Incoming Wyoming Catholic College student Miriam Washut took home a $150,000 scholarship after winning first place in the first-ever Presidential 1776 Awards, a nationwide civics competition. Washut, who is the daughter of Wyoming Catholic College President Kyle Washut, emerged triumphant from among 20 finalists and over 8,000 students from all 50 states and territories who entered the competition. Washut, along with the second and third place winners, met with President Donald Trump in the Oval Office July 1 alongside Secretary of Education Linda McMahon.
The cited article from the EWTN News portal reports on a confluence of events that manifest the total capitulation of the conciliar sect to the religion of Americanism, that synthesis of all heresies condemned by Leo XIII in *Testem Benevolentiae* and by the Syllabus of Pius IX. An incoming student at Wyoming Catholic College — the daughter of the institution’s own president — receives a six-figure prize from the hands of a secular politician, Donald Trump, for excellence in “civics” centered on the Masonic mythology of 1776. Simultaneously, Benedictine College unveils a library replicating Independence Hall, the very temple where the Declaration of Independence — a document dripping with naturalist and deist principles — was signed. The University of Mary expands its theological empire under the aegis of the “Diocese of Phoenix,” a structure of the neo-church. And the Archdiocese of Miami laments the veto of state funds by Governor Ron DeSantis, exposing the mendicant dependency of the post-conciliar hierarchy on Caesar’s largesse. These are not isolated incidents; they are the liturgical rites of the new civic religion which has replaced the Social Kingship of Christ the King in the neo-church.
The 1776 Award: Canonizing the Revolution Against Christ the King
The “Presidential 1776 Award” is not a scholarship; it is a canonization within the civil religion of the United States. The competition purports to recognize “a deep understanding of America’s founding principles.” What are these principles? They are the very errors anathematized by the Syllabus: “Human reason, without any reference whatsoever to God, is the sole arbiter of truth and falsehood, and of good and evil” (Error 3); “The Church is not a true and perfect society… but it appertains to the civil power to define what are the rights of the Church” (Error 19); “The Church ought to be separated from the State, and the State from the Church” (Error 55). The Declaration of Independence, the sacred text of this award, grounds rights in “Nature’s God” and the “consent of the governed,” explicitly denying the divine right of Christ the King to rule over nations. Pius XI in Quas Primas thundered against this plague: “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 honoring a student for mastering this revolutionary catechism, the “President” of the United States — a layman with zero ecclesiastical jurisdiction — performs a pontifical act for the paramasonic structure occupying the public square. That a “Catholic” college president’s daughter wins this prize is not nepotism alone; it is the definitive signature of the institution’s apostasy. The neo-church does not form Catholics; it forms American citizens who happen to attend Mass.
Wyoming Catholic College: A Dynasty of Compromise
The fact that the winner, Miriam Washut, is the daughter of Kyle Washut, the president of Wyoming Catholic College, strips away any veneer of meritocratic integrity. It reveals a clerical-bourgeois dynasty entrenched within the indult/neo-conservative establishment. This college, lauded by the neo-church media as a bastion of “orthodoxy,” produces a student whose crowning achievement is recognized by the White House, not by the Church. The “scholarship” of $150,000 is the price of Judas for betraying the Social Reign of Christ. The “Secretary of Education Linda McMahon” stands beside Trump — a perfect icon of the laicism Pius XI condemned: “the secularism of our times, so-called laicism, its errors and wicked endeavors.” The article notes the award celebrates “250 years of this great nation.” Two hundred and fifty years of a nation founded on the rejection of the Catholic confessional State, on religious indifferentism (Error 16), and on the sovereignty of the people rather than the sovereignty of God. Wyoming Catholic College, by celebrating this victory, proclaims: “We have no king but Caesar” (John 19:15). It has internalized the Modernist error condemned in *Lamentabili Sane Exitu*: “Christ did not proclaim any specific, all-encompassing doctrine suitable for all times and peoples, but rather initiated a certain religious movement, applied or applicable to different times and places” (Prop. 59). Here, the “movement” is American patriotism; the “time and place” is the 250th anniversary of the Masonic Republic.
Benedictine College: A Temple to the Idol of Liberty
Benedictine College in Atchison, Kansas, will hold a soft-launch opening of its Moritz Library, built to resemble Independence Hall in Philadelphia, on July 4. This is not architecture; it is idolatry. They have constructed a physical replica of the Assembly Room where the Declaration of Independence was signed — the very moment the colonies formally apostatized from the Kingship of Christ by refusing to acknowledge His law as the supreme civil code. The press release speaks of “costumed reenactors” and “children’s games.” Ludibria sunt haec. These are the games of the Synagogue of Satan, mocking the gravity of the Faith. The exhibit “Celebrating the American Experiment” displays works by Aristotle, Cicero, Locke, and Sidney — the pagan and liberal architects of naturalism — alongside the Declaration, the Federalist Papers, and the Constitution. Where is the Summa Theologiae? Where are the Canons of the Council of Trent? Where is Quas Primas? Where is the Syllabus? They are absent because they condemn the very documents on display. The “rare 1788 printing of the Constitution” is venerated as a relic. This library is a counter-church, a shrine to the Dea Libertas of the Freemasons. Pius IX, in *Qui Pluribus*, condemned the “pests” of “Socialism, Communism, Secret Societies, Biblical Societies, Clerico-Liberal Societies.” The American founding is the political triumph of the “Clerico-Liberal Societies.” To build a library in the shape of its sanctuary is to plant the abomination of desolation in the holy place (Matt 24:15). The “Remnant Trust” loaning these documents is aptly named: it preserves the remnants of the Revolution, not the Deposit of Faith.
University of Mary: Expanding the Neo-Church’s Academic Empire
The University of Mary announces a graduate school of theology in Phoenix, “a further development of its long-standing partnership with the Diocese of Phoenix and Nazareth Seminary.” Partnership with a “diocese” of the conciliar sect. The “Diocese of Phoenix” is a jurisdiction of the “Church of the New Advent,” headed by a “bishop” who derives his mission from the usurper “Pope” Leo XIV (Robert Prevost), the latest in the line of antipopes beginning with John XXIII. Eric Westby, “associate professor of theology,” claims this formation will “help students know their faith more deeply and be equipped to pass it on in a variety of settings.” What faith? The faith of Vatican II? The faith of *Dignitatis Humanae* (religious liberty), *Nostra Aetate* (false ecumenism), *Lumen Gentium* (collegiality)? This is the nova theologia condemned by St. Pius X in *Pascendi* and *Lamentabili*: “The dogmas which the Church proposes as revealed are not truths of divine origin but are a certain interpretation of religious facts” (Prop. 22). The “Master of Divinity” degree conferred by this structure is a degree in Modernism. The “Arizona Center” located “across from St. Mary’s Basilica and the diocesan pastoral center” signifies the total identification of the academic project with the institutional neo-church. It is a factory for producing functionaries for the paramasonic structure.
The Archdiocese of Miami: Begging Caesar for the Crumbs of Security
Republican Governor Ron DeSantis vetoes $15 million for security at “Catholic schools in Miami-Dade County.” The “Archdiocese of Miami” expresses “disappointment,” stating: “Security enhancements are not a luxury; they are an essential component of providing safe environments where students can learn and thrive.” Here lies the naked reality of the post-conciliar church: it is a beggar before the State. It acknowledges implicitly that the State holds the purse strings and the monopoly on violence. It does not cry out for the libertas Ecclesiae (freedom of the Church) guaranteed by divine right; it whines for a line item in the budget. The statement notes it “does not receive any funding to offset security costs, despite other privately-run public charter schools in the state receiving government aid.” This is the fruit of Error 55 of the Syllabus: “The Church ought to be separated from the State, and the State from the Church.” Having accepted this separation, the neo-church has no ground to stand on when the State refuses to subsidize it. It has rendered unto Caesar the things that are God’s — the education of the young — and now begs Caesar for police protection. Quas Primas warned: “Let rulers of states therefore not refuse public veneration and obedience to the reigning Christ… For what we wrote at the beginning of Our Pontificate about the diminishing authority was derived not from God but from men, the foundations of that authority were destroyed.” The Archdiocese of Miami, by seeking state funds, validates the derivation of authority from men. It has no supernatural authority left to invoke; it is a mere NGO, a “privately-run public charter school” in purple vestments.
Systemic Apostasy: The Fruit of the Conciliar Revolution
These four news items — the 1776 Award, the Independence Hall Library, the Phoenix Theology School, the Miami Funding Plea — are not disparate. They are the four pillars of the neo-church’s civic religion:
- Political Collaboration: Seeking honors and validation from the Masonic State (Wyoming Catholic College / Trump).
- Liturgical Architecture: Consecrating physical space to the idols of Liberty and Equality (Benedictine College).
- Intellectual Subversion: Forming clergy and laity in the Modernist “theology” of the “Church of the New Advent” (University of Mary / Diocese of Phoenix).
- Material Dependency: Begging the secular power for the means of survival, having surrendered the spiritual sword (Archdiocese of Miami / DeSantis).
This is the opus operatum of Vatican II. *Dignitatis Humanae* declared the human person has a right to religious freedom, effectively dethroning Christ the King in the civil order. *Gaudium et Spes* handed the Church over to the “world” in a dialogue of the deaf. The result is the total naturalization of the supernatural. The “Catholic education news in the U.S.” reported by EWTN — the propaganda arm of the neo-church — is a chronicle of spiritual suicide.
St. Robert Bellarmine, cited in the defense of sedevacantism, teaches: “A manifest heretic cannot be Pope… A non-Christian in no way can be Pope… he cannot be the head of something of which he is not a member.” The same principle applies to the hierarchy of the neo-church. Men who build libraries to Independence Hall, who send students to the Oval Office for “civics awards,” who beg governors for security grants — these men are not members of the Catholic Church in the juridical and theological sense. They are the administrators of the abomination of desolation. They have ipso facto severed themselves from the Body of Christ by their public adhesion to the principles of the Revolution (Canon 188.4, 1917 Code; *Cum ex Apostolatus Officio*).
The true Catholic response is not to “win awards” in the enemy’s system, nor to build replica temples to their gods, nor to expand seminaries for their false priesthood, nor to beg for their money. The true response is the one Pius XI mandated in Quas Primas: “If all the faithful understood that they must fight bravely and always under the banner of Christ the King, then with apostolic zeal they will strive diligently to reconcile stray and unenlightened souls with the Lord and will stand guard so that God’s laws remain inviolate.” The banner of Christ the King is the only standard. The 1776 Award, the Independence Hall Library, the Phoenix Graduate School, the Miami Funding Plea — these are the banners of the Antichrist. Non possumus. We cannot serve God and Mammon; we cannot serve Christ the King and the Republic of 1776. The neo-church has chosen 1776. The remnant chooses the Regnum Christi.
Source:
Wyoming Catholic College student wins Presidential 1776 Award (ewtnnews.com)
Date: 02.07.2026