Catholic News Agency reports on a November 3, 2025, Ethics and Public Policy Center (EPPC) report criticizing the Biden administration for regulatory actions that allegedly promoted anti-Christian bias. The report, framed as a response to Donald Trump’s executive order against religious discrimination, claims the Biden administration prioritized “radical pro-abortion and pro-LGBTQI+ policies” at the expense of religious liberty. Specific grievances include the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) dismantling conscience protections for healthcare workers, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) limiting religious exemptions, and systemic failures to respect religious liberty in federal rulemaking. The EPPC urges regulatory rewrites and congressional action to prevent future abuses. This critique, however, operates within a secularized framework that ignores the foundational crisis of the modern state’s rebellion against Christ the King.
### Naturalism Masquerading as Religious Liberty Defense
The EPPC report focuses narrowly on bureaucratic overreach while accepting the **naturalistic premise that the state possesses autonomous authority to “balance” religious liberty against other “rights.”** This contradicts Pope Pius XI’s encyclical *Quas Primas*, which declares: “Nations will be happy and peaceful only when they accept the divine truth of Christ’s reign and obey His laws” (1925). By framing the issue as a conflict between competing policy priorities (e.g., “LGBTQI+ rights” vs. religious exemptions), the report implicitly validates the **modernist heresy** condemned in the *Syllabus of Errors*: that “the State, as being the origin and source of all rights, is endowed with a certain right not circumscribed by any limits” (Pius IX, 1864, Proposition 39).
Even the proposed remedies—regulatory tweaks and congressional statutes—reflect a **Protestantized view of religion as a private preference** rather than the Catholic dogma that civil authorities must submit to the Church’s divine mandate. Pius IX’s *Syllabus* explicitly rejects the notion that “the Church ought to be separated from the State, and the State from the Church” (Proposition 55). The EPPC’s silence on this immutable principle exposes its complicity in the very secularism it claims to oppose.
### Sacrilegious Concessions to Intrinsic Evils
While condemning HHS policies forcing employers to fund abortions, the report ignores the **theological gravity of collaborating with abortion-providing entities**. The *Syllabus* condemns those who would “reconcile himself, and come to terms with progress, liberalism, and modern civilization” (Proposition 80). Yet the EPPC praises Trump’s executive order—which retains exceptions for “case-by-case” religious liberty exemptions—effectively tolerating a framework where the state presumes to *grant* rather than *recognize* God-given rights.
Similarly, the EEOC’s enforcement of transgender mandates receives criticism solely on procedural grounds (e.g., “jeopardizing religious liberty”), not on the **metaphysical rebellion against natural law** inherent in gender ideology. St. Pius X’s *Lamentabili Sane* condemns the modernist error that “truth changes with man, because it develops with him, in him, and through him” (Proposition 58). By reducing the issue to regulatory overreach, the EPPC obscures the demonic nature of policies denying biological reality—a silence that constitutes tacit approval.
### The Masonic Roots of “Religious Liberty” Commissions
The report applauds EPPC President Ryan Anderson’s role on Trump’s “Religious Liberty Commission,” ignoring that such bodies operate within a **Masonic paradigm of state-supervised “tolerance.”** Pope Leo XIII’s *Humanum Genus* (1884) warns that Freemasonry seeks to replace Christ’s reign with a “natural religion” where all faiths are equally subservient to the state. The commission’s very existence presupposes the state’s authority to arbitrate religious disputes—a direct violation of the *Syllabus*’ condemnation of states defining “what are the rights of the Church, and the limits within which she may exercise those rights” (Proposition 19).
Moreover, Trump’s executive order frames religious liberty as a privilege granted by civil authority rather than a divine right. This mirrors the condemned error that “favourers of this opinion are not in conflict with the doctrine of the Church” (Pius IX, *Qui Pluribus*, 1846). The EPPC’s failure to denounce this inversion reveals its alignment with the **Americanist heresy**—the fusion of Catholicism with democratic pluralism, condemned by Leo XIII in *Testem Benevolentiae* (1899).
### Conclusion: A Call to Reject the Neo-Pagan State
The EPPC’s critique, while superficially opposed to Biden’s policies, remains trapped in the **liberal error** that Christ’s kingship can be reduced to a negotiable “value” within pluralist democracies. As Pius XI declared in *Quas Primas*, “When once men recognize, both in private and in public life, that Christ is King, society will at last receive the great blessings of real liberty, well-ordered discipline, peace, and harmony.” Until the EPPC and similar groups openly demand the public reign of Christ the King—rejecting the satanic premise of state neutrality toward religion—their efforts will remain a futile rearranging of deck chairs on the modernist Titanic.
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Think tank criticizes Biden for fueling anti-Christian bias in government (catholicnewsagency.com)
Article date: 07.11.2025