California’s False Bishops Beg Caesar for Digital Chains While Ignoring Christ the King
The EWTN News portal (August 28, 2026) reports that the California Catholic Conference — the administrative arm of the conciliar hierarchy in that state — is urging the faithful to lobby the secular legislature for Bill AB 1709, which would restrict “addictive features” on social media platforms for minors under sixteen. This push coincides with Meta’s $17.1 billion settlement with forty-seven states over allegations that Facebook and Instagram fuel youth addiction and mental illness. The “bishops” frame the issue entirely in naturalistic terms: “mental illness,” “self-harm,” “body image,” “digital literacy,” and “parental rights” detached from the Divine Law. They celebrate the heavy hand of the secular state — the very power the Syllabus condemns as the origin of all rights (Error 39) — as the savior of children. The thesis is clear: the conciliar hierarchy has definitively abandoned the *regnum Christi* for the *regnum mundi*, functioning as a mere NGO lobbying Caesar for crumbs of naturalistic welfare while the souls of children perish for lack of the Kingship of Christ and the grace of the True Mass.