Conciliar Hierarchy’s Impotent Lament Over Massachusetts Abortion Law Exposes Their Apostasy
The EWTN News portal reports that Massachusetts Governor Maura Healey, a self-identified Catholic, has signed legislation removing all statutory limits on abortion, making the Commonwealth the eleventh state to legalize the slaughter of the unborn without restriction. The president of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops, “Archbishop” Paul Coakley of Oklahoma City, labeled the decision “shocking” and “horrendous,” an “affront against the dignity of life,” yet immediately abdicated any ecclesiastical responsibility by declaring that excommunication of the governor is a matter “between the governor and her bishop,” admitting the USCCB possesses no such authority. The lay organization CatholicVote demanded Healey’s excommunication, citing canon law and the gravity of public scandal. The article further notes pro-life enthusiasm for a potential federal enforcement of the Comstock Act against mail-order abortifacients and a legal challenge in Virginia regarding a proposed constitutional amendment enshrining abortion. This spectacle of bureaucratic hand-wringing and juridical evasion by the conciliar hierarchy manifests the total collapse of the Church’s public witness and the substitution of the *regnum Christi* with the *regnum hominis*.