The National Catholic Register (EWTN) portal reports that Texas has mandated a Bible-based curriculum for its 5.4 million public school students, utilizing the Protestant King James Version, and that a “Catholic” legal analyst, Andrea M. Picciotti-Bayer, hails this as an opportunity for Catholic families to “build on that foundation.” The article frames the inclusion of Jonah, David, Job, and the Sermon on the Mount as mere “literary and historic qualities” under the precedent of *Abington v. Schempp* (1963), while celebrating the Fifth Circuit’s upholding of passive Ten Commandments displays under a “history-and-tradition” framework. The thesis is clear: the neo-church enthusiastically collaborates in the Masonic project of secularizing divine revelation, reducing the *verbum Dei* to a cultural artifact for consumption in the temples of the secular state.
The Protestant Text as “Foundational” for Catholic Children
The cited article reveals the depth of the theological bankruptcy regnant in the conciliar sect. The Texas State Board of Education has prescribed selections drawn “most drawn from the King James Version”—a heretical translation forged by Anglicans to undermine the Vulgate and the deuterocanonical books, explicitly condemned by the Council of Trent: “If anyone shall not receive the said books entire with all their parts, as they have been used to be read in the Catholic Church… let him be anathema” (Session IV, Decree on Canonical Scriptures). That a director of the “Conscience Project” for EWTN—a mouthpiece of the antipopes—urges Catholic families to welcome this Protestant leaven as a “foundational text of Western civilization” is not merely an oversight; it is a formal adherence to the heresy of indifferentism condemned by Pope Pius IX in the Syllabus of Errors (Error 18: “Protestantism is nothing more than another form of the same true Christian religion”). The Word of God is not a “cultural literacy” tool; it is the regula fidei, the rule of faith, inseparable from the living Magisterium of the true Church. To sever Scripture from the Church and hand it over to the secular state for “academic study” is to repeat the error of the Reformation: sola scriptura in the service of the world.
Juridical Idolatry: The Supreme Court as Magisterium
The author’s reliance on Abington School District v. Schempp (1963) and Mahmoud v. Taylor as the theological framework for Catholic action is a scandalous substitution of the lex orandi, lex credendi with the lex judicaria of a Masonic judiciary. She writes: “The court went out of its way to note that the Bible remains ‘worthy of study for its literary and historic qualities'”. Since when does the Supreme Court of the United States—an entity founded on the Enlightenment rejection of Christ’s Social Kingship—possess the authority to define the purpose of Holy Writ? Pope Pius XI in Quas Primas (1925) teaches with absolute clarity: “When God and Jesus Christ… were removed from laws and states… the foundations of that authority were destroyed… because the main reason why some have the right to command and others have the duty to obey was removed.” The Texas law, upheld by the Fifth Circuit, does not acknowledge Christ the King; it acknowledges a “historical tradition.” This is the laicism Pius XI called a “plague that poisons human society”. The neo-church analyst treats the Constitution as a higher canon than the Syllabus, which condemns the error: “The Church ought to be separated from the State, and the State from the Church” (Error 55). By celebrating this “victory,” the conciliar sect ratifies the very separation the Syllabus anathematizes.
The Usurpation of Parental Rights and the Church’s Educational Mission
The article suggests: “Those connections belong to parents, pastors and the parish religious education program… If public schools expose students to Scripture… Catholic families should welcome the chance to build on that foundation.” This inverts the divine order. Pope Pius XI in Divini Illius Magistri (1929) declares: “The Church… has the right to educate… This right is inalienable… because it is derived from the divine mandate to teach all nations.” The state has no competence to teach Scripture, whether as literature or devotion. The “public school” is an instrument of the secularist state, historically designed by Freemasonry to wrest the child from the Church (cf. Pius IX, Quanta Cura; Leo XIII, Sapientiae Christianae). To send Catholic children into these godless institutions to hear the Sermon on the Mount from a state-paid functionary—likely a heretic or an infidel—using a Protestant text, is to violate the grave obligation of Catholic education. The author’s distinction between “academic study” and “catechesis” is a Modernist dichotomy: fides et ratio severed. St. Pius X in Lamentabili Sane Exitu condemned the proposition: “The dogmas of faith should be understood according to their practical function, i.e., as binding in action, rather than as principles of belief” (Prop. 26). Here, Scripture is reduced to a “practical function” of cultural competence.
The “Passive” Decalogue: Idolatry of Stone over Kingship of Christ
The celebration of the Ten Commandments display—“A framed Decalogue on a classroom wall asks nothing of the student… It functions the way the Ten Commandments carved into the frieze of the Supreme Court’s own courtroom function”—is the quintessence of the neo-church’s capitulation. The Decalogue is not a historical monument; it is the lex aeterna inscribed on the human heart and promulgated by God amidst thunder on Sinai. To render it “passive” decoration, relying on the “history-and-tradition framework” of a federal court, is to deny its binding juridical force over the conscience and the state. Pope Leo XIII in Immortale Dei (1885) teaches: “The State… cannot… treat the various religions… as equal… The Catholic religion is the only true religion.” A “passive” display that “asks nothing” is a silent apostasy. It tells the student: God’s Law is a relic, not a ruler. This is the “secularism of our times” Pius XI instituted the Feast of Christ the King to combat.
Symptomatic of the Conciliar Apostasy: Dignitatis Humanae in Action
This article is not an anomaly; it is the logical fruit of Dignitatis Humanae (Vatican II), which falsely grounds religious liberty in human dignity rather than in the Truth. The author, a “legal analyst for EWTN,” operates entirely within the Masonic paradigm: she cites Supreme Court precedents, Fifth Circuit rulings, “parental authority” derived from constitutional law, and “opt-out” mechanisms. There is zero reference to the Social Kingship of Christ (Quas Primas), the rights of the true Church (Libertas, Leo XIII), the condemnation of public schools (Divini Illius Magistri), or the anathemas against Bible societies and indifferentism (Syllabus, Lamentabili). The “Conscience Project” she directs is a misnomer; it defends not the rights of conscience formed by God’s law, but the “right” to navigate the labyrinth of the antichurch-state. The neo-church does not seek the conversion of Texas to the Catholic Faith; it seeks a comfortable niche in the “public square” of the Masonic republic. As St. Pius X warned in Pascendi Dominici Gregis: “The Modernist… would have the Church… adapt herself to the conditions of modern society.” This article is that adaptation: the Bible as literature, the Decalogue as decor, the state as educator, the Supreme Court as theologian.
Conclusion: Return to the Integral Faith
The only Catholic response to Texas is not to “welcome the chance” to supplement state Protestantism, but to denounce the usurpation of God’s rights over the child and the state. The true Church—persevering in the catacombs of Tradition, adhering to the pre-1958 Magisterium—rejects this poisoned fruit. Non est in aliis salus (Acts 4:12). The King James Version belongs in the index of forbidden books; the public school belongs to the City of Man; the Supreme Court has no authority over divine revelation. Catholic families must flee the public schools, establish truly Catholic schools (or home educate) under valid priests, and pray for the restoration of the Social Kingship of Christ, ut in omnibus glorificetur Deus. The neo-church’s applause for this secularist farce is the applause of the hireling who flees when the wolf comes (John 10:12).
Source:
Texas Steps Up to Include Religious Texts in Public Education (ncregister.com)
Date: 03.08.2026