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.









