The National Catholic Register portal reports on a “bipartisan Bible study” at George Washington University, where the presidents of the College Democrats and College Republicans — Emily-Anne Santiago and Kieran Laffey — under the auspices of the local Newman Center chaplain, “Father” James Glasgow, organized a scriptural gathering explicitly designed to transcend political division. The piece celebrates this initiative as a model of “civility,” “friendship,” and “common ground,” noting that even the university president, Ellen Granberg, praised it as exemplary of constructive engagement across differences. The students involved describe the experience as transformative for their political discourse, making debates “less contentious” and fostering personal affection across party lines.
This spectacle is not a triumph of Catholic action but a damning exhibition of the conciliar sect’s substitution of naturalistic humanism for the supernatural Kingship of Christ. It reveals the neo-church for what it is: a paramasonic structure dedicated to the reconciliation of contradictions, the domestication of the Gospel, and the eradication of the very distinction between the City of God and the City of Man.
The Ontological Fraud: A False Priesthood Presiding Over a False Church
The entire edifice of this “Bible study” rests upon the ministry of “Father” James Glasgow, a “priest” of the post-conciliar hierarchy. Since the usurpation of the Holy See by John XXIII in 1958, the sacramental rites of ordination have been corrupted by the novel rite of Paul VI (1968), which omits the essential form for the conferral of the priesthood — the explicit intention to offer the propitiatory Sacrifice of the Mass. Consequently, “Father” Glasgow possesses no priestly character, no power to absolve, no authority to teach in the name of Christ. He is a functionary of the abomination of desolation occupying the Vatican structures.
The “Newman Center” itself is an outpost of the Church of the New Advent, a juridical fiction erected by the usurpers to simulate Catholic campus ministry. Its “Mass” is the Novus Ordo Missae, a Protestantized memorial meal fabricated by the freemason Bugnini, which denies the propitiatory nature of the Sacrifice, the Real Presence as defined by Trent, and the sacerdotal priesthood. To speak of “sitting in the same row at Sunday Mass” is to confess participation in idolatry. As St. Pius X condemned in Lamentabili sane exitu (prop. 36, 45, 47), the Modernists reduce the Eucharist to a mere symbol and the priesthood to a presidency of assembly. This “Bible study” is the fruit of that poisoned root.
Naturalism Masquerading as Supernatural: The “Bible Study” as Protestantized Piety
The article describes the methodology: “Father Glasgow led the group in a Scripture meditation and shared insights… and then students would discuss the passage and pose questions.” This is the lectio divina of the Modernist, not the Catholic Magisterium. The Council of Trent (Sess. IV, Decree on Canonical Scriptures) and Vatican I (Dei Filius, Ch. 2) teach that the authentic interpretation of Scripture belongs solely to the Church’s living Magisterium, not to private judgment or “discovery” sessions. Lamentabili sane exitu (prop. 2, 4, 12) explicitly condemns the propositions that “the interpretation of Holy Scripture given by the Church… is subject to more exact judgments and corrections by exegetes” and that “an exegete… should reject any preconceived opinion about the supernatural origin of Holy Scripture.”
Yet “Father Glasgow” frames the study as “a place of discovery rather than competition,” encouraging students to “encounter Christ together and to be able to try to understand who Our Lord is in himself.” This is the heresy of immanentism: the reduction of divine revelation to a subjective religious experience. The true Christ is known not by “discovery” in a circle of political rivals, but by the obsequium fidei rendered to the defined dogmas of the Church — the very dogmas the conciliar sect has obscured or denied.
Moreover, the “Bible study” format itself apes Protestant conventicles. The Catholic Church, prior to 1958, forbade the faithful from attending non-Catholic religious assemblies (Canon 1258, 1917 Code) and warned against private scriptural interpretation as the mother of heresies. The neo-church’s “Newman Centers” routinely host such gatherings, indifferent to the unam sanctam unity of faith.
Political Indifferentism: Subverting the Social Kingship of Christ
The central motif of the article is the reconciliation of “College Democrats” and “College Republicans” — as if the division between the party of abortion, sodomy, and socialism and the party of capitalism, nationalism, and proceduralism were a mere matter of “civility” to be healed by shared piety. This is the error of laicism condemned by Pius XI in Quas Primas: “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.”
Quas Primas teaches that Christ’s Kingship extends to all human societies: “His reign encompasses not only Catholic nations… but also all non-Christians, so that most truly the entire human race is subject to the authority of Jesus Christ.” The duty of Catholic students at a political epicenter like GWU is not to foster “bipartisan fellowship” but to publicly confess the Social Kingship of Christ, demanding that laws conform to the divine law, that the state recognize the Church’s rights, and that abortion be criminalized as murder.
The Syllabus of Errors (Pius IX, 1864) condemns as errors: “The Church ought to be separated from the State, and the State from the Church” (prop. 55); “In the present day it is no longer expedient that the Catholic religion should be held as the only religion of the State” (prop. 77); “The Roman Pontiff can, and ought to, reconcile himself… with progress, liberalism and modern civilization” (prop. 80). This “Bible study” is a practical application of these condemned errors. It teaches the students that political differences are legitimate “perspectives” to be managed by dialogue, rather than moral truths to be judged by the Gospel.
The university president, Ellen Granberg, praises the study for fostering “an environment in which our students from different backgrounds, perspectives and beliefs can engage in constructive ways.” This is the language of the Masonic “civil religion” — the religion of humanity — not the language of the Catholic Church. The Church’s mission is extra Ecclesiam nulla salus and Instaurare omnia in Christo, not the construction of a “meaningful university experience.”
Modernist Method: Faith Reduced to “Discovery” and “Dialogue”
“Father Glasgow” identified three goals: “a place of discovery rather than competition; that participants recognize the two ways of coming to know God, through the light of faith and the light of reason; and that they understand Jesus is both fully God and fully man.” This truncated “orthodoxy” is a classic Modernist tactic: affirm a dogma (Christ’s divinity) while hollowing out its juridical and social consequences.
The distinction between faith and reason is perverted here into a “two ways” pluralism that suggests political reasoning (the “light of reason” as exercised by Democrats and Republicans) is a parallel path to God. Lamentabili (prop. 3, 5, 25) condemns the Modernist errors that “ecclesiastical judgments… prove that the faith of the Church is contrary to history” and that “faith… is ultimately based on a sum of probabilities.” The “Bible study” operates on the presupposition that the students’ political identities are compatible with the Catholic faith as such, requiring only a veneer of scriptural piety to harmonize them.
When “questions did arise concerning the Church’s stance or debates emerged, Father Glasgow always affirmed the Church’s position on various matters and sought to steer the conversation back to the Bible.” Which “Church’s position”? The position of the conciliar sect — which affirms religious liberty (Dignitatis Humanae), false ecumenism (Unitatis Redintegratio), and the legitimacy of the modern state’s autonomy from God. To “steer the conversation back to the Bible” in this context is to use Scripture as a sedative for consciences that should be confronted with the integral Catholic truth: Non est alia lex nisi lex Christi.
The FOCUS Factor: Missionary Zeal Without Catholic Doctrine
The article notes that Emily-Anne Santiago “will head to a different college campus as a missionary with FOCUS.” FOCUS (Fellowship of Catholic University Students) is a flagship organization of the conciliar sect’s “New Evangelization” — a movement explicitly founded on the principles of Vatican II, the Novus Ordo, and the false ecumenism of the post-conciliar popes. Its “missionaries” are formed in the theology of the “Church of the New Advent,” ignorant of the Traditional Latin Mass, the Syllabus, Quas Primas, Pascendi, and the sedevacantist necessity. They are agents of the paramasonic structure, spreading the contagion of Modernism under the guise of orthodoxy.
Santiago’s desire to “lead a bipartisan Bible study because I saw the ways that it brought people together” reveals the pragmatic criterion of the Modernist: success is measured by human unity, not by conversion to the integral faith. This is the “cult of man” denounced by Pius XI: the replacement of the Kingdom of Christ with a kingdom of human fraternity.
Symptomatic Conclusion: The Conciliar Revolution’s Rotten Fruit
This GWU “Bible study” is a microcosm of the conciliar apostasy. It exhibits all the hallmarks:
- Invalid clergy simulating the priesthood.
- Protestantized piety replacing the Magisterium and the Sacraments.
- Political indifferentism masquerading as Christian charity.
- Naturalistic dialogue substituting for the supernatural mission of the Church.
- Pragmatic “fruits” (friendlier debates, administrative praise) replacing the signa credibilitatis of miracles, martyrdom, and doctrinal integrity.
The students are not being formed as soldiers of Christ (milites Christi) but as well-adjusted citizens of the Masonic city. They learn that the Gospel is a resource for “civility” and “common ground” — precisely the laicism that Pius XI identified as “the plague that poisons human society.”
There is no “bipartisan” path to heaven. There is only the via crucis, the narrow gate of the unam, sanctam, catholicam et apostolicam Ecclesiam — which today subsists only in those bishops and priests who retain the true Sacraments, the true Mass, and the true doctrine, rejecting the usurpers in Rome and their “Newman Centers.” The GWU event is not a “grace”; it is a diabolical disorientation, a seduction of the elect (Matt. 24:24) by the abomination of desolation standing in the holy place.
Quas Primas declares: “If rulers of states… wish to maintain their authority inviolate and contribute to the increase of their homeland’s happiness,” they must “publicly honor Christ and obey Him.” The GWU “Bible study” teaches the opposite: that Christ is a private resource for political therapy. This is not Catholicism. This is the religion of the Antichrist.
Source:
Bipartisan Bible Study Unites Students at George Washington University (ncregister.com)
Date: 29.07.2026