USCCB Begs Caesar for Crumbs: Colorado Preschool Case Exposes Conciliar Church’s Servile Naturalism

The EWTN News portal (September 24, 2026) reports on the latest maneuvers of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB), which has petitioned the Supreme Court of the United States to force the State of Colorado to admit “Catholic” schools into a universal preschool program without requiring adherence to anti-discrimination statutes protecting “gender identity and sexual orientation.” The article simultaneously celebrates the expansion of Benedictine College and Franciscan University, the appointment of a conciliar bureaucrat to head the Intercollegiate Studies Institute, and the display of the Decalogue in Tennessee public schools. This litany of naturalistic achievements reveals the total capitulation of the conciliar sect to the secular order, replacing the Social Kingship of Christ (Regnum Christi Sociale) with a groveling plea for “partnership” with the Masonic state.

The USCCB’s Amicus Brief: A Legal Brief for Apostasy

The central item—the USCCB amicus brief in Archdiocese of Denver v. Colorado Department of Early Childhood—is not a defense of the Faith but a capitulation to the religion of the State. The “bishops” argue that “Catholic organizations… cannot be barred from participation in public life merely because they live out their sincerely held religious beliefs.” This language—sincerely held religious beliefs—is the vocabulary of the First Amendment jurisprudence of the Masonic republic, not the language of Cum ex Apostolatus Officio or Quas Primas. The “Church” of the New Advent does not claim the jus divinum to teach and govern nations; it claims a civil right to access state funding.

Pius XI, in Quas Primas, thundered: “When God and Jesus Christ… were removed from laws and states and when authority was derived not from God but from men, the foundations of that authority were destroyed… the main reason why some have the right to command and others have the duty to obey was removed.” The USCCB, by contrast, implicitly accepts that authority derives from men (the State) and begs for a seat at the table. They seek to render unto Caesar the things that are God’s—the formation of children—while demanding Caesar’s gold in return.

The Syllabus of Pius IX condemns the proposition: “The Church ought to be separated from the State, and the State from the Church” (Error 55). The conciliar sect does not formally profess this error; it lives it. By suing for inclusion in a state program predicated on the total secularization of education (the “universal preschool” is an instrument of the state to usurp parental rights and indoctrinate in gender ideology), the “Archdiocese of Denver” acknowledges the State’s competence to define the common good and distribute resources. They do not demand the State convert; they demand the State subsidize.

The Theological Bankruptcy of “Partnership”

The brief warns: “If this trend continues, it will impair the ability of Catholic organizations… to partner with state and local governments to serve the public… The resulting harm to the nation’s social support infrastructure would be immense.” Here lies the heresy of humanitarianism. The mission of the Church is salus animarum, the salvation of souls through the Unbloody Sacrifice of Calvary and the Sacraments, not the maintenance of a “social support infrastructure.” This is the cult of man condemned by St. Pius X in Pascendi Dominici Gregis and the Lamentabili Sane Exitu syllabus, where the Modernists reduce religion to a “vital immanence” serving human progress.

The “Catholic schools” in question are not truly Catholic. They are institutions staffed largely by invalidly ordained “priests” and “religious” formed in the post-conciliar apostasy, using the Novus Ordo Missae—a fabrication of the Freemason Bugnini—which denies the propitiatory nature of the Sacrifice. To seek state accreditation for such institutions is to seek recognition for a counterfeit. As Pope Paul IV defined in Cum ex Apostolatus Officio: “…if at any time it shall appear that any Bishop… or even the Roman Pontiff… has defected from the Catholic Faith or fallen into some heresy: (i) his promotion or elevation… shall be null, void, and of no effect.” The “Archdiocese of Denver” is a juridical fiction of the conciliar sect; its “schools” are private clubs for the neo-church.

Benedictine College and Franciscan University: Bastions of the Neo-Church

The article trumpets Benedictine College’s “candidate status” for a medical school and Franciscan University’s “$81.2 million economic impact.” Economic impact. This is the metric of the Kingdom of Satan, not the Kingdom of Christ. “The state is happy not by one means, and man by another; for the state is nothing else than a harmonious association of men” (Pius XI, Quas Primas, citing St. Augustine). But this harmony must be ordered to the finis ultimus, God. A “Catholic” university boasting of its contribution to the “gross regional product” and “1 in every 45 regional jobs” has prostituted the Bride of Christ to Mammon.

Franciscan University of Steubenville is a flagship of the “charismatic renewal”—a movement condemned in its roots by the Holy Office for its Pentecostalist errors and false mysticism (cf. the condemnation of the “False Fatima” operations and the pseudo-mysticism of Faustina Kowalska, whose writings were on the Index). Benedictine College is a center of the “indult” movement, legitimizing the Novus Ordo by offering a “traditional” veneer. Both are integral parts of the conciliar sect, forming youth not for Heaven but for “professions” and “communities” in the City of Man.

The Intercollegiate Studies Institute: Conservative Liberalism as a Trap

The appointment of Christopher Fisher—”superintendent of Catholic schools at the Archdiocese of San Francisco”—to head the Intercollegiate Studies Institute (founded by the CIA-linked William F. Buckley Jr. and Frank Chodorov) exposes the fusion of conciliar “Catholicism” with Americanist conservatism. This is the clerico-liberalism condemned by the Syllabus (Section IV). ISI promotes the “Western tradition” divorced from the Catholic Confessional State. It forms “thoughtful, engaged citizens” for the Republic, not saints for the Church Triumphant. Fisher’s background in the “Archdiocese of San Francisco”—a hotbed of liturgical abuse and doctrinal corruption under the usurpers—guarantees that ISI will continue to be a gatekeeper preventing true reaction, channeling dissent into the safe harbor of “religious liberty” litigation.

The Ten Commandments in Public Schools: Civil Religion, Not Catholic Restoration

The Hamilton County School Board’s vote to display the Decalogue is hailed as a victory. It is a triumph of Freemasonry. The State acknowledges the Decalogue not as the Law of God binding on consciences sub poena damnationis, but as a “historical document” alongside the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution—the sacred texts of the Masonic republic. This is laicism perfected: the State tolerates religious symbols as cultural artifacts while claiming supreme jurisdiction over the souls of children via compulsory attendance laws and gender ideology curricula.

Pius IX condemned the proposition: “The civil government… has a right to an indirect negative power over religious affairs” (Error 41). By celebrating this display, the conciliar sect endorses the State’s plenitudo potestatis in the temporal order. The Decalogue on the wall becomes an idol of the State, not a sign of Christ’s Kingship. “His reign encompasses also all non-Christians, so that most truly the entire human race is subject to the authority of Jesus Christ” (Quas Primas). The Tennessee law does not submit to that authority; it uses the Decalogue to legitimize a godless polity.

Symptomatic Analysis: The Conciliar Sect as the “Abomination of Desolation”

Every item in this EWTN roundup demonstrates the modus operandi of the paramasonic structure occupying the Vatican:

Liturgical Apostasy: The “schools” and “universities” operate under the Novus Ordo, the “table of assembly” replacing the Unbloody Sacrifice.
Juridical Subservience: The USCCB runs to the Supreme Court—the high priest of the American civil religion—begging for “rights” under the Constitution, rejecting the jus publicum Ecclesiae.
Naturalistic Metrics: Success is measured in dollars, jobs, accreditation status, and “partnerships,” not in conversions, vocations, or the salvation of souls.
False Ecumenism/Indifferentism: The “Intercollegiate Studies Institute” unites Catholics with Protestants, Jews, and secular conservatives under the banner of “Western Civilization,” realizing the Masonic dream of a universal natural religion (Syllabus, Error 16: “Man may, in the observance of any religion whatever, find the way of eternal salvation”).
Silence on the Supernatural: Not one mention of the Most Holy Sacrifice, the Sacraments, Sanctifying Grace, the Four Last Things, or the Social Kingship of Christ the King. This silence is the gravest accusation. It proves the “bishops” are hirelings (John 10:12), not shepherds.

Conclusion: No King But Caesar

The “bishops” of the USCCB, the “presidents” of the neo-universities, the “superintendents” of the neo-schools—they have no King but Caesar (John 19:15). They have exchanged the Libertas Ecclesiae for a mess of pottage: state vouchers, accreditation, tax-exempt status, and a place at the table of the “social support infrastructure.”

True Catholics—those adhering to the integral Faith of the Fathers, the Tridentine Mass, and the Social Kingship of Christ—must reject this entire edifice. We do not sue Caesar for crumbs; we proclaim Christus Vincit, Christus Regnat, Christus Imperat. The Colorado case is not a religious liberty case; it is a public manifestation of the conciliar sect’s apostasy. The only solution is the Restauratio: the recognition of the Vacant See, the rejection of the Novus Ordo, and the rebuilding of Christendom from the ruins, sine qua non the propitiatory Sacrifice and the unadulterated Doctrine.

“You were bought with a price; do not become slaves of men” (1 Cor 7:23). The conciliar sect has sold its birthright for a bowl of state-funded porridge.

Source:
Bishops ask Supreme Court for Catholic inclusion in Colorado universal preschool program (ewtnnews.com)
Date: 24.09.2026