Trump’s “Rededicate 250” Event: Naturalism Masquerading as Piety
The EWTN News portal (February 5, 2026) reports on Donald Trump’s National Prayer Breakfast speech announcing a May 17 event to “rededicate America as one nation under God” on Washington’s National Mall. The article highlights Trump’s emphasis on America’s Christian heritage, his “America Prays” initiative, new Education Department guidelines protecting school prayer, and policies opposing transgender surgeries and protecting religious speech. Trump framed prayer as “America’s superpower” while citing Nigeria’s Christian persecution and his administration’s restrictions on abortion funding. The piece presents these actions as evidence of religious resurgence under his leadership.
Naturalistic Reduction of Religion to Political Utility
The entire premise of “rededicating” a nation never consecrated to Christ the King constitutes theological fraud. Quas primas (Pius XI, 1925) declares: “When once men recognize, both in private and in public life, that Christ is King, society will at last receive the great blessings of real liberty, well-ordered discipline, peace and harmony.” Trump’s ceremony reduces this supernatural reality to a civic ritual. His appeal to “one nation under God” deliberately omits Christ’s exclusive kingship – a syncretistic formulation acceptable to Jews, Muslims, and heretics. The article’s celebration of this slogan exposes EWTN’s complicity in the Americanist heresy condemned by Leo XIII in Testem benevolentiae (1899), which warned against adapting Catholicism to “the spirit of liberty” prevailing in civil institutions.
False Historical Narrative Serving Masonic Goals
Trump’s claim that America’s founders proclaimed “immortal truths” from the Creator is demonstrably false. The Declaration of Independence’s deistic references to “Nature’s God” and “Divine Providence” explicitly reject the Regnum Christi. As Pius IX’s Syllabus of Errors condemns: “Every man is free to embrace and profess that religion which, guided by the light of reason, he shall consider true” (Error 15). The article’s 22-page White House document “highlighting Christian roots” obscures that 21 of 56 Declaration signatories were Freemasons – a fact omitted because it undermines the narrative. This historical revisionism serves the conciliar sect’s ecumenical agenda by equating America’s natural religion with Catholicism.
Sacrilegious Equivalence of Prayer and Patriotism
By framing prayer as “America’s superpower,” Trump reduces oratio to a tool for nationalistic efficacy rather than adoratio due to God alone. The article applauds this blasphemous equivalence when describing rescued campers who “prayed” during floods. True Catholic prayer seeks God’s glory, not temporal safety. The Catechism of the Council of Trent teaches prayer’s four strict purposes: adoration, thanksgiving, petition for spiritual goods, and contrition. Trump’s “America Prays” initiative inverts this hierarchy, making prayer serve earthly prosperity – precisely the naturalism condemned in Pius X’s Lamentabili sane (Proposition 58: “Truth changes with man, because it develops with him, in him, and through him“).
Selective Morality Serving Political Expediency
The article praises Trump’s bans on transgender surgeries and abortion funding while ignoring his administration’s continuation of drone strikes killing innocent children and the ongoing US alliance with Saudi Arabia – the world’s foremost persecutor of Catholics. This moral inconsistency reveals the event’s true purpose: not defending divine law, but consolidating evangelical voter support. As Leo XIII warned in Immortale Dei (1885): “States must have God for their chief foundation,” not partisan advantage. The administration’s Nigeria strikes – described as retaliation for “killing Christians” – disregard Aquinas’ just war principles requiring proportionality and legitimate authority absent UN mandate.
EWTN’s Silent Complicity in Apostasy
Nowhere does the article question the legitimacy of a “rededication” led by a thrice-married man who publicly mocks the sacraments. EWTN’s silence on Trump’s personal immorality and heretical “pastor” endorsements (including prosperity gospel charlatans) confirms its role as propagandist for the conciliar sect. The portal’s celebration of school prayer guidelines ignores how these very policies forbid Catholic-specific prayers – enforcing the indifferentism condemned in Pius IX’s Syllabus (Error 77: “In the present day it is no longer expedient that the Catholic religion should be held as the only religion of the State“). By promoting Trump’s civil religion, EWTN perpetuates the Americanist error that Catholicism can flourish without the Social Reign of Christ the King.
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Trump announces May 17 event to rededicate U.S. as ‘one nation, under God’ (ewtnnews.com)
Date: 05.02.2026