The Americanist Heresy Crowned: “Archbishop” Pérez Baptizes the Masonic Republic at 250
The National Catholic Register portal publishes a commentary by the “archbishop” of Philadelphia, Nelson J. Pérez, dated August 5, 2026, celebrating the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence. The text exults in the bestowal of the “Liberty Medal” upon the antipope Leo XIV (Robert Prevost) by the National Constitution Center, describes a “National Eucharistic Pilgrimage” processing between shrines of post-conciliar “saints,” and explicitly grounds Catholic duty in the “fundamental right” of religious liberty, listing Catholics, Protestants, Jews, Muslims, Buddhists, and Hindus as equal possessors of the “right to worship.” The “archbishop” invokes the antipope’s encyclical *Magnifica Humanitas* to frame the building of the “City of God” as a project of “dialogue,” “diversity,” and “justice” achieved through human collaboration. **This is not Catholicism; it is the final, mature fruit of the Americanist heresy, formally condemned by Leo XIII, now canonized by the conciliar sect as its founding charter.**