National Catholic Register portal reports that a controversial sting video posted on social media by James O’Keefe appears to show Sean Hudson, director of community relations for the Washington Nationals baseball team, admitting that the team excludes Catholic pitcher Trevor Williams from social media and promotional activities because Williams publicly defended the Catholic faith against blasphemy. Williams had spoken out in 2023 against the Los Angeles Dodgers’ decision to honor the “Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence,” a drag group that mocks Catholic religious imagery, including depictions of Jesus and the Blessed Virgin Mary — acts the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops has called “blasphemy.” Hudson stated in the video that because Williams criticized the group, the team “[doesn’t] use him on social [media].” The Nationals issued a statement calling the remarks “factually incorrect,” while CatholicVote filed a formal complaint with the U.S. Department of Justice demanding an investigation into religious discrimination. The article, however, treats this as merely a matter of civil rights and “inclusion,” completely ignoring the supernatural gravity of blasphemy and the Church’s solemn duty to defend the honor of God — a silence that reveals the utter bankruptcy of the post-conciliar apparatus.
The Honor of God Reduced to a “Diversity” Problem
The article presents the case of Trevor Williams as a matter of workplace discrimination and “inclusion” — language borrowed directly from the secularist playbook that the conciliar sect has eagerly adopted. The Nationals’ statement that they are “dedicated to creating a welcoming and inclusive environment” is not merely corporate boilerplate; it is the credo of the modernist revolution, the same ideology that has gutted the Church of her supernatural mission and replaced the worship of God with the worship of man. When the “Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence” publicly mock Our Lord Jesus Christ and His Blessed Mother, this is not a matter of “diversity of opinion” or “inclusion” — it is blasphemy, a mortal sin against the virtue of religion, and an offense that cries out to Heaven for vengeance.
Pius XI, in the encyclical Quas Primas (1925), taught with unmistakable clarity: “The royal dignity of our Lord surrounds the earthly authority of princes and rulers with a certain religious reverence.” Christ the King reigns over all nations, all institutions, all human societies — including baseball teams. When a Catholic like Williams publicly defends the honor of God against blasphemers, he performs an act of virtue that the Church has always commended. That he should be punished for it by a secular organization merely confirms what the Church has always taught: “If the world hate you, ye know that it hated me before it hated you” (John 15:18). But the deeper scandal is that the conciliar structures — those occupying the Vatican — have spent decades themselves honoring blasphemers, inviting heretics and enemies of the faith to speak from the halls of the Apostolic See, and systematically dismantling the Church’s public witness against sin.
The Silence of the Conciliar Sect on Blasphemy
What does the article omit? It omits the most important fact of all: the conciliar “Church” has been complicit in the very culture of blasphemy that produced the “Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence.” The post-conciliar “bishops” have said nothing — or next to nothing — about the systematic mockery of the sacred in Western culture. They have not excommunicated those who publicly blaspheme. They have not called for public reparation. They have not reminded the faithful that blasphemy is a crime against God that demands public satisfaction. Instead, they have embraced the very “inclusion” and “dialogue” that makes such blasphemity possible.
Consider the contrast with the pre-conciliar Church. Pope St. Pius X, in Lamentabili Sane Exitu (1907), condemned the modernist proposition that “the Church has no right to require any internal assent from the faithful to the pronouncements issued by the Church” (proposition 7). The Church of Christ has always claimed the right and duty to define truth and condemn error — including the error of blasphemy. The Syllabus of Errors of Pius IX (1864) condemned the proposition that “the civil liberty of every form of worship, and the full power, given to all, of overtly and publicly manifesting any opinions whatsoever and thoughts, conduce more easily to corrupt the morals and minds of the people, and to propagate the pest of indifferentism” (proposition 79). The conciliar sect, by embracing religious liberty and “freedom of expression” as positive goods, has abandoned this teaching and left Catholics like Trevor Williams defenseless.
The article notes that the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops called the drag group’s displays “blasphemy” — but this is the same conciliar “bishops’ conference” that has refused to discipline pro-abortion Catholic politicians, that has promoted “ecumenical dialogue” with the very Protestant sects that deny the Real Presence, and that has systematically undermined Catholic doctrine on marriage, the sacraments, and the moral law. Their condemnation of blasphemy is selective and hypocritical, because they themselves have opened the doors of the Church to those who blaspheme against her sacred teachings through the “reforms” of the Second Vatican Council.
The Duty of Catholic Action — and Its Perversion
CatholicVote’s filing with the Department of Justice is presented in the article as a commendable act of Catholic advocacy. And indeed, the principle that Catholics must defend their rights in the public square is sound. But the framing reveals the conciliar captivity of such organizations. The demand is for “equal treatment under the law” — a purely naturalistic, rights-based framework that ignores the supernatural order entirely. The Catholic does not merely seek “equal treatment”; he seeks the reign of Christ the King over all human societies.
Pius XI taught in Quas Primas: “The state is happy not by one means, and man by another; for the state is nothing else than a harmonious association of men.” And further: “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 Catholic demand is not merely that Trevor Williams be included in social media promotions — it is that blasphemy be punished as the crime it is, that Christ the King be publicly honored, and that the mockery of His sacred persons and His Blessed Mother cease.
But the conciliar organizations cannot make this demand, because they themselves have abandoned the social reign of Christ the King. The Declaration Dignitatis Humanae of the Second Vatican Council — a document condemned by Archbishop Lefebvre as heretical, and whose teaching is irreconcilable with Quas Primas, the Syllabus of Errors, and the entire pre-conciliar Magisterium — proclaimed a “right to religious freedom” that effectively forbids the state from suppressing blasphemy. CatholicVote operates within this conciliar framework, and therefore its advocacy is truncated, naturalistic, and ultimately futile.
The Supernatural Perspective: Persecution as a Sign of Faithfulness
What the article entirely fails to address is the supernatural dimension of Williams’ situation. Our Lord said: “Blessed are ye, when men shall revile you, and persecute you, and shall say all manner of evil against you falsely, for my sake. Rejoice, and be exceeding glad: for great is your reward in heaven” (Matthew 5:11-12). Williams’ exclusion from team activities for defending the faith is not merely an injustice to be remedied by the Department of Justice — it is a blessing, a participation in the Cross of Christ, and a sign that he is on the narrow path that leads to eternal life.
The pre-conciliar Church understood this perfectly. The feast of the Martyrs was instituted precisely to honor those who suffered for the faith. St. Augustine taught that the celebrations of the Martyrs were “an encouragement to martyrdom.” The Church has always taught that “the blood of the martyrs is the seed of the Church” (Tertullian, Apologeticum, 50). Williams may not be called to shed his blood, but his willingness to suffer professional consequences for defending the honor of God places him in the great tradition of Catholic witness.
The conciliar sect, by contrast, has no theology of persecution — because it has no theology of the Cross. Its “theology of the body” is a theology of pleasure; its “option for the poor” is a theology of material redistribution; its “ecumenism” is a theology of compromise. It cannot understand why a man would risk his career to defend the Blessed Virgin Mary from mockery, because it has lost the sense of the sacred entirely.
The Deeper Apostasy: A Church That Cannot Defend the Faith
The most damning omission in the article is any recognition that the conciliar “Church” is structurally incapable of defending Catholics like Trevor Williams. The post-conciliar apparatus — the “bishops’ conferences,” the “pontifical councils,” the “synodal process” — is not merely weak or ineffective. It is designed to prevent the Church from exercising her prophetic mission against the world. The “spirit of Vatican II” is the spirit of accommodation, dialogue, and surrender to the modern world. It is the spirit condemned by St. Pius X as “the synthesis of all heresies” — Modernism.
The Syllabus of Errors condemned the proposition that “the Roman Pontiff can, and ought to, reconcile himself, and come to terms with progress, liberalism and modern civilization” (proposition 80). This is precisely what the conciliar sect has done. It has “reconciled itself” with the modern world — and the modern world, in return, mocks the Blessed Mother in drag and punishes the Catholics who object.
The article’s framing — treating this as a matter of “civil rights” and “inclusion” — is itself a symptom of the disease. The Catholic faith is not a “religion” to be “included” in a pluralistic society. It is the true religion, founded by God, demanding the submission of all men and all societies. As Pius XI declared: “His reign encompasses also all non-Christians, so that most truly the entire human race is subject to the authority of Jesus Christ.” Until Catholics recover this conviction — and until they reject the conciliar apostasy that has destroyed it — they will continue to be mocked, marginalized, and excluded, not because the world is unjust, but because the Church has abandoned her divine mission.
Conclusion: The Call to Reparation and Resistance
Trevor Williams deserves the admiration and prayers of all faithful Catholics. His willingness to suffer for the honor of God is a rebuke to the conciliar “Church” that has spent decades surrendering to the very forces that mock Our Lord. But the remedy for the situation is not a Department of Justice investigation or a demand for “inclusion.” The remedy is the restoration of the social reign of Christ the King — in the Church, in the state, and in every human institution.
This requires, first and foremost, the rejection of the conciliar apostasy and a return to the integral Catholic faith: the faith of the unchanging Magisterium, the faith that condemned blasphemy and heresy, the faith that demanded public reparation for offenses against God, the faith that recognized no “right” to spread error. It requires the recognition that the post-conciliar structures are not the Church of Christ but the abomination of desolation standing in the holy place (Matthew 24:15). And it requires the prayer and sacrifice necessary for the restoration of all things in Christ — “Thy kingdom come, Thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven.”
Until that restoration comes, Catholics must do what Trevor Williams did: speak the truth, regardless of the cost. The world will hate them for it. The conciliar sect will abandon them. But Our Lord will reward them: “Be thou faithful unto death, and I will give thee a crown of life” (Revelation 2:10).
Source:
Washington Nationals Executive Implies Team Discriminates Against Catholic Pitcher in Secret Video (ncregister.com)
Date: 28.05.2026