The EWTN News portal reports that the Catholic Biblical Association of America (CBA) has elected Amy-Jill Levine, an Orthodox Jew who denies the divine inspiration and historical veracity of the Gospels, as its president. The article details her rejection of the literal words of Christ, her subjection of Scripture to modern “science” and “personal experience” on abortion, homosexuality, and gender ideology, and her explicit refusal to worship Jesus as Lord. The CBA, which claims conformity to the “magisterium” while consulting for the USCCB, thus inaugurates the definitive enthronement of the synagogue of Satan within the very citadel of biblical studies. This is not dialogue; it is the formal abdication of the Catholic Church’s exclusive mandate to guard and interpret the deposit of faith.
The Usurpation of the Teaching Office by an Infidel
The cited article relates that Levine “does not believe everything attributed to Jesus in the New Testament comes directly from Jesus,” asserting that Christ spoke Aramaic while the New Testament is Greek, and declares this view “entirely compatible with Catholic teaching.” This is a brazen lie. Pope St. Pius X, in the decree Lamentabili sane exitu (1907), condemned as heretical the proposition that “The Gospels do not prove the Divinity of Jesus Christ, but it is a dogma which Christian consciousness has derived from the concept of the Messiah” (prop. 27); that “Jesus, in fulfilling His mission, did not teach that He was the Messiah, nor did He prove it by His miracles” (prop. 28); that “It can be admitted that the historical Christ is considerably lower than the Christ of faith” (prop. 29); and that “The name Son of God always corresponds only to the name Messiah and does not mean that Christ is the true and consubstantial Son of God” (prop. 30). Levine’s position is the very synthesis of all errors (synthesis omnium haeresium) which Pascendi Dominici Gregis anathematized.
Reduction of Divine Revelation to Human Opinion
Levine states: “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.” This is the quintessence of Modernist immanentism. Lamentabili condemned the proposition that “The progress of sciences requires a reform of the concept of Christian doctrine concerning God, creation, Revelation, the Person of the Incarnate Word, and Redemption” (prop. 64), and that “Truth changes with man, because it develops with him, in him, and through him” (prop. 58). The Syllabus of Pius IX anathematized the error that “Human reason, without any reference whatsoever to God, is the sole arbiter of truth and falsehood, and of good and evil” (Error 3) and that “Divine revelation is imperfect, and therefore subject to a continual and indefinite progress” (Error 5). By making the inspired Word subject to the fluctuating verdicts of secular “science” and “personal experience,” Levine—and the CBA that elected her—deny the principium cognoscendi of the faith: Deus revelatus est (God has revealed Himself), and His revelation is immutable.
Relativization of Moral Absolutes: Abortion, Sodomy, Gender
On abortion, Levine claims “Biblical texts on abortion are few” and “different views in Jewish and Catholic interpretation.” The Catechism of the Council of Trent, echoing the Apostolic Tradition, teaches that abortion is homicidium (murder). The Syllabus condemns the proposition that “Moral laws do not stand in need of the divine sanction” (Error 56) and that “The science of philosophical things and morals… ought to keep aloof from divine and ecclesiastical authority” (Error 57). On homosexuality and gender, Levine insists “there are better and less good readings” found in “both opposition and promotion arguments,” and that we must consider “what science and even personal experience teaches.” This is the language of the Antichrist. The Catechism of the Catholic Church (which the conciliar sect still nominally cites) teaches that homosexual acts are “intrinsically disordered” and that “God created people either male or female.” Levine’s hermeneutic of “multiple interpretations” is the condemned indifferentism of Error 16: “Man may, in the observance of any religion whatever, find the way of eternal salvation.”
The CBA: A Synagogue of Modernists Masquerading as Catholic
The article notes the CBA’s constitution states its work “conforms to the teachings of the magisterium” and that it “offers consultation to the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB), including on translations of the Bible and faith formation and catechesis.” This is a diabolical mockery. The “magisterium” to which they refer is the counterfeit teaching office of the conciliar sect, which since 1958 has propagated the very errors condemned by Pius IX, Pius X, and Pius XI. The USCCB is an organ of the “Church of the New Advent,” a paramasonic structure occupying the Vatican. By electing a Jew who denies Christ’s divinity and moral law to preside over “Catholic” biblical scholarship, the CBA manifests the abomination of desolation (abominatio desolationis) foretold by Daniel and Christ (Matt. 24:15) standing in the holy place.
Christ the King Excluded: The Political Theology of the Conciliar Sect
Pius XI, in Quas Primas, declared: “His reign encompasses also all non-Christians, so that most truly the entire human race is subject to the authority of Jesus Christ… Let rulers of states therefore not refuse public veneration and obedience to the reigning Christ.” The election of Levine is the direct fruit of the laicism condemned in that encyclical: “When God and Jesus Christ… were removed from laws and states… the foundations of that authority were destroyed.” The CBA, by installing a non-believer as its head, enacts the Masonic program of separating the State from the Church (Syllabus, Error 55) and of making the Church “tolerate the errors of philosophy” (Error 11). It is the realization of the Syllabus’s condemned Error 80: “The Roman Pontiff can, and ought to, reconcile himself, and come to terms with progress, liberalism and modern civilization.”
Sedevacantist Corollary: The Automatic Loss of Office
The “bishops” of the USCCB who consult with this association, and the “pope” (Leo XIV / Robert Prevost) who presides over this neo-church, are manifest heretics. As St. Robert Bellarmine teaches (De Romano Pontifice 2.30): “A manifest heretic… by that very fact ceases to be Pope and head, just as he ceases to be a Christian and member of the body of the Church.” Canon 188.4 of the 1917 Code declares vacant the office of any cleric who “publicly defects from the Catholic faith.” Pope Paul IV’s Bull Cum ex Apostolatus Officio declares the elevation of a heretic “null, void, and of no effect.” The conciliar hierarchy, by fostering this CBA and its Modernist agenda, has ipso facto severed itself from the Church. Qui non est Christianus, non potest esse Papa (He who is not a Christian cannot be Pope).
Conclusion: Return to the Immutable Tradition
The election of Amy-Jill Levine is not an anomaly; it is the logical terminus of the conciliar revolution. It exposes the “Catholic Biblical Association” as a front for the synagoga Satanae (Rev. 2:9), the “Church of the New Advent” as the abomination of desolation, and its hierarchy as usurpers who have lost all jurisdiction by manifest heresy. True Catholic exegesis resides only in the Sedes vacans Church, faithful to the Vulgate, the Council of Trent, the Pontifical Biblical Commission under Pius X, and the living Tradition guarded by valid bishops and priests who reject the novelties of 1958. Non praevalebunt (Matt. 16:18). The gates of hell shall not prevail against the true Church, though they have seemingly prevailed against the structures occupying Rome.
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In a first, Jewish scholar elected to lead Catholic Biblical Association (ewtnnews.com)
Date: 20.08.2026