New York’s Abortion Mandate Retreat: Hollow Victory in a Godless Legal System
CatholicNewsAgency.com reports that New York State abandoned its decade-long effort to impose abortion coverage mandates on religious groups, including the Dioceses of Ogdensburg and Albany, following a U.S. Supreme Court directive referencing Catholic Charities Bureau v. Wisconsin Labor and Industry Review (2025). The state’s narrow religious exemption—applicable only to organizations primarily employing coreligionists—was defeated through legal action spearheaded by the Becket Fund for Religious Liberty. The article frames this as a triumph for religious freedom, highlighting the involvement of Protestant nuns, Lutheran and Baptist churches, and Catholic entities.
Naturalistic Framework Masquerading as Religious Liberty
The reported “victory” exemplifies the modernist corruption of authentic Catholic principles. By celebrating mere exemption from evil rather than demanding the total abolition of abortion, the plaintiffs and their legal representatives operate within a Godless framework condemned by Pope Pius IX: “Nor can we predict happier times for religion and government from the wishes of those who desire the Church to be separated from the State, and the concord between the secular and ecclesiastical authority to be dissolved” (Quanta Cura, 1864).
The article’s central deceit lies in its embrace of religious liberty—a heresy anathematized by the same pontiff: “the absurd and erroneous opinion, or rather insanity (deliramentum), that liberty of conscience and of worship is the proper right of every man” (Syllabus of Errors, Proposition 15). The Becket Fund’s claim that the Constitution mandates “government neutrality between religions” directly contradicts the Catholic doctrine that states must formally recognize the One True Church while tolerating non-Catholic sects only to prevent greater evils (Pius XII, Ci Riesce, 1953).
Theological Bankruptcy of “Catholic” Plaintiffs
The involvement of dioceses recognizing the Vatican II antipopes exposes their spiritual bankruptcy. True Catholics cannot acknowledge conciliar sect structures as legitimate ecclesiastical authorities since they propagate the heresy of collegiality condemned by Pope Pius VI in Auctorem Fidei (1794). By litigating within the U.S. legal system rather than demanding the state’s submission to Christ the King—as solemnly defined in Pope Pius XI’s Quas Primas (1925)—these groups implicitly accept the anti-Christian premise of state neutrality toward divine law.
The article’s reference to “Catholic Charities” is particularly scandalous. Organizations operating under modernist bishops inevitably compromise doctrine through participation in government programs requiring cooperation with abortion providers and LGBT activists. As Pope Leo XIII warned: “To discountenance the virtues which are of such efficacy for the right moulding of life…would be to mistake utterly the meaning of Christianity” (Rerum Novarum, 1891).
Protestant Nuns and the Irony of Selective Moral Outrage
The Sisterhood of Saint Mary’s opposition to abortion funding constitutes tragic irony. While defending innocent life—a fundamental natural law principle—these Protestant nuns reject the Marian doctrines that form the bedrock of authentic Christian anthropology. Their contemplative life, divorced from submission to Peter’s legitimate successor, becomes spiritual theater. As Pope Pius XI declared: “Christ bestowed the right to teach, to judge, to direct, to order…upon the Apostles and their successors” (Mortalium Animos, 1928), making any ecclesial structure outside the Apostolic succession incapable of valid spiritual fruit.
Juridical Farce of “Exemptions”
New York’s defeated mandate exposes the diabolical nature of all “religious exemption” frameworks. The state arrogates to itself the authority to define what constitutes genuine religion and how far conscience protections extend—a power belonging solely to the Church. This inversion of the proper order was prophesied by Pope St. Pius X: “The State…is to be the absolutely sovereign master in temporal affairs…in the domain of morals, of justice, of education” (Notre Charge Apostolique, 1910).
The Supreme Court’s intervention changes nothing substantively. By upholding “denominational neutrality,” it perpetuates the modernist lie that all religions possess equal standing before God. This directly contradicts Pope Boniface VIII’s infallible definition: “We declare, say, define, and pronounce that it is absolutely necessary for the salvation of every human creature to be subject to the Roman Pontiff” (Unam Sanctam, 1302).
Omission of the Church’s Social Kingship
Nowhere does the article mention the sole solution to such conflicts: the public reign of Christ the King. The legal battle concerns merely the distribution of evil (state-funded abortion) rather than its abolition. Authentic Catholic action would demand New York criminalize all abortion as homicide and recognize the Catholic Church as the state’s spiritual guide. As Pope Leo XIII taught: “Civil society must acknowledge God as its Founder and Parent…and must obey and reverence His power and authority” (Immortale Dei, 1885).
This silence proves the conciliar sect’s complicity in constructing the modern secular order. The “victory” celebrated here constitutes not liberation, but deeper enslavement to the anti-Christian world system.
The True Catholic Response
Genuine Catholics must reject entirely the conciliar sect’s false narrative of “religious freedom” victories. When apostate states impose evil mandates, the only licit response is total non-compliance coupled with demands for the state’s conversion. As the martyrs of the Cristero War demonstrated, Catholics owe no obedience to laws contravening divine law.
The restoration of Christ’s Social Kingship—not legal compromises with the culture of death—remains the only path to societal healing. Until the conciliar sect renounces its heresies and returns to Catholic Tradition, such battles will remain rear-guard actions in a spiritual war already lost by those who treat with modernism.
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New York backs off trying to force religious groups to pay for abortion after Supreme Court order (catholicnewsagency.com)
Date: 21.01.2026