The National Register commentary by Jennifer Roback Morse (June 26, 2026) exposes, with painful clarity, the inevitable fruits of the 2015 Supreme Court decision Obergefell v. Hodges, which redefined …
The EWTN News portal reports that the U.S. Department of Justice has intervened in a lawsuit filed by the Dominican Sisters of Hawthorne against the state of New York, which is attempting to force their nursing home to accommodate biological males who claim a female gender identity. The sisters, who have provided free palliative care to indigent cancer patients for 125 years, face the revocation of their license if they refuse to comply with regulations mandating that they house transgender women in female wards, allow them access to female restrooms, and use preferred pronouns. The DOJ asserts that New York’s law violates the sisters’ First Amendment rights to free exercise of religion and equal protection. This case exposes the fundamental incompatibility between the natural law, which the Church has always taught, and the totalitarian demands of the modern secular state, which seeks to compel even religious communities to affirm objective falsehoods under threat of legal punishment.
EWTN News (May 19, 2026) reports that a Heritage Foundation study attributes declining U.S. marriage rates primarily to cultural shifts regarding sex, unwed childbearing, and heightened material expectations rather than economic factors, with researcher Rachel Sheffield emphasizing that “the data tell a different story” from economic explanations. The report frames marriage decline as a policy problem solvable through government-funded marriage education programs and media reorientation. While the article accurately identifies observable symptoms of civilizational decay, it operates entirely within a naturalistic framework that ignores the supernatural causes and the only true remedy — the restoration of Christ the King’s reign over society and the sacramental order of the Catholic Church.
The EWTN News portal reports on a case that, while presented under the guise of “religious liberty” litigation, reveals the full spiritual bankruptcy of the post-conciliar accommodation to the sexual revolution. Frank Canepa, a Catholic counselor in Oregon, was fined $89,636 by the state licensing board for the “crime” of refusing to personally affirm a client’s same-sex relationship during a therapy session. According to the article, Alliance Defending Freedom (ADF) filed an appeal citing the U.S. Supreme Court’s March 31, 2026 Chiles v. Salazar decision, which ruled 8-1 that Colorado’s “conversion therapy” ban constituted unconstitutional viewpoint discrimination. The article quotes ADF attorney Jonathan Scruggs: “The government can’t target counselors for their views and can’t force people to say things that go against their core convictions.” Terry Braciszewski, president-elect of the Catholic Psychotherapy Association, which filed an amicus brief in the Chiles case, stated: “Canepa is not cited for being malicious or non-therapeutic but rather for refraining from abandoning his beliefs … he was being ethical and moral in adhering to his therapeutic approach and care for the person.” The article frames this as a First Amendment free speech issue and celebrates the Supreme Court’s intervention as restoring “First Amendment sanity.” This entire framing, however, exposes the catastrophic failure of the post-conciliar Church to proclaim the full truth about the intrinsic disorder of sodomy and the mortal sin it constitutes, reducing the faith to a matter of private “convictions” and constitutional litigation rather than divine law.
The Pillar portal reports that the Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith (DDF) published on May 4, 2026, a 2024 letter criticizing a German bishops’ conference proposal for a ritual of blessing for couples in irregular unions, stating that such a practice contradicts the document Fiducia supplicans. This publication comes after several prominent German church officials defended the handbook despite criticism from “Pope” Leo XIV (Robert Prevost). The letter, authored under the direction of Cardinal Víctor Manuel Fernández, attempts to clarify the boundaries of the conciliar document while simultaneously upholding its fundamentally flawed premise.
This episode lays bare the internal contradictions of the post-conciliar sect: having opened the door to the blessing of homosexual unions and other objectively sinful arrangements through Fiducia supplicans, the DDF now scrambles to contain the logical consequences of its own modernist innovation, revealing that even within the structures occupying the Vatican, there exists a recognition—however confused and incomplete—that the German “bishops” have pushed the envelope too far. Yet the critique itself remains poisoned at the root, for it does not challenge the underlying heresy that the Church may bless what God condemns.
EWTN portal reports that on April 23, 2026, the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) ruled that Hungary’s 2021 LGBTQ law “breaches EU founding values,” marking the first time the top EU court found an infringement of Article 2 of the Treaty of the European Union, which enumerates the so-called “values” upon which the union is founded. The Hungarian law, passed by the outgoing government of Viktor Orbán, contained amendments strengthening penalties against pedophilia, protecting minors, as well as limitations on promoting LGBTQ and gender-related issues and themes for minors, mainly in schools. The CJEU judges argued that several amendments “constitute a coordinated series of discriminatory measures” against “the rights of non-cisgender persons — including transgender persons — or nonheterosexual persons,” and are contrary to “respect for human dignity, equality, and human rights, including the rights of persons belonging to minorities.” The court also lamented “the offensive and stigmatizing nature of the amending law” as well as “discrimination based on sex or sexual orientation,” and “a preference for certain identities and sexual orientations to the detriment of others.” Viktor Orbán reacted by stating: “Our patriotic government protected Hungarian children from aggressive LGBTQ propaganda. Brusselian empire now strikes back,” promising he would “not give up the fight for the soul of Europe!” The International Society of Natural Law Scholars noted that the ruling exposes a “tension between national authority over education, culture, and family policy” on one hand and “supranational enforcement of rights and nondiscrimination norms” on the other. The ruling comes shortly after Hungary’s parliamentary elections, in which Orbán’s party lost to the Tisza party led by Péter Magyar, who is expected to succeed Orbán and who stated after his election: “Everyone can live with whoever they love as long as they do not violate laws and are not harmful to others.” This ruling lays bare the fundamental incompatibility between the natural law, the perennial Catholic moral doctrine, and the idolatrous “values” of the post-Christian European order — an order in which the conciliar sect itself is complicit through its own internalized revolution against the Social Reign of Christ the King.
Catholic News Agency reports from a January 9-10, 2026 symposium titled “The Beauty of Truth: Navigating Society Today as a Catholic Woman” hosted by the University of St. Thomas’ Catholic Women’s and Gender Studies Program. Speakers including Mary Eberstadt and Erika Bachiochi addressed sexuality issues while accepting the post-conciliar church’s compromised stance on moral theology. The event exemplifies how neo-church structures propagate doctrinal ambiguity under the guise of “dialogue.”
