Catholic News Agency reports that Massachusetts has removed explicit requirements for foster parents to affirm LGBT ideology, following a lawsuit by Alliance Defending Freedom. The policy previously mandated prospective parents to support children’s “sexual orientation and gender identity,” including pronoun usage and medical transitions. The amended rules now require affirmation of a child’s “individual identity and needs,” with the religious liberty group continuing to monitor compliance. The article references President Trump’s executive order prioritizing faith-based foster care participation and similar cases in Oregon, Kansas, and Arkansas.
Natural Law Compromised by Linguistic Subterfuge
The policy change constitutes a tactical retreat rather than doctrinal correction. By replacing explicit LGBT mandates with the nebulous phrase “individual identity and needs,” Massachusetts perpetuates the fundamental error of divorcing human identity from biological reality. Quas primas (Pius XI, 1925) establishes Christ’s kingship over all creation, including anthropology, rendering human subjectivity subordinate to divine ordinance. The Syllabus of Errors (Pius IX, 1864) condemns the notion that “the Roman Pontiff can, and ought to, reconcile himself with progress, liberalism and modern civilization” (Proposition 80) – precisely the modernist ethos enabling this ideological conflict.
State Usurpation of Parental Rights
The lawsuit’s framing as a “religious freedom” issue obscures the state’s inherent incompetence in defining family ethics.
“The Church not only ought never to pass judgment on philosophy, but ought to tolerate the errors of philosophy, leaving it to correct itself.”
(Syllabus of Errors, Proposition 11). This condemned proposition manifests in Massachusetts permitting itself to dictate ethical standards to families. True Catholic doctrine asserts the non possumus principle: The Church cannot accept state intrusion into domains governed by divine and natural law.
Trump’s Executive Order: Insufficient Remedy
The article’s praise for President Trump’s intervention ignores its naturalistic reduction of Christian charity to bureaucratic “public-private partnerships.” Lamentabili sane (1907) condemns the notion that “Christian doctrine was initially Jewish, but through gradual development, it became first Pauline, then Johannine, and finally Greek and universal” (Proposition 60) – mirroring the modernist evolution of foster care from Christian charity to state-managed social work. Authentic Catholic action requires not merely religious participation in state systems, but the subordination of civil institutions to Christ the King.
Omissions Exposing Doctrinal Bankruptcy
The analysis glaringly neglects to:
- Identify transgender ideology as inherently gnostic, rejecting the sacramentality of bodily existence affirmed by the Council of Trent (Session V, On Original Sin)
- Demand Massachusetts repeal all anti-discrimination statutes enabling future ideological coercion
- Condemn the underlying presumption that the state possesses authority to license Christian families as caregivers
Pius XI’s encyclical establishes that “the entire human race is subject to the authority of Jesus Christ”, rendering the state’s regulatory framework over foster care illegitimate unless explicitly subordinate to ecclesiastical authority.
Symptomatic of Conciliar Apostasy
This conflict arises from the post-conciliar abandonment of Catholic integralism. The 1917 Code of Canon Law (Canon 188.4) automatically voids offices held by those defecting from Catholic faith – a provision applicable to modernist legislators imposing gender ideology. The article’s celebration of minor policy concessions ignores the abomination of desolation: civil authorities presuming to dictate moral conditions for Christian charity. Until the Social Reign of Christ the King is reinstituted, such battles will merely rearrange deck chairs on the sinking ship of modernity.
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Massachusetts removes LGBT ideology requirements for foster care parents (catholicnewsagency.com)
Date: 19.12.2025