Catholic News Agency reports (December 4, 2025) that 46 U.S. lawmakers led by House Speaker Mike Johnson and Senators Ted Cruz and John Cornyn filed an amicus brief supporting Texas and Louisiana laws mandating Ten Commandments displays in public schools. Federal judges blocked both states’ laws as “coercive” and “unconstitutional,” with the consolidated case now before the 5th Circuit Court of Appeals. The legislators argue the Commandments constitute “foundational building blocks for Western civilization” with both religious and secular significance, citing Supreme Court precedents like *American Legion v. American Humanist Association*. First Liberty Institute president Kelly Shackelford condemns “government hostility to religion,” while Rep. Chip Roy claims the displays affirm America as a “Judeo-Christian nation.” This theatrical defense of Decalogue displays constitutes a dangerous concession to religious indifferentism masked as cultural preservation.
Naturalistic Reduction of Divine Law to Cultural Artifact
The lawmakers’ repeated emphasis on the Ten Commandments as “foundational to Western legal tradition” commits the grave error of reducing lex divina to mere historical artifact. Speaker Johnson’s statement that the Commandments are “deeply embedded in the history of this country” exemplifies the modernist heresy condemned by Pope Pius IX in the Syllabus of Errors: “Human reason, without any reference whatsoever to God, is the sole arbiter of truth and falsehood, and of good and evil” (Proposition 3). By framing God’s eternal law as one cultural influence among others, these legislators implicitly deny Quod Deus sit legislator humanorum actuum – that God is the legislator of human acts.
Rep. Roy’s assertion that America is a “Judeo-Christian nation” constitutes blasphemous syncretism, equating the true Faith with its antithesis. As Pius XI declared in Quas Primas: “The Church of Christ, the guardian and interpreter of divine revelation… alone has the right to train men to the observance of the commandments.” The very term “Judeo-Christian” – invented by Masonic encyclopedist Marc Jarblum in 1935 – presupposes the heresy that Judaism remains a valid covenant after Christ’s establishment of the New Law, condemned by the Holy Office (Decree Cum Hoc Tempore, March 25, 1928).
Sacrilegious Omission of Christ’s Social Kingship
Nowhere do these legislators acknowledge the regnum Christi over nations – the foundational principle that “all the kings of the earth shall adore him, all nations shall serve him” (Psalm 71:11). Their legal strategy relies on Kennedy v. Bremerton’s naturalistic framework treating religious expression as individual right rather than public duty of states toward the True Faith. This inversion directly contravenes Leo XIII’s teaching in Immortale Dei: “States cannot, without crime, act as if God did not exist or cast off the care of religion.”
The amicus brief’s silence on Matthew 28:18-20 (“All power is given to me… teach all nations”) reveals its apostate foundation. When Sen. Cornyn states the Commandments ensure students learn “Judeo-Christian values,” he substitutes the modernist cult of man for the Church’s mission to convert nations. Compare this to Pius XI’s uncompromising stance: “When once men recognize, both in private and in public life, that Christ is King, society will at last receive the great blessings of real liberty, well-ordered discipline, peace and harmony” (Quas Primas).
False Dichotomy Between Religious and Secular
First Liberty Institute’s claim that the Commandments possess “both religious and secular significance” perpetuates the Americanist heresy condemned in Testem Benevolentiae (1899). This schizophrenic bifurcation assumes the very secularism it pretends to combat – treating God’s law as optional supplement to civil order rather than its ontological foundation. The 1917 Code of Canon Law anathematizes this position: “If anyone says that Christ Jesus was given by God to men as a redeemer in whom to trust, and not also as a legislator whom to obey, let him be anathema” (Canon 1325 §2).
Justice Gorsuch’s warning against courts “supplanting the right of the people… to govern themselves” constitutes pure Rousseauian secularism. As the Syllabus declares: “The State has not the right to leave every man free to embrace and profess that religion which he shall consider true” (Proposition 15). The true crisis isn’t judicial overreach but democratic presumption – the satanic lie that mortals may vote on divine law’s applicability.
Modernist Clerical Complicity
Catholic News Agency’s uncritical amplification of this naturalistic campaign exposes the conciliar sect’s betrayal. By framing the debate through American constitutionalism rather than Societas Perfectas doctrine, the portal commits the errors condemned in Lamentabili Sane: “The Church is incapable of effectively defending evangelical ethics, because it steadfastly adheres to its views, which cannot be reconciled with modern progress” (Proposition 63). Where are the warnings that these displays omit the First Commandment’s fullness – “I am the Lord thy God, thou shalt not have false gods before me”? Where the condemnation of Protestant Decalogue mutilations removing condemnations of “graven images”?
The chilling absence of references to conversion, grace, or the Social Reign of Christ King reveals this campaign’s diabolical disorientation. As St. Augustine warned: “They that have taken away the supernatural end of man have nothing left but to serve the City of Man.” Until legislators demand public schools teach Quas Primas alongside Exodus 20, their Decalogue displays remain satanic parodies – golden calves of civil religion raised against the one true King.
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Dozens of Congress members urge court to allow Ten Commandments display in public schools (catholicnewsagency.com)
Date: 04.12.2025