The National Catholic Reporter — long the propaganda organ of the conciliar sect — publishes a hagiographic puff piece on the Carroll family, presenting their instrumental role in forging the Masonic republic of the United States as a triumph of “Catholic heritage.” The article, sourced from OSV News and dated July 6, 2026, recounts how three Maryland Catholics, educated at the Jesuit College of Saint-Omer, became signers of the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution, with John Carroll installed as first “bishop” of Baltimore. The “Saint-Omer Foundation for Transatlantic Values” now commemorates this history as a template for saving “democracy in danger.” The conciliar “archbishop” of Baltimore, William Lori, blesses this narrative, praising the “authentic Christian humanism” of their formation. The thesis is clear: the article whitewashes the Masonic foundations of the American order, baptizes religious liberty — condemned by the Syllabus of Errors — as a Catholic virtue, and deploys a post-conciliar usurper to legitimize the revolution.
The Masonic Architecture of the American Founding
The article treats the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution as instruments of divine providence, ignoring their DNA. The Declaration’s “life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness” is a secularized truncation of the Masonic triad Liberté, Égalité, Fraternité. The Constitution erects a civitas without God — sine Deo nulla societas (without God, no society). Pope Pius IX, in the Syllabus Errorum (1864), anathematized the proposition that “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 77). He condemned the lie that “the civil liberty of every form of worship… conduce more easily to corrupt the morals and minds of the people” (Error 79). The Carrolls did not resist these errors; they signed them into law. Charles Carroll of Carrollton, the sole Catholic signer of the Declaration, “worked to ensure that the fledgling nation promoted religious freedom at the core of the new democracy.” This is not heroism; it is apostasy. Quas Primas teaches that “the State must leave the same freedom to the members of Orders… who are indeed the most valiant helpers of the Pastors of the Church” — but only within a polity that publicly honors Christ and obeys Him. The American founding explicitly refused this. The Carrolls were the quislings who gave Catholic legitimacy to a regime built on naturalisme.
The Jesuit Education That Served the Revolution
The article waxes lyrical about the “splendid education, rooted in an authentic Christian humanism” the Carrolls received at Saint-Omer. This is a retrospective projection of conciliar “humanism” onto the old Society. The pre-suppression Jesuits formed men for the Church Militant, not for the “transatlantic values” of the Enlightenment. That the Carrolls emerged from Saint-Omer to become architects of a godless republic proves not the excellence of their education but the corruption of their wills. They imbibed the spirit of the age — liberalismus — and deployed their learning against the Kingship of Christ. The “Saint-Omer Foundation for Transatlantic Values,” with its concerts of Gershwin and jazz festivals, is the perfect metaphor: the sacred reduced to entertainment, the Faith dissolved into culture. Édouard-François de Lencquesaing speaks of “rebuild[ing] the connection between this tradition and the values built up by those gents… where our societies are more or less in a crisis and the democracy is in danger.” Democracy is the idol; the crisis is the fruit of its worship. Pope St. Pius X, in Lamentabili sane exitu (1907), condemned the Modernist error that “Christ did not proclaim any specific, all-encompassing doctrine suitable for all times and peoples, but rather initiated a certain religious movement, applied or applicable to different times and places” (Prop. 59). The “values” of the Carrolls are precisely this: a mutable “movement” replacing the immutable depositum fidei.
The Usurper “Archbishop” Blesses the Myth
William Lori, the fifteenth “successor” of John Carroll in the conciliar sect’s “premiere see,” preaches at a Mass in Saint-Omer (2017) and declares: “His formation at Saint-Omer helped make him a wise and astute leader and to this day we are building on the foundations John Carroll so carefully laid.” This is the voice of the abominatio desolationis. John Carroll, a Jesuit who accepted the suppression of his Order by the Masonic powers of Europe, then became the first “bishop” of a see erected by a schismatic, Masonic-influenced hierarchy. He promised “fidelity to the Republic” — fidelitas rei publicae — over fidelitas Christi Regis. Lori, a creature of the post-1958 apostasy, “canonized” by the antipope Francis, has no jurisdiction, no mission, no sacraments. His words are verba vana. The article cites him as authority; this alone exposes its ecclesial nullity. As the Defense of Sedevacantism demonstrates from Bellarmine and Canon 188.4: a manifest heretic loses office ipso facto. The conciliar hierarchy, professing religious liberty, ecumenism, and collegiality — heresies condemned by Quanta Cura, Syllabus, Pascendi, Mortalium Animos — are not the Church. They are the “paramasonic structure” occupying the visible patrimony.
The Descendants: Guardians of a Lie
The article parades descendants — Charles Carroll Carter Jr., Harper Wright — who mouth platitudes about “justice and equality” and “self-evident principles.” Carter worries about traffic congestion and pollution as threats to the founders’ vision; Wright, from Australia, praises “education and hard work” in “lesser-developed countries.” Not a word of the Social Kingship of Christ. Not a syllable on the necessity of the Confessional State. Their “perspective that encompasses the wider community” is the dialogue of the conciliar sect — colloquium cum tenebris. They are the laity of the new religion: Masonic virtue without grace, naturalism baptized. The article notes the Carrolls “were ordinary human beings with faults and flaws.” True — and their fatal flaw was betraying the Crown Rights of Christ the King for a seat at the Masonic table.
Theological Bankruptcy: Silence on the Supernatural
The gravest accusation is what the article omits. No mention of the Mass, the Sacraments, the state of grace, the Final Judgment, the necessity of the Church for salvation (extra Ecclesiam nulla salus). The Carrolls’ “legacy” is measured in signatures on parchment, not souls saved. The “chapel of the College of the Jesuits” is now a “community arts center” — the liturgy replaced by aesthetics, the altar by the stage. This is the conciliar sect’s entire project: liturgia mundana. Pius XI in Quas Primas warned: “When God and Jesus Christ… were removed from laws and states and when authority was derived not from God but from men, the foundations of that authority were destroyed.” The Carrolls built on sand. The “Saint-Omer Foundation” builds on their sand. NCR reports it as “Catholic news.” It is the bulletin of the Antichurch.
Conclusion: The Counter-Church Celebrates Its Founders
This article is not history; it is myth-making for the conciliar sect. It takes the collaboration of Catholics with the Masonic founding of the United States — a collaboration condemned by every pre-1958 Pontiff — and presents it as the paradigm for the “transatlantic values” of the New World Order. The “democracy in danger” is the civitas diaboli trembling before the Civitas Dei. The only remedy is not “rebuilding connections” but the restoration of the Social Kingship of Christ: Instaurare omnia in Christo. The Carrolls chose the City of Man. The conciliar sect, in their image, chooses it still. Non praevalebunt.
Source:
Who were the Carrolls of America: Young men, educated in France, who influenced a new nation (ncronline.org)
Date: 06.07.2026