California Conciliar Hierarchy Begs Caesar for Digital Chains While Ignoring Christ the King
The National Catholic Register, organ of the EWTN neo-church apparatus, reports on August 28, 2026, that the California Catholic Conference — the administrative mouthpiece of the conciliar “bishops” occupying the sees of the West Coast — has issued an action alert urging the faithful to lobby the state legislature for AB 1709, a bill restricting “addictive features” on social media for minors under sixteen. This plea coincides with Meta’s agreement to pay up to $17.1 billion to settle lawsuits brought by forty-seven states alleging that Facebook and Instagram fuel youth addiction and mental illness. The “bishops” cite secular studies claiming a “skyrocketing” of mental illness and self-harm since 2007, enumerate the litany of digital perils — pornography, suicidal ideation, eating disorders — and invoke “children’s rights” and “parental rights” as the foundation for legislative remedy. The article notes the patchwork of similar laws across twenty states and the precedents of Australia and France. **This spectacle of mitered functionaries petitioning the secular arm for technological band-aids, while utterly silent on the Kingship of Christ, the necessity of grace, and the salvation of souls, exposes the complete substitution of the Church’s supernatural mission by a naturalistic NGO agenda.**