jesus Christ” or it builds its house on sand. The entire U.N. system, with its promotion of abortion, contraception, and gender ideology, is an instrument of the “synagogue of Satan” (as termed by Pius IX) working to “submit the Church of God to the most cruel servitude.” The only Catholic response is the one Pius XI urged: the public, solemn, and mandatory consecration of nations to the Sacred Heart of Jesus and the establishment of the feast of Christ the King as a day of reparation and renewal of that consecration. Anything less is collaboration with the forces of Antichrist.
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Republican lawmakers oppose former Chilean president’s UN bid over abortion views (ewtnnews.com)
Date: 27.03.2026