Infovaticana portal reports that on Thursday, March 26, 2026, the euthanasia of 25-year-old Noelia in Barcelona will be carried out after the courts rejected her father’s last-minute legal attempt to halt the procedure. The Spanish Episcopal Conference (CEE) expressed “deep pain” and issued a statement insisting that euthanasia “is not a medical act” and that the person’s dignity “does not depend on their state of health nor their subjective perception of life.” While these statements contain fragments of truth, they are woefully insufficient, revealing the conciliar sect’s characteristic impotence and its refusal to name evil for what it truly is: **murder, a grave sin against the Fifth Commandment, and an act of rebellion against the sovereignty of God over life and death.**
The CEE’s Toothless Condemnation: A Betrayal of Catholic Moral Theology
The Spanish bishops’ statement, as reported by Infovaticana, employs the language of “deep pain,” “rupture of the bond of care,” and “social defeat.” This is the bureaucratic, naturalistic language of the conciliar sect, designed to sound compassionate while avoiding the only language that Catholic moral theology demands: **the language of sin, crime, and eternal damnation.**
The CEE states that euthanasia “is not a medical act, but the deliberate rupture of the bond of care.” This is a truism so obvious as to be meaningless. It is akin to saying that arson “is not a construction technique.” The critical question — whether euthanasia is **murder and a mortal sin** — is conspicuously absent. The bishops speak of “social defeat” when they should be proclaiming **moral catastrophe and the damnation of souls.** They call for “accompaniment, adequate care, and integral support” when they should be demanding **the immediate and unconditional cessation of this abomination and the prosecution of those who carry it out as murderers.**
This is the hallmark of the post-conciliar neo-church: it issues press releases instead of excommunications, expresses “pain” instead of pronouncing anathema, and calls for “dialogue” instead of demanding the enforcement of God’s law. As Pope Pius IX declared in the Syllabus of Errors (1864), condemning the proposition that “the Roman Pontiff can, and ought to, reconcile himself, and come to terms with progress, liberalism and modern civilization” (Proposition 80). The CEE’s statement is precisely such a reconciliation — a feeble protest designed to maintain relevance in a society that has already consigned God’s law to the dustbin.
The Sovereignty of God Over Life and Death: The Doctrine the CEE Dares Not Proclaim
The fundamental principle that the CEE’s statement obscures is this: **life is a gift from God, and only God has the right to determine its end.** “The Lord killeth, and maketh alive: he bringeth down to the grave, and bringeth up” (1 Kings 2:6). No human authority — not the state, not the courts, not the medical profession, and not the individual — possesses the right to deliberately terminate an innocent human life.
The Catechism of the Council of Trent teaches: “The fifth commandment forbids the murder of ourselves as well as of others. Suicide is, therefore, a most grievous sin, and is, moreover, a crime against God, who is the supreme Lord of life and death.” Euthanasia is not merely “the rupture of the bond of care”; it is **self-murder or murder committed by another, both of which are mortal sins that cry out to heaven for vengeance.**
Pope Pius XI, in the encyclical Quas Primas (1925), proclaimed that Christ’s kingdom “encompasses all men” and that “there is no power in us that is exempt from this reign.” The CEE’s statement implicitly concedes that the Spanish state has legitimate authority to authorize murder, provided it follows certain procedural formalities. This is a direct denial of the social reign of Christ the King. As Pius XI declared: “The state is happy not by one means, and man by another; for the state is nothing else than a harmonious association of men.” When the state authorizes the killing of its most vulnerable citizens, it ceases to be a harmonious association and becomes **a criminal enterprise.**
The Father’s Battle and the Church’s Abdication
The article reports that Noelia’s father, through Abogados Cristianos, made two legal attempts to halt the euthanasia, both rejected by the courts. This father, acting on the natural law inscribed in every human heart, fought to save his daughter’s life. Where was the institutional Church in this battle? Where were the excommunications? Where were the public denunciations of the judges who authorized this murder? Where was the demand that Catholic politicians who voted for Spain’s euthanasia law be denied Holy Communion?
The answer is damning: **the conciliar sect was issuing press releases expressing “deep pain.”** This is the Church of the New Advent in its true colors — a Church that has abandoned its prophetic mission to condemn sin and has reduced itself to a non-governmental organization issuing statements of concern.
St. Pius X, in Lamentabili sane exitu (1907), condemned the proposition that “the Church is an enemy of the progress of natural and theological sciences” (Proposition 57). Yet the conciliar sect has gone further than merely tolerating progress; it has surrendered to the culture of death while offering nothing more than polite disagreement. The CEE’s statement that “the person’s dignity does not depend on their state of health” is theologically correct but practically meaningless when it is not accompanied by the demand that this principle be enshrined in law and enforced by the state.
The “Culture of Care” vs. the Culture of Life
The CEE concludes its statement with the phrase: “When life hurts, the response cannot be to shorten the path, but to walk it together.” This is a beautiful sentiment, but it is not Catholic doctrine. Catholic doctrine teaches that **suffering, when united to the sufferings of Christ, has redemptive value.** “I fill up in my flesh those things that are wanting of the sufferings of Christ” (Colossians 1:24). The CEE’s statement reduces suffering to a problem to be solved rather than a mystery to be embraced in faith.
Moreover, the CEE’s call for “psychological care resources” and “support networks” implicitly concedes that the solution to suffering is therapeutic rather than supernatural. Where is the call to prayer, to the sacraments, to the intercession of the Blessed Virgin Mary? Where is the reminder that **the grace of God is sufficient** (2 Corinthians 12:9) and that eternal life awaits those who endure suffering in faith?
The conciliar sect has replaced the supernatural order with the therapeutic order, the sacraments with social services, and the promise of eternal life with the promise of a painless death. This is not Christianity; it is **paganism with Christian trappings.**
The Complicity of the “Bishops” in the Culture of Death
The “bishops” of the CEE bear a heavy responsibility for the current state of affairs in Spain. They were silent when the euthanasia law was debated and passed. They were silent when the courts authorized Noelia’s death. They are silent now, offering nothing more than “deep pain” as the knife falls.
Pope Paul IV, in the bull Cum ex Apostolatus Officio (1559), declared that any prelate who defects from the Catholic faith loses his office. The CEE’s failure to condemn euthanasia in the only terms that matter — as murder and a mortal sin — constitutes a defection from the Catholic faith. These men are not shepherds; they are **hirelings who flee when the wolf comes** (John 10:12).
The faithful must reject these false shepherds and cling to the unchanging teaching of the Church: **thou shalt not kill, and the deliberate killing of an innocent person is a mortal sin that sends the perpetrator to hell unless he repents.** No amount of “deep pain” or “culture of care” can substitute for this fundamental truth.
Conclusion: The Abomination of Desolation in Spain
The euthanasia of Noelia is not an isolated incident; it is the logical fruit of decades of apostasy in Spain and throughout the world. The conciliar sect, having abandoned the integral Catholic faith, is incapable of resisting the culture of death. Its statements are its own condemnation.
Let the faithful pray for Noelia’s soul, for her father, and for the conversion of Spain. Let them also pray for the destruction of the conciliar sect and the restoration of the true Church, which alone has the authority and the grace to proclaim: **”Thou shalt not kill, and those who do will face the eternal justice of God.”**
Source:
La Justicia avala la eutanasia de Noelia horas antes de su aplicación y la CEE expresa “profundo dolor” (infovaticana.com)
Date: 26.03.2026