The National Catholic Register, flagship organ of the conciliar sect’s Americanist wing, publishes a hagiographic tribute to George Washington on the occasion of the United States’ semiquincentennial. Penned by staff writer Gigi Duncan, the article marshals a chorus of conciliar academics — Michael Breidenbach, Jerome Foss, Susan Hanssen, “Fr.” Charles Connor — to baptize the Father of the American Masonic Republic as a champion of Catholic liberty. The thesis is as brazen as it is heretical: the Protestant Freemason who presided over the erection of a godless Constitution, which enshrined religious indifferentism as the supreme law of the land, is presented as a vessel of Providence for the Church. This is not history; it is the liturgy of the neo-church, where the Social Kingship of Christ is dethroned to make room for the “civic friendship” of the City of Man.
The Americanist Heresy Enshrined as Catholic Piety
The article’s central argument — that the American Revolution and its constitutional settlement were a “shift… anchored in the constitutional order by the First Amendment’s protection of religious liberty” — is a direct, formal contradiction of the Syllabus of Errors. Pope Pius IX, exercising the authentic Magisterium, condemned as error the proposition that “In the present day it is no longer expedient that the Catholic religion should be held as the only religion of the State, to the exclusion of all other forms of worship” (Error 77) and that “it has been wisely decided by law, in some Catholic countries, that persons coming to reside therein shall enjoy the public exercise of their own peculiar worship” (Error 78). The Register’s celebration of the First Amendment — the legal charter of indifferentism — is a celebration of the very poison Pius IX anathematized.
Pius XI, in Quas Primas, diagnosed the “plague that poisons human society” as “the secularism of our times, so-called laicism”, which “began with the denial of Christ the Lord’s reign over all nations”. The article’s praise for a Constitution that “prohibition of religious tests for federal office” and separates the civil power from the Church (Syllabus, Error 55) is an endorsement of the laicism that Pius XI declared the root of “seeds of discord sown everywhere, flames of envy and hostility.” The Register does not merely report this history; it sanctifies it, presenting the abomination of desolation — a state indifferent to the True God — as the condition for Catholic flourishing.
Washington: The Masonic Architect of the Godless Republic
The article treats Washington’s Freemasonry as a historical curiosity, a “fraternal experience among Protestants” mitigated by context. This is a calculated obscuring of the mortal enmity between the Church and the Sect. Pope Clement XII, in In Eminenti Apostolatus Specula (1738), condemned Freemasonry as a “synagogue of Satan” (to use the language of Pius IX in Quanta Cura), imposing excommunication ipso facto on all adherents. Benedict XIV confirmed this in Providas Romanorum (1751). Leo XIII, in Humanum Genus (1884), exposed the Masonic aim: “to strike it with frequent blows, to shake it, to overthrow it, and, if possible, to make it disappear completely from the earth.”
Washington was not a passive member; he was Master of his Lodge, performed Masonic rites at the Capitol cornerstone laying, and was buried with Masonic honors. The Register’s experts — Breidenbach, “Fr.” Connor — engage in casuistry worthy of the Pharisees: “It’s hard to know what membership… meant.” They know perfectly well what it meant: enlistment in the army of the Prince of this World against the Church. The article’s silence on the intrinsic incompatibility of the Masonic oath with the Catholic Faith is not an omission; it is complicity. As Pius XI taught, “There is no other name under heaven given to men by which we must be saved” (Quas Primas, citing Acts 4:12). To serve the Masonic “Great Architect” is to serve a false god.
“Archbishop” Carroll: The Proto-Modernist Architect of Americanism
The article holds up the relationship between Washington and John Carroll as a model of “genuine mutual respect” and “civic friendship.” Carroll, the first “bishop” of Baltimore, was the pioneer of the Americanist heresy — condemned by Leo XIII in Testem Benevolentiae (1899) — which sought to reconcile the Church with the spirit of the Revolution, religious liberty, and the separation of Church and State. Carroll’s 1790 letter to Washington, quoted approvingly, speaks of Catholics enjoying “every temporal and spiritual felicity” as “faithful subjects of our free government.” This is the language of Dignitatis Humanae avant la lettre: the Church reduced to a private association seeking toleration from the secular sovereign.
Carroll’s own words, cited in the article, reveal the rot: he acknowledged the papal bulls against Masonry did “not have full authority in this diocese.” Here is the schismatic heart of Americanism: the local “ordinary” judging the binding force of the Supreme Pontiff’s condemnations. The Register presents this rebellion as a nuanced historical footnote. Integral Catholicism recognizes it as the non serviam of the American hierarchy, the seed of the post-conciliar apostasy.
The Deathbed Conversion Legend: A Distraction from the Structural Apostasy
The article devotes space to debunking the deathbed conversion story, quoting “Fr.” Connor: “I’m convinced Washington died an Anglican all the way.” This “debunking” serves a rhetorical purpose: it establishes the historians’ “credibility” so the reader swallows the larger lie — that Washington’s natural virtues and Masonic statecraft were instruments of Providence. Foss declares: “Washington cooperated with Providence, and good things happened around him.” This is Pelagian naturalism baptized in pious sentiment. Quas Primas condemns the error of those who “thought they could do without God and that their religion was impiety and contempt for God.” Washington built a Republic sine Deo; to call this “cooperating with Providence” is to blaspheme the Holy Ghost.
The “Catholic” Historians: Agents of the Neo-Church
The authorities cited — Breidenbach (Ave Maria University), Foss (St. Vincent College), Hanssen (University of Dallas), “Fr.” Connor (Diocese of Scranton) — are functionaries of the conciliar sect’s educational apparatus. They operate within structures that have implemented the Modernist program condemned by St. Pius X in Lamentabili Sane Exitu and Pascendi Dominici Gregis. Their “scholarship” is the nouvelle théologie applied to history: the evolution of dogma, the legitimacy of religious liberty, the baptism of the secular order. When Breidenbach says the papal condemnations of Masonry “did not have full authority in this diocese,” he echoes the Modernist proposition condemned in Lamentabili: “The decrees of the Apostolic See and of the Roman congregations impede the true progress of science” (Error 12) and “The Church not only ought never to pass judgment on philosophy, but ought to tolerate the errors of philosophy” (Error 11).
The Silence on the Kingship of Christ: The Gravest Accusation
Nowhere in the article — not in Washington’s Farewell Address quotes, not in Carroll’s eulogy, not in the professors’ commentary — is there a whisper of Christus Rex. The word “King” appears only in “King of kings” on Washington’s alleged Masonic apron (a blasphemous parody). The word “Christ” appears only in “Christian” as a demographic label. The word “Grace” appears only in Foss’s sentimental aside: “hard to imagine that type of virtue without grace.” This is the practical atheism of the conciliar sect. Pius XI instituted the Feast of Christ the King precisely to combat the “secularism” the Register now celebrates: “When God and Jesus Christ… were removed from laws and states… the foundations of that authority were destroyed.” The Register’s Washington is the hero of that destruction.
Conclusion: The Register’s Semiquincentennial Gift to the Antichrist
This article is not a historical reflection; it is a liturgical act of the neo-church. It offers incense to the idol of Religious Liberty on the altar of the American Republic. It presents the Freemason Washington — the man who prohibited Guy Fawkes Day not out of Catholic charity but to appease his Jacobin allies in Paris — as a saint of the new calendar. It whitewashes the Americanist treason of Carroll. It employs “Catholic” academics to teach the faithful that the Constitution which enshrines indifferentism is a gift of Providence.
The true Catholic, adhering to the immutable Magisterium of Pius IX, Leo XIII, St. Pius X, and Pius XI, spits on this idolatry. Non est alia salus. There is no salvation — temporal or eternal — in the Masonic Republic. The City of God has no “civic friendship” with the City of Man; it has only the mandate to conquer it for Christ the King. The Register’s article is a confession: the conciliar sect has chosen Caesar. Tradidi te in manibus impiorum.
Source:
Catholic Admiration for George Washington Has Nothing to Do With His Purported ‘Conversion’ (ncregister.com)
Date: 30.06.2026