Supreme Court’s Passport Ruling: A Fleeting Victory in a Godless Landscape
Catholic News Agency reports on November 7, 2025, that the U.S. Supreme Court permitted the Trump administration to enforce biological sex designation on passports. The unsigned order asserted such requirements “no more offends equal protection principles than displaying [a] country of birth,” framing sex as a “historical fact.” Dissenting Justices Ketanji Brown Jackson, Sonia Sotomayor, and Elena Kagan deemed the policy “questionably legal,” warning of “significant anxiety and fear” for those identifying as transgender. U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi celebrated this as the administration’s “24th victory,” declaring: “There are two sexes, and our attorneys will continue fighting for that simple truth.” The article references the Vatican’s 2024 document Dignitas Infinita, which criticizes gender ideology for denying sexual difference.
Natural Law Subverted by Judicial Activism
The Court’s reduction of biological sex to a mere “historical fact” betrays the ontological reality established by Divine Law. As Pius IX condemned in the Syllabus of Errors: “No other forces are to be recognized except those which reside in matter” (Error 58). The dissenting justices’ appeal to “anxiety and fear” exposes the modernist inversion of morality that prioritizes subjective feelings over lex aeterna. This judicial theater presupposes the state’s authority to define reality itself, a usurpation condemned by Pius XI in Quas Primas: “Rulers and legitimate superiors will have the conviction that they exercise authority not so much by their own right as by the command and in the place of the Divine King.”
The Vatican’s Tepid Response and Its Omissions
While Dignitas Infinita rightly denounces gender ideology’s denial of sexual difference, its silence on three critical points reveals conciliar complicity:
- No condemnation of passport gender markers as sacrilegious lies: The document omits the Church’s uncompromising stance that civil documents must reflect God-created reality under penalty of cooperation in falsehood (Non licet).
- Failure to invoke Christ’s Kingship over nations: Contrast Pius XI’s encyclical: “Nations will be happy and peaceful only in so far as they accept God’s teaching and obey His laws” with Dignitas Infinita‘s naturalistic focus on “reciprocity.”
- Absence of call for conversion: Traditional doctrine demands states submit to Christ the King, not merely “acknowledge” biological facts (Pius IX, Syllabus, Error 77).
Trump Administration’s Philosophical Contradictions
The article praises the White House for “reversing transgender-related rules,” yet this administration operates within the same Enlightenment framework as its opponents. By framing the issue as “equal protection principles,” both sides accept the heretical premise that civil law exists independently of Divine Revelation. As the Holy Office decreed in Lamentabili Sane (1907): “Truth changes with man, because it develops with him” (Error 58). The administration’s victory remains pyrrhic, for it defends biological reality while rejecting the regnum sociale Christi that alone can order society to its proper end.
Silence on the Church’s Prophetic Duty
Nowhere does the article mention the hierarchy’s duty to demand America’s public submission to Christ the King. Pius XI’s mandate remains binding: “Let rulers of states therefore not refuse public veneration and obedience to the reigning Christ” (Quas Primas). Instead, the conciliar sect’s muted response (Dignitas Infinita) reduces Catholicism to a philosophical position in pluralistic debates. This abdication fulfills Leo XIII’s warning: “When God and Jesus Christ are removed from laws and states… the entire human society had to be shaken” (Immortale Dei).
Dissenting Justices’ Gnostic Anthropology
The dissent’s claim that biological truth causes “concrete injury” manifests the gnostic hatred of creation warned against in Pius XII’s Humani Generis. Justice Jackson’s appeal to “safety” concerns inverts morality by making emotional comfort the criterion of truth—a precursor to the “cult of man” anathematized by Gregory XVI in Mirari Vos. Their logic echoes the condemned modernist tenet: “Faith… is ultimately based on a sum of probabilities” (Lamentabili, Error 25).
Conclusion: A Hollow Victory in Apostate Times
While the passport policy aligns superficially with natural law, its enforcement by a regime rejecting Christ’s sovereignty proves futile. As the Syllabus declares: “The Roman Pontiff can not, and ought not to, reconcile himself with progress, liberalism, and modern civilization” (Error 80). Until America converts to the Catholic Faith and enshrines Christ’s Social Reign, such judicial skirmishes merely rearrange deck chairs on a sinking ship. The Church’s true sons must reject all collaboration with this godless order, proclaiming with the martyrs: Non possumus—we cannot obey laws contrary to God’s eternal Law.
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U.S. Supreme Court allows Trump administration to require biological sex on passports (catholicnewsagency.com)
Article date: 07.11.2025