Bishop Taylor’s Modernist Distortion of Catholic Social Teaching
The EWTN News portal (January 28, 2026) reports on Arkansas “bishop” Anthony Taylor’s statement comparing contemporary American societal conditions to Nazi Germany. Taylor invokes his Jewish ancestry and family losses during the Holocaust to warn against polarization, restrictive immigration policies, and nationalism. He specifically references “Pope” Leo XIV’s recent diplomatic address while urging Catholics to view migrants as “Jesus in disguise.” The article concludes with Taylor’s call for peace through humanitarianism rather than national sovereignty. This analysis reveals how Taylor employs naturalistic reasoning divorced from Catholic social principles while promoting anti-doctrinal concepts of human dignity disconnected from man’s supernatural end.