The EWTN News portal reports on a series of developments heralded as triumphs for “Catholic education” and “religious liberty”: U.S. senators filing an amicus brief defending homeschooling parents’ right to religious curriculum; Notre Dame law professors urging the Supreme Court to overturn *Locke v. Davey* for state funding of religious degrees; a “Catholic center” at Baptist Baylor University building a larger chapel for surging “Mass” attendance; and the Catholic University of America rising in *U.S. News* rankings. These narratives, framed as victories for the Church, are in reality the death rattles of a counterfeit institution fully assimilated into the Masonic-liberal order, celebrating the very *libertas perditionis* condemned by the Syllabus of Errors while the True Mass and the Social Kingship of Christ are abandoned.
The Liberal Framework: “Religious Liberty” as a Condemned Heresy
The entire article operates within the heretical paradigm of “religious liberty”—the notion that the State must be neutral toward truth and error, granting equal rights to false religions. The senators’ amicus brief argues that restricting religious curriculum in California’s “independent-study programs” violates the Constitution. This is the precise error condemned by Pope Pius IX in the Syllabus of Errors (1864): “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 “The Roman Pontiff can, and ought to, reconcile himself, and come to terms with progress, liberalism and modern civilization” (Error 80). The “Catholic” senators—Pete Ricketts, Jim Risch, Cindy Hyde-Smith, Ted Budd—are not defending the regnum Christi; they are functionaries of a secular republic founded on the Masonic principle that sovereignty resides in the people, not God. Their brief accepts the premise that the State funds education and merely debates *which* curricula are permitted, thereby acknowledging the State’s supreme jurisdiction over the formation of youth—a right belonging exclusively to the Church (Divini Illius Magistri, Pius XI).
Pope Leo XIII in Immortale Dei (1885) teaches: “The Church… is a perfect society… endowed with proper and perpetual rights… conferred upon her by her Divine Founder.” The Syllabus (Error 19) condemns the proposition that “it appertains to the civil power to define what are the rights of the Church, and the limits within which she may exercise those rights.” By petitioning the Supreme Court—the high tribunal of a Masonic constitution—the conciliar sect begs for crumbs from Caesar’s table, legitimizing the usurpation of Christ’s Kingship over society. This is not apostolate; it is collaboratio cum adversario.
Notre Dame: The Modernist Laboratory
The involvement of the Notre Dame Law School—specifically its “Education Law Project,” “Program on Church, State, and Society,” and “Religious Liberty Clinic”—exposes the rot. This university, once a beacon of Catholic higher education, has been a primary vector for the nouvelle théologie and the Americanist heresy since the mid-20th century. Its “religious liberty” advocacy is the direct heir of John Courtney Murray, S.J., whose errors on church-state relations were condemned by the Holy Office in 1954 yet triumphed at Vatican II in Dignitatis Humanae. The brief’s argument that Locke v. Davey “sits uneasily” with recent Supreme Court rulings reveals the strategy: not to restore the Social Kingship of Christ, but to secure equal treatment for false religion within the liberal order. St. Pius X in Pascendi Dominici Gregis (1907) identified the Modernist tactic: “They make use of a double language… one for the faithful, another for the learned.” Here, the language is “religious freedom”—a phrase nowhere found in pre-conciliar magisterium except as a condemnation. The Union of Orthodox Jewish Congregations joining the brief confirms the indifferentist essence: all religions united in demanding their “rights” from the secular state. Communicatio in sacris with infidels in a common legal cause against the Kingship of Christ.
Baylor University: False Ecumenism and the Novus Ordo “Mass”
The report on St. Peter Catholic Student Center at Baylor University—”one of the largest Baptist universities in the U.S.”—building a $10 million chapel for 460 seats due to “surging Mass attendance” is a tableau of post-conciliar apostasy. Father Henry Carter Finch (a “priest” of the conciliar sect) speaks of “young people respond[ing] to the promptings of grace to seek the fullness of life in the Church” while operating within a heretical institution that denies the Papacy, the Sacrifice of the Mass, and the necessity of the Catholic Church for salvation. The “Mass” celebrated there is the Novus Ordo Missae of Paul VI—a Protestantized memorial meal, stripped of the propitiatory sacrifice, the Real Presence obscured, the priest turned toward the people (versus populum), the Canon mutilated. Pope Pius XII in Mediator Dei (1947) warned: “The liturgy is not a mere human institution… it is the worship of the Divine Redeemer.” The “overflowing pews” at a Novus Ordo service in a Baptist university are not a sign of grace but of the abomination of desolation standing where it ought not (Matt. 24:15). The Order of Christian Initiation of Adults (OCIA)—the conciliar replacement for the rigorous catechumenate—produces converts to a counterfeit church, not to the One, Holy, Catholic, and Apostolic Church. St. Pius X in Lamentabili Sane Exitu (1907) condemned the proposition: “The Church is incapable of effectively defending evangelical ethics, because it steadfastly adheres to its views, which cannot be reconciled with modern progress” (Error 63). Baylor’s “Catholic center” is the capitulation to that progress.
Catholic University of America: Worldly Metrics for a Hollow Shell
The Catholic University of America (CUA) boasting a 21-spot jump in U.S. News & World Report rankings—debuting at No. 75 in “Top Private Colleges”—is the final insult. This institution, founded by the bishops with Leo XIII’s blessing, has long been a citadel of Modernism. Its “rise” in secular rankings measures exactly what Pope St. Pius X condemned: “The progress of sciences requires a reform of the concept of Christian doctrine concerning God, creation, Revelation, the Person of the Incarnate Word, and Redemption” (Lamentabili, Error 64). CUA’s faculty includes open dissenters from Humanae Vitae, advocates for women’s “ordination,” and proponents of the “hermeneutic of continuity” that whitewashes Vatican II’s rupture. Karna Lozoya, VP for communications, crows: “A 21-spot jump is a testament to the dedication of our faculty and staff and to the investments we’ve made in academic excellence and student success.” Quid est veritas? The world loves its own (John 15:19). A university praised by the world is a university that has compromised the Faith. Pope Pius XI in Quas Primas (1925) declares: “When God and Jesus Christ… were removed from laws and states… the foundations of that authority were destroyed.” CUA’s ranking rise signals its successful removal of Christ from the academy.
The Symptomatic Level: The Conciliar Sect as the “Abomination of Desolation”
Every element of this article—the senators’ brief, the Notre Dame clinic, the Baylor chapel, the CUA ranking—forms a coherent picture: the conciliar sect (the “Church of the New Advent,” the “neo-church”) has fully embraced the civitas terrena governed by libertas, aequalitas, fraternitas—the Masonic triad. It seeks not the Regnum Christi but a place at the table of the civitas diaboli. The “homeschooling” brief accepts state funding and oversight (“publicly funded independent-study programs,” “general state standards”) while fighting only for the “exception: religion.” This is the laïcité model: religion as a private hobby, tolerated in the interstices of the secular state. Pope Pius XI in Quas Primas condemns this: “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.” True freedom is libertas excellens—freedom for the Truth, not freedom of error.
The “Catholic” senators are Modernist politicians—men who profess the Faith with their lips but whose hearts are far from Him (Matt. 15:8). They swear oaths to a Constitution that enshrines religious indifference (First Amendment), making them ipso facto cooperators in the dethronement of Christ. Pope Leo XIII in Libertas Praestantissimum (1888): “To hold… that there is no difference between true and false religion… is to ignore the duty which binds man to God.” Their amicus brief is not a defense of the Church; it is a defense of the liberal order’s tolerance for a domesticated, privatized “faith.”
Theological Verdict: No Salvation in the Conciliar Structures
From the perspective of integral Catholic faith—rooted in the immutable Magisterium before 1958—this article documents not the Church’s vitality but its eclipse. The “Mass” at Baylor is a sacrilegious simulation; the “religious liberty” litigation is a betrayal of Christ the King; the Notre Dame brief is Modernist jurisprudence; the CUA ranking is worldly validation of apostasy. St. Robert Bellarmine teaches (De Romano Pontifice): “A manifest heretic… by that very fact ceases to be Pope and head.” The line of claimants to the papacy since John XXIII has manifestly professed the heresies of religious liberty, ecumenism, collegiality, and the new ecclesiology—therefore they are not popes but antipopes. The structures occupying the Vatican (the “paramasonic structure”) are not the Church. The “bishops,” “priests,” “universities,” and “senators” operating in communion with them are outside the Church. Extra Ecclesiam nulla salus.
The faithful must reject entirely this conciliar counterfeit. They must seek the Traditio preserved by validly ordained bishops and priests holding the Sedes Vacans position, assisting at the True Mass of the Ages (the Tridentine Missal of St. Pius V), rejecting the Novus Ordo, the false ecumenism, the religious liberty, and all the works of the “Church of the New Advent.” As Pope Pius XI commands in Quas Primas: “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 senators, the universities, the “Catholic centers” do the opposite. They are anticristi in the precise sense of 1 John 2:18: “Even now there are many antichrists.” The article is a chronicle of their triumph—and the Church’s Passion.
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U.S. senators defend home-schooling parents’ right to religious curriculum (ewtnnews.com)
Date: 01.10.2026