EWTN News reports on oral arguments before the U.S. Supreme Court in *St. Mary School v. Roy*, where the Archdiocese of Denver’s conciliar schools demand state funding for universal prekindergarten while insisting on a “case-by-case” admissions policy that supposedly aligns with “Catholic teachings” regarding children of same-sex couples. The conciliar sect’s lawyers from the Becket Fund frame this as a defense of “religious liberty” against Colorado’s mandate that publicly funded providers guarantee “equal opportunity” regardless of “sexual orientation” and “gender identity.” Justice Kavanaugh, a conciliar “Catholic,” sympathetically questioned why the state provoked this clash when parents have 2,000 other providers, while the Trump administration’s solicitor general argued for the “Catholic” side. This spectacle lays bare the conciliar sect’s total subservience to the Masonic state: it begs for Caesar’s coin while surrendering the Kingship of Christ, mistaking the Masonic chimera of “religious liberty” for the Church’s divine right to teach and govern souls.
The Mendicancy of the Conciliar Sect: Begging for the Crumbs of the Masonic State
The very premise of this litigation is an indictment of the conciliar sect’s apostasy. The “Archdiocese of Denver” — a juridic fiction erected by the usurpers in the Vatican — seeks $6,100 per child per year from Colorado’s tobacco-tax-funded universal prekindergarten program. It prostitutes the Spouse of Christ for thirty pieces of silver, voluntarily placing its “schools” under the jurisdiction of a secular bureaucracy that defines “equal opportunity” as the admission of children raised in sodomitical unions.
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 entire human society had to be shaken, because it lacked a stable and strong foundation.” The conciliar sect does not seek to restore Christ’s Kingship over Colorado’s laws; it seeks a carve-out within the anti-Christian order. It accepts the state’s definition of the common good — “equal opportunity” — and merely asks for a conscience exemption. This is not the libertas Ecclesiae; it is the servitus of a false church content to exist as a tolerated sect within the Masonic city of man.
The Syllabus of Errors (Pius IX, 1864) condemns as error: “The Church is not a true and perfect society, entirely free… but 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” (Error 19). The conciliar sect lives this error daily. By suing for inclusion in the state’s program, it acknowledges the state’s competence to “define the rights of the Church” and set the “limits” of its operation. It argues only about the width of the cage, not the fact of the cage.
“Religious Liberty”: The Masonic Trojan Horse
The Becket Fund’s entire argument rests on the “Free Exercise Clause” and the post-conciliar heresy of Dignitatis Humanae — the false doctrine that man has a “right to religious freedom” immune from state coercion in matters religious. This is the Masonic principle par excellence, condemned by every pre-conciliar Pope.
Pius IX in the Syllabus condemned: “Every man is free to embrace and profess that religion which, guided by the light of reason, he shall consider true” (Error 15) and “Man may, in the observance of any religion whatever, find the way of eternal salvation” (Error 16). Leo XIII in Libertas Praestantissimum (1888) declared: “To hold, therefore, that there is no difference in matters of religion between forms that are unlike each other, and even contrary to each other, most clearly leads in the end to the rejection of all religion in both theory and practice. And this is the same thing as atheism, however it may differ from it in name.”
The conciliar “Catholic” justices — Kavanaugh, Barrett, Gorsuch, Thomas, Alito, Roberts — are the high priests of this Masonic idol. They do not defend the Social Kingship of Christ; they defend the “right” of a false church to exist alongside the synagogue of Satan, the mosque, and the temple of Mammon, all on equal footing before a neutral state. When Kavanaugh asks, “Why has this been provoked when there’s an ability for everyone to go to the school… that’s a fit for them, and to respect religious rights?”, he reveals the utilitarian, indifferentist mindset of the Masonic judge: religion is a private preference, like choosing a coffee shop, not the supreme obligation of man and society.
The Trump administration’s solicitor general arguing for the conciliar sect completes the farce: the secular state’s lawyer defends the “religious liberty” of a false church before a secular court. Circulus vitiosus. No true Catholic authority would recognize this tribunal’s competence. Non est potestas nisi a Deo (There is no power but from God — Rom 13:1). The Supreme Court’s power is usurped when it judges the Church’s mission.
The “Catholic Community” That Isn’t: Case-by-Case Compromise
Nicholas Reaves of the Becket Fund states the conciliar schools want “to make admissions decisions on a case-by-case basis in alignment with Catholic teachings instead of simply allowing all comers because of a state mandate.” He adds: “I think it’s their thoughtful attempt to say, ‘We’re creating a Catholic community.’”
This is the language of betrayal. A “case-by-case basis” for admitting children of same-sex “couples” means the door is open. It means the “Catholic community” is defined not by the integrity of the Faith and the moral law, but by pastoral accommodation. St. Pius X in Lamentabili Sane Exitu condemned the Modernist proposition: “The dogmas of faith should be understood according to their practical function, i.e., as binding in action, rather than as principles of belief” (Error 26). The conciliar sect treats the dogma of the indissolubility of marriage and the perversion of sodomy as “pastoral challenges” to be managed case-by-case, not as truths that define the very boundaries of the Church.
Pius XI in Quas Primas teaches: “Christ reigns in the minds of men… because He Himself is Truth, and men must draw truth from Him and accept it obediently: He is said to reign also in the wills of men… because He inclines our free will and conquers it with His inspiration.” A school that admits children of a “same-sex couple” on a “case-by-case basis” teaches those children, and all the others, that Christ’s Truth is negotiable, that His Law yields to the state’s “equal opportunity,” and that the “Catholic community” is a voluntary association with flexible boundaries. This is not a Catholic school; it is a government-subsidized daycare with crucifixes on the wall.
The Supreme Court: A Masonic Tribunal Judging the Church
The article notes the “court’s three liberals” (Sotomayor, Kagan, Jackson) asked “hostile questions” while the “five conservatives” asked “friendly or neutral questions.” This political calculus is presented as the drama of justice. In reality, it is the theater of the Masonic dialectic: thesis (liberal secularism) vs. antithesis (conservative “religious liberty”), synthesis (the managed decline of the Church into a tolerated NGO).
The Syllabus condemns: “The civil government, even when in the hands of an infidel sovereign, has a right to an indirect negative power over religious affairs… In the case of conflicting laws enacted by the two powers, the civil law prevails” (Errors 41, 42). The conciliar sect, by litigating here, submits to this very principle. It asks the “infidel sovereign” (the U.S. Supreme Court) to adjudicate its “rights.”
Pius XI warns: “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 conciliar sect does not demand that Colorado venerate Christ the King; it demands a subsidy. It does not proclaim that the state’s “sexual orientation” and “gender identity” laws are null and void because they contradict the Law of God; it asks for an exemption. It accepts the legitimacy of the anti-Christian law and begs for a crumb of tolerance.
The Historical Irony: 19th Century Catholics vs. Today’s Conciliar Collaborators
Kavanaugh references 19th-century Catholic schools founded because “government-run public schools were providing a Protestant point of view to the exclusion of Catholicism.” He notes the state program director was unaware “that Catholics have historically been discriminated against.” Norton replies that “equal-opportunity requirements help religious families… a history of discrimination against Catholics is among the reasons that requirement is so important.”
This exchange is a masterpiece of historical inversion. The 19th-century Catholics built their own schools without state money precisely to escape the Protestant (Masonic) indoctrination of the public schools. They understood Non possumus — we cannot render to Caesar what belongs to God. The conciliar sect, by contrast, demands state money and then feigns surprise when Caesar attaches anti-Christian conditions.
The Syllabus condemns: “The entire government of public schools… may and ought to appertain to the civil power… freed from all ecclesiastical authority, control and interference” (Error 47). The conciliar sect has internalized this error. It wants its schools to be de facto public schools — funded by the state, regulated by the state, differing only by a “Catholic identity” that the state graciously permits as a “religious liberty” exemption. This is the civitas terrestris absorbing the civitas Dei.
Symptomatic Conclusion: The Fruit of Vatican II’s “Dignitatis Humanae”
This case is the inevitable fruit of the Second Vatican Council’s declaration on religious freedom. Dignitatis Humanae taught that the human person has a right to religious freedom, meaning immunity from coercion in civil society. It surrendered the Church’s claim that the State must confess Christ the King and conform its laws to the Catholic Faith. It adopted the Masonic principle of the “neutral state.”
Now the conciliar sect reaps what it sowed. The “neutral state” defines “equal opportunity” to include sodomy and gender ideology. The conciliar sect, having renounced the Kingship of Christ over the temporal order, has no ground to stand on except the “free exercise” clause — a Protestant/Masonic constitutional construct that protects “religion” as a private hobby.
Pius XI in Quas Primas instituted the Feast of Christ the King precisely as a remedy: “If, therefore, we have now commanded the whole Catholic world to venerate Christ the King, we wish by this to address the needs of the present times and provide a special remedy against the plague that poisons human society. And this plague is the secularism of our times, so-called laicism, its errors and wicked endeavors.” The conciliar sect does not apply this remedy. It collaborates with the plague.
The “Archdiocese of Denver” should close its schools rather than accept a single dollar from the anti-Christian state. It should teach the faithful that Salus extra Ecclesiam non est — there is no salvation outside the Church — and that the Church has no mission to beg Caesar for permission to exist. But the conciliar sect is not the Church. It is the “abomination of desolation standing in the holy place” (Matt 24:15), a paramasonic structure occupying the visible patrimony of the Church, negotiating its surrender to the Prince of this World.
The true Catholic response is not litigation before a Masonic tribunal, but the proclamation: Christus Vincit, Christus Regnat, Christus Imperat. The Colorado law is null ab initio because it contradicts the Law of God. The “Catholic schools” that seek its funding are already secularized. The Supreme Court’s eventual ruling — whatever it is — will be another nail in the coffin of the conciliar sect’s credibility. Quod Deus vult, non quod Caesar vult.
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U.S. Supreme Court leans toward Catholic schools in clash over pre-K funding (ewtnnews.com)
Date: 03.11.2026