Antichurch

The National Catholic Register portal reports that the U.S. Department of Education, under the Trump administration, has approved a new “Student Tuition and Transparency System (STATS) and Earnings Accountability” rule which threatens to strip federal student loans and Pell Grants from academic programs whose graduates fail to out-earn high school diploma holders or bachelor’s degree holders respectively. The regulation, approved June 29, would penalize programs failing the earnings test in two of three consecutive award years, with the earliest sanctions arriving July 2, 2028. Officials at the conciliar “Catholic University of America” and the “Association of Jesuit Colleges and Universities” have issued statements lamenting that this metric disproportionately harms “ministry and other service-oriented careers” and “mission-centered work” such as “volunteerism, vocation, service to faith communities, public interest careers, teaching, nonprofit leadership, and engagement with marginalized communities.” The Department of Education’s own impact analysis initially projected a 53.3% failure rate for undergraduate religion programs and 89.4% for graduate programs, though the final rule carves out an exemption for institutions that have not participated in the Federal Direct Loan Program for five years. This episode lays bare the conciliar sect’s total capitulation to the naturalistic order: it begs the secular state for the thirty pieces of silver necessary to sustain its modernist “theological” faculties, all while ignoring the Social Kingship of Christ the King.