The National Catholic Register reports on the “Rededicate 250” event held on the National Mall, featuring Rabbi Meir Soloveichik, who argued that America’s founding principles are rooted in the Hebrew Bible, thereby advancing a naturalistic and ecumenical vision of the nation that obscures the necessity of the one true Catholic Faith. The Register’s coverage uncritically promotes this Judeo-Masonic syncretism, revealing the depth of modernist infiltration within Catholic media.
The “Rededicate 250” Event: A Naturalistic Foundation for a Godless Republic
The “Rededicate 250” gathering on the National Mall represents a profound theological error: the attempt to ground the American political experiment in the Hebrew Bible while explicitly excluding the necessity of the New Covenant and the Catholic Church. Rabbi Soloveichik’s central argument—that the Declaration of Independence’s assertion that “all men are created equal” derives from the Hebrew Bible’s teaching that man is created in the image of God—is a half-truth that serves to obscure the fullness of divine revelation. While it is true that the Old Testament teaches the creation of man in God’s image, the Founders’ understanding of this doctrine was fatally incomplete without the supernatural light of the Gospel and the authoritative interpretation of the Catholic Church. The Register’s uncritical promotion of this narrative demonstrates its own complicity in the modernist project of reducing Christianity to a naturalistic ethical system compatible with religious indifferentism.
The Heresy of the “Almost Chosen People”
Rabbi Soloveichik invokes Abraham Lincoln’s description of America as an “almost chosen people,” a phrase that, when detached from its Catholic context, becomes a vehicle for religious relativism. The notion that America holds a special providence independent of its submission to the social Kingship of Christ is a direct repudiation of the teaching of Pope Pius XI in Quas Primas: “His reign, namely, extends not only to Catholic nations or to those who, by receiving baptism according to law, belong to the Church… but His reign encompasses also all non-Christians, so that most truly the entire human race is subject to the authority of Jesus Christ.” The Founders may have borrowed imagery from the Hebrew Bible, but a nation that explicitly rejected the establishment of the Catholic Church as the state religion—and instead enshrined religious indifferentism in the First Amendment—cannot claim to be “chosen” in any theological sense. The Register’s failure to challenge this narrative reveals its acceptance of the very secularism that Pius XI condemned as “the plague that poisons human society.”
The Omission of Catholic Social Teaching
The Register’s article quotes Rabbi Soloveichik at length regarding the role of the Hebrew Bible in inspiring the Founders, yet it completely omits any reference to the Catholic Church’s teaching on the relationship between faith and the state. Where is the condemnation of the American experiment’s foundational error: the separation of Church and State? Where is the reminder that, as Pius XI taught 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”? The Register’s silence on this point is not accidental; it is the silence of an institution that has internalized the modernist heresy of religious liberty condemned by Pope Pius IX in the Syllabus of Errors: “It is no longer expedient that the Catholic religion should be held as the only religion of the State, to exclusion of all other forms of worship” (Proposition 77).
The Scandal of “Judeo-Christian” Syncretism
The very phrase “Judeo-Christian heritage,” which permeates the Register’s coverage, is a modernist fabrication with no basis in Catholic theology. The Church has always taught that the Old Covenant was fulfilled and superseded by the New Covenant in Christ. To speak of a “Judeo-Christian” tradition is to imply that Judaism retains its salvific validity apart from Christ, a proposition condemned by the Council of Florence: “The Holy Roman Church firmly believes, professes, and preaches that no one remaining outside the Catholic Church, not only pagans, but also Jews, heretics, or schismatics, can become partakers of eternal life; but they will go to the eternal fire prepared for the devil and his angels.” The Register’s promotion of this syncretism is a betrayal of the Church’s missionary mandate and a capitulation to the ecumenical spirit of Vatican II, which the faithful must reject as a departure from immutable truth.
The Register’s Complicity in Modernist Apostasy
The National Catholic Register, by publishing this article without a single critical remark, reveals itself to be an organ of the conciliar sect rather than a defender of the Catholic faith. The article’s tone is one of uncritical celebration, as if the participation of a rabbi in a “National Jubilee of Prayer” were a cause for rejoicing rather than scandal. The Register’s failure to note that the “prayer” offered at this event was a naturalistic invocation of divine blessing upon a political order founded on religious indifferentism demonstrates its own theological bankruptcy. Where is the reminder that true prayer is offered only through Christ, the sole Mediator between God and man? Where is the warning that participation in such syncretistic gatherings is a violation of the First Commandment?
The Consequences of Biblical Illiteracy
Rabbi Soloveichik laments the decline of biblical literacy in American culture, citing an episode of Jeopardy! where contestants could not identify the source of the Twenty-Third Psalm. While the decline of biblical knowledge is indeed a tragedy, the Register fails to note that this decline is the direct consequence of the modernist destruction of Catholic education and the replacement of the Baltimore Catechism with the doctrinally vacuous Catechism of the Catholic Church (1992). The solution to biblical illiteracy is not the promotion of a vague “Judeo-Christian” heritage but the restoration of the Church’s traditional liturgy, in which the faithful are immersed in the Scriptures through the annual cycle of readings and the rich patristic homilies that accompany them. The Register’s silence on this point reveals its own complicity in the modernist project of dumbing down the faith.
The Myth of the “Covenantal Country”
Rabbi Soloveichik, drawing on the work of the late Michael Novak, argues that the Hebrew Bible provided the Founders with a “covenantal” model for the American political experiment. This argument is a thinly veiled attempt to baptize the American Revolution as a divinely ordained event, thereby sacralizing a political order that was, in reality, a product of Enlightenment rationalism and Masonic ideology. The Founders’ invocation of biblical imagery was not an act of faith but a rhetorical strategy designed to legitimize a rebellion against legitimate authority—a rebellion that the Church has always condemned as contrary to the divine order. The Register’s uncritical repetition of this narrative reveals its own acceptance of the modernist heresy that the American experiment is somehow compatible with Catholic teaching, when in fact it is a direct repudiation of the Church’s social Kingship.
The Necessity of the Catholic Church for True Liberty
The Register’s article concludes with a question about the possibility of a religious revival among young people, but it fails to note that any such revival must be grounded in the Catholic Church, the sole ark of salvation. True liberty is not the freedom to worship according to one’s private conscience—a concept condemned by Pope Leo XIII in Libertas—but the freedom to submit to the authority of Christ the King as exercised through His Church. The “Rededicate 250” event, with its syncretistic invocation of divine blessing upon a nation founded on religious indifferentism, is not a cause for hope but a sign of the times: a harbinger of the great apostasy foretold by St. Paul in his Second Epistle to the Thessalonians. The Register’s failure to recognize this is a damning indictment of its own spiritual blindness.
Conclusion: The Call to Reject the Americanist Heresy
The “Rededicate 250” event, as reported by the National Catholic Register, is a microcosm of the modernist apostasy that has infected the Church since the mid-twentieth century. By promoting a “Judeo-Christian” narrative that obscures the necessity of the Catholic Church for salvation, the Register reveals itself to be an enemy of the faith it claims to defend. The faithful must reject this syncretism and return to the teaching of the Church’s Magisterium: that there is no salvation outside the Church, that the social Kingship of Christ must be recognized by all nations, and that the American experiment in religious indifferentism is a rebellion against the divine order. As Pope Pius IX taught in the Syllabus of Errors, “the Church is not a true and perfect society, entirely free… but it appertains to the civil power to define what are the rights of the Church” (Proposition 19). The Register’s silence on this teaching is a scandal that demands a response from all who remain faithful to the Catholic Church.
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Rabbi Featured at ‘Rededicate 250’ Discusses Judaism’s Impact on America’s Founders (ncregister.com)
Date: 18.05.2026