Secular Court Presumes to Judge Catholic Doctrine: The Clancy Trial as Symptom of the Dethronement of Christ the King
The National Catholic Register portal reports on the Lindsay Clancy murder trial in Plymouth Superior Court, where an expert witness for the prosecution, Kirk Heilbrun, testified regarding the accused’s understanding of Catholic doctrine on mortal sin and suicide, prompting a defense motion for mistrial which Judge William Sullivan denied while instructing the jury to disregard the theological testimony as “irrelevant.” The cited article relates the surreal spectacle of a secular tribunal adjudicating the orthodoxy of a defendant’s supernatural motive, while a conciliar publication narrates the proceedings with the clinical detachment of a court stenographer. This episode exposes the total eclipse of the Social Kingship of Christ: the secular sword presumes to silence the Church’s teaching on the eternal destiny of souls, while the conciliar press watches passively, having long since abandoned the defense of the Faith in the public square.