EWTN News portal reports on a flurry of legal maneuvers by conciliar institutions and a Protestant university student petitioning the Masonic United States Supreme Court for state funding of religious education, the reopening of a diocesan seminary under a usurper “bishop,” a Supreme Court “justice” feted at a conciliar college, and a technological distraction at the “Catholic” University of America — all framed as victories for “religious freedom.” This spectacle of the conciliar sect groveling before the secular power for financial subsidies while ignoring the Social Kingship of Christ exposes the utter bankruptcy of post-conciliar Catholicism.
The Secularist Trap: Locke v. Davey and the Begging Bowl of False Ecumenism
The lead item concerns a Liberty University student, Bethany Hall, represented by an army of “religious liberty” legal firms (Alliance Defending Freedom, First Liberty Institute, et al.), petitioning the U.S. Supreme Court to overturn Locke v. Davey (2004). That decision upheld Washington State’s refusal to fund a degree in “pastoral ministries” under a scholarship program, citing the state constitution’s prohibition on funding religious instruction. The petitioners argue it is “odious to our Constitution for a state to fund a degree in music but refuse to fund a degree in music & worship,” claiming the Free Exercise Clause “is meant to encourage and even prefer religion.”
It is odious to our Constitution for a state to fund a degree in music but refuse to fund a degree in music & worship. The Free Exercise clause is meant to encourage and even prefer religion. But Virginia’s decision to deny funding based upon religious use is the type of hostility toward religion rejected by the First Amendment.
This rhetoric reveals the naturalistic core of the conciliar “religious liberty” project. They do not seek the reign of Christ over the state; they seek equal access to the trough of Caesar. Pius XI, in Quas Primas, teaches that “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” — but this freedom is for the Church’s mission, not for sectarian “youth ministries” degrees at a Protestant university. The Syllabus of Errors (Pius IX) condemns the proposition that “In the present day it is no longer expedient that the Catholic religion should be held as the only religion of the State, to the exclusion of all other forms of worship” (Error 77) and that “it has been wisely decided by law, in some Catholic countries, that persons coming to reside therein shall enjoy the public exercise of their own peculiar worship” (Error 78). The conciliar sect, by arguing for state funding of any “religious” degree — Protestant, Catholic, or otherwise — implicitly accepts the Masonic principle of indifferentism: that all religions are equal before the law and deserve equal state subsidy. This is not the libertas Ecclesiae; it is the libertas haereticorum.
The “Seminary” of the Usurper: St. Pius X Seminary Reopened Under a False Bishop
The Diocese of Scranton, under “Bishop” Joseph Bambera, reopened St. Pius X Seminary after 22 years. Bambera, a “seminarian” there 48 years ago, presided over the “first Mass” for four novices. The press release speaks of “priestly formation” connected to “the people the seminarians may one day serve.”
As we re-establish the ministry of Saint Pius X Seminary, what an incredible gift this is… We are excited because it’s going to give these men, as they start seminary, an opportunity to get to know the Diocese better.
This is a simulation of the priesthood, not its restoration. Bambera is a “bishop” of the conciliar sect, consecrated in the invalid Novus Ordo rite (post-1968) by men who themselves lack jurisdiction. As the Defense of Sedevacantism file demonstrates, a manifest heretic loses office ipso facto (Canon 188.4; Bellarmine, De Romano Pontifice; Cum ex Apostolatus Officio). The line of usurpers begins with John XXIII; Bambera is a link in that chain. His “seminary” forms men for a counterfeit priesthood that offers the invalid Novus Ordo “mass” — a Protestantized meal, not the Unbloody Sacrifice of Calvary. The name “St. Pius X” is a cruel irony: the Pope who condemned Modernism in Lamentabili sane exitu and Pascendi would anathematize this entire enterprise. The “vocations crisis” cited as the reason for the 2004 closure is the direct fruit of the conciliar apostasy; reopening the building does not restore the grace of Holy Orders.
A “Justice” of the Masonic Temple Honors the Conciliar Academy
Amy Coney Barrett, a “Justice” of the U.S. Supreme Court — the high tribunal of a Masonic republic founded on Enlightenment liberalism — will speak at Benedictine College’s library dedication. The college president, Stephen Minnis, boasts the library “will also be a symbol of our love for this great country of ours.”
The library will not only demonstrate our commitment to academic excellence and the Catholic Intellectual Tradition, but it will also be a symbol of our love for this great country of ours.
Here is the synthesis of Americanism and Modernism condemned by Leo XIII (Testem Benevolentiae) and Pius X. The “Catholic Intellectual Tradition” is reduced to a decorative motif for a building named “Independence Hall-inspired,” celebrating the very revolution that dethroned Christ. Pius XI declares: “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” (Quas Primas). Barrett, as a “Catholic” judge, swears to uphold a Constitution that enshrines religious indifferentism (First Amendment) and has been used to legalize abortion, sodomy, and every manner of iniquity. Her presence at a “Catholic” college is not a triumph; it is the public ratification of the conciliar sect’s submission to the City of Man. The Syllabus condemns: “The Roman Pontiff can, and ought to, reconcile himself, and come to terms with progress, liberalism and modern civilization” (Error 80). Benedictine College does precisely that.
Technological Distraction at the “Catholic” University of America
Students at the “Catholic” University of America revived a 1982 robotic arm for the International Space Station. The press release highlights “precise movements within a thousandth of an inch” and the involvement of a “high school Da Vinci Scholar.”
A group of students from The Catholic University of America have brought to life a robotic space arm built in 1982 after documentation for the piece of technology has been lost for years.
While souls perish for lack of the true Faith and valid Sacraments, the conciliar academy plays with robots. This is the cult of man and technocracy Pius XI warned against: “unbridled desires, often cloaked in the guise of public good and love of country… measuring everything else by this standard alone” (Quas Primas). The “Catholic” University, stripped of its mandate to teach all truth in submission to the Magisterium (Syllabus, Error 22; Lamentabili, props. 57-59), becomes a mere technical institute. The robotic arm is a fitting symbol: mechanical motion without life, precision without soul, engineering without the Engineer of souls.
California Parents Beg the State for Permission to Teach Their Children
Three California parents petition the Supreme Court because the 9th Circuit ruled their homes are “public school programs” and thus cannot use religious curricula even with their own funds, if they accept state charter school money. First Liberty Institute cries “religious discrimination.”
The Ninth Circuit declared the homes of these parents to be ‘public school programs’ in order to justify the state’s religious discrimination… Parents should not be punished for choosing quality religious curriculum meeting the state’s standard that they teach to their own children in their own home just because it’s religious.
The parents accepted the state’s chain; now they chafe at its weight. Pius XI teaches: “He who gives the Kingdom of Heaven does not take away earthly things!” But the conciliar laity, formed in the heresy of religious freedom (Vatican II, Dignitatis Humanae), believe they can serve two masters. They want Caesar’s gold and Christ’s truth. The Syllabus condemns: “The entire government of public schools… may and ought to appertain to the civil power… freed from all ecclesiastical authority” (Error 47) and “Catholics may approve of the system of educating youth unconnected with Catholic faith” (Error 48). By entering the charter system, these parents submitted to Caesar’s definition of education. The state’s refusal to fund “religious wording” is the logical consequence of the secular order the conciliar sect has embraced. The remedy is not a Supreme Court petition; it is total withdrawal from the state system and the establishment of truly Catholic schools independent of Caesar’s purse — which requires a true hierarchy, not the usurpers in Scranton or Washington.
Symptomatic Diagnosis: The Conciliar Sect as Suppliant of the Antichrist
Every item in this EWTN roundup manifests the same theological disease: the conciliar sect recognizes no authority higher than the secular state. It petitions the Supreme Court (the Sanhedrin of the Masonic order), it celebrates its “bishops” and “justices” who hold office in the City of Man, it builds libraries honoring the American Revolution, it plays with robots while the vineyard is deserted. There is not a single mention of the Social Kingship of Christ, the necessity of the Catholic State, the duty of public worship of the true God, or the salvation of souls. The language is entirely bureaucratic, legalistic, and immanentist: “grants,” “funding,” “curriculum,” “accreditation,” “STEM,” “religious liberty.”
Lamentabili sane exitu condemns the Modernist error: “Christ did not proclaim any specific, all-encompassing doctrine suitable for all times and peoples, but rather initiated a certain religious movement, applied or applicable to different times and places” (Prop. 59). The conciliar sect lives this error: it adapts the Faith to the American Constitution, to the charter school contract, to the Supreme Court precedent, to the technological zeitgeist. It has no principle but compromise.
The conciliar sect does not seek to convert the nations to Christ the King; it seeks a seat at the table of the Antichrist.
Conclusion: Non est potestas nisi a Deo
The articles summarized by EWTN are not “news” of the Church; they are the death rattles of a counterfeit institution that has sold its birthright for a mess of federal pottage. The true Church, the Ecclesia militans, possesses the potestas ordinis and potestas jurisdictionis from Christ alone (Quas Primas: “all power in heaven and on earth has been given to Him”). She does not beg Caesar for “tuition assistance grants” or “charter school funds.” She commands: “Kiss the Son, lest he be angry, and you perish in the way” (Ps 2:12). The “seminary” in Scranton, the “justice” at Benedictine, the robotic arm at CUA, the petitioners in Virginia and California — all are outside the Ark of Salvation, laboring in the vineyard of the Lord’s enemies. Convertimini, filii, ad Dominum Deum vestrum (Joel 2:13). The hour is late; the Judge stands at the door.
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Student asks Supreme Court to overturn ruling blocking public aid for religious studies (ewtnnews.com)
Date: 28.08.2026