Little Sisters’ Futile Legalism Masks Deeper Apostasy Surrender
Catholic News Agency reports (December 15, 2025) on the Little Sisters of the Poor’s 14-year legal battle against U.S. federal contraceptive mandates. The religious institute, represented by the Becket Fund for Religious Liberty, seeks to reinstate moral exemptions struck down by Judge Wendy Beetlestone in August 2025. Despite two prior Supreme Court victories (2016 and 2020), the sisters now face renewed challenges from Pennsylvania and New Jersey under Administrative Procedure Act claims. Becket president Mark Rienzi decries the litigation as a “grotesque” attack on religious freedom. This theater of legalism betrays the conciliar sect’s surrender to naturalism while obscuring the true Catholic position.
Legal Farce Conceals Doctrinal Abdication
The article’s focus on procedural wrangling (“arbitrary and capricious” Administrative Procedure Act violations) exposes the modernist reduction of divine law to bureaucratic compliance. The entire premise accepts the state’s authority to mandate intrinsic evils – a blasphemous concession condemned by Pius IX’s Syllabus of Errors: “Every man is free to embrace and profess that religion which, guided by the light of reason, he shall consider true” (Error 15). True shepherds would reject dialogue with legislators about how to implement abominations, following St. Pius X’s prescription: “The Church does not occupy herself about the best manner of falling… She says: Thou shalt not fall, but rise” (Notre Charge Apostolique).
Contraception’s Intrinsic Evil Unmentioned
Nowhere does the article or quoted parties identify contraception and abortifacients as crimes crying to heaven. This silence confirms the conciliar sect’s apostasy from Pius XI’s Casti Connubii: “Any use whatsoever of matrimony exercised in such a way that the act is deliberately frustrated in its natural power to generate life is an offense against the law of God and of nature.” The Little Sisters’ legal team reduces this mortal sin to a matter of institutional “conscience” – adopting the Protestant subjectivism condemned in Pius IX’s Quanta Cura: “From which totally false idea of social government they do not fear to foster that erroneous opinion, most fatal in its effects on the Catholic Church and the salvation of souls, called by Our Predecessor, Gregory XVI, an insanity, that liberty of conscience and worship is each man’s personal right.”
Becket Fund’s Modernist Captivity
Mark Rienzi’s outrage at the “14-year legal crusade” reveals the bankruptcy of neo-conservative tactics. By framing the battle through secular “religious liberty” lenses, Becket legitimizes the state’s authority to define moral boundaries – a direct violation of Christ’s kingship proclaimed in Pius XI’s Quas Primas: “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.” The encyclical continues: “Nations will be reminded by the annual celebration of this feast that not only private individuals but also rulers and princes are bound to give public honor and obedience to Christ.”
State Usurpation of Divine Authority
Judge Beetlestone’s ruling exemplifies the state’s Satanic seizure of ecclesiastical jurisdiction – precisely what Pius IX condemned in Error 39 of the Syllabus: “The State, as being the origin and source of all rights, is endowed with a certain right not circumscribed by any limits.” The conciliar sect’s failure to denounce this usurpation confirms its status as the “abomination of desolation” (Daniel 9:27). True Catholics recall St. Ambrose’s defiance: “Non licet, Imperator, de his legem dare – It is not lawful, Emperor, to make laws concerning divine matters!”
Conclusion: Flight From Supernatural Battle
The Little Sisters’ Sisyphean legal struggle demonstrates the conciliar sect’s fundamental error: treating the Church as a non-governmental organization rather than Christ’s militant Kingdom. As Pope St. Pius X warned in Vehementer Nos: “That the State must be separated from the Church is a thesis absolutely false, a most pernicious error.” Until Catholics reject dialogue with the “princeps huius mundi” (John 12:31) and demand the Social Reign of Christ the King, such legalistic pantomimes will only accelerate society’s descent into Gomorrah.
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Little Sisters of the Poor file another appeal over contraception mandate (catholicnewsagency.com)
Date: 15.12.2025