The National Catholic Register portal (July 10, 2026) reports that the U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit ruled against St. Dominic Academy in the “Diocese of Portland,” denying an injunction that would have allowed the school to receive public funding while refusing to comply with Maine’s “gender-identity” nondiscrimination mandates. The court declared that forcing schools to facilitate “gender transitions” and affirm “opposite-sex pronouns” is a “legitimate governmental pursuit” rationally related to combatting discrimination. This ruling follows the 2022 Carson v. Makin decision where the Supreme Court forced Maine to include religious schools in its tuition program; the state responded by imposing the very LGBT mandates that now exclude the conciliar schools. The Becket Fund, representing the academy, celebrated partial victories on hiring and expression but lamented the nondiscrimination ruling “jumped off a cliff.” This legal defeat exposes the fatal contradiction of a counterfeit church that seeks the protection of Masonic law while abandoning the Social Kingship of Christ the King.
The Conciliar Sect’s Faustian Bargain with the Secular State
The cited article reveals the utter bankruptcy of the conciliar sect’s strategy: it demands the privilegium fori (privilege of the forum) from a godless state while surrendering the jus divinum (divine right) to teach and govern souls. St. Dominic Academy — an institution of the “Diocese of Portland,” a structure erected by the usurpers occupying the Vatican since 1958 — petitioned Caesar for public coin. Having accepted the thirty pieces of silver, it now feigns outrage when Caesar demands his image stamped upon the conscience of children. Pius XI, in Quas Primas, thundered: “The Church, established by Christ as a perfect society, demands for itself by a right belonging to it, which it cannot renounce, full freedom and independence from secular authority”. The conciliar “school” renounced that independence the moment it entered the state’s tuition program. It sought to be “neutral benefit program” recipients — the very language of Carson v. Makin — and thereby subjected the Kingship of Christ to the jurisdiction of the First Circuit. One cannot serve God and Mammon; the conciliar sect has chosen Mammon, and Mammon now exacts its pound of flesh.
Juridical Idolatry: Appealing to Caesar Against Christ
The Becket Fund’s reliance on Carson v. Makin and Mahmoud v. Taylor constitutes juridical idolatry. These “Catholic” lawyers argue before the Supreme Court — the high priest of the American civil religion — that the Constitution protects their “religious exercise.” They invoke the First Amendment as a shield against the Fourteenth, ignoring that both are products of a Masonic order condemned by the Syllabus of Errors. Pius IX anathematized the proposition: “The civil government, even when in the hands of an infidel sovereign, has a right to an indirect negative power over religious affairs” (Error 41). He condemned: “In the case of conflicting laws enacted by the two powers, the civil law prevails” (Error 42). The First Circuit has merely applied these condemned principles consistently. The conciliar sect’s “religious liberty” is the libertas ecclesiae of Vatican II’s Dignitatis Humanae — a heresy condemned in advance by Quanta Cura and the Syllabus. By begging for “exemptions” from antichrist laws, the Becket Fund acknowledges the state’s competence to define the limits of divine worship. This is not martyrdom; it is apostasy in a courtroom.
The Myth of “Religious Liberty” in the Syllabus of Errors
The article’s framing — “Christian schools receiving public funding must follow gender, sexuality rules” — assumes the legitimacy of the secular state’s definition of “discrimination.” The Syllabus of Errors (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). It condemns: “The ecclesiastical power ought not to exercise its authority without the permission and assent of the civil government” (Error 20). The Maine law does precisely this: it defines the “rights” of the “school” and forces assent to the civil government’s anthropology. The conciliar “bishops” and their lawyers have no answer because they accepted the premise of Gaudium et Spes and Dignitatis Humanae — that the Church must “dialogue” with the world on the world’s terms. The First Circuit’s ruling is the logical terminus of the conciliar revolution: a “Church” that claims no right to teach truth, only a privilege to exist as a tolerated NGO.
St. Dominic Academy: A Modernist Institution, Not a Catholic School
The article identifies St. Dominic Academy as a “Catholic school” in the “Diocese of Portland.” This is a lie. Since the promulgation of the Novus Ordo Missae (1969) and the new sacramental rites (1968), the “Diocese of Portland” has been a paramasonic structure devoid of valid orders and true jurisdiction. Its “bishop” is a layman in vestments, ordained in the invalid rite of Paul VI. Its “priests” are functionaries of a false liturgy. The school’s “Catholic identity” consists in resisting “gender transitions” while celebrating the “Mass” of the Protestantized Bugnini rite. It fights for the right to teach natural law morality while denying the Supernatural Lawgiver His due worship. As the False Fatima Apparitions document exposes, the conciliar narrative — including its “apparitions” and “miracles” — is a Masonic psychological operation. St. Dominic Academy is a fruit of that operation: a controlled opposition that channels Catholic resistance into harmless litigation. “The efficacy of Holy Mass is diminished in favor of spectacular acts” — here, the spectacular act is a federal lawsuit.
The Silence on Christ the King: Total Apostasy from Social Kingship
Nowhere in the article — nor in the Becket Fund’s statements — is there a whisper of Quas Primas. No one declares that Christ the King reigns over Maine, over the First Circuit, over the Supreme Court. Pius XI taught: “His reign encompasses also all non-Christians, so that most truly the entire human race is subject to the authority of Jesus Christ”. He commanded: “Let rulers of states therefore not refuse public veneration and obedience to the reigning Christ… if they wish to maintain their authority inviolate.” The conciliar sect has abolished the Feast of Christ the King (moving it to the end of the liturgical year to empty it of eschatological force) and replaced the Social Kingship with “religious freedom.” The Maine law is a direct assault on Christ’s Kingship: it demands that the state’s false anthropology — “gender identity” — be enthroned in the classroom. The true Catholic response is not a lawsuit citing Carson v. Makin, but the proclamation: “Non praevalebunt” (they shall not prevail), backed by the Unbloody Sacrifice of Calvary offered by valid priests in the catacombs. The conciliar “school” prefers the approval of the First Circuit to the Crown of Thorns.
Symptomatic Level: The Inevitable Fruit of Vatican II’s Religious Liberty Heresy
This ruling is not an anomaly; it is the fructus necessarius (necessary fruit) of the conciliar tree. Lamentabili Sane Exitu (1907) condemned the Modernist proposition: “The Church is incapable of effectively defending evangelical ethics, because it steadfastly adheres to its views, which cannot be reconciled with modern progress” (Prop. 63). The conciliar sect “reconciled” itself to modern progress at Vatican II. It declared in Dignitatis Humanae that the human person has a right to religious freedom — i.e., immunity from coercion in matters religious by the civil power. Maine has simply applied this principle: if “religious freedom” means the state cannot coerce belief, then the state can coerce action — including the “affirmation” of “gender identity” — as a condition of public funding. The Becket Fund’s horror is the horror of Dr. Frankenstein seeing his monster turn on him. The “nondiscrimination” regime is the secular dogma of the Antichurch; the conciliar sect helped write it, and now it is being devoured by it.
The Only Remedy: Return to the Integral Faith and Valid Sacraments
The article mentions a potential Supreme Court appeal. This is the counsel of despair. The Supreme Court is the guardian of the Masonic Constitution. As Leo XIII warned in Humanum Genus (1884), the Masonic sect aims “to strike it with frequent blows, to shake it, to overthrow it, and, if possible, to make it disappear completely from the earth.” The conciliar “bishops” and their lawyers are collaborators in this enterprise, whether wittingly or not. The true Church — the Ecclesia Militans — does not petition the Sanhedrin for permission to teach the Truth. She teaches it ex cathedra through valid bishops and priests, in the Most Holy Sacrifice of the Traditional Latin Mass, independent of state funding and state approval. “You were bought with a price; do not become slaves of men” (1 Cor 7:23), Pius XI quoted in Quas Primas. St. Dominic Academy and the “Diocese of Portland” are slaves of men. The faithful must flee these structures — “exite de medio eorum” (2 Cor 6:17) — and cleave to the remnant that keeps the depositum fidei intact, awaiting the restoration of the Papacy and the Social Reign of Christ the King. No court order can bind the conscience; only the Law of God binds, and that Law is kept only in the true Church, outside of which there is no salvation.
Source:
Federal Court: Maine Christian Schools Receiving Public Funding Must Follow Gender, Sexuality Rules (ncregister.com)
Date: 10.07.2026