Catholic News Agency reports (December 17, 2025) that the UK Supreme Court has declared Christian religious education in Northern Ireland’s state-controlled schools unlawful, claiming it violates “European human rights legislation” by lacking “objective, critical, and pluralistic” framing. The court specifically targeted a child’s practice of saying grace at home after learning it in school. While Catholic schools retain temporary exemption, Bishop Alan McGuckian, SJ, weakly defends Christianity’s societal role without invoking Regnum Christi (the Kingship of Christ), while Derry’s “Bishop” Donal McKeown welcomes the ruling as an “opportunity” to reform religious education curricula.
Naturalistic Presuppositions in Judicial Tyranny
The court’s demand for “pluralistic” religious instruction constitutes state-enforced apostasy against the divine mandate that “all the riches of wisdom and knowledge are hidden” in Christ (Colossians 2:3). This ruling operationalizes Pius IX’s condemnation in the 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). By privileging secular human rights over revealed truth, the judiciary enacts Error 55: “The Church ought to be separated from the State, and the State from the Church.”
McGuckian’s tepid response – claiming Christian values “underpin Western society” while avoiding Quas Primas‘ definitive teaching – exemplifies the conciliar sect’s surrender. Pius XI’s encyclical commands: “Rulers of nations would do well to shield themselves and their people…by public devotion to the Kingdom of Christ” (§33). Instead, McGuckian reduces Christianity to a cultural artifact rather than the sole path to salvation (Acts 4:12).
Theological Bankruptcy of Conciliar “Pastors”
McKeown’s enthusiasm for curriculum reform exposes modernist infiltration. His BBC statement – “I’m looking forward to the next stage of the journey” – echoes the condemned proposition that “Revelation was merely man’s self-awareness of his relationship to God” (Lamentabili, §20). Authentic shepherds would denounce this ruling as diabolical, recalling Pope Pius XI’s warning: “When God and Jesus Christ…are removed from laws and states…the entire human society had to be shaken” (Quas Primas).
The bishops’ failure to cite Vatican II’s Dignitatis Humanae proves its inherent contradiction with Tradition. Pius IX’s Syllabus explicitly condemns the notion that “in the present day it is no longer expedient that the Catholic religion should be held as the only religion of the State” (Error 77). Their silence on this rupture confirms their complicity in the conciliar revolution.
Symptomatic Collapse of Catholic Education
This ruling manifests the rotten fruit of the “false ecumenism” condemned in pre-conciliar magisterium. The court’s outrage over a child’s grace before meals fulfills Pius XI’s prophecy: “The plague of our age is the so-called laicism…which denies Christ’s Kingship” (Quas Primas §24). By accepting “pluralistic” religious instruction as normative, these pseudo-bishops betray their duty to “teach all nations” (Matthew 28:19).
The exemption for Catholic schools remains temporary, as the conciliar sect’s educational institutions already teach heresy through corrupted catechisms. St. Pius X warned in Pascendi: “Modernists completely invert the parts, and of them may be applied the words…’They have despised me because they hated me'” (§40). True Catholic resistance would require total rejection of state interference in doctrinal matters, not McKeown’s collaborationist “openness.”
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Christian religious education in Northern Ireland ruled unlawful; bishops respond (catholicnewsagency.com)
Date: 17.12.2025