The National Catholic Register/EWTN News reports that the Chicago-born “Pope” Leo XIV will accept the Liberty Medal from the National Constitution Center (NCC) via telecast on July 3, 2026, during America’s 250th-anniversary celebrations. The NCC states the award honors his “commitment to religious freedom and freedom of conscience and expression,” with “Pope” Leo described as embodying America’s founding ideals of liberty. This event, held near the Liberty Bell, will feature interfaith dialogue and a week of concerts. The article presents this as a harmonious convergence of Catholic teaching and American constitutional principles, omitting any conflict between the Kingship of Christ and the secular, naturalistic foundation of the United States.
Theological Contradiction: Christ the King vs. the American “Liberty” Idol
The article’s core error is its fundamental premise: that a pontiff can honor a “liberty” defined by a Masonic-inspired constitution that explicitly separates Church and State and enshrines religious indifferentism. This is a direct repudiation of the immutable Catholic doctrine defined by Pope Pius XI in the encyclical Quas Primas, which instituted the feast of Christ the King precisely to combat the “secularism of our times, so-called laicism.” Pius XI declared that the “plague” of secularism began “with the denial of Christ the Lord’s reign over all nations” and that when “God and Jesus Christ… were removed from laws and states… the foundations of that authority were destroyed.” The “Liberty Medal” celebrates the very secularism Pius XI condemned as a poison that “sowed seeds of discord,” shattered domestic peace, and loosened family ties. A true pope would thunder against the NCC’s principles, not accept its award. The article’s silence on Quas Primas is a damning admission of apostasy.
Syllabus of Errors Condemns the Award’s Foundation
The National Constitution Center’s founding ideology is a compendium of errors solemnly condemned by Pope Pius IX in the Syllabus Errorum. The award celebrates “religious freedom” and “freedom of conscience,” which are explicit targets of condemnation:
* Error #15: “Every man is free to embrace and profess that religion which, guided by the light of reason, he shall consider true.”
* 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, to the exclusion of all other forms of worship.”
* Error #78: “Hence it has been wisely decided by law, in some Catholic countries, that persons coming to reside therein shall enjoy the public exercise of their own peculiar worship.”
By accepting an award from an institution dedicated to these condemned principles, “Pope” Leo XIV publicly demonstrates his adherence to the very errors the Syllabus anathematized. He thereby proves himself an adherent of the “liberal” error Pius IX called a “pest” and a “synagogue of Satan.” The article quotes NCC chair Mike George stating America “understood liberty of conscience as essential to human freedom and self-government.” This is pure Modernism, reducing religion to a private opinion compatible with secular statism—the exact opposite of the Catholic doctrine that the State must publicly recognize and obey Christ the King.
Linguistic Analysis: Naturalistic Humanism Masquerading as Catholicism
The article’s language is a study in post-conciliar naturalism. Key phrases reveal the apostate mindset:
* “Commitment to religious freedom and freedom of conscience and expression” – echoes the Vatican II document Dignitatis Humanae, which attempted to reconcile the condemned errors of the Syllabus with Catholic doctrine, a “hermeneutics of continuity” that St. Pius X condemned as the synthesis of all heresies in Lamentabili Sane Exitu (Propositions 64-65 on the evolution of doctrine).
* “Defense of religious liberty” – frames a condemned error as a “defense,” inverting moral categories.
* “Dignity for all people, inclusion for all people, regardless of their faith” – is the language of secular humanism and Masonic universalism, not Catholic exclusivity. Pius IX condemned the notion that “the civil power may… pass judgment on the instructions issued for the guidance of consciences” (Error #44), but here “inclusion” demands the Church subordinate its truth to a pluralistic state.
* “First American pope” – highlights the nationalist, ethnic pride condemned by Pius IX (Error #76: “The abolition of the temporal power… would contribute… to the liberty and prosperity of the Church”). The article celebrates a “Chicago native” as pope, ignoring that a true pope is the Vicar of Christ, not a representative of American civil religion.
Symptomatic of the Conciliar Apostasy: The “Ecumenism of Blood” and the Death of Catholic Social Teaching
This event is a perfect symptom of the post-conciliar revolution. The NCC event will include “other faith leaders” for “interfaith dialogue,” directly implementing the conciliar error of religious liberty and the “ecumenism of blood” that equates all religions in a common fight for “freedom.” This contradicts the Catholic doctrine that outside the Church there is no salvation (Extra Ecclesiam Nulla Salus) and that the State must favor the true religion. Pius XI in Quas Primas quoted Leo XIII: “His reign… extends not only to Catholic nations… but His reign encompasses also all non-Christians.” Christ’s reign is universal in duty, not a pluralistic “freedom” that honors false religions. The article’s omission of any call for the United States to officially recognize Christ as King is a silent denial of the social kingship of Christ. Furthermore, “Pope” Leo’s planned visit to Lampedusa to promote migrant landing is a classic Modernist tactic: replacing the Church’s supernatural mission (salvation of souls) with a naturalistic, leftist political agenda of “human dignity” divorced from grace and the sacraments.
Exposure of the “Pope’s” Apostasy: A Manifest Heretic Loses Office
From the perspective of integral Catholic faith (pre-1958 doctrine), “Pope” Leo XIV is a manifest heretic and therefore, according to St. Robert Bellarmine and Canon 188.4 of the 1917 Code, ipso facto deprived of the papacy. His public acceptance of an award for promoting religious liberty—an error condemned by Pius IX—constitutes “public defection from the Catholic faith.” Bellarmine stated: “A manifest heretic is not a Christian… therefore, a manifest heretic cannot be Pope.” The NCC’s statement that Leo “defends religious freedom” is a public, documented adherence to heresy. The Vatican’s confirmation of his participation is a formal act of schism and apostasy. The article treats this as normal, revealing that the conciliar sect has fully embraced the errors of the world it was meant to condemn. The “quick acceptance” mentioned by NCC’s interim CEO Vince Stango demonstrates a pre-existing ideological alignment with American liberalism, not a pastoral concession.
Historical Whitewashing: The American Experiment vs. Catholic Monarchy
The article glorifies America’s founding as a bastion of liberty, omitting the documented anti-Catholicism of its founders and the Masonic, deistic principles of the Constitution. Pope Leo XIII in Longinqua Oceani (1895) warned American bishops that the separation of Church and State, while tolerated in practice, was an “evil” that “cannot but be regarded as… detrimental to the Church.” The NCC’s celebration of the Declaration of Independence and Constitution is a celebration of the very “errors concerning civil society” condemned in the Syllabus (Errors #39-55). The article’s framing of “Pope” Leo as the “first American pope” who “represents those ideals” is the ultimate synthesis of the Revolution within the Church: the pontiff becomes a cheerleader for the very secular order that Pius IX called a “synagogue of Satan” and Pius XI called a “plague.” This is not “religious liberty” but the abdication of the Church’s duty to subject all human laws to the Law of Christ.
Conclusion: The Abomination of Desolation in Philadelphia
The upcoming ceremony on Independence Mall is an abomination. A manifest heretic, occupying the See of Peter through a long series of apostate “papal” elections (beginning with the Modernist John XXIII), will use a telecast to honor the American constitutional order that enshrines the separation of Church and State and the free propagation of all errors. This act publicly ratifies the errors of Vatican II’s Dignitatis Humanae and the entire conciliar cult of man. It is a satanic parody of the feast of Christ the King, replacing the public confession of Christ’s reign with the public exaltation of secular “liberty.” The article presents this as a triumph; in reality, it is the final,公开 renunciation of the Catholic Faith by the leaders of the conciliar sect. The only legitimate response of any Catholic is total rejection, as commanded by Pius IX: “Make known and attack those who… are not afraid to affirm that these shady congregations aim only at the profit of society, at progress and mutual benefit.” The NCC and “Pope” Leo XIV are precisely such “shady congregations.”
Source:
Pope Leo XIV to Accept Liberty Medal From National Constitution Center Via Telecast On July 3 (ncregister.com)
Date: 16.03.2026