Secular Courts Command Conciliar Schools: Render Unto Caesar the Souls of Children
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.