The EWTN News portal reports that the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB), the episcopal conference of the conciliar sect occupying the Vatican, has filed an *amicus curiae* brief before the U.S. Supreme Court in alliance with the Southern Baptist Convention’s Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission. They support Daniel Grand, a Jewish resident of Ohio, who sued the city of University Heights after it prevented him from convening a *minyan* (Jewish prayer quorum) in his home. Lower courts dismissed the case citing the administrative “finality” rule, requiring exhaustion of local land-use processes before federal litigation. The USCCB and Baptists argue this rule imposes an unconstitutional burden on “religious liberty.” The Supreme Court agreed to hear the case. Grand is represented by Alliance Defending Freedom, a Protestant legal organization. Numerous other groups—including the Religious Freedom Institute, the American Hindu Coalition, the American Muslim League, and the American Association of Jewish Lawyers—have filed supporting briefs. This grotesque spectacle of a pseudo-Catholic hierarchy joining forces with heretics, schismatics, Muslims, Hindus, and Jews to petition Caesar for the “right” to practice false religions is the definitive manifestation of the conciliar apostasy: the total substitution of the Social Kingship of Christ with the Masonic idol of religious liberty.
The Conciliar Sect’s Capitulation to Religious Indifferentism
The very act of the USCCB—an entity with no canonical standing in the true Church, composed of men who recognize the manifest heretic Jorge Bergoglio and now Robert Prevost (“Leo XIV”) as “pope”—filing a legal brief alongside the Southern Baptist Convention is a public profession of indifferentism, condemned by Pope Pius IX in the Syllabus of Errors (Error 15: “Every man is free to embrace and profess that religion which, guided by the light of reason, he shall consider true”) and by Pope Gregory XVI in Mirari Vos as a “most pernicious error.” By aligning themselves with a Protestant sect that denies the Papacy, the Sacrifice of the Mass, the Real Presence, and the necessity of the Church for salvation, these “bishops” declare that the truth of the Catholic Faith is irrelevant to the public order. They stand shoulder-to-shoulder with those who blaspheme the Holy Trinity daily, seeking not the conversion of souls to the one Ark of Salvation, but the secular “right” for error to propagate itself unhindered. This is not the voice of the Church; it is the voice of the synagogue of Satan (Apoc. 2:9) infiltrating the halls of justice.
Collaboration with Heretics and Infidels: A Violation of Divine Law
The coalition supporting Grand reads like a roll-call of the enemies of Christ: Southern Baptists (heretics), American Muslim League (infidels denying the Divinity of Christ), American Hindu Coalition (idolaters), American Association of Jewish Lawyers (those who, as St. Paul writes, “killed the Lord Jesus and the prophets… and please not God, and are adversaries to all men,” 1 Thess. 2:15). The USCCB’s willingness to make common cause with this motley crew exposes the theological vacuum at the heart of the conciliar religion. They do not argue that the city of University Heights should recognize the Kingship of Christ and suppress public idolatry; they argue that the State must be neutral, a referee granting equal “liberty” to truth and falsehood alike. This is the heresy of Americanism, condemned by Leo XIII in Testem Benevolentiae, elevated to a governing principle. The true Church, as Pius XI teaches in Quas Primas, holds that “His reign encompasses also all non-Christians, so that most truly the entire human race is subject to the authority of Jesus Christ.” The duty of the State is not to protect the “religious liberty” of the Jew, the Muslim, or the Hindu, but to profess the Catholic Faith and repress the public exercise of false cults, lest the souls of its citizens be damned. Salus populi suprema lex esto (The salvation of the people is the supreme law)—and salvation is found only in the Catholic Church (Extra Ecclesiam nulla salus).
The Heresy of “Religious Liberty” Condemned by the Syllabus
The central argument of the brief—that the “finality” rule imposes a burden “the Constitution forbids” on “religious liberty”—is a direct endorsement of the condemned proposition that the civil power has no right to restrict false worship. The Syllabus of Errors (Error 77) condemns: “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 78 condemns the “wise” decision “by law, in some Catholic countries, that persons coming to reside therein shall enjoy the public exercise of their own peculiar worship.” Error 55 condemns: “The Church ought to be separated from the State, and the State from the Church.” The USCCB, by invoking the U.S. Constitution as the standard of justice rather than the Law of God, ratifies the Masonic foundation of the American order. They tell the Supreme Court: Caesar is god. The Constitution is the supreme canon. The “free exercise” clause is the new gospel. They have forgotten—or rejected—the teaching of Pius XI: “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.” By begging the Supreme Court to protect a minyan, they beg the State to legitimize the public rejection of the Messiah.
Subversion of the Social Kingship of Christ
Pope Pius XI instituted the Feast of Christ the King precisely to combat the “plague… so-called laicism, its errors and wicked endeavors” which “began with the denial of Christ the Lord’s reign over all nations.” The USCCB’s brief is a weapon in service of that plague. They do not demand that the city of University Heights submit to Christ the King; they demand that the city submit to the idol of procedural neutrality. The injury they cite is not the offense to God caused by the suppression of the true Faith (which the city does not even profess), but the “injury” to a Jew’s “right” to assemble for a prayer that explicitly denies the Trinity and the Incarnation. This is spiritual treason. The “bishops” argue that “His rights are priceless and he has already been prevented from praying”—speaking of Grand’s “rights” as if they were sacred, while the rights of Christ the King to public homage and the suppression of blasphemy are utterly ignored. The Quas Primas encyclical declares: “Let rulers of states therefore not refuse public veneration and obedience to the reigning Christ… if they wish to maintain their authority inviolate and contribute to the increase of their homeland’s happiness.” The USCCB urges the opposite: rulers must venerate the “religious liberty” of the infidel.
The Secular Legal Strategy: Rendering unto Caesar What Belongs to God
The choice of venue—the U.S. Supreme Court—and the choice of counsel—Alliance Defending Freedom, a Protestant legal group founded to advance a sectarian agenda—reveals the naturalistic reduction of the supernatural that defines Modernism. The conciliar “bishops” have no faith in the power of the Keys, in the intercession of the Saints, in the efficacy of the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass offered for the conversion of the city council. They place their trust in lawyers, briefs, and nine unelected lawyers in black robes. This is the heresy of action (Pius X, Pascendi): the displacement of the divine order by the human, the substitution of the City of God by the City of Man. They have adopted the Masonic strategy of “religious liberty” litigation, pioneered by the ACLU and now weaponized by the Protestant Right, to carve out a space for the neo-church to survive as just another “faith community” in the pluralist marketplace. They do not seek the conversion of the United States to the Catholic Faith; they seek a concordat with the Antichrist, a guarantee that their “Masses” (invalid Novus Ordo services) and their “schools” (indoctrination centers for Vatican II) will be tolerated by the secular state. Non est in eo veritas (There is no truth in him—John 8:44).
The Neo-Church as an Instrument of the Antichrist
This filing is not an anomaly; it is the essential nature of the post-conciliar structure. Since the false “pope” John XXIII convened the Robber Council Vatican II, the occupying hierarchy has systematically dismantled the Church’s immune system against error. Dignitatis Humanae declared a “right” to religious freedom based on human dignity, contradicting the Syllabus, Quas Primas, Immortale Dei, Libertas Praestantissimum, and the constant teaching of the Magisterium. The USCCB is merely the administrative arm of this apostasy in the United States. Their alliance with the Southern Baptists—who ordain women, bless sodomy in some conventions, and deny the Sacraments—is the logical fruit of Unitatis Redintegratio’s false ecumenism. Their alliance with Muslims and Hindus is the fruit of Nostra Aetate’s religious syncretism. The “finality” rule is a procedural technicality; the finality of the USCCB’s apostasy is the dogmatic reality. They have “defected from the Catholic Faith” (Canon 188.4, 1917 Code; Cum ex Apostolatus Officio) and “ceased to be members of the Church” (Bellarmine, De Romano Pontifice), and thus possess zero jurisdiction to teach, govern, or sanctify. Their brief is waste paper; their “episcopacy” is a simulacrum.
Conclusion: The spectacle of the USCCB pleading before the Supreme Court for the “religious liberty” of a Jew to deny Christ, flanked by Baptists, Muslims, and Hindus, is the abomination of desolation standing in the holy place (Matt. 24:15). It proves that the conciliar sect is not the Catholic Church, but its diabolical parody, existing solely to legitimize the Masonic world order. True Catholics—those adhering to the integral Faith, the immemorial Mass, and the sedevacantist reality—must reject this filth entirely. Non possumus. We do not beg Caesar for crumbs of “liberty”; we demand the Crown Rights of Christ the King. Viva Cristo Rey.
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U.S. Catholic bishops join Southern Baptists in urging Supreme Court to block ‘finality’ rule (ewtnnews.com)
Date: 10.09.2026