Jewish Scholar Heads Catholic Biblical Association: Conciliar Sect Formalizes Apostasy
The National Catholic Register portal reports that the Catholic Biblical Association of America (CBA) has elected Amy-Jill Levine, an Orthodox Jew who explicitly denies the divinity of Christ and the historicity of the Gospels, as its president. The article details Levine’s modernist hermeneutic: she rejects the literal inspiration of Scripture, subjects biblical morality to “science, sociology, philosophy, and personal experience,” and advocates for “multiple interpretations” on abortion and homosexuality. This elevation of a Christ-denier to the highest exegetical post in the conciliar structure is not an anomaly but the logical terminus of Vatican II’s Dei Verbum and the complete abdication of the Magisterium’s duty to guard the depositum fidei.
The Historical Fact: A Synagogue of Satan Occupies the Chair of Exegesis
The Catholic Biblical Association, an entity spawned from the conciliar revolution, has never been a organ of the true Church. Its constitution claims conformity to the “teachings of the magisterium,” yet it operates independently of the hierarchy and serves the United States Conference of “Catholic” Bishops (USCCB) — a body canonically non-existent, erected by the usurper Montini (Paul VI) to replace the true episcopal conference. The election of Levine is the public ratification of what has been true since 1965: the conciliar sect has surrendered biblical science to the enemies of Christ.
Levine’s curriculum vitae is a catalogue of modernist errors condemned by St. Pius X in Lamentabili Sane Exitu (1907). She declares: “I do not believe everything attributed to Jesus in the New Testament comes directly from Jesus.” This is Proposition 27 and 28 of Lamentabili verbatim: “The Gospels do not prove the Divinity of Jesus Christ… Jesus, in fulfilling His mission, did not teach that He was the Messiah.” She claims this view is “entirely compatible with Catholic teaching,” invoking Dei Verbum — the very document that equivocated on inerrancy by limiting it to “that truth which God wanted put into sacred writings for the sake of salvation,” thereby opening the floodgates to the historical-critical method that dissects the Word of God like a cadaver.
Linguistic Deconstruction: The Rhetoric of Apostasy
The Register’s language is revealing. It describes Levine as a “scholar” and “Old and New Testament scholar,” granting academic legitimacy to one who denies the Author of the text. The phrase “first Jewish president” is trumpeted as a milestone of “dialogue,” not a scandal. Levine’s own words expose the naturalistic reductionism: “In interpreting Scripture, we need to consider not only the historical context; we also need to consider what science, sociology, philosophy, etc. can teach us.” Here the sensus fidei is replaced by the sensus sociologicus. The Bible is no longer verbum Dei but a cultural artifact subject to the tribunal of modernity.
Note the bureaucratic euphemisms: “partnering with local churches,” “up-to-date biblical guidelines,” “professional development.” The vocabulary of the NGO has displaced the language of the Kingdom. There is no mention of salus animarum, no reference to the munus docendi, no acknowledgment that Scripture is inspirata et inerrans because Deus est auctor. The silence on the supernatural is the loudest heresy.
Theological Anatomy: Every Error Condemned Antecedently
1. Denial of Inspiration and Historicity
Levine asserts the Gospels contain “anterior scholarly reconstruction” distinct from “the words as received.” This is the Protestant heresy of Formgeschichte (Form Criticism), condemned by Pius XII in Divino Afflante Spiritu (1943) and earlier by the Biblical Commission (1907, 1910, 1915). The Council of Trent defined: “Si quis sacrosanctos libros… non agnoscet… anathema sit.” (Denz. 784). Vatican I reiterated: “Haec libros… habet Deus auctorem… ideoque ut tales iure sanctos et canonicos habet Ecclesia.” (Denz. 1787). Levine’s “Jewish perspective” on the parables reduces the Verbum Incarnatum to a mere rabbi, a “controversial Rabbi” — her own phrase — stripping the Miracles and the Resurrection of their divine necessity.
2. Moral Relativism on Abortion and Sodomy
On abortion: “Biblical texts on abortion are few… different views in Jewish and Catholic interpretation.” This is a lie. The Didache (c. 70 AD), the earliest catechism, commands: “Non occides infantem per abortum.” The Church has taught ex cathedra (Pius XI, Casti Connubii, 1930; Pius XII, allocutions to midwives) that abortion is homicidium from conception. The Catechism of the true Church (Roman Catechism, Trent) teaches the Fifth Commandment binds from the moment of conception. Levine’s “multiple interpretations” is the error of indifferentism condemned in the Syllabus (Error 16, 17, 18): “Man may in the observance of any religion whatever find the way of eternal salvation.”
On homosexuality: “There are better and less good readings… in both opposition and promotion arguments.” She subjects the lex naturalis and lex divina (Rom 1:26-27; 1 Cor 6:9; Gen 19) to “science and personal experience.” This is Proposition 58 of Lamentabili: “No other forces are to be recognized except those which reside in matter… all rectitude… placed in accumulation of riches and gratification of pleasure.” The conciliar “catechism” she cites (CCC 2357) still nominally calls sodomy “intrinsically disordered,” but Levine treats it as a debate topic. This is the hermeneutic of rupture masquerading as “development.”
3. Rejection of Christ’s Kingship and the Necessity of the Church
Levine states: “I do not worship Jesus as lord or savior… my heart is completely fulfilled in my own Jewish practice.” This is the formal sin of infidelity (infidelitas). Extra Ecclesiam nulla salus (Fourth Lateran, 1215; Boniface VIII, Unam Sanctam, 1302; Pius IX, Singulari Quidem, 1856; Pius XII, Mystici Corporis, 1943). The Syllabus (Error 16, 21) condemns the idea that salvation exists outside the Catholic Church or that the Church cannot define dogmatically that she is the only true religion. Levine’s “Gospel of love not a weapon of hate” is the Masonic humanitarianism condemned by Leo XIII in Humanum Genus (1884): “The sect of the Freemasons… aims at the destruction of the Church… substituting natural religion for divine.”
4. The “Jewish Annotated New Testament” as Anti-Christian Polemic
Her co-edited Jewish Annotated New Testament and The Bible With and Without Jesus are not scholarly tools but weapons of Judaizing — the very error St. Paul fought in Galatians. She claims “misunderstanding of Jewish practice leads to misunderstanding of Jesus,” inverting the truth: “If you believed Moses, you would believe me, for he wrote of me” (Jn 5:46). The Old Covenant is abrogated (Heb 8:13); the veil is removed only in Christ (2 Cor 3:14-16). To read the New Testament through the lens of the Synagogue that rejected the Messiah is to adopt the perspective of the Synagoga Satanae (Apoc 2:9; 3:9).
Symptomatic Diagnosis: The Conciliar Sect’s Institutionalized Apostasy
This election is not a “mistake” by the CBA. It is the modus operandi of the ecclesia novae adventus. Since Nostra Aetate (1965) declared the Jews “not to be presented as rejected or accursed by God,” the conciliar hierarchy has systematically dismantled the disciplina arcani regarding the Jews’ role in the Deicide and their need for conversion. The 1985 “Notes on the Correct Way to Present Jews and Judaism” and the 2015 “The Gifts and Calling of God are Irrevocable” (Commission for Religious Relations with the Jews) explicitly deny the necessity of evangelization of the Jews. Levine’s presidency is the fruit of this tree.
The CBA’s “consultation” to the USCCB on “translations of the Bible and faith formation” means the New American Bible — already a modernist travesty — will be further Judaized. The lectionary “guidelines” will excise “antisemitic” passages (i.e., the words of Christ and the Apostles). This is the abomination of desolation standing in the holy place (Mt 24:15): the paramasonic structure occupying the Vatican has handed the keys of exegesis to the Synagogue.
The Sedevacantist Imperative: No Legitimacy, No Obedience
From the perspective of integral Catholic faith, the CBA is a private association of heretics. Its “president” has no authority. The “bishops” who consult it are pseudo-episcopi, ordained in the invalid Pontificale Romanum of 1968, lacking the character episcopalis and the missio canonica. Canon 188 §4 (1917 Code) applies: “Omne officium vacat… si clericus… publice a fide catholica defecerit.” The usurpers from John XXIII onward are manifest heretics, ipso facto deprived of office (Bellarmine, De Romano Pontifice; Wernz-Vidal, Ius Canonicum; Paul IV, Cum ex Apostolatus Officio).
The true Church endures in the remanentes — bishops and priests retaining valid orders (pre-1968) and the integral faith. They alone possess the munus docendi. The faithful must fugere these structures (Mt 10:23; 2 Cor 6:17). “Qui non est cum me, contra me est” (Mt 12:30). The election of a Christ-denier to lead “Catholic” biblical scholarship is the final proof that the conciliar sect is the counter-church of the Antichrist. Christus vincit, Christus regnat, Christus imperat.
Source:
In a First, Jewish Scholar Elected to Lead Catholic Biblical Association (ncregister.com)
Date: 20.08.2026