The EWTN News portal reports that the usurper “Pope” Leo XIV (Robert Prevost) accepted the 2026 Liberty Medal from the National Constitution Center in a livestreamed ceremony between the Vatican and Philadelphia on July 3, 2026, praising the Declaration of Independence and the “inalienable rights” to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness as grounded in a “biblical vision” of the human person. The ceremony featured the conciliar “Archbishop” Nelson Perez, Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro, and an interreligious gathering of Christian, Muslim, and Jewish leaders, all united in celebrating the 250th anniversary of American independence. This event constitutes the solemn, public enthronement of the heresy of Americanism and the definitive substitution of the Social Kingship of Christ with the Masonic idol of religious liberty.
The Antipope as High Priest of the Civil Religion
The acceptance of the Liberty Medal by the claimant to the See of Peter is not a diplomatic courtesy; it is a liturgical act of the conciliar sect rendering homage to the paramasonic structure of the modern state. The National Constitution Center, overlooking Independence Hall and the Liberty Bell, is a temple dedicated to the worship of the novus ordo seclorum—the Masonic “new order of the ages.” By accepting this medal, the antipope Leo XIV formally canonizes the American Revolution and its founding documents as normative for Catholic social teaching. He declares: “the lofty ideals enshrined at the beginning of the Declaration of Independence may continue to guide the flourishing of the nation.” This is a direct, formal rejection of the encyclical Testem Benevolentiae (1899), in which Leo XIII condemned the heresy of Americanism—the attempt to reconcile the Church with the principles of the Revolution, religious liberty, and the separation of Church and State. The antipope does not merely tolerate this error; he personally bestows upon it the highest papal endorsement available to the neo-church.
Religious Liberty: The Synthesis of All Heresies
The antipope’s address centers on “religious freedom, to be ‘free from fear and coercion, as enshrined in the First Amendment.” This is the very error condemned as deliramentum (delirium) by Gregory XVI in Mirari Vos (1832), and anathematized in the Syllabus of Errors (Propositions 15, 55, 77, 78, 79). Pius IX teaches: “The Church ought to be separated from the State, and the State from the Church” is an error (Prop. 55). Leo XIII in Libertas Praestantissimum (1888) declares that libertas conscientiae is a “pestiferous error” leading to the ruin of souls. The antipope Leo XIV, standing before a replica of the Liberty Bell—a Masonic symbol of the “gnostic” liberation from the “tyranny” of the Catholic order—proclaims this condemned liberty as the condition for answering the “fundamental questions regarding the meaning of life… and indeed about God.” He thus places the First Amendment above the First Commandment, making the secular state the guarantor of the search for God, rather than the Ecclesia Catholica, extra quam nullus omnino salvetur.
Naturalistic Anthropology: The “Biblical Vision” Severed from the Supernatural Order
The antipope asserts that the Declaration’s claim of equality is “ultimately grounded in an understanding of the human person inspired by the great biblical vision of man and woman being created in the divine image.” This is a masterpiece of Modernist equivocation, condemned in Lamentabili Sane Exitu (Prop. 22, 58, 59). He speaks of the imago Dei but strips it of its telos: the visio beatifica and the necessity of sanctifying grace. He speaks of “dignity which precedes the establishment of any state” but omits that this dignity is wounded by original sin and can only be restored by the Sanguis Christi in the sacraments of the True Church. By grounding human rights in a generic “biblical vision” rather than in the Incarnatus Verbum and His Regnum, he reduces the human person to a homo naturaliter religiosus, a citizen of the Civitas Terrena with no obligation to the Civitas Dei. This is the laicism Pius XI denounced in Quas Primas: “the denial of Christ the Lord’s reign over all nations… the Christian religion began to be equated with other false religions and shamelessly placed in the same category.”
The Interreligious Assembly: Idolatry on the Steps of Independence Hall
The presence of “local Christian, Muslim, and Jewish religious leaders” at the ceremony, praised by the conciliar “Archbishop” Perez as defending “the inherent dignity of all people,” constitutes a public act of communicatio in sacris with infidels and heretics, forbidden by divine and canon law (Canon 1258, 1917 Code). The antipope’s hope for a “public discourse marked by moderation, respect for the views of others, and an ongoing effort to find common ground” is the program of the abomination of desolation foretold by Our Lord (Matt. 24:15). It realizes the Masonic dream of a “universal religion” where Christ is merely one “prophet” among others. Governor Shapiro, a pro-abortion politician, thanks the antipope for using his “voice, your power, to advance religious liberty for all people.” The antipope accepts this tribute from a servant of Molech without a whisper of correction, confirming that the neo-church serves the Civitas Diaboli, not the Regnum Christi.
Usurpation of the Kingship of Christ: The Liberty Bell vs. the Scepter of Justice
Pius XI instituted the Feast of Christ the King precisely to combat the plague “so-called laicism, its errors and wicked endeavors” (Quas Primas). He taught: “His reign encompasses not only Catholic nations… 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 antipope Leo XIV, on the eve of the 250th anniversary of a Masonic republic, substitutes the Scepter of Justice (Ps. 44:7) with the Liberty Bell. He praises a Constitution that derives authority ex consensu hominum (“We the People”), not a Deo. He celebrates a “republic, if you can keep it” (Franklin) rather than the Regnum Christi which “shall not be corrupted” (Dan. 7:14). The ringing of the Liberty Bell replica by the Attorney General is the liturgical acclamation of the Antichrist‘s anti-kingdom. The antipope’s prayer that the anniversary be a “solemn recommitment to these ideals” is a prayer for the hardening of nations in rebellion against Christus Rex.
The “Right to Life” in a Masonic Framework: Sacrilege of the Innocent
The antipope’s mention of the right to life “from the moment of conception to natural death” is a cynical instrumentalization of the innocent to legitimize the novus ordo. In the same breath, he enshrines the “right to liberty” defined as the “capacity to know the truth and adhere to what is good, even at great cost”—a Pelagian definition that ignores the necessity of grace and the Magisterium as the sole guardian of truth. By placing the “right to life” within the framework of the First Amendment and “religious freedom,” he makes the protection of the unborn contingent upon the secular state’s “reverence for life,” rather than upon the Lex Aeterna and the Potestas Ligandi et Solvendi of the True Church. This is the strategy of the Church of the New Advent: to reduce the lex naturalis to a “value” negotiable in the public square, thereby surrendering the jus divinum to the jus positivum.
Sedevacantist Confirmation: The Manifest Heretic as “Holy Father”
This ceremony provides irrefragable evidence for the sedevacantist thesis. St. Robert Bellarmine teaches: “A manifest heretic cannot be Pope… a non-Christian in no way can be Pope… he cannot be the head of something of which he is not a member.” (De Romano Pontifice, II, 30). The antipope Leo XIV, by formally endorsing the heresy of religious liberty (condemned by the Syllabus), Americanism (condemned by Leo XIII), and the separation of Church and State (condemned by Pius IX), demonstrates ipso facto that he is a haereticus manifestus. He has “defected from the Catholic Faith” (Cum ex Apostolatus Officio, Paul IV), rendering his “promotion… null, void, and of no effect.” The faithful who acclaim him as “Holy Father” participate in the schisma and haeresis of the conciliar sect. The true Church, una, sancta, catholica, et apostolica, endures only in those who reject this abominatio desolationis and cleave to the Traditio and the Regnum Christi in its integral purity.
Conclusion: The Liberty Medal is the Mark of the Beast
The Liberty Medal ceremony is not an anomaly; it is the modus operandi of the paramasonic structure occupying the Vatican. The antipope Leo XIV, a “son of this great country,” has crowned the Americanist heresy with the tiara of his usurped authority. He has declared that the Declaration of Independence—a document born of the Enlightenment, Freemasonry, and the rejection of the Social Kingship of Christ—is the guide for the “flourishing of the nation.” Quas Primas stands as the eternal condemnation of this apostasy: “When God and Jesus Christ… were removed from laws and states… the foundations of that authority were destroyed.” The antipope has ratified that destruction. The true faithful must flee this synagoga Satanae (Apoc. 2:9), reject the novus ordo seclorum, and work for the Restauratio of all things in Christ, Instaurare omnia in Christo, under the banner of the only King, Jesus Christus Rex Gentium.
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Pope Leo XIV accepts Constitution Center’s 2026 Liberty Medal: ‘I am honored’ (ewtnnews.com)
Date: 03.07.2026