SF Archbishop Decries New Paganism Whose ‘Sacrament’ Is Abortion
In a speech this weekend for the annual March for Life published Monday by the National Catholic Register, Archbishop Cordileone warned of a new pagan religion that takes the form of “a hyper-aggressive, anti-Christian kind of a secularism.”

Cordileone noted that the first group to challenge the Texas Heartbeat Bill was the Satanic Temple, which “should come as no surprise.”

They “need abortion to carry out their religious rituals,” he declared.

In his speech, the archbishop compared this new paganism to “demonic, religions of the ancient biblical world,” particularly that of the Canaanites, who sacrificed their babies to Molech.

“They sacrificed to demons their own sons and daughters, shedding innocent blood, the blood of their own sons and daughters, whom they sacrificed to the idols of Canaan,” we read in Psalm 106.

“Molech was the god of the ancient Canaanites, inhabitants of the same land as the Israelites, to whom they sacrificed their children,” Cordileone noted.