The National Catholic Register portal, mouthpiece of the conciliar sect’s English-speaking apparatus, publishes a commentary by its Europe correspondent Solène Tadié attempting to canonize the American Revolution as a benign political emancipation fundamentally distinct from the satanic ideological fury of its French progeny. This narrative, draped in the rhetoric of “ordered liberty” and “natural law,” serves a singular purpose: to legitimize the Masonic foundations of the United States and, by extension, the liberalism condemned by the Syllabus of Pius IX as the root of all heresies. The thesis is clear: the American experiment is compatible with Catholicism; only the French deviation went astray. This is the Americanist heresy repackaged for the neo-church’s consumption, a diabolical deception that obscures the identical Luciferian origin of both revolutions.
The Masonic Unity of the Two Revolutions
The article constructs a false dichotomy between a “political” American Revolution concerned only with fiscal obligations and an “ideological” French Revolution seeking a new world, a new order, a new man. This distinction is historically fraudulent and theologically blind. Both revolutions were midwifed by the same Masonic lodges. The Marquis de Lafayette, hailed as the bridge between the two, was a high-ranking Freemason initiated in the Loge La Candeur in Paris, later worshipful master of Loge La Fayette in New York. George Washington, the “father” of the American Republic, was a Master Mason. Benjamin Franklin was Grand Master of the Grand Lodge of Pennsylvania and a member of the Loge des Neuf Sœurs in Paris alongside Voltaire. The “liberty” won at Yorktown was Masonic liberty — Liberté, Égalité, Fraternité in embryonic form — not the libertas christiana of the Gospel.
The article quotes Lafayette: “Humanity has gained its suit. Liberty will never more be without an asylum.” This is the language of the sect, not the Church. Pius IX in Quanta Cura (1864) and the Syllabus of Errors condemns proposition 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.” The American Constitution’s First Amendment — Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion — is the legal enactment of this condemned error. It erects indifferentism (Syllabus, prop. 15-18) as the fundamental law of the land. To call this “liberty” is to call rebellion against the Social Kingship of Christ a virtue.
The Theological Bankruptcy of “Ordered Liberty”
Tadié relies on historian Reynald Sécher to claim the American insurgents “did not call into question the nature of society” and that churches “remained active and local institutions retained their vitality.” This is naturalism masquerading as Catholic analysis. A society that formally excludes Christ the King from its constitution — that refuses to “recognize the reign of our Savior” as Pius XI commands in Quas Primas — has already destroyed the nature of society. Quas Primas teaches: “When God and Jesus Christ… were removed from laws and states… the foundations of that authority were destroyed… the entire human society had to be shaken, because it lacked a stable and strong foundation.” The American founding did exactly this. It built a Tower of Babel on the sands of popular sovereignty, declaring “We the People” as the source of authority, a direct usurpation of Dei gratia.
The article’s praise of “freedom of worship” secured at the Treaty of La Jaunaye as a vindication of natural rights is blasphemous. Dignitatis Humanae (the conciliar sect’s false declaration) notwithstanding, the true Church teaches that error has no rights. Leo XIII in Libertas Praestantissimum (1888) condemns “that liberty which allows everyone to think, speak, write, and even worship as he pleases” as license, not liberty. The Vendéan counter-revolutionaries, noble as their martyrdom was, fought for a throne and altar already compromised by Gallicanism and the philosophes. Their “freedom of worship” was a capitulation to liberalism, not a Catholic principle. Charette’s appeal to the Declaration of the Rights of Man — a Masonic manifesto denying the rights of God — exposes the contamination of the counter-revolution by revolutionary principles.
Edmund Burke: The Whig Apologist for Usurpation
The article invokes Edmund Burke as a prophetic voice distinguishing the revolutions. Burke was a Whig politician who defended the American colonists as Englishmen claiming their chartered rights, not as Catholics defending Christendom. His Reflections on the Revolution in France defends prescription, prejudice, and inheritance — the idols of tradition — not the Divine Right of Kings rooted in Romans 13:1 and the Coronation Oath to defend the Faith. Burke’s “men of intemperate minds cannot be free” is Stoic moralism, not Catholic theology. True freedom is libertas a peccato (freedom from sin), found only in submission to Christ the King (John 8:36). Burke’s “ordered liberty” is the freedom of the slave who loves his chains of naturalism.
The Silence of the Supernatural: The Gravest Accusation
The article’s total silence on the supernatural order — no mention of grace, the sacraments, the state of grace, the Final Judgment, the Social Kingship of Christ, the necessity of the Catholic Church for salvation (Extra Ecclesiam Nulla Salus) — is the signature of the conciliar sect. It reduces the drama of salvation history to a political science case study. This is the hermeneutic of the world (saeculum), not the mind of the Church (Sentire cum Ecclesia). The author, a journalist for the antichurch’s media apparatus (EWTN/Register), formed at the Angelicum under the Modernist occupation, produces naturalistic pabulum for a laity starved of the Bread of Doctrine.
Symptomatic Level: The Neo-Church’s Americanist Captivity
This article reveals the systemic apostasy of the post-conciliar structures. The conciliar sect is structurally Americanist. Its antipopes (John XXIII through Leo XIV) have blessed the American project. Paul VI visited the UN (1965). John Paul II praised the First Amendment in Baltimore (1995). Benedict XVI spoke at the White House (2008). Francis canonized the Americanist Junipero Serra (2015). The Register, owned by the Knights of Columbus (a Masonic-parallel organization), exists to baptize the Masonic order. Tadié’s piece is propaganda for the syncretism of the neo-church: “Franco-American friendship” built on shared revolutionary ancestry.
The Only True Counter-Revolution
The only authentic counter-revolution is the restoration of the Social Kingship of Christ (Quas Primas), the rejection of religious liberty (Syllabus, Mirari Vos, Quanta Cura), the condemnation of the separation of Church and State (Immortale Dei), and the recognition that the post-1958 claimants to the papacy are manifest heretics who have lost their office ipso facto (Bellarmine, De Romano Pontifice; Cum ex Apostolatus Officio; Canon 188.4). The true Church subsists in the remnant (reliquiae) holding fast to Tradition (2 Thess 2:15), served by validly ordained priests (pre-1968 rite) and bishops consecrated in the true rite, rejecting the abomination of desolation occupying the Vatican.
The American Revolution was not a prelude to liberty but a prelude to the Reign of Antichrist. Non est alia salus. There is no salvation in the City of Man, however “ordered” its liberty.
Source:
Why the American Revolution Brought Liberty — And the French Revolution a Reign of Terror (ncregister.com)
Date: 02.07.2026