The EWTN News portal reports (July 3, 2026) that the usurper “Pope” Leo XIV (Robert Prevost) has issued an open letter to Americans commemorating the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence. The letter explicitly praises the “ideals of liberty, equality, the pursuit of happiness, justice, and democratic self-government,” elevating religious freedom as “among the most cherished of these principles” and “central to the American promise.” The antipope further asserts that this Masonic liberty allowed the Catholic Church to “flourish” in the United States through social services, while conflating the “God-given dignity of every human life” with the political imperative of “welcoming, protecting, and assisting immigrants.” The letter closes by invoking the Immaculate Conception as “patroness of this country.” This document constitutes a formal, magisterial ratification of the condemned heresy of Americanism, sealing the conciliar sect’s apostasy from the Social Kingship of Christ.
The Apotheosis of the Heresy of Americanism
The cited article reveals the antipope Leo XIV not merely tolerating, but enthusiastically canonizing the foundational errors of the American republic. He declares that the signing of the Declaration of Independence “gave enduring voice to the ideals of liberty, equality, the pursuit of happiness, justice, and democratic self-government.” From the perspective of integral Catholic doctrine, this is a de facto profession of faith in the religion of Liberté, Égalité, Fraternité — the very creed of the French Revolution and its Masonic progenitors.
Pope Leo XIII, in the Apostolic Letter Testem Benevolentiae Nostrae (1899), condemned the heresy of Americanism precisely for its attempt to reconcile the Church with the “spirit of the age,” praising the “separation of Church and State” and the “liberty of conscience” enshrined in the American Constitution. Leo XIII warned that this spirit leads to the confusion of license with liberty and the subjection of divine authority to human will. The antipope Prevost, by contrast, presents these condemned errors as “cherished principles” and the very condition for the Church’s flourishing. He thereby anathematizes himself by the very teaching of the true Magisterium he claims to represent.
Religious Liberty: The Cornerstone of the Masonic Edifice
The letter’s central doctrinal crime is the exaltation of religious freedom. The antipope writes:
“The pope called religious freedom ‘among the most cherished of these principles,’ writing that it is ‘central to the American promise, protecting both individual dignity and the peaceful coexistence of a diverse people.’ That freedom has allowed the Catholic Church to flourish in the U.S., serving the nation in many fields including ‘education, the preferential care for the poor, healthcare, and basic social services.'”
This is a direct, formal contradiction of the Syllabus of Errors (Pius IX, 1864), which condemns as error: “Every man is free to embrace and profess that religion which, guided by the light of reason, he shall consider true” (Prop. 15); “Man may, in the observance of any religion whatever, find the way of eternal salvation” (Prop. 16); and “The Church ought to be separated from the State, and the State from the Church” (Prop. 55).
Pius XI, in Quas Primas (1925), teaches with unmistakable clarity: “The state must leave the same freedom to the members of Orders and Congregations… but let rulers of states therefore not refuse public veneration and obedience to the reigning Christ… for it will remind them of the final judgment, in which Christ, whom not only was cast out of the state, but was also forgotten and ignored through contempt, will very severely avenge these insults.” The antipope’s letter does the exact opposite: it thanks the State for casting Christ out (via the First Amendment) and calls this expulsion a “cherished principle” that allows the Church to “flourish” in a purely humanitarian, NGO capacity. This reduces the Una Sancta to a mere social service provider, fulfilling the Masonic goal of laïcité: a Church stripped of potestas sacra and potestas iurisdictionis, tolerated only as a humanitarian adjunct to the secular city.
The Usurper’s Legitimization of the Secular State
The letter’s praise for “democratic self-government” as an “ideal” given “enduring voice” by the Declaration of Independence strikes at the very root of Catholic political theology: Potestas a Deo non a populo (Power is from God, not from the people).
The Syllabus condemns: “The State, as being the origin and source of all rights, is endowed with a certain right not circumscribed by any limits” (Prop. 39) and “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” (Prop. 77).
By celebrating the 250th anniversary of a Masonic founding document — drafted by Deists and Freemasons (Washington, Franklin, Jefferson) — as a providential milestone, the antipope ratifies the novus ordo seclorum. He implicitly endorses the principle that sovereignty resides in the “consent of the governed” rather than in Christus Rex. This is the political Modernism condemned by St. Pius X in Pascendi Dominici Gregis and Lamentabili Sane Exitu: the transfer of the supernatural order into the naturalistic framework of democratic immanence. The “Catholic” contribution praised by Prevost — education, healthcare, social services — is precisely the corpus separatum allowed by the Masonic State once the Church has surrendered her jus publicum and accepted the privilegium fori of a private club.
Linguistic Subversion: “God-given Dignity” Masking Natural Rights
The article notes the antipope’s phrasing:
“The pope also underscored the importance for the country’s history of the ‘God-given dignity of every human life.’ Recognizing that dignity means ‘safeguarding human life from its beginning at conception until natural death’ and caring for the ‘vulnerable, the suffering, and the forgotten,’ he wrote. It also means ‘welcoming, protecting, and assisting immigrants,’ who ‘have helped to shape the nation’s character.'”
Here the rhetorical sleight of hand is diabolical in its precision. The antipope uses Catholic terminology (“God-given dignity,” “conception until natural death”) to baptize the Masonic concept of human rights — rights inherent to man qua man, independent of his supernatural end and his subjection to Christ the King. In the encyclical Quas Primas, Pius XI teaches that “there is no other name under heaven given to men by which we must be saved… He is the author of prosperity and true happiness for individual citizens as well as for the state.” True human dignity flows exclusively from the hypostatic union and the Redemption, and demands as its political corollary the Social Reign of Christ.
By severing “dignity” from the Kingship of Christ and grafting it onto the trunk of “immigration” and “diverse people,” the antipope transforms the imago Dei into the imago hominis — the idol of the “human person” worshipped by the conciliar sect since Gaudium et Spes. The coupling of “right to life” with “welcoming immigrants” is a classic seamless garment manipulation, designed to neutralize Catholic opposition to the globalist dissolution of nations (the Civitas Dei replaced by the Civitas Mundi) by holding the unborn hostage to the open-borders agenda of the Masonic international.
The False Patronage: Immaculate Conception Enslaved to the Republic
The letter closes with an invocation: “Immaculate Conception, patroness of this country, that she will continue to watch over America and protect all who dwell therein.” This is the ultimate blasphemy. The Immaculate Conception, the Terror of Demons, the Crusher of Heresies, is invoked as the celestial guarantor of a republic founded on indifferentism, religious liberty, and the separation of Church and State.
Pius IX, in Ineffabilis Deus (1854), defined the dogma precisely as a weapon against the errors of modern philosophy. The antipope weaponizes the dogma for the errors. He places the Mother of God at the service of the Novus Ordo Seclorum, making her the patroness of a political order that explicitly denies her Son’s rights over society. This is the abomination of desolation standing in the holy place: the Virgin of the Protoevangelium (Gen 3:15) invoked to bless the seed of the Serpent.
Symptomatic Diagnosis: The Conciliar Sect as the Whore of Babylon
This letter is not an anomaly; it is the logical and necessary fruit of Vatican II. Dignitatis Humanae declared religious liberty a “right of the human person.” Gaudium et Spes legitimized the “autonomy of the temporal sphere.” The antipope Prevost merely draws the final conclusion: the Church exists to sacralize the Masonic order.
The “U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops” (USCCB) — a canonical fiction with no basis in the 1917 Code, created by the conciliar revolution to implement collegiality — serves as the propaganda arm for this apostasy. The article notes the letter was “released by the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops.” This body, composed of “bishops” ordained in the invalid Pontificale Romanum of 1968, functions as the Sanhedrin of the neo-church, ratifying the treaty with Caesar.
Conclusio: The antipope Leo XIV, by this letter, has publicly professed the heresy of Americanism, condemned by Leo XIII; the heresy of Religious Liberty, condemned by Pius IX and Pius XI; and the heresy of Naturalism, condemned by the Syllabus. Ipso facto, by the teaching of St. Robert Bellarmine and Canon 188 §4 of the 1917 Code, he has severed himself from the Body of Christ. The conciliar sect, in celebrating the 250th anniversary of the Masonic Republic, celebrates its own nuptials with the Antichrist. Non praevalebunt.
Source:
Pope Leo XIV congratulates the U.S. on its 250th anniversary (ewtnnews.com)
Date: 03.07.2026