The National Catholic Register (NCR), the flagship propaganda organ of the EWTN/Novus Ordo establishment, reports that the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) has issued a memorandum opinion declaring restrictions on federal funding for religious activities “presumptively unconstitutional.” The August 25 directive from the Office of Legal Counsel, addressed to the Department of Health and Human Services, effectively overturns the 2004 *Locke v. Davey* precedent which allowed states to withhold funds from explicitly religious programs. The DOJ argues such restrictions “discriminate based on anticipated religious use without any compelling governmental interest” and violate the Free Exercise Clause. The conciliar “religious freedom” legal group First Liberty—whose network attorney is Joshua Davey, the namesake of the very case being undermined—hailed the memo as a “major victory for religious liberty,” boasting it “effectively instructs all federal agencies to rewrite their grant-making rules.” This grotesque spectacle of the neo-church applauding the Masonic state’s financing of false religions constitutes the definitive confirmation that the conciliar sect has abandoned the Social Kingship of Christ for the slavery of indifferentism.
The Legal Enthronement of Indifferentism as State Policy
The memorandum’s central contention—that the government may not distinguish between the true Religion and false sects when distributing public funds—is the practical application of the heresy of indifferentismus, solemnly condemned by Pope Pius IX in the Syllabus of Errors (1864). Proposition 15 condemns the doctrine that “Every man is free to embrace and profess that religion which, guided by the light of reason, he shall consider true,” and Proposition 18 condemns the idea that “Protestantism is nothing more than another form of the same true Christian religion.” The DOJ memo, by demanding equal access to the public treasury for all “faith-based organizations,” legally enshrines the equality of truth and error. The State, which according to Catholic doctrine must recognize the Catholic Church as the sole perfect society endowed with rights from her Divine Founder (Syllabus, Prop. 19, 20), here declares itself incompetent to judge religious truth, thereby usurping the prerogative of Christ the King.
The ecclesiastical power ought not to exercise its authority without the permission and assent of the civil government. — Allocution “Meminit unusquisque,” Sept. 30, 1861. (Condemned as Error #20 in Syllabus)
The memo’s reliance on the “Free Exercise Clause” of the First Amendment reveals the Masonic foundation of the Americanist system. The “Free Exercise” clause is the constitutional codification of libertas religiosa—the “liberty of perdition” denounced by Pope Gregory XVI in Mirari Vos (1832) and Pope Pius IX in Quanta Cura (1864). By celebrating this memo, First Liberty and the NCR confess that their “religious liberty” is not the libertas Ecclesiae (freedom of the Church from state coercion), but the Masonic “freedom of conscience” which places the false prophet on the same legal footing as the Vicar of Christ.
The Linguistic Camouflage: “Faith-Based” as a Category of Nature
The article’s vocabulary is a masterclass in Modernist obfuscation. The term “faith-based organizations” functions as a theological solvent, dissolving the unum necessarium—the one, true, Catholic Faith—into a generic phenomenological category called “faith.” This is the language of the nouvelle théologie and the Second Vatican Council’s Dignitatis Humanae, which speaks of “religious communities” rather than the Ecclesia Catholica. The memo speaks of “religious status” and “anticipated religious use,” treating the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass and the heretical “worship service” of a Baptist sect as functionally identical “religious activities” eligible for state subsidy.
This bureaucratic language masks a satanic reality: the State is not funding “religion”; it is buying the silence of hirelings. As Pope Pius XI teaches in Quas Primas (1925), “The state must leave the same freedom to the members of Orders and Congregations… who are indeed the most valiant helpers of the Pastors of the Church and contribute most to the expansion and establishment of Christ’s Kingdom.” The Kingdom of Christ is not expanded by federal grants to “faith-based” NGOs; it is expanded by the potestas iurisdictionis of the true Hierarchy teaching all nations and baptizing them. The conciliar sect’s “First Liberty” seeks not the libertas Ecclesiae but the libertas haereticorum—the liberty to proselytize for error with Caesar’s gold.
The Theological Abyss: Rejection of the Social Kingship of Christ
The silence of the NCR article—and the First Liberty statement—regarding the Social Kingship of Christ is the loudest condemnation of their apostasy. Pope Pius XI, in Quas Primas, establishes the dogmatic principle that “men united in societies are no less subject to the authority of Christ than individuals” and that “rulers of states… have the duty to publicly honor Christ and obey Him.” The DOJ memo asserts the exact opposite: the State has no authority to favor the true Religion; it must be neutral. This is the definition of laicism—the “plague that poisons human society” identified by Pius XI.
If rulers and legitimate superiors will have the conviction that they exercise authority not so much by their own right as by the command and in the place of the Divine King, everyone will notice how religiously and wisely they will use their authority… — Quas Primas
The conciliar “victory” celebrated here is the victory of the Civitas Diaboli over the Civitas Dei. By accepting state funding on the state’s terms—terms dictated by the “Free Exercise Clause” rather than the Corpus Iuris Canonici—the “faith-based organizations” become contractors of the secular order. They accept the supremacy of the civil law over divine law (Syllabus, Prop. 42: “In the case of conflicting laws enacted by the two powers, the civil law prevails” — Condemned). They render unto Caesar the things that are God’s: the right to define what constitutes “religious activity” and the power to subsidize false worship.
The Symptomatic Level: The Conciliar Sect as Handmaid of the Masonic State
This event is not an anomaly; it is the necessary fruit of the conciliar revolution. The Second Vatican Council’s declaration Dignitatis Humanae taught that the human person has a right to religious freedom, a doctrine formally condemned by the Ordinary and Universal Magisterium (Pius IX, Leo XIII, St. Pius X, Pius XI, Pius XII). Having accepted the Masonic principle that error has rights, the conciliar sect must logically applaud when the Masonic state extends its funding to those errors.
The figure of Joshua Davey—namesake of the *Locke v. Davey* case, now an attorney for First Liberty arguing against his own precedent—is the perfect symbol of the conciliar “traditionalist” (those pretending to be traditional Catholics): they fight within the Masonic framework, using Masonic tools (the Constitution, the Courts, “religious liberty” jurisprudence) to secure a place at the table of the money-changers. They do not seek to convert the State to Christ; they seek a subsidy from the Antichrist.
The Roman Pontiff can, and ought to, reconcile himself, and come to terms with progress, liberalism and modern civilization. — Allocution “Jamdudum cernimus,” March 18, 1861. (Condemned as Error #80 in Syllabus)
The “First Liberty” group, the NCR, and the entire EWTN apparatus function as the propaganda fide of the neo-church, baptizing the secular liberal order. They celebrate the DOJ memo because it validates their existence as recognized “stakeholders” in the New World Order. They have forgotten—or rejected—the words of Pope St. Pius X in Lamentabili Sane Exitu (1907), condemning the Modernist proposition that “The Church is incapable of effectively defending evangelical ethics, because it steadfastly adheres to its views, which cannot be reconciled with modern progress” (Prop. 63). The conciliar sect has “reconciled” itself with modern progress by becoming its chaplain.
The Invalidity of the Conciliar “Clergy” in This Theater
It is crucial to note that the “faith-based organizations” likely to benefit from this ruling are predominantly Protestant sects, Jewish groups, Islamic centers, and the conciliar “parishes” and “schools” staffed by “priests” and “bishops” whose orders are doubtful at best (due to the 1968 Pontificale Romanum) and whose jurisdiction is nil (due to the sedevacancy since 1958). The “Mass” celebrated in these institutions is the Novus Ordo Missae, a Protestantized memorial service invalid in form and intention, constituting idolatry rather than the Unbloody Sacrifice of Calvary. State funding of these structures is not funding “religion”; it is funding the abomination of desolation standing in the holy place.
The “victory” of First Liberty is the victory of the synagoga Satanae. As Pope Leo XIII warned in Humanum Genus (1884), the Masonic sects aim “to strike it [the Church] with frequent blows, to shake it, to overthrow it, and, if possible, to make it disappear completely from the earth.” The DOJ memo, cheered by the conciliar establishment, is a blow struck by the State to normalize the false religions that the true Church condemns, using the conciliar sect’s own “religious liberty” rhetoric as the weapon.
Conclusion: No King But Caesar
The DOJ memorandum is a legal manifesto of the Anti-Christ: Non habemus regem nisi Caesarem (We have no king but Caesar). The conciliar sect’s applause—led by First Liberty and amplified by the NCR—is the fidelium cry of the false prophets: Pax, pax, et non est pax. True Catholic “religious liberty” is the immunity of the Church from the State, secured by the State’s public confession of the Kingship of Christ and its submission to His Law. What the DOJ grants, and what First Liberty celebrates, is the libertas perditionis—the license for error to parade as truth, funded by the taxpayer.
The integral Catholic, adhering to the immutable Magisterium of Pius IX, Leo XIII, St. Pius X, and Pius XI, rejects this memo, rejects the jurisprudence of *Locke v. Davey* and its overthrow alike, and rejects the conciliar sect that hails this servitude as freedom. We await the restoration of the Christus Regnabit, when “every tongue will confess that our Lord Jesus Christ is in the glory of God the Father” (Quas Primas), and the Masonic state, with its “faith-based” hirelings, will be cast into the outer darkness.
Source:
Department of Justice Says Government Can’t Restrict Funding Based on Religious Status (ncregister.com)
Date: 29.08.2026